Showing posts with label Bancroft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bancroft. Show all posts
Monday, September 30, 2013
Thursday, June 28, 2012
The Docks of New York (1928)
The Docks of New York got me thinking about smoke and fog, and what they represent.
The movie’s filled with these things. Its protagonist, Bill Roberts (George Bancroft) makes his living shoveling coal into a ship’s boiler, causing stacks above him to belch smoke while he and his grimy mates puff away on cigarettes below. When he and his pal Steve (Clyde Cook) are given one night’s shore-leave, they exit the ship to a dock, shrouded in mist.
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