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When I saw the title of this thread, THE GENERAL immediately popped into my mind.

 

That is a most excellent movie. Even if those War of 1861 soldiers are using five and a half inch Single Action Armies and Trapdoor Springfields. :)

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2 hours ago, Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 said:

He and Harold Lloyd were the funniest of all in my book.

Lloyd was a comedy genius!

 

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28 minutes ago, Waxahachie Kid #17017 L said:

I think it was Lloyd that lost a finger, or fingers, in an accident, and then wore a glove to hide the fact.

It did not seem to slow him down one bit.

Gotta have a lot of respect for him, and for his tenacity.

 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516001/trivia?item=nt0199024

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59 minutes ago, Warden Callaway said:

 

The guy running the engine is Al St. John.  Buster Keaton is an indian. Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. 

 

 

 

Apart from the slapstick, the film is a pretty decent representation of railway travel in the early 19th Century.  If the engine and cars are correct for the period then they were around 100 years old the time. 

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The second half of Harold Lloyd's Safety Last is some of the greatest all-time movie making.  I know how it was done.  I've seen it a hundred times.  Still makes me cringe and cover my eyes!  Outstanding!!

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I have always very much enjoyed the last 2 minutes of Thelma and Louise with volume muted. Does that count?

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I've only ever watched two silent films.  One was, "The Birth of a Nation," which was a huge KKK recruiting film in the 19-teens.  The other was "Nesferatu," which was an obvious plagiarism of Dracula.  I didn't mind Nesferatu, but the first one made me recoil in horror!

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1 hour ago, Duffield, SASS #23454 said:

The original versions of Tarzan and Ben-Hur are very hard to beat.

Ben-Hur:

My grandfather, John Windlinger, had a major contract making the leather harnesses and the leather cuirasses for the 1925 Ben-Hur.  

My grandfather Windlinger was a leather smith  in Inglewood, California.  He made saddles and gun rigs for all the B-Western Hollywood Cowboys.  I saw one of the saddles he made for Roy Rodgers.

 

A Windlinger Saddle

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