Gentleman's Fate
Jack's lavish lifestyle gets disrupted when he finds his presumed-dead father alive. His father wants Jack and his brother Frank to take over his illegal bootlegging business, smuggling alcohol from Canada, causing a family conflict.
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"This early Mervyn Le Roy work starts out as an intriguing look at class, self-identity, and a mixing of two worlds, but less than halfway through it switches to a standard bootleggers-and- their-molls flick. In both sections, there are some loose ends flapping. We first encounter Gilbert as a well-to-do, polished Manhattanite, unaware that his money comes from the illegal liquor trade, and also unaware that his dad, whom he thought dead, is alive and dying, and he has a brother, Louis Wolheim (Louis Wolheim as John Gilbert's brother? even the script tries to make a joke of it), who runs t..."
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John Gilbert. did not know how to fight. So director Mervyn LeRoy had to resort to trickery to look like Gilbert was a good fighter, using speeded-up camerawork and close-ups of Gilbert's fist coming directly at the camera.
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Jack's lavish lifestyle gets disrupted when he finds his presumed-dead father alive. His father wants Jack and his brother Frank to take over his illegal bootlegging business, smuggling alcohol from Canada, causing a family conflict.