Silent Movie Crazy a silent film tribute from a personal perspective a work in progress - - NOTE: 2009: Page updates coming soon, some new stuff too - honest! Hopeful mini-plan - upcoming Winter, 2009/2010 - have been progressing to add a bit more info to each current page, then will move on with creating new pages. Here's a project list of upcoming changes I have planned to work on as time permits. NEW NEW - just added a News page; new - fun stuff page
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FEATURING: * Famous Players * - Silent Era Actors and Actresses Movie reviews and ratings, trivia and tidbits, links
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FEATURING: Our Gang Actor profiles, reviews of the silent era shorts, locations |
Silent Film Themes in Review
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Movie BLOG My daily movie viewing log - thoughts, plots, film reviews and ratings for silents all the way to current day movies |
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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.
Additional polls
Add more quackery ads
Edwardian World page - scan ads, add movie info.
Melies page - reviews of films off DVD box set.
Work on Amusement Parks featured in silent film page.
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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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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