New from Grapevine

[drednm]

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[bobfells]

You scooped me, Ed! I've been checking the Grapevine new releases page almost every day, including yesterday, but they hadn't updated anything since October. Now I turn my back and they announce new stuff. I just ordered THE LAMB and the Richard Dix movie. THE SHOCK PUNCH. LAMB was Fairbanks' first film and he had starred in it on the stage. In 1920 it was remade at THE SAP starring Buster Keaton. Didn't really fit Him but, being made by Metro, it was a sign of things to come.

[drednm]

and I like Johnny Hines.....

[Jim Roots]

You scooped me, Ed! I've been checking the Grapevine new releases page almost every day, including yesterday, but they hadn't updated anything since October. Now I turn my back and they announce new stuff. I just ordered THE LAMB and the Richard Dix movie. THE SHOCK PUNCH. LAMB was Fairbanks' first film and he had starred in it on the stage. In 1920 it was remade at THE SAP starring Buster Keaton. Didn't really fit Him but, being made by Metro, it was a sign of things to come.

You mean The Saphead.

Jim

[Jess McGrath]

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The LOC database shows no holdings for Johnny Hines' LUCK in any archives. So presumably this only survives in a private collection(s?).

[FlammableNitrate]

Where is She (1925)?

[David Pierce]

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The LOC database shows no holdings for Johnny Hines' LUCK in any archives. So presumably this only survives in a private collection(s?).

LUCK was released by the Kodascope Libraries in 16mm. The film survives in private collections, but no archive I contacted for the Library of Congress study on the survival of silent features had a print.

David PIerce

[drednm]

http://www.grapevinevideo.com/index.html" target="_blank

The LOC database shows no holdings for Johnny Hines' LUCK in any archives. So presumably this only survives in a private collection(s?).

LUCK was released by the Kodascope Libraries in 16mm. The film survives in private collections, but no archive I contacted for the Library of Congress study on the survival of silent features had a print.

David PIerce

Ok. Again in English? LOL

[earlytalkiebuffRob]

Where is She (1925)?

There is a copy (Alpha) on free-classic-movies.com - by no means ideal, but it's there.

[silentmovies742]

Luck winged its way across the Atlantic in record time, I think, arriving this morning and watched this evening. I like Hines very much, although he's not among the best of the silent comedians, but this one wasn't up there with his best films. It's enjoyable enough, though, despite some jokes which leave a slightly bitter aftertaste to a modern audience! Picture quality was decent too - a fair amount of jumps in certain places, but other than that perfectly watchable.

[mwalls]

The one that caught my eye that I might find most interesting is The Shock Punch. Has anyone seen this yet? Wondering about the picture, score, etc.

Matthew

[bobfells]

I'm pleased with SHOCK PUNCH both in terms of image quality and the music, which seems to be an original organ accompaniment instead of the needle drop scores. Here are two screen grabs:

[drednm]

Bob...... Jack has been using original organ scores by Wayne Knudtson (sp?) for some time now ... an improvement on the generic stuff he used to use.

[Jim Roots]

Bob...... Jack has been using original organ scores by Wayne Knudtson (sp?) for some time now ... an improvement on the generic stuff he used to use.

Lou McMahon used to provide Jack with his scores.

Jim

[BenModel]

Dave Knudtson is the organist who's been scoring the Grapevine releases.

Ben

[drednm]

Dave Knudtson is the organist who's been scoring the Grapevine releases.

Ben

Yes, DAVID..... Don't know where I got Wayne from.....

[boblipton]

Dave Knudtson is the organist who's been scoring the Grapevine releases.

Ben

Yes, DAVID..... Don't know where I got Wayne from.....

Maybe you liked Wayne's version of "Danke Schoenberg."

Bob

[drednm]

not a Newton I'm interested in at all....

[CoffeeDan]

The one that caught my eye that I might find most interesting is The Shock Punch. Has anyone seen this yet? Wondering about the picture, score, etc.

Matthew

I haven't seen the Grapevine DVD, but I did see the film at Cinevent a few years ago. I found it something of a disappointment, mainly because I had read the original story by John Monk Saunders in Liberty (April 18 and 25, 1925). I was expecting an intense, vividly written story about the rivalry between two construction workers (in work and in love), and got an innocuous romantic comedy. The Richard Dix character was transformed from an ambitious young man whose anger unleashed a lethal hard right, to a country bumpkin who doesn't know his own strength. It changed the whole thrust of the story.

Nevertheless, I liked the film. I have yet to see a Richard Dix film I didn't like, and this one was no exception. Dix's sincere presence shines through in THE SHOCK PUNCH.

[Marr&Colton]

Just ordered my copy of THE SHOCK PUNCH from Grapevine....thanks, Bob, for the nice screen captures--that sold me!
And only $14.95....from our old friends at Grapevine!

Interesting how in the silent and early talkie days the main title also had a lot of other information in later years reserved for their own separate title cards.

[Wm. Charles Morrow]

I just ordered The Lamb, one of the few surviving Fairbanks films I've never seen in any form. From what I gather, it's quite different from The Saphead. They're both based on the same source material, but I believe Doug's version took more liberties with the plot, while Buster's is more faithful to the play. (Unless I reversed it, but I think that's the case.)

[drednm]

I just ordered The Lamb, one of the few surviving Fairbanks films I've never seen in any form. From what I gather, it's quite different from The Saphead. They're both based on the same source material, but I believe Doug's version took more liberties with the plot, while Buster's is more faithful to the play. (Unless I reversed it, but I think that's the case.)

I have it. Looks like a nice print, but I haven't watched it yet.

[sepiatone]

Dix has several mid-20s silents at the LOC. He's luckier than say Bebe Daniels. Curiously Dix's Paramount silents from this time have the first of several appearances from Edna May Oliver, better remembered for her 30s sound film appearances than silent output, but she's lucky several of her early appearances survive.

[Celluloid_Queen]

Thanks for posting, I've been wanting to see The Lamb. It's one of the Fairbanks ones I have not seen yet!

[WaverBoy]

Just ordered the silent 3-pack. Haven't seen THE LAMB, and I hadn't even heard of the other two. Keep 'em coming, Jack.

[NotSoSilent]

I just ordered THE LAMB and THE SHOCK PUNCH. Looking forward to watching them!

[mwalls]

I'm pleased with SHOCK PUNCH both in terms of image quality and the music, which seems to be an original organ accompaniment instead of the needle drop scores. Here are two screen grabs:

Bob, thanks for the comment on the score and screen grabs. I am in. Just ordered Shock Punch.