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- Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charles Chaplin…
- The third in Robert Youngson's trilogy of definitive compilations of silent comedy, this time with swashbuckling action to match the outrageous…
- When Comedy Was King (1960)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel…
- Second anthology of priceless silent comedy from complier Robert Youngson features excerpts from the likes of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy,…
- Golden Age of Comedy, The (1957)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Ben Turpin…
- Perfect introduction to the world of silent comedy, this is the first of three celebrated compilations from cinephile Robert Youngson.
Hailed as…
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- Dir. G.W. Pabst
Feat. Louise Brooks
- Exceptional follow–up to the eye–opening PANDORA’S BOX, with Louise Brooks again provoking disorder with her unrestrained vitality and…
- October : 10 Days That Shook the World (1928)
- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Nikandrov , N. Popov, Boris Livanov
- A brilliant reconstruction of the momentous events of 1917, when revolutionary soldiers overthrew the provisional Government bringing Lenin and the…
- Cat and the Canary, The (1927)
- Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Laura La Plante, Tully Marshall
- Seminal haunted house flick centres around the gathering of greedy contestants to the will of a rich relative. Imaginative thrills are executed with…
- It (1927)
- Dir. Clarence Badger
Feat. Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, Gary Cooper
- Clara Bow sprang to stardom in this silent comedy, using ‘it’ to gold–dig department–store boss Antonio Moreno. Memorable for its…
- Wings (1927)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Gary Cooper
- Renowned silent film represents the epic struggles of the allied airforces in WWI, with brilliant aerial sequences, battle recreations and several…
- Mother (1926)
- Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
Feat. Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov
- In one of the masterpieces of early Russian cinema, a fable of pre–revolutionary worker–resistance and Tsarist oppression is heightened…
- Son of the Sheik (1926)
- Dir. George Fitzmaurice
Feat. Rudolph Valentino
- Rudolf Valentino's most famous and best outing is a high camp romp in the desert in which he plays the dual role of father and son, no doubt to…