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![The Silent Revolution, Vol. 2 - She! (Denmark 1902-1914) / The Enemy Below (France 1904-1912) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Z9B5DA72L._SL160_.jpg "The Silent Revolution, Vol. 2 - She! (Denmark 1902-1914) / The Enemy Below (France 1904-1912) [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Douglas Fairbanks
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Mary Pickford
Director:
Noël Burch
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
Mary Pickford
The Golden Age of Silent films Volume 11. Mary Pickford in Pollyanna hosted by Dale Reed.
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![Memories of the Silent Stars [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41B7M8N5F0L._SL160_.jpg "Memories of the Silent Stars [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Douglas Fairbanks
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Tom Mix
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Pearl White
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Ben Turpin
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Clara Bow
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![Coquette [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GJ3ABRRDL._SL160_.jpg "Coquette [VHS]")
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
Mary Pickford
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Johnny Mack Brown
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Matt Moore
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John St. Polis
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William Janney
Director:
Sam Taylor
Mary Pickford won an Academy Award for her performance in Coquette, her first "talking picture." Billed as "a drama of the American South," the movie features Pickford as a classic Southern belle. However, as the film takes place during the Jazz Age of the 1920s, not the antebellum South, Pickford's version of Scarlett O'Hara is a flapper. (The party scenes with dancers wildly doing the "black bottom" are a hoot.) To play socialite Norma Besant, Pickford had her famous golden curls bobbed, and she "flits about from one fella to another like a butterfly." But Pickford's fans would never have permitted her to portray a real Jezebel, so as soon as the plot gets underway, her character quickly falls head over heels in love with just one man. ("Of course, I never wanted to play a role that would ever offend the little girls who love me," declared Pickford in a 1917 Motion Picture Classic interview.) Coquette's story eventually turns quite tragic, pitting daughter against father and giving Pickford the chance to act up a storm. Pickford had experience on stage before appearing in moving pictures, so her progression to sound films was not as awkward as that of som...
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![Tess of the Storm Country (Silent) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CYJEGF17L._SL160_.jpg "Tess of the Storm Country (Silent) [VHS]")
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
Mary Pickford
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Lloyd Hughes
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Gloria Hope
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David Torrence
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Forrest Robinson
Director:
John S. Robertson
Tess of the Storm Country might be seen as the archetypal Mary Pickford film. Pickford plays Tessibel Skinner, a dirt-poor fisherman's daughter living with a community of squatters in ramshackle huts by the water's edge. Tess was reportedly one of Pickford's favorite roles (both in this 1922 version and in an earlier one, shot in 1914), and it shows. She brings a sparkling energy to her performance. Dressed in rags, her hair a frazzled mop, she creates an indelible character. ("The more ragged and dirty I look, the better I can play," declared Pickford in a 1914 Photoplay Magazine interview.) Every man in squatter town has eyes for the beautiful, fearless Tess, from brutish Ben Letts (Jean Hersholt) to pathetic Ezra Longman (Danny Hoy). But Tess's heart belongs to her sweet daddy (Forrest Robinson). High on a hill above these indigent folk dwells the wealthy Graves family. Father Elias (David Torrence) considers the squatters a stench in his nostrils and tries to evict them; son Frederick (Lloyd Hughes) sympathizes with them and falls in love with Tess; daughter Teola (Gloria Hope) finds her life becoming inextricably bound with Tess's, in ways neither girl could...
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![Golden Age of Silent Films (7pc) (Silent) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TWNHDJ59L._SL160_.jpg "Golden Age of Silent Films (7pc) (Silent) [VHS]")
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
Douglas Fairbanks
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Marguerite De La Motte
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John Barrymore
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Martha Mansfield
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Buster Keaton
Director:
Buster Keaton
, Charles Chaplin
, Clyde Bruckman
, Dorothy Arzner
, Fred Niblo
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Mary Pickford
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Douglas Fairbanks
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Edwin Maxwell
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Joseph Cawthorn
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Clyde Cook
Director:
Sam Taylor
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![Stella Maris (Silent) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DPEH8AAWL._SL160_.jpg "Stella Maris (Silent) [VHS]")
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
Mary Pickford
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Ida Waterman
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Herbert Standing
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Conway Tearle
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Marcia Manon
Director:
Marshall Neilan
Mary Pickford plays two roles in this film; it is a testament to her phenomenal acting talent that we really see her as two completely different characters. In the title role of Stella Maris, Pickford portrays a lovely young woman, paralyzed from childhood, whose wealthy, aristocratic parents have kept her utterly sheltered from the ugly realities of the outside world. As poor little orphan girl Unity Blake, Pickford is literally unrecognizable. Make-up, hair, and costumes help achieve this remarkable transformation. Stella Maris is radiantly pretty, with bright eyes and lips and flowing curls, decked out in ruffled white frocks. Unity is painfully plain: sallow-skinned and dull-haired, in an orphan's homespun, shapeless shift. But it is Pickford's extraordinary facility with body language--the true sign of a great silent-film actress--that makes each character so distinct and credible. Privileged Stella Maris's movements are always graceful and dainty, whereas Unity stoops and flinches, the victim of a lifetime of want and abuse. Both characters fall in love with the same man, journalist John Risca (Conway Tearle), who is married to the abusive drunkard Louisa (Marcia Ma...
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![Silent Revolution - What Do Those Old Films Mean? Collection [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TP2S9ENBL._SL160_.jpg "Silent Revolution - What Do Those Old Films Mean? Collection [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Douglas Fairbanks
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Mary Pickford
Director:
Noël Burch
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![Don Q, Son of Zorro [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/218FE21R77L._SL160_.jpg "Don Q, Son of Zorro [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Enrique Acosta
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Mary Astor
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Juliette Belanger
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George Blankman
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Charles Byer
Most sequels pale beside the originals. However, this follow-up to Douglas Fairbanks's surprise 1920 hit, The Mark of Zorro, is a welcome exception. Though again mining the Old California Robin Hood idea, it's better produced, it's better scripted, and it features the still-agile 42-year-old Fairbanks in not two, but three roles--playing Don Diego/Zorro as well as his own foppish son, Don Cesar de Vega. The big change here: Don Cesar's weapon of choice is the whip rather than the rapier. You can think of him as a forebear of the bullwhip-cracking Indiana Jones. The setting shifts to Spain, where Don Cesar is falsely accused of murder. Tyranny's head again rears as our hero romances a very young Mary Astor and battles the series's most formidable foe yet, Donald Crisp's Don Sebastian. With a more reasonable budget, Fairbanks was able to stage the fights and cliffhanger escapes that were beyond him the first time around. That's Warner Oland, the best of the Charlie Chans, as Archduke Paul and Jean Hersholt of Greed as Don Fabrique Borusta. --Glenn Lovell
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