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| A Kiss For Mary Pickford (1925) | This was one of the few truly charming films to be produced in the USSR. In the early 1920's Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks toured Europe and Russia. While in the USSR a Russian film maker shot a few moments of the famous duo, then staged a scene between Pickford and a local actor. The plot of the film revolves around this actor being kissed by America's sweetheart, they being chased by the women of Russia. It was an early attempt at showing the effect of celebrities on the movie going public. |
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| Anna Christie 1923 | This is the Thomas Ince classic, lost for many years; now available for the first time on video. This was to be the only film version of an O'Neill play that the legendary author was to fully approve of. Blanche Sweete turns in the performance of a lifetime as Anna, George F Marion plays Sweet's father. a role he as to reprise when Garbo Talked. $19.95 post paid. |
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| Birth of a Nation 1915 | This may be called the first really important American film. It was to give movies the social standing of "art form" and remain a vital screen effort to this day. Books have been written about 'Birth". |
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| Blind Husbands 1918 | A short opening title, but otherwise fine print was used to master our video of Eric Von Stroheim's first feature as director, actor and writer. |
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| Blood of a Poet 1930 | The same year Under the Roofs of Paris was made, France also produced Blood of a Poet. This was to become a classic in the realm of surrealistic imagery. This title is double billed here with an extremely rare German Silent from 1926: The Treasure. |
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| Blue Angel 1930 | This is the original German (with subtitles) version of this classic Von Sternberg film. One of Germany's greatest actors: Emil Jannings turns in a touching performance as a school master who falls for a night club singer. (actually this version was shot in English) |
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| Body & Soul 1926 | An all black cast is headed by the legendary Paul Roebson in this rare, tinted silent classic. |
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| By The Light Of Faith Lon Chaney Sr | Tinted and toned from the only known 35mm source, having been reissued in the 1930's in this form. |
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| By The Sun's Rays 1914 | Earliest of Lon Chaney Sr.'s films to survive in tact. Full length for its day, this is a one reel feature western, with Chaney as the bad guy. |
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| Cameraman (1928) | One of those late, great silents, after becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype operation for a movie camera and sets out to impress the girl (and MGM) with his work |
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| Carnival In Flanders 1933 | Winner of the Grand Prix Du Cinema Francais and the gold medal at the Venice International Exposition of Cinematography. The fantastic little comedy concerns a small French town that is about to be occupied by the Spanish. To avoid this, the towns people first play dead; then hold such a great carnival for their captors that their taxes are cancelled for a year. |
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| Cat & The Canary 1927 | Mastered in August of 1988 from a direct print down of the only 35mm print known to exist. Paul Leni, who also directed Waxworks, gave stars Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale and Tully Marshall ample support in this Gothic horror from the closing days of the silent cinema. Not the first, but certainly the prototype "Old Dark House" type mystery. |
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| Crimes of Dr. Mabuse 1933 | Fritz Lang's first sound Mabuse film. This is the dubbed American release of the German: Testament of Dr. Mabuse. The greatest criminal in the world is locked in a mental asylum and the doctor in charge begins to believe that he is possessed by the evil Mabuse. (see also Testament of Dr. Mabuse) |
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| Dante's Inferno 1924 | Also mastered from a tinted original 16mm print. An outstanding fantasy drama which must have been as powerful when it was released as the Tracy remake many years later. |
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| Death is Called Engelchen 1963 | A classic from the makers of The Shop on Main Street. A young fighter is shot in the spine on the last day of WWII, while lingering near death he recalls his experiences during the war, and believes that the German General Engelchen is after him. |
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| Destiny 1921 | Fritz Lang's vision of death and the grim reaper must have been the inspiration for Death Takes a Holiday. Each human's life is measured in lengths of candles which burn as long as we live. |
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| Devil's Island 1926 | Pauline Frederick, Marion Nixon and George Lewis star in this fine example of latter day silent film. For our transfer we were able not only to obtain a complete print, but a stunning original. |
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| Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 1920 | The Great Profile at the peak of his powers portrays Stevenson's tormented Doctor in this fine filmed version. Our tape was mastered from a fine reduction, and looks quite fresh even 68 years later. | |
| Dr. Mabuse: Der Spieler 1922 | This was the first of Lang's Mabuse films, until now we have offered the official American version of this classic of the Silent German cinema. Now J & J has unearthed an original German print, this print runs 130 min. (a full 20 min longer then the official print) and has the original German dialogue cards (with an English translation below). |
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| DR. Mabuse: Gambler 1922 | Official American release of Lang's first Mabuse film; all title cards are in English and the film runs about 110min. | |
| DR. Mabuse: King Of Crime 1922 | Actually the continuation of Mabuse: Gambler. Also we offer the official American release version, running 90min. | |
| Ecstasy 1933 | Hedy Lemar in her first film. Most noted for its brief nude scene of a very young Lemar, this is actually a fine melodrama, nearly silent, well worth seeing |
