Top Ten Movie Screamers
Doctor X directed by Michael Curtiz (top); Janet Leigh in Psycho (bottom)
Halloween Time. So, here’s my list of the Top Ten Movie Screamers of All Time.
Well, at least the Top Ten Movie Screamers of All Time That I Can Think of Right Now.
You won’t find any new movies here because I tend to avoid most recent horror movies — partly because most of the recent ones I’ve seen are total crap; partly because there’s enough horror in the world out there and I see no need for me to go looking for more at the movies.
Also, most of the screaming newcomers don’t have the vocal flair of their predecessors. Even Naomi Watts, a really good actress, pales next to [...]
by Andre Soares | October 30, 2009
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Tags: Claire Bloom, Classic Movies, Denise Cheshire, Horror Movies, Jane Wyman, Jaws, Johnny Belinda, Julie Harris, Mary Philbin, Patricia Owens, The Phantom of the Opera
Lon Chaney’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Halloween Screening
The 1925 silent classic The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney (above) in the title role, will be screened on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 2:30 pm at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse. This Halloween Special presentation by the Los Angeles Theatre Organ Society will feature live musical accompaniment on a Wurlitzer theatre organ restored with the support of the Peter Lloyd Crotty Charitable Fund.
Directed by Rupert Julian, The Phantom of the Opera is perhaps Lon Chaney’s best-known movie role. At about that time, Chaney became a contract player at MGM, where he would star in a number of highly successful productions, some of which have popped up on Turner Classic Movies.
Based on Gaston [...]
by Andre Soares | October 22, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Lon Chaney, Los Angeles Screenings, Mary Philbin, Rupert Julian, San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, Silent Films, The Phantom of the Opera
Best Films – 1925
Ramon Novarro and May McAvoy in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
FILM
Ben-Hur
d: Fred Niblo (assisted by Christy Cabanne, Alfred L. Raboch, B. Reeves Eason); scr: Carey Wilson, Bess Meredyth, June Mathis; titles: Katherine Hilliker, H. H. Caldwell
The Big Parade
d: King Vidor; scr: Laurence Stallings, Harry Behn; titles: Joseph W. Farnham
Her Sister from Paris
d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Hans Kräly
Lady Windermere’s Fan
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Julien Josephson; titles: Maude Fulton, Erik Yorke
The Merry Widow
d: Erich von Stroheim; scr: Benjamin Glazer, Erich von Stroheim; titles: Marian Ainslee
Battleship Potemkin
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Bronenosets Potyomkin / Battleship Potemkin
d: Sergei Eisenstein; scr: Nina Agadzhanova, Sergei Eisenstein; titles: Nikolai Aseyev, Sergei Tretyakov
Renée Adorée, John Gilbert in The Big Parade
ACTOR
John Gilbert
The Big Parade
Constance Talmadge, Ronald [...]
by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Tags: Alice Joyce, Belle Bennett, Ben-Hur, Best Films, Betty Bronson, Charles Van Enger, Classic Movies, Constance Talmadge, Eleanor Boardman, Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Niblo, Hal Mohr, Hans Kraly, Her Sister from Paris, Irene Rich, John Arnold, John Gilbert, Joseph W. Farnham, Julien Josephson, Karl Struss, King Vidor, Lady of the Night, Lady Windermere's Fan, Lois Moran, Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, May McAvoy, Norma Shearer, Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Ronald Colman, Sidney Franklin, Silent Films, Stella Dallas, The Big Parade, The Merry Widow
