DVD: Marguerite Harrison

DVD: Marguerite Harrison

DVD:

Marguerite Harrison

Silent Classics Collection 4 Movie Pack

Buster Keaton, Lon Chaney

Alpha Video, 2003

Four excellent pre-sound films
SYNOPSES: "The General" - Buster Keaton portrays a loyal Southerner during the Civil War who is also engineer of The General. When some Union soldiers make off with his beloved engine, Keaton pursues them in a second train and eventually manages to steal The General ...

Outside the Law/Shadows

Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman

Image Entertainment, 2000

A good value Lon Chaney double feature
I have now seen 10 of Lon Chaney's films and I would say that they are nearly all enjoyable. The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame are masterpieces, the rest vary in quality, but Chaney's varied performances always make them interesting. The two ...

Grass: A Nation's Battle For Life

Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Khan

Image Entertainment, 2000

An astonishing film
This is one of the most important films ever made about tribal nomadic life, and the rigors of the filmmaking process make it all the more astonishing. The film does practice a bit of romanticism that was completely unnecessary. It pretends that the Bakhtiari tribe are ...

Shadows

Priscilla Bonner, Lon Chaney

Alpha Video, 2003

Lon Chaney's silent film about Yen Sin, "The Heathen"
Lon Chaney's performance in "Shadows" is really the only thing that makes this 1922 silent film worth preserving. Chaney plays Yen Sin, known as "The Heathen." Set in in the sea side fishing town of Urkey, the story focuses on Sympathy Gibbs (Marguerite De La Motte), ...