{"product_id":"the-jack-knife-man-silent","title":"The Jack-Knife Man (Silent)","description":"Peter Lane is a retired sea captain, living out his twilight years on a riverboat on the banks of the Mississippi River. During a brutal storm, a deathly ill woman and her young son, Buddy, arrive seeking refuge. When the mother dies, the boy becomes Peter's responsibility. He takes to carving animals from wood with his jackknife to amuse the child. The town sheriff, however, finds the poverty-stricken man an unfit father for the toddler. Buddy is brought to an orphanage, leaving Peter with a broken heart. Just as all seems lost, a big city department store learns of Peter's wooden animals and offers him a large sum of money to mass produce them. Now with fortune on his side, he hopes to find Buddy and at last make him his son...\u003cp\u003eThis touching film is one of the earliest cinematic triumphs of King Vidor (1894-1982). It served as inspiration for the Baby Peggy hit \u003ci\u003eCaptain January\u003c\/i\u003e (1924), which was remade in 1936 with Shirley Temple. Vidor's first feature, \u003ci\u003eThe Turn in the Road\u003c\/i\u003e (1919), had only been released the year before. 1925's \u003ci\u003eThe Big Parade\u003c\/i\u003e established him as one of Hollywood's preeminent directors, while his 1928 masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e, earned him the first of five Academy Award nominations. \u003ci\u003eHallelujah!\u003c\/i\u003e (1929), \u003ci\u003eOur Daily Bread\u003c\/i\u003e (1934), \u003ci\u003eStella Dallas\u003c\/i\u003e (1937), \u003ci\u003eThe Citadel\u003c\/i\u003e (1938), \u003ci\u003eDuel In The Sun\u003c\/i\u003e (1946), \u003ci\u003eThe Fountainhead\u003c\/i\u003e (1949) and \u003ci\u003eWar And Peace\u003c\/i\u003e (1956) are but a few of his many highly regarded works in the sound era. Uncredited, he also directed all of the \"Kansas\" scenes in \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e (1939) including the \"Somewhere Over The Rainbow\" sequence. Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame for his six decade career, Vidor won a honorary Oscar \"for his incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator\" in 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moviezyng","offers":[{"title":"DVD","offer_id":45799906377878,"sku":"089218790897","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/9621\/5446\/files\/089218790897.jpg?v=1762117999","url":"https:\/\/moviezyng.com\/products\/the-jack-knife-man-silent","provider":"Movie Zyng","version":"1.0","type":"link"}