Silent Movie Crazy

a silent film tribute from a personal perspective


a work in progress - - ADDED, September 2011 Cinecon Report - - Review Cinecon 47 Film Festival 2011

UPDATE INFO 2011: yes, I've been wanting to do a complete site redesign for this website but haven't had time yet - hopefully this Fall, including A to Z silent film page, and films by year.

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FEATURING: * Famous Players * - Silent Era Actors and Actresses
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must sees!
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* For Your Amusement *
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Cinecon 41 Review
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FEATURED: Gallery of Sheiks
the ones that make ya swoon (or at least me)

  • Rudolph Valentino - beautiful
  • Ramon Novarro - hunk (love him in The Pagan)
  • Jack Pickford - love that boyish charm
  • Lon Chaney - the IT factor
  • Buddy Rogers - big brown puppy dog eyes
  • Richard Barthelmess - cutie-pie
  • Harrison Ford the 1st - nice smile
  • Thomas Meighan - hunk
  • George O'Brien - yes!

sheik Slang. A romantically alluring man.
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Projects - upcoming updates/additions to this site:

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  • Continue adding backlog of movie reviews from 2007/2008
  • Change reviews.htm page to just silents/ add page called - blog.htm - for blog review archives.
  • Add new actor/actresses - upcoming: Hobart Bosworth, Lila Lee, Mary Miles Minter, Clarine Seymour.
  • Continue updates to Top-rated Silents page, adding more.
  • Add more quackery ads
  • Edwardian World page - scan ads, add movie info.
  • Melies page - reviews of films off DVD box set.
  • Going to add a Thelma Todd/Zasu Pitts/Patsy Kelly shorts page (Hal Roach pre-code)
  • Separate year pages for each silent film year, with film reviews


    Okay, this picture of Wallace Beery just makes me laugh. I saw it while paging through my copy of "Motion Picture - May, 1926" and I just had to put it here. What a hoot! I think I'll add a page on this site just for funny amusements I see in some of these old magazines.

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  • I Love Silents - Silent Movies

    PLUS: review, rating, and plot summary / synopsis for these silent films:

