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Stark Love (1927) is a feature film directed by Karl Brown and released by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, now known as Paramount Pictures. The film is a maverick production in both design and concept, is a beautifully photographed mix of lyrical anthropology and action melodrama from director Karl Brown. "Man is absolute ruler.
Dec 21, 2022 · Stark Love. by. Silas Miracle; Karl Brown; Forrest James; Walter Woods; Reb Grogan; Helen Mundy. Publication date. 1927-02-28. Topics. Drama. Actor. Helen Mundy.
Stark Love is an extraordinary achievement in the movies, and it serves to elevate Karl Brown to the Film Hall of Fame.” Film Daily confirmed that high praise but zeroed in on the film’s ultimate problem, “It is an artistic achievement in every sense, not a commercial proposition.”
Stark Love: Directed by Karl Brown. With Helen Mundy, Forrest James, Reb Grogan, Silas Miracle. A literate young hillbilly plans to attend college to learn about chivalry and escape the brutal, rigid mountain society with the love of his life, but his tyrannical father interferes.
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- Drama
- Karl Brown
- 1927-02-28
Stark Love is something of a cinematic oddity, part rural melodrama and part anthropological study in the style, say, of Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922). The film details the historical antecedents of this isolated and primitive community, the life of drudgery for the women, the skinning of animals, the milling of flour, even the ...
Stark Love. In a Carolina mountain community, young Rob Warwick, unlike most of his neighbors, learns to read and write, which opens a world of knowledge for him. Rob confides his plan to attend...
- Drama
Stark Love. 1927. Directed by Karl Brown. “Man is absolute ruler. Woman is working slave.” Such are the rigid attitudes framing this tale of a country boy’s beliefs about chivalry that lead him to try to escape a brutal father with the girl he loves. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases. Helen Mundy Forrest James Reb Grogan Silas Miracle.
