DVD Find the Perfect Gift    Send a Gift Certificate
Search 
Home › Classics › Silent
Pages: ‹‹ 25 26
Review Alpha Video / Gulliver's Travels [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Pinto Colvig
  • Lanny Ross
  • Jessica Dragonette
  • William Henning
  • Sam Parker
  • Seymour Kneitel
  • Willard Bowsky
  • Dave Fleischer
  • Jack Mercer
  • Orestes Calpini
Release date: 2002-06-18
Run time: 74 min.
Price: £2.05

Review Gulliver's Travels [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Pedro Armendáriz
  • Manuel Donde
  • Luis Beristain
  • Emilio Gomez Muriel
  • Martha Roth
  • Jaime Fernandez
Release date: 2008-01-01
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £1.97

Review Carne de Presidio [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vina Distribution:


Review Image Entertainment / The General [1927]
Actors & Directors
  • Budd Fine
  • Richard Allen
  • Glen Cavender
  • Jimmy Bryant
  • Mike Donlin
Release date: 1999-10-26
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Bert Haines
Price: £9.22

Review The General [1927] / Image Entertainment:

Buster Keaton's career reached its creative apex with this rousing comic adventure. Not merely one of the finest silent films, this remains one of the great film comedies of all time. The Great Stone Face stars as Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray, a man with only two loves: the sweet Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack) and his trustworthy engine, the eponymous General. When Fort Sumner is fired upon he is one of the first to enlist, but when the war office rejects him (he's too valuable as a trained engineer) his sweetie rejects him as a coward. Johnny has the opportunity to prove his bravery when Yankee spies steal his engine and inadvertently kidnap Annabelle, and Johnny pursues with all the resources at his disposal: handcar, bicycle and finally railroad engine. Keaton's love/hate relationship with technology and machinery shines as he becomes one with his beloved locomotive and wrestles with a finicky cannon that threatens to blow his engine off the tracks; with tremendous dexterity, he nails the humour with inimitably deadpan takes. Spunky Marion Mack makes a perfect partner for Keaton, not merely a foil but a gifted comedienne in her own right. Other Keaton films contain more laughs and inspired comic stunts, but none combines romance, adventure and comedy into a solid story as seamlessly as this silent masterpiece. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Actors & Directors
  • Esther Fernandez
  • José Cibrián
  • Stella Inda
  • Ricardo Montalban
  • Norman Foster
Release date: 2008-01-01
Run time: 111 min.
Price: £1.52

Review Santa [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vina Distribution:


Review Allied Artists Entertainment / Sin of Harold Diddlebock (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rudy Vallee
  • Jimmy Conlin
  • Raymond Walburn
  • Harold Lloyd
  • Preston Sturges
  • Edgar Kennedy
Release date: 2003-09-09
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £6.69

Review Sin of Harold Diddlebock (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Allied Artists Entertainment:


Review Kino / Asphalt [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Betty Amann
  • Else Heller
  • Gustav Fröhlich
  • Hans Adalbert Schlettow
  • Joe May
  • Albert Steinrück
Release date: 2006-07-18
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £9.84

Review Asphalt [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:

From its amazing opening sequence of human and vehicular traffic sweeping through a nighttime cityscape entirely created inside the Ufa film factory, Asphalt marks a late addition to the eye-catching, mind-bending artistry of the German Expressionist cinema of the '20s. Released in March 1929, when silents were on the way out, until recently it was just a title, and the source of a few grabby stills, in the film history books. In this most complete restoration yet, it stands as the ultimate "street film," a genre prized for bravura artifice and potent allegory. In such urban symphonies, the cinema was simultaneously defining and reimagining the essence of modernity in images both hypnotically dark and ablaze with shattered light. The story is a simple one, but told with psychological subtlety and strikingly fluid camerawork and editing. A young cop (Gustav Fröhlich, the hero of Metropolis) with rectitude in his veins apprehends a sneak thief (Betty Amann) in the act of stealing a diamond, then fails to turn her in. There's a gratifying mutuality to their seduction; although the lady's tiger-like leap upon her captor is astonishingly feral, she's soon as vulnerable and perplexed in their relationship as he is. A subplot involving her longtime lover, a master criminal (Hans Adelbert von Schlettow), eventually intersects with their love affair. Up to the very end-which somewhat anticipates Robert Bresson's Pickpocket-we can't be sure who's going to be sacrificed to save whom. Director Joe May was no auteur on the order of Fritz Lang or F. [+]
W. Murnau; it's hard to locate an artistic personality in his movie. But he and cinematographer Günther Rittau had a state-of-the-art camera dolly to play with, making the German ideal of "the unfettered camera" a freewheeling reality. Amann is beguiling as a Louise Brooks knockoff, an ambulatory white fur under a cloche hat who evolves into a dark, hieratic figure of Fate. -Richard T. Jameson.

