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Christy Cabanne (1888–1950)

Author of The Mummy: Complete Legacy Collection

18 Works 105 Members 2 Reviews

Works by Christy Cabanne

The Mummy: Complete Legacy Collection (1932) — Director — 37 copies
The Mummy: The Legacy Collection (1932) — Director — 25 copies
The Mummy's Hand [1940 film] (1940) — Director — 10 copies
Jane Eyre [1934 film] (1934) — Director — 4 copies
Conspiracy [1930 film] (1930) — Director — 1 copy
The Dawn Trail [1930 film] (1930) — Director — 1 copy
A Girl of the Limberlost [1934 film] (1934) — Director — 1 copy
Back Trail [1948 film] (1948) — Director — 1 copy
The Man Who Walked Alone [1945 film] (1945) — Director — 1 copy
Hollywood Legends: Shirley Temple — Director — 1 copy
Martyrs of the Alamo [1915 film] — Director — 1 copy

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Birthdate
1888-04-16
Date of death
1950-09-15
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Occupations
film director

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Worst adaptation ever! The only part they took from the book were the names of the characters!
Forget the fact that it is greatly condensed (that was the least of the issues with this movie): Throughout this movie Jane is described as beautiful (they : even made Blanche Ingram jealous of her from the first) & Mr Rochester did not fit the description at all in the book of being moody as well as not handsome.
I guess everyone is better off that this being a short movie, because it was just awful would have been unbearable to sit through had it were any longer.

(I was VERY reluctant to list it as a classic in my tags, & only did so because the story is a classic, although this movie is anything but!)
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