DVD: Agnes Ayres

DVD: Agnes Ayres

DVD:

Agnes Ayres

The Sheik
Rudolph Valentino; Agnes Ayres; Adolphe Menjou; Walter Long; Lucien Littlefield; Loretta Young

Reel Enterprises, 2007

This is the classic tale of Shiek Ahmed Ben Hassan (Valentino), who kidnaps a British beauty (Ayers), and spirits her away to his city of tents in the desert. She resists all of his amorous moves, continually begging to be returned home. He finally complies, but on her way home, she realizes that she has come to care for the sheik. Ayers is ...

Johnny Belinda

Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres

Warner Home Video, 2006

Remarkable performance from Wyman
Jane Wyman rightly became a movie superstar with her Academy Award-winning performance in this film. Belinda is a deaf mute young woman who is thought of as "the dummy" by her family and the local townspeople in the Canadian fishing village in which she was born and ...

The Affairs of Anatol

Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson

Image Entertainment, 2000

Engrossing entertainment
This film has a lot going for it, even though it's more like fun entertainment as opposed to a heavy classic masterpiece. It was directed by Cecil B. DeMille, whom most people either love or hate. Though he's largely remembered today for his religious epics, this ...

Chaplin's Essanay Comedies, Vol. 01

Billy Armstrong, Agnes Ayres

Image Entertainment, 1999

WELL DONE
This is a must have for an avid Chaplin fan.Great restoration by David Shepard and musical score by Robert Israel and Eric James.I highly recommend this and Vols.2,3 for your collection.

Son of the Sheik

Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky

Kino Video, 2000

A true legend of the silent screen ...
"Not east of Suez but south of Algiers" ... with these intertitles abounds one of the greatest legends of the Hollywood that is no more. When one thinks of those times one remembers The Wizard Of Oz, Casablanca ... and those scenes between Rudolph Valentino and Vilma ...

The Sheik / The Son of the Sheik (Special Edition)

Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres

Image Entertainment, 2002

Rudy is My Valentine - O
Another review by PD's daughter. I was given this movie from one of moms friends (which I am sooo very happy that I got it!!) but even before that I was mightily curious as to what created such an insane craze and obsession in the 1920's. Now I know. His name was ...