Milton Sills Articles
THE BARKER Review – Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr
THE BARKER (1928) Direction: George Fitzmaurice Cast: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sylvia Ashton, George Cooper Screenplay: Benjamin Glazer; dialogue by Joseph Jackson; titles by Herman J. Mankiewicz, from Kenyon Nicholson's 1927 play Oscar Movies, Pre-Code Movies Dorothy Mackaill, Milton Sills, The Barker Directed by George Fitzmaurice, by then already a film veteran, The Barker is one of those strange hybrids [...]
HARRY POTTER, CLASH OF THE TITANS in 3D: Film History Repeats Itself
Rupert Grint in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Jaap Buitendijk / Warner Bros.) At ropeofsilicom.com, Brad Brevet has announced that Mike Leigh will release Vera Drake 2 in 3D, which proves that James Cameron's Avatar has truly revolutionized the industry. I mean, there are no wars, flying creatures, of blue people in the original Vera Drake, which is just a slice-of-life drama about an [...]
FRANK LLOYD: MASTER OF SCREEN MELODRAMA
Milton Sills in The Sea Hawk (top); William Farnum in A Tale of Two Cities (bottom) Frank Lloyd Intro I: Two-Time Oscar Winner Unlike George Cukor, Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, William Wyler, or even John Ford, Frank Lloyd specialized in one movie genre: melodrama. From A Tale of Two Cities to Cavalcade, from The Sea Hawk to The Howards of Virginia, from Black Oxen to [...]