Review Alpha Video / The Adventures of Robin Hood, Vol. 9 [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Greene
Release date: 2006-02-28
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.09

Review The Adventures of Robin Hood, Vol. 9 [1955] / Alpha Video:


Review Image Entertainment / The Battleship Potemkin [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alexander Antonov
  • Vladimir Barsky
  • M. Brodsky
  • Grigory Alexandrov
  • I. Bobrov
Release date: 1998-10-07
Run time: 74 min.
Creator: Edmund Meisel
Price: £8.22

Review The Battleship Potemkin [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:

Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatisation of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of movement, shots of varying length to build the rhythm, close-ups for perspective and shock effect, and symbolic imagery for commentary, all to create one of the most cinematically exciting sequences in film history. Eisenstein's film is Marxist propaganda to be sure but the power of this masterpiece lies not in its preaching but its poetry. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Image Entertainment / The Best Arbuckle Keaton Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Buster Keaton
  • Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Release date: 2002-10-22
Run time: 248 min.
Price: £10.23

Review The Best Arbuckle Keaton Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Charlie Chaplin / The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 3 [2017]
Release date: 1997-11-19
Run time: 196 min.
Price: £9.86

Review The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 3 [2017] / Charlie Chaplin:


Review Charlie Chaplin / Chaplin: The Definitive Collection - Early Masterpieces 1915-1917 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2000-12-05
Run time: 196 min.

Review Chaplin: The Definitive Collection - Early Masterpieces 1915-1917 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Charlie Chaplin:


Review Walt Disney Video / Peter Pan [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Heather Angel
  • Bill Thompson
  • Kathryn Beaumont
  • Wilfred Jackson
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Bobby Driscoll
  • Hans Conried
Release date: 2002-02-12
Run time: 77 min.
Price: £27.95

Review Peter Pan [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Peter Pan has a special place in the realm of classic animated Disney films: it instils an element of child-like wonder. The 1953 version of James M Barrie's story is colourfully told and keeps on the straight and narrow of the book. Barrie's wondrous focus on child's play is the key to its longevity: children who don't grow up, shadows that run away from their owners, pirates, a fairy, and the magic ability to fly. In short, you can't help wishing the adventure would happen to you. Fuelled by a few memorable songs (the stunner being "You Can Fly") and the strong impression of the pixie fairy Tinkerbell and the goofy Captain Hook, Disney's version of this story neither supplants nor lessens the Broadway version with Mary Martin that was produced for television the same decade. Unlike some classics, Peter Pan never ages along the way. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / The Gold Rush [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Bergman
  • Sam Allen
  • Allan Garcia
  • Harry Arras
  • Charles Chaplin
Release date: 2003-07-01
Run time: 69 min.
Creator: Jack Wilson
Price: £8.47

Review The Gold Rush [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Studios / All Quiet on the Western Front [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Wray
  • Arnold Lucy
  • Ben Alexander
  • Louis Wolheim
  • Lewis Milestone
  • Lew Ayres
Release date: 1999-01-05
Run time: 130 min.
Price: £4.98

Review All Quiet on the Western Front [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

This 1930 film, No 54 on the AFI's Top 100 list, still holds up as a surprisingly forceful and honest antiwar drama. Indeed, the modern sensibility is almost as startling as the sometime stagy acting of Lew Ayres, which can be excused by the fact that, three years after the introduction of sound, actors were still applying stage techniques to talking pictures. Ayres plays a German college student during World War I, who is brainwashed into enlisting in the Army (along with the rest of his class) by a zealously inspirational college professor. Once in uniform and on the front lines, however, he quickly discovers that the glory of the Fatherland is of little concern to a soldier dodging bullets and explosions, whose comrades are dying in his arms. As powerful in its way as Platoon almost 60 years later, All Quiet on the Western Front remains a classic tale of young soldiers' confrontations with the possibility of imminent and arbitrary death. Director Lewis Milestone shows a surprising range of techniques in this film from the formative years of moviemaking with sound. -Marshall Fine.

