Sony Pictures Repertory is proud to celebrate Silent Movie Day 2024 and the centennial of Columbia Pictures
From Sony Pictures Repertory:
Sony Pictures Repertory is proud to celebrate Silent Movie Day 2024 and the centennial of Columbia Pictures with a collection of silent films from our library. These titles will be offered with reduced guarantees for Silent Movie Day participating cinemas. Contact david_jennings@spe.sony.com for any of the below titles.
SO THIS IS LOVE? (1928) 2k Restoration in 2010, from best original source materials / French language print)
Feature | 1h | NR | Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Silent Film
Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), designer of beautiful couture, quietly adores Hilda (Shirley Mason) from the delicatessen across the street. Hilda visibly adores the local pugilist Spike Mullins, who thinks she hasn’t got “it,” but loudly admires himself above all. The triangular affair comes to a head at the dance hall, but is resolved in the ring, following a delectable course of ice cream and pickles, and…what’s comin’ to ya. An early Frank Capra film, which demonstrates his comedic touch, matched only by his capture of charming characters–through his actors’ precise performances.
Actor: Shirley Mason; William Collier Jr.; Johnnie Walker;
Director: Frank Capra
Producer: Harry Cohn
WAY OF THE STRONG, THE (1928) 2k Restoration in 2010, from best original source materials / German language print)
Feature | 1h 1min | NR | Drama, Silent Film
Handsome Williams (Mitchell Lewis) is a bootlegger warring with rival Denver Louie (William Norton Bailey), when he becomes entranced by Nora (Alice Day), a blind violinist. Handsome, who’s moniker is sarcastic but crafted via incredible prosthetics, hires her to work in his speakeasy, while trying to keep the truth about his underworld activities from the delicate and beautiful girl. His secrets make him vulnerable but his feelings for Nora make her a target in an action-packed, brutal prohibition-era gangster film.
Actor: Michaell Lewis, Margaret Livingston, Theodore Von Eltz
Director: Frank Capra
Producer: Harry Cohn.
SCARLET LADY, THE (1928)
Feature | 1h 12min | NR | Drama, Silent Film 4k restoration from best original source materials / Italian Language Print
Lya, (Lya De Putti), is chased from revolutionary headquarters by brutal Cossacks on to the estate of Prince Nicholas. Enchanted by the beautiful girl, Nicholas allows her to stay on as a servant at the palace but her charms overwhelm and they soon fall in love. When Nicholas’s valet (a revolutionary operative), tells the Prince that Lya was once the mistress of Zaneriff, the Red leader, he banishes her from his sight, just as the Revolution is unfolding. The Reds seize his palace, and Lya’s hate turns into bloodthirstiness: determined to make the Prince pay for distrusting her, while targeting all the royalists she can, as a newly determined Bolshevik. Eventually, Lya has to choose between that man she loves and the Red Leader Zaneriff in one of Columbia’s first prestige films.
Actor: Lya De Putti; Don Alvardo; Warner Oland
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.; Alan Crosland
Producer: Harry Cohnifference.
BLOOD SHIP, THE (1927)
Feature | 1h 2min | NR | Drama, Silent Film 4k Restoration from best original source materials from BFI supplied Nitrate Print and 16mm (final reel)
Newman (Hobart Bosworth) slips on board the “Golden Bough” with a motley crew shanghai’d by Captain Swope (Walter James). Swope beats his men into submission: the punishment for mutiny is death. Newman wants to catch up with the no-good rat who double-crossed him, broke up his happy home, and framed him on a murder charge. With the help of a man (Richard Arlen) smitten by Swope’s “daughter” (Jacqueline Logan) Newman prods the crew to stand up to the Captain, regardless of consequences. Based on a popular novel, the melodramatic suspense is heightened by the cinematography and production design.
Actor: Hobart Bosworth; Jacqueline Logan; Richard Arlen; Walter James
