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Review Televista / 30 Years of Fun [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Campbell
  • Billy Bevan
  • Charley Chase
  • Robert Youngson
  • Andy Clyde
  • Charles Chaplin
Release date: 2007-10-09
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Jack Shaindlin
Price: £11.69

Review 30 Years of Fun [1963] / Televista:


Review Kino / Broken Blossoms [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Crisp
  • Richard Barthelmess
  • Arthur Howard
  • D.W. Griffith
  • Lillian Gish
  • Edward Peil Sr.
Release date: 2002-12-10
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Thomas Burke
Price: £11.50

Review Broken Blossoms [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Kino / The Wildcat [1921] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hermann Thimig
  • Paul Heidemann
  • Pola Negri
  • Victor Janson
  • Ernst Lubitsch
  • Wilhelm Diegelmann
Release date: 2006-12-05
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Hanns Kräly
Price: £11.98

Review The Wildcat [1921] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Kino / The Gaucho [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Allan Sears
  • John Emerson
  • Bessie Love
  • Douglas Fairbanks
  • Charles Stevens
  • Alma Rubens
  • Christy Cabanne
  • F. Richard Jones
Release date: 2001-10-09
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: D.W. Griffith
Price: £13.08

Review The Gaucho [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Image Entertainment / The Adventures of Prince Achmed [1926] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lotte Reiniger
  • Carl Koch
Release date: 2002-12-03
Run time: 67 min.
Creator: Carl Koch
Price: £13.66

Review The Adventures of Prince Achmed [1926] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Universal Studios / All Quiet on the Western Front [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arnold Lucy
  • Lewis Milestone
  • Ben Alexander
  • Lew Ayres
  • John Wray
  • Louis Wolheim
Release date: 2007-02-06
Run time: 136 min.
Creator: George Abbott
Price: £5.37

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 Dark Vision / Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde [1920]
Actors & Directors
  • John S. Robertson
  • Cecil Clovelly
  • John Barrymore
  • Brandon Hurst
  • Charles Lane
  • Martha Mansfield
Release date: 2001-07-23
Creator: Thomas Russell Sullivan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.91

Review Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde [1920] / Dark Vision:

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 / The Chess Player [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Édith Jéhanne
  • Charles Dullin
  • Camille Bert
  • Pierre Batcheff
  • Raymond Bernard
  • Pierre Blanchar
Release date: 2003-07-29
Run time: 135 min.
Creator: Jean-José Frappa
Price: £15.83

Review The Chess Player [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Kino / Masterworks of Silent Cinema: Sir Arne's Treasure [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mauritz Stiller
  • Axel Nilsson
  • Erik Stocklassa
  • Richard Lund
  • Bror Berger
  • Hjalmar Selander
Release date: 2006-06-06
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Selma Lagerlöf
Price: £11.98

Review Masterworks of Silent Cinema: Sir Arne's Treasure [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Alpha Video / Parlour, Bedroom & Bath [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Sedgwick
  • Sally Eilers
  • Cliff Edwards
  • Dorothy Christy
  • Edward S. Brophy
  • Sidney Bracey
Release date: 2004-11-23
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: William Le Vanway
Price: £2.80

Review Parlour, Bedroom & Bath [1931] / Alpha Video:


Review Image Entertainment / Robin Hood [1922] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • William Lowery
  • Allan Dwan
  • Paul Dickey
  • Enid Bennett
  • Wallace Beery
  • Sam De Grasse
Release date: 1999-05-18
Run time: 133 min.
Creator: Kenneth Davenport
Price: £82.97

Review Robin Hood [1922] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Stonevision Entertainment / Laurel And Hardy Super Box Set
Actors & Directors
  • Leo McCarey
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Charley Chase
  • Corliss Palmer
  • L.J. O'Connor
  • William Orlamond
Release date: 2002-03-18
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £12.20

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Review Universal Studios / Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lucien Prival
  • Jean Harlow
  • Ben Lyon
  • Howard Hughes
  • James Hall
  • Edmund Goulding
  • James Whale
  • John Darrow
Release date: 2004-12-07
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Marshall Neilan
Price: £5.62

Review Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Image Entertainment / 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [1916] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ole Jansen
  • Allen Holubar
  • Jane Gail
  • Stuart Paton
  • William Welsh
  • Leviticus Jones
Release date: 1999-01-26
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £9.99

Review 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [1916] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Kino / A Fool There Was [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Clifford Bruce
  • Mabel Frenyear
  • Edward José
  • Frank Powell
  • May Allison
  • Runa Hodges
Release date: 2002-04-02
Run time: 67 min.
Creator: Rudyard Kipling
Price: £12.03

Review A Fool There Was [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Kino / The Birth of a Nation and the Civil War Films of D.W. Griffith [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • D.W. Griffith
  • Mae Marsh
  • Lillian Gish
  • Miriam Cooper
  • Mary Alden
  • Henry B. Walthall
Release date: 2002-12-10
Run time: 187 min.
Creator: Stanner E.V. Taylor
Price: £14.05

Review The Birth of a Nation and the Civil War Films of D.W. Griffith [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Alpha Video / Midnight Faces [1926]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Perrin
  • Kathrun McGuire
  • Rocky Aoki
  • Kathryn McGuire
  • Francis X. Bushman
Release date: 2005-03-29
Run time: 53 min.
Price: £2.73

Review Midnight Faces [1926] / Alpha Video:


Review Homevision / Rediscover Jacques Feyder French Film Master: Queen of Atlantis/Crainquebille/Faces of Children [1925]
Actors & Directors
  • Jacques Feyder
  • Félix Oudart
  • Jeanne Cheirel
  • Marguerite Carré
  • Jean Forest
  • Maurice de Féraudy
Release date: 2006-10-24
Run time: 360 min.
Price: £23.17

Review Rediscover Jacques Feyder French Film Master: Queen of Atlantis/Crainquebille/Faces of Children [1925] / Homevision:


Review Alpha Video / The General [1927] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Frederick Vroom
  • Marion Mack
  • Buster Keaton
  • Buster Keaton
  • Clyde Bruckman
  • Jim Farley
  • Glen Cavender
Release date: 2003-03-18
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: William Pittenger
Price: £5.89

Review The General [1927] (NTSC) / Alpha Video:

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.

Review Eureka Entertainment / The General [1926]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Farley
  • Marion Mack
  • Frederick Vroom
  • Buster Keaton
  • Clyde Bruckman
  • Glen Cavender
  • Buster Keaton
Release date: 2001-02-19
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: William Pittenger
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.90

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.

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30 Years of Fun [1963], Broken Blossoms [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Wildcat [1921] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Gaucho [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Adventures of Prince Achmed [1926] (REGION 1) (NTSC), All Quiet on the Western Front [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde [1920], The Chess Player [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Masterworks of Silent Cinema: Sir Arne's Treasure [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Parlour, Bedroom & Bath [1931], Robin Hood [1922] (NTSC), Laurel And Hardy Super Box Set, Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [1916] (NTSC), A Fool There Was [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Birth of a Nation and the Civil War Films of D.W. Griffith [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Midnight Faces [1926], Rediscover Jacques Feyder French Film Master: Queen of Atlantis/Crainquebille/Faces of Children [1925], The General [1927] (NTSC), The General [1926]

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