Review Delta / The Mark of Zorro [1920]
Actors & Directors
  • Gilbert Clayton
  • Sidney de Grey
  • Sr. Noah Beery
  • Charles Belcher
  • Jr. Noah Beery
  • Fred Niblo
Release date: 2005-11-29
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Harry Thorpe

Review The Mark of Zorro [1920] / Delta:


Actors & Directors
  • Rodolfo De Anda
  • Domingo Soler
  • Arturo Martinez Sr.
  • Sonia Infante
  • Arturo Martinez Sr.
  • Felix Gonzalez
Release date: 2008-01-01
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £3.63

Review Muerte en La Feria [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vina Distribution:


Review Image Entertainment / Cyrano de Bergerac [1922] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Umberto Casilini
  • Augusto Genina
  • Maurice Schutz
  • Pierre Magnier
  • Linda Moglia
  • Gemma De Sanctis
Release date: 2000-09-26
Run time: 113 min.
Price: £8.22

Review Cyrano de Bergerac [1922] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Delta / Intolerance: A Sun Play of the Ages [1916] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mary Alden
  • Lucille Brown
  • Monte Blue
  • Spottiswood Aitken
  • Frank Bennett
Release date: 2004-03-10
Run time: 167 min.
Creator: Carl Davis
Price: £35.18

Review Intolerance: A Sun Play of the Ages [1916] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Delta:


Review Paramount / The War of the Worlds [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sandro Giglio
  • Les Tremayne
  • Robert Cornthwaite
  • Gene Barry
  • Ann Robinson
  • Byron Haskin
Release date: 1999-04-20
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £27.58

Review The War of the Worlds [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

After the success of 1950's Destination Moon and 1951's When Worlds Collide, visionary producer George Pal brought the classic HG Wells story of a Martian invasion to the big screen, and it instantly became a science-fiction classic and winner of the 1953 Academy Award for Best Special Effects. It's a work of frightening imagination, with its manta-ray spaceships armed with cobra-like probes that shoot a white-hot disintegration ray. As formations of alien ships continue to wreak destruction around the globe, the military is helpless to stop this enemy while scientists race to find an effective weapon. Gene Barry and Ann Robinson play the hero and heroine roles that werede rigueur for movies like this in the 50s, and their encounter with one of the Martians is as creepy today as it was in 1953. It finally takes an unseen threat-simple Earth bacteria-to conquer the alien invaders, but not before War of the Worlds has provided a dazzling display of impressive visual and sound effects. This is a movie for the ages, the kind of spectacle that inspired little kids such as Steven Spielberg (not to mention Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, whose Independence Day is a remake in all but name) and still packs a punch. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Walt Disney Video / Walt Disney Animated Anthology: The Classic DVD Collector's Set [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Bill Thompson
  • Heather Angel
  • Clyde Geronimi
  • Kathryn Beaumont
  • Wilfred Jackson
  • Hans Conried
  • Bobby Driscoll
Release date: 1999-12-07
Run time: 737 min.

Review Walt Disney Animated Anthology: The Classic DVD Collector's Set [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Models & Brands:
Gulliver's Travels [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Carne de Presidio [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The General [1927], Santa [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sin of Harold Diddlebock (REGION 1) (NTSC), Asphalt [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Adventures of Robin Hood, Vol. 9 [1955], The Battleship Potemkin [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Best Arbuckle Keaton Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 3 [2017], Chaplin: The Definitive Collection - Early Masterpieces 1915-1917 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Peter Pan [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Gold Rush [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC), All Quiet on the Western Front [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Mark of Zorro [1920], Muerte en La Feria [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cyrano de Bergerac [1922] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Intolerance: A Sun Play of the Ages [1916] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The War of the Worlds [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Walt Disney Animated Anthology: The Classic DVD Collector's Set [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Top headlines:
Pages: ‹‹ 25 26
Search 
DVD Rental: try it for free