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Douglas Fairbanks Sr.’s talkie career in some ways is the real version of the John Gilbert legend, and also once again proves that having plenty of money, your own studio, and all the production control in the world cannot save a career when the public’s tastes change. Five talkies was all it took, ...

Why, yes, as a matter of fact, I did! But my vision included Snitz Edwards, too, and I don't see him in this clip. Jim Snitz would have been great in this, but he was long dead (1937) by then, unlike Clarence Kolb, who was 83 when he made this and would make it to 90. I love it that he plays himsel...

Hey Gang,

Did'ja ever think you'd see Margaret Dumont, Raymond Hatton, Douglas Dumbrille,Percy Helton, Sterling Holloway, and Clarence Kolb (of Kolb and Dill) work in a film with Fats Domino and Big Joe Turner?

Here`tis:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjV1TgdJxM


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Yeah, that Three Stooges credit always use to baffle me. "What is John Ford's cameraman doing helming this short?" But one must always remember The Cohn Factor. Most of Columbia's top cameramen spent time down in the shorts department, Lucien Ballard shot a number of them in the late 30's...

THE SILENT MAN was William S. Hart’s second film under his new contract with Paramount Pictures following THE NARROW TRAIL. William S. Hart Productions was still contractually forced to have the words “supervised by Thomas H. Ince” in the opening titles, even though Ince had nothing to do with the p...

THE ROAD TO MANDALAY was considered a lost Chaney film for years before a 9.5mm print of a French four-reel cutdown version surfaced in the 1980’s and was blown up to 16mm. Ironically, this 9.5mm version was a pirated copy made for the collector market in the 1930’s, along with several other Chaney ...

With the recent passing of Bob Hoskins, I'm going to have to re-watch FLICKERS. There's six episodes, but it's worth every minute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyElBk-f2Q4 Exactly my thoughts today Mr. Migliore, a long-time favorite of mine, it's still the finest thing Roy Clarke ever wrote (alon...

TRIUMPH This is a tale of a Girl named Nell (Dorothy Phillips) who has ambitions to be an actress. While awaiting the train to New York, she meets the leading man of a repertory company (William Stowell) and when they get to the Big Apple, he introduces her to the company’s Stage manager (William J....

Party Animal Earl Hastings (Raymond McKee) is frequently mistaken for his identical twin brother Ezra, who, of course, is a meek professor at an all-girls college, and of course, some of Earl’s antics, especially his flirtations with various college females, get him mistaken for the innocent Ezra an...

Gosh Mr Roberts, you have everything! Then why is there still so much to buy? This looks like a really great Sennett too, so hopefully we'll all get to see it one day. (maybe at the '8mm Slapsticon' event held next year in your garage...) It is a very good Sennett/First National, and it;s nice to s...