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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381199123
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Gold CD, Silent, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Running Time: 154 minutes
Sales Rank: 84440
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 1919
Editorial Review:
Description:
In Don't Change Your Husband, Cecil B. DeMille's first film with Gloria Swanson, Leila Porter (Swanson) tires of her dull nouveau-riche husband (Elliot Dexter) who is inattentive, sloppy and an eater of green onions. She trades him for Schuyler Van Sutphen, a suave but two-timing playboy (Lew Cody), but when she learns Van Sutphen is having an affair with Nanette the maid (Julia Faye), she encourages her now-reformed husband to pursue and remarry her. This edition is digitally mastered from the 35mm preservation negative, tinted according to the original instructions, and features authentic photoplay music performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. The drama of a woman who should have changed husbands long before she did, The Golden Chance, almost forgotten today, is one of Cecil B. DeMille's superlative early efforts. Against her family's wishes, beautiful and well-bred Mary (Cleo Ridgeley) has married Steve Denby (H. B. Carpenter), a criminal lout whose alcoholism has reduced the couple to destitution in a one-room slum apartment. Mary finds work as dressmaker to a society woman (Edythe Chapman) who is organizing a dinner party to help her husband close a business deal with an eligible millionaire (Wallace Reid). Transformed like Cinderella, Mary substitutes for a guest who is unable to come at the last minute. This edition is digitally mastered from the 35mm preservation negative, tinted according to the original instructions, and scored with authentic photoplay music compiled and performed by Rodney Sauer.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Marital strife the DeMille way
Before he became known for his epics, Cecil B. DeMille was really good at lighthearted films like these, spotlighting a married couple facing problems and how they come to a resolution of those problems. And while there is a bit of moralising going on, that doesn't totally overwhelm the proceedings. One gets the message through the actions of the characters more than from any preachy intertitles.
Though neither of these two films could be considered classics, I preferred 'Don't Change ... Read More
Rating: - Dynamic DeMille Double Bill.
DON'T CHANGE YOUR HUSBAND/THE GOLDEN CHANCE is the first of at least three double bill DVDs featuring early films by Cecil B. DeMille to be released by David Shepard of Film Preservation Associates and Image Entertaiment and what an inspired choice it is. It provides a rare opportunity to see one of the major filmmakers of Old Hollywood develop and adapt his style to the changing tastes of the public of the time which in turn were influenced by the films being made. THE GOLDEN CHANCE dates from 1915 ... Read More
Rating: - A very good early Cecil B DeMille double feature
Having enjoyed some of Cecil B DeMille's early work such as "Manslaughter" (1922) and in particular "The Cheat" (1915), I was looking forward to this DeMille double feature and I am certainly not disappointed. Both films have the DeMille trademark qualities of visually satisfying and often exotic sets, costumes and lighting, as well as a certain smooth style overall. DeMille also knew how to choose his cast, such as Wallace Reid - a very popular star in the late teens - in "The Golden Chance" and ... Read More
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