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Wings. (1927 film) Wings is a 1927 American silent and synchronized sound film known for winning the first Academy Award for Best Picture. Due to the general public's apathy towards silent films, the film was quickly re-released in 1928 with synchronized sound. While the sound version of the film has no audible dialogue, it was released with a ...
Silent Movie is a 1976 American satirical silent comedy film co-written, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox in summer 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters. and Sid Caesar, with cameos by Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Marcel Marceau, and Paul Newman as themselves, and character cameos by Harry ...
Michael (also known as Mikaël, Chained: The Story of the Third Sex, and Heart's Desire) is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, director of other notable silents such as The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Master of the House (1925), and Leaves from Satan's Book (1921). The film stars Walter Slezak as the titular ...
Intolerance is a 1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith.Subtitles include Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages and A Sun-Play of the Ages. [2] [3]Regarded as one of the most influential films of the silent era (though it received mixed reviews at the time), [4] the three-and-a-half-hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries: first, a contemporary ...
In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing film scripts in four to five days. [ 1] Lang directed major German films of the silent and early sound eras including Metropolis (1927) and M (1931) respectively. [ 2][ 3] After fleeing from the Nazi regime, Lang directed some of the most important American crime and film ...
Harold Lloyd filmography. These are the known films of Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), an American actor and filmmaker most famous for his hugely successful and influential silent film comedies. Most of these films are known to survive in Lloyd's personal archive collection and in various film archives around the world.
Charlie Chaplin filmography. (Sir) Charlie Chaplin (KBE) (1889–1977) was an English internationally renowned Academy Award -winning actor, comedian, filmmaker and composer who was best known for his career in Hollywood motion pictures from his debut in 1914 until 1952, he however subsequently appeared in two films in his native England.
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue ). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of inter- title cards .