Harold Lloyd on TCM
Silent-comedy fans will be rejoicing today, as Turner Classic Movies‘ "Summer Under the Stars" series continues with a day dedicated to Harold Lloyd, one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1920s.
Personally, I’m not a fan of knockabout silent comedies, which usually leave me as stone-faced as Buster Keaton. That said, Lloyd’s go-getter was a pleasant character (even if a tad creepy-looking, what with those geeky glasses and all that makeup plastered on his face), and some of his stunts remain as remarkable today as they were more than eight decades ago. Particularly memorable is his spider-man bit in Safety Last! (1923), in which he scales the side of a Los Angeles building.
Speedy (1928), directed by Ted [...]
by Andre Soares | August 5, 2009
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Tags: Bebe Daniels, Classic Movies, Constance Cummings, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Mildred Davis, Safety Last!, Silent Films, Speedy, Summer Under the Stars, TCM, Turner Classic Movies
Best Films – 1920
Though no masterpiece, The Mollycoddle is a surprisingly enjoyable romp starring Douglas Fairbanks as an effete, upper-class nonentity who discovers both his manhood and his red-white-and-blue Americanness before the final fadeout. His leading lady is a minor actress named Ruth Renick, but one barely notices her. The director is Victor Fleming, best known for Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, but The Mollycoddle is truly all Fairbanks’.
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The Last of the Mohicans
d: Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown; scr: Robert Dillon
The Mollycoddle
d: Victor Fleming; scr: Douglas Fairbanks, Thomas J. Geraghty
What Happened to Rosa?
d: Victor Schertzinger; scr: Gerald C. Duffy
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d: William C. de Mille; scr: Olga Printzlau
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by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Tags: Bebe Daniels, Best Films, Clarence Brown, Classic Movies, Conrad in Quest of His Youth, Douglas Fairbanks, George Archainbaud, Lon Chaney, Mabel Normand, Maurice Tourneur, Richard Barthelmess, Silent Films, The Last of the Mohicans, The Mollycoddle, The Wonderful Chance, Thomas Meighan, Victor Fleming, Victor Schertzinger, What Happened to Rosa?
