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Event Date as Display String:

Monday, July 8, 2019, 7:00pm - 8:05pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019junaug/hawks.html#girl

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive Cost: $9 - Regular Admission $7 - Non-Harvard Students,
Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens. Free for Harvard
students Contact Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019junaug/hawks.html#girl
Often cited as the earliest flowering of the Hawksian ethos, "A Girl
in Every Port" is a subversive farce of hedonism and male bonding, a
story propelled almost entirely by a rowdy, freewheeling spirit. Spike
(Victor McLaglen) and Bill (Robert Armstrong) are hard-drinking
patrons of the high seas, sailing from port to port looking for
frolics and fistfights while leaving trails of besotted dames in their
wake. When the two come into one other's crosshairs over a conspiring
siren in Marseilles (Louise Brooks), the tension leads inexorably to
quasi-romantic camaraderie, at which point "A Girl in Every Port"
turns gradually from the ribald to the delicate, tracing Spike and
Bill's developing relationship as through it were the dalliance in
"Sunrise." Despite what might be seen as a proto-queer sensibility,
however, the film broke box-office records for its loose, broad
comedy, a mode naturally suited to McLaglen, whose wide frame and
stomping gait practically necessitate Hawks' master-shot approach.

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Monday, July 8, 2019 - 19:00 to 20:05

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