A Free Soul (1931) Norma Shearer, Clark Gable (Pre-Code) torrent download



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A Free Soul (1931) 





Directed by 


Clarence Brown    


  


Writing credits 


Adela Rogers St. Johns   (book)


John Meehan   (dialogue continuity)


Becky Gardiner   (adaptation)


Willard Mack   play (uncredited) 





Cast 





 Norma Shearer ...  Jan Ashe 


 Leslie Howard ...  Dwight Winthrop 


 Lionel Barrymore ...  Stephen Ashe 


 James Gleason ...  Eddie 


 Clark Gable ...  Ace Wilfong 


 Lucy Beaumont ...  Grandma Ashe 


 Roscoe Ates ...  Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited) 


 Ann Brody ...  Hamburger Saleslady (uncredited) 


 Edward Brophy ...  Slouch (uncredited) 


 James Donlan ...  Reporter (uncredited) 


 Bess Flowers ...  Birthday Party Guest (uncredited) 


 Francis Ford ...  Skid Row Drunk (uncredited) 


 Henry Hall ...  Detective in Raid (uncredited) 


 George Irving ...  Johnson - Defense Attorney (uncredited) 


 Edward LeSaint ...  Judge (uncredited) 


 Sam McDaniel ...  Casino Valet (uncredited) 


 Lee Phelps ...  Court Clerk (uncredited) 


 Frank Sheridan ...  Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited) 


 Phillips Smalley ...  Birthday Party Guest (uncredited) 


 William Stack ...  Dick Roland (uncredited) 


 Larry Steers ...  Ed - Casino Official (uncredited) 


 Carl Stockdale ...  Drug Store Proprietor (uncredited) 


 Charles Sullivan ...  One of Ace's Gang (uncredited) 


 E. Alyn Warren ...  Bottomley - Ace's Chinese Butler (uncredited) 


 Claire Whitney ...  Aunt Helen (uncredited) 





Produced by 


Clarence Brown ....  producer  


Irving Thalberg ....  executive producer (uncredited)  


  


Original Music by 


William Axt   (uncredited)  


  


Cinematography by 


William H. Daniels   (photographed by) (as William Daniels) 


  


Film Editing by 


Hugh Wynn    


  


Art Direction by 


Cedric Gibbons    


  


Costume Design by 


Adrian   (gowns)  


  


Second Unit Director or Assistant Director 


Charles Dorian ....  assistant director (uncredited)  


  


Sound Department 


Douglas Shearer ....  recording director  


Anstruther MacDonald ....  sound recording engineer (uncredited)  


  


Camera and Electrical Department 


Milton Brown ....  still photographer (uncredited)  


Al Lane ....  second camera operator (uncredited)  


Nelson McEdwards ....  assistant camera (uncredited)  


William Riley ....  assistant camera (uncredited)  


  


Other crew 


Howard Dietz ....  press representative (uncredited)  


  











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TRIVIA


The film ranked as ninth best picture in 1935 by the annual Film Daily poll of critics.








According to the Guinness Book of World Records (2002), the movie holds the record for the longest take in a commercial film. It contains a 14-minute uninterrupted monologue by Lionel Barrymore. Since a reel of camera film only lasts 10 minutes, it was achieved by using more than one camera.








Willard Mack's play, based on Adela Rogers St. Johns's novel, opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 12 January 1928 and closed in April 1928 after 100 performances. The opening night cast included Melvyn Douglas as Ace Wilfong and Kay Johnson as Jan Ashe.








When the final version of the movie went before Hollywood censors, they demanded that MGM cut the scene where Norma Shearer lays on the bed and suggestively asks Clark Gable to put his arms around her. The studio ignored the demand and released the film uncut.








In the outdoor location sequence where the donkey chases James Gleason, the actor, not a stuntman, is clearly knocked down by the animal, a scene which clearly wasn't planned as Norma Shearer's reaction attests.








USER COMMENTS


20 out of 20 people found the following comment useful. 


Not With My Daughter, 5 November 2007 








Author: b from Buffalo, New York 





For those of you who did not have the dubious pleasure of seeing one of Elizabeth Taylor's lesser films, The Girl Who Had Everything, here's the original film it was taken from. A Free Soul is the story of a girl who misuses the freedom her father gave her in her upbringing.





The film is based on a story Adela Rogers St. John wrote, that drew from her relationship with her father, famed criminal defense attorney Earl Rogers. Rogers set the mold for the famous criminal attorneys we've seen in action down to today. Unfortunately he was a man with a severe drinking problem which in the end got the better of him.





He did not come from the upper crust that Lionel Barrymore as Stephen Ashe comes from. In fact the real Earl Rogers's father was a minister. Yet Barrymore creates a compelling and brilliant, but dissolute figure who raises his daughter to be broadminded and tolerant and to despise some of the snobs from her class.





Norma Shearer takes the lessons to heart only too well. She leaves stalwart beau, polo playing Leslie Howard, for gambler/racketeer Clark Gable. Gable's a client of Barrymore's who Barrymore got off on a gambit that Johnnie Cochran used successfully defending O.J. Simpson and he's rather full of himself.





Barrymore turns out to be a bit of a snob himself in the end, telling Gable he's not good enough for his little girl. Of course Norma has her own ideas.





This film was the first really big break for Clark Gable. Movie audiences went for his animal magnetism in a big way. Even though Barrymore won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance by virtue of an unforgettable courtroom speech at the finish, it was Gable who got all the newspaper print.





Norma Shearer got a Best Actress nomination, but lost to fellow MGM contract player Marie Dressler for Min and Bill. A Free Soul which was a pre-Code film, explored the theme of sexual satisfaction ever so gingerly, but in a way after 1935 could not be seen for thirty years on the screen. Shearer is also giving one of her best screen performances.





Leslie Howard I'm afraid had real little to do, but look patient and noble as the society polo player. Howard exuded class and distinction even when he's penniless as in The Petrified Forest. So much the better for him when he's dressed in tails.





A Free Soul is light years better than The Girl Who Had Everything and holds up very well for today's audience. 








22 out of 24 people found the following comment useful :-


Lionel Barrymore Gives An Oscar Winning Acting Lesson, 23 April 2000





Author: Ron Oliver (revilorest@juno.com) from Forest Ranch, CA








They are alike, this father & daughter. Liberal, passionate, willful - they live life on their own terms, disdaining their narrow-minded relations. Few regrets & even fewer apologies cloud either conscious - yet each harbors a character trait that threatens to destroy them. Hers is emotional instability; his, acute alcoholism. Although both will make bad choices that will haunt them, each will continue to see their reflection in the other, unique & individual, A FREE SOUL.





Based on a book by Adela Rogers St. Johns, Norma Shearer gets top billing in this aged but enjoyable soap opera, and she is very good, turning on the histrionics most effectively. But it is Lionel Barrymore who gets full honors - and a Best Actor Oscar - for his portrayal of her brilliant, tragic, lawyer father. Masterfully, he dominates his every scene. His final appearance, a tempestuous summation to a murder trial jury, is considered a classic.





Playing the two very different men in Shearer's life are Clark Gable & Leslie Howard. Gable is excellent, oozing the virility that was about to make him a huge star. Howard deftly underplays his less flashy role and becomes the film's calm center. James Gleason as Barrymore's factotum, and Lucy Beaumont as Barrymore's patrician mother, both give memorable performances. Film mavens will spot Edward Brophy as one of Gable's henchmen & master stutterer Roscoe Ates as the man in the washroom window.
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