Except for "Seed" (1931), I've now seen every Bette Davis film she made until 1951. Last night I watched "The Menace" (1932) with Arthur Byron, H. B. Warner, Bette Davis, Natalie Moorhead, William B. Davidson, Crauford Kent, Halliwell Hobbes, and Charles K. Gerrard, along with a couple of other mino...

greta de groat wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:50 am

I'd love to see a complete collection of the Eille Norwood Sherlock Holmes films.

greta

Ditto! I've said that many times. If I'm not mistaken - and I certainly could be - Andrew Lloyd Webber owns the rights to those films. I find that interesting in itself.

Whatever problems there were with his 30s contract at the time, what's left today from that is a collection of very interesting films and roles with some of his best work. greta I still think "The Last Flight" (1931) is the very best evocation of "the lost generation" ever put on film. Barthelmess ...

A DEVIL WITH WOMEN was shown at London's NFT in a double-bill with A HOLY TERROR (1931, much better copy than the miserable YT uploads) and presented by William K Everson. This was in 1977. Everson commented that DEVIL was very narrowly saved from loss, but I haven't encountered it since. A custome...

MAID OF SALEM [1937] is available on DVD in Universal’s Vault Collection. "The Moon's Our Home" has also been released in Universal's Vault Collection. Both are available through Amazon currently. "Letty Lynton" has release problems evidently of huge proportions. It's been discussed on this board.

I'll add another reason for such things, even though it sounds, perhaps, as if it comes from left field. In the study of mnemonics, especially of oral literature from time immemorial to the fact of literacy, it is known that the accompaniment of music to spoken things, especially for memorization or...

"The Calgary Stampede" (1925) is a magnificent romance/sport/western/drama with Hoot Gibson, Virginia Brown Faire, Pierre Faunce, Jim Corey, Philo McCullough, Ena Gregory, Charles Sellon, Inez Seabury, W. T. McCulley, and others (including a very early Walter Brennan in a crowd scene in a bleacher)...

I'm currently watching the Raymond Bernard version of Les Miserables , and in a major courtroom scene, witness after witness simply swore to the tell the truth. No Bible or other book. Considering that this takes place in an era and a country where the Catholic Church was all-powerful and all-domin...

I'm currently watching the Raymond Bernard version of Les Miserables , and in a major courtroom scene, witness after witness simply swore to the tell the truth. No Bible or other book. Considering that this takes place in an era and a country where the Catholic Church was all-powerful and all-domin...

"Crime and Punishment" (1923), directed by Robert Wiene and originally entitled "Raskolnikow", is another venture into expressionistic sets (via "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) which change with each scene reappearance in the film. Based on Dostoyevsky's famous nineteenth century Russian novel, the ...

I must hugely apologize for my remark above. I mis-spoke! I have confused "A Kiss in the Dark" with "Too Many Kisses", made the same year and which was released last year on disc. I was also wrong about the Marx brother. It was Harpo in "Too Many Kisses", NOT Zeppo. Very sorry. I'm eating some olive...

s.w.a.c. wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:01 am

Marxology does some digging into A Kiss in the Dark.

No mention of surviving materials, but it sounds like it was a blink-and-you'll-miss-him cameo.

Not so.

Second that! And thanks for the pictures, too.

Re-watched Norma Shearer in "A Clouded Name" (1923). I re-watched it because I couldn't remember a single thing about it. I looked at my old review and no longer agree all the way with it. I think the film is an inferior film in many ways, from the script to the direction to the editing, and, and......

"13 Washington Square" (1928) stars Alice Joyce, Jean Hersholt, ZaSu Pitts, George J. Lewis, and Helen Foster, with others in minor parts. It's a fun little crime comedy. Little it is, but ZaSu outdoes herself. She's a genuine hoot in this caper. Hersholt wants to go into Joyce's house and steal th...

oldposterho wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:25 am

Based on her support of Birth of a Nation I demand lillian gishing be removed from the OED.

Based on the fact that OED can stand for the gang Order of Elderly Delinquents, I demand that the dictionary and all of its contents be banned from existence. à partir de maintenant c'est français!

"Arise, My Love" (1940) stars Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland and is about the best example of a pre-America-declared WWII film I've ever seen. In a time when Washington was frantic with attempts at some kind of détente and Hollywood was trying to stay out of the game of anti-Hitler or pro-Hitler...

I finally had a chance to view "The Shakedown" (1929) with James Murray, Barbara Kent, Jack Hanlon, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Harry Gribbon, and others. The tenth film directed by William Wyler, this one deals with a boxer who throws fights for a living, moving from town to town to accompli...

Just took a look but could only find the Grapevine Region 1 on Amazon. And when you say three film release, do you mean three separate releases or all on one set. Which are the others? This is a just released 3-film set called "Early Universal", Vol. 1. The other two films are "Skinner's Dress Suit...

"The Shield of Honor" (1927) is a rousing good actioner with Neil Hamilton, Dorothy Gulliver, Ralph Lewis, Nigel Barrie, Thelma Todd, Fred Esmelton, and others. Ralph Lewis is being forced to retire from the police force because he's 65 years old. His son, Neil Hamilton, also on the force, is the f...

Although there are exceptions with "A" films, too, you generally know a film is a "B" if most of the secondary cast is exceptional in their performances, or at least better than the leads. Although the lead female in "Special Inspector" (1938) is Rita Hayworth, and she performs very well indeed, the...

Where did you find The Last Journey? I just saw Julien Mitchell in Vigil in the Night and wondered what else he'd done, and this of course was highly recommended, but the online copy I found was one of those YouTube messes that's framed off-kilter etc. to keep the automated systems from spotting a ...

"The Last Journey" (1935) is one of those films that seemingly has fallen through the cracks. THIS FILM HAS EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING... Just because the top billed performer is Hugh Williams doesn't mean that he's a good guy. Just because the film has Godfrey Tearle in it - and the same year he made ...

GishFan wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:13 am

You'd think Gaumont would understand that people who would buy these releases are not put off by B&W.

Assumption is the eighth deadly sin.

"The Penalty"...

With all respect to Ed and R. Michael, I must disagree a bit about OUT YONDER. The restoration and David’s score are fine. But what about the movie? I always hope when I support a Kickstarter project that the result will be a great restoration of a fine movie. As R. Michael mentions, OUT YONDER is ...

"Out Yonder" (1919) stars Olive Thomas, Huntley Gordon, John Smiley, Edward Ellis, Louise Prussing, Marie Coverdale, and Cyril Chadwick. Thomas is the daughter of Smiley, a former captain who now runs a lighthouse with his assistant Ellis. Gordon, a wealthy yachtsman, is in the area near the lighth...

Received mine yesterday. Watched last night. Will review it here in a day or two.

Pier 23 (1951) is dreadful and confusing. This one stars Hugh Beaumont as a wharf rat investigator in San Francisco named Dennis O'Brien. This film has two separate stories and looks like it's taken from a TV series and released as a film (or the other way around) but I can't find any info on this ...

Jim Roots wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:57 am

FIVE HUNDRED PAGES on Pokes and Jabbs?!?!? Really, Rob????

One word per page, maybe?

Whatever, I'll be a-waiting' to support it...

Jim

Me, too!