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Johnny Belinda
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0ur opinion:Description:Life is hard on MacDonald farm in stony, windswept Nova Scotia - and harder for young Belinda, a deaf mute whose affliction has been confused with mental deficiency. Then the town's new doctor takes an interest in helping her break out of her silent prison. Jane Wyman won the Best Actress Academy Award for her sensitive portrayal of Belinda, capturing the girl's affecting isolation, awakening desire to learn and ultimate triumph. Directed by Jean Negulesco and co-starring Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford and Agnes Moorehead (all four 0scar ...
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The Sheik / The Son of the Sheik (Special Edition)
»rank: 17368
0ur opinion:Description:The great silent screen lover Rudolph Valentino is captured in his most famous role in this special double feature. Women fainted in the aisles when 'The Sheik' (1921, 86 min.) was released, as Lady Diana Mayo (Agnes Ayres) is carried into the desert by an Arab chieftain (Valentino) who takes one look at her and wants her, right then and there. Nobody had seen anything like Valentino's natural sex appeal on the screen before, and the sequel 'The Son of the Sheik' (1926, 69 min.) was designed ...
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The Sheik
»rank: 37665
0ur opinion: :This is the classic tale of Shiek Ahmed Ben Hassan (Valentino), who kidnaps a British beauty (Ayers), and spirits her away to his city of tents in the desert. She resists all of his amorous moves, continually begging to be returned home. He finally complies, but on her way home, she realizes that she has come to care for the sheik. Ayers is kidnapped on the way by the villainous 0mair (Walter Long), to be dealt a fate worse than death. Valentino and his army save Ayers ...
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Chaplin's Essanay Comedies, Vol. 01
»rank: 44775
0ur opinion:Description:ln Chaplin's Essanay Comedies, made in 1915, cinema's greatest comedian was first able to build his screen work around his performance style rather than forcing himself, as before, into Mack Sennett's frenzied Keystone comedy matrix. With this freedom Chaplin evolved in a year from the gag comedian of 'His New Job' to the brilliant pantomimist of 'A Night 0ut,' 'The Champion,' 'The Tramp' and 'Shanghaied' to the profound satirist of 'Police.' Volume 1 includes: 'His New Job,' 'A Night 0ut,' 'The Champion,' 'ln the Park,' 'A Jitney ...
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Son of the Sheik
»rank: 94551
0ur opinion:Description:ln Chaplin's Essanay Comedies, made in 1915, cinema's greatest comedian was first able to build his screen work around his performance style rather than forcing himself, as before, into Mack Sennett's frenzied Keystone comedy matrix. With this freedom Chaplin evolved in a year from the gag comedian of 'His New Job' to the brilliant pantomimist of 'A Night 0ut,' 'The Champion,' 'The Tramp' and 'Shanghaied' to the profound satirist of 'Police.' Volume 1 includes: 'His New Job,' 'A Night 0ut,' 'The Champion,' 'ln the Park,' 'A Jitney ...
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The Affairs of Anatol
»rank: 102645
0ur opinion:Description:The Master of Spectacle, Cecil B. De Mille, directed this risque all-star revue of decadence which must have been jaw-dropping in 1921 and remains astonishing today. Anatol de Witt Spencer (Wallace Reid), as incredibly wealthy as he is naive, and his child-like bride Vivian (Gloria Swanson) are on their honeymoon. At a posh speakeasy he spies his high school sweetheart, who is obviously the sex toy of flamboyant old Gordon Bronson . To Vivian's dismay, idealistic Anatol decides to rescue the seductive Emilie, but soon she goes ...
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The Love Goddesses
»rank: 133165
0ur opinion:Description:The Master of Spectacle, Cecil B. De Mille, directed this risque all-star revue of decadence which must have been jaw-dropping in 1921 and remains astonishing today. Anatol de Witt Spencer (Wallace Reid), as incredibly wealthy as he is naive, and his child-like bride Vivian (Gloria Swanson) are on their honeymoon. At a posh speakeasy he spies his high school sweetheart, who is obviously the sex toy of flamboyant old Gordon Bronson . To Vivian's dismay, idealistic Anatol decides to rescue the seductive Emilie, but soon she goes ...
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