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D.W. Griffith is down to common picture making in this one.
Variety Staff, Variety
Sally of the Sawdust
D.W. Griffith's circus comedy.
1925 · 1h 54m · N/A
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
D.W. Griffith
Overview
Judge Henry L. Foster throws his daughter out as she's married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Professor Eustance McGargle before she dies. Years later, Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love.
Director and cast
- D.W. Griffith Director
- Carol Dempster as Sally
- W.C. Fields as Professor Eustance McGargle
- Alfred Lunt as Peyton Lennox
- Erville Alderson as Judge Henry L. Foster
- Effie Shannon as Mrs. Foster
- Charles Hammond as Lennox, Sr.
- Roy Applegate as Detective
- Glenn Anders as Leon - the Acrobat (as Glen Anders)
- Florence Fair as Miss Vinton
- Marie Shotwell as Society Lady
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Griffith stresses the story's melodrama, making Fields an unusually sentimental figure, though the star still manages to showcase some of his juggling routines and even kick a dog.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Sally is minor Griffith, but it demonstrates that, whatever the ostensible genre, he remained (and, pace Steven Spielberg, remains) the master manipulator of human emotion.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Fresh
Just about the most amusing comedy that you will recall this year.
TIME Magazine
Fresh
Its interest would be no more than historical were it not also the movie that launched WC Fields. His show-stopping performance as Eustace McGargle, conman and sideshow juggler, contains the seeds of all his later glories.
Time Out
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