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The Salvation Hunters is a 1925 American silent drama film which marked the directorial debut of the 30-year old Josef von Sternberg. The feature stars Georgia Hale and George K. Arthur , and would bring Sternberg, "a new talent", to the attention of the major movie studios, including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount Pictures .
Read my review and the synopsis of the film at: http://www.acinemahistory.com/2019/06/director-josef-von-sternberg-screenplay.htmlSoundtrack: Bartok, String ...
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The Salvation Hunters: Directed by Josef von Sternberg. With George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin, Otto Matieson. A cowardly young man, a bitter young woman, and a helpless child live on the docks, spend their days full of ennui watching a dredge dig the same hole day in and day out, chased around by the dredge workers.
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- Drama
- Josef von Sternberg
- 1925-02-15
Dec 28, 2019 · 3 2,180. Synopsis. Often described as “the first American independent film”, von Sternberg’s The Salvation Hunters is an austere and obscurely naturalist drama about “humans who crawl near the floor.”. “It’s hard now to appreciate the bomb-shell that Sternberg’s first feature must have been in Hollywood at the time: its slow ...
The Salvation Hunters (1925) Movie. Audience Score. 63. NR 1 hr 10 min Feb 15th, 1925 Drama. A hopelessly hopeful drifter, a bitter young woman, and a helpless child live on the docks, spending ...
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The Salvation Hunters is conventional when it comes to staging and decoupage (even for its time-period) but Von Sternberg excels at telling the story entirely through his visuals. Von Sternberg: "I had in mind a visual poem. Instead of flat lighting, shadows. In the place of pasty masks, faces in relief, plastic and deep-eyed.
