Guts and Glory: An Evening with Lawrence Suid
January 26, 2003
Lawrence Suid's classic study of the relationship
between the United States military and Hollywood, Guts &
Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film, has
just been revised and reissued by the University Press of Kentucky.
Suid will discuss his work and introduce two early examples of films
made with the participation of the U.S. armed forces.
Organized by Charles Silver, Associate Curator,
Research and Collections, Department of Film and Media.
1915. USA. Directed by Charles Avery and Syd Chaplin. With Chaplin,
Glen Cavender, Wesley Ruggles. In this abridged version of the four-reel
original, Charles Chaplin's half-brother Syd thwarts a mad inventor's
plot to hijack gold by use of a miniature submarine. The film was
shot in the San Diego Navy Yard. Approx. 30 min.
1918. USA. Directed
by Alan Crosland. With Erich von Stroheim, Marguerite Courtot, Raymond
McKee. A young New Yorker enlists in the Marine Corps and attains
maturity and religion when he confronts the horrors of the Belgium
trenches and von Stroheim (in one of his classic Hun roles as the
sadistic Lieutenant von Schnieditz). Print courtesy The Library
of Congress, Washington, D.C. Silent, with piano accompaniment by
Stuart Oderman. Introduced by Lawrence Suid. Approx. 95 min.
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