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Hold 'Em Yale

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6.0/10 • 2

1928-05-141h 20m

Comedy

A young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.

Directors
Edward H. Griffith

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Rod La Rocque

    Rod La Rocque

    Jaime Emmanuel Alvarado Montez

  2. Jeanette Loff

    Jeanette Loff

    Helen Bradbury

  3. Hugh Allan

    Hugh Allan

    Jack Bradbury

  4. Joseph Cawthorn

    Joseph Cawthorn

    Professor George Bradbury

  5. Tom Kennedy

    Tom Kennedy

    Detective

  6. Jerry Mandy

    Jerry Mandy

    Jaime's Valet

  7. Lawrence Grant

    Lawrence Grant

    Don Alvarado Montez

  8. Oscar Smith

    Oscar Smith

    Black Butler

  9. Scott Seaton

    Scott Seaton

    Minor Role

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CinemaSerf

Jun 6, 2022

6/10

This is quite a jovial tale of a fairly conceited Argentinian wastrel "Jaime" (Rod La Rocque) who is dispatched to Connecticut to study at Yale. Before he even arrives at the school, he manages to incur the wrath of an on-form Tom Kennedy's "Detective" - an ire that persistently follows him through his travails at the school where he is soon the freshman target for the upper students. That's until his skill with the football gets them, and his would-be girlfriend "Helen" (Jeanette Loff) paying him just a little more respect. The path to true love never runs smoothly, though, and his struggles see him take a pounding in a boxing ring - with some fun visual effects before much progress is made with her, even then it's a delicate game of cat and mouse.... I suspect that were it not that Cecil B. de Mille produced this, it would not exist in anything like the great quality of the print I saw recently. The story is really pretty simple and over-stretched, and though there is plenty of humour, it struggles to raise much more than a smile - and that's as much to do with the clever and lively photography as it has to do with the plot (though some of the vernacular on the inter-titles is quite witty.

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English
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