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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0738329039929 Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Silent, NTSC Label: Kino Video Languages: Manufacturer: Kino Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kino Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 21, 2005 Running Time: 86 minutes Studio: Kino Video Theatrical Release Date: 1928 Average Rating:
 Rating: - Baker Does the CharlestonA wealthy couple, Andre (Pierre Batcheff) and Denise, want to get married. However, before they can wed, they must get permission from Denise's godfather, a letch who wants Denise for himself. He sees Andre as a threat, so he sends him away to his death at the hands of a terrible man. He did not count on a fiesty native named Papitou (Josephine Baker) to not only save Andre but to also fall in love with him. On Andre's trip home to wed his girlfriend, Papitou follows in hopes of finding her love ... Read More Rating:  - An African American Hoofer I loved Josephine Baker's role as Papatu. The film showed how beautiful and sexy Ms Baker really was. The film illustrated her excellent dance moves and a marquee talent as a leading star in the film Siren of the Tropics, she was a very decent comedic actress. I would recommend Siren of the Tropics to everyone! Rating:  - A handful of gimmicky moves do not a dancer makeThe good news: Josephine Baker was a vivacious on-screen presence. She had a 200 watt smile and a childlike joy and lack of self-consciousness that comes through on the big screen. The bad news: this is a great dancer? She does a duck walk here, a charleston there, throws out her derriere and does a robotic cake walk, and this makes her a great dancer? She had a small bag of dancing tricks and the act gets old very quickly. What made her a star was dancing some jazz steps topless in a fruit dress. ... Read More Rating: - Nice, lively and entertaining DVDThis DVD is a nice and entertaining look at coloured dancer and actress, Josephine Baker, who found fame in Paris and made her film debut in "Siren of the Tropics." This film was just made for Baker's very lively and playful screen personality as she plays a native of the Antilles who falls for a Frenchman, then follows him back to Paris. The tropical setting is ideal for Baker to show off her long legs and exotic beauty, at the same time captivating audiences with her antics, bubbly personality ... Read More Rating: - Black BeautyThe color-tinted "Siren of the Tropics(1927)" was Josephine Baker's first film. Though silent, you can almost hear her vivacious spirit speak. A young engineer is banished to the Parisian Antilles on a doomed mining project. Papitou(Baker), the jungle girl who falls for the white adventurer, follows him back to Paris. Her mad-cap chase on the ship(as a stow-away) is quite funny. She slips on mounds of coal(turning black), and then is immersed in white powder. The sequence is resolved when Baker takes ... Read More |
