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I've seen it but not since Junior High--when I was silent film obsessed ad tyheir ued to be a week long festival at a theatre here every year (I also saw Ben Hur there which I rmember being long but good--interesting early colour scenes too)

It's always amazing how the silent films of the 20s--particularly by key directors like Murnau (Nosferatu, etc) were far more sophisticated in how they used visuals than the first five or so year of sound film which really regressed and were static. I mean compare a masterpiece like Murnau's Sunshine from 28 with a sound film from the next year.

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The silent films often borrowed from german expressionism to get their point across visually, and then when sound came in they didn't have to work so hard and could just have the actors say it. I love silent films. Nosferatu is great, but I also love the big and small films of Lon Chaney. Phantom and Hunchback I guess are the ones most have heard of, but I also enjoy his obscure melodramas from director Tod Browning.

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Yes, and of course many (Murnau, Lan, etc) were German--there wasn't the ;language barrier sound film would create as only the inter titles, obviously had to be changed. Of course too early sound films, particularly the first two years, had such trouble wioth microphones, etc, that the camera wasn't allowed to move much at all.

I've only seen Phantom of the Opera of Chaney's films.

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I'm a huge classic film movie and star fan, silents included. I watched Passion of Joan around 2007 sometime.

quartermainefan, bringing up Tod Browning, please tell me you have seen Freaks (1931). If not, stop wasting your life. LoL

My personal favourite silent has to be Broken Blossoms, starring my favourite actor ever, Richard Barthelmess, and the one and only Lillian Gish.

And strangely enough, I just watched Ben Hur for a second time a few weeks ago.

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Freaks is on TCM several times this month for Halloween (I think even this final week...) It's great. I actually think Browning's early talkies suffer in just the way I mentioned--he took a while to adjust. His Dracula is iconic and (don't hit me) deadly dull, though it does work a bit better with music (Phil Glass did a score for it some years back), but even comparing that to Nosferatu of ten or so years earlier--no comparison. But by the time James Whale did Frankenstein they really ahd found their footing.

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I recommend a movie called The Unknown. starring Chaney and Joan Crawford. I just wish there was a copy on YT with the original music, not this reissue with new music

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It's about an hour long so not a huge investment in time, and it does showcase Chaney's physical skills and he gets a great scene where you can see him go insane before your eyes.

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