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Posts Tagged "silent classic"

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West of Zanzibar *** (1928, Lon Chaney Sr, Lionel Barrymore, Jacqueline Gadsdon, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter) – Classic Movie Review 12,379

Director Tod Browning’s 1928 American silent romantic adventure film West of Zanzibar stars Lon Chaney Sr as a vengeful stage magician who is paralysed in a brawl with a rival (Lionel Barrymore). Jacqueline Gadsdon, Mary […]

Jan, 03

Tillie’s Punctured Romance **** (1928, W C Fields, Louise Fazenda, Chester Conklin, Mack Swain) – Classic Movie Review 11,461

Director A Edward Sutherland’s 1928 silent circus comedy film Tillie’s Punctured Romance stars W C Fields, Louise Fazenda, Chester Conklin and Mack Swain. Sadly, this film is presumed lost. W C Fields stars as a […]

Aug, 08

Old Ironsides [Sons of the Sea] **** (1926, Wallace Beery, Esther Ralston, George Bancroft, Charles Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 10,779

Paramount Pictures’ jolly silent classic 1926 pirate adventure yarn Old Ironsides from director James Cruze focuses on the Americans on a fighting ship seeing off the wicked Barbary buccaneers in the seas around Tripoli in […]

Jan, 12

Cobra *** (1925, Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Casson Ferguson, Gertrude Olmstead) – Classic Movie Review 10,203

The magnificent Rudolph Valentino stars in director Joseph Henabery’s 1925 silent classic drama Cobra as a down-at-heel Italian marquis, Count Rodrigo Torriani, who decides to ‘collect’ women (the cobras of the title), who fascinate him, […]

Aug, 20

The Pony Express *** (1925, Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Ernest Torrence, Al Hart, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 10,153

Producer-director James Cruze’s famous 1925 silent Western film The Pony Express was intended as a follow-up to his 1923 big hit, The Covered Wagon, but didn’t quite hit the target, either artistically or at the […]

Aug, 09

The Four Feathers **** (1929, Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Clive Brook, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 10,071

The Four Feathers (1929) is Paramount Pictures’s final all-silent movie, though with a synchronised score (by William F Peters) and a few sound effects. This silent film with added synchronised sound but no dialogue is […]

Jul, 22

Way Down East ***** (1920, Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman) – Classic Movie Review 9449

Producer-director D W Griffith’s 1920 heart-tugging black and white silent romantic drama Way Down East stars Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Lowell Sherman, and is based on a play by Lottie Blair Parker and William […]

Mar, 01

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