The Gaucho (United Artists) (1927)

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Record Details:

Title:
The Gaucho (United Artists)
Date:
1927
Publisher:
United Artists
Volume:
The Gaucho (United Artists Pressbook, 1927)
Leaf #:
0002
Language:
English
Collection:
Pressbooks
Format:
Periodicals
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Content Warning: There are several pages in this pressbook in which Douglas Fairbanks appears in appropriated costuming and brownface. These practices are reprehensible. For a more complete discussion of the reasoning behind the decision to upload pressbooks with problematic material, please see the discussion of blackface in the description of the pressbook for the film Kid Millions.

Pressbook for the film The Gaucho, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez.
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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OFFICE STAMPEDE! “DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS as The Gaucho 99 Let the Press Douglas Fairbanks has scored once again (Telegraph). As Ithe \Gaucho t^e star keeps up to the standard of his past films! {American). A picture whicn^ combines the esprit of "Robin Hood" with tbie lightm Q," the whimsical romance of "The Thief of Bagdad’ ability of "The Black Pirate" (Eagle). As an audacious guerrilla of the South American plains, the bouncing star falls neatly into the best of the Fairbanks traditions (Sun). He is again the picturesque adventurer, daring everything with a confident grin and a romantic deviltry (Journal). Skilfully calculating to win its tribute of laugh, orWasp or tear (Telegraph) it is a good, obvious, robust, high-geared showTpW*/). and races to a hair-raising, typically Fairbanks finale ( Mirropj > "Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho" is a great/idea carried out in a mas¬ terly way (Graphic). Scenes of impressive grandeur (Graphic) join together breathtaking beauty and thrills ( Evening World) l And as for Lupe Velez, she’ll be heralded as another discovery in th^ way of cinema stars (News). A picture of exceptional merit that cannot help but meet success (Mirror), A MONEY PICTURE (Exhibitors' Daily Review). / / (Quoted literally from the world’s most widely read motion picture critics in New/York yLviews of FAIRBANKS as the QAUCHt)” al the Lf during its sensational/fire-release run pt $2. Play to Capacity! lick