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Bat,
The
The
Bat, a
master
criminal
terrorizing
the city
wearing
a
fearsome
bat
costume,
sets his
sinister
sights
on the
eerie
Fleming
mansion.
Within
the
walls of
this
spooky
house, a
bank
robber
has
stashed
$20,000
in
stolen
loot.
Leasing
the
mansion
is the
wealthy
Cornelia
Van
Gorder,
along
with her
niece
Dale.
Dale's
fiancée,
Brooks
Bailey,
a
cashier
at the
bank,
becomes
the
prime
suspect
in the
robbery
investigation.
After
the bank
president
is found
dead, a
group of
houseguests
search
the
mansion
for
clues to
the
whereabouts
of the
missing
fortune
and the
identity
of The
Bat.
They set
a trap
for the
mysterious
killer,
but the
master
criminal
manages
to
escape
with the
money.Based
on the
famous
play by
Mary
Roberts
Rinehart
and
Avery
Hopwood,
The Bat
is
renowned
for its
expert
use of
miniatures
and
striking
set
designs
by
William
Cameron
Menzies.
In 1930,
Roland
West
skillfully
remade
the film
as a
talkie,
The Bat
Whispers.
Vincent
Price
starred
in yet
another
version
of The
Bat in
1959.
West, an
innovator
of
movie-making
techniques
in the
silent
era,
also
made The
Monster
in 1925
with
legendary
silent
star Lon
Chaney.
Along
with the
1927
classic,
The Cat
And The
Canary,
The Bat
is
highly
regarded
as a
prototype
for the
haunted
house
film
genre
that
flourished
in the
'30s and
'40s.
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Birth
of a
Nation
After
watching
D. W.
Griffith's
epic in
1915,
President
Woodrow
Wilson
declared,
"It
is like
writing
history
with
lightning.
And my
only
regret
is that
it is
all so
terribly
true."
Meanwhile,
the
NAACP
organized
protests
with
regard
to its
portrayal
of
African-Americans.
Today,
this
milestone
of early
cinema
retains
the
power to
move us
emotionally,
intellectually
and
politically.
Griffith
has been
called
the
"Father
of
Film."
A failed
actor
and
playwright,
Griffith
came to
the
Edison
Studios
in 1907.
From
1908 to
1914, he
directed
500
films.
Constantly
experimenting
with,
and
innovating,
film
technique,
his work
culminated
with the
masterpiece
The
Birth Of
A
Nation,
the
first
American
full-length
motion
picture.
Based on
stories
by
Thomas
Dixon,
this
Civil
War epic
involves
the
struggle
of two
families:
the
Camerons
from the
South
and the
Stonemans
from the
North.
Like
Mathew
Brady
photographs
brought
to life,
the film
contains
splendid,
authentic
recreations
of major
moments
from the
war -
the
assassination
of
Lincoln,
the
surrender
of Lee
at
Appomattox,
Sherman's
march to
the sea
and
heart-wrenching
battle
scenes.
It is
the
film's
second
half,
which
deals
with
Reconstruction
and the
rise of
the Ku
Klux
Klan,
that has
created
the
greatest
debate.
Griffith
would
make
Intolerance
a year
and a
half
later as
a
response
to the
controversy
his film
caused.
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Blood
and Sand
Great
screen
lover
Rudolph
Valentino
charismatically
stars as
Juan
Gallardo,
a
shoemaker's
son with
aspirations
to be a
toreador
in the
1922
motion
picture
adaptation
of
Vicente
Blasco
Ibanez's
often
filmed
romantic
tale,
Blood
and
Sand.
Juan's
meteoritic
rise
from
poverty
to the
thrill-mad
bullrings
of
Seville
is aided
by his
childhood
sweetheart
Carmen
(Lila
Lee).
But her
sweet,
innocent
manner
is no
match
for vamp
Dona Sol
(Nita
Naldi),
a
wealthy
woman
who
devours
men and
easily
conquers
the
impressionable
Juan.
With
perverted
social
anthropologist
Don
Joselito
(Charles
Belcher)
lurking
by the
sidelines
and
sadistically
studying
Juan's
corruption
by fame,
sex and
power,
Blood
and Sand
is not
only a
romantic
tragedy
of
youthful
folly
but a
pointed
and
ahead-of-its-time
examination
of 20th
century
stardom.
Blood
and Sand
is a
giant
landmark
in
silent
cinema
with
unforgettable
performances
by
Rudolph
Valentino,
Lila Lee
and Nita
Naldi.
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Broken
Blossoms
Lucy's
miserable
life is
devoid
of
beauty,
and she
is
constantly
beaten
by her
father,
an
alcoholic
boxer.
In the
same
hopeless
slum, a
recent
Chinese
immigrant
who runs
an
import
shop
helplessly
watches
the
waif's
struggle.
When
Lucy's
father
thrashes
her
within
an inch
of her
life,
the
shopkeeper
takes
her in
and
nurses
her back
to
health.
As her
condition
improves,
Lucy
begins
to show
a new
interest
in life,
thanks
to all
the
beauty
that her
new
friend
has
shown
her. The
young
girl's
father,
outraged
at her
new
relationship,
is
determined
to
separate
the two
forever,
no
matter
what the
consequences.
