Lars Hanson Articles

Lillian Gish in Victor Sjöström's The Scarlet Letter Considering that religious puritans (and their politically correct cohorts) continue to plague the world at the beginning of the third millennium, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter remains as relevant today as when it was first published in 1850. This evening, Turner Classic Movies is presenting MGM's 1926 film version of Hawthorne's story about sex, love, and the [...]

Evelyn Brent, Emil Jannings in The Last Command FILM The Crowd d: King Vidor; scr: King Vidor, James V. A. Weaver; titles: Joseph W. Farnham The Docks of New York d: Josef von Sternberg; scr: Jules Furthman; titles: Julian Johnson The Last Command d: Josef von Sternberg; scr: John F. Goodrich; titles: Herman J. Mankiewicz Sadie Thompson d & scr: Raoul Walsh; titles: C. Gardner [...]