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I'd love to ask him a coupla questions about some of the lost movies he's claimed to have seen (even for something like THE TERROR that has surviving sound disks) to see if I could trip him up.

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Tripping him might be less challenging than you'd think since his research is sometimes sloppy and he's overconfident that he's safe because the films don't exist. Take his "review" of DER GOLEM UND DIE TANZERIN (1917). He gets the basic plot right but many of the details he gives are incorrect. I have some contemporary reviews of the film from German newspapers and they pretty much give you the whole story of the film (I've seen the original script too but that of course really doesn't prove anything) and Laughing Man simply has it wrong more often than not. He also doesn't menton that Lyda Salmanova plays two parts: Mrs. Paul Wegener and the dancer (and thus she's competing with herself for Herr Wegener!)
And even when the films do exist and McIntyre could have seen them at an archive or film festival, his reviews are sometimes so off that I have my doubts he's even done that.
In his write-up on THE MONKEY TALKS he claims that when the fake monkey is confronted by a real monkey for a climatic battle, the real monkey is an actual animal but instead it's just another guy in a suit and he does such a laughably bad, unconvincing job that it's the "fake" monkey who looks realistic by comparison. (Later when this was brought to his attention, MacIntyre backed off and said he was relying on distant memories,etc.). He criticizes Paul Wegener's perfomance in DIE WEBER as the leader of the rioting workers but Wegener actually plays the evil capitalist fabric tycoon, something MacIntryre could have figured out just by looking at the credits on the IMDB. Not easy to confuse William Dieterle with Paul Wegener-if you've seen the film. He also mocks Richard Barthelmess in ENCHANTED COTTAGE saying he jumps up around like a lunatic continually making the V gesture with his hands. But I've seen the movie and Barthelmess does nothing of the sort. And so on.
But of course here we are talking about him-and he's probably the only IMDB reviewer whose name I know offhand-so he's pretty much accomplished his purpose.
Henry