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“PARDON ME WHILE I CHANGE INTO SOMETHING MORE COMFORTABLE”
JEAN HARLOW FROM “HELL’S ANGELS” With one of the screen’s most remembered lines, Jean Harlow, draped in revealing satin, with leaded eyes and platinum hair, ottered Ben Lyon a fleeting opportunity to remember the pleasures and comfort of life and love. Her open door offered a temporary escape from the sadistic tempo of aerial warfare. The scene was only on the screen for a moment, but Harlow s image was the personification of desire as shaped by the mentality of men in combat. Robed in the garments of seduction, she was the aggressor tempting innocence, and the threat of death was her accomplice.
"Hell’s Angels” was aptly titled. Here were not the rollicking heroes of "Dawn Patrol,” but the innocent youths of both sides sent to seek their glory in those chambers of Hell created by The Great War. One unforgettable creation is the scene involving a youthful German who is a member of a Zeppelin crew. The audience has already come to love him for his innocence. Slowly through the fog over London he is lowered from the Zeppelin in a pod held by a single cable. His inherent goodness forces him to drop his bombs in a pond rather than on Whitehall. As he anxiously waits to be pulled up, the commander orders the cable cut so that the ship can make its escape. Then one by one the crew marches as if on the parade ground through the open hatch to further lighten the ship.
The outstanding silent film on The Great War, King Vidor’s "The Big Parade,” was filmed and cut with the same measured pace as the trench war was fought. The film did no preaching, but simply showed the war as the foot soldier saw it and experienced it. ..the beautifully human moments as the doughboy John Gilbert teaches the French girl Renee Adoree the technique of chewing gum. ..the parting between the lovers as she clings first to his boot and then to the truck in a futile attempt to prevent the inevitable. ..and the rugged affection between the buddies Tom O’Brien, John Gilbert and Karl Dane
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