Silent – rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films

VOR FÆLLES VEN (1921)

Jon W. — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 21:14:07 +0000

Unrivaled among silent-film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels are the four epic Danish features for Nordisk Films by its leading director, A.W. Sandberg: Our Mutual Friend (1921), Great Expectations (1922), David Copperfield (1922), and Little Dorrit (1923). The most visually spectacular is Our Mutual Friend, from Dickens’s last completed novel (1864-65), combining a comic satire about greed with a dark mystery that opens as a corpse floats in the Thames. Shot in 1918—the delayed release apparently due to disputes between Sandberg and Nordisk over the film’s ambition and length—its two parts survive only with significant missing footage in the second half, but it still runs almost two-and-a-half hours. Available for the first time with English subtitles that draw on Dickens’s phrasing and with new text screens to fill in missing story information, the forgotten film proves to be one of the great silent literary adaptations.

Director: A.W. Sandberg. AKA Our Mutual Friend
Writers: Laurids Skands & A.W. Sandberg (screenplay), Charles Dickens (novel).
Stars: Aage Fønns, Alfred Møller, Kate Risse, Peter Malberg, Karen Kaspersen, Egill Rostrup, Peter Fjelstrup, Svend Kornbeck, Peter Nielsen, Bertel Krause, Charles Wilken, Jonna Neiiendam, Carl Madsen, Kai Kilian.
Cinematographer: Einer Olsen.

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Language: Silent | Intertitles: Danish | Subtitles: English

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Language: Silent | Intertitles: Danish | Subtitles: English

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Big, big thanks to my friend and long time rarefilmm supporter Scott Simmon for sending me a copy of this Danish silent film which not only he personally subtitled to English but also created several text screens providing information about the story for those parts where the film footage couldn’t be found. Stellar work, Scott, thank you for this!

MARE NOSTRUM (1926)

Jon W. — Tue, 14 May 2024 09:53:21 +0000

German spies, using Freya Talberg as bait, convince neutral Spaniard Ulysses Ferragut to navigate a ship to refuel German U-boats, telling him they would never fire on passenger ships. But one torpedoes the ship his son, Esteban, was on, killing him and many others. He sets out to punish the ones responsible.

Director: Rex Ingram.
Writers: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Willis Goldbeck (scenario).
Stars: Apollon Uni, Álex Nova, Kada-Abd-el-Kader, Hughie Mack, Alice Terry, Antonio Moreno, Mademoiselle Kithnou, Mickey Brantford, Rosita Ramírez, Frédéric Mariotti, Pâquerette, Fernand Mailly, Andrews Engelmann.
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz.

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MP4 | 1.57 GB | 704×464 | 23.976 FPS | 2000 kb/s | AAC 192 kb/s
Language: None | Intertitles: English

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DIE TODESSCHLEIFE (1928)

Jon W. — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 23:58:18 +0000

Botto, a world-famous circus clown, is negative towards females, because a beautiful woman he once loved laughed at him for his job at the circus. André, a young artist, is Botto’s opposite. He loves women. His current love is Hanna, who also works in the circus. That’s when Botto meets Blanche, a middle-class girl.

Director: Arthur Robison. AKA Looping the Loop
Writers: Robert Reinert (story), Arthur Robison & Robert Liebmann (scenario).
Stars: Werner Krauss, Jenny Jugo, Warwick Ward, Gina Manès, Sig Arno, Max Gülstorff, Lydia Potechina, Gyula Szöreghy, Harry Grunwald.
Cinematographer: Carl Hoffmann.
Composers: Richard Siedhoff & Mykita Sierov (2020 score).

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Language: Silent w/German intertitles | Subtitles: English (hard)

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Language: Silent w/German intertitles | Subtitles: English (soft)

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Many thanks to musiclova @KG and to Dan Willard @Filmsbytheyear for the English subtitles, they both made a different set of subtitles so I made a hybrid combining the best lines out of each one.

LILAC TIME (1928)

Jon W. — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 06:41:45 +0000

All of those handsome young men in their flying machines are billeted in a field next to the Widow Berthelot’s farmhouse in France. Her daughter Jeannine is curious about the young men fighting for England in World War I and their airplanes. Then one of the aviators is killed. His replacement is Captain Philip Blythe who can’t help but notice Jeannine. When he lands the first time, she is standing in the middle of his “runway.” She makes a more favorable impression when he sees her later by the lilacs. When all of the young men depart on a mission, Blythe promises to return.

