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Comedy

Hold 'Em Yale

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A young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.

Release Date : 1928-05-14

Language :No Language

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : DeMille Pictures Corporation

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Rod La Rocque

Character Name : Jaime Emmanuel Alvarado Montez

Original Name : Rod La Rocque

Gender : Male

Jeanette Loff

Character Name : Helen Bradbury

Original Name : Jeanette Loff

Gender : Male

Hugh Allan

Character Name : Jack Bradbury

Original Name : Hugh Allan

Gender : Male

Joseph Cawthorn

Character Name : Professor George Bradbury

Original Name : Joseph Cawthorn

Gender : Male

Tom Kennedy

Character Name : Detective

Original Name : Tom Kennedy

Gender : Male

Jerry Mandy

Character Name : Jaime's Valet

Original Name : Jerry Mandy

Gender : Male

Lawrence Grant

Character Name : Don Alvarado Montez

Original Name : Lawrence Grant

Gender : Male

Oscar Smith

Character Name : Black Butler

Original Name : Oscar Smith

Gender : Male

Scott Seaton

Character Name : Minor Role

Original Name : Scott Seaton

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-06-06

This is quite a jovial tale of a fairly conceited Argentinian wastrel "Jaime" (Rod La Rocque) who is dispatched to Connecticut to study at Yale. Before he even arrives at the school, he manages to incur the wrath of an on-form Tom Kennedy's "Detective" - an ire that persistently follows him through his travails at the school where he is soon the freshman target for the upper students. That's until his skill with the football gets them, and his would-be girlfriend "Helen" (Jeanette Loff) paying him just a little more respect. The path to true love never runs smoothly, though, and his struggles see him take a pounding in a boxing ring - with some fun visual effects before much progress is made with her, even then it's a delicate game of cat and mouse.... I suspect that were it not that Cecil B. de Mille produced this, it would not exist in anything like the great quality of the print I saw recently. The story is really pretty simple and over-stretched, and though there is plenty of humour, it struggles to raise much more than a smile - and that's as much to do with the clever and lively photography as it has to do with the plot (though some of the vernacular on the inter-titles is quite witty.