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| Eyes Without A Face 1960 | This is the original French version (with English subtitles) not the dubbed Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus. Valli (best known for her role as Orson Welles' girl friend in The Third Man) turns in a chilling performance, and the face grafting scene is more horrifying then any scene from a modern slasher flick. this title just $16.95 post paid. |
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| Feel My Pulse 1928 | Gregory La Cava, most remembered for My Man Godfrey, directs William Powell, Bebe Daniels in this fine silent classic. |
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| Foolish Wives 1922 | The boy genius; Irving Thalberg, felt that 330min. was a bit too long for a feature, so he directed that this film be trimmed by about two hours. What we offer is the longest reconstruction ever made of this classic at just over 100 min. with shimmering picture quality and a fine organ score |
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| Haunted Castle 1921 | Far superior to his Nosferatu is the early German psychological melodrama. It is mastered from a fine old original print with all dialog cards in both German and English. Along with Last Laugh, this film shows the evolution of a fine director, and the production quality of which the German film industry was capable. On this tape we have second billed this classic with Rowland Lee's Doomsday. |
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THE SKIN GAME
1932 John Galsworthy's popular play about a land owner who hates his self made neighbor shines with the talents of Edmund Gwenn, Helen Haye and Frank Lawton. |
THE LODGER
1926 First of three film versions under this title of the Jack The Ripper story. This was the first Hitchcock film to exhibit all of the master's dynamic visual touches. |
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YOUNG AND INNOCENT
1937 Nova Pilbeam is a girl on the run, when her boyfriend is suspected of murder. All of the master's touches a present to highlight this chase drama. |
THE RING
1927 Carl Brisson, Charles Farrell and Ian Hunter star in this fine silent drama. Brisson is a circus attraction called "One Round" Sanders who's in love with Lilian Hall-Davis (the girl in the box office). He meets his match in the ring and with Davis, when pro-boxer Hunter comes on the scene. |
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SABOTAGE
1936 Fine performances by Sylvia Sidney, John Loder and (as the foreign agent passing himself off as a London movie house owner) Oscar Homolka highlight this suspense thriller. |
MURDER
1930 Herbert Marshall, in his first speaking role, is Sir John in the fine who done it. Here Marshall is a juror who sets out to prove that a convicted girl is innocent of murder. |
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SECRET AGENT
1936 It took the direction of the master and a power house cast to put this over. Robert Young, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, Lilli Palmer and Madeleine Carroll star in this spy drama. |
NUMBER 17
1927 A fine crime drama that was to set the pace for many of Hitch's climax scenes to come. A Jewel thief helps the police track down her former gang. |
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THE FARMER'S WIFE
1928 Long believed lost, this stands as a fine example of the master's lighter touch. This comedy centers around a farmer whose wife dies in the first reel, he then spends the rest of the film searching for a new one. His methods and the women's reactions are reminders of the gentle comedy that was possible only on the silent screen. |
RICH AND STRANGE
1932 Least common of the early sound films by Hitchcock. Again the first 7 min or so is a visual montage orchestrated to sounds and music (no dialogue) that show a man's frustration with is dull life. This remains a bizarre and engrossing entry. |
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MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
1934 Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam, Peter Lorre and Leslie Banks star in the spy thriller. Though it may well be dated, it is still more fun to watch than Hitchcock's own 1956 remake. |
MANXMAN
1928 Carl Brisson stars as a fisherman who is lost at sea. When he returns he finds that his girl friend is expecting his best friend's baby |
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EASY VIRTUE
1927 Ian Hunter and Isabel Jeans star in this social melodrama about a married woman who falls in love with a young man who later kills himself. |
JAMAICA INN
1939 Last and least of the great man's films before he left England to begin work on Rebecca. Charles Laughton stars as the head of an unpleasent group of coastal low life's. Maureen O'Hara stars in her first film after leaving Ireland, and her last before the "Hunchback". |
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BLACKMAIL
1929 Though this was to be the Master's first talking film, the first 10 min. are a montage narrated by sound without dialogue |
CHAMPAGNE
1927 Early Hitchcock comedy concerning a millionaire who pretends to go bankrupt to teach his daughter a lesson. Betty Balfour and Jean Bradin star |
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| Intolerance 1916 | It took Griffith nearly the rest of his life to pay off the debts he incurred during his making of this film. After its initial release it was edited into four separate films in an effort to recoup some of the losses. J & J has discovered an ORIGINAL 16mm hand tinted print (running 128 min.) Here color was used to the best advantage possible, and all this has been captured on video. we also offer the corrected version (2 DVDs 3 hours 12 minutes - $19,95) |
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| Last Days Of Pompeii 1913 | The body of the film is in tact, running over 54 min. missing are the credits, and the dialog cards have been replaced with narration. This film greatly influenced D. W. Griffith and his Birth of a Nation. |
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| Liliom 1935 | In 1935 Erich Pommer brought together Franz Waxman (who had scored the Bride Of Frankenstein), Charles Boyer (who gained fame that same year as the star of Private Worlds) and Fritz Lang (for his first film after escaping from Nazi Germany). The team was to produce the finest film version of the classic stage play; Liliom. This is the story of a low life carnival barker that was later transformed by Rodgers and Hammerstein into the musical: Carousel. Here we present the original, just as it was first screened in France over 50 years ago. When the film was first shown in this country it had been subtitled and cut by over half an hour. This is the original French Language version, un-subtitled; but the striking visuals, created by the capable hands of the director of Metropolis, will more than carry the viewer through any difficulties. |
