Thank you, Richard from the United States for the fine review.
The plot of Fanny. (Not necessarily the plot of Port of Seven Seas).
Fanny sells shellfish by the sea shore. Marius mixes drinks in his father's bar, while dreaming fantasies of the sea. They love, all too well, passion makes Fanny's belly swell. Sails away Marius, what to do: Fanny?
Fanny marries Panisse, wealthy; but his youth a goner. He marries her to save her honor. Marius returns to husband his wife, and claim his son Cesariot; but his father, Cesar kicks him out on his ass, Cesariot finds out the Truth and journeys to find his Dad.
Eventually, all is well. But – will it sell?
Wallace Beery could not speak the absurdist language that Sturges had translated.
He was out of his depth. He was also not the box office attraction that he once had been. He was sullen, he was uncooperative, he played childish tricks on the crew, and generally made life harder than it had to be.
As James Curtis, Whale's biographer has it, Wallace Worsely Jr, Whale's script clerk said, "Nobody seemed to be speaking to anybody else. Whale would sit on the set reading the newspaper. There didn't seem to be any sense of urgency to it."
Worsely also said that (Beery) "would go around the set and take and remove the decorations; lamps, rope, tackle and things, and put them in the back of his station wagon. And every day, when the crew came back from lunch, they had to go out to his car, unload it, and redress the set."
The reviews were really very good.
The audiences did not agree with the critics. It lost $112,000.
The plot of Fanny. (Not necessarily the plot of Port of Seven Seas).
Fanny sells shellfish by the sea shore. Marius mixes drinks in his father's bar, while dreaming fantasies of the sea. They love, all too well, passion makes Fanny's belly swell. Sails away Marius, what to do: Fanny?
Fanny marries Panisse, wealthy; but his youth a goner. He marries her to save her honor. Marius returns to husband his wife, and claim his son Cesariot; but his father, Cesar kicks him out on his ass, Cesariot finds out the Truth and journeys to find his Dad.
Eventually, all is well. But – will it sell?
Wallace Beery could not speak the absurdist language that Sturges had translated.
He was out of his depth. He was also not the box office attraction that he once had been. He was sullen, he was uncooperative, he played childish tricks on the crew, and generally made life harder than it had to be.
As James Curtis, Whale's biographer has it, Wallace Worsely Jr, Whale's script clerk said, "Nobody seemed to be speaking to anybody else. Whale would sit on the set reading the newspaper. There didn't seem to be any sense of urgency to it."
Worsely also said that (Beery) "would go around the set and take and remove the decorations; lamps, rope, tackle and things, and put them in the back of his station wagon. And every day, when the crew came back from lunch, they had to go out to his car, unload it, and redress the set."
The reviews were really very good.
The audiences did not agree with the critics. It lost $112,000.