

The Great Gabbo
Hated by all-his real soul spoke through the lips of a lifeless dummy
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.
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- English
- musical
- pre-code
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR12 Sept 1929
IrelandIE
- Theatrical12A18 Apr 1930
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The Great Gabbo was released on 12 September 1929.
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CinemaSerf
6/6/2022
The problem for Erich von Stroheim in the title role here is that his character's abilities to eat, drink - sing La Bohème, even - whilst his dummy "Otto" chats away merrily to the audience does quite come off on film. An out-of-vision voice is nothing new with this medium, so much of the potency of the joke - that might have worked more effectively in a theatre - is lost. What's left is a mildly amusing, sometimes e…
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