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Sep 16 10 5:36 PM
stuthehistoryguy wrote: Is there a major effort to locate other lost films that persists with anything approaching the ardor of those lusting for London After Midnight?
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Sep 16 10 5:52 PM
...and his work was done. Who wouldn't want to see this movie? No matter what people said or wrote about the movie, once you saw that image, you couldn't un-see it. The photos are just too compelling. Sure, the movie is/was probably mediocre at best, but does FOUR DEVILS have an image like this as advertisement? I doubt it.
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WHILE PARIS SLEEPS (1923). It's Chaney's first horror film
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Sep 17 10 5:01 PM
The "most wanted" lost film by the British Film Institute is Hitchcock's The Mountain Eagle. Hitchcock himself didn't think much of the film, telling Francois Truffault that it was " a very bad film", and that he was "not sorry there are no known prints".
Personally, I would go with Ozu's lost works from the 1920s-1930s, as far as "most wanted lost silent film" goes.
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Michael Elliott wrote: I've seen over 125 Griffith films but THE GREATEST THING IN LIFE might be my #1. I read a scene-for-scene layout of the film and the scene of the dying black soldier in the arm of the racist white man sounded incredible. Apparently the rest of the film wasn't as powerful but this scene certainly makes me wish the film turns up.LAM probably wouldn't make my top 10 list. The hype everyone has built up over the film would only lead to disappointment even if it was a good film (which most say it wasn't). There are many other Chaney films I'd pick before this one as well. It seems the legend of LAM comes mainly from those who saw a certain picture in FM magazine. Many other silent boards don't seem to be all that impressed when they make their lists of what they want found.
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