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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 11, 2017 8:32:56 GMT
...which would you choose? We are assuming here that you just met a powerful wizard who can do this for you.
I'd probably go with Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929). The surviving fragments make the film look like a real two-colour-technicolor joy.
I'd also ask for some Theda Bara films....the surviving film "A Fool There Was" (1915) left me wanting more.
If possible, I'd also try to get the wizard to bring back some BBC TV variety telecasts of the 1930s...they could be fun.
Which lost films would you ask the wizard to bring back? Keep in mind that the wizard can only bring back so much...
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 11, 2017 8:50:53 GMT
Humor Risk (1921)A publicity still taken on the set of Humor Risk. The four Marx Bros are all in the photo -- can you ID them? 
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 11, 2017 9:11:39 GMT
Humor Risk (1921)A publicity still taken on the set of Humor Risk. The four Marx Bros are all in the photo -- can you ID them? That could be very interesting, even if it wasn't seen as being good enough for release. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 11, 2017 12:07:34 GMT
Richard KimbleMarx ID possibles front row 3rd from left= Groucho
3rd from right = Harpo
Between the girl and whitehaired gent = Chico
Ist on right front row = Zeppo
maybe. 
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 11, 2017 12:44:50 GMT
Marx ID possibles front row 3rd from left= Groucho
3rd from right = Harpo
Between the girl and whitehaired gent = Chico
Ist on right front row = Zeppo maybe. Wrong on Chico and Zeppo |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 11, 2017 12:57:32 GMT
Richard Kimble"Wrong on Chico and Zeppo Those two were TOTAL guesses. It's hard enough to find Zeppo even in the movies. I had a friend who was a dead ringer for a young Groucho.
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Post by mcavanaugh on Apr 11, 2017 13:49:35 GMT
Chico's in the checked cap, wearing glasses, between the two women. Zeppo's on the other side of the girl who has her hands on the man's chest.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 11, 2017 15:55:12 GMT
Dark Eyes of London - need a Blu Ray hi def restoration...
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 11, 2017 16:05:28 GMT
Well, I'll go the obvious route and mention London After Midnight. Hey, come on, guys, you know somebody had to do it sometime!  |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 11, 2017 16:21:40 GMT
Well, I'll go the obvious route and mention London After Midnight. Hey, come on, guys, you know somebody had to do it sometime! I asked the same question on Film General and it was mentioned, despite the fact that it probably wasn't a great film. It really is over-hyped. |
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Post by politicidal on Apr 11, 2017 16:25:01 GMT
Joan Crawford's stag picture.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 11, 2017 16:27:17 GMT
Well, I'll go the obvious route and mention London After Midnight. Hey, come on, guys, you know somebody had to do it sometime! I asked the same question on Film General and it was mentioned, despite the fact that it probably wasn't a great film. It really is over-hyped. I know. It probably wasn't a great film. But one thing to keep in mind may be that we've known it wasn't a great film for some years now--actually ever since 1974, when William K. Everson first published Classics of the Horror Film! So, what does that means? Well, as the late Ken Hanke put it in '08... "...it's been 35+ years since Wm. K. Everson first suggested that likelihood should a print show up. In the meantime, we've seen more Browning/Chaney works than ever seemed likely. And just more Browning. We are -- or we ought to be -- a lot more informed about what Browning was and wasn't and what his films are in general like. We've either accepted or rejected the plot machinations of his talkie remake. We may have come to the conclusion that most Chaney Sr. films look more tantalizing in stills than they play when actually seen (I have anyway). We've seen that photo restoration version on TCM (the movie has to be better than that!). By now we're so set up for a disappointment that the actual film may well be better -- or seem better -- than what we're expecting." |
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Post by gadolinium on Apr 12, 2017 0:27:03 GMT
The complete version of Greed (1924).
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 12, 2017 15:34:01 GMT
"He Who Gets Slapped"
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 12, 2017 15:42:56 GMT
He Who Gets Slapped was never lost, as far as I know. Is there something I'm missing? Or do you mean the Russian version? I must concede that I know nothing about that.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 12, 2017 15:47:05 GMT
...which would you choose? We are assuming here that you just met a powerful wizard who can do this for you. I'd probably go with Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929). The surviving fragments make the film look like a real two-colour-technicolor joy. I'd also ask for some Theda Bara films....the surviving film "A Fool There Was" (1915) left me wanting more. If possible, I'd also try to get the wizard to bring back some BBC TV variety telecasts of the 1930s...they could be fun. Which lost films would you ask the wizard to bring back? Keep in mind that the wizard can only bring back so much... Oh, and I should also add that I'd love to see the sadly lost The Rogue Song, Laurel and Hardy's first appearance in a feature-length film and the only feature in which they appeared in color. I'm a huge fan of "the Boys"--they're my favorite comedy team--and, whether this is a particularly good movie or not, I'd be interested in seeing it just as a fan of theirs. (On an historical level, it's also intriguing for being the first of their comic operettas, a genre in which the Boys specialized in their features--vide Fra Diavolo, The Bohemian Girl, Swiss Miss, and of course the best of them all, Babes in Toyland--and for being directed by our old friend Lionel Barrymore!) |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2017 15:50:32 GMT
I don't know what lost films are. They're lost.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 12, 2017 15:52:10 GMT
...I was referring to a "high quality" repro of "He Who Gets Slapped"...the copy I viewed was less than watchable. Is there a Criterion copy I am not aware of???
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 12, 2017 15:53:49 GMT
...I was referring to a "high quality" repro of "He Who Gets Slapped"...the copy I viewed was less than watchable. Is there a Criterion copy I am not aware of??? OK, I understand now. Sorry about that. I don't know about a Criterion copy. Unfortunately, I don't think there is. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 12, 2017 16:11:53 GMT
Oh, and I should also add that I'd love to see the sadly lost The Rogue Song, Laurel and Hardy's first appearance in a feature-length film and the only feature in which they appeared in color. I'm a huge fan of "the Boys"--they're my favorite comedy team--and, whether this is a particularly good movie or not, I'd be interested in seeing it just as a fan of theirs. (On an historical level, it's also intriguing for being the first of their comic operettas, a genre in which the Boys specialized in their features--vide Fra Diavolo, The Bohemian Girl, Swiss Miss, and of course the best of them all, Babes in Toyland--and for being directed by our old friend Lionel Barrymore!) It's my understanding that "the Boys" were not smoothly integrated into the plot, unlike the others you mentioned, their scenes having been shot as an end-of-production afterthought and shoehorned in, resulting in a Lawrence Tibbett operetta with L&H interludes. That being the case, I'd be satisfied if just their sequences were rediscovered. It's said that Hal Roach directed their scenes (rather than the film's credited one, Lionel Barrymore), which may suggest the possibility that they were actually shot not at MGM but at the Roach lot, which could suggest the further possibility that dupe negs or prints of those scenes (in either Technicolor or B&W) had at some point existed elsewhere than the now-lost MGM materials. And that's whatcha call optimism based on next to nothing. |
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