![Review Kino / The Birth of a Nation and the Civil War Films of D.W. Griffith [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GPBDJP3HL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Josephine Crowell
- Spottiswood Aitken
- D.W. Griffith
- Miriam Cooper
- Monte Blue
- Mary Alden
Run time: 187 min.
Creator: D.W. Griffith
Price: £11.48
Review The Birth of a Nation and the Civil War Films of D.W. Griffith [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:
![Review Image Entertainment / Vampyr [1931]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A0ZZ4DQ7L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Jan Hieronimko
- Julian West
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Wladyslaw Starewicz
- Maurice Schutz
- Rena Mandel
- Sybille Schmitz
Run time: 72 min.
Price: £9.28
Review Vampyr [1931] / Image Entertainment:
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Actors & Directors
- F. Ivanov
- Valéry Inkijinoff
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
- I. Dedintsev
- Aleksandr Chistyakov
- Viktor Tsoppi
Run time: 125 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £17.83
Review Storm Over Asia [1928] / Eureka Entertainment:The last of the three great films that VI Pudovkin directed in the 1920s, Storm Over Asia (1928) is an acknowledged classic of Soviet silent cinema. Filmed largely on location in Mongolia, the film has an authentic documentary feel, though the story is a stirring melodrama, about a young fur trapper who is mistreated by the occupying forces in the civil war and becomes a leader of the partisans. Pudovkin enjoys caricaturing the foreign (British) troops and the medieval rituals of a Buddhist temple, but it's out on the steppes that he really comes into his own, with panoramic shots of the vast landscapes. Together with The Mother (1926) and The End of St Petersburg (1927), Storm Over Asia (also known as "The Heir to Genghis Khan") entitles Pudovkin to be ranked with Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov as a master of the Soviet montage style, which he expounded in his book Film Technique (1929). On the DVD: The print, though not perfect, is of fair quality and a new score by Timothy Brock complements the images nicely. However, the so-called "Introduction" turns out to be just a few lines of text scrolling down the screen, telling you less than the information appearing on the sleeve notes. -Ed Buscombe.
![Review Kino / Queen Kelly [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515K4K1M05L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Sidney Bracey
- Seena Owen
- Walter Byron
- Erich von Stroheim
- Edmund Goulding
- Gloria Swanson
- Ann Morgan
- Richard Boleslawski
- Irving Thalberg
- Sam Wood
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £10.81
Review Queen Kelly [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:
![Review Vci Video / The Return of Chandu [1934]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515XCNHMY9L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Bela Lugosi
- Dean Benton
- Lucien Prival
- Maria Alba
- Wilfred Lucas
- Ray Taylor
Run time: 208 min.
Price: £6.92
Review The Return of Chandu [1934] / Vci Video:
![Review Image Entertainment / Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1920]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VRYKSBE3L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Brandon Hurst
- Nita Naldi
- John Barrymore
- Cecil Clovelly
- John S. Robertson
- Charles Lane (III)
Run time: 79 min.
Price: £7.92
Review Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1920] / Image Entertainment:In this 1920 silent version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, John Barrymore is dignified and virtuous as Dr Henry Jekyll, and transforms into Id incarnate as the lascivious Mr. Hyde with almost no make-up beyond his gnarled, knobby fingers and greasy hair, relying almost solely on a bug-eyed grimace, a spidery body language and pure theatrical flourish. He tends to be hammy as the leering beast of a thug but brings a tortured struggle to the repressed doctor, horrified at the demon he's unleashed, guilty that he enjoys Hyde's unrestrained life of drinking and whoring and terrified that he can no longer control the transformations. Martha Mansfield co-stars as his pure and innocent sweetheart, and Nita Naldi (the vamp of Blood and Sand) has a small but memorable role as the world-weary dance-hall darling who first "wakens" Jekyll's "baser nature". -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.