Directors: George Fitzmaurice, Frank Lloyd (uncredited).
Writers: Jane Cowl (play), Guy Fowler (book), Willis Goldbeck (adaptation), George Marion Jr. (titles), Jane Murfin (play), Adela Rogers St. Johns (adaptation), Carey Wilson (scenario).
Stars: Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Burr McIntosh, George Cooper, Cleve Moore, Kathryn McGuire, Eugenie Besserer, Emile Chautard, Jack Stoney, Edward Dillon, Dick Grace, Stuart Knox, Jack Ponder, Harlan Hilton, George Cooper, Edward Dillon, Emile Chautard, Eddie Clayton.
Cinematographer: Sidney Hickox.

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DOWN HOME (1920)

Jon W. — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 10:40:52 +0000

Nance Pelot is bravely trying to support herself and her father Joe, the town drunk, by playing piano in an unsavory roadside inn owned by Larry Shayne. Chet Todd, the son of a shop owner, is in love with Nance, but her reputation has been sullied by her profession, and so Chet’s mother disapproves of her. Nance inherits a small farm from her mother, and when Shayne discovers that the property is valuable, he plots to cheat Nance out of her inheritance.

Director: Irvin Willat.
Writers: F.N. Westcott (book “Dabney Todd”), Irvin Willat.
Stars: Leatrice Joy, James O. Barrows, Edward Hearn, Aggie Herring, Edward Nolan, William Robert Daly, Sidney Franklin, Bert Hadley, Frank Braidwood, James Robert Chandler, Nelson McDowell, Florence Gilbert, J.P. Lockney, William Sloan, Helen Gilmore, Willis Robards, Barbara Bedford.

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Note: Film ends abruptly before the closing credits, maybe 30 seconds missing.

ZUFLUCHT (1928)

Jon W. — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 12:18:30 +0000

After eight years in exile Martin returns to Berlin. He was involved in the German Revolution of 1918/1919 and had to leave the country as a result. Impoverished and lonely, he struggles on alone until the market saleswoman Hanne offers him shelter, although she does not have much money either. They fall in love and Martin even finds work on the construction site for the subway through Tempelhofer Feld. One day, however, he collapses there, whereupon the pregnant Hanne tries to nurse him back to health.

Director: Carl Froelich. AKA Refuge.
Writers: Friedrich Raff (writer), Walter Supper (idea).
Stars: Henny Porten, Max Maximilian, Margarete Kupfer, Alice Hechy, Francis Lederer, Carl de Vogt, Mathilde Sussin, Bodo Bronsky, Helmuth Neumann, Marion Mirimanian, Lotte Stein, Rudolf Biebrach.

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WHAT PRICE GLORY (1926)

Jon W. — Thu, 26 May 2022 08:46:51 +0000

U.S. Marines sergeants Flagg and Quirt have been bitter rivals for years, but when Flagg is promoted to captain and Quirt is assigned to his unit as his senior non-commissioned officer, their competition flares anew. Assigned to the front lines in France during World War I, Quirt and Flagg tussle over the lovely young Charmaine de la Cognac, daughter of local innkeeper Cognac Pete.

Director: Raoul Walsh.
Writers: Maxwell Anderson (play), Laurence Stallings (play), Malcolm Stuart Boylan (titles), James T. O’Donohoe.
Stars: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Dolores del Rio, Phyllis Haver, William V. Mong, Phyllis Haver, Elena Jurado, Leslie Fenton, August Tollaire, Mathilde Comont, Barry Norton, Patrick Rooney, Sammy Cohen, Ted McNamara, Patrick Rooney.

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KENTUCKY PRIDE (1925)

Jon W. — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 02:35:41 +0000

This little-seen gem by John Ford tells the story of a thoroughbred largely through the point of view of the horse, who casts her animal gaze on the troubled family of Southern aristocrats who own, sell, and eventually reclaim her, as her colt becomes a futurity winner.

Director: John Ford.
Writers: Dorothy Yost (story and scenario), Elizabeth Pickett (titles).
Stars: Gertrude Astor, J. Farrell MacDonald, Henry B. Walthall, Peaches Jackson, Man o’war, Malcolm Waite, Belle Stoddard, George Reed, Winston Miller.
Cinematographer: George Schneiderman.