I do like Haines' quite a bit, and fully appreciate his usual character arc, he does have the ability to pull it off. But I thought he did it much better in West Point, than he did in Brown of Harvard. This is likely more due to script than Haines, as I simply liked his progression much better in We...

Another few days, another batch of silents. Some quick thoughts: He Who Gets Slapped - Good, good stuff, although a bit disappointing compared to my expectations. Lon Chaney is at his very best, but the I felt the subplot with John Gilbert was extraneous, and distracting. The first 20 minutes give a...

Been going silent-crazy lately, as I've had some free time, and decided to work on the silentera.com list of silents. Thanks to Christine, I got to watch the Carl Davis-scored Wings , and was very impressed. I'm a huge Wellman fan, but had held off watching this film due to mixed reviews, but I came...

Hey Ang, I also just watched The Love Parade for the first time too this past week. It's a fun film, and Maurice Chevalier is always compelling. I thought it was probably about 20 minutes too long though. I think the opening could have been shortened, and the film would have been much tighter. My fa...

Thanks to Christine, I got to check out some films I'd been wanting to see for quite some time. First up is The Cardboard Lover ...well what can I say Marion Davies is as the French say freakin' adorable. The film is easily one of her best comedies, lots of fun stuff from her...I particularly liked ...

Anyone out there know anything about this French version of Howard Hawks' The Crowd Roars? What piqued my interest is the fact that the Jimmy Cagney role is played by Jean Gabin!!!

I see that it has 11 votes on imdb, so there is a reasonable chance it exists.

On Oscar Night, they were showing Wellman's A Star is Born , but having seen that recently, I was prompted to reach back a little farther and re-watch George Cukor's What Price Hollywood? . I remember being a bit underwhelmed the first time I watched it, the story seemed a little creaky. The second ...

The minute Brent's character turns on him, I was tearing up, and that lasted throughout the rest of the film.

I've been reading a good biography of Ernst Lubitsch and I am learning alot about the silent German film industry, as well as some of the turnover from the silent to the the talkie era in Hollywood. Anyway I've had a copy of Josef von Sternberg's The Last Command for a couple months, but reading in ...

Gagman, it was the Kino version of It that I watched. Here's what I watched this week: I finally got around to watching my copy of Ernst Lubitsch's So, This Is Paris , and despite the Italian intertitles, I really enjoyed the film. It's a fun little sex farce, that really deserves a place alongside ...

On the subject of that mystery man, I watched Lubitsch's Bluebeard's Eighth Wife today, and was very impressed. A very funny film, with Claudette Colbert at her finest, I think I might even like it more than Midnight . Edward Everett Horton is pretty hysterical as Colbert's father. And you know what...

I've been slowly trying to work my way through the backlog of DVD's I own but haven't watched...that pile just seems to get bigger. Anyway I just picked up the Lubitsch in Berlin boxset, and I'm going to try and polish that off in the next little bit. The first film I've watched from the set is 1919...

Really? Is the mp3 downloadable someplace? I've now got earworm and need to get Dick Powell out of my head!

Not a Dick Powell fan?

PM me with your email address, and I'll email it to you.

Love the Jean Simmons picture, recently watched Angel Face , and remembered how much I love her. That color Garbo pic is pretty stunning. Also thanks for the Ginger Rogers' pic, I would love to have seen that deleted scene from Gold Diggers of 1933 , my guess is that's her singing "I've Got To ...

Hey Ang, thanks for all the info, I've only seen a couple of Clara's films It , and Call Her Savage , though I have copies of a few other films, but she's definitely an interesting figure, and I would like to see more. I'm a big fan of William Wellman's work, so Ladies of the Mob is one of my holy g...