Thanks for the review of A Kiss for Cinderella. I have this but have not watched it yet. I really like the whimsical Peter Pan, which was in great shape. Luckily I'm pretty tolerant about watching less-than-perfect silents. I'll try to get tot this one this coming weekend.

The Keaton talkies are ok but nothing special. In Free and Easy the only part of the film I really liked was Keaton singing and dancing (with an unknown woman in a hula skirt) to the title song. Even with his raspy singing voice, it's a special moment from a consummate performer. But then the number...

and the very funny Girl Shy

Harold Lloyd's Safety Last is a must for every fan of silent films. Truly one of the great films, both funny and hair-raising. Of Lloyd's talkies, I like Movie Crazy the best. It seems to comes closest to capturing Lloyd's magic in silents and also boasts the beautiful Constance Cummings.

Finally got around to watching DW Griffith's The Idol Dancer, probably the worst Griffith film I've seen. Despite the terrific Richard Barthelmess and the tragic Clarine Seymour, a huge disappointment.

Yes Kevin Brownlow is terrific. His documentaries and books are all first rate. We've been emailing sporadically since he was a guest on this board, and he has loaned me films I couldn't find (like Slide, Kelly, Slide as well as sharing info from his many interviews.

I watched the 1922 potboiler Trapped by the Mormons starring a young Evelyn Brent as the impressionable Nora, who gets mesmerized by the fiendish Isoldi Keene (Louis Willoughby) and taken away to London where he plans to marry her. Not sure what the historical thing was for these kinds of stories ab...

IT'S THE OLD ARMY GAME (1926).... The version I have is an excellent print from a showing in Oregon. It runs 105 minutes (not the 70 or 77 minutes mentioned on IMDb) and boasts a nice, live piano performance by Keith Taylor. This film was considered to be lost for many decades but exists in a very n...

I watched Open All Night, a strange 1924 marital comedy from Paramount where no one is really happy with his/her mate. Adolphe Menjou opens the film holding a bizarre nude-woman ivory cigarette holder as he snuffs out a cigarette and ponders marriage. Viola Dana (his bored wife) is in the bath tub w...

Bethulia is also interesting because it features Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, their mother Mary Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Antonio Moreno, Elmo Lincoln, and Lionel Barrymore! Not a bad cast. I had read somewhere that Griffith pitched fits trying to get Blanche Sweet to give MORE and YET MORE in...

Have been working my way through some Richard Barthelmess silents and have enjoyed Just Suppose, Soul-Fire, and The Drop Kick.

Barthelmess certainly had some varied roles during his silent years. All three of these films were quite enjoyable.