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Moreover, from 1924 on, his "silent" films had incorporated sequences based on sound gags lost on the audience (e.g., the bell sequence at the Fall Frolic from THE FRESHMAN and the monkey sequence in THE KID BROTHER).
This film is strange, even for a silent movie.
did however,think it was silly,even absurd,but not in a good way.Radha Mitchell is the main character in the movie,which cam out in 2003.She was also,coincidently in 2006's "Silent Hill"which i hated.it
What it really is is wildly mismatched footage from early sound and silent films mixed with badly shot recent(to the release) footage of men on a safari.
All of the acting is very stilted but especially that of Norma Shearer who is still acting as though she were in a silent movie instead of a talkie.
The popular kids set up a cruel prank to humiliate her, accidentally kill her during a struggle, bury the body in the woods and make a pact to keep silent.
While I have seen and enjoyed similar movies to this one that were silent films about the Russian Revolution, such as POTEMKIN and TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, I did not particularly enjoy this one.
It was almost as if I was watching a silent film about grass growing.
Problems: 1) Although billed as "a loving tribute to Poverty Row," a lot of the old footage is not even from Poverty Row films-- much of it is from RKO's "The Most Dangerous Game," (1932), with some from the silent (!?) version of "The Lost World" (1926)!
Red Skelton does a cute bit with Donna Reed and Margaret O'Brien, but the other comedic bits suffer from an apparent vacuum between the performers and the allegedly-live audience (they're awfully silent until the editor cuts to them for exaggerated reaction shots).
Also, the accompanying music was pretty poor by the standards of other silent DVDs.
(One silent of Jeanne's exists in archive print - MAN, WOMAN AND SIN - and her only other talkie, JEALOUSY, is "lost," so this is the only document we have of her.
"Dead Silent" is a pale paraphrase.
Where "Wait Until Dark" built up unbearable suspense, "Dead Silent" lets you guess the outcome, the story being such a stereotype.
Above all, if you like Christopher Plummer, see "The Silent Partner", because his character here, is a terrible embarrassment.
If you want a silent movie that captures that presence try (Le Dernier Combat).
I think they copied a lot from silent Hill.
Dead Silent should be silenced for all time.
It was based on a silent film starring Buster Keaton entitled "Steamboat Bill, Jr."
He's usually the strong silent type, whereas here he's confronted with unfinished romantic affairs from the past here.
The film the story of the hot-headed director and his rise and fall and rise, by using real recognizable names and events during the silent and early sound eras.
I attempted to wean myself from silent movie scores.
Oftentimes, the director would choose the score himself (Charlie Chaplin often composed the scores of his later silent films).
But most of the music you hear on VHS tapes over silent films is in no way the same music that was supposed to be played when the film was first released.
And, then again, there were plenty of silent films that were played without a score.
Some of the reviewers here have foolishly judged this silent film by political-correctness standards of today.
Based on actual events of 1905, silent film THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN concerns an Imperial Russian ship on which abominable conditions lead to a mutiny.
OK, the other reviewers have pretty much covered the main points of this great little gem, i.e. the story started out in life as material for Buster Keaton's silent classic "7 Chances".
William Haines had an acting range that is wonderful for silent film.
In the late 1940s there was a short film series entitled "Flicker Flashbacks" in which excerpts from silent dramas featuring the likes of Mary Pickford and Blanche Sweet were played for laughs.
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