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Jim Roots wrote: Were blows exchanged on that occasion? The shrill faction of Nitrateville aren't afraid of getting punched; they're afraid of a contrary opinion, particularly if it's coming from someone who has put in the hours and done the heavy lifting. While I find that attitude baffling, (isn'...

Johnson, You ain't seen enough Noah Beery, he was one of the great scene stealing villains of all time, whether he was winking at the audience as in ISLE OF LOST SHIPS (1929), or playing it deadly like he does in the silent BEAU GESTE. Then he could turn around and be heartbreaking in a sympathetic ...

But Wait! There's more! And he play the piano as well in this clip:







RICHARD M ROBERTS

Though we've bantered and argued through the written word on many forums and privately over the years, we've actually spoken face to face only once or twice, and that was just at this last Slapsticon. RICHARD M ROBERTS Were blows exchanged on that occasion? Jim Don't be a goofus, but it did seem st...

Here's something you didn't see or hear too often (though he did, in fact, record a record album of songs). George Sanders sings Cole Porter with Dolores Gray on the FORD STAR JUBILEE in 1956:







RICHARD M ROBERTS

Sorry Richard, but once again you are responding to something you 'think' I said, rather than what I actually wrote (He does this to me a lot with three am wake up calls to tell me I was wrong about something I said during the Carter Administration). I'm well aware that all members of that stock co...

Hi guys The UNIDENTIFIED BOBBY DUNN No.s 2, 2b, and 3 are from NO DANGER ('23). Moma has a complete print in their collection which Ben Model and I have been trying to fit it into one of our CRUEL AND UNUSUAL COMEDY shows as it a great short (hopefully the next edition). The daughter of the blastin...

Richard, Mike banned the poster because he had been asked to keep the discussion on films, not politics. It's perfectly OK to not like The Big Parade . After a warning, this poster wrote a long anti-government and anti-Catholic church rant, talking about how the public is brain-washed by these two ...

Hey, it looks like Gebert and his thought police banned another one from Nitratevile this weekend. Didn't like the way the guy (or gal, it was a nameless one), said THE BIG PARADE was pro-war propaganda. Once again, truth and free-speech down the drain over there.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Who's uncovering all these clips? The British Film Institute? Cockney flea market scavengers? You your self Mr. Glass? The Bobby Dunn Arrow Mirthquakes have had a great survival rate, like many independent short comedies made by companies that went out of business quick and cared not about prints b...