The Squall
1929 film
- May 9, 1929 (1929-05-09)
Running time
The Squall is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Myrna Loy, Richard Tucker, Alice Joyce and Loretta Young, and based on the 1926 play The Squall by Jean Bart.
Plot
In Hungary, a beautiful, young gypsy girl, Nubi, seeks shelter during a sudden squall. Nubi is given shelter by a well-to-do farmer and his family. The farmer and his family hide the girl when a brutish, older gypsy lover arrives to claim the girl and take her away. The older gypsy leaves, and Nubi is allowed to stay on with the family as a servant. Nubi does little useful work as a servant in the house, and instead proceeds to use her feminine charms to entice and bewitch various male members of the household, leading to many scenes of discord, anger, and jealousy. The spell that Nubi has put on the house is only lifted at the end of the movie when the older gypsy returns, and carries Nubi away—with the farmer and his family no longer willing to offer protection to the troublesome gypsy girl.[1][2][3]
Cast
- Richard Tucker as Josef Lajos
- Alice Joyce as Maria Lajos
- Loretta Young as Irma
- Carroll Nye as Paul Lajos
- ZaSu Pitts as Lena
- Harry Cording as Peter
- George Hackathorne as Niki
- Marcia Harris as Aunt Anna
- Knute Erickson as Uncle Dani
- Myrna Loy as Nubi
- Nicholas Soussanin as El Moro
Production
The film was Korda's first talkie, although his two previous films Night Watch and Love and the Devil had featured sound effects and music as part of the gradual transition from silent to sound film. The film was shot at night at the Burbank studios, as the only sound stage there was used by Warner Brothers during the day.[4]
Preservation status
The film survives intact with its Vitaphone soundtrack and exists in the Library of Congress and 16mm print survive.[5] The film has been released to DVDR on the Warner Archive Collection label.
See also
- List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films:1921–30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971.
- ^ The Squall at silentera.com
- ^ The Squall as produced on Broadway at the 48th Street Theatre, November 11 1926 to December 1927, IBDb.com; accessed August 17, 2015.
- ^ Kulik, Karol (1990). Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Virgin Books. p. 51. ISBN 0870003356. OCLC 1827622.
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress by The American Film Institute, c. 1978.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Squall (film).
- The Squall at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- The Squall at IMDb
- The Squall at SilentEra
- Allmovie synopsis of The Squall with DVD picture
- Pre-Code lobby poster for The Squall featuring Myrna Loy's character
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Films by Alexander Korda
- Watchhouse in the Carpathians (1914)
- The Duped Journalist (1914)
- Tutyu and Totyo (1914)
- Lyon Lea (1915)
- The Officer's Swordknot (1915)
- White Nights (1916)
- The Grandmother (1916)
- Tales of the Typewriter (1916)
- The Man with Two Hearts (1916)
- The One Million Pound Note (1916)
- Cyclamen (1916)
- Struggling Hearts (1916)
- The Laughing Saskia (1916)
- Miska the Magnate (1916)
- St. Peter's Umbrella (1917)
- The Stork Caliph (1917)
- Magic (1917)
- Harrison and Barrison (1917)
- Faun (1918)
- The Man with the Golden Touch (1918)
- Mary Ann (1918)
- Ave Caesar! (1919)
- White Rose (1919)
- Yamata (1919)
- Man of Gold (1919)
- Neither at Home or Abroad (1919)
- Number 111 (1919)
- The Prince and the Pauper (1920)
- Masters of the Sea (1922)
- A Vanished World (1922)
- Samson and Delilah (1922)
- The Unknown Tomorrow (1923)
- Everybody's Woman (1924)
- Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)
- Dancing Mad (1925)
- Madame Wants No Children (1926)
- A Modern Dubarry (1927)
- The Stolen Bride (1927)
- The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
- Yellow Lily (1928)
- Night Watch (1928)
- Love and the Devil (1929)
- The Squall (1929)
- Her Private Life (1929)
- Lilies of the Field (1930)
- Women Everywhere (1930)
- The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
- The Men Around Lucy (1931)
- Rive gauche (1931)
- Marius (1931)
- Longing for the Sea (1931)
- The Golden Anchor (1932)
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- Wedding Rehearsal (1932)
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- The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
- Rembrandt (1936)
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- That Night in London (1932)
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- Sanders of the River (1935)
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- The Ghost Goes West (1935)
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- Things to Come (1936)
- I Stand Condemned (1936)
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- Forget Me Not (1936)
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