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Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this blending of melodrama and comedy, the story of a rebellious harem member who rejects the sheikh and falls in love with a merchant is interwoven with several other related stories.
3) Silent stars
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
x, 497 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2009, 2008
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 625 min.) : sd., b&w w/ col. seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This collection looks at three pioneering French filmmakers from the Gaumont studio, Alice Guy, Louis Feuillade and Léonce Perret, with both extensive examples of their work, and short biographies (in the cases of Feuillade and Perret).
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (54 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a South American country, Fairbanks is arrested by a tyrannical politician, and finds he must lead a jailbreak to free the country's president and his beautiful daughter from the dungeons and restore political stability
Publisher
Delta Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (169 min.) : sd. & si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The lodger: The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, seems mysterious, he is suspected of being the notorious "Avenger", a killer who has been stalking women in London and strangling them.
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage....
11) Sex
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (58 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A cabaret star who uses her sex appeal to lure men, ruin marriages and then move on to better prospects, finds the tables turned.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 738 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (xv, 173 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In the years before World War I, virtually no issue was too controversial to bring to the screen. The first American movies were deeply engaged with society, coming from an era when movies and entertainment were intimately interwoven with public debate. As such, they were shown in commercial movie theaters but also in clubs, churches, schools, and everywhere screens could be hung outdoors--from the sides of city tenements to country barns. This archive...
15) The artist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
16) Beauty's worth
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Description
"Marion Davies plays Prudence Cole, a devout Quaker brought up by her two elderly aunts. She is content with her conservative lifestyle until she is visited by Henry Garrison, a childhood sweetheart who has become a successful businessman. The millionaire playboy invites Prudence to an upscale seaside resort, where her dowdy attire makes her the laughingstock of Henry's friends. Humiliated, she befriends Cheyne Rovein, a starving artist who resents...
17) Chicago
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 213 min.) : sd., b&w and tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 p. : ill. ;19 cm.).
Description
The story of jazz-loving flapper Roxie Hart, put on trial for the murder of her lover, who hits the headlines with her courtroom theatrics.
20) The circus
Series
Criterion collection volume 996
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
In the last film he made during the silent era, Charlie Chaplin shines as director, composer, and star. A gag-packed comedy full of audacious set pieces, it showcases silent cinema's most popular entertainer and ranks among Chaplin's finest.
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