The Eagle (1925) :
Brief Review -
A Classic tale of Dubrovsky's Zorro/Robinhood in great silent feature. Haven't everybody seen the Robinhood tale once in the life or even heard of it. From Michael Curtiz's classic film "The Adventure Of Robinhood" (1938) to any modern adaption of the same story in Hollywood and bollywood we have all loved and treasured this timeless story. Now if you would like to watch the same in Silent feature then Clarence Brown's The Eagle is highly recommendable. A wanted Russian lieutenant becomes a masked vigilante seeking vengeance upon the man who stole his family's land, only to fall for his charming daughter and then happy ending as expected. Well, there is nothing much wrong about the novel except for one thing that it turns that people's movement very personalized after sometime. I loved how they referred to it in the film by saying, "Revenge is Sweet but sometimes a girl sweeter". At this point we all knew that what's gonna be the climax and therefore this wanted to be revenge saga loses one slight if its impact. I would have loved to see it continuing the same Revenge and then having love triumph at the end like we saw in Michael Curtiz's film. But overall it's fine treatment given to the novel and pretty enjoyable too. Rudolph Valentino is at his prime form as The Mask Man and Vilma Banky looks cute as her love interest. Hoffman and Davis gave a brilliant background score to this 80 minutes ride even though it lacks certain portion of adventure and action. The Eagle hasn't made it to many of all time lists for some reasons and I would agree with it because Today i have experienced it myself but believe me as Silent feature we couldn't have asked for better version than this in that era. Brown is terrific as a director while riding the horses and i wouldn't blame him for anything. He tried his best and gave possibly the best version of timeless classic which is surely worth watching.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest
A Classic tale of Dubrovsky's Zorro/Robinhood in great silent feature. Haven't everybody seen the Robinhood tale once in the life or even heard of it. From Michael Curtiz's classic film "The Adventure Of Robinhood" (1938) to any modern adaption of the same story in Hollywood and bollywood we have all loved and treasured this timeless story. Now if you would like to watch the same in Silent feature then Clarence Brown's The Eagle is highly recommendable. A wanted Russian lieutenant becomes a masked vigilante seeking vengeance upon the man who stole his family's land, only to fall for his charming daughter and then happy ending as expected. Well, there is nothing much wrong about the novel except for one thing that it turns that people's movement very personalized after sometime. I loved how they referred to it in the film by saying, "Revenge is Sweet but sometimes a girl sweeter". At this point we all knew that what's gonna be the climax and therefore this wanted to be revenge saga loses one slight if its impact. I would have loved to see it continuing the same Revenge and then having love triumph at the end like we saw in Michael Curtiz's film. But overall it's fine treatment given to the novel and pretty enjoyable too. Rudolph Valentino is at his prime form as The Mask Man and Vilma Banky looks cute as her love interest. Hoffman and Davis gave a brilliant background score to this 80 minutes ride even though it lacks certain portion of adventure and action. The Eagle hasn't made it to many of all time lists for some reasons and I would agree with it because Today i have experienced it myself but believe me as Silent feature we couldn't have asked for better version than this in that era. Brown is terrific as a director while riding the horses and i wouldn't blame him for anything. He tried his best and gave possibly the best version of timeless classic which is surely worth watching.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest