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East Side, West Side is a 1927 American drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring George O'Brien (in the same year that he played the lead in F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans), Virginia Valli, and June Collyer. The supporting cast includes J. Farrell MacDonald and Holmes Herbert.
East Side, West Side: Directed by Allan Dwan. With George O'Brien, Virginia Valli, J. Farrell MacDonald, Dore Davidson. After his mother and stepfather have been killed in a barge accident, John Breen is rescued from some East Side toughs by the Lipvitches.
East Side, West Side is seemingly director Allen Dwan’s silent epic response to the success of F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Both star O’Brian, and both feature the trials and tribulations of a man from humble beginnings to the world’s tallest buildings.
May 5, 2021 · Living on a Barge. John sits on his family’s barge near where the East River empties into the New York Harbor, gazing at the buildings between 39 and 85 South Street. He stands up, looking north towards the Brooklyn Bridge.
With its title, East Side, West Side introduces a geographic split between the two cities of the rich and the poor, and throughout the film symmetries and binaries abound: two shipwrecks, two families, two fiancées. The film opens and closes with John Breen (George O’Brien) facing the bristling skyline, but he starts as an outsider gazing ...
Wealthy New York City investment broker Brandon Bourne is a compulsive philanderer, much to the consternation of his wife, Jessie (Barbara Stanwyck). When Brandon reignites an affair with his...
Allan Dwan. Director. Felix Riesenberg. Novel. Katherine Hilliker. Writer. H.H. Caldwell. Writer. Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that fully exploits star George O’Brien’s championship boxing prowess.
