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Don’t Change Your Husband (1919) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
Gloria Swanson is a young wife whose husband is, for lack of a better word, a pigpen. Tired of his slovenly ways and uncaring manner, she leaves him for a better groomed, sweet-talking man. But all is not wine and rose and she soon learns that it may not have been a good idea to change her husband read more
Silents available in 2013 - a mix of horror, murder and lost love...
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
Reblogged from Peter Urpeth # Music For Silent Movies #: I am very pleased to offer performances of my scores to the following silents in 2013: Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932 - 73 mins): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023649/ Menilmontant pictured (Kirsanoff, 1926 - 38 mins): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt014703 read more
Alfred Hitchcock's Earliest Known Film, "The White Shadow"
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
Reblogged from Hitchcock and Me: In August of 2011, film fans were thrilled to learn that a portion of the lost 1924 movie “The White Shadow” had been found, making it the earliest known work by Alfred Hitchcock. In the excitement of this discovery, much of the coverage ignored the fact that the read more
The Charlatan (1929) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
Holmes Herbert stars as Count Merlin, a faux-mystic with a painful past. His wife left him for another man and took their daughter with her. Now, decades later, he has caught up with her. When the unfaithful wife turns up dead, Merlin is the prime suspect. He must use his gifts of disguise and dece read more
The Forbidden City (1918) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan play an ill-fated interracial couple. When their secret marriage is discovered, Talmadge is executed by the Emperor of China for daring to marry a white man. Her daughter (also Talmadge) grows up and sets out to discover her American roots. The Forbidden City begin read more
The Social Secretary (1916) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
Mayme (Norma Talmadge) can’t keep a job. She’s far too pretty, you see, and the bosses won’t leave her alone. Meanwhile, the de Puyster family can’t keep a secretary. They’re far too pretty and get married. You can see where this one is going. Erich von Stroheim supports as a paparazzo. Light-heart read more
Waxworks (1924) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
A young author (Wilhelm Dieterle) is hired by the owner of a wax museum to write tales about his most popular figures, Haroun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. Entranced by his new boss’s pretty daughter (Olga Belajeff) the author sets to work writing about the wax figures. With ea read more
Why Change Your Wife? (1920) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
Gloria Swanson is the offending party in this DeMille marital comedy. She is a lovely young prude who moralizes her husband right into the waiting arms of another woman. Only then does Gloria realize that husbands want to live with a wife, not a nun. Armed with this knowledge- and a wild wardrobe- read more
Little Annie Rooney (1925) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
Mary Pickford is a tenement kid with a cop father and a brother who wants to be a gangster. Mary falls for her brother’s best friend, another would-be gangster, and must clear him of murder. Little Annie Rooney (Mary Pickford) has all the usual problems of a twelve year old girl, as well as read more
Judex (1916-17) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
Judex, a mysterious caped vigilante, sets out to take revenge against corrupt banker Favraux. His settling of scores is complicated by the sly villainess Diana Monti and her associates. And the fact that Judex is in love with Favraux’s daughter, Jacqueline. A serial in twelve episodes with a prolog read more
Son of the Sheik (1926) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
Ahmed, the son of the title character of The Sheik, loves a dancer named Yasmin. After coming to believe that she betrayed him to bandits, Ahmed seeks revenge. Valentino-style. Valentino’s final screen appearance is also his best. Valentino made many films after achieving stardom but there wa read more
Miss Mend (1926) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013
A historic curio from a strange time when Soviet filmmakers actively sought to create American style films. This serial, which owes as much to Germany as it does to the U.S.A., involves a plot by capitalists to poison all of Russia. The titular heroine must save the day. Sly commentary is hidden am read more
Annabell Lee (1921) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 2, 2013
Based very, very loosely on a poem by Poe, the film tells the tale of lovers torn apart by parental disapproval, a mutiny and a handsome book publisher. As far as story is concerned, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem Annabel Lee is a little lean. Childhood sweethearts are separated by family disapproval and read more
Bare Knees (1928) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 2, 2013
What do you do with a kid who just wants to have fun? Virginia Lee Corbin gives her straight-laced sister fits with her wild, flapper ways. But which one really has the morality problem? Some film genres are so much of their time that any attempt to make them in later periods would be ridiculous. T read more
About Silent Movies #1: Silent movies? You like silent movies?
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 1, 2013
“Can anyone take those movies seriously?” “Did they even make movies back then?” “How do you know what’s going on?” Silent movies? Are they even a thing? Well, no one said being a silent film fan would be easy. It’s very difficult to explain why silent films have become my entertainment read more
About Silent Movies #2: Begging, Bribing and Blackmail
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 1, 2013
Why isn’t everyone as excited about silent films as I am? All right, you like silent movies. In fact, you love silent movies. The problem is that your movie nights are, to put it nicely, a rather solitary affair. Let’s face it, we’re in the minority. Like any enthusiast, you’re ready to read more
Miss Lulu Bett (1921) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 1, 2013
Lulu is a poor relation, sentenced to a lifetime of drudgery for the crime of spinsterhood. She jumps into a loveless marriage in order to escape her plight. It should have been an escape but it only makes matters worse and Lulu is forced to take matters into her own hands. The 1920s are rightly se read more
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 1, 2013
Douglas Fairbanks is the titular thief who uses his burglaring ways to win a princess, defeat the Mongols and generally save the day. Bonus: I will also be reviewing the 1940 talkie version starring Sabu and Conrad Veidt. Click here to skip to the talkie reviews. Douglas Fairbanks is all about stu read more
The Volga Boatman (1926) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Jan 31, 2013
He’s a Bolshevik. She’s a princess. Can they find love? Riding roughshod over historical accuracy and narrative logic, The Volga Boatman still manages to be a rollicking (if air-headed) good time. Bonus: I will also be reviewing the 1956 Russian classic The Forty-First. Click here to s read more
A Woman of the World (1925) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Jan 31, 2013
A glamorous European countess meets small town America and it’s a novel experience for both. Tongues wag, the gentlemen preen and the town’s moral crusader finds himself unpleasantly in love. Pretend for a moment that you are a motion picture producer of the 1920’s. You have secured the read more