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A Modern Hero
6.2 /10United States
285 people rated Pierre is a handsome young circus rider whose mother has long tolerated his amorous adventures but becomes genuinely concerned when he actually falls in love. She reveals to him that he's the son of a wealthy man, whom she could not marry because of the circus life. But Pierre uses this knowledge as a springboard to wealth and fame himself, as an automobile-maker in the early days of the industry, and as a munitions dealer when war breaks out. But his ambition seems to take its toll on all his relationships, and he seems unaware that he is over-reaching himself.
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Richard Barthelmess is a rider in the circus. He wants to get out. He has, he tells Jean Muir before he gets her pregnant, big plans -- apparently he wants to marry the daughter of the richest man in the state; at least, that's what will happen. When he gets her with child, she is magnanimous about it and marries another man. Then it's off to nepotistic success for Barthelmess.
In his only American film, G.W. Pabst produces an ironic circus picture -- how very European! -- and gets some fine performances in a movie that looks slightly disjointed, There are lots of despicable archetypes, from Miss Muir's drunken father, to Barthelmess' vaguely Nietzschean mother.
It's all ironic andfutile, and apparently Pabst so disliked the American way of making movies that he fled back to Europe. Barthelmess was aging out of his star persona, and could no longer sustain artistic efforts. Too bad on both accounts. The movie, while fascinating, failed to excite at the box office.
