The Great Gabbo (MOD) (DVD Movie) Broke The British fleet is anchored

The British fleet is anchored in the waters of the strait

David Maldon (Van Johnson) nearly drowned during World War 2 -- in a flood of brandy

anxiety and terror

But when both his family and his livelihood are threatened by a long-buried secret

respect and acceptance

The Great Gabbo (MOD) (DVD Movie) Broke The British fleet is anchoredInspired by the dark short story "The Rival Dummy" by Ben Hecht, this uncanny 1928 drama stars Erich Von Stroheim (Hollywood's "The Man You Love To Hate") as the cruel egotistical ventriloquist, The Great Gabbo. Mary (Betty Compson), Gabbo's beautiful assistant, loves Gabbo and sees goodness within him, despite the torrent of abuse that he heaps upon her. Incapable of expressing any human warmth except through Otto, his wooden dummy, Gabbo drives Mary