WHAT PRICE GLORY (1926) in 35mm
Special Features: DUE TO A PRINT AVAILABILITY PROBLEM, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN INDEFINITELY POSTPONED.
Silent with live musical accompaniment by Michael Britt
Leathernecks Capt. Flagg (Victor McLaglen) and Sgt. Quirt (Edmund Lowe) go where the action is across the world "from the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli," culminating in their deployment to France in 1918 for the Great War. The pair's boozing, brawling and amorous exploits take center stage, with their occasional skirmishes and deployments to the front only briefly interrupting their own romantic rivalries and nonstop carousing. But the action in France is no laughing matter. A teenage Dolores del Río is the French innkeeper's daughter that both men woo in Raoul Walsh's tragicomic combat classic. It is perhaps the most foul-mouthed silent film in history, as even a novice lip-reader can attest, with the two Marines' salty language amusingly paraphrased in the much more polite intertitles. DIR Raoul Walsh; SCR James T. O'Donohoe, Malcolm Stuart Boylan, from the play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings; PROD William Fox. U.S., 1926, b&w, 116 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED
Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with support from The Film Foundation.
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, April 05, 2020
Genre: Comedy-drama
