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43 minutes ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

I watched Last of the Mohicans (1920) silent on Amazon.  Wallace Beery cast as Magua.  Pretty interesting film.  Selected for the National Film Registry in 1995.  I don't know how to add it here. 

 

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Not a really entertaining movie. But interesting in that it pokes fun at the future 100 years from when it was made in 1920s. A world where men become feminine and women become masculine. Note too, the flying "jitney" bus. In early days of automobiles,  car owner's would charge a small fee to drive people.  Like UBER today. 

 

 

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Early "Lonesome Luke" character that changed into Harold Lloyd.  Lonesome Luke was an opposite of Charlie Chaplin with his tight short pants and different mustache.  His buddy is Snub Pollard.  Famous in his day but later B Western comic sidekick and finally often an extra barfly. 

 

 

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If you watch any B-Western movies, chances are you've seen Charlie King. The stocky man got beat up and shot in some 427 features. Did you know he started out with silent movies? Stared in this pretty common comic slapstic movie.  Never seen him so thin.

 

 

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The big black cook in this movie was George Godfrey,  famous boxer way back when.

If you're a fan of big nautical battles,  you'd enjoy this movie.

 

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Old Ironsides (1926)

George Godfrey was a heavyweight boxer who fought from 1919-1937. On June 6, 1930, He boxed against future Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera in Shibe Park, Philadelphia. The New York Times reported, "George Godfrey, giant negro heavyweight of Leiperville, after hammering Primo Carnera, mammoth Venetian, through four rounds of a scheduled 10 round battle which attracted 35,000 fans and about $160,000 in gate receipts, was disqualified on a foul in the 5th round amid scenes of wild disorder." Many observers considered the 1930 fight to be fixed in Carnera's favor.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017226/trivia?item=tr4881807

 

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When I read the title of this post I thought "Hey!  That's a great idea!"

 

Silent movie stars wouldn't be in every form of news, and information media, and in no form of entertainment, spewing their leftist crap all over my nation and influencing our our children and the weak-minded among us and destroying our history, culture and values.

 

Let's try it for a change.

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