mr6666 Posted August 29, 2014 Featured Films for September 2014 Within Our Gates (1920) A Lady of Chance (1928) Torrent (1926) The Merry Widow (1925) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted September 5, 2014 airs Sun., 9-7 12:00 am ET 78 min drama Within Our Gates (1920) In this silent film, a black schoolteacher finds the battle against racism is everywhere when she goes North to raise money for better schools. Dir: Oscar Micheaux Cast: Evelyn Preer , Flo Clements , James D. Ruffin . LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Oscar Micheaux. Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault, William Smith, Charles D. Lucas. "Controversial, no-holds-barred racial drama, which, along with Micheaux's THE SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED, counterpoints Griffith's THE BIRTH OF A NATION. Story focuses on light-skinned Preer's various entanglements and efforts to raise money for an all-black school. Despite the melodramatic and sometimes confusing narrative, Micheaux pointedly lambastes not only white racism but blacks who forsake their roots. The lynching scenes are undeniably powerful. Restored from a print found in Spain, with one sequence missing." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted September 13, 2014 airs Sun., 9-14 12:00 am ET 78 min silent Lady Of Chance, A (1928) In this silent film, a female con artist lures men to her apartment so she can blackmail them. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Norma Shearer , Lowell Sherman , Gwen Lee . (click title to see TCM overview & click article) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted September 21, 2014 airs Sun., 9-21 12:00 am ET 88 min silent Torrent (1926) In this silent film, a Spanish country girl moves to Paris to become an opera star. Dir: Monta Bell Cast: Ricardo Cortez , Greta Garbo , Gertrude Olmsted . LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Monta Bell. Ricardo Cortez, Greta Garbo, Gertrude Olmstead, Edward Connelly, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall, Mack Swain. "Garbo stars in her first American film as a Spanish peasant girl who becomes a famous prima donna after being deserted by nobleman Cortez, whose life is ruled by his mother. A still entertaining tale of lost love, based on a Blasco-Ibanez novel." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted September 27, 2014 airs Sun., 9-28 12:00 am ET 137 min silent Merry Widow, The (1925) In this silent film, a European nobleman courts the wealthy American widow he once loved to save his bankrupt homeland, Dir: Erich von Stroheim Cast: Mae Murray , John Gilbert , Roy D'Arcy . LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Erich von Stroheim. Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Tully Marshall, Josephine Crowell. "A playboy prince (Gilbert) falls in love with an American showgirl (Murray). Lavish, well-produced silent version of the Franz Lehar operetta is probably von Stroheim's most "normal'' film, though he still manages to inject his usual bizarre touches (including a character with a foot fetish). See if you can spot young Clark Gable as an extra. Remade twice." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
