The Barker (1928)

Directed by

George Fitzmaurice

Genre

drama film, silent film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A traveling carnival barker falls for a young woman and struggles with his own ambitions and the rough life of the carnival circuit. The story focuses on his relationships and the choices he must make.

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What happens

The Barker is a 1928 American part-talkie pre-Code romantic drama film produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Pictures, acquired in September 1928. The film was directed by George Fitzmaurice and stars Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The Barker is a part-talkie with talking sequences and sequences with synchronized musical scoring and sound effects. According to the film review in Variety, 44 percent (or 38 minutes) of the total running time featured dialogue. The film was adapted by Benjamin Glazer, Joseph Jackson and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by Kenyon Nicholson. The Broadway play of the same name which opened at the Biltmore Theatre January 18, 1927 and ran until July 1927 for 221 performances. In the stage production Walter Huston was "Nifty" and a still relatively unknown Claudette Colbert was "Lou", played in the film by Dorothy Mackaill. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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