{"title":"Silent Films - Blu-ray","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-johnstown-flood-1926-silent-movie-blu-ray","title":"The Johnstown Flood (1926) - (Silent Movie) - [Blu-ray]","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;Academy Award Winner Janet Gaynor appears in her first major role as Anna Burger, a love-struck teenage girl smitten with the dashing, but unavailable Tom O'Day, played by George O'Brien. Tom is an engineer for the Hamilton Lumber Company and engaged to the owner's daughter Gloria, played by Florence Gilbert. He warns the owners of the imminent failure of the dam, only to be ignored, leaving it up to Anna to try to save her community from impending disaster. The Johnstown Flood captures one of the great American tragedies, when over 2000 lives were lost in 1889 because of the inaction of a wealthy group ignoring the dangers of the dam they'd failed to maintain. Almost a century old, The Johnstown Flood has been newly restored from unique surviving film elements. It's a thrilling drama and a prime example of the cutting edge special effects techniques that emerged at the end of the silent era. The all star cast also features George Reed, Walter Perry and Max Davidson, with cameos by Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Florence Lawrence. The Johnstown Flood is a classic silent film and essential to every film enthusiast's collection.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"Silent","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47781050155226,"sku":"810134942288","price":50.85,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/fzikj9utfebewgkxkvcl.jpg?v=1776772944"},{"product_id":"chicago-silent-movie-blu-ray","title":"Chicago - (Silent Movie) - [Blu-ray]","description":"\u003cp\u003eSexy, jazz-loving, and dressed to kill, Roxie Hart (Phyllis Haver) is living a life of drama (if not stardom). She has a doting, handsome husband (Victor Varconi); a rich lover whose pockets are never quite deep enough (Eugene Pallette); and, soon, a full-blown murder charge. When Roxie secures the services of lawyer Billy Flynn (Robert Edeson) equal part mob \"mouthpiece\" and publicity agent and starts to make national headlines, the courtroom theatrics begin.  Like the musical CHICAGO that won the Best Picture Academy Award and five other Oscars in 2002, this original1927 silent film descends from the 1926 hit Broadway play by Maurine Watkins. It's a terrifically entertaining mix of humor and melodrama, as well as a pungent critique of trash journalism. Frank Urson is the credited director of CHICAGO, although it is substantially the work of Cecil B. DeMille and his A-list technical staff. (DeMille apparently judged it unseemly to take full credit for this cynical and secular story while his religious spectacle THE KING OF KINGS was still in theatres!) CHICAGO is silent filmmaking at its peak, with an outstanding score for this edition by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. The 1927 CHICAGO was long believed a lost film, but a perfect print survived in Cecil B. DeMille's private collection. This Blu-ray edition of CHICAGO was restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2006, and is presented here by Flicker Alley and Blackhawk Films.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silent","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47781165105370,"sku":"810044717631","price":35.42,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/ChicagoBluray_z22nsb.jpg?v=1776776002"},{"product_id":"phantom-blu-ray","title":"Phantom - [Blu-ray]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlicker Alley, in partnership with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation is proud to present, F.W. Murnau's Phantom. Phantom marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. In this beautifully reconstructed and restored edition from an amazingly detailed, original 1922 negative, Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth, who must confront the barriers of class keeping him from a woman (Lya de Putti) with whom he has had a fateful encounter.  Featuring a magnificent orchestral score by Robert Israel, this powerfully expressive and surprisingly insightful film is a triumph of German Weimar cinema and a wonderful collaboration of many of its most skilled artisans and recognizable performers. Through dazzling visuals and memorable characters, Phantom paints a portrait of the corrupting influence of money, the conformity of societal norms, and the redemptive power of family. Phantom was restored by L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silent","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47781165203674,"sku":"810072540515","price":35.42,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/FWMurnausPhantomBluray_jg8tdl.jpg?v=1776776004"},{"product_id":"children-of-divorce-silent-movie-blu-ray","title":"Children of Divorce - (Silent Movie) - [Blu-ray]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlicker Alley, in partnership with the Blackhawk Films  Collection and Paramount Pictures, presents Children of Divorce. The film begins in a \"divorce colony\" in Paris after WWI, where parents would leave their children for months at a time. Sourced from the original nitrate negative held by the Library of Congress, as well as their 1969 fine grain master, this restoration was scanned in 4K resolution, is the result of over 200 hours of laboratory work by the Library of Congress. 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