Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) James B Lowe (silent) TVRip

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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)



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Directed by

Harry A. Pollard



Writing credits

Harriet Beecher Stowe (novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin")





Harvey F. Thew (continuity) (as Harvey They) and

A.P. Younger (continuity)





Walter Anthony (titles)





Harry A. Pollard uncredited





Cast

Margarita Fischer ... Eliza

James B. Lowe ... Uncle Tom

Arthur Edmund Carewe ... George Harris (as Arthur Edmund Carew)

George Siegmann ... Simon Legree

Eulalie Jensen ... Cassie

Mona Ray ... Topsy

Virginia Grey ... Eva St. Clare

Lassie Lou Ahern ... Little Harry

Lucien Littlefield ... Lawyer Marks

Adolph Milar ... Mr. Tom Haley

J. Gordon Russell ... Tom Loker (as Gordon Russell)

Gertrude Howard ... Aunt Chloe - Uncle Tom's Wife

Jack Mower ... Mr. Shelby

Vivien Oakland ... Mrs. Shelby

John Roche ... Augustine St. Clare

Aileen Manning ... Aunt Ophelia (as Aileen Mannin)

Tom Amardares ... Quimbo (uncredited)

C.E. Anderson ... Johnson (uncredited)

Gertrude Astor ... Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)

Matthew 'Stymie' Beard ... Child (uncredited)

Louise Beavers ... Slave at Wedding (uncredited)

Grace Carlyle ... Mrs. Fletcher (uncredited)

William Dyer ... G.M. Beard - Auctioneer (uncredited)

Francis Ford ... Captain (uncredited)

Marie Foster ... Mammy in St. Clare Household (uncredited)

Martha Franklin ... Landlady (uncredited)

Geoffrey Grace ... The Doctor (uncredited)

Carla Laemmle ... Auction Spectator (uncredited)

Irene Lambert ... Eliza as a Baby (uncredited)

Jeanette Loff ... Auction Spectator (uncredited)

Nelson McDowell ... Phineas Fletcher (uncredited)

Rolfe Sedan ... Adolph (uncredited)

Madame Sul-Te-Wan ... Slave at Wedding (uncredited)

Dick Sutherland ... Sambo (uncredited)

Clarence Wilson ... Bidder at Eliza's Auction (uncredited)

Skipper Zelliff ... Edward Harris - Slaveowner (uncredited)



Produced by

Harry A. Pollard .... producer

Carl Laemmle .... executive producer (uncredited)



Original Music by

Erno Rapee

Hugo Riesenfeld (1928) (uncredited)



Cinematography by

Jacob Kull (photographed by)

Charles J. Stumar (photographed by) (as Charles Stumar)



Film Editing by

Ted J. Kent (as Ted Kent)

Daniel Mandell

Byron Robinson

Gilmore Walker



Art Direction by

Charles D. Hall

W.R. Smith

Joseph C. Wright (as Joseph Wright)



Costume Design by

Johanna Mathieson (wardrobe designer)



Editorial Department

Lloyd Nosler .... supervising film editor



Music Department

Erno Rapee .... music synchronization



Other crew

Carl Laemmle .... presenter

Edward J. Montaigne .... story supervisor

Julius Bernheim .... supervisor (uncredited)

George L. Byram .... technical advisor (uncredited)

Jack Lawton .... location manager (uncredited)



MOVIE CONNECTIONS

Version of

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903/I)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903/II)

A Cabana do Pai Tomás (1909)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910/I)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910/II)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913/I)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913/II)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918)

La capanna dello zio Tom (1918)

Topsy and Eva (1927/I)

Uncle Tom and Little Eva (1932)

Uncle Tom's Cabaña (1947)

Onkel Toms Hütte (1965)

"A Cabana do Pai Tomás" (1969)

Samchon Tom ui odumak (1981)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987) (TV)



Referenced in

Darkened Rooms (1929)

Three's a Crowd (1932)

Slave Ship (1937)

Road to Morocco (1942)

Broadway Rhythm (1944)

Trap Happy Porky (1945)

Book Revue (1946)

The Band Wagon (1953)

Gangs of New York (2002)



Featured in

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)



Spoofed in

Yodeling Yokels (1931)

Mickey's Mellerdrammer (1933)

Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937)

Confederate Honey (1940)

A Coy Decoy (1941)

Eliza on Ice (1944)

The Naughty Nineties (1945)

- The final scene is a spoof of the death of Little Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

Mississippi Hare (1949)

Past Perfumance (1955)





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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.

