When the Clouds Roll By

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

Lua error in Module:Infobox at line 235: malformed pattern (missing ']').

When the Clouds Roll By is a 1919 American comedy film starring Douglas Fairbanks and directed by Victor Fleming and Theodore Reed.[1][2] A copy of the film exists in an archive.[1]

Plot

A man follows the advice of a "psychiatrist" who lives in a nearby apartment as he romances a woman in Greenwich Village. "Psychiatrist" Dr. Ulrich Metz attempts to drive Daniel Brown to suicide.

Cast

Reception

Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance considers When the Cloud Rolls By to be the "best of all the contemporary Fairbanks comedies." "Executed at a breathless pace, When the Clouds Roll By is a masterful showpiece for the whirling cyclone of energy that was Douglas Fairbanks." Vance's highest praise is for the elaborate dream sequence, which he deems "a virtual encapsulation of every gymnastic feat in the Fairbanks repertoire" and notes that Fairbanks's walk on the ceiling of his home anticipates the celebrated "dancing on the ceiling" sequence in Stanley Donen's Royal Wedding (1951). Vance also notes that the film's flood sequence conclusion presages a similar ending in Buster Keaton's classic Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928).[3]

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.

Use <references />, or <references group="..." />

External links


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>

  1. 1.0 1.1 Progressive Silent Film List: When the Clouds Roll By at silentera.com
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. Vance, Jeffrey. Douglas Fairbanks (Berkeley, 2008), 81-83 ISBN 978-0-520-25667-5.