High Voltage
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Actor: Carole Lombard, Diane Ellis, Owen Moore, William BoydBrand: Bayside ENT Dist
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alpha Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of High Voltage
Movie Review: Carole's and Hoppy's first "talkie"
Summary: 4 Stars
ALPHA VIDEO offers bargain priced, often hard-to-find vintage movies that are ideal for those willing to skip DVD extras. Their transfers show no evidence of restoration, so quality varies from one title to the next, with "fair to good" being the average. Their edition of HIGH VOLTAGE is a typical medium-quality dub.
Bear in mind that there's little call for redigitizing such public domain minor works as this. HIGH VOLTAGE is best for collectors of the earliest talkies and for fans of Carole Lombard and Hopalong Cassidy creator William Boyd. They are EXCELLENT in this story, BTW as is the rest of the small cast, despite occasionally cornball dialogue.
Interested viewers feel the biting cold these stranded people endure and bear along with them the deprivation of things we normally take for granted, like nourishment and physical ease. Those who dismiss this movie lightly should consider its place in history. All-talking pictures hadn't been around for a year when this was released in June of 1929 yet "High Voltage" is an engrossing photoplay with a most satisfactory conclusion. Credit director Howard Higgin for that.
As the product description adequately covers plot, some triva here:
This was the "talkie" premiere of all six cast members and director Higgin.
Scripted in part by James Gleason, a fine character actor.
CAROL LOMBARD became Carole by accident in 1930, when her name was misspelled in her first PARAMOUNT picture.
OWEN MOORE (Det. Dan Egan) took part in some 271 prior silents, but only acted in 10 more sound films. His career ended in 1937, with A STAR IS BORN.
Aussie-born BILLY BEVAN (Gus, the singing bus driver) is most famous as a silent-era slapstick clown.
Before the advent of sound, WILLIAM BOYD appeared in costumers, adventure stories and melodramas. In 1926, he starred for Cecil B. DeMille in THE VOLGA BOATMAN.
PHILLIPS SMALLEY (Henderson the banker) directed 339 films (mostly shorts) between 1911 and '19 and acted in 100 during those years. He spent the next two decades in front of the camera.
In 1930, DIANE ELLIS (the Kid) fell ill while honeymooning in India and died. Her entire movie career is 8 silents and 2 talkies.
Summary of High Voltage
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