Anyone remember which silent Hound of the Baskervilles was shown at Cinefest over a decade ago? I remember enjoying it, the most distinctive thing that comes to mind is how they made the hound look creepy by scratching out his eyes on the negative so that they were just glowing white. Cheapest spec...

Here we really see the total ridiculousness of labeling a film "by" the Director. "ANNABELLE LEE "by" William J. Scully? Oh please, the Author of the poem is indeed Edgar Allen Poe, the script for this film is by Arthur Brilliant, who is probably the one who had the "Brilliant" idea to modernize the...

Over in the Pre-Code vs. Code era thread, someone mentioned Broadway Bill and Riding High , which has several actors playing the same roles, including Raymond Walburn and Clarence Muse. The second also lifts a lot of clips with the usual Capra extras in the same place. Bob It's more than clips. Dou...

Another one I just thought of: Fred Kohler Sr. plays Captain Blackie twice in Paramount's RIVER OF ROMANCE (1929) with Buddy Rogers, then again in MISSISSIPPI (1935) with W. C. Fields and Bing Crosby, both based on Booth Tarkington's play MAGNOLIA. And Sheldon Lewis played Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde twi...

If you have the George M. Cohan version, check the end. My old Grapevine Video version has an odd shot at the end- there's a photo of King George V against a fluttering flag and the words GOOD NIGHT. Eric, that's not odd at all. America had just entered WW1 on April 6, 1917. The film was released i...

More UK films. . THE FOREMAN WENT TO FRANCE (1942), dir. Charles Frend, Tommy Trinder, Clifford Evans, Constance Cummings, Gordon Jackson. Factory foreman Evans travels to wartime France to retrieve British machinery that might be used by invading Nazis to manufacture weapons. Why he doesn’t just s...

Richard Finegan wrote:Charles Middleton portrayed Abraham Lincoln in a few different films.

.....and Ming the Merciless a time or two.



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True, L&H remade several of their silents as talkies, as did W.C. Fields, so those should count. And wasn't there an actor who plays the same character in both the Fairbanks and the Flynn Robin Hoods? I remember reading that, but now can't figure out who it could have been. Apparently Rodney has tr...

Here's another: Hank Mann. Heck, if you're doing comics, add Snub Pollard, Chester Conklin, and Jimmy Aubrey. Technically, Laurel and Hardy Harold Lloyd, and Mack Sennett for they also made television appearances, but only as themselves. Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Spec O' Donnell, Bebe Daniels, Lupino ...

The Marx Bros. supposedly made a silent "in 1921 that was never released, and is believed to have been destroyed at the time" (quoth Wikipedia). Jumping over sound films into TV: Groucho of course had a well-known presence on TV; Harpo had his TV appearances; Chico's last appearance in show biz bef...

Edward Everett Horton played Nick Potter in both versions of Holiday. A number of actors have gotten identified with a particular historical figure-- the guy who plays Lincoln in Hands Up! was the star of The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln; and didn't somebody have a clip of Gance's Napoleon, Alb...

Oliver Hardy.


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Yeah, I've definitely heard worse. These were pretty standard BBC tragically-hip twenty-somethings commentators (nice to see the Upper-Class British Twit also extends to the British Female), but they weren't really damning the Fest, just asking questions the un-immersed might ask. One definite inter...

Also, it was great to see Lionel Stander in these shorts and see him get involved in these early slapstick roles. A couple of years ago at Film Forum they had a festival of movies made in New York City, including several features such as The Scoundrel (1935), along with some Vitaphone shorts. Someo...

Bob Birchard wrote: I would hardly call this transfer "unreasonably slow." If in fact the film was transferred at 16fps, then I'd estimate it was shot at something like 12 fps. The action seems sufficiently enhanced in speed to me. There are sections that would have been only a blur at 18, 20, or 24...

Chuck Barris, the creator of many classic film and TV cars, will be selling off the original car from the BATMAN TV series. http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-batmobile-auction-for-sale-20121128,0,1239346.story" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank I think you mean Georg...

I saw Steamboat Bill, Jr there .................before Artisphere...............at the start of a wonderful festival that went from being an outing to a part of my life. It changed my life forever, and brought me so much enjoyment and good friends. I didn't know at the time that it was going to be ...

So, I have several titles in my "Cart" for Grapevine. Are there any titles that I shouldn't pass up? Richard, are there any of their titles with which you are familiar that you recomend that I grab during the sale? Hmm, well, I can't say I know what your tastes run to outside of comedy. Grapevine h...

Agnes,

The Grapevine version is perfectly acceptable (and is run at a speed that doesn't kill the comedy), so I'd say grab it, especially at a sale price.



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Entitlement has nothing to do with it. It's a product. If it's deficient, we, as consumers, have a perfect right to complain about it. And, before you go calling people "kiddies," perhaps you should look at the one who's being immature and throwing out personal insults left and right simply because...

The transfer of WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL BY on the Fairbanks set looks perfectly acceptable on either standard TV or HDTV, it may not be the greatest eye-orgasmic digital transfer of the 2!st Century, but it would be (and, in fact, has been) perfectly acceptable to 99.9999999999 percent of those who hav...

Thanks for the info. When did Cine Art stop selling comedy shorts? Trying to determine if the 1920 Christie I have is a print from '30 or '50. Ben I don't think Consolidated had the Christie negs by 1930, I think they got them a few years later when Christie defaulted on loans and went bankrupt, so...

Just got in a silent comedy, replaced main title (meaning printed, not spliced on) with "Cine Art presents" at the top; edge-code is triangle-plus. So...1930 or 1950? I know Cine Art is better known for the 1920s stag films (get your mind out of the gutter…I scored a whole bunch for Unknown Video s...

Frankebe writes " This shows how careless many digital transfers have been, among those being the Flicker Alley Douglas Fairbanks films and the Kino Gaumont releases, which have giant and gross pixilation. (To quote the SILENT ERA website, where they refer to: "The coarsely transferred When the Clo...

What Films Do You Wish You Could Edit? One film that needed editing that I'm surprised hasn't yet been mentioned: THE HEAD GUY (1930) - Hal Roach short starring Harry Langdon. (Anyone who has seen the film will know the scene in question!) Harry's long long long long crying scene may have at least ...

This theory would work fine if the reason Fields left Paramount wasn't because he was unhappy with the films he was making there towards the end of his stay and the Studio was tired of their fights with him, and it wasn't a "if you leave, we won't fire you" situation. Remember, when I'm talking pos...

And the reason his character was shallowing at Universal was because he lost his benefactor William LeBaron at Paramount. Fields is always great on screen but his best work was when he was left to his own devices - the Sennett shorts and his Paramount starring features from 1934 on. I don't see the...

Now, if you're going to have a survey of which Our Gang Kids you'd put up for adoption, you have to add the MGM group if you really want to up the voting. I'd have put up MIckey Gubitosi and Froggy up for abortion! And how can anyone hate Mary Ann Jackson, only an evil nasty person would do so! RICH...

What Films Do You Wish You Could Edit? Assuming they'd let me handle the necessary sharp objects.... Potemkin - Lose that fancy "steps" segment Sure the Marx's lost their edge at MGM, but the code would have done that to them wherever they went, just like Fields and Mae West at Paramount and Wheele...

Quote: "With Fields I think you have to factor in his drinking, it affected his performance, his looks, and increasingly his judgement. Radio saved him and prolonged his career." I don't disagree - the Fields of 1939 looks like he's aged 20 years from the Fields of 1933 - but for the record, Fields...