D.W.
Griffith's
most
intimate
and
lyrical
film,
considered
by some
critics
to be
his
masterpiece,
Broken
Blossoms
was
determined
to be
too grim
by his
studio
and the
director
was
forced
to buy
it back
and
release
it
himself.
The film
is also
one of
the
absolute
highlights
of
Lillian
Gish's
career.
She is
perfect
as the
wretched
waif, so
defeated
she is
unable
to smile
without
using
her
fingers
to turn
up the
corners
of her
mouth.
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Cabinet
of Dr.
Caligari,
The
This
silent
masterpiece
has been
called
the
first
"cult"
movie
and the
first
horror
film of
genuine
quality
and
substance.
A young
student,
Francis,
(Freidrich
Feher)
encounters
evil
magician,
Dr.
Caligari
(Werner
Kraus),
at a
county
fair.
Caligari's
"act"
consists
of
waking a
frightening
somnambulist,
Cesare,
from the
coffin
where,
it is
claimed,
he has
lain
asleep
for
years.
When
Francis'
best
friend
is
murdered
and a
killing
spree
erupts
in the
small
village,
he
suspects
that
Caligari
is using
Cesare
to
commit
the
ghastly
crimes.
When
Cesare
is sent
to
murder
the
student's
fiance,
Joan (Lil
Dagover),
he is so
smitten
with her
beauty
that he
abducts
her
instead.
Francis
tracks
Caligari
to a
nearby
insane
asylum
where he
is
horrified
to learn
that the
doctor
is not
an
inmate
but the
director
of the
institution!
The
surprise
ending
is as
shocking
and
perplexing
today as
it was
when
originally
released.
Set
designer
Hermann
Warm
enlisted
Walter
Reimann
and
Walter
Roehrig,
fellow
members
of
Berlin's
expressionist
Der
Sturm
group,
to act
as art
directors.
They
created
the
unprecedented
look of
the
sets,
costumes
and
makeup
to
reflect
the mind
of a
madman.
The
Cabinet
Of Dr.
Caligari
demonstrated
to all
future
filmakers
that
psychological
horror
could
equal or
exceed
the
effects
of
physical
shocks.
This
thought-provoking
film is
a
must-see
for all
who
appreciate
great
movies.
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Cat
and the
Canary,
The
The
grotesque
and
sinister
mansion
of the
late
Cyrus
West has
stood
empty
for
twenty
years -
until
tonight.
On this
stormy
evening,
the
eccentric
millionaire's
will is
to be
read,
and his
greedy
potential
heirs
gather
in the
cobwebbed
halls of
the
foreboding
gothic
manor.
Cyrus'
disdain
for his
money-hungry
relatives
is
evident
when he
bequeaths
his
fortune
to his
most
distant
relation,
the
lovely
Anabelle
West.
But
Cyrus
has
placed
an
unusual
clause
in his
will.
Anabelle
must be
proven
to be
sane in
order
for her
to
collect
the
money
and, if
she is
not, the
untold
wealth
will go
to
another
heir
whose
name
remains
sealed
in an
envelope.
When the
family
lawyer
attempts
to warn
Anabelle
who this
other
heir is,
he
mysteriously
vanishes.
Meanwhile,
a
homicidal
maniac
is loose
in the
house, a
killer
with the
claws of
a crazed
feline.
Anabelle
finds
herself
much
like a
frightened
canary...surrounded
by
hungry
cats!
Among
the
first
and very
best
films of
the
genre,
"The
Cat And
The
Canary"
is a
masterpiece
of early
cinematic
horror.
Universal
Pictures,
flush
with
success
from
silent
horror
classics
"The
Phantom
Of The
Opera"
and
"The
Hunchback
Of Notre
Dame,"
commissioned
German
director
Paul
Leni
("Waxworks")
to bring
"The
Cat And
The
Canary,"
a hit
stage
play, to
the
screen.
His work
is now
considered
a silent
film
classic
and the
movie
served
as a
blueprint
for
haunted
house
thrillers
for
decades
to come.
The
film's
ground-breaking
combination
of
atmospheric
chills
and
tension-breaking
humor
was said
to have
inspired
director
James
Whale
who
incorporated
the same
elements
in his
legendary
movies
"The
Old Dark
House"
and
"The
Bride Of
Frankenstein."
Genre
fans
will
appreciate
the
opening
sequence
in which
gloved
hands
brush
away
spider
webs to
reveal
the
title,
an
effect
used
fifteen
years
later in
Universal's
"Son
Of
Dracula."
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Dr.
Jekyll
&
Mr. Hyde
John
Barrymore
is
riveting
as
humanitarian
scientist
Dr.
Henry
Jekyll
in this
classic
1920
version
of
Robert
Louis
Stevenson's
classic
tale.
Dr.
Jekyll,
obsessed
with
separating
the good
and evil
impulses
in every
person,
creates
a potion
that
transforms
him into
the
demonic
Mr.
Hyde.
Dr.
Jekyll's
on-camera
transformation
to Hyde
contains
a tour
de force
performance
by John
Barrymore.
The
initial
transformation
scene
was
achieved
only
through
Barrymore's
facial
contortions
without
the use
of
makeup
and
remains
a
frightening,
memorable
sequence
to this
day.
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