Tempest
by Lewis Milestone, Sam Taylor, Viktor Tourjansky
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Actor: Boris de Fast, Camilla Horn, George Fawcett, John Barrymore, Louis WolheimDirector: Lewis Milestone, Sam Taylor, Viktor Tourjansky
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Lewis Milestone
Writer: C. Gardner Sullivan
Writer: Erich von Stroheim
Writer: George Marion Jr.
Writer: Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Silent
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Tempest
Movie Review: Tempest
Summary: 5 Stars
John Barrymore may not have been the greatest actor ever, but if you want to argue that he was you could do worse that enter as evidence the late-silent era film TEMPEST (1928). This is a film that has it all - romance across class lines (a peasant loves a princess,) set against a romantic yet contemporary (circa 1928) backdrop of the Russian Revolution.
Barrymore plays Ivan Markov, to the peasantry born, who we meet while still a sergeant in the Russian Army, studying diligently to become an officer and a gentleman by promotion to first lieutenant. It certainly helps that to the company commander he is a surrogate son. Unfortunately, he's attentively shunned by his fellow officers (upstart peasant!) while the commander's daughter, Princess Tamara (Camilla Horn), doesn't bother to disguise the fact that Ivan should go back to whatever stable he was born in. The Princess's beneath-contempt attitude is complicated by the fact that Ivan has fallen madly in love with Tamara at first sight. For her part, Princess Tamara's attitude of disgust and loathing is at violent odds with some tender emotions of her own she does her best to conceal.
Although a silent movie, this one reads as though it had spoken dialogue. Barrymore's performance is intensely subtle. One of the biggest differences between silent and sound movies is the acting styles. Most silent acting seems broad and phony. You can adjust and enjoy - hey, they had to sell the scenes somehow, didn't they? They couldn't talk their way out of them. But rather than the expressionistic silent style of acting, Barrymore's is more a modern, sound, naturalistic style. Not only does it work, but Barrymore is so strong (yeah, probably the greatest ever) that TEMPEST doesn't really need the inter-title dialogue cards to convey the rather familiar rich snob girl meets humble boy story. Horn, who has her own range of emotions to broadcast, doesn't embarrass herself, either.
Silent or sound. TEMPEST is a great movie. Good thing, too, because the Image transfer print was in pretty rough shape. The frames are consistently scratchy. The original tasteful pipe organ score is included, here rendered on piano. Also on the dvd is the 13-minute short `Vagabonding On the Pacific,' a travelogue silent short from 1926. `Vagabonding' takes us along with Barrymore as he yachts down to Mexico. The high point of this kind of boring film is Barrymore playing tag with some 1,100 pound sea lions. A somewhat strange look at Barrymore at play.
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