They will move me to another room in 2 days.
Utrecht train station
Movie #1286 (#106 this year): The Great Gabbo (1929,James Cruze)
Erich gives his real self a hug!
I think they had a great idea here. Erich Von Stroheim is a gruff fellow but at his core he's a real softie. He's also a ventriloquist. Everything he says is coming from this gruff exterior. Everything the dummy says is really him. What a great premise. However, they added commentary by some down and out showbiz folk. Then they added a whole bunch of song and dance numbers. The story gets sidetracked so often that it looses it's steam. It's as if the filmmakers knew that there wouldn't be a big audience for a psycho ventriloquist movie so they didn't even try making one.
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