Richard Barthelmess in a boxing film, Patent Leather Kid (1928), was one of the Academy Awards' (Oscars) very first nominates for Best Actor.
He lost to Emil Jannings for The Last Commad and the Way of all Flesh. A powerful Holywood self-examination film and a powerful melodrama about human nature. Both are still taught in some film schools today.
Barthelmess/a boxing film never really had a chance. But he/it was in the very first round of nominations.
P.S. The film was marketed two ways, once as a boxing film, then as a war drama. The boxer goes to war theme.
I wonder, considering the date, if it was a vague Tunney reference? He was champion while it was in production and then released. 1926/27 & 1928.
Its title embraces the dual leather methaphor. The boxer becomes a leatherneck; a fighting Marine.
Eh!
P.S.S. I can't upload the two different posters.
(The Internet should be copyright free. Let there be a business net, one we only visit when we want to buy, while the rest are left to share on the peoples net.)
He lost to Emil Jannings for The Last Commad and the Way of all Flesh. A powerful Holywood self-examination film and a powerful melodrama about human nature. Both are still taught in some film schools today.
Barthelmess/a boxing film never really had a chance. But he/it was in the very first round of nominations.
P.S. The film was marketed two ways, once as a boxing film, then as a war drama. The boxer goes to war theme.
I wonder, considering the date, if it was a vague Tunney reference? He was champion while it was in production and then released. 1926/27 & 1928.
Its title embraces the dual leather methaphor. The boxer becomes a leatherneck; a fighting Marine.
Eh!
P.S.S. I can't upload the two different posters.
(The Internet should be copyright free. Let there be a business net, one we only visit when we want to buy, while the rest are left to share on the peoples net.)
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