Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.

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The post Monte Brice – Casey at the Bat (1927) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father’s death. In 1910, he befriends American reporter Johnny Sykes. Then a meeting with visionary Francisco Madero transforms Villa from an avenging bandit to a revolutionary general. To the tune of ‘La Cucaracha,’ his armies sweep Mexico. After victory, Villa’s bandit-like disregard for human life forces Madero to exile him. But Madero’s fall brings Villa back to raise the people against a new tyrant…

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The post Jack Conway & Howard Hawks & William A. Wellman – Viva Villa! (1934) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A highly respected Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Unfortunately, the son is more interested in rewards than in upholding the law. When he shoots a child caught stealing, the others frame him and he is sent to prison where his attitude becomes even worse than before.

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The post Josef von Sternberg – Sergeant Madden (1939) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Buster Keaton backed into feature filmmaking with this 1923 effort, which essentially consists of three two-reelers (Keaton’s accustomed format) edited together. The structure is a vague parody of D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance, with Buster fighting to win his woman from a stronger rival in the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, and modern times. It’s good but not great Keaton: the gags are chiefly basic slapstick, with little of the surrealistic refinement and visual sophistication he brought to his later features.

The dinosaur effects were created by Max Fleischer, the creator of Betty Boop and Popeye.

The buildings used for the jump in the Modern Age segment were the same buildings used by Harold Lloyd in Safety Last!.

Audio
#1- Soundtrack by Robert Israel
#2- Organ score by Lee Erwin
#3-Piano score

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The post Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton – Three Ages (1923) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

Review:
O Brooks-ey, Where Art Thou?

Everything you need to know about the mystique of Louise Brooks is contained in the first five minutes of this picture. We meet her dressed in men’s clothes, standing above a recently deceased body, dead from a gunshot to the temple. Brooks has killed him and looks like she would cheerfully do it again.

Then we see the events leading up to the murder – an attempted rape, which she desperately fends off with a shotgun. She’s a terrified child in this scene, her face pale and wide with fear.

Brooks was more than just a great hairstyle (although it is a great hairstyle). She was an actor of huge range whose unpredictability added tension to each scene. Halfway through the picture, there’s a moment when her traveling companion is about to be thrown from a moving train while she’ll be taken prisoner by a horny hobo. Will she break down and beg mercy? Will she jump from the train? Will she shoot the hobo? Will she talk her way out of it? Brooks is so dynamic and enigmatic, there’s really no way of knowing.

The film itself is a rattling yarn, a kinetic chase movie with some excellent train-based set pieces. It’s the kind of movie that the Hayes Code set out to ban, with tons of sex, violence and disrespect for law and polite society. The scene where Brooks and Richard Arlen snuggle up in a haystack is one of the hottest things I’ve ever seen.

— bleary (Letterboxd)

Two extra commentary tracks included:
1. Commentary by actor William Wellman Jr.
2. Commentary by Thomas Gladysz, founding member of the Louise Brooks Society

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The post William A. Wellman – Beggars of Life [+commentaries] (1928) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Plot: Min owns the waterfront hotel where Bill, the captain of a fishing boat, lives. Also living and working in the hotel is Nancy, whom Min took in some years ago as an abandoned girl. Now that Nancy is older, the truant officer and the police think that she should be moved to a different environment, and Min is torn between her attachment to Nancy and her concern that the waterfront may not be the best place for a young woman. Matters are brought to a head by the sudden re-appearance of Belle, Nancy’s disreputable mother. Written by Snow Leopard

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The post George W. Hill – Min and Bill (1930) first appeared on Cinema of the World.