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Director Charles Chaplin’s 1918 Chaplin three-reeler (40 minutes) silent comedy A Dog’s Life is a sweet, amusing and often ingenious silent movie, in which his little Tramp character is a desperate beggar joined by a […]
Michael Winner’s 1976 comedy Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood stars the adorable comedienne Madeline Kahn as struggling Twenties actress Estie Del Ruth and Bruce Dern as director Grayson Potchuk, who adopt a […]
‘The Scientific Marvel VITAPHONE Presentation FAMED OPERATIC AND MUSICAL ARTISTS…and JOHN BARRYMORE in DON JUAN. ‘ Director Alan Crosland’s 1926 classic stars John Barrymore, whose thrilling silent swashbuckler was the first film to be released […]
Wallace Beery makes a sterling hero as the Indian runner Magua in this famous 1920 silent movie. Directors Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown’s exciting, well-made adventure yarn is based on James Fenimore Cooper’s classic tale of the […]
Great days with Mel Funn! Co-writer/ director Mel Brooks’s inventive and hilarious 1976 movie is a pleasure to watch. It cleverly revives the long-lost art of silent comedy, with Brooks directing himself in a funny turn […]
Director Henry King’s esteemed and moving 1925 silent version of Olive Higgins Prouty’s novel was remade in 1937 and 1990 (as Stella). Belle Bennett magnificently takes the title role as the slatternly lower class Stella […]
For producer-director Edmund Goulding’s 1927 MGM romantic drama silent movie, there could be only one actress to play Leo Tolstoy’s heroically suffering heroine Anna Karenina – Greta Garbo. MGM made the film to cash in […]