Tag archives for Donald Crisp

V’s Ten for Ten: #9 – “Mutiny on the Bounty” (1935)

★★★★ “But perhaps, as your father used to say: ‘A taut hand at sea is better than a slack one.’“ What does it mean to create a civilization?  Is it possible that something as lawless as a mutiny can bring about one of the greatest advances in law, order, and institutional structure in history? Mutiny […]

V’s Ten for Ten: #7 – “Broken Blossoms” (1919)

★★★★ Let’s talk about racism. I’ve held for years that the most racist regular moviegoing audience isn’t actually anyone in the good ol’ You-Ess of A. It’s China.  The joke of it is that just about everyone knows that as well as I do, but that Americans, and elites in particular, don’t know what to […]