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Kiss (1929)
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786306000340
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6306000348
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 1929
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Rating:  - Last silent film for Garbo and MGM
This isn't the best Garbo silent ever made, but it was the last, and it was also the final silent film made by MGM. It's only a little over an hour long, and supposedly was originally 90 minutes long. What makes this film good is the combination of Garbo's acting and the cinematography here. Movies like this and Sunrise make me somewhat sad that the silent film era ended, because what could be done creatively with the camera was lost from this point until the early 30's once the problems of the static ... Read More
Rating: - Couldn't disagree more
This movie is the last silent film MGM made. I do not think it is a "mediocre" Garbo vehicle in anyway. The cinematography in this film for it's time is very well done, intriguing concepts of "flashbacks" during the story and how they are expressed with this early film technology make it very worthwhile. A classic example of how something extremely innocent one minute can turn into a crime the next. Garbo's acting is very fine.
Rating:  - Wrong Kiss
Sorry, but I can't figure out any other way to correct a mistake on Lawrence M. Burnabo's otherwise excellent National Film Registry lists. The title may be the same, but "The Kiss" that's on the NFR is Edison's 1896 kinetoscope film, not this Garbo silent.
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