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- Great moments in cinematic idiocy #1 by Thrilling Days of Yesteryear on Nov 6, 2009
Collector finds unseen Charlie Chaplin film in tin sold for £3.20 on eBay • Collector turns detective in search of movie's secret • Lost war propaganda reel could be worth £40,000 Morace Park was footling around on eBay looking for antiques...
- Silent Horrors: The Man Who Laughs (1928) by Thrilling Days of Yesteryear on Oct 31, 2009
I had every intention of getting this review up yesterday, but ran into a few roadblocks along the way. The DVD recorder was in use for the better part of the day, capturing the Karloff films I didn’t already have in my collection (I could have us...
- Silent Horrors: The Cat and the Canary (1927) by Thrilling Days of Yesteryear on Oct 29, 2009
John Willard’s hardy old stage chestnut—first performed in New York City on February 7, 1922—has been around the block, cinematically so to speak, on at least four different occasions: 1927, 1930 (as The Cat Creeps), 1939 and 1978. I’ve now...
- Silent Horrors: Waxworks (1924) by Thrilling Days of Yesteryear on Oct 28, 2009
Paul Leni’s Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (Waxworks, 1924) tells three tales surrounding the figures in a wax museum—the owner of which has hired a writer-poet (William Dieterle) to come up with some “ballyhoo” to promote the exhibits. The first...
- Silent Horrors: Faust (1926) by Thrilling Days of Yesteryear on Oct 27, 2009
In Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s play Faust, a scientist who becomes frustrated with the limits of learning and knowledge sells his soul to The Devil in order to overcome these barriers—the price being that once Faust reaches the zenith of human h...
- Silent Horrors: Sparrows (1926) by Thrilling Days of Yesteryear on Oct 26, 2009
Since it’s beginning to get closer and closer to Halloween, I took some time this weekend to ponder as to whether or not I should post something along the lines of a “scary movie” theme to get into the “spirit” of the season. Several of my...
- Fuzzy memories by Thrilling Days of Yesteryear on Oct 21, 2009
One of the nice perks of this weblog is that I occasionally get e-mail inquiries from fans who sometimes ask for information on nostalgia-related issues…that is, when my e-mail spam filter isn’t dumping them in the same file as the ones needing m...
