Siren of the Tropics
by Henri Étiévant, Mario Nalpas
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Actor: Georges Melchior, Josephine Baker, Pierre Batcheff, Régina Dalthy, Regina ThomasDirector: Henri Étiévant, Mario Nalpas
Brand: Kino International
Cinematographer: Albert Duverger
Cinematographer: Maurice Hennebains
Cinematographer: Paul Cotteret
Writer: Maurice Dekobra
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC, Silent
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 3992
Studio: Kino Video
Product features:
- SIRENE DES TRIPIQUES, LA SIREN OF THE T (DVD MOVIE)
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Summary: 5 Stars
The color-tinted "Siren of the Tropics(1927)" was Josephine Baker's first film. Though silent, you can almost hear her vivacious spirit speak. A young engineer is banished to the Parisian Antilles on a doomed mining project. Papitou(Baker), the jungle girl who falls for the white adventurer, follows him back to Paris. Her mad-cap chase on the ship(as a stow-away) is quite funny. She slips on mounds of coal(turning black), and then is immersed in white powder. The sequence is resolved when Baker takes a bath. Kino's "Siren of the Tropics" is a fully-restored DVD with a documentary, a short-subject, songs, and a stills-gallery. It is part of Kino's Josephine Baker DVD-trilogy. As a child in St. Louis, Baker rummaged for food behind Soulard Market. She fled to Paris at age 17. An exotic dancer, Baker was performing at the Folies Bergere by 1925. By 1927, her earnings set her above any other entertainer in Europe at the time. This film is a chance to see her famous Paris stage act. When she starred in "Siren of the Tropics", she was only 21. Through the magic of Kino, you can view this complete early film. Until just recently, all that was available was the damaged first and last two reels.
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