Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on December 11, 2014

By Fritzi Kramer on December 11, 2014 in Blog, Humor, Silent Movie Rules Douglas Fairbanks had a lot of fun with Zorro’s dual identity in The Mark of Zorro. No one believed that the sleepy Don Diego was really the fearless Zorro. Robert McKim’s villain certainly had no idea who...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on December 5, 2008

The intrepid reporter genre has almost entirely disappeared. These are the films–around since the 1930s, when newspapers became American cinema’s ideal breeding ground for protagonists (many screenwriters, new to talkies, were former journalists)–where the reporter is investigatin   read more