The Trumpet Blows (1934) DVD-R
Starring George Raft, Adolphe Menjou, Frances Drake, Sidney Toler, Edward Ellis, Katherine
DeMille
Directed by Stephen Roberts
Print: black/white
Runtime: 72 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B
Once the audience accepts the notion than George Raft and Adolphe Menjou are Mexican
brothers, the rest of Paramount's Trumpet Blows is easy to take. A retired bandit, Pancho
Montez (Menjou) wants to settle down to a quiet life. This proves impossible when his
headstrong young sibling Manuel (Raft) insists upon trying to become a bullfighter. Manuel
also falls in love with Pancho's fiancee Chulita (Frances Drake), but she renounces both of
them, calling them cowards. By film's end, of course, both Manuel and Pancho have proven
Chulita wrong — and one of them (guess which one?) has claimed her for his wife. Beyond
its romantic-triangle intrigues, Trumpet Blows was the first major talkie treatment of the
bullfighting mystique.
Starring George Raft, Adolphe Menjou, Frances Drake, Sidney Toler, Edward Ellis, Katherine
DeMille
Directed by Stephen Roberts
Print: black/white
Runtime: 72 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B
Once the audience accepts the notion than George Raft and Adolphe Menjou are Mexican
brothers, the rest of Paramount's Trumpet Blows is easy to take. A retired bandit, Pancho
Montez (Menjou) wants to settle down to a quiet life. This proves impossible when his
headstrong young sibling Manuel (Raft) insists upon trying to become a bullfighter. Manuel
also falls in love with Pancho's fiancee Chulita (Frances Drake), but she renounces both of
them, calling them cowards. By film's end, of course, both Manuel and Pancho have proven
Chulita wrong — and one of them (guess which one?) has claimed her for his wife. Beyond
its romantic-triangle intrigues, Trumpet Blows was the first major talkie treatment of the
bullfighting mystique.
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