VHS : The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302004489
Format: Black & White, Silent, NTSC
ISBN: 6302004489
Label: MGM/UA Home Video
Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 14818
Studio: MGM/UA Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 30, 1928
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Ernst Lubitsch brought his famous touch to this sentimental romantic drama, a famous operetta about a young prince who falls in love with a commoner. A kindly tutor (Jean Hersholt) effectively raises the boy in a splendorous kingdom of rolling hills and vast forests while his distant father rules in the cold, tradition-bound palace. When he turns 18, Prince Karl Heinrich (Ramon Novarro) is sent to Heidelberg for an education, in more ways than one. He enrolls incognito to get a taste of real life and falls in love with the kittenish, sweetly rambunctious barmaid Katchen (Norma Shearer). The prince becomes so caught up in his student revelries, school chums, and his first love, that he forgets he has a world outside of university until royal duties call him back to the palace. Shot partly on location in Germany, where the gorgeous countryside contrasts with the lavish palace and quaint German beer garden built on the MGM lot, this was the grandest of Lubtisch's productions to date, though one where his famous wit played second fiddle to glossy melodrama. The marriage of Lubitsch and MGM seems near perfect: the studio offered the glitz and the star power, and Lubitsch the intimacy. This is real tearjerker material, but Lubitsch's sensibility brings rollicking fun and a playful sense of sexual discovery in the first half, and pathos to the bittersweet romantic drama that ends the film. --Sean Axmaker
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
I can hear this silent movie screaming out, "Don't let me die! Put me on DVD."
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This 1927 silent classic may seem like a frothy piece of fluff at first, but it is actually quite tragic, and true to life.
Exquisitely directed by Ernst Lubitsch, it has meticulous attention to detail, and is wonderfully photographed. I love the hillside of flowers, which is later seen barren. There are many delicate touches in this film, that make it good for many viewings. The orchestral score by Carl Davis is also pleasing, with its share of om-pah-pah drinking songs, waltzes, and a melodic ... Read More
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Having been a silents fan for years, but just now discovering the real gems, through more wide releases of VHS and DVD, I have to say that my first viewing of a silent Lubitsch film was a true delight. Having seen Valentino in at least five films, and Novarro in two (this and Ben Hur), I would say it's unfair to compare the two at all; both exceed in subtly different ways.
I was delighted by this movie, both in the dramatic skills of Novarro and Shearer, who complement each other's gaity and seriousness, ... Read More
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This Ernst Lubitsch production would have to be one of the most delightful silent films produced. In reality it is a fairytale but done with such sincerity and care for the story and characters that you cannot help but be moved by it and feel strongly for the characters.
Ramon Novarro could not have been more perfectly cast than in this production where he plays the shy and sheltered prince of the title who goes to study at Heidelberg and in the process learns about life and love and finds his place ... Read More
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TV host Joe Franklin, WOR-New York's long-reigning king of 2 am nostalgia (THE JOE FRANKLIN SHOW), has described this most winning of silent classics with affection as "Viennese fairy tale, all sugar and apple blossoms". It certainly ranks as among the unjustly overshadowed films of its caliber. The basic plot is a staple of folklore and film alike: a royal who slips out of character for a brief fling at enjoying the pleasures of the common life, before being recalled to the path of duty(think of the Audrey Hepburn ... Read More
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