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Also from the same "Forbidden Hollywood" dvd set...

... is a gem called "A Free Soul," with Gable-with L. Barrymore, N. Shearer, L. Howard and a great young James Gleason-as gangster freed from a murder charge, who falls in love with his alcoholic defense lawyer's free spirit daughter. I thought Gable was electrifying in the smallish part. I can see from his early work why people went nuts over him. The movie is ahead of its time, and is a knock out. I also think it was fabulously well photographed. If you see it, check out the woodlands exteriors towards the end of the movie. It was unusual (to me, at least) to find early post silent era films that looked as good as the "late" silents, but I figure that was Thalberg's MGM production team in its glorious B & W heyday. As a side note, Gables' character's name is my favorite of all time: Ace Wilfong. Something about that moniker just makes me laugh.


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