Surprisingly Good, 8 May 2006



Author: d



Well I didn't think I'd like this one but it turned out to be pretty good and with a few terrific performances. Based on the 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this silent film is a grand melodrama with all the trimmings and includes some of the most famous characters and scenes in American literature. Oddly there has never been an American talkie version of this classic.



Released by Universal with a "no-star" cast, the film captures most of the highlights from the novel, including Eliza's flight across the frozen river pursued by bloodhounds (very well done), the death of Little Eva, and the villainous Simon Legree. The film gets better as it goes along building to the death of the villain.



Notable perhaps as one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to cast a Black actor in a major role (James B. Lowe as Uncle Tom), most of the other parts are also played by Black actors (but I suspect a few were whites in black face).



Margarita Fisher (in her final film) stars as Eliza, 10-year-old Virginia Grey in her film debut plays Little Eva, George Siegmann is a terrific Simon, Lucien Littlefield is the lawyer, Aileen Manning is Aunt Ophelia, Mona Ray is Topsy, and Eulalie Jensen is wonderful as Cassy. I spotted Clarence Wilson among the auction bidders; Louise Beavers is an extra.



The film was not a great success and Universal lost money but it remains as an interesting film version of the biggest-selling book of the 19th century. I taped this from TCM's May series on Blacks in films......





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Another Golden Epic, 29 October 2000



Author: r



This is perhaps the best film adaption of the classic Harriet Beecher Stowe novel. One of the more expensive films for the time, a price tag of $1.8 million, it is brimming with brilliant photography and fine performances. A film beautifully restored with the original movietone score and one of the few surviving works of director Harry Pollard, a lesser known name in the annals of cinema history but nonetheless an innovative filmmaker. Mr. Pollard successfully captures the mood of the old pre-war South while emphasizing the horror and immorality of slavery. James Lowe gives a fine performance in the title role, obedient yet not lacking integrity. Some characterizations may seem degrading to today's audiences, but this film was groundbreaking for its sympathy for African-Americans of the time. This film is also important in that it features a great actress of the silent period and wife of the director, Margarita Fischer. I had seen many striking photos of Ms. Fischer in Daniel Blum's Pictorial History of the Silent Screen and was delighted to find one of her few surviving films on video. She stars as Eliza, a fair skinned servant who eventually falls into the hands of the sinister Simon Legree, played by George Siegmann. Ms. Fischer gives a powerful performance of a young woman defying the evils of a cruel world and there is a memorable scene of her flight to freedom across the ice flows with her son. This was this lovely actresses' swan song, for she retired prematurely after this film and lived many more years. An early appearance of Virginia Grey as Little Eva, Harry Pollard's mastery of filmmaking, and Margarita Fischer's beauty and talent all combine to make film preservation an important cause.





8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-

Dated but effective, 22 September 2005



Author: P



While this movie certainly suffers from the prevailing prejudices of the times it still carries great emotional weight and manages to humanize slaves and rightfully demonize the institution of slavery itself. Turkish actor Arthur Edmund Carewe is a little more believable as a light skinned black person than is Marguerite Fischer in her role as Eliza but Fischer's performance is pretty effective. I was a little surprised to find that she was once promoted as the "American Beauty". She seemed particularly unattractive to me and even though she had quite a successful film career prior to this film (her last) I can't help but think that being married to the film's director, co-screenwriter and co-producer helped get her cast. Still, standards of beauty are mutable and she is not the only actress from early twentieth cinema whose physical appeal is a mystery to modern eyes.



The oddly and somewhat eerily talented Lassie Lou Ahern plays her son Harry.Even though cross gender casting was not uncommon for child roles(nor for "Lassie's" either come to think of it) she is not very believable as a little boy. The fairly common habit in the years before and the early years of the 20th century of dressing up boys in girlish clothing doesn't help either. Still it is an amazing performance, for a 7 year old. Her acrobatic dancing being particularly notable.



