The Barker (1928)
Release Date: Dec 9, 1928 Wide
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Based on the oft-filmed play by Kenyon Nicholson, The Barker represented the talking-picture debut of silent-screen favorite Milton Sills (the film itself is a part-talkie, containing 38 minutes' worth of dialogue). Sills is cast as Nifty Miller, veteran sideshow barker for a cheap carnival. Miller is determined that his young son Chris (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) will not follow in his footsteps but will instead attend law school. But Chris cannot help but be drawn to carnival life -- especially
Dec 9, 1928 Wide
Cast
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Milton Sills
Nifty Miller -
Dorothy Mackaill
Lou -
Betty Compson
Carrie -
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Chris Miller -
Sylvia Ashton
Ma Benson -
George Cooper
Hap Spissel -
S.S. Simon
Col. Gowdy -
John Erwin
Sailor West
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Betty Compson was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in this carnival-set melodrama
A fair-to-middlin' example of that transitional hybrid, the part-talkie.
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