The Covered Wagon (1923) Director: James Cruze ★★★☆☆ Billed by Paramount as the next big budget film after D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915), The Covered Wagon is often regarded as the first great epic Western film. I am a sucker for a film that captures the true beauty…
Tag: silent film
Seven Chances (1925) Film Review
Seven Chances (1925) Director: Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton ★★★★☆ Based on the musical of the same name, this silly Buster Keaton film tells the story of Jimmie Shannon, a stock broker, who is on the verge of bankruptcy. However, a lawyer chases him and his business partner around town, hoping…
Greed (1924) Film Review
Greed (1924) Director: Erich von Stroheim ★★☆☆☆ Greed is often celebrated as one of the great films of the silent era. It was directed by eccentric Austrian-American director, Erich von Stroheim, and based on an 1899 novel entitled McTeague by Frank Norris. Von Stroheim, upon emigrating to America, began claiming…
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) Film Review
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) Director: Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton ★★★★★ Along the Mississippi River, a riverboat called the “King” floats into the harbor at River Junction Bank. The wealthy owner of this big fancy boat, Mr. J.J. King, boasts about how the “King” will run the old but lovable…