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Birth of a Nation [VHS]

Birth of a Nation [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Lillian Gish , Mae Marsh , Henry B. Walthall , Miriam Cooper , Mary Alden
Director: D.W. Griffith
A pivotal moment in film history. After The Birth of a Nation, nothing was the same: not the way audiences watched movies, not the way filmmakers created them. D.W. Griffith's jumbo-size saga of the Civil War expanded the boundaries of storytelling on the screen, conveying a richer, more complicated (and certainly longer) tale than anyone had seen in a movie before. The delicate relationships, the sad passage of time, the spectacular battle scenes all look as fresh and innovative today as they did in 1915. So do Griffith's brilliant actors, most of them--including favorite leading lady Lillian Gish--drawn from his regular stock company. What has become increasingly problematic about The Birth of a Nation is Griffith's condescending attitude toward black slaves, and the ringing excitement surrounding the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith, whose political ideas were naive at best, seemed genuinely surprised by the criticism of his masterwork, and for his next project he turned to the humanist preaching of the massive Intolerance. Despite protests, Birth sold more tickets than any other movie, a record that stood for decades, and President Woodrow Wils...
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Birth of a Nation [VHS]

Birth of a Nation [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Lillian Gish , Mae Marsh , Henry B. Walthall , Miriam Cooper , Mary Alden
Director: D.W. Griffith
A pivotal moment in film history. After The Birth of a Nation, nothing was the same: not the way audiences watched movies, not the way filmmakers created them. D.W. Griffith's jumbo-size saga of the Civil War expanded the boundaries of storytelling on the screen, conveying a richer, more complicated (and certainly longer) tale than anyone had seen in a movie before. The delicate relationships, the sad passage of time, the spectacular battle scenes all look as fresh and innovative today as they did in 1915. So do Griffith's brilliant actors, most of them--including favorite leading lady Lillian Gish--drawn from his regular stock company. What has become increasingly problematic about The Birth of a Nation is Griffith's condescending attitude toward black slaves, and the ringing excitement surrounding the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith, whose political ideas were naive at best, seemed genuinely surprised by the criticism of his masterwork, and for his next project he turned to the humanist preaching of the massive Intolerance. Despite protests, Birth sold more tickets than any other movie, a record that stood for decades, and President Woodrow Wils...
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Tale of Two Cities [VHS]

Tale of Two Cities [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Ronald Colman , Elizabeth Allan , Edna May Oliver , Reginald Owen , Basil Rathbone
Director: Jack Conway , Robert Z. Leonard
Ronald Colman isn't even on screen for the most famous lines of his career ("It's a far, far better thing I do..."), but such is the power of the moment and the performance that everybody remembers it anyway. A Tale of Two Cities was the follow-up for producer David O. Selznick and high-class studio MGM to their hit adaptation of another Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield. While not scaling the heights of that impeccable production, Tale gives a tight, straightforward reading of Dickens' story of the French Revolution. Colman plays the drunken romantic Sydney Carton, who pines for the lovely Lucie Manette (Elizabeth Allan) even though she marries former French aristocrat Charles Darnay (Donald Woods). Meanwhile, back in Paris, the Revolution erupts, and Darnay is fated for the guillotine... perhaps. Along with Colman's expert study in melancholy, the film is crammed with fragrant supporting players, such as Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, and the uniquely unsettling Blanche Yurka as the endlessly-knitting Madame Defarge. In a handful of scenes, Basil Rathbone makes the Marquis de Evremonde the quintessence of clueless privilege ("With what I get from thes...
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Strange Interlude [VHS]

Strange Interlude [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Norma Shearer , Clark Gable , Alexander Kirkland , Ralph Morgan , Robert Young
Director: Robert Z. Leonard

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Viva Villa [VHS]

Viva Villa [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Wallace Beery , Fay Wray , Leo Carrillo , Donald Cook , Stuart Erwin
Director: Howard Hawks , Jack Conway , William A. Wellman

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Devil Doll (1936) [VHS]

Devil Doll (1936) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Lionel Barrymore , Maureen O'Sullivan , Frank Lawton , Rafaela Ottiano , Robert Greig
Director: Tod Browning

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Cabin in the Cotton [VHS]

Cabin in the Cotton [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Richard Barthelmess , Dorothy Jordan , Bette Davis , Hardie Albright , David Landau
Director: Michael Curtiz

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Last Outlaw [VHS]

Last Outlaw [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Harry Carey , Hoot Gibson , Tom Tyler , Henry B. Walthall , Margaret Callahan
Director: Christy Cabanne

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Wings [VHS] (1927)

Wings [VHS] (1927)

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Clara Bow , Charles 'Buddy' Rogers , Richard Arlen , Jobyna Ralston , El Brendel
Director: Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast , William A. Wellman
Wings, the first movie to win an Academy Award for Best Picture and the only silent film to win, is still remarkably enjoyable to watch. The story is a fairly conventional one--two flyboys, both in love with the same girl, go off to fight World War I, and male bonding and heartbreak ensue. It's a perfectly serviceable plot, except for the key logical flaw that both young men have inexplicably fallen in love with the boring girl down the street and have somehow failed to notice that Clara Bow is the girl next door. Both male leads really flew their airplanes, and the dogfight footage is still spectacular. The main reason to watch Wings, though, is to see the difference between an actor and a movie star. There are many actors in the film, but only two movie stars. Clara Bow is a treat to watch every minute she's on screen, and young Gary Cooper in a tiny role nearly walks away with the movie, mostly by standing there and looking dreamy. It's well worth sitting through a little cheesy organ music for a movie this much fun. --Ali Davis
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Birth of a Nation (Silent) [VHS]

Birth of a Nation (Silent) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Lillian Gish , Mae Marsh , Henry B. Walthall , Miriam Cooper , Mary Alden
Director: D.W. Griffith
A pivotal moment in film history. After The Birth of a Nation, nothing was the same: not the way audiences watched movies, not the way filmmakers created them. D.W. Griffith's jumbo-size saga of the Civil War expanded the boundaries of storytelling on the screen, conveying a richer, more complicated (and certainly longer) tale than anyone had seen in a movie before. The delicate relationships, the sad passage of time, the spectacular battle scenes all look as fresh and innovative today as they did in 1915. So do Griffith's brilliant actors, most of them--including favorite leading lady Lillian Gish--drawn from his regular stock company. What has become increasingly problematic about The Birth of a Nation is Griffith's condescending attitude toward black slaves, and the ringing excitement surrounding the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith, whose political ideas were naive at best, seemed genuinely surprised by the criticism of his masterwork, and for his next project he turned to the humanist preaching of the massive Intolerance. Despite protests, Birth sold more tickets than any other movie, a record that stood for decades, and President Woodrow Wils...
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