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March 6, 2010

Week 2. Anna Christie (1930)

2 STARS - NOT SO MUCH.

“I walked out on it, but I saw all I needed”--Syd

The Film:  An aging father, the captain of a barge, is reunited with his grown daughter (Greta Garbo) whom he hasn’t known since childhood.  They both imagine each other quite different than they really are.  And a robust, young sailor, saved from drowning, lustily pursues Garbo, whom he hardly knows either.   A prominent star of the silent screen, Garbo appears in her first talkie which was promoted with the now famous catch-phrase, “Garbo Talks!”