quicksand movie

[muddyone]

on tmc there is a movie called the sparrow with a quicksand swamp old black and whit silent film on now

[Scarol]

What is the name of that site? Maybe I can try to searh for it.

[Duncan Edwards]

The movie was "Sparrows" and it's a pretty well known scene with in the community. Mary Pickford is running around this orphanage with a bunch of kids in the middle of a swamp. It's 1926 so it's silent but was regarded as very intense for it's day. I recall an initial scene with a doll, a humorous scene with a bad guy getting pulled out by a mule, and the children's escape across the swamp on a rickety bridge of floating junk in the quicksand before the bad guy buys it at the end. While it looks incredibly authentic the whole thing was shot at Pickfair, the Hollywood mansion of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. The set designer took a relatively small space and landscaped the crap out of it before he added some alligators to make it look real. Shows what you can do with a big enough budget and some creativity.

[Duncan Edwards]

Just a follow up - Went looking on Youtube and found a trailer for it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSi0X28N0mc .

[jagfiles]

I remember I only saw this movie for sale on a VHS tape only once years ago.

[Billie Bonce]

Mary Pickford was awesome.