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.
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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
Under Full Sail – Silent Cinema on the High Seas
Flicker Alley in association with the Blackhawk Film Collection has announced the release of "Under Full Sail – Silent Cinema on the High Seas," a new DVD release featuring, as per its press release, "five breathtaking films that preserve the romance, grandeur and allure of windjammers sailing open waters, exquisitely photographed in the style of the time."
The following information is from the Flicker Alley release:
The Yankee Clipper (1927), produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Rupert Julian, restored to the most complete version available since the film’s release, is a feature-length melodrama recreating the real-life race from Foo Chow to Boston for the China tea trade. The gorgeous production filmed at sea for six weeks aboard the 1856 [...]
by Andre Soares | April 11, 2009
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Tags: Around the Horn in a Square Rigger, Blackhawk Films, Cecil B. DeMille, Dennis James, Down to the Sea in Ships, DVDs, Elinor Fair, Eric Beheim, Flicker Alley, Junior Coghlan, Rupert Julian, Seafaring, Ship Ahoy, Silent Films, The Square Rigger, The Yankee Clipper, William Boyd
