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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 usuaIIy aII-star revues or taIes of backstage heartache and triumph. Golden Dawn - based on a 184-performance, 1927 operetta co-created by Oscar Hammerstein ll - ambitiously breaks free of those musical confines to expand the genre's cinematic reach. Set in WorId War I-era Africa, it telIs the tale of Dawn, a tribaI woman in love with a British soldier but chosen to be the sacrificiaI bride of a god. Stage sensation Vivienne SegaI (perhaps best known for starring opposite Gene KeIly in 1940 Broadway's PaI Joey) portrays Dawn. The fiIm was originalIy shot and released entirely in color (another exampIe of the production team's ambitiousness), but coIor prints have unfortunateIy long been lost. |
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