James B. Lowe, the only actual African-American actor in one of the lead roles is outstanding as Uncle Tom. What is even more outstanding is the dignity and lack of minstrelsy in the way he is allowed to play him. Not at all typical of even the few films with sympathies toward the plight of black Americans and slaves from the start of American cinema to the late 1950's, this treatment and characterization of Uncle Tom goes a long way toward negating the ridiculous portrayal of the slaves of the kindly Shelby's as happy and content, even thankful (Tom and his wife proclaim how the Lord has blessed them with their life on the plantation)to be in bondage. For a slave, happiness was relative. I wish I could remember who said it but I have heard it said that 'the slave with a cruel master wishes for a kind one-the slave with a kind master wishes for freedom'. The myth of the contented slave grew out of the necessity for self-preservation and the fact that protests fell on deaf ears anyway. Certainly some slave owners were otherwise decent people who were also victims of the pseudo-science that proclaimed blacks as simple naive and in need of white guidance at one end of the philosophical spectrum and as sub-human and even evil at the other. The prevailing attitude was probably somewhere in-between. Certainly contact with slaves served to humanize them for some whites and their value as property and investment and laborers called for some humane treatment if only to protect them as such. The saintly Eva is a bit unrealistic but there certainly were many Southern whites who were rightly disgusted with slavery and the treatment of black people in general. Eva's declaration of love (and Aunt Ophelia's declaration of same after Eva's death) for Topsy is a major statement socially and cinematically. Affection on a non-patronizing level between blacks and whites on screen was almost never displayed and even more rarely stated outright. The physical contact between Uncle Tom and Eliza's mother Cassie was also exceptional. Even though the characters are both "black" the actress playing Cassie was not and the hand holding with and affectionate nursing of Lowe's Uncle Tom was the kind of action that would normally raise howls of protest from certain audiences. This avoidance of physical contact between especially a white female and a black male was still occurring even into the 1970's when some TV stations banned a special featuring a prominent white British female singer and a famous black actor/singer holding hands during a duet.



One of the first multi-million dollar productions, this film is not quite faithful to the book but still catches the viewer up in the plight of George and Eliza in particular and manages to indict the evil institution of slavery despite its concession to certain "sensibilities". A scene showing Uncle Tom rescuing Eva from the river was cut-probably so as not to give a black character too much heroic prominence but Eliza's escape over the ice floes is as realistic (even though it was done, or rather re-done on a studio backlot after having some footage shot on location originally) as anything of the times or even later. Actors and stunt people blend seamlessly and there is a real sense of danger conveyed.



Cinematically and dramatically the film more than justifies its huge budget and if a modern viewer can stomach some of the cliché portrayal of blacks and slaves and the cartoon-ish portrayal of some of the white characters they might find themselves understanding why Abraham Lincoln upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe was supposed to have remarked "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!" Only a true Simon Legree could look at even this stylized portrayal of slavery and still support the "peculiar institution".



Added December 12 2005:



Wanted to mention to Joseph Ulibas that while he is right that this film marks an innovative use of a racially mixed cast thecharacters of the slaves George, Eliza and Topsy were all played by white actors.



10 out of 18 people found the following comment useful :-

Interesting, but, sentimental adaptation of the novel, 25 January 2005

Author: R from Chicago, USA



Very hard to take, but, historically important and interesting. There are some wonderful scenes- Eliza and little Harry's escape from the plantation in the wintry night, their flight across the ice covered river, the surreal death of little Eva, the turning of the tables (first by Eliza and later by Cassie) that have enslaved women using whips to beat off white men! Margarita Fischer is quite good as Eliza. She has an interesting appearance that is quite right for this kind of melodrama. Virginia Grey as the impossibly saintly Little Eva is weirdly intense- sort of like those unsettling early performance by Jodie Foster. It works to make this character strange enough to be believable. Most of the actors playing Black slaves (some of them played by unnaturally painted white actors) have a more difficult time of it- James B. Lowe does his best and does bring some quiet dignity to the central role of Uncle Tom- but the script and conception defeat him at times. Arthur Edmund Carewe (an actor whom IMDb fascinatingly claims is of Native American descent- Chickasaw- and yet is said to have been born in Tebiziond Turkey?) is quite good as George Harris the light skinned husband of Eliza and father of Harry- although he barely appears in the film since much of George's story has been edited out. The most painfully offensive scenes belong to Mona Ray who plays the ridiculous caricature of the happy little mischievous slave Topsy. Interestingly the DVD has deleted scenes that push Topsy further towards a psychological study in self hatred- check them out of you rent this one- I am not sure if they were deleted in 1927 or at a later re-release date (Topsy uses the N word to refer to herself in the

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