    • Sherlock Holmes (1922) review date: August 17, 2009
    • The Black Cyclone (1925) review date: August 9, 2009
    • The King of the Wild Horses (1924) review date: July 28, 2009
    • The White Sister (1923) review date: June 24, 2009
    • Peter Pan (1924) review date: May 5, 2009
    • Just Pals (1920) review date: April 28, 2009
    • The Last Laugh (1924) review date: February 17, 2009
    • Traffic in Souls (1913) review date: December 12, 2008
    • A Throw of Dice (1929) review date: November 13, 2008
    • Kid Boots (1926) review date: November 3, 2008
    • The Blackbird (1926) review date: October 27, 2008
    • The Italian (1915) review date: September 25, 2008
    • The Soul of the Beast (1923) review date: September 19, 2008
    • Speedy (1928) review date: September 7, 2008
    • Rain or Shine (1930) review date: September 5, 2008
    • The Devil's Bait (1917) review date: September 4, 2008
    • The Poor Nut (1927) review date: September 4, 2008
    • Modern Love (1929) review date: September 3, 2008
    • Triumph (1917) review date: September 3, 2008
    • The Home Maker (1925) review date: September 3, 2008
    • The Blood Ship (1927) review date: September 3, 2008
    • The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) review date: August 19, 2008
    • Ingeborg Holm (1913) review date: August 5, 2008
    • A Man There Was (1917) review date: July 31, 2008
    • The Chaser (1928) review date: June 12, 2008
    • Three's A Crowd (1927) review date: June 12, 2008
    • '49 to '17 (1917) review date: May 28, 2008
    • The Ocean Waif (1916) review date: May 23, 2008
    • The Wrath of the Gods (1914) review date: April 3, 2008
    • The Dragon Painter (1919) review date: April 2, 2008
    • Grass (1925) review date: March 31, 2008
    • A Lady of Chance (1928) review date: July 2, 2007
    • Visages d'enfants (Faces of Children) (1925) review date: June 18, 2007
    • Asphalt (1929) review date: August 2, 2006
    • Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919) review date: July 31, 2006
    • Warning Shadows (1923) review date: July 28, 2006
    • The Birth of a Nation (1915) review date: May 2, 2006
    • The Show-Off (1926) review date: April 27, 2006
    • Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) review date: April 5, 2006
    • Red Lily (1924) review date: March 27, 2006
    • Desert Nights (1929) review date: March 8, 2006
    • The Mechanical Man (1921) review date: January 30, 2006
    • The Headless Horseman (1922) review date: January 30, 2006
    • The Vanishing American (1925) review date: January 15, 2006
    • The Whispering Chorus (1918) review date: January 14, 2006
    • Old Wives for New (1918) review date: January 11, 2006
    • Male and Female (1919) review date: December 29, 2005
    • Miss Lulu Bett (1921) review date: December 12, 2005
    • Why Change Your Wife? (1920) review date: December 11, 2005
    • The Love Trap (1929) review date: November 27, 2005
    • The Cheat (1915) review date: November 27, 2005
    • Carmen (1915) review date: November 26, 2005
    • The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) review date: November 16, 2005
    • The Golden Chance (1915) review date: November 6, 2005
    • Don't Change Your Husband (1919) review date: November 4, 2005
    • The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927) review date: October 26, 2005
    • The Unholy Three (1925) review date: October 19, 2005
    • Stella Maris (1918) review date: October 18, 2005
    • Blind Husbands (1919) review date: October 10, 2005
    • The Unknown (1927) review date: October 9, 2005
    • A Pair of Silk Stockings (1918) review date: October 7, 2005
    • Tumbleweeds (1925) review date: October 3, 2005
    • The Last of the Mohicans (1920) review date: September 23, 2005
    • The Red Kimona (1925) review date: September 20, 2005
    • The Blue Bird (1918) review date: September 14, 2005
    • A Girl's Folly (1917) review date: September 13, 2005
    • The Average Woman (1924) review date: September 13, 2005
    • The Wishing Ring (1914) review date: September 12, 2005
    • The New York Hat (1912) review date: September 12, 2005
    • Outside the Law (1920) review date: September 9, 2005
    • Shadows (1922) review date: September 9, 2005
    • Spies (1928) review date: August 30, 2005
    • The Primitive Lover (1922) review date: August 24, 2005
    • The Wicked Darling (1919) review date: August 23, 2005
    • Victory (1919) review date: August 23, 2005
    • The Battle of the Sexes (1928) review date: August 15, 2005
    • Tom Sawyer (1917) review date: August 15, 2005
    • Merry-Go-Round (1923) review date: August 9, 2005
    • L'Inferno (1911) review date: August 2, 2005
    • The Penalty (1920) review date: July 19, 2005
    • My Best Girl (1927) review date: July 17, 2005
    • Piccadilly (1929) review date: July 14, 2005
    • Little Annie Rooney (1925) review date: July 6, 2005
    • Siren of the Tropics (1927) review date: June 27, 2005
    • Little Mary Sunshine (1916) review date: June 16, 2005
    • Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) review date: June 3, 2005
    • Hoodoo Ann (1916) review date: May 25, 2005
    • Through the Back Door (1921) review date: May 23, 2005
    • Cinderella (1914) review date: May 23, 2005
    • Exit Smiling (1926) review date: May 17, 2005
    • Suds (1920) review date: May 13, 2005
    • Heart o' the Hills (1919) review date: May 10, 2005
    • M'Liss (1918) review date: May 10, 2005
    • Sex in Chains (1928) review date: May 8, 2005
    • The Flapper (1920) review date: April 29, 2005
    • Captain Salvation (1927) review date: April 27, 2005
    • Hindle Wakes (1927) review date: April 22, 2005
    • The Man Who Laughs (1928) review date: April 18, 2005
    • Something New (1920) review date: April 10, 2005
    • The Bells (1926) review date: April 6, 2005
    • The Crazy Ray (1923) review date: April 6, 2005
    • Leap Year (1921) review date: April 4, 2005
    • Seven Years Bad Luck (1921) review date: April 4, 2005
    • The Freshman (1925) review date: April 4, 2005
    • Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921) review date: March 29, 2005
    • The Marriage Circle (1924) review date: March 19, 2005
    • Lorna Doone (1922) review date: March 6, 2005
    • Oliver Twist (1922) review date: February 20, 2005
    • The Light of Faith (1922) review date: February 20, 2005
    • Sparrows (1926) review date: February 13, 2005
    • The Ace of Hearts (1921) review date: January 24, 2005
    • Wings (1927) review date: January 7, 2005
    • It (1927) review date: January 3, 2005
    • Parisian Love (1925) review date: December 28, 2004
    • Down to the Sea in Ships (1922) review date: December 27, 2004
    • A Little Princess (1917) review date: December 20, 2004
    • Two Arabian Knights (1927) review date: December 15, 2004
    • The Racket (1928) review date: December 15, 2004
    • The Mating Call (1928) review date: December 15, 2004
    • Our Modern Maidens (1929) review date: December 9, 2004
    • The Garden of Eden (1928) review date: November 27, 2004
    • Up In Mabel's Room (1926) review date: November 22, 2004
    • The Drop Kick (1927) review date: November 17, 2004
    • The Phantom of the Opera (1925) review date: October 31, 2004
    • A Fool There Was (1915) review date: October 29, 2004
    • Brown at Harvard (1927) review date: September 27, 2004
    • The Parson's Widow (1920) review date: September 12, 2004


    And loads more reviews of movies from all eras - Pre-code to now.

    - - - - -> Reviews from July, 2008 to now
    - - - - -> June, 2006 to June, 2008
    - - - - -> March to May, 2006
    - - - - -> December, 2005 to February, 2006
    - - - - -> September to November, 2005
    - - - - -> June to August, 2005
    - - - - -> April, May 2005
    - - - - -> January to March, 2005
    - - - - -> 2004

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