![Review Image Entertainment / Grass: A Nation's Battle For Life [1925]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61XESTMCX8L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Merian C. Cooper
Run time: 71 min.
Price: £13.08
Review Grass: A Nation's Battle For Life [1925] / Image Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Charles King
- Bessie Love
- Anita Page
- Harry Beaumont
- Jed Prouty
- Kenneth Thomson
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £7.53
Review The Broadway Melody of 1929 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:
![Review Kino / Battleship Potemkin [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517YcAFoY3L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- M. Brodsky
- I. Bobrov
- Alexander Antonov
- Vladimir Barsky
- Grigory Alexandrov
Run time: 69 min.
Creator: Edmund Meisel
Price: £11.05
Review Battleship Potemkin [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino: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 Alpha Video / The Birth of a Nation [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RNR6K6TJL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Monte Blue
- Spottiswood Aitken
- Mary Alden
- Miriam Cooper
- Josephine Crowell
- D.W. Griffith
Run time: 192 min.
Creator: D.W. Griffith
Price: £2.38
Review The Birth of a Nation [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:
![Review Castaway NW [VCP] / The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse [1962] (Region 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61IMjGH7KmL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Charles Boyer
- Karl Heinz Böhm
- Stephen Bekassy
- Lee J. Cobb
- Vincente Minnelli
- Brian Avery
Creator: Andre Previn
Price: £2.95
Review The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse [1962] (Region 1) (NTSC) / Castaway NW [VCP]:
![Review Kino / Alibi [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DS2ztPmPL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Roland West
- Elmer Ballard
- James Bradbury
- Kernan Cripps
- Mae Busch
- Virginia Flohri
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Hugo Riesenfeld
Price: £8.82
Review Alibi [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:
Release date: 2004-08-03
Run time: 627 min.
Price: £10.98
Review Deanna Durbin Sweetheart Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Deanna Durbin:
![Review Image Entertainment / The Sheik/Son of the Sheik [2021] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P9S1PHJWL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Frank Butler
- George Melford
- Agnes Ayres
- Rudolph Valentino
- David O. Selznick
- George Fitzmaurice
- Ruth Miller
- George Waggner
Run time: 155 min.
Price: £10.15
Review The Sheik/Son of the Sheik [2021] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Walt Disney
- Ub Iwerks
- Marcellite Garner
Run time: 256 min.
Price: £53.95
Review Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White - The Classic Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:
![Review Kino / Cecil B. DeMille's Manslaughter/The Cheat [2022] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5175X3Q30ML._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Leatrice Joy
- Thomas Meighan
- Cecil B. DeMille
- George Fawcett
- John Miltern
- Lois Wilson
Run time: 159 min.
Price: £11.01
Review Cecil B. DeMille's Manslaughter/The Cheat [2022] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:
![Review Kino / The Outlaw and His Wife/Victor Sjostrom [1918] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A9jkhn4nL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2008-07-29
Run time: 135 min.
Price: £11.24
Review The Outlaw and His Wife/Victor Sjostrom [1918] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:
![Review Image Entertainment / Street of a Thousand Pleasures/Way Out Topless [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M5QWHMZCL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Garth Ruger
- Margo Mars
- Lewis S. Francis
- Sandy Jackson
- William Rotsler
- John Tull
- Uschi Digard
Run time: 140 min.
Price: £10.64
Review Street of a Thousand Pleasures/Way Out Topless [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:
![Review Eureka Entertainment / The General [1926]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y5MGC99ML._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Glen Cavander
- Clyde Bruckman
- Joseph Keaton
- Buster Keaton
- Buster Keaton
- Jim Farley
- Marion Mack
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.29
Review The General [1926] / Eureka 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
- Mary Alden
- Miriam Cooper
- Josephine Crowell
- Monte Blue
- D.W. Griffith
- Spottiswood Aitken
Run time: 175 min.
Creator: D.W. Griffith
Price: £1.39
Review The Birth of a Nation [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Madacy:
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