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Lorsque le chef de gang Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) revient prendre sa place après avoir tenté de se retirer du racket, il la trouve occupée par son ancien bras droit Jack Buck (Humphrey Bogart). Entre les deux hommes, la guerre est déclarée… Brother Orchid illustre la fin d’un genre : nous sommes bien à la fin de la décennie des films de gangsters. L’idée est ici à la fois d’adoucir le personnage du truand et d’introduire une bonne dose de comédie : Edward G. Robinson décide ainsi de partir en Europe « pour apprendre à avoir de la classe » et l’histoire le verra même enfiler une robe de bure dans un monastère. Aussi étonnant que cela puisse paraître, le mélange des genres est assez réussi : Brother Orchid est très plaisant, avec un humour bien dosé, les seconds rôles sont très bien tenus. Le film connut un certain succès, à son époque du moins.

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Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the 'death' of the city-state and that the fourth century BC ushered in an era of theatrical mediocrity offering shallow entertainment to a depoliticised citizenry. The traditional view of fourth-century culture is encouraged and sustained by the absence of dramatic texts in anything more than fragments. Until recently, little attention was paid to an enormous array of non-literary evidence attesting, not only the sustained vibrancy of theatrical culture, but a huge expansion of theatre throughout (and even beyond) the Greek world. Epigraphic, historiographic, iconographic and archaeological evidence indicates that the fourth century BC was an age of exponential growth in theatre. It saw: the construction of permanent stone theatres across and beyond the Mediterranean world; the addition of theatrical events to existing festivals; the creation of entirely new contexts for drama; and vast investment, both public and private, in all areas of what was rapidly becoming a major 'industry'. This is the first book to explore all the evidence for fourth century ancient theatre: its architecture, drama, dissemination, staging, reception, politics, social impact, finance and memorialisation.

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