#100 rogues composer archive#

#100 rogues composer archive#

Another reel of assorted clips is in the Czech Film Archive it was screened at a convention in 1995. Another 500 foot piece, about 10 minutes long, which showed a ballet sequence by Albertina Rasch was found in Maine in 1998 and was restored by UCLA. A two and a half minute fragment that had been cut out of the film by a local projectionist was found in a bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1981, it featured a comic segment with Laurel and Hardy hiding in a cave in which a bear has taken shelter. Preservation status Īlthough the film is considered to be lost, as there are no known complete prints, some fragments have been found. As a result, in many places the film was advertised as 'Laurel & Hardy in The Rogue Song'. Īlthough Laurel and Hardy were minor players in the film, opera star Lawrence Tibbett was virtually unknown in much of the United States. The film premiered in Hollywood at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on January 17, 1930. Principal photography ended on October 11. The final film has eight scenes with the comedy duo. MGM borrowed Laurel and Hardy from Hal Roach, and after negotiations between Roach and Thalberg, Roach agreed to write and direct their scenes. The studio executives' response to the daily 'rushes' was that the film was not working well and needed help. Production was supervised by Paul Bern, and the anticipated 30-day shooting schedule began on August 29, 1929. The film was adapted by John Colton and Frances Marion from the operetta Gipsy Love by Robert Bodanzky and A. The film is notable today as Laurel and Hardy's first and only appearance in a color feature film (all of their feature films before and after were shot in black-and-white their only other professionally shot color film was the wartime short The Tree in a Test Tube), although they were only minor players in the film. It was also the screen debut of Lawrence Tibbett, a world-renowned star of the Metropolitan Opera. The film is MGM's first all-talking, all-color ( Technicolor) production. Lionel Barrymore directing The Rogue Song. Although still in love with each other, they realize they cannot be together. Vera manages to outwit Yegor, who is captured by soldiers and flogged. Yegor kidnaps Vera, forcing her to live a life of lowly servitude among the bandits. They fall in love, but the relationship is shattered when Yegor kills Vera's brother, Prince Serge, for raping his sister, Nadja, and driving her to suicide. Yegor (Lawrence Tibbett), a dashing (as well as singing) bandit leader meets Princess Vera (Catherine Dale Owen) at a mountain inn. The story takes place in the Russian Empire in the year 1910. This film, MGM's first all-talking Technicolor film, is partially lost as there are no known complete prints of this film. Laurel and Hardy were third-billed their sequences were filmed at the last minute and interspersed throughout the film in an attempt to boost its potential box-office appeal. The film stars Metropolitan Opera singer Lawrence Tibbett-who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance-and Catherine Dale Owen. Hal Roach wrote and directed the Laurel and Hardy sequences and was not credited. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production was directed by Lionel Barrymore and released in two versions, with and without sound.

The Rogue Song is a Pre-Code 1930 romantic and musical film that tells the story of a Russian bandit who falls in love with a princess, but takes his revenge on her when her brother rapes and kills his sister.