The First Born

When I'm in the mood I write brief thoughts on films in notebooks which then get transferred to my bag where they get forgotten. Well, I dug them out and I'm going to transcribe and tidy up those thoughts because I'm sure it'll be worth it...maybe.

The First Born (1928)

Good things:

• Madeleine Carroll throwing and catching a ball of paper a couple of times
• the use of superimposed subtitles in the crowd scene
• the plunge down the lift shaft
• somebody naked in a bath
• the handheld camera
• the editing

All wasted in a film that was boring with unlikeable characters and a plot that I did not care about at all.