The Man from Home - Softcover

Tarkington, Booth; Wilson, Harry Leon

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ISBN 10: 1484025156 ISBN 13: 9781484025154

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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The original play that was subsequently made into a film by Cecil B. DeMille and a young Alfred Hitchcock.

The Man from Home is a 1914 American drama film based on this play by Booth Tarkington and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. In 1922, the story was remade by George Fitzmaurice as The Man from Home. Like many of DeMille's early films, this film is extant preserved at the Library of Congress. Having learned visual design in his evening classes, the 23 year old Alfred Hitchcock understood the principle of the new medium (cinema) by using visual images to tell a story rather than dialogue. The subjective camera was the new narrator in motion pictures, and he applied that by doing the title design in this film.

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About the Author

Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of the 20th century.

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