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Alan Crosland
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Born in New York City, New York to a well-to-do family, Alan Crosland attended from Dartmouth College. After graduation he took a job as a writer with the New York Globe magazine. Interested in the theatre, he began acting on stage, appearing in several ptroductions with Shakespearian actress Annie Russell (1864-1936).
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Alan Crosland brings almost a documentary quality to many of the scenes, particularly the opening sequences in which Jakie, as a child, sings at a local saloon. (It is the voice of Jakie as a child, played by Bobby Gordon, that is the voice first heard in the film.) The director is obviously a highly competent technician, and gets the best from his players, even such notorious purveyors of melodrama as Warner Oland and Eugenie Besserer.
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In 1926 Alan Crosland's Don Juan was released with a musical soundtrack prepared by the studio. The evening opened with a short musical film in which movement and sound were synchronized, the first public demonstration of Lee Forest's "Vitaphone". Another short musical film was made in 1927 of Xavier Cugart's tango orchestra.
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Crosland has done no stalling in these passages, the scenes moving fast wlth just the boy's decision to the inferred mental struggle shown through his appearing in the home. Following "Kol Nidre," the final scene has Jolson in "one" during a performance, his mother in the first row as he sings "Mammy" to her, and the finish of the song closes the picture.
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Crosland started his own career as a film editor in the 1940s, but eventually found his niche as a television director in the late 1950s. He continued to direct television shows through the 1970s.
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In Combat!, Crosland didn't distinguish himself with any of his episodes. "Odyssey" is by far the best, but that due more to Morrow and a strong script than to anything the director did.
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