The Shoes That Danced (1918)
Drama | 3 March 1918
An item in the 9 February 1918 Motography reported, "Wallace MacDonald, playing the lead in The Shoes that Danced,...recently purchased an expensive pair of shoes for the part. The other night there was a dance hall scene with about two hundred 'extras.' The shoes hurt. Wallace was sleepy. He took off the shoes. He went to sleep. In time he awoke and shoes were missing. And they're still missing. Who can guess what was said when two days' work had to be retaken on account of 'The Shoes that Hurt.'"
Variety noted that the street gangs depicted in the film, the Hudson Dusters and the Cherry Hills, were actual East Side street gangs.
ETR erroneously credited Anne Kroman with the leading role of Rhoda Regan.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this film on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021. ...
An item in the 9 February 1918 Motography reported, "Wallace MacDonald, playing the lead in The Shoes that Danced,...recently purchased an expensive pair of shoes for the part. The other night there was a dance hall scene with about two hundred 'extras.' The shoes hurt. Wallace was sleepy. He took off the shoes. He went to sleep. In time he awoke and shoes were missing. And they're still missing. Who can guess what was said when two days' work had to be retaken on account of 'The Shoes that Hurt.'"
Variety noted that the street gangs depicted in the film, the Hudson Dusters and the Cherry Hills, were actual East Side street gangs.
ETR erroneously credited Anne Kroman with the leading role of Rhoda Regan.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this film on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021.
Shopgirl Rhoda Regan is in love with the Harmony Lad, the leader of a New York street gang called the Hudson Dusters. After two gang murders are committed in the Pepper Box, a local cabaret, the Harmony Lad promises his worried sweetheart that he will abandon the gang for a singing career, and true to his word, he soon accepts a job on the Pepper Box stage. When Stumpy Darcy, the new leader of the Dusters, kills rival gang leader Wedge Barker, who had flirted with Stumpy's girl friend, Mamie Conlon, the Harmony Lad flees to New Jersey to escape police interrogation. In order to throw the police off the track while her lover escapes, Rhoda dances all night long with Stumpy, who has come to a masked ball dressed as Charlie Chaplin. Stumpy follows Rhoda home, where the police, imagining him to be the Harmony Lad, arrest him. His name cleared, the Harmony Lad marries Rhoda and embarks on a promising career in ...
Shopgirl Rhoda Regan is in love with the Harmony Lad, the leader of a New York street gang called the Hudson Dusters. After two gang murders are committed in the Pepper Box, a local cabaret, the Harmony Lad promises his worried sweetheart that he will abandon the gang for a singing career, and true to his word, he soon accepts a job on the Pepper Box stage. When Stumpy Darcy, the new leader of the Dusters, kills rival gang leader Wedge Barker, who had flirted with Stumpy's girl friend, Mamie Conlon, the Harmony Lad flees to New Jersey to escape police interrogation. In order to throw the police off the track while her lover escapes, Rhoda dances all night long with Stumpy, who has come to a masked ball dressed as Charlie Chaplin. Stumpy follows Rhoda home, where the police, imagining him to be the Harmony Lad, arrest him. His name cleared, the Harmony Lad marries Rhoda and embarks on a promising career in vaudeville.
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