Great Gabbo, The (Blu-Ray)
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Collection: Kino Lorber
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 1929
Director: James Cruze
Genre: Musical
Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Marjorie Kane, Donald Douglas
Runtime: 96
Language: English
Release Date: 2021-07-13
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One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars Erich von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze (The Covered Wagon) allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail of garish stage shows and Austro-Hungarian villainy that is a diabolical delight.