Anna Christie 1930 123movies

Watch: Anna Christie 1930 123movies, Full Movie Online – In New York, the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge Chris Christofferson receives a letter from his estranged twenty year old daughter Anna “Christie” Christofferson telling that she will leave Minnesota to stay with him. Chris left Anna fifteen years ago to the countryside to be raised by relatives in a farm in St. Paul and he has never visited his daughter. Anna Christie arrives and she is a wounded woman with a hidden dishonorable past since she had worked for two years in a brothel to survive. She moves to the barge to live with her father and one night, Chris rescues the sailor Matt and two other fainted sailors from the sea. Soon Anna and Matt fall in love with each other and Anna has the best days of her life. But when Matt proposes to marry her, she is reluctant and also haunted by her past. Matt insists and Anna opens her heart to Matt and to her father disclosing the darks secrets of her past..
Plot: Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.
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Garbo Rocks
This is an amazingly well-filmed early talkie adaptation of the Eugene O’Neill play. Its major drawback is a static camera, and as a result it comes off much of the time as the filmed play it is, which is a pity, for it’s a good piece of primitive moviemaking, made at a time when sound was posing all kinds of technical problems, and as a result most films were experimental whether or not this was their maker’s intention. Garbo is as mysterious and charismatic as she was in her silent films, and her entrance is still classic. Her voice is strangely deep, almost boyish, which only enhances her already seductively eccentric persona. As her boyfriend, Charles Bickford is appropriately virile,–he was apparently born craggy–and a perfect counterpart to the divine Garbo. His Irish brogue is not bad at all, and he seems always a natural man of the sea, very O’Neill-like in his independent, brooding nature. As Garbo’s (very) confused father, George Marion seems truly from another time. He has the sort of face and voice,–open, unmannered, totally without guile–that has vanished from the earth. Marie Dressler is also in the O’Neill swing of things. Her blank expression and intensity around the eyes speaks volumes, as she plays her boozy character as a woman at times bordering on psychosis. Poetic license, perhaps, as this is not in the script, but we can forgive Miss Dressler’s excesses; she is too good at it not to. The story ends with a movement to the next thing, as distinct from resolution, which isn’t the author’s cup of tea; and those who like their films neatly worked out in the end will be disappointed by the absence of any real surprise. In Anna Christie we are in O’Neill country, a place of sea, storms and fog, a feeling of all-pervading and damnable uncertainty, which we would now call ambivilance, or anxiety neurosis. Rather than analyze this mood the author simply and wisely presents it, as weather, land, ocean and people intertwine and address one another in a unique language we feel priveleged to have heard.

Greta Garbo is in top form in this hard to watch and somewhat disjointed movie.
This is Garbo’s first ever talking role but she acts as if she has done nothing else before.

What makes the movie however hard and also sort of unpleasant to watch is it’s storytelling. The movie is set up like a stage-play, so most of the time the characters just sit around and talk. All we see in the first 30 minutes for instance are characters being drunk and complaining a lot about life. The movie is of course also based on a stage-play, so no great wonder that the storytelling in this movie also feels like one. But if I want to watch something like this I would to to the theater. There are of course some good stage-play to movies translations but I guess that back in 1930 they didn’t had a real good idea yet or the experience to translate a stage-play well to the silver-screen. The movie is now instead a sort of a bore in parts, since its obviously dragging at moments. The movie is also of course very limited in its settings and the movie often jumps from the one setting to the other, as if the curtain had dropped and a new set had been build-up during the break. The movie just never really feels as one big whole and it instead feels as if it consists out of different acts. It’s a very static movie.

It’s not just only a hard movie to follow because of its storytelling and settings but also because of all of the heavy accents of the actors. On top of that, the sound recording quality of course wasn’t that good yet back in 1930 so not everything that is being said is understandable.

Also the picture quality of the movie isn’t that good anymore. Time hasn’t been kind on it. The image is sort of fuzzy in parts and the movie is perhaps more gray than truly black & white.

It is definitely true that the movie gets better and better when it heads toward its ending but it didn’t made me forget it’s way weaker first 30 minutes and disjointed storytelling in the movie overall.

6/10

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Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Clarence Brown
Writer Frances Marion, Eugene O’Neill
Actors Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. 1 win & 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric System)
Aspect Ratio 1.20 : 1 (sound on film version)
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 1,577.65 m (7 reels) (sound version) (UK), 2,520 m (10 reels) (sound version) (USA), 2,042 m (10 reels) (silent version) (USA)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm