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Mary O'Hara
Mary O'Hara was born on July 10, 1885, in Cape May Point, New Jersey. She was a screenwriter during the silent film era and wrote several novels, including the range country trilogy My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead, and Green Grass of Wyoming. She ... [... more]
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The Cat and the Canary
From Amazon.com: German horror stylist Paul Leni (Variety) brings his expressionist flourishes to this compendium of haunted clichés, creating one of the most stylish horror movie spoofs ever, a delightful mix of the gothic and the goofy. A greedy [... more]
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The Lost World
From Amazon.com: Every larger-than-life creature feature, from King Kong to Godzilla to Jurassic Park, owes a debt to the original Lost World, the granddaddy of giant monster movies. Based on an adventure fantasy by Arthur Conan Doyle, it's the story of [... more]
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The Thief of Baghdad
From Amazon.com: Douglas Fairbanks spared no expense for what may be the most lavish fantasy movie ever made. Inspired by the flying-carpet effects of Fritz Lang's somber but spectacular Der Müde Tod, Fairbanks (ever the canny businessman) bought [... more]
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Uncle Toms Cabin
From Amazon.com: Harry Pollard's epic 1927 version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's landmark novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was one of the most expensive silent films ever made. James B. Lowe, whose composure, dignity, and gentleness suggest a silent-era Danny Glover, [... more]
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Broken Blossoms
Amazon.com Essential Video: D.W. Griffith was many things: movie innovator, maker of grand statements (The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance being among the biggest of all silent films), the first American superstar director--the Steven Spielberg of his [... more]
CDN$44.99
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Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
From Amazon.com: A milestone of the silent film era and one of the first "art films" to gain international acclaim, this eerie German classic from 1919 remains the most prominent example of German expressionism in the emerging art of the cinema. [... more]
CDN$8.99
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Chaplin, Charlie: Mutual/Essanay Coll
Wonderful films!: Thanks to Image Entertainment I now have gorgeous presentations of almost all of Chaplin's films. These early gems are finally restored to the point where it is no longer a chore to watch them. For the longest time these films were such [... more]
CDN$139.99
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Our Hospitality/Sherlock Jr.
From Amazon.com: Buster Keaton's second feature, Our Hospitality is his first masterpiece. He plays a New York city boy who travels south to receive his inheritance, only to discover he's in the center of a generations-old feud. While his sworn enemies ( [... more]
CDN$29.96
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Tol Able David
So-so undistinguished silent film: This film is a lukewarm piece of americana. It is meant as a hymn to a bygone pastoral era but seems contrived and manipulative to me. The directing is competent, the acting fair. Nothing stands out here but the scenery. [... more]
CDN$44.99
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Nanook of the North (Full Screen)
Amazon.com Essential Video: Robert J. Flaherty, who wrote, directed, produced, shot, and edited this landmark picture, will forever be remembered as the godfather of documentary filmmaking. While this landmark 1922 production, shot on the northeastern [... more]
CDN$53.99
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Melies the Magician
From Amazon.com: A guaranteed treat for fantasy buffs and students of the silent era, Méliès the Magician provides a definitive study of French film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938). A special-effects innovator best known [... more]
CDN$41.62
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