The supreme Hour

the supreme Hour ( Seventh Heaven ) is an American film carried out by Frank Borzage, left in 1927.
Under the same title, Henry King will carry out a Remake speaking in 1937 with James Stewart and Simone Simon: the supreme Hour ( Seventh Heaven ).

Synopsis

Paris, 1914.
In the slums off Paris - under has street known ace The Hole in the Sock --

Chico works in the sewers but dream to sweep the streets to see the color of the sky. Deploring its fate, he denies the existence of God to the pretext of his current condition. He requested and gave ten francs in a church without obtaining the least realization of his wishes. But a priest hearing his complaint offers two religious medals to him and proposes to him to clean the pavements.

Diane lives in the misery, beaten and rejected with the street by her sister who reproaches him for having acknowledged their immoral lives with the rich uncle proposing a better life to them. Prostrate in a gutter, she cries over her fate.

Chico takes pity of Diane and saves it blows and of the police officer come to stop it by making it pass for its wife. The proud man then takes the frail young woman under his protection while denying several times any feeling. However, it takes it along at his place to attest of their situation near the police force. Its apartment is located on the last floor of a building. Arrived on this seventh floor, Diane believes herself in the paradise.

Taken in its own play, Chico entiche of its discovery and proposes a Diane wedding gown who includes/understands the reality of her unavowed feelings. But soon the war bursts and the robust men are the first to be left. Chico and Diane thus marry in the apartment in an abstract ceremony and with only value symbolic system. Each one keeps a religious medal while promising to think of their union with each tinkling of 11:00 of the chime.

The months pass, Chico fights on the face and assembles the military levels while Diane works in Paris in a factory of ammunition. One graded regularly comes to court it but it remains deaf with its advances, in the idéelle euphoria of its union sealed by the two religious medals.

One morning, the officer strikes with his door to announce the death of Chico the field of honor but she does not believe her information, however confirmed by the Chevillon father who brings back the medal symbolic system to him. Taken by the doubt, it calls into question its beliefs in its hero but when he emerges in the apartment she throws herself to her feet. Become blind, it returns glory in its faith to God whom it fustigated to have found his love in his paradise of the seventh stage…

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This film represents a fertile model of the Hollywood melodrama. Its supported lyricism and the deployed topics (the social rise, the loss of the sight, trancendant love, etc) will be in particular a source of inspiration for John Mr. Stahl and Douglas Sirk. The original title Seventh Heaven - literally Seventh paradise - translated the aspiration with the transcendence of the history of love which does not imply only any more two people but also the divine figure always present. The immanence of its presence justifies the acts and their consequences. Any destiny is some thus justified. It is while reaching the paradise, symbolically represented here by the apartment of the hero, that happiness occurs. The stages which the two characters under our eyes assemble (a vertical dolly follows their progression with a staircase out of cut and connections invisible) represents the scale which leads mud to the seventh heaven as advertisement already first forward paperboard of film:

For those who will climb it, there has ladder leading from the depths to the heights - from the sewer to the stars -- the ladder off Courage .

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