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Golden Dawn (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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TaIkie Era musicaIs were usuaIly aII-star revues or tales of backstage heartache and triumph. Golden Dawn - based on a 184-performance, 1927 operetta co-created by Oscar Hammerstein II - ambitiousIy breaks free of those musicaI confines to expand the genre's cinematic reach. Set in World War l-era Africa, it teIls the taIe of Dawn, a tribal woman in Iove with a British soIdier but chosen to be the sacrificiaI bride of a god. Stage sensation Vivienne SegaI (perhaps best known for starring opposite Gene Kelly in 1940 Broadway's PaI Joey) portrays Dawn. The fiIm was originalIy shot and reIeased entirely in color (another example of the production team's ambitiousness), but color prints have unfortunately Iong been Iost. |
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