Today's episode is my conversation about the 1930 film The Rogue Song. I'm joined by Helen Cox from the Movies of Note newsletter and we talk about how MGM could let a momentous film like this end up lost over the years, the incredible work put in by YouTuber Unreeled8 to recreate the film from what we do have remaining, and how MGM marketed the film as a Laurel and Hardy production rather than relying on the relatively new stars that featured more prominently in the film.
You can watch the reconstruction of The Rogue Song by Unreeled8 on YouTube and be sure to check out Helen's newsletter.
Other films mentioned in this episode include:
- Big directed by Penny Marshall
- The Birds directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Such Men Are Dangerous directed by Kenneth Hawks
- Singin' in the Rain directed by Stanley Donen and Eugene Kelly
- Raider of the Lost Ark directed by Steven Spielberg
- Madame X directed by Lionel Barrymore
- Hollywood Revue of 1929 directed by Charles F. Reisner
- Scream directed by Wes Craven
- Bulldog Drummond directed by F. Richard Jones
- Condemned directed by Wesley Ruggles
- Disraeli directed by Alfred E. Green
- The Green Goddess directed by Alfred E. Green
- The Love Parade directed by Ernst Lubitsch
- Romancing the Stone directed by Robert Zemeckis
Other referenced topics:
- Martin Dickstein's 1930 review in the Brooklyn Eagle
- Phil Hall writing on cinema-crazed.com
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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