goldensilents
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I usually stick with these comedies (esp. when loaning to women friends): *It, The Patsy, and The Oyster Princess.*
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A new restoration of The Beloved Rogue, or just the old one put on a collection with these other Barrymore films?
The Beloved Rogue is my favorite of all Barrymore silents. I love the humor.
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>>but I prefer older Coop, when he had lines on his face, and real character.
Oh, I'd take him any ol' way.
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I love a lot of silent film stars but I have a special few I just like to gawk at because they are just so good looking or I like the way they move or their face appeals to me or they make me laugh (not in any order except for perhaps number one): Richard Barthelmess, Charles Farrell, Ramon Novarro, Nils Asther, Lawrence Gray, John Boles, John Gilbert, Joseph Schildkraut, Henry B. Walthall, Richard Dix, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and Lloyd Hughes.
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Maybe *Music Livierty Vile* is the correct name for *Torrent* when translated to Pig Swahili?
bwahahaha!!!!!!!!!!
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In other words: plug, plug.
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Watched Murder at the Vanities and Search for Beauty out of the Universal box set. Eh. Both seemed kind of silly and superficial to me. I suppose Search for Beauty was out to shock people at the time but now it just seems rather tame and ludicrous. Ho hum, they said the word "sex" 10 times. Wow. (Yawn).
I did laugh like the dickens though when the dancers came out strutting their stuff to John Phillip Sousa. Funniest thing I've seen in awhile.
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Barbara Stanwyck, for me.
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I think someone's been pulling your leg.
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Here it is, a more manageable size.
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Coopsgirl, it's not a silent, but a Gary Cooper precode is going on this afternoon. Thought I'd give you a "heads up".
2:15pm One Sunday Afternoon (1933)
A small-town dentist longs to avenge an old friend who stole his love, but discovers there's no need.
Cast: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Neil Hamilton, Roscoe Karns Dir: Stephen Roberts BW-69 mins, TV-G
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Other things they do don't make sense to me. Like on these boards: I don't see a separate genre forum for *Animation*. I see "Cartoons" but not all animation films are "cartoons". They should know that.
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I second that.
And just some more rare precodes in general. More Ruth Chatterton would be nice. Or Dorothy Mackaill.
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haha! yeah.
Then I've noticed them putting on not just the animated logo bug, which is bad enough, the one that extends out and goes back in (extremely annoying!), but in addition they are doing a script one saying 15th Anniversary TCM.
What's next? Coming attraction "bugs"? "Next on TCM .... Sabrina!"
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I suspect mine came from a satellite broadcast on a channel that most of us don't get. I got it as a gift from a friend of mine several years ago and I don't think he knew the source either.
My excellent copy of The Constant Nymph is the same way. No logo bugs. Someone put scenes from it on YouTube but the quality is a lot worse than my print so I don't think it's the same source.
My copy of Letty Lynton is mediocre but it doesn't have station bugs either, so I don't know where the source was there either.
Maybe some of these came from AMC back in the day but I was watching that station back when it first came on and I remember station bugs were always on their prints, even in the early days. However I can believe that sometimes they may have forgotten to turn on the switch that puts the bugs on them. I remember sending a friend a copy on DVD-R of The Broadway Melody (before it was out on official DVD) when TCM first premiered it. He emailed me, "Did you realize TCM forgot to put on the station bug? There are no bugs at all in this copy!" I hadn't even noticed.
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>>The film has a TCM imprint
Interesting. My copy has no imprint at all.
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Sometimes that really helps too, though you have to be careful not to soften too much, otherwise it starts to look goopy. I like using the selector tool and apply softness just to the arms and legs and on the face. It makes the photo more attractive overall by eliminating harshness on skin tones.
The one thing that makes me cringe is when I see orange skin and bright yellow hair for blonde. Eck! Calgon, take me awaaaaaay!
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I really like your subtle tints, coopsgirl. That's the way I colorize too. I can't stand the brassy look with uneven lines and unnatural colors. Subtle is the way to go. It looks far more natural.
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*Ramona* is on the Treasures 3 DVD set (which everyone here should own) with a much nicer score. No Maria Newman. I simply cannot understand how or why they keep using her, sorry, she stinks. I think she's playing off her name, but Alfred Newman was a genius. Maria is not. The film would have been better with canned music and that's saying a lot.
I recorded Big Stakes and watched it this morning. It was ok, but nothing spectacular. The best part to me was seeing how beautiful Elinor Fair looked. I've become quite fond of her since The Volga Boatman, but I haven't seen a performance of hers yet which can compare to that one. She was magnificent in Volga.
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Some old goodies on tonight including some neat silents.
*What's On Tonight: TCM SPOTLIGHT: RACE AND HOLLYWOOD*
8:00pm *Ramona* (1910)
In this silent short, a rancher's daughter runs off with a Native.
Cast: Mary Pickford, H. B. Walthall, Francis J. Grandon, Kate Bruce Dir: D. W. Griffith C-17 mins
8:30pm *Mark of Zorro, The* (1920)
In this silent film, a Mexican Robin Hood harasses corrupt Spanish invaders.
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell Dir: Fred Niblo BW-107 mins, TV-G
10:30pm *Old San Francisco* (1927)
In this silent film, an Asian villain menaces a family of aristocratic Spanish settlers.
Cast: Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard Dir: Alan Crosland BW-89 mins, TV-G
12:15am *Big Stakes* (1922)
An American cowboy and a Mexican lawman clash over a beautiful woman.
Cast: J. B. Warner, Elinor Fair, Les Bates, Willie May Carson Dir: Clifford S. Elfelt BW-67 mins
1:30am *In Old Arizona* (1929)
The Cisco Kid's faithless lover plots to turn the bandit in for the reward.
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess, Warner Baxter, Farrell MacDonald Dir: Irving Cummings BW-99 mins
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I'll try that one out next, thanks.
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I watched *The Circle* (1925) this morning but was less bowled over than Jeff about it. It's just a silly, stuffy comedy about a serious subject, adultery, and I didn't see much humor in it. Not one of Frank Borzage's best, at all. The people who have seen it have given it a 4.3 out of 10 rating on the IMDb, so I assume most of them agree with me.
The cast includes some top names who had to deal with very unoriginal and silly situations: basically the story is about a family where the wife runs off with her lover, leaving a child behind with his father, and then in a "circle" the same thing seems about to happen 25 years later with the son's marriage.
Eleanor Boardman plays the young girl who marries stuffy monocled Creighton Hale (boggles the imagination why she ever would marry him in the first place) and then she is tempted by Malcolm McGregor to run away with him. The ending is implausible and the silliest thing of all about this film, and I was actually snickering. I gave it a 5 out of 10.
It had some nice production values, like most MGM films, and an attractive cast (except who could ever believe Joan Crawford would turn into Eugenie Besserer!), but the material they had to work with here was dire, unfunny, and falls flat.
There's a reason sometimes why some films have been forgotten.
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LOL!
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You have good taste, Metsfan.