Silent movie stars

[Warden Callaway]

A really good sharp copy of Buster Keaton movie, "Seven Chances".  Not much physical comedy in first half but it really picks up as it goes along.

 

 

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

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. 

[Warden Callaway]

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. 

 

[Warden Callaway]

John Ford western with Harry Carey as star.  Note how John Ford uses doorways to fram his scene - even if it's other objects. 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

A Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery movie.  Wallace Beery made hundreds of movies but only a few show up in public domain.   This one is pretty sharp condition.  Shows lots of scenery of the time (1920) and Hopie Indians. 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Charles King was in many of the old B-Western moves. Got beat up thousands of times. I was shocked to find him in this old silent movie comedy.  It's hard to recognize him so slender.

 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Really good old western.  

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Really good W. C. Fields movie.  

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

This Harold Lloyd movie has been redone in color.   He teams up with a giant man over 7' tall and 500 pounds.  Lots of action and pretty funny. I think they said it was the biggest movie of 1923.

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Our Gang in War Feathers.  Dressed like cowboys and Indian, they wreak havoc on the train. They get off at Red Dog, a western town.  Get involved with outlaws and wild indians. 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Really good western in good shape.  Wallace Beery is Rhode Island Red.  Good old time stuff.  Hero shoots frontier gunfighter. 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Rather strange western. No Man's Law.  The really bad guy is Oliver Hearty.   Some nudity.  Wild horse comes to rescue.

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

If you like slapstick comedy,  here is Charlie Chaplin in "behind the screen"

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Charlie Chapman clips with music accomplishments by Spartenburg orchestra. 

 

https://youtu.be/Xx9Mgi-P9qM?si=pZW21WPoa6db9Ys5

[Warden Callaway]

Laurel and Hardy real funny slapstick comedy. 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Indian wars movie directed by Francis Ford, older brother of John Ford. Lots of action.  Big cast. 

 

[Warden Callaway]

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. 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

A really good Charlie Chaplin movie. Lots of funny situations.  I don't think it's been shown before.  Big cast and sets.

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Short part of a movie that features Edward Kennedy (often cop on Little Rascals)  and Stuart Erwin. Lots of slapstick. 

 

 

 

Edited January 15, 2024 by Warden Callaway

[Warden Callaway]

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. 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

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.

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Bebe Daniels was a female silent movie star. Here with early Harold Lloyd and Snub Pollard. Kind of short and looks like parts messing.  

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Here is an early and successful Harold Lloyd movie, For Heavens Sakes. Very good quality. He wrecks a Dusenberg and an expensive Packard Eight Pheton early in the movie playing a rich guy.

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Here is an "Our Gang" silent movie that I'd not seen before.  ,

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Short Harold Lloyd with Bebe Daniels and Snub Pollard video. 

 

 

 

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Victor McLaglen in a Howard Hawks silent movie. 

 

 

Edited March 11, 2024 by Warden Callaway

[Warden Callaway]

Real clear video of a Buster Keaton movie Scarecrow.  Interesting one room house. Lots of physical comedy. 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Really good adventure movie with Wallace Beery. George Bancroft you may recognize as the martial on Stagecoach. 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

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.

 

Quote

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

 

[Warden Callaway]

Good Charlie Chapman short 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Buster Keaton in a Kodak promotional video showing the evolution of cameras.  Buster still has it in 1963.

 

[Warden Callaway]

Good quality western with Harry Carey directed by John Ford.

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Pure slapstick.  Remastered. Harold Lloyd,  Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard. 

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

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.

[Warden Callaway]

Nice short comedy with Stan Laurel.