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Wellman’s ‘Wings’ on DVD – and Blu-ray!
Clara Bow in 'Wings' Wow! I’ve just written a posting about all the Wellman goodies coming out on DVD – and now comes the news from the wonderful Classicflix blog that his silent masterpiece Wings...
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Warner Baxter
As well as writing about films on this blog, I’ve been meaning to write a few postings about the actors and actresses I especially like. While some of the top stars of the 1930s, like Gary Cooper and...
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Daddy-Long-Legs (Marshall Neilan, 1919)
This posting is my entry for the Mary Pickford blogathon which KC is organising over the next three days at her blog Classic Movies. Please do visit and look at the other entries – there are some...
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The Ring (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927) – and the BFI’s Hitchcock retrospective
Lilian Hall Davis and Carl Brisson It’s great that so many classic movies are now available for home viewing – but nothing compares with seeing them as they were made to be shown, on the big screen. So...
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Dickens in December
As a lifelong Dickens obsessive, I’ve been vaguely intending all year to do a series of postings on films based on his books for his bicentenary, but have only got round to a couple of postings, on the...
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Oliver Twist (Frank Lloyd, 1922)
After watching Frank Lloyd’s early silent feature A Tale of Two Cities (1917), I couldn’t resist taking a look at the second Dickens silent he directed five years later. This one is much better-known,...
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BFI’s taster for silent Dickens – and lamentations over lost films
Thanks so much to everyone who has shown an interest in my Dickens in December series of postings. I’m getting the impression that quite a few people are particularly fascinated by the silent...
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John Martin-Harvey as Sydney Carton in ‘The Only Way’ (1927)
I’d been hoping to write about the 1927 British silent film The Only Way, based on A Tale of Two Cities, as part of my series of Dickens postings – but so far I haven’t managed to see this film. The...
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The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström, 1926)
This is my contribution to the Gish Sisters blogathon, being organised by Movies Silently and The Motion Pictures blogs. Please note I will be discussing the whole plot of The Scarlet Letter, both the...
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The Only Way (Herbert Wilcox, 1927)
I’ve finally been lucky enough to see The Only Way, the British silent adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities, which sadly isn’t on DVD – but is available to see in BFI mediatheques in the UK, and also via...
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Take Five: Happy New Year!
A Happy New Year to all readers of my blog, and thanks very much for your support, visits, comments and ‘likes’ during 2014. I’m hoping to post a bit more regularly here over the coming 12 months, so...
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A Woman of Affairs (Clarence Brown, 1928)
This is my contribution to the Silent Cinema Blogathon being organised by Crystal of The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood. Please do take a look at the other postings – a lot of great films are being...
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