MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Manxman (1929)
Alfred Hitchcock’s last silent film, The Manxman, is about fisherman Pete Quilliam (Carl Brisson and lawyer Philip Christian (Malcolm Keen), friends from birth, but both after the same woman: Kate (Anny Ondra). Pete asks Phillip to ask her father, Caesar Cregeen (Randle Ayrton), for permission to marry. He says no, as Pete is poor. He goes […]
Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 18: Un Chien Andalou (1929)
18. THE EYES HAVE IT: Elect to watch one with an eye specific scene. See what I did there? Luis Buñuel pretty much invented cinematic surrealism. He said that when he filmed, he knew “exactly how each scene will be shot and what the final montage will be.” From this film to The Exterminating Angel, Belle de […]
The Great Gaboo (1929)
Based on “The Rival Dummy” by Ben Hecht, The Great Gaboo was released as an “all-dialog singing, dancing and dramatic spectacle” with huge musical numbers that stand in stark contrast to the plot and often stop the film’s pace cold. There was even a scene shot in color, “The Ga Ga Bird”, which is missing from […]
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