| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time |
011335 |
| Description |
digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Flicker Alley in 1924. |
| Summary |
The film is a broad satire of American ignorance of the Soviet Union. The naive American, Mr. John West, played by Porfori Podobed as a Harold Lloyd type (complete with enormous round glasses), is a YMCA president who is planning a trip to the newly founded Soviet Union to spread the idea of the YMCA. His wife, Madge, is worried that Russia is full of savage Bolsheviks who wear primitive rags and fur for clothing, as depicted in American magazines. He takes along his cowboy friend Jeddie played by Boris Barnet for protection and as a companion. However, on arriving in the USSR his briefcase is stolen, he gets separated from Jeddie and he falls into the hands of a group of thieves, including a run-down Countess (played by Aleksandra Khokhlova), who masquerade as counter-revolutionaries. The thieves play on West's fears and engineer his abduction by crooks dressed up as caricature Bolshevik "barbarians." The thieves then "rescue" West from the clutches of these fictional Bolsheviks, extorting thousands of dollars from him along the way.. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Public opinion.
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Soviet Union -- Foreign public opinion -- Drama.
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Soviet Union.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Kuleshov, L. V. (Lev Vladimirovich), film director.
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Flicker Alley (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
1244047 Kanopy |
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