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Mollycoddle, The / Flirting With Fate
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Even before he became the cinema's greatest swashbuckler, Douglas Fairbanks was already a big screen superstar. This cassette presents two rarely-seen films from Fairbanks's pre-adventure years, allowing modern viewers to experience for the first time the raw magnetism and casual charm that forged his fame.
In Victor Fleming's The Mollycoddle, Fairbanks stars as Richard Marshall, dandyish descendant of a long line of two-fisted frontiersmen. Due to too much time spent in Monte Carlo, he has degenerated into a monocle-sporting, tuxedoed mashmallow. When a prank leads him onto the yacht of the mysterious Henry Van Holkar (Wallace Beery), he is mistaken for a secret agent assigned to expose the millionaire's operation of smuggling jewels from an Arizona Indian reservation. The Mollycoddle is enlivened by moments of dauntless cinematic ingenuity, from a tremendous landslide to a dazzling fistfight in which Van Holkar and Marshall tangle atop a tree, down a mountainside, through an adobe dwelling, off a cliff, over a river, and over a waterfall.
A deliciously dark knockabout comedy from the earliest years of the feature film, Flirting With Fate follows the exploits of a starving artist who, when his romantic plans fall to shambles, becomes suicidal and hires a hitman (George Beranger)to put him out of his misery. Once a deal is struck, however, Augy Holliday's luck takes an upward swing and he must scramble to evade the assassin who seems to haunt his every move. |
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