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Conflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.Conflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.Conflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.
Phil Bloom
- Barfly
- (uncredited)
Richard Cramer
- Mate at Nathan Ross
- (uncredited)
Pat Harmon
- Sailor from the Santa Rosa
- (uncredited)
Lillian Lawrence
- Townswoman
- (uncredited)
Chris-Pin Martin
- Sailor from the Santa Rosa
- (uncredited)
Anna May Wong
- Singapore Woman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJoan Crawford would later remark that she disliked this film and thought that she and Ramon Novarro were miscast.
- Quotes
Joel Shore: Stand back! Unhand that woman... or my trusty pistol will bark your doom!
- Alternate versionsTurner Classic Movies (TCM) broadcast a version with an uncredited piano music score, and running time of 85 minutes.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Anna May Wong, Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend (2007)
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Entertaining silent adventure yarn
A rare chance to watch Joan Crawford just before her breakthrough in silent pictures the same year, when she starred in `Our Dancing Daughters' as the epitome of the '20s flapper. In this movie she plays the lady-in-between (and the cause of sibling rivalry) seamen brothers Ramon Novarro (Joel Shore) and Ernest Torrence (Captain Mark Shore).
Crawford does a fine job playing the ingénue, and boy! does she look different from the trademark image she adopted from the 1930s onwards: in this picture her features look much softer, she has `smaller' lips, etc. (sort of the '20s look).
But, I must have to note that this is Novarro's film all the way, playing devil-may-care Joel Shore, the youngest of four seaman brothers, who becomes a full-fledged, grown-up man, the hard way.
Novarro's flair for comedy, playing and foolin' around, making practical jokes and having lots of fun, is at full display in the first half of the picture (these scenes are heartfelt and very believable), before he has to confront life and his much admired eldest brother (Torrence), because of their love for the same woman. A very entertaining film, you almost forget it's silent.
The same story had been filmed before by Metro pictures in 1923, using the original story's title "All the Brothers were Valiant", starring Malcolm McGregor, Lon Chaney and Billie Dove. Then again, it was remade by MGM in 1953 as "All the brothers were valiant" with Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger and Ann Blyth.
Crawford does a fine job playing the ingénue, and boy! does she look different from the trademark image she adopted from the 1930s onwards: in this picture her features look much softer, she has `smaller' lips, etc. (sort of the '20s look).
But, I must have to note that this is Novarro's film all the way, playing devil-may-care Joel Shore, the youngest of four seaman brothers, who becomes a full-fledged, grown-up man, the hard way.
Novarro's flair for comedy, playing and foolin' around, making practical jokes and having lots of fun, is at full display in the first half of the picture (these scenes are heartfelt and very believable), before he has to confront life and his much admired eldest brother (Torrence), because of their love for the same woman. A very entertaining film, you almost forget it's silent.
The same story had been filmed before by Metro pictures in 1923, using the original story's title "All the Brothers were Valiant", starring Malcolm McGregor, Lon Chaney and Billie Dove. Then again, it was remade by MGM in 1953 as "All the brothers were valiant" with Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger and Ann Blyth.
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- fsilva
- Sep 16, 2002
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- All the Brothers Were Valiant
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- Budget
- $290,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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