Ben Alexander is a farmer and cheese inventor. One day he packs his luggage and heads to the city with his dog, Corky. He soon loses Corky, and that's one plot thread. He also finds burlesque chorine Jeanette Loff. Her mother is coming to visit, and Jeanette has written her she has a husband and a baby. She can borrow the baby. Alexander volunteers to play the husband.
Writer-producer-director Leo Birinsky seems to have set out to make a gloss on SUNRISE. That's a daunting task, but a noble one. He collaborates with Wells Root and Paul Ivano as the cinematographer, and that's a good start. The actors are fine, and most of the situations work, but it's overly sentimental -- nice dog, though -- and there was something wrong with the print, as if the soundtrack was not matched properly, and it makes everything appear looped. It may be wrong to base a review on that, but I can do no other. The net effect is a movie of well-made components that doesn't gel.
Writer-producer-director Leo Birinsky seems to have set out to make a gloss on SUNRISE. That's a daunting task, but a noble one. He collaborates with Wells Root and Paul Ivano as the cinematographer, and that's a good start. The actors are fine, and most of the situations work, but it's overly sentimental -- nice dog, though -- and there was something wrong with the print, as if the soundtrack was not matched properly, and it makes everything appear looped. It may be wrong to base a review on that, but I can do no other. The net effect is a movie of well-made components that doesn't gel.