#The Cossacks

[lilaccbush]

was trying to take some rest. hands do scrawl scrawl

[naldibutnice]

Renée Adorée in The Cossacks (1928)

[jacubthegamer13]

BACK OF MEMORIES 1924-2024

[jacmirie]

commission for @spongehole!

[oftwodarkmoons]

title card featuring all of us

[darlingbandit]

Watching Our Dancing Daughters and am once again reminded that Nils Asther had no right being so damned pretty.

[owletmowlet]

Little tiny whiny wet cat

[nuno-draws]

I finally did what I wanted to do for so long RENDOG DANCING HOPAK. I'VE COMBINED MY LOVE FOR UKRAINIAN CULTURE AND MY FAVOURITE DOG GUY AND SMASHED THEM IN ONE DRAWING i feel complete. i never felt better. this is the culmination of my existance. i can die peacefully now.

(watch this and tell me it's not the type of dance ren would do. it's his entire vibe pLEASE I'm sobbing /pos)

[byneddiedingo]

John Gilbert and Renée Adorée in The Cossacks (George W. Hill, 1928)

Cast: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrance, Nils Asther, Paul Hurst, Dale Fuller. Screenplay: Frances Marion, based on a novel by Leo Tolstoy. Title cards: John Colton. Cinematography: Percy Hilburn. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Blanche Sewell.

Nobody comes off well in The Cossacks. Not even John Gilbert, for whom MGM made the movie, hoping the reteaming with Renée Adorée, his co-star in The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925), would strike fire at the box office. Gilbert spends much of the movie in a shaggy Astrakhan hat that makes his nose look big. Nor was the film much fun for screenwriter Frances Marion and director George W. Hill, who spent much of the production time fighting with studio interference and handling complaints from Gilbert and Adorée. Hill eventually quit and was replaced by an uncredited Clarence Brown. Nor does the film do much justice to the novel by Leo Tolstoy on which it's based. It completely inverts the story, in which Prince Olenin is the protagonist, an idealistic Russian who hates Moscow society and finds himself in the simpler, more primitive way of life in the Caucasus. In the film, Olenin (Nils Asther) has been sent by the tsar to mingle with the Cossacks and find a bride in some vaguely diplomatic attempt to cement relations between the urban Russians and the rural populace. Asther is a very pretty Olenin, who of course lights on the equally very pretty Maryana, played by the very pretty Adorée, but she's in love with Lukashka (Gilbert), even though he's a "woman man" who doesn't like killing Turks, which is all that the male Cossacks seem to do. (The women, meanwhile, do all the work.) The film winds up as an absurd paean to the Cossack way of life, after Lukashka decides he really does like killing after all. True, The Cossacks is often fun to watch, and there's some spectacular stunt riding by a troupe of actual Cossacks brought to the United States for the film. But there's too much nonsense and too many clichés.

[jellyjynx]

Smile Bass! I have not drawn these guys in a hot second

[werrrrrrrrrrrrrrrcat]

My favorite cossack choir solist🙏

[theophan-o]

Cossack with a banner

[naldibutnice]

John Gilbert and Renée Adorée in The Cossacks (1928)

[cak3o]

Grim reaper of resurrection alternate ending

Parody of that nichijou post that’s been going around

[jacmirie]

oko for @spongehole

[zeibei]