PizzaFLIX Presents CLASSIC MOVIE MONDAY
Director: John Ford
Stars: J. Farrell MacDonald, Nancy Drexel, David Rollins, and Louise Fazenda
🍕Presented with the original synchronized orchestral score and sound effects🍕
A delightful silent-era comedy from John Ford, Riley the Cop follows a bumbling yet big-hearted officer on a transatlantic chase after a runaway youth. J. Farrell MacDonald brings warmth and humor to the title role, supported by a lively cast, including the ever-charming Louise Fazenda. Blending slapstick with sentimentality, this rare early Ford feature is a must-see, presented here with its original Movietone score!
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Musical Score arranged by Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel. Roxy was an impresario and managed several of the great movie palaces in NewYork City (and elsewhere) including: Infamous original Roxy Theatre, perhaps the greatest of the New York movie palaces and later the Regent, Strand, Rialto, Rivoli, and Capitol theaters, and later opened Radio City Music Hall and the new Roxy Theatre both for RKO. Roxy brought along a chorus line from another theatre to Radio City and they were called the Roxettes, and later became the Rockettes. Roxy managed entire shows in addition to the featured movie. He utilized synchronous orchestra music to silent features which he orchestrated, the films that ran his theatres were so successful that he literally had Carte Blanche to re-edit the major films that played his theatres. Roxy later became a major radio star in its early days with ‘Roxy And His Gang’ an early network program. There is a lot about Roxy online, at least two books and a documentary that aired on TCM. There is much more to his story which you can discover. The silent era was quite amazing. Thanks PizzaFlix for bringing this film here.
Hi Draff🍕Thanks for the fascinating inside info🍕
@PizzaFLIXmy pleasure. This channel is a real gift. Thanks, PizzaFlix!
Excellent copy of very fun film and Ford rarity. Really enjoyed this! PizzaFlix comes through again. Thanks for the upload!
13:23 Thats a 1925/6 Chrysler roadster. No safety or polution junk on that one.
I have a 23 Ford touring car. The kids liked it mainly because there aren’t any seat belts and it feels like you are going 100 even if it is only 35 especially in the back seat.
John Ford
Apparently John Ford’s directorial style was bred in the bone and only became more John Ford-ier as he went on. Posthumous admiration for Mr. MacDonald’s comic and acting skill – indeed, all the cast. Thank you PizzaFlix for a look back into the culture and the mores of the time.
That was fun! Thanks, PizzaFlix!
I love the social interaction in this movie. You had no choice but speak to one another. The communication here was something else.