Edgar Ulmer's CLUB HAVANA

[Ray Faiola]

I ran this print at CineFest a couple of years ago. It's one of the most elusive of Ulmer's features. Finally transferred it and uploaded to youtube:

[earlytalkiebuffRob]

I ran this print at CineFest a couple of years ago. It's one of the most elusive of Ulmer's features. Finally transferred it and uploaded to youtube:

Many thanks for this. And speaking of Ulmer, I found an upload of DAMAGED LIVES (1933) a year or so ago. Though the image wasn't good it appeared just about watchable, but unfortunately the sound was in dreadful condition. Is it extant with better sound?

[Phototone]

I ran this print at CineFest a couple of years ago. It's one of the most elusive of Ulmer's features. Finally transferred it and uploaded to youtube:

Many thanks for this. And speaking of Ulmer, I found an upload of DAMAGED LIVES (1933) a year or so ago. Though the image wasn't good it appeared just about watchable, but unfortunately the sound was in dreadful condition. Is it extant with better sound?

If that is the "Damaged Lives" which is about Venereal Disease I have a 35mm Nitrate print of this.

[earlytalkiebuffRob]

Yes, it is indeed the one about V.D. Seems to be taken from the play 'Damaged Goods', though not sure if an 'official' adaptation. Looked an interesting film if I could have understood the soundtrack. A lot of these films which turn up now were so rare up until recently it was hard to tell if uploaded prints were the best available / extant.

[oldposterho]

That's fantastic, Ray, many thanks for uploading!

Any chance you've got Mr. Broadway (1933)? Been trying to see the Ulmer sequence used in that film that was taken from his never released US debut film Love's Interlude (aka Warning Shadow). Apparently it's been on TCM, which, alack, I do not get.

Regardless, it's a joy to finally scratch this one off the list.

--Peter

[momsne]

Thanks for the upload of "Club Havana." This movie gives us a chance to see if star Margaret Lindsay can overcome the handicaps of a miserable script, borderline production values and so-so direction by Edgar Ulmer. The answer is "no." Lindsay co-starred in one of my favorite movies, 1933's "Lady Killer." Her best movie work was at pre-Code Warner Brothers with Darryl Zanuck in charge. She had plenty of pre-Code company: Patricia Ellis, Ruth Chatterton, Joan Blondell and, in my opinion, Loretta Young and Barbara Stanwyck all hit their peaks in the period 1931 to 1934. But a girl has to make a living and Lindsay wasn't the marrying kind, so when her agent said PRC had a job for her, she took it. It is just too bad that Lindsay's best movies were buried in the Warner Bros. film library until Turner started showing them on TNT and then TCM after her passing.

[Phototone]

Yes, it is indeed the one about V.D. Seems to be taken from the play 'Damaged Goods', though not sure if an 'official' adaptation. Looked an interesting film if I could have understood the soundtrack. A lot of these films which turn up now were so rare up until recently it was hard to tell if uploaded prints were the best available / extant.

I haven't run my print in years, but when I did, I had no issues with the sound quality. The print I have is on 3 2000' reels, or what would be considered 6 standard reels long. There is another 2000' reel in the shipping container that is a medical reel explaining the disease and such, showing morbid examples of advanced VD.