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Showing posts with label Lillian Gish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lillian Gish. Show all posts
Thursday, February 15, 2018

The Wind (Victor Sjöström, 1928)

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Lillian Gish in The Wind Letty : Lillian Gish Lige : Lars Hanson Roddy : Montagu Love Cora : Dorothy Cumming Beverly : Edward Earle ...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith, 1921)

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Who knew that one of the chief causes of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror was "Bolshevism"?  Or that Danton, who help...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)

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The raw pathos of Broken Blossoms has probably never been equaled on film, thanks to three extraordinary performers. Lillian Gish is a kn...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946)

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Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun Pearl Chavez : Jennifer Jones Lewt McCanles : Gregory Peck Jesse McCanles : Josep...
Monday, November 23, 2015

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

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Is there another great film so inconsistent in tone and technique? For it is a great film for the most part -- certainly every part that ...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

The White Sister (Henry King, 1923)

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Watching Lillian Gish in a film directed by Henry King after seeing her as directed by D.W. Griffith , Victor Sjöstrom , and King Vidor i...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Way Down East (D.W. Griffith, 1920)

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If Griffith's sententious title cards (e.g.,"Not by laws -- our Statutes are now overburdened by ignored laws -- but within the h...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström, 1926)

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It's been many a year since I read The Scarlet Letter , but I'm pretty sure that any high school students who think they can get b...
Monday, October 26, 2015

La Bohème (King Vidor, 1926)

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Bohème without Puccini, except for a few themes from the opera interpolated into the piano accompaniment for the print shown on Turner Cl...