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by scsu1975
August 19th, 2023, 11:06 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 164
Views: 79049

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

https://i.imgur.com/UYgFXsZ.png The Last Moment , directed by J. Parker Read Jr., starred Henry Hull as Hercules Napoleon Cameron, Doris Kenyon as Alice Winthrop, Louis Wolheim as “The Finn,” and Louis Calhern as Harry Gaines. The film was released in May of 1923 at six reels, and is presumed lost....
by scsu1975
August 13th, 2023, 8:46 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 4086
Views: 269466

Re: I Just Watched...

... THE SERPENT OF THE NILE (1953) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Serpent_Of_The_Nile_Poster.jpg ... Did they show this on Rhonda Fleming Day? If so I missed it, darn! William Castle! Was Rhonda Cleopatra? Yes. Late, in the wee hours, sheer luck. It was so spectacularly B with good ...
by scsu1975
August 13th, 2023, 7:55 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 164
Views: 79049

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

Excellent, as usual. i see I have some catching up to do. It's always interesting to appreciate the language used in the reviews. I have a suspicion that the last one panning the movie may have been right on. Something rings true about it. What others might have been afraid to say. Seven reels. Eac...
by scsu1975
August 12th, 2023, 1:31 pm
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 164
Views: 79049

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

https://i.imgur.com/lLm2u1O.png Backbone , directed by Edward Sloman, starred Alfred Lunt (in his film debut) as John Thorne and Edith Roberts as Yvonne de Mersay. The film was released on April 30, 1923, at seven reels, and is presumed lost. I was fortunate to find a very extensive synopsis in the...
by scsu1975
August 5th, 2023, 10:27 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 164
Views: 79049

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

https://i.imgur.com/qt7DTWu.png An Old Sweetheart of Mine , directed by Harry Garson, starred Elliott Dexter as John Craig and Helen Jerome Eddy as Mary Ellen Anderson. The film was released in May of 1923 at six reels, and is presumed lost. Plot : John Craig, rummaging through the attic of his hom...
by scsu1975
August 2nd, 2023, 7:28 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 164
Views: 79049

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

Coming in August:

An Old Sweetheart of Mine, with Elliott Dexter and Helen Jerome Eddy

Backbone, with Alfred Lunt and Edith Roberts

The Last Moment, with Henry Hull and Doris Kenyon

Vanity Fair, with Mabel Ballin and Hobart Bosworth
by scsu1975
July 29th, 2023, 10:40 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 164
Views: 79049

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

https://i.imgur.com/KIA9nJs.png What a Wife Learned , directed by John Griffith Wray, starred John Bowers as Jim Russell, Milton Sills as Rudolph Martin, and Marguerite de la Motte as Sheila Dorne. The film was released in January of 1923 at seven reels. The Gosfilmofond in Moscow holds a complete ...
by scsu1975
July 22nd, 2023, 12:45 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 4086
Views: 269466

Re: I Just Watched...

One of my other favorite scenes in Night of the Demon features one of my favorite British actresses: Athene Seyler, who plays the villain's mother. I love the seance scene, with the song "Cherry Ripe." My only problem with that scene is that Dana Andrews is too much the sceptic. In almost...
by scsu1975
July 22nd, 2023, 11:36 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 164
Views: 79049

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

https://i.imgur.com/EaQuvMl.png The Girl of the Golden West , directed by Edwin Carewe, starred Sylvia Breamer as The Girl, J. Warren Kerrigan as Ramerrez, Russell Simpson as Jack Rance, and Rosemary Theby as Nina. The film was released in May of 1923 at seven reels, and is presumed lost. Plot : Th...
by scsu1975
July 15th, 2023, 11:54 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 164
Views: 79049

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

https://i.imgur.com/Symm8RY.png Mad Love , directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, starred Pola Negri as Sappho and Johannes Riemann as Richard de la Croix. The film was initially released in Berlin in 1921 (as Sappho ) at six reels. The film was then acquired by the Goldwyn Company for American release. ...
by scsu1975
July 8th, 2023, 8:11 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 164
Views: 79049

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

https://i.imgur.com/zIsckvR.png Hearts Aflame , directed by Reginald Barker, featured Frank Keenan as Luke Taylor, Craig Ward as John Taylor, and Anna Q. Nilsson as Helen Foraker. The film was released in January of 1923 at nine reels some sources say seven reels), and is presumed lost. Plot : Luke...
by scsu1975
July 7th, 2023, 4:25 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 4086
Views: 269466

Re: I Just Watched...

Dargo wrote: July 7th, 2023, 4:13 pm

(...btw, this now leads me to ask the following here: What movies DID Chuck here end up dying in?...I know he does in 'El Cid', anyway)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Midway, The Omega Man and Earthquake come to mind.
by scsu1975
July 6th, 2023, 1:55 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 4086
Views: 269466

Re: I Just Watched...

Adventures in Silverado (1948) I think this film has been out of circulation for a long time. I hadn’t seen it in over 50 years, but it recently showed up on YouTube (with Spanish subtitles). Though not a great western by any means, it is still very entertaining with a good cast. William Bishop sho...
by scsu1975
July 1st, 2023, 10:36 am
Forum: Silents & PreCodes
Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Replies: 164
Views: 79049

Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)

Coming in July:

Hearts Aflame, with Frank Keenan and Anna Q. Nilsson

Mad Love, with Pola Negri

The Girl of the Golden West, with Sylvia Breamer and J. Warren Kerrigan

What a Wife Learned, with John Bowers, Milton Sills, and Marguerite De La Motte
by scsu1975
June 29th, 2023, 7:42 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 4086
Views: 269466

Re: I Just Watched...

Allhallowsday wrote: June 29th, 2023, 3:07 pm Your wife has a good eye. :D
Of course. She married me! LOL