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| M 1930 | Peter Lorre in his first film is unforgettable as the despised child murderer who is finally hunted down and put on trail by the underworld. A classic Fritz Lang Film transferred from original material with new subtitles. |
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| Mantrap 1926 | Clara Bow, the "IT" girl, stars in this fine Paramount outing. Along with Miss Bow, Ernest Torrence, Percy Marmont and the great Eugene Pallette all turn in exceptional performances under the skillful direction of Victor Fleming. Fleming, who began his years in Hollywood as a cameraman in 1916, was to direct such classics as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind. |
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| Mystery of the Leaping Fish 1915 | Earliest existing work by "Dracula" director Todd Browning. Browning wrote the scenario for this two reel feature which stars Doug Fairbanks Sr. as a Sherlock Holms parody; Coke Anyday. |
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| Nosferatu 1922 | long version of this earliest of Dracula films. While the special effects were dated by the time of its American release in 1929, this remains an important and effective thriller. |
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| Phantom of the Opera 1925 | Longest version (a full 10 min. longer than Blackhawk's) we've been able to locate, this one has the color Mask Of The Red Death scene. |
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| Pony Express 1925 | Ricardo Cortez and Wallace Beery star in the Kodascope Libraries print. George Bancroft plays the heavy. |
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| Rehearsal For a Crime 1962 | Written and directed by Luis Bunuel, and presented here under its original title of "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De La Cruz" in Spanish with English subtitles. This is a complex and surreal image of a man's passions for sex and murder. |
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| Rules of the Game 1939 | Jean Renoir's masterpiece, made two years after his Grand Illusion, has been on just about every top ten list of films. This film is in French with subtitles. |
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| Silent Enemy 1929 | The last great Paramount silent film, released with a spoken prologue and musical score. This was a semi-documentary on the vanishing American Indian and his real enemy in the early 20th century: hunger. |
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| Spies 1929 | Director Fritz Lang's first film after Metropolis, this is a riveting suspense drama dealing with Russian spy activity in England. |
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| Spoilers 1914 | Original filmed version of the classic Rex Beach western adventure. During the great fist fight scene the actors were so 'into' it that one of them landed in the hospital |
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| Student Of Prague 1913 | The Paul Wagner incarnation of a German Poltergeist legend. This is offered with German dialog cards only |
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| Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 | we offer both the dubbed (Crimes of Dr. Mabuse) and subtitled versions of this film. The subtitled version is from an original German print, running about 112 min. (only the French 1943 reconstruction runs 122 min, but does not follow the original script). |
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| The Cheat 1918 | Mastered from an original 16mm tinted print. A fine early 'A' picture directed by DeMille. |
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| The General 1927 | Keaton's favorite of his many films, and most likely his best. Newly mastered from a Thunderbird 16mm print with a music track. |
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| The Killing Game 1968 | Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claudine Auger and Michel Duchaussoy star in this Alain Jessua film. Cassel and Auger are cartoonists. They meet a wealthy playboy who lives out the fantasies in their cartoons. He hires them to develop an new comic strip and as they do, he begins to live it out; unfortunately this one deals with murder. This uncommon foreign cult classic is offered |
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| The Last Laugh 1924 | The great Emil Jannings plays a proud Berlin doorman who is demoted to men's room attendant, then is left a fortune by a wealthy American. A stunning film told with visions and music, but without a single dialog card. From the director of Sunrise and Nosferatu |
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| Thousand Eyes Of Dr. Mabuse 1960 | This is the last film Fritz Lang was to direct. For it he revived Norbert Jacques master of crime; Mabuse. Gert Frobe and Peter Van Eyck star in this 1960 outing. |
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| Toll of the Sea 1922 | This was the first feature film to be shot in Technicolor. It was also one of the few films produced by the Technicolor Company. The film runs 41 min. and the final shot was reconstructed using the original two strip color cameras . |
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| Toni Jean Renoir 1935 | First of the neorealist films, the story line is taken from a news event of the day. Renoir turns in a classic of crime and romance |
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| Under the Roofs Of Paris 1930 | A simple story of a love triangle, was to become France's first all talking - all singing film. In so doing, Clair was to create one of the most beautiful films of the early sound era. This compares well with Sunrise (1927 Murnau) and is nearly as charming today, 80 years later. |
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| Witchcraft Through the Ages 1922 | Benjamin Christensen directed this fascinating early version of Swedish Erotica, with torture and nudity in a documentary setting. This title is offered with a companion film of "Seashell and the Clergyman" (a surrealistic view from 1920 of a Priest's lust for a young woman) and 'The Historic films of Lumerie 1895-98' This program of silent films is offered |
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