The Expert | |
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Directed by | Archie Mayo |
Written by | Julien Josephson Maude T. Howell |
Based on | play Minick by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, taken from Ferber's short story Old Man Minick |
Produced by | Warner Brothers |
Starring | Chic Sale Dickie Moore |
Cinematography | Robert Kurrle Al Green John Shepek |
Edited by | James Gibbon |
Music by | Leo F. Forbstein |
Distributed by | Warner Brothers Vitaphone |
Release date |
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Running time | 8 reels |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
The Expert is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy-drama directed by Archie Mayo and starring Chic Sale and Dickie Moore. It is based on a 1924 Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman play, Minick , which is based on the short story "Old Man Minick" by Ferber. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. [1]
The Library of Congress holds a print. [2]
A 1932 review in TIME Magazine described the film as "a profligate adaptation of Edna Ferber's story Old Man Minick." [3] According to a 1932 review in The New York Times , "The story of Old Man Minick's misadventures when he comes to live with his son in Chicago is told in a halting, disjointed script which seems never quite sure where it is going. By trying to tell too much of Edna Ferber's novel, the adapters have blurred the picture and made much of it unconvincing." [4] International Photographer called the film "well worth seeing." [5]
Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960. She helped adapt her short story "Old Man Minick", published in 1922, into a play (Minick) and it was thrice adapted to film, in 1925 as the silent film Welcome Home, in 1932 as The Expert, and in 1939 as No Place to Go.
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Minick is a three-act Broadway play written by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, based on Ferber's 1922 short story "Old Man Minick", that opened on September 24, 1924. Producer Winthrop Ames staged it at the Booth Theatre on Broadway, with O. P. Heggie in the title role. The play is about an elderly widower who comes to live with his son and daughter-in-law in their Chicago apartment.