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Her Man (1930 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Her Man' is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film produced and distributed by Path Exchange and directed by Tay Garnett. It starred Phillips Holmes, Helen Twelvetrees and Marjorie Rambeau. The film is inspired by the ballad Frankie and Johnny.
At least one copy is preserved at the Library of Congress.'Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress' p.78 c.1978 by The AFI The original camera negative, rediscovered in the 2010s, has been scanned and restored at 4K resolution by Sony Pictures Entertainment, in partnership with the Film Foundation and RT features.
Plot
A Havana prostitute (Twelvetrees) with a sadistic "protector" (Cortez) falls for a young sailor (Holmes).
Cast
*Helen Twelvetrees as Frankie Keefe
*Phillips Holmes as Dan Keefe
*Marjorie Rambeau as Annie
*James Gleason as Steve
*Ricardo Cortez as Johnnie
*Harry Sweet as Eddie
*Slim Summerville as The Swede
*Thelma Todd as Nelly
*Franklin Pangborn as Sport
*Stanley Fields as Al
*Matthew Betz as Red
*Mike Donlin as Bartender
*George Chandler as Barfly
Reception
Writing in The New York Times on the release of a restored version of the film, the critic J. Hoberman says that the film was well received when it was released and that it was a favorite of Henri Langlois of the Cinmathque Franaise. Hoberman calls out the use of tracking shots in the film, as also does Farran Smith Nehme in Film Comment. The MOMA film curator David Kehr called the "constantly moving camera" 10 years ahead of its time. Nehme describes the film as a "brawling, sleazy pre-Code" and that Garnet successfully "weaves in tenderness" into what is also a romantic film.
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