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This Week's Dvds
Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 04:59 PM (54,772 Views)
Ignatz Ratzkywatzky
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Panzer,

I'm not that familiar with Griffith's work (outside of Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Sally of the Sawdust). Let me know if there are any good alky-related shorts that I should check out for my Booze Movies site. That goes for William S. Hart as well.

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panzer the great & terrible
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Oh, there are more than you can shake a stick at -- mostly of the "Father, Dear father, come home with me now" school. I'll start a list for you, but like I say, it'll take a while.

"The Musketeers of Pig Alley" has a scene where somebody gets slipped a Mickey, if that qualifies.
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SuperRog
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Could I ask what William S. Hart movie you got? I'm always looking for more of his films. I first became familiar with him back in the early 70s, in the days before home video. I had a Super 8 sound documentary on him that I bought from Blackhawk Films.
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panzer the great & terrible
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Sure! I got THE CRADLE OF COURAGE from 1920, directed by our old pal Lambert Hillyer. It's not a western but Hart plays the usual good bad man. Description off the box: "a former crook joins the police force after his return from WWI." Also on the disc is a Keystone comedy from the same year, "Innocent Ambrose" with the never-funny Mack Swain.

Iggy, if you haven't seen ORPHANS OF THE STORM, rent it: not much booze, but exciting all the same.
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The only Hart film I've seen is "Hell's Hinges" on the "Treasures from American Film Archives" collection. I was quite impressed by it. It is a very dark film and in most ways as adult as any of the adult westerns of the 1950s.
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SuperRog
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I also have that and that film was the main reason I bought that set. A lot of it was shown in the documentary I mentioned having in Super 8. You might want to look for Tumbleweeds on DVD, his final film. For its re-issue (included on the DVD I have of the film) he did a sound spoken 8-minute introduction. He had a very dramatic speaking voice.
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There's a lot of other great stuff on that set too. It was my first exposure to Anna May Wong. She was great. If you get a chance, see "Piccadilly" with her in it. Some of the best, most natural silent acting I have ever seen. If she had lived in a time of less discrimination against Asians, she would have been a major star instead of limited to typecast parts in her American films.
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marlin lee
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I also highly recommend Tumbleweeds. Specifically the Image DVD. There is a fair amount of dirt and scratches but the print is reasonably sharp. It is also on VCI's Great Train Robbery 100th Anniversary Edition. But that print is so faded that at times you can barely follow the action.
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SuperRog
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I almost thought about getting that for "The Great Train Robbery" but I already had Tumbleweeds so it didn't seem to make sense. Is there any other disc or collection that has "The Great Train Robbery"?

I hadn't been getting many DVDs lately but I ordered some yesterday including a couple of Carole Lombard titles (Made For Each Other and No Man Of Her Own) and several John Wayne titles which are scheduled for release next month.
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marlin lee
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The Edison the Invention of the Movies set from Kino includes The Great Train Robbery. It also includes The Little Train Robbery, a remake made with kids.
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panzer the great & terrible
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The best Hart movie I've seen so far is THE TOLL GATE. It's about a good bad guy on the run from the law who takes up with a widder woman who hides him from a posse. THAT plot, y'know. But the best version of it I've seen. Hart is one legend who lives up to his reputation.

Grapevine also has a collection of Hart shorts I'll be ordering next.
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Cyclone Smith
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I recently purchased the collection of Hart shorts from Grapevine, but haven't had time to watch them yet. I also purchased Tom Mix's The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926) from Grapevine and thought it was an excellent silent western.
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SuperRog
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Well, I won't be getting that Edison set...that sucker costs $100 for 4 discs. I know there's a lot of other shorts besides this one but still...
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I was looking around Amazon.com and found a copy of an out-of-print book called The Complete Films of William S. Hart. I'm not sure if this is part of the Citadel seires of "The Films of..." but it should be interesting. I did order that.

One movie arrived today, Made For Each Other, starring Carole Lombard and Jimmy Stewart.
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Today Mr. "I tell you I don't get no respect." gets some. Picked up the 2 disc set of Back to School and Easy Money.
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