Eddie Cantor: Kid Boots
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Artist: Eddie CantorDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Original Cast Record
Movie Reviews of Eddie Cantor: Kid Boots
Movie Review: A great tribute to Eddie Cantor
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD actually contains an abundance of extras for the price. First, of course, is the 1926 silent film starring Eddie Cantor in the title role and costarring Clara Bow. This film is a great treat because we get to see how the musical comedy "Kid Boots" was turned into an effective silent film. Kid Boots works in a tailor's shop and is about to get a beating from the beau of Clara McCoy (Clara Bow) when he is saved from harm by Tom Sterling (Lawrence Gray). Likewise, when Tom's soon-to-be ex-wife tries to prove that they have been reunited so she can anull their divorce decree and get in on Tom's recent large inheritance, Kid Boots comes to the rescue and claims the two have not been alone together. I know this sounds strange, but chalk it up to divorce law in the early 20th century. Tom then runs off with Kid Boots - his witness - to a mountain resort until the time for his final divorce decree to become final has come and gone to evade his ex-wife's trickery. At the resort Tom meets a girl that he falls for, and Kid Boots runs into Clara McCoy again, still accompanied by her brutish boyfriend. Clara prefers Kid Boots because she "prefers reliable men to good-looking ones" a title card tells us. At the resort Tom's ex-wife and her lawyers soon follow, along with all of the comic routines and mix-ups that you're accustomed to seeing in Cantor's sound films, if you've been fortunate enough to view those rarely seen comic gems. The film is quite good and it didn't surprise me that it was a Paramount silent that someone else had restored and presented. There are a few scratches here and there in the video and there are a few frames missing here and there, but overall it is a pretty good restoration job.
The extras include 1924's "A Few Minutes with Eddie Cantor", which was one of Lee DeForrest's Phonofilms. DeForrest used them to demonstrate his method of producing talking pictures via a sound on film method that was later an industry standard. The short film shows Eddie joking around and singing a couple of songs.
The other short is entitled "A Midnight Frolic" and is supposed to be a duplicate of the rooftop show at the Amsterdam Theater back when Ziegfeld had several Broadway shows running at once, including "Whoopee". Shot in 1929 on Long Island, it features Eddie doing his musical comedy act before an audience that includes several celebrities including Mary Eaton of "Glorifying the American Girl" and Richard Dix, an actor in both the silent and sound era.
There are text notes included for both shorts, and there are also a couple of text notes extras that include short biographies of Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow. There is also an audio portion of Eddie Cantor's autobiography that talks about the making of "Kid Boots" including how the sensational and harrowing mountaintop scenes were done.
Highly recommended for the Eddie Cantor fan who is interested in how the great musical comedian transitioned to film and then to sound.
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