Live HistoricSee what matters.

Film · MGM · 1931

Trader Horn

Name: Trader Horn scores 28 — Live Historic
Item: Trader Horn
Rating: 28
Author: Live Historic

28Leave it.

Shot partly in Africa and sold as danger, not a portrait of the people who live there.

Take controlThis scores 28. Trader Horn cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

Pass it on

The review

A white trader in Africa, a mission, a lost woman, and animals, shot partly on the continent. A large gross, named with Frankenstein and City Lights among that year's money. A teen can watch it. I allowed that, and I refused the lesson the trek wants to be.

The continent is the sell. It is not a portrait of the people who live there. The danger is the product. I won't turn animals or peril into a judgment of anybody who lives there. A mission in the frame does not make the expedition a true account. Say that before a teen has already been sold the map.

Journal

Keep Trader Horn in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

King Solomon's Mines

40 instead of 28

King Solomon's Mines is still a adventure film, and it scores 40 instead of 28. What you gain is courage: The courage the film actually has is the trek, and the trek is hard.

The eight

5
Industry
A white trader's work is the trek, and the danger is the product.
2
Household
A mission and a lost woman, and neither becomes a household here.
3
Piety
A mission is in the frame, and the sell is still the continent.
4
Courage
The danger is the product, so the risk is the thing being sold.
2
Republic
Not a portrait of the people who live there, so neighbors do not count.
2
Temperance
The continent is the sell, and the danger trains the next peril.
2
Truth
Shot partly in Africa, and still not a portrait of who lives there.
2
Stewardship
What's left is an expedition thrill, not the people who live there.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · Trader Horn · 28IMDb

Live HistoricSee what matters.

Film · United Artists · 1923

A Woman of Paris

28Leave it.

Chaplin stayed off screen, and what's left is a kept woman, not a family night.

Take controlThis scores 28. A Woman of Paris cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

Pass it on

The review

Don't queue this because the house likes the tramp. Chaplin directed and doesn't star. A woman from the country becomes a kept woman in Paris. Two men. It's his drama, not the comedy. Adult. Not a family film. The manners are the point. The money is the arrangement. People who wanted the tramp stayed away, and it wasn't a crowd.

I get the disappointment, and I won't clean the picture up to soothe it. A kept arrangement isn't a marriage in better clothes. Adults can watch the manners if they want the money told without a joke. Say adult before it starts. A thin crowd didn't wash the arrangement out. They had ordered a different man.

Journal

Keep A Woman of Paris in the record.