Napoléon (1927 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I saw it while I'd been in, with my nest friend while I'd been in, done to a live symphony orchestra...a whole book on the directorial techniques of Abel Gance, who also was in the film was written, the ending special effects along with the musical score quite literally left my mouth agape, it was intended as one of a seres of films on him, the actor who played him Albert Dieduonne, had to be seen to be believed in costume, the resemblance in physiognomy at the age he was when it all happened bore little resemblance to the pot bellied stereotype with his hand in his jacket, you'd need to see the film to comprehend the physical resemblance and brilliant casting involved...test !e, it's not merely interesting, it's utterly in a class totally by itself, a four hour silent masterpiece of the feet rank, it makes The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Gone With the Wind, look like amateur night by contrast...it was filmed in early wide screen format using three separate cameras mounted at angles to one another, at the end, the left turns red, the middle stays white, the right turns blue, in the French tricolor, with the Marseillaise playing, amidst special effects depicting the sheer Machiavellian, Caesarean intellectual gifts of the man, effects you've simply gotta see to believe, positively unreal, unlike virtually anything you'd ever seen, I also got to hear the musical score done by a lie symphony orchestra, plus, Abel Gance was still alive when Francis Ford Coppola restored the film, his father, Carmine Coppola, did the musical score, there was a further revision later, that was markedly inferior to the original re-release, watch that one, that's the one hat I got to see, it positively blew my socks off, honest....

A poster of that 1927 Movie starring Albert Diedonne in the title role by the Director Abel Gance I though You might be interested in this poster of that movie.