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1.Wings starring: Richard Arlen, Clara Bow, El Brendel, Thomas Carrigan, Margery Chapin October 22, 1996
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A film that hits just about every human emotion in the repertoire and does so surprisingly well, although there is some overeagerness amongst the callow youth. The biggest surprise of all, however, is just how enchanting Clara Bow is as the very sexy girl next door. While obviously men's tastes in women differ, it is still rather difficult to believe that Charles Rogers wasn't at least infatuated with his next door neighbor. Clara's personality is just as attractive as her looks. Watching her is by far the most pleasant part of the film. If only women were around like her these days...

2.Beau Geste starring: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward directed by: William A. Wellman March 01, 1992
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This is an action-filled movie that gains momentum when the three brothers leave their family and join the French Foreign Legion together in a wave of disgust over their father's weaknesses. The brotherly affection and loyalty is the main theme of the story, and it is touching and heartrending without being overly sentimental. Cooper, Milland, Hayward and Donleavy are brilliant. It was, is, and always will be a great film about true nobility of the heart as opposed to nobility of the blood.

3.Modern Times (B&W) starring: Richard Alexander, Henry Bergman, Stanley Blystone, Chester Conklin, Gloria DeHaven January 01, 1998
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Modern times. I saw this because it was chosen as one of the best of the century. Charlie Chaplin had a sort of magic with film and it shows in this one.

4.Big Parade starring: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell, Claire Adams directed by: George W. Hill, King Vidor April 01, 1992
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Great war film I just watched on this silent classics VHS, which at the moment is the only place its available. There's nothing wrong with this release at all, in fact it has a score by the wonderful Carl Davis, the highest sought-after silent film composer. Nice picture, and a great film.

5.Mr Bean 5 starring: Rowan Atkinson directed by: John Howard Davies October 22, 1996
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This Mr. Bean tape has two episodes on it: "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean" and "Mr. Bean in Room 426". In "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean", Mr. Bean celebrates Christmas in his own inimitable style. It begins with him going out to do some holiday shopping, and he winds up doing all sorts of various things, including conducting a Christmas band. (Trust me, you do NOT want to miss this part.) The next day, which is Christmas, Mr. Bean invites his girlfriend Irma over for Christmas dinner, and he winds up "putting the turkey on"... in more ways than one. I won't give away any more than that. In "Mr. Bean In Room 426", Mr. Bean is staying in a hotel, but after he arrives, he finds himself in numerous predicaments: the room doesn't have a bathtub, the manager is a complete fusspot, and the oysters in the dining ... Read More

6.Docks of New York (1928) (Silent) starring: George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Cook, Mitchell Lewis directed by: Josef von Sternberg June 15, 1987
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Throughout the years, being myself mostly a `30s-`50s classic-films buff, I've "learned" or have been able to watch, like and enjoy the Silents, and to recognise when a Silent Movie rises "above" the average (i.e.: "Sunrise"), and this grim, realistic Von Sternberg picture surely does! Before Josef Von Sternberg created the bizarre, sumptuous and decadent world in which his "creation" (Marlene Dietrich) "breathed life", in many films between 1930-1935, he made some GREAT films, also at Paramount Pictures, during the late Silent Period, among them "Underworld", "The Last Command", "Thunderbolt" and this one I'm reviewing. Here, macho-man George Bancroft (excellent) plays a very rough stoker who wants to spend his only day on land, having fun, drinking at bars, surrounded by women of "easy virtue", but ... Read More

7.Crowd, The starring: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark, Daniel G. Tomlinson directed by: King Vidor September 01, 1998
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King Vidor was never the most subtle of filmmakers, but his heavily Baroque style served him well over a very long career with emotionally overwrought though supremely entertaining films like 1937's Stella Dallas and 1949's The Fountainhead. This seminal 1928 silent classic reflects Vidor's passion for melodrama but within a realistically bleak social commentary of America in the years leading toward the Great Depression. Written by Vidor and John V.A. Weaver, the story has an episodic structure that chronicles the life of an Everyman appropriately named John, born on the 4th of July in 1900, who believes his destiny is to become a big financial success. The movie follows his life as he works in New York as one of hundreds of accounting drones in an office building falls in love and marries a girl he meets through a co-worker (named ... Read More

8.Greed (75th Anniversary Restoration) starring: Sylvia Ashton, Chester Conklin, Jack Curtis, Dale Fuller, James F. Fulton September 01, 1998
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I'm amazed that this masterpiece of film art isn't available on DVD. It should be. Even without the benefit of music this must be one of the most rivetting films I've ever encountered. It is a fairly literal adaption of "Mc Teague" by Frank Norris, a realist author who straddled the last century. It is brilliantly brought to the screen by Erich von Stroheim, a Hollywood director of considerable merit who fell out of favor with his boss and with the system in general. The film's extreme length made it impossible to screen successfully and the many attempts to pare it down were well-meaning but doomed to failure. Nevertheless, what remains is still wonderful to look at with some electrifying performances and a deliberate, inevitable pace. ZaSu Pitts was a remarkable actress who was hampered with a jarring voice ... Read More

9.Lost World (1960) starring: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains, Fernando Lamas directed by: Irwin Allen June 30, 1998
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The Irwin Allen movie is a bit cheesey, but the print is good. The silent version accompanying it is better dramatically and is very well preserved.

10.Last Command (1928) (Silent) starring: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond, Nicholas Soussanin directed by: Josef von Sternberg January 01, 1998
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Jannings won the first...Best Actor Award.....a silent film !!!You cannot miss this performance. The entire film is a masterpeice from beginning to end. William Powell in an early role...as a heavy!! I use this in all of my film courses at both college and graduate school-level.

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