Cameo Kirby (1930)
Directed by Irving Cummings
Genres - Drama |
Release Date - Jan 12, 1930 (USA - Unknown), Jan 12, 1930 (USA) |
Run Time - 55 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
This early talkie is the third version of the popular Booth Tarkington play. It is set in the mid 19th-century and centers upon a good-hearted riverboat gambler who takes on a group of criminals in New Orleans during Mardis Gras when he rushes in to save a young woman from ruination. But she is a tough cookie and doesn't even thank him. Instead, she runs away. Later he meets her again after he wins her daddy's cotton plantation in a card game. None of the locals are pleased by the gambler's presence and he is nearly lynched.
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career, damsel-in-distress, drowning, enemy, father, frame-up, gangster, homosexual, investigator, lynching, Mardi-Gras, military-academy, mistress, politician, rape, rescue, riverboat, scandal, sex, wager
