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4 June 1922 (USA)
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It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year...
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A FANTASTIC silent film!
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Victor Sjöström | ... | David Holm |
| Hilda Borgström | ... | Mrs. Holm |
| Tore Svennberg | ... | Georges |
| Astrid Holm | ... | Edit |
| Concordia Selander | ... | Edit's Mother |
| Lisa Lundholm | ... | Maria |
| Tor Weijden | ... | Gustafsson |
| Einar Axelsson | ... | David's Brother |
| Olof Ås | ... | Driver |
| Nils Aréhn | ... | Prison Chaplain |
| Simon Lindstrand | ... | David's Companion |
| Nils Elffors | ... | David's Companion |
| Algot Gunnarsson | ... | Worker |
| Hildur Lithman | ... | Worker's wife |
| John Ekman | ... | Police constable |
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93 min | Germany:100 min | Sweden:107 min (16 fps) (2004 TV version) | 103 min (original release) (18 fps)
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Director Victor Sjöström traveled up to author Selma Lagerlöf's house in Mårbacka to read the scenario out loud. He acted out the whole screenplay in front of her before crashing down on a sofa, totally exhausted. She looked at the director for a long time and then asked he would care for a drink. That was her seal of approval.
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What can I do? What are the words, the prayer - the words?
David Holm: [prays] A sinner whose lips are stained with wickedness, asks, beseeches - Oh, break me, crush me, only save these three innocent ones!
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David Holm: [prays] A sinner whose lips are stained with wickedness, asks, beseeches - Oh, break me, crush me, only save these three innocent ones!
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Referenced in Det sjunde inseglet (1957)
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This, unfortunately, is a little-known film.....i say "unfortunately", because it ranks up there with the "classics" of the American silent screen!
It's about a legend of a "phantom chariot" that travells all over the world, picking up the souls of those who have died. The legend says tha the last person to die on New Year's Eve is condemned to drive the chariot for the next whole year.
It brings to mind the sequence of the "Ghost of Future Yet To Come" in Dicken's famous "Christmas Carol".
The double-exposure effects of the ghosts (esp. when they interact with the "live" people) are EXCELLENT!
If you love silent films, you MUST see THIS; it will "blow you away"!
Norm Vogel
Norm's Old Movie Heaven http://www.nvogel.com/film/film.html