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S A P H i R E

PRESENTS: THE FLAPPER (1920)

MOViE iNFORMATiON

[ THEATRE DATE....: 5/10/1920
[ RELEASE DATE....: 5/11/2005
[ STORE DATE......: 4/26/2005
[ GENRE...........: Silent Film/Comedy
[ RUNTiME.........: 87 Minutes
[ RATiNG..........: 6.9/10
[ NO. SCREENiNGS..: ???

[ ViDEO BiTRATE...: 982 kBit/s XviD at 18fps
[ AUDiO BiTRATE...: 132 kBit/s Stereo MP3 at 48KHZ
[ ASPECT RATiO....: 1.33:1
[ RESOLUTiON......: 512x384
[ NO. DiSKS.......: 1 sph-the.flapper.rar*701 MB**50x15 MB*]

M O V i E   S U M M A R Y

In 1920s jargon, a "flapper" was a footloose young lady who, in
keeping with a current fad, wore open-laced boots that flapped as
she walked. The word became a generic catchphrase, referring to any
jazz-age female with a thirst for excitement. The Flapper stars Olive
Thomas as Ginger King, a capricious senator's daughter who gets into
all sorts of trouble. It's all innocent fun, of course, but for a
while poor Ginger is suspected of being as "loose" as the boots she
wears. The film represented one of the last feature-film appearances
by Olive Thomas, who soon died under questionable circumstances.

Film history records that during the late Teens of the 20th century,
Olive Thomas was the screen's "quintessential American girl", and
possibly "the most beautiful woman in the world." The beauty was
there for anyone to see: a heart-shaped face, luminous skin and smile,
large eyes whose deep blue photographed a lustrous gray. As for
quintessential American girlness, she'd been born in the milltown of
Charleroi, Pennsylvania, and gone from gingham counters in Charleroi
and then New York City, to modeling for the most popular portrait
artists of the day, to stardom with the Ziegfeld Follies. Wonderfully
natural on screen, she made a passel of movies (eight in 1919 alone),
married Mary Pickford's brother Jack, got to define the screen image
of "the flapper" (albeit comically), and may have been turning into a
real actress when she died in Paris in 1920, either a victim of
accidental poisoning or an impetuous suicide.

Director ..............  Alan Crosland

Olive Thomas ..........  Ginger King
Warren Cook ...........  Sen. King
Theodore Westman Jr. ..  Bill Forbes
Katherine Johnston ....  Hortense
Arthur Housman ........  Tom Morgan
Louise Lindroth .......  Elmina Buttons
Charles Craig .........  Rev. Cushil

M O R E  i N F O R M A T i O N

iMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011193/
RETAiL DVD: http://www.dvdempire.com/exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=661217

DVD REVIEW: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=15639

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