Rent Frank Borzage: Vol. 2: Lucky Star / Liliom (1930)

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Rent Frank Borzage: Vol. 2: Lucky Star / Liliom (aka Lucky Star / Liliom) Online DVD & Blu-ray Rental
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Synopsis:
Frank Borzage, the sensitive actor-turned-director famed for his mystical romanticism, created some of Hollywood's most acclaimed and sensual films.

Lucky Star (1929)
Feature sees the great romantic screen pairing of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell for a third time. The chemistry is palpable in this tale of a poverty-stricken girl (and budding crook) who is transformed through her friendship with a wheelchair-bound Great War veteran.

Liliom (1930)
Based on Ferenc Molnar's celebrated play which was later remade as the much-loved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel, charts the troubled relationship between Farrell's Liliom, a fairground barker, and Julie (Rose Hobart), the woman who loves him despite his flaws.
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Directors:
Producers:
William Fox
Writers:
Austin Strong, Benjamin Glazer
Aka:
Lucky Star / Liliom
Studio:
BFI Video
Genres:
Classics, Drama, Romance
Collections:
Holidays Film Collection, Romantic Film Pairings for Valentine's Day, The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Fritz Lang
BBFC:
Release Date:
02/11/2009
Run Time:
185 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 1.0, Silent
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
B & W
Bonus:
  • The River (1929, 55 mins): Borzage's once-lost masterpiece lovingly reconstructed by Herve Dumont
  • Lucky Star commentary by Tom Gunning

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Reviews (1) of Frank Borzage: Vol. 2: Lucky Star / Liliom

Lucky Star (with spoiler). - Frank Borzage: Vol. 2: Lucky Star / Liliom review by Steve

Spoiler Alert
06/05/2021

The final part of Franks Borzage's trilogy of silent romantic melodramas starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell is probably the best. The leads are adorable and there is an endearing touch of comedy. She plays an uneducated country girl who falls in love with a soldier just back from the Great War.

He instructs her in the rudiments of manners and hygiene and uncovers the lovely, maturing woman within... There's a charming scene when he washes her hair over and over until he discovers... she's a blonde. But this is a Borzage film, so fate isn't quite so benign.

Farrell had an accident in France and came back a paraplegic. He is placed in the agonising position of educating Gaynor for the benefit of the mendacious and irresponsible Sergeant who partly brought about the injury. OK, Farrell's recovery just in time to save his sweetheart from a disastrous marriage is most improbable...

But that's the transformative potential of true love in a Borzage film! They have a spiritual quality; a miraculous expression of ethereal romance. Sure, it's sentimental, but it communicates a strange, intangible sense of the supernatural, of the out-of body. Of the soul as it struggles to survive the physical world.

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