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1929 film

The Shakedown is an American pre-Code 1929 action/comedy/sports drama film, directed by William Wyler and starring James Murray, Barbara Kent, and Jack Hanlon.

Considered a part-talkie, the film was released in parallel silent and sound versions. Once believed lost, The Shakedown was discovered and restored by the staff of the George Eastman House in 1998. Director William Wyler made the move up to talking pictures with this blend of action and comedy.

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Dave Roberts (James Murray) is a professional boxer better at losing in fixed matches than in knocking out his opponents. He turns up in towns and is part of a group who sets up corrupt boxing matches. Dave’s life on the margins changes after he meets an honest woman and rescues an orphan from an oncoming train. As he begins to care for them, he ultimately has to decide whether to continue in his low-life ways or turn the tables on those who have been forcing him to participate in them.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

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  1. ^ “The Shakedown”. silentfilm.org. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  2. ^ “The Shakedown”. kinolorber.com. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  3. ^ “The Shakedown”. tcmdb. tcm.com. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  4. ^ Smith, Derek (October 9, 2020). “Blu-ray Review: William Wyler’s The Shakedown on KL Studio Classics”. Slant Magazine. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  5. ^ “The Shakedown”. Catalog. AFI. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  6. ^ Hall, Mordaunt (April 8, 1929). “THE SCREEN; Benny and Fleurette”. The New York Times. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
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  8. ^ Miller, Gabriel (June 5, 2013). William Wyler: The Life and Films of Hollywood’s Most Celebrated Director. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-4211-1.
  9. ^ “Eureka Entertainment to release ‘EARLY UNIVERSAL VOL. 1’ as part of The Masters of Cinema Series this August!”. The Arts Shelf. May 27, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  10. ^ “The Shakedown”. Museum of the Moving Image. Retrieved March 4, 2023. this Universal boxing picture, based on a story discovered by Wyler’s brother Robert, finds the then–young director honing his considerable skills as a metteur en scène. Keep your eyes peeled for John Huston, Wyler’s close friend, as an uncredited extra.
  11. ^ “September – December 2021”. Chicago Film Society. Retrieved March 4, 2023. If only every Universal release aspired to the panache and pluck of The Shakedown, a low-budget picture from a generic script that nevertheless delivers an emotional knockout…..This 35mm copy is an optical blow-up from that sole surviving Universal Show-at-Home 16mm print. – (Kyle Westphal)
  12. ^ Regev, Ronny (September 2016). “Hollywood Works: How Creativity Became Labor in the Studio System” (PDF). Enterprise & Society. 17 (3): 591–617. doi:10.1017/eso.2015.89. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  13. ^ Pierce, David (2013). The Survival of American Silent Feature Films, 1912-1929 (PDF). Council on Library and Information Resources and The Library of Congress. ISBN 978-1-932326-39-0.
  14. ^ Regev, Ronny (September 25, 2018). Working in Hollywood: How the Studio System Turned Creativity into Labor. UNC Press Books. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-4696-3706-8.
  15. ^ Jacobs, Lea (April 2, 2008). The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s. University of California Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-520-23701-8.
  16. ^ Keating, Patrick (December 31, 2018). “American Cinema, German Angles”. The Dynamic Frame: 15–54. doi:10.7312/keat19050-003. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  17. ^ Jackson, Bruce. “Huston, John”. Senses of Cinema. Retrieved March 4, 2023.

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