DVD Blue Boxes

Saturday, June 14, 2008

"Scarlet Street" (1945)

German director Fritz Lang is best known for the highly influential films from relatively early in his career, especially Metropolis (1927) and M (1931).
But he also had a brief Hollywood heyday during the mid 1940s, when he made some of his best films.Scarlet Street has been claimed by film noir.
This attribution is understandable. The lighting is dark, with heavy use of shadows.
The characters are all shady as well. Kitty is certainly a femme fatale, although hints are dropped that she is an inherently decent person who has become completely corrupted by Johnny.
Being the most naive, Robinson is also the most sympathetic.
But even he eventually turns to crime to fulfill his passions.But while Scarlet Street has elements of film noir, it is in reality a black comedy.
While Robinson plays it straight throughout, Bennett and Duryea camp it up marvelously.
Bennett laughs when Robinson claims to be a painter: "And here I had you pegged as a cashier!" She also has to suppress laughter when Robinson reveals that he is married, and shock when Duryea passes her off as the mysterious painter.

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Friday, June 13, 2008

Charlie Chaplin's"The Vagabond" (1916)

From archive.org: This is Charlie Chaplins 53rd Film Released July 10 1916 The Vagabond was a silent film by Charlie Chaplin and his third film with Mutual Films. Released in 1916, it co-starred Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Leo White and Lloyd Bacon. This film echoed Chaplin's work on The Tramp, with more drama mixed in with comedy. The story begins with Charlie, playing music to raise money, and instead finds the abused girl (played by Edna) living in a gypsy camp. As in The Tramp, he works on finding a way to help her.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007507/

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Charlie Chaplin's "The Tramp" (1915)

From archive.org: This is Charlie Chaplin's 41st film. It was released on April 11, 1915.
"The Tramp" was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Essanay Studios in 1915. Directed by Charlie Chaplin, it was the fifth and last film made at Essanay's Niles, California studio.
"The Tramp" marked the beginning of The Tramp character most known today, even though Chaplin played the character in earlier films.
This film was the first departure from his more slapstick character in the earlier films, with a sad ending and showing he cared for others, rather than just himself.
The film co-stars Edna Purviance as the farmer's daughter and Ernest Van Pelt as Edna's father. The outdoor scenes were filmed on location near Niles From imdb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006177/

Charlie Chaplin's "Kids Auto Race At Venice" (1914)

From archive.org: This is Charlie Chaplin's 2nd Film Released Feb. 07 1914 "Kid Auto Races At Venice" is 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin in which his "Tramp" character makes a first appearance. Made by Keystone Studios and directed by Henry Lehrman, in it Chaplin plays a spectator at a 'baby-cart race' in California. The spectator keeps getting in the way of the camera and interferes with the race, causing great frustration to the public and participants. Chaplin's tramp character would go on to be one of the most beloved film icons in history. More info from idmb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004189/

Charlie Chaplin's"Making A Living" (1914)

This is Charlie Chaplin's 1st Film Released Feb. 02 1914Making a Living is the first film appearance of Charlie Chaplin, which premiered on February 2, 1914. Chaplin plays a lady-charming swindler, Edgar English, who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops. Chaplin's famed screen persona of "the Little Tramp" did not appear until the film Kid Auto Races at Venice. Find more Chaplin films: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004288/
An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. His rival is delayed when he gets caught in a woman's bedroom by her jealous husband. The swindler follows the distribution of the paper containing his 'scoop' around town where he is once again chased by the rival reporter. Both end up on the cow-catcher of a streetcar. Written by Ed Stephan