https://i.imgur.com/OrxZTOB.png When Danger Smiles starred William Duncan (who also directed) as Ray Chapman and Edith Johnson (Duncan’s real-life wife) as Frania Caravalle. The film was released on October 3, 1922, at five reels. According to the Library of Congress, an incomplete copy is held by ...

https://i.imgur.com/NOzi0Nl.png The White Flower , directed by Julia Crawford Ivers, starred Betty Compson as Konia Markham and Edmund Lowe as Bob Rutherford. The film was released on March 4, 1923, at six reels, and is presumed lost. Plot : Pele, the Goddess of Destruction, presides over Kilauea, ...

skimpole wrote: ↑March 12th, 2023, 10:24 pm The Longest Day should have started at six pm mountain standard time, but it's still going on, which means that it must have started at seven.

Must be the fog of war ...

https://i.imgur.com/YodOhQr.png The Man From Hell’s River starred Irving Cummings (who also directed) as Pierre de Barre, Eva Novak as Mabella, Wallace Beery as Gaspard, and, in his screen debut, Rin Tin Tin. The film was released in March of 1922 at five reels. A complete copy is held in the Filma...

You're almost as young as I am. Have a good one buddy.

Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea in Ride the High Country . If I recall correctly, they were originally cast in the opposite roles that they eventually played. By the way, I would not necessary characterize the pair as "two great actors," but I would characterize them as "two great movi...

A movie fraught with improbabilities but yet entertaining. It gets a free pass, back in 1923 it must been sheer delight go the movies, no matter what. Today movies like this are called out. A man loses a fight and is thrown overboard. But he survives, I would like to have his travel agent. I think ...

https://i.imgur.com/rgBaRvB.png The Leopardess , directed by Henry Kolker, starred Alice Brady as Tiare, Edward Langford as Captain Donald Croft, and Montagu Love as Scott Quaigg. The film was released on March 25, 1923, at six reels, and is presumed lost. Plot : On the island of Pali in the South ...

laffite wrote: ↑February 28th, 2023, 9:52 pm Did my catch up on your most illustrious thread. Fabulous work as usual. Thanks for everything. I have been into silents lately.. I suppose no Sunday nights the next two months. Well, I will rely on you.

Thanks.

LawrenceA wrote: ↑February 28th, 2023, 4:49 pm
I turned 123 on Sunday.

Would you like to take over my "Now Playing 100 Years Ago" thread? I imagine you've seen most of those lost films.

First, we need to define what a "classic film" is ... no wait, we won't go there. There are several musicals I haven't seen, including An American in Paris and The Sound of Music , as well as Meet Me in St. Louis. I've never been a fan of musicals, which is odd since a) I play music, b) I'...

Andree wrote: ↑February 26th, 2023, 4:52 pm . I guess the Criswell hairdo never caught on.

Sure it did. It was the inspiration for Mister Softee.

Coming in March:

The Leopardess, with Alice Brady
The Man from Hell's River, with Irving Cummings and Rin Tin Tin
The White Flower, with Betty Compson and Edmund Lowe
When Danger Smiles, with William Duncan

Dargo wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2023, 5:57 pm
YEAH?! Well, I disagree with that statement, RICH!!!

Where the hell is the "dislike button" when you need it?????

Hibi wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2023, 2:38 pm I would've posted on the LIKE BUTTON thread, but it's locked!

Probably because people will argue about anything, if given the chance ...