mr6666 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Featured Films for September 2014 Within Our Gates (1920) A Lady of Chance (1928) Torrent (1926) The Merry Widow (1925) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share 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." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted September 13, 2014 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share 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." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted September 27, 2014 Author Share 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." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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