Tag: silent films
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Fantastic Fantomas of Filmland: Director Louis Feuillade
One of my favorite blogs, Scott Ashlin’s 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting, has finally posted some new reviews. I’m especially enjoying his observations on the silent French films of Louis Feuillade, especially the Fantomas series. Ashlin, also known (I assume) as El Santo, starts with this: It seems to me that if you go all…
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Charles Wadsworth Camp at the Movies
In my previous discussion of Charles Wadsworth Camp, I mentioned that several of Camp’s books later became films. I hope to track down all the movies and watch them, if possible. Last night I watched the very entertaining silent murder mystery, The Last Warning (1929, Universal Pictures). Based on Camp’s novel, The House of Fear…