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Jack Knife Man (1920)

Directed by King Vidor and starring Peter Turner, Lillian Leighton, Florence Vidor and Claire McDowell., this film has a runtime of 70 mins and the print quality is good to very good.

Plot: A lonely old riverboat man is left a child by a dying mother. The old man and the boy grow to love one another. The village snoop feels the child would be better off in an orphanage and the sheriff is sent to try to take the child away.

Review: Veteran stage performer Fred Turner portrays Peter Lane, a shantyboat resident who is unexpectedly placed in the position of caretaker for a three year-old boy, due to the death of the boy's mother, and who faces a wide range of challenges in this extraordinarily well-made and scripted 1920 silent, which benefits from the directing and writing skills of King Vidor. Strong acting is in evidence from Turner, Harry Todd as a good-hearted tramp whose role becomes very important, Florence Vidor, Lillian Leighton and James Corrigan, as the film showcases a large dose of clever writing, building to a satisfying and sentimental climax. Most of the work's activity takes place in Lane's houseboat, which possesses the healing powers of home to him, as he attempts to ward off the nuptial blandishments of an attractive widow. The film is marked by a very gentle nature, is graced with delightful moments of humour and is an excellent early example of Vidor's proletarian stylistics and his mastery of montage.….£7.49

 

Jagd Nach Der 100 Pfund Note, Die (1913)

Directed by Willy Zehn and starring Josef Coenen, Hansi Dege, Senta Eichstaedt and Alfred Goebel, this film has a runtime of 48 mins and the print quality is good to very good It has German intertitles and is now available with additional English subtitles.

Review: Proving that not every gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing at the top, Josef Coenen gets a dividend check. He converts part of it to cash and goes around Edinburgh, paying off his bills with hundred-pound notes. At his club, there's some banter, and he bets some members that a particular note, which he will mail the next morning to London, will be in his hands and at the club three months hence. After he takes off, detective Senta Eichstaedt discovers a cache of forged bills. She takes off after Coenen, convinced he's the culprit and chases him right around the world.
Clearly it's an uncredited version of Jules Verne's AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. Unlike the Oscar-winning version, it doesn't have a plethora of exotic location shots or star cameos. Clearly it was shot locally in Germany. It does have some nice technical values, including interesting impressionistic glass shots, and for 1913, it is a well written feature; it may be a bit episodic in nature, but the parts hang together to produce a satisfying whole.…..£7.49

 

Jane Shore (1915)

Starring Blanche Forsythe, Roy Travers and Robert Purdie this British silent film epic has a runtime of 79 mins and the print quality is very good.

Review: Historical incidents associated with our own and other countries have been admirably depicted by the cinematograph. What is regarded as one of the finest of these historical productions is "Jane Shore ," which, in addition to its other merits , has the recommendation that it is entirely a product of British enterprise and industry in film-making . Painstaking care has characterised the production of the film, as the many fine scenes with which it abounds clearly show . An indication of the lavish scale on which the film, which comes from the "Barker Motion Photography (Limited), is produced, is to be had in the fact that it cost over £10,000, no fewer than 5748 artistes took part in it, and in one scene 3500 people participated. The period with which the story of "Jane Shore" deals is that of the Wars of the Roses and the stirring episodes of that eventful time. The romantic story of Jane Shore and Edward II., the historic events in which famous personages participate, the gorgeous scenes, the pageantry of the streets, and other features too numerous to mention, combine to make an excellent film. The acting throughout is natural, the costumes are appropriate to the period o of the story, and care has been paid to every detail. The battle scenes are fine examples of what can be accomplished by the cinematographer's art….£7.49

 

Janice Meredith (1924) **UPGRADE – Slightly improved print**

Directed by E.Mason Hopper and starring Marion Davies, Harrison Ford, Tyron Power Snr and WC Fields, this film has a runtime of 140 mins and the print quality is ok to good. It has a discreet logo throughout. I have done as much as I could with this film. The print was murky and I have improved the contrast and made it much more watchable.

Plot:It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington. Fields is a comic, drunken British sergeant.

Review: Janice Meredith is a film about a girl (Marion Davies) during the American Revolution who falls in love with a spy (Harrison Ford). Miss Meredith is somewhat like a silent movie version of Forrest Gump in that she constantly finds herself involved with historically important events like Paul Revere's ride, Washington crossing the Deleware, and others. There are also several historical figures depicted in the film like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Antoinette, and General Cornwallis. This film was a commercial failure when it was released and there are several indications as to why. First off, Marion Davies seems dying to show her true colors. We see them in a few scenes where she gets to flirt with men, bringing forth her vivacity and endearing qualities. However, in the scenes when she is more serious, her personality dims and her beauty becomes that of the silent starlet, standard and therefore uninteresting. Next, the film seems to take itself too seriously sometimes. It is obvious that massive amounts of money were spend on the making of the film, but that in itself does not make it an art film. There is a scene where fallen soldiers rise and as spirits encourage troops by playing drums and a flute. However, instead of being effective, it just seems strange and out of place. There is also some slapstick at unexpected times such as when two soldiers back into each other slowly and run away when their back touch, this during a dramatic battle scene!.....£7.49

 

Janosik (1921)

Directed by Jaroslav Siakel the film has a runtime of 62 mins and has English intertitles. The print quality is good…..£7.49

 

Japanese Girls at the Harbour (1933)

Directed by Hiroshi Shimitsu the film has a runtime of 72 mins and has English intertitles. The print quality is Excellent…..£7.49

 

Jealousy aka Eifersucht (1925)

Directed by Carl Grune and starring Lya de Putti and Werner Krauss this film has a runtime of 49 mins and the print quality is decent.

Taglines:LYA DE PUTTI In a searing document of the soul amongst the mad whirl of modern life, life rendered at once malicious and maddening by "JEALOUSY" (Print ad- The Mercury, ((Hobart, Tasmania)) 21 July 1928) …..£7.49

 

Jes’ Call Me Jim (1920)

Directed byClarence G.Badger and starring Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Lionel Belmore and Raymond Hatton, this film has a runtime of 62 mins and the print quality is ok to good.

Plot: Jim Fenton helps rescue a falsely imprisoned inventor and assists him in avenging himself on the man who robbed him of his invention and of his freedom.

Review: The best remembered phase of Will Rogers' movie career is the period of his stardom at Fox Films in the early '30s, when he made features such as State Fair and Judge Priest. He also did a stint at the Hal Roach studio in the mid '20s, where he appeared in a series of two-reel shorts, and most of those comedies are available to be viewed today. But the silent features he made for producer Sam Goldwyn -- a baker's dozen, made between 1918 and 1921 -- are almost entirely forgotten. The reason is both obvious and unfortunate: most of the films are lost, and the handful of works that do survive are not readily accessible. For fans of the great humorist this is an unhappy state of affairs. "Jes' Call Me Jim," one of the survivors, is well made and interesting, and deserves a wider audience.
Although Rogers was a humorist, known for his homespun wit, most of his films were not really comedies in the traditional sense, or at least not like the ones his contemporaries Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton were making at the time. "Jes' Call Me Jim" (named after a line of dialog spoken at a key moment) is a melodrama with occasional comic moments. Rogers always insisted he was no actor, and sometimes disparaged movie acting as "making faces," but his performance in this film is exceptionally moving, and understated in a way that feels modern. There's none of the over-the-top histrionics ones sometimes finds in early films, the kind that can provoke the wrong sort of laughter at public screenings. I'm sure this film would score a hit with viewers supportive of silent drama.
Will plays Jim Fenton, a simple hunter who lives with his dog in a cabin in a remote forest. (Incidentally, I don't know where this movie was filmed but the locations are beautiful.) He's sweet on Miss Butterworth (Irene Rich), who runs a hat shop in a nearby village. Although the lady is unattached, she looks after a boy whose mother is dead, and whose father Paul Benedict (Raymond Hatton) is an inventor locked up in an insane asylum, a horrible place run like a prison. He was confined there by wealthy mill owner Belcher (Lionel Belmore) who, we're told, stole the man's patents and had him committed under false pretenses. Miss Butterworth seeks justice for Benedict, an old family friend. When she's unable to secure his release, Jim steps in and, in a highly dramatic courtroom finale, publicly exposes Belcher as a villain.
As the plot synopsis indicates, this is no comedy. Will's character Jim Fenton will occasionally delivers a wry quip about his situation, and in one amusing scene he flirts awkwardly with Miss Butterworth in her hat shop, but the situation itself is not at all funny, and the whole cast plays it straight. Rogers is especially impressive in a sequence with Hatton-a fine character actor who worked steadily through the silent era, and for many years thereafter. Benedict, Hatton's character, has escaped form the asylum and is staying at Fenton's cabin. He is gravely ill, and it is believed that he may die. Jim takes responsibility for his condition, and feels terribly guilty and distraught; when Benedict narrowly survives, Jim weeps with relief. It's a beautifully played scene, and a memorable highlight.
So, in sum, this little-known film offers very good performances, rich atmosphere, an engrossing story and nice touches of humor. Why is it so obscure? I think there's a ready audience of silent film fans who would greatly enjoy "Jes' Call Me Jim" if it were more widely available.…..£7.49

 

Jesse James Under the Black Flag (1921)

Starring Jesse James jr

Plot: Shows James' joining of the Quantrill's raiders, a guerrilla force which fought against union sympathizers during the Civil War. James takes allegiance to the Black Flag, the raiders' banner. After the war he recieves kind treatment from a judge concerning his acts of crime and later meets and falls in love with Zee, with whom he wishes to live a peaceful life…..£7.49

 

Jew of Mestri, The aka Der Kaufmann Von Venedig (1923)

Starring Henny Porten and Werner Krauss…..£7.49)

 

Jewel of Khama, The aka Il gioiello di Khama (1918)

Starring  Amedeo Ciaffi,/Eugenia Masetti,/Augusto Mastripietri, this Italian silent film has a runtime of 75 mins and the quality of the tinted print is very good to excellent. The film has the original Italian and additional English intertitles…..£7.49

 

Jewish Luck aka Yevreyskoye schastye (1925) **UPGRADE – Now with English subtitles**

Directed by AlexanderGranovsky and starring Solomon Mikhoels, Moisei Goldblat and Tamara Adelgeym this film has a runtime of 99 mins and the print quality is very good. This is a Russian silent film with German intertitles and English subtitles.

Plot: Jewish Luck revolves around Menakhem Mendl (one of Sholem Aleichem's characters), a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression in Tsarist Russia, Mendl continues to pursue his dreams and his continued persistence transforms him from schlemiel to hero.

Review: This film was called by one expert as "the greatest Jewish film ever
made." I am not sure what does this "Jewish film" mean. All films made by the Jews? Films by Mauritz Stiller, Woody Allen, films made in Israel, like "Avanti Popolo"? If it does, it is hard to agree with that opinion. But if the term "Jewish film" concerns movies that presents old Jewish traditions, this little masterpiece is propably the most entertaining and best-made. And far better than "Fiddler on the Roof", the most successful film of this sort.
Film was made in Soviet Union during the time when government policy still defenced different cultures, and I guess it could not have been made anywhere else in Europe: the atmosphere was too racist. The story has a cunning Jew trying to make a living. In a train he decides to become a match-maker. In a hilarious dream sequence he sees himself "saving the America" (that has too much grooms and no brides) by loading a big steamboat with young Russian brides. The comedy is quite funny. The last, slightly sentimental scene where the Jew walks away from the village alone, reminds me of similar scenes by Charles Chaplin and Jacques Tati.
For some idiotic reason this film was actually BANNED in Finland in the 20's! Can't understand why, because it has no violence, no sex and no communistic ideas…..£7.49

 

Joan The Woman (1917) **UPGRADE – Improved print**

Directed by Cecil B.DeMille and starring Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts and Wallace Reid, this film has a runtime of 137 mins and the print quality is excellent.

Plot: John Trent, a World War I British officer, finds an ancient sword in his trench bunker just prior to volunteering for what will amount to a suicide mission the next day. That night he is visited by the spirit of Joan of Arc and is transported back to the 15th Century. Joan's career begins when, as a peasant girl, she meets Trent's ancestor, also an English soldier, fighting for the Burgundians. After Trent is captured, Joan is brought to the attention of the beleaguered Dauphin, heir to the French throne, who cannot be crowned because the English hold the royal city of Orleans. The weak Dauphin is impressed by her vision and apparently heaven-sent powers which border on the supernatural and ultimately gives her command of the armies. She is victorious at Orleans and the new King is crowned. Joan resists Trent's entreaties of love and continues her struggle to free the rest of her country from English occupation. Sinister forces, both English and French, conspire against her and she is captured. Tortured and condemned, she dies at the stake but never loses her faith and vision.

Review: All the Demille trademarks are here - huge crowd scenes, wild orgies, torture - but there is also a beauty and imagination here that is lacking in some of his later work. The use of double exposures for Joan's visions, the magnificent use of lighting and colour tinting, reveal a film-maker of greater depth than we might expect.
Opera diva Geraldine Farrar seems a little old and hefty for Joan of Arc, but once you get past that she truly gives an excellent performance. And Wallace Reid as her English lover lends strong support.
The camera is a little static and the "spectacular" battle scene is really just hundreds of people running around waving sticks in the air and falling backwards off walls (and I think very little attention was paid to the safety of the extras and the horses), but this is still a very rewarding and innovative film. And we get the original 1916 score performed on a Wurlitzer.
The historical story is framed by a World War 1 (then currently raging in Europe) scene, which adds poignancy to the piece, but does make the central thesis of the story (that God takes sides in wars) a little harder to take. Ramon Novarro's in this somewhere - can you find him? ....£7.49

 

Johan (1921)

Directed by Mauritz Stiller the film has a runtime of 85 mins and has English and Swedish intertitles. The print is tinted and of excellent quality…..£7.49

 

Johan Ulfstjerna (1923)

Directed by John W.Brunius and starring Ivan Hedqvist, Anna Olin, Einar Hanson and Mary Johnson, this film has a runtime of 67 mins and the print quality is good to very good. This Swedish silent has Swedish intertitles with English subtitles.

Plot: The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.

Review: Wartime conspiracy drama all about building nail-biting tension and spectacle with hundreds of extras. Shame that this was the last time Einar Hanson and Mary Johnson acted alongside each other as they were practically made to be an ideal silver screen couple….£7.49

 

Johann Baptiste Lingg (1920)

Starring Carl Auen and Irmgard Bern, this film has a runtime of 105 mins and the print quality is very good. Please note this film has German only intertitles…..£7.49

 

Johanna Enlists (1918)

Starring Mary Pickford.

Plot: A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area....£7.49

 

Johnstown Flood, The (1926)

Directed by Irving Cummings and starring George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Florence Gilbert, Anders Randolf, Paul Nicholson, Paul Panzer and Max Davidson, this film has a runtime of 61 mins and the print quality is good to very good.

Carole Lombard (uncredited) plays one of Gloria's four friends, who are all in at least three key scenes: one in which they are eavesdropping while Tom proposes marriage, another while Gloria is getting dressed for her wedding and finally as bridesmaids at the wedding. Lombard is standing directly between and behind Tom and Gloria. Clark Gable (also uncredited) can be recognized as one of a group of men standing in front of a bar in a briefly glimpsed medium shot. It would be interesting to know if they became acquainted during the making of this film. Gary Cooper also appears in a small part - actually two small parts, as both a flood victim and a survivor.

Plot: Tom O'Day is loved by two women, Anna Burger and Gloria Hamilton. Tom has no idea of Anna's love for him, and he becomes engaged to Gloria. Gloria's father, John Hamilton, is a wealthy lumber man who controls a dam upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He wants the water behind the dam kept at the highest level in order to facilitate his logging contracts. But Tom knows that the dam is faulty and endangers thousands of people in the valley below. A massive flood seems inevitable unless Tom can convince Hamilton to allow the floodgates to open and reduce the danger.

Review: THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD is a good silent film with some spectacular flood scenes. The plot has George O'Brien as a young engineer working for a lumber company owned by snarky Anders Randolf. He has a big new lumber contract to fulfill and is going full steam to do so. Although he's warned that the dam (which he owns) is structurally unsound, his lead engineer (Paul Nicholson) tells him it has been repaired. That's a lie, but Randolf is willing to believe it because the dam regulates the river which ensures the logs go downstream. Into this fray come Florence Gilbert, O'Brien's fiancee Gloria (and Randolf's niece). There's also Janet Gaynor as the young Anna, daughter of a logging foreman (Paul Panzer). She loves O'Brien, but he only has eyes for Gloria. Others in the cast include Max Davidson as the local department store owner. His role is meant to be comic relief, but the Jewish stereotype gets to be a bit much. There's also Kay Deslys in a dance number during a local show. Among the bit players are Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, and Gary Cooper! Rumor has it that Florence Lawrence is also recognizable.
Special effects aside, the real star here is Miss Gaynor. I had thought she had a small role early in her career, but she's actually the female co-lead and she's excellent. While Gilbert plays it straight as the lovely niece who eventually lands O'Brien, Gaynor's role allows her to do some comedy as the teenager and she gets the big scene when she saves the day (sort of) by galloping through the town on a horse, warning people the dam is about to blow.
Directed by Irving Cummings and photographed by George Schneiderman, this was one of the big hits of 1926 and helped make Gaynor a major star at the Fox Studio….£7.49

 

Joker, The aka Jokeren (1928)

Directed by Georg Jakoby and starring Henry Edwards, Miles Mander, Gabriel Gabrio, Renée Héribel, Elga Brink and Aage Hertel, this film has a runtime of 101 mins and the print quality is excellent.This silent film is a Danish/German production and has Danish intertitles with English subtitles.

Plot: Georg Jacoby’s Jokeren is a light-hearted entertainment picture set during the carnival in Nice, a romantic comedy with a touch of melodrama. A young artist, fatally injured in a car accident, foolishly entrusts a batch of compromising love letters to Borwick, a crooked and unscrupulous lawyer, instructing him to destroy them. Instead, Borwick proceeds to blackmail the woman who sent the letters, Lady Cecilie Powder, married to the straight-arrow Sir Herbert Powder. Lady Cecilie gets help from her spunky younger sister Gill. In turn, she draws in Peter Carstairs, a debonair adventurer known to all as “the Joker” – the card that trumps all others. When the Joker repeatedly foils Borwick’s schemes, the crooked lawyer ups the ante, trying to incriminate his adversary Carstairs and expanding his demands to include marriage to Gill. But as the characters converge at yet another lavish carnival celebration party, it becomes clear that one card does indeed trump all the others: the Joker!

Review: Georg Jacoby’s 'Jokeren' is set amongst the backdrop of the Nice carnival and follows a young artist, who, after being fatally injured in a car accident, foolishly entrusts his compromising love letters to a crooked lawyer.

Based on a successful 1927 English stage play of the same name, 'Jokeren' is a fairly standard blackmail romantic comedy, featuring an array of international cast members and numerous European locations.

Jacoby's film is undoubtedly a light-hearted affair, that doesn't over stay its welcome and clearly benefits from this new pristine restoration and the stunning locations of Copenhagen and France….£7.49

 

Joseph In The Land of Egypt (1914)

Directed by James Cruz and starring Eugene Moore, the film has a runtime of 52 mins and the print quality is excellent…..£7.49

 

Joyless Street (1925)

Starring Greta Garbo, this is an excellent restored print with a runtime of 151 mins.

Plot: Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested. He was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed some money for his own stock exchange deals. The same deal brings poverty to ex-government official Rumfort, his daughter Greta, who also has lost her job, tries to get some money to get food. She rents a room of the flat she, her young sister and her father are living in to an American Red Cross official, who pays $60 rent, but the money is taken by some of her father's creditors. But their neighbour, shop owner Mrs Greifer knows how to "help", she and Mrs. Merkel are running a nightclub with a brothel....£7.49 (quality is only fair).

 

Jubilo (1919)

Starring Will Rogers. Runtime: 55 mins…..£7.49

 

Judex (1917)

Directed by Louis Feuillade and starring Musidora this serial has a runtime of 300 mins…..£7.49

 

Judith (1923)

Directed by Theo Frenkel and starring Adolf Klein, Olga Limburg and Helena Makowska, this film has a runtime of 41 mins and the print quality is very good. It has a logo throughout and has Dutch only intertitles.

Plot: Judith, Count Robert de Bertan's daughter, is on holiday with her friend Louise and her father Marquis Emile de Fers. Meanwhile, banker Charles Delcourt has introduced De Bertan to the owner of a gambling-and-dance hall, Olga Tatschowas. De Bertan, unaware that his banker has lost the capital he gave him to invest at Olga's gambling tables, falls in love with Olga. He marries her, unaware that he is the victim of a plot hatched by Delcourt and Olga, who desires a title and De Bertan's possession. Returning home, Judith is confronted with an avaricious stephmother who, through Delcourt's legal chicanery, has succeeded in gaining everything De Bertan owns. Judith and her father seek refuge in the castle of the Marquis de Fers. There De Bertan dies. And it is there that Judith meerts George Delcourt, who falls in love with her. His uncle Charles Delcourt, now bankrupt and ruined by his gambling, commits suicide. Countess Olga lures Judith back home, hoping to deprive her of the inheritance to which she is entitled. But when Olga's forgery of a document is exposed, she flees abroad. George, who has learned from his grandmother Anne about the fraudulent practises of her son, his uncle Charles, hurries back to Judith. In his arms, Judith looks forward to a new and happy life,…£7.49

 

Judith of Bethulia (1914) **UPGRADE – Longer Print **

Directed by DW Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Henry B.Walthall, Mae Marsh and Harry Carey, this film has a runtime of 72 mins and the print quality is good to very good.

Review: A fascinating work of high artistry, "Judith of Bethulia" will not only rank as an achievement in this country, but will make foreign producers sit up and take notice. It has a signal and imperative message, and the technique displayed throughout an infinity of detail, embracing even the delicate film tinting and toning, marks an encouraging step in the development of the new art. Ancient in story and settings, it is modern in penetrative interpretation - it is a vivid history of one phase of the time it concerns, and is redemptive as well as relative, a lesson from one of those vital struggles that made and unmade nations as well as individuals, yet it is not without that inspiring influence that appeals powerfully to human sense of justice. The entire vigorous action of the play works up to the personal sacrifice of Judith of Bethulia, a perilous chance she takes for the sake of the lives and happiness of her people. She dares expose herself to overwhelming humiliation and dishonor ... Written by Moving Picture World 1914...£7.49

 

Jujiro (1928)

Japanese silent film with English intertitles. Runtime: 66 mins…..£7.49

 

Jungle Princess (1920)

Starring Juanita Hansen. Plot:, Feature version of The Lost City (1920), a fifteen episode serial……£7.49

 

Jungle Woman (1926)

Written and directed by Frank Hurley and starring Eric Bransby Williams, Grace Savieri and Jameson Thomas this film has a runtime of 86 mins and the print quality is excellent. It was shot partly on location in Thursday Island back to back with another Hurley feature, The Hound of the Deep.

Plot: In New Guinea a man escapes from natives and saves a girl from marrying her crooked partner.

Review: Everyone acts up a storm in this British melodrama. The scene is New Guinea, where trader Martin South (Eric Bransby Williams) is betrayed by his partner Mordyke (Jameson Thomas) and left for dead in the jungle. Escaping marauding wildlife and hostile natives, South finally manages to make his way back to civilization. He arrives just in time to prevent his sweetheart Eleanor (Lillian Douglas) from marrying the treacherous Mordyke....£7.49

 

Just Pals (1920)

Directed by John Ford and starring Buck Jones, Helen Ferguson and Georgie Stone, this film has a runtime of 50 mins and the print quality is excellent.

Plot: Bim is the town ne'er-do-well, lazy and shiftless, living a catch-as-catch-can existence. He feels no shame about his tattered clothing and seems impervious to the derision and ridicule he endures from his fellow citizens in his rural, early 20th Century village. Despite this, Bim is a kind-hearted soul, and that becomes very apparent when he rescues a young runaway from a beating by a railroad cop at the expense of being beaten himself. Young Bill reciprocates Bim's kindness and has to endure taunting and abuse from the school bully to defend his 'pal.' Bim wants Bill to rise above his station and encourages him to bathe and attend the town's modest one-room schoolhouse presided over by pretty schoolmarm Mary Bruce. She is being courted by the outwardly respectable bank clerk Harvey Cahill, who has embezzled funds from his employer and ungallantly presses the kind-hearted Mary into lending him the school memorial fund money she is entrusted with to cover the shortfall for the bank ...

Review: Early John Ford feature has Buck Jones playing a hobo named Bim who is hated by all the adults in his town because they see him as a disgrace and nothing else. One day Bim comes across a young boy (George Stone) who has ran away from home and the two quickly become friends, which will be tested when a doctor tries to take advantage of them. This is the earliest film I've seen from Ford and it really caught me off guard because it's really a lot different than the later day Ford films, which most people know by heart. A lot of the later day Ford films are rather cold hearted or feature lead characters who we hate yet we go along for a ride with them. That's not the case here as Ford paints a perfect picture and builds up the world and spirit of the time that the film takes place. The picture comes off very authentic and contains a loving heart of friendship. Jones is terrific in his role and really makes the character very memorable and likable. Stone is just as good as is the rest of the supporting cast. The film runs a short 50-minutes and really flies by quickly as there aren't any worthless scenes dragging down the action. This film plays much like many of D.W. Griffith's melodramas, which isn't too shocking since Ford got his start with Griffith.…..£7.49

 

Just Suppose (1926)

Starring Richard Barthelmess. The print is very good in places but fuzzy in others. Runtime 78 mins…..£7.49

 

Just Tony (1922)

Starring Tony the Horse…and Tom Mix.

Plot: A cowboy seeks revenge against the man who shot him in a bar-room brawl. While searching for him, he comes across a wild stallion that he is determined to capture and break, and unknowingly falls in love with the daughter of the man who shot him….£7.49

 

Just Travelin’ (1927)

Starring Bob Burns and Dorothy Donald.

Review: Cowboy star, Bob Burns (not to be confused with comedian Bob "Bazooka" Burns), is a pretty stolid character who has three expressions: eyes squinty (normal); eyes wide open (surprise); and eyes narrowed (disapproval). So, stolidly reliable, yes. Charismatic, no. The rest of the players are likewise not exactly a bunch to get too excited about: Dressed in unattractive dungarees, Miss Donald seems unusually chunky for a movie heroine; Tex Hewston overplays the comic relief, but just as we are getting really tired of his one "joke", he unaccountably disappears for a long stretch; Lew Meehan's mouthy villain is hammily over-indulged to the point of ludicrousness, but the three decent actors in this set-up, Jack Radke, Frank O'Connor and the sheriff are given little to do. Except for his fondness for iris effects, Carpenter's direction comes across as uninspired, and the story likewise rates as ho-hum routine, but it does incorporate some very odd (and maybe true-to-life) incidental touches, like our cowboy hero apologizing to the villains for accidentally blowing them up, and a kindly henchman assuring the heroine he'd protect her from his lecherous boss!……£7.49

 

Juve versus Fantomas (1913)

Directed by Louis Feuillade.

Review: This film is the second part of Louis Feuillade's brilliant 'Fantomas' series. Although I liked the first part better this is also very good film. It is remarkably well done for 1913; the special effects are convincing (for example the train crash) and there is plenty of action and good characters. This film will thrill you for the whole hour and leave you wondering after the fabulous cliffhanger ending. Quite amazing for a film over 90 years old. I recommend this film for film students (who should see the whole series, mind you) and especially for those interested in Pre 1920s french cinema….£7.49

 

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Note that if you require a film in NTSC please make this clear at the time of ordering.

 

Ruan Lingyu

Silent Films J

Trilby Clark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Email: silentfilmdvd@gmail.com

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