ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[southendmd]

AKA Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime.
The original film noir by Fritz Lang.

[MaineWriter]

Based on the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and starring Delores Del Rio.

[oilgun]

From IMDb: Needing to get away from the wife and kids, Felix sneaks down to the local burlesque theater, where he meets Kitty, a dancer. Just when he thinks he'll be making a little whoopee with Kitty, though, he discovers that she has a litter of her own.


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[southendmd]

The classic by Erich von Stroheim

[MaineWriter]

Lon Chaney wore 40 pounds of make up for his role as Quasimodo.



 

[southendmd]

With Marion Davies and (a different!) Harrison Ford

From an IMDb user:  Janice Meredith is a film about a girl (Marion Davies) during the American Revolution who falls in love with a spy (Harrison Ford). Miss Meredith is somewhat like a silent movie version of Forrest Gump in that she constantly finds herself involved with historically important events like Paul Revere's ride, Washington crossing the Delaware, and others.

[MaineWriter]

==from the Criterion website==

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.





Note: the Criterion DVD has both the 155 minute premiere version, shown at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in LA and at the Gaiety in NY, as well as the 112 minute "road show" version (what everyone else saw!).

 

[memento]

A User Comment on IMDB:

Josef Von Sternberg directs this magnificent silent film about silent Hollywood and the former Imperial General to the Czar of Russia who has found himself there. Emil Jannings won a well-deserved Oscar, in part, for his role as the general who ironically is cast in a bit part in a silent picture as a Russian general. The movie flashes back to his days in Russia leading up to the country's fall to revolutionaries. William Powell makes his big screen debut as the Hollywood director who casts Jannings in his film. The film serves as an interesting look at the fall of Russia and at an imitation of behind-the-scenes Tinseltown in the early days. Von Sternberg delivers yet another classic, and one that is filled with the great elements of romance, intrigue, and tragedy.

[Hannahs_cool]

The poster.



The robot chick turns into a real person and like convinces everyone to drink and gamble and not work and then the children are down in the underground city unattended when it floods because no one is working.



The main character, Freder, who is helping a man who fell faint while working. Freder is a rich kid that's never done work, and when he goes into the underground city to find the lovely nanny for all the children he allows this man to rest as he takes over his job and realizes how hard the work is. Of course, the underground city is the big industrial type you see in many 1920's films, with lots of gears and bolts in a giant room, all of the work being monotonous manual labor.

[Meryl]

Nanook of the North (1922) is a silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuit Nanook and his family in the Canadian arctic around Hudson Bay.

The film is considered the first feature-length documentary, though Flaherty has been criticized for staging several sequences and thereby distorting the reality of his subjects' lives.

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