THE YANKEE CLIPPER
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Título original: The Yankee Clipper
Título del estreno en España: El velero yanqui
Director: Rupert Julian
Año: 1927
País: USA
Guión: Garrett Fort, Garnett Weston, John W. Krafft (basado en un relato de Denison Clift)
Producción: DeMille Pictures Corporation
Intérpretes: William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Frank Coghlan Jr., John Miljan, Walter Long, Louis Payne, Burr McIntosh, Julia Faye
Duración: 88 min.
Argumento: Cuenta la sensacional lucha entre norteamericanos e ingleses por conseguir el trofeo de velocidad marítima en el siglo XIX.
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IMDB
Título original: The Yankee Clipper
Título del estreno en España: El velero yanqui
Director: Rupert Julian
Año: 1927
País: USA
Guión: Garrett Fort, Garnett Weston, John W. Krafft (basado en un relato de Denison Clift)
Producción: DeMille Pictures Corporation
Intérpretes: William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Frank Coghlan Jr., John Miljan, Walter Long, Louis Payne, Burr McIntosh, Julia Faye
Duración: 88 min.
Argumento: Cuenta la sensacional lucha entre norteamericanos e ingleses por conseguir el trofeo de velocidad marítima en el siglo XIX.
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1927 - The Yankee Clipper - El velero yanqui (Rupert Julian) William Boyd, Elinor Fair DVDRip.avi [1.09 Gb] 
Comentarios:
-La Vanguardia (11/03/1928):
-WILLIAM K. EVERSON:Jamás ha sido llevada a la pantalla una tempestad en el mar con tanto verismo y realidad como la que se reproduce en la extraordinaria película «El velero yanqui», de los estudios Pro-Dis-Co, dirigida por el expertísimo director Rupert Julian. En «El velero yanqui» se presenta un episodio de la lucha entre ingleses y norteamericanos por el dominio del mar en los tiempos del predominio de los grandes veleros. William Boyd y Elinor Fair son los protagonistas de la película, en la que también intervienen artistas de la categoría de Julia Faye, Walter Long, Clarence Burton, John Miljan, etc., y el pequeño Junior Coglan.
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With so many silents missing altogether, it's odd that this one should exist today in several different versions. One or two prints still exist of the 9 reel original. A 3-reel version was made for "Silents Please". In the late 20's and early 30's, the Kodascope home-movie library issued a 5-reel version. Kodascope usually selected fairly short features that required little or no trimming to get down to their required 5-reel length. When they used a longer feature as for example, "Beau Brummel" -- they usually block-cut rather carelessly, taking out huge chunks, and with an eye on the kiddie market at which they were aiming, they often edited out stuff that they considered too strong. Their 5-reel Yankee Clipper reflected this thinking.
Our 5-reel version, compiled some six years ago but never shown prior to this screening tonight, was designed for an hour-length tv show that was actually a predecessor of "Silents Please". It was very carefully condensed; no sequences or story elements were lost at all, and it was all done via meticulous trimming within sequences. This is one case where cutting has genuinely helped a film I think. At 9 reels, it was a padded programmer trying to be an epic. There were too many slow spots, too many over-extended scenes. The final race scenes were especially irritating in the longer form, since the use of obvious miniatures became much more apparent. I don't defend the cutting, for commercial reasons, of silent films. After all, even if a film is improved, it's still a distortion of the original in a sense, and there are many cases of course where the film will definitely not be improved. But the one-hour format did allow much more leeway than the half-hour. More of the original pacing could be retained, as could the subtitles; narration therefore could be kept to a serviceable minimum. Actually, this hour-length series compressed most of its historical comment and information into two or three live introductory sequences following the commercial breaks; these I have deleted from this print (apart from the opening one) so that it does have an uninterrupted flow. Several of these hour-length versions were made, and were extremely popular in Europe and Canada, tut could never find a buyer in the U.S.
The Yankee Clipper, one of the better films of a curious director, Rupert Julian (Merrygoround, Phantom of the Opera, Walking Back, The Cat Creeps), reduces a fairly important historical theme (Queen Victoria vs President Taylor in a battle for the China tea trade) to a level of straight adventure melodrama. But it is all smoothly done, the chase on the yardarm (a steal from Treasure Island), the mutiny, the typhoon (invaluable as stock footage in The Wreck of the Hesperus the same year, and in scores of independent quickies ever since), slammed over with real gusto and showmanship. The sets (re-used in Pathe serials of the period) are quite elaborate, the miniatures serviceable, and if Catalina shows up as both the China coast the Boston surroundings (!) it hardly seems important. Most of all, Yankee Clipper scores on its villainy: Messrs. Miljan and Long between them seem possessed of all the vices of silent villains lechery, cowardice, brutality, sadism, greed. They snivel and sneer and bluster, with not a single redeeming feature between them. ---------Wm.K.Everson--------
-HAL ERICKSON:
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One of the most readily available features of the silent era, The Yankee Clipper is happily also one of the best. A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd plays Hal Winslow, the scion of a prominent Boston shipbuilding family. Manning the helm of the Yankee Clipper, Winslow prepares to race The Lord of the Isles, a British vessel; the winner will control China's tea trade to America. The race begins at Foo Chow Harbor, where Winslow is paid a courtesy visit by Lady Jocelyn (played by Elinor Fair, then the wife of star Boyd), the daughter of the rival English captain. Lady Jocelyn is escorted by her fiance Paul de Vigny (John Miljan), whom we will learn in due time is a cad and bounder. The Yankee Clipper shoves off while Lady Jocelyn and de Vigny are still on board. They demand to be put ashore, but Winslow, anxious not to lose any sailing time, refuses. Lady Jocelyn's presence on board is resented by cabin boy Mickey (Junior Coghlan), who hates all "wimmin"; on the other head, crew member Iron Head Joe (Walter Long), "mongrel whelp of the high seas", begins drawing up plans to rape the girl at the first opportunity. An outsized typhoon imperils the Yankee Clipper, its crew and passengers, but stalwart Captain Winslow manages to save everyone from drowning. After the storm, the water supply is rationed. Angrily demanding more water, the crew joins a mutiny fomented by the treacherous de Vigny. Meanwhile, Iron Head Joe chases Jocelyn and Mickey to the very top of the rigging, intending to kill the boy and have his way with the girl. Both of the film's villains are foiled in very permanent fashion before the thrill-packed finale at Boston Harbor. One of the videocassette versions of The Yankee Clipper is introduced by surviving cast member Junior Coghlan, now better known as Frank Coghlan Jr
