Dear Friends, it is so gratifying to see one of my all-time favorites continuing to excite people and elicit fascinating and insightful commentaries. I first saw it as a child when all I remembered was that a little boy got sick on a train! Since then I have seen it more time even than Fealto, and l...

I agree with everyone here, including you, Chio. Some talking pictures certainly require as much attention as a silent, as your examples demonstrate. The problem with sub-titled films can be just the same. Sometimes we are so concentrated on the dialogue as to miss some of that mise-en-scene or nuan...

Thank you, Mr. Isenberg, for your thoughtful and informative responses to all these questions that my friends here have asked before I could. I am wondering, though, if you have ever seen, as I have, a print of Sunrise with an Ulmer credit? Any information on that?

ChiO, before we get serious here, let me note that I once saw at MOMA a 16mm print that included Ulmer's name in the Art Direction credits. But only that one time.

Many thanks, dear friends, for you kind greetings, and also to the stars who helped you!

Moira. that's a tough one. You really caught me with my clarity down. What I was thinking about there were the early studies of Borzage by Lamster and Belton. Not to knock them, because they both did a great job, especially considering how many films they were unable to see at that time. But, from t...

Hello, Friends. I hesitated about joining in this thread, because I don't want to get a reputation for negativity. But here I am in Borzage land, so let me get the "bad news" out right at the start. Joan Crawford is one of the very few Hollywood stars whom I don't like. I admire her and ta...

Kingrat, you hit the nail right on the head! Duel in the Sun is the beginning of what I have long thought os as King Vidor's Operatic Period. The Fountainhead, Beyond the Forest, Lightning Strikes Twice, and Ruby Gentry are as intensely melodramatic as any movie from Italy or Mexico. The color, prod...

You're very welcome, Theresa. But thank YOU, dear friend for the light that you bring into the lives of all who are lucky to know you.

Thank you, Theresa. A lovely, moving trip for all of us. You are the best, most loving movie fan ever.

I hear you, Fealto. I hope they do, too.

It's very hard to find, Fealto.

Thank you, dear friend. And I you.

Yes, it is, Wendy. It would be interesting to see, as the story seems more in keeping with the post-war era than the thirties.

Frank Borzage's 1922 film of Fannie Hurst's Back Pay with Seena Owen and Matt Moore is very powerful, even though there's about ten minutes missing.