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Title: Love that Lubitsch
Review: Ernst Lubitsch, before Frank Capra or Alfred Hitchcock, was the name above the title ealy movie goers could look for a specific type of entertainment, sophisticated comedy. He was as close to a star-director (think Spielberg today) in the late silent era as there was, after Chaplin. This collection of four of his first sound films are superb- especially The Love Parade (premiered two weeks after Wall St. laid an egg in 1929) and One Hour With You, which he did just before his most acknowledged masterpiece, Trouble in Paradise. Even the mediocre Monte Carlo has its great moments- such as Jeanette MacDonald introducing 'Beyond the Blue Horizon' on her train ride to that same city. And The Smiling Lieutenant is done with those Lubitsch touches to rescue what could be a real downer of a film.
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