Saturday, January 30, 2016

7th Heaven (1927)


Academy Awards, USA 1929

Won
Oscar
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Janet Gaynor
For Street Angel and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Best Director, Dramatic Picture
Frank Borzage
Best Writing, Adaptation
Benjamin Glazer
Nominated
Oscar
Best Picture, Production
Best Art Direction
Harry Oliver

Fox Film
Directed by Frank Borzage
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Carlotta)

Paris sewer worker Charles Farrell helps poor Janet Gaynor avoid arrest by claiming to be her husband. In order to avoid arrest himself, he has to invite her to live with him in his attic apartment and pose as his wife. They fall in love for real of course, until he is called away at the outbreak of WWI. She patiently waits for him to return while working in a munitions factory and being aggressively pursued by her boss. The atmospheric production and luminous Gaynor more than offset the typical silent melodramatics.

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