College Lovers (lost Pre-Code comedy film; 1930): Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
RockinGuy728 (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| (11 intermediate revisions by 8 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{InfoboxLost | {{InfoboxLost | ||
|title=<center>College Lovers</center> | |title=<center>College Lovers</center> | ||
| Line 6: | Line 5: | ||
|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | |status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''''College Lovers''''' is a 1930 Pre-Code film about a romance on a college campus. | '''''College Lovers''''' is a 1930 Pre-Code film about a romance on a college campus. The film was released by Warner Bros. under the subsidiary of First National Pictures and was directed by John G. Adolfi. The film was based on the story of the same name by Earl Baldwin, a man who wrote over fifty screenplays throughout his lifetime.<ref name="R2">[https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/3390?sid=9e6dfd18-fb77-4ac2-a4f1-420de8bc3c11&sr=3.8388982&cp=1&pos=0 Entry for the film in the American Film Institute's catalog.] Retrieved 03 Jan '18</ref> | ||
Tiny Courtley, a star football player, leaves Sanford College after discovering that his girlfriend eloped with another man. Frank Taylor, the student manager of the college's athletic association, knows that they need Williams to help them win an important football game against a rivaling college. He makes a plan with his girlfriend to help get Williams back into the college to win the game. | Tiny Courtley, a star football player, leaves Sanford College after discovering that his girlfriend eloped with another man. Frank Taylor, the student manager of the college's athletic association, knows that they need Williams to help them win an important football game against a rivaling college. He makes a plan with his girlfriend to help get Williams back into the college to win the game.<ref name="R2" /><ref name="R4">[https://archive.org/stream/filmdailyvolume55354newy#page/1362/mode/2up/search/college+lovers Review of the film in the 11/30/1930 issue of The Film Daily.] Retrieved 03 Jan '18</ref> | ||
The film was initially planned to be a full-scale musical comedy. However, due to audiences growing tired of musicals, a majority of the numbers were cut from the movie. Advertisements and trailers claimed that there was music in the film and that Jack Whiting, who played Frank Taylor, was a singing comedy star; however, there was no singing in the film at all. The cuts that happened accounted for the film's very short running time of 61 minutes. | The film was initially planned to be a full-scale musical comedy. However, due to audiences growing tired of musicals, a majority of the numbers were cut from the movie. Advertisements and trailers claimed that there was music in the film and that Jack Whiting, who played Frank Taylor, was a singing comedy star; however, there was no singing in the film at all.<ref name="R1">[http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com/college_lovers.htm Page for the film on The Silent Film Still Archive.] Retrieved 03 Jan '18</ref><ref name="R3">[https://archive.org/stream/variety100-1930-12#page/n13/mode/2up/search/college+lovers Review of the film in the 12/03/1930 issue of Variety.] Retrieved 03 Jan '18</ref> The cuts that happened accounted for the film's very short running time of 61 minutes.<ref name="R2" /> | ||
No traces of this film are known to survive, but it | No traces of this film are known to survive, but it is possible that the soundtrack, which was recorded on Vitaphone, could survive in private hands. Wikipedia claims an alternate version of the film was released outside the United States that contained the cut musical numbers, as there was still international interest in musicals; however, there is no evidence that such a cut was ever made, and if it was, it is now similarly lost. | ||
==External Link== | |||
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Lovers Reference-less Wikipedia page for the film, which contains the unsourced claim.] Retrieved 15 Mar '16 | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}} | |||
[[Category:Lost films]] | [[Category:Lost films]] | ||
[[Category:Completely lost media]] | |||
[[Category:Historic]] | [[Category:Historic]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:10, 18 April 2024
Film poster.
Status: Lost
College Lovers is a 1930 Pre-Code film about a romance on a college campus. The film was released by Warner Bros. under the subsidiary of First National Pictures and was directed by John G. Adolfi. The film was based on the story of the same name by Earl Baldwin, a man who wrote over fifty screenplays throughout his lifetime.[1]
Tiny Courtley, a star football player, leaves Sanford College after discovering that his girlfriend eloped with another man. Frank Taylor, the student manager of the college's athletic association, knows that they need Williams to help them win an important football game against a rivaling college. He makes a plan with his girlfriend to help get Williams back into the college to win the game.[1][2]
The film was initially planned to be a full-scale musical comedy. However, due to audiences growing tired of musicals, a majority of the numbers were cut from the movie. Advertisements and trailers claimed that there was music in the film and that Jack Whiting, who played Frank Taylor, was a singing comedy star; however, there was no singing in the film at all.[3][4] The cuts that happened accounted for the film's very short running time of 61 minutes.[1]
No traces of this film are known to survive, but it is possible that the soundtrack, which was recorded on Vitaphone, could survive in private hands. Wikipedia claims an alternate version of the film was released outside the United States that contained the cut musical numbers, as there was still international interest in musicals; however, there is no evidence that such a cut was ever made, and if it was, it is now similarly lost.
External Link
- Reference-less Wikipedia page for the film, which contains the unsourced claim. Retrieved 15 Mar '16
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Entry for the film in the American Film Institute's catalog. Retrieved 03 Jan '18
- ↑ Review of the film in the 11/30/1930 issue of The Film Daily. Retrieved 03 Jan '18
- ↑ Page for the film on The Silent Film Still Archive. Retrieved 03 Jan '18
- ↑ Review of the film in the 12/03/1930 issue of Variety. Retrieved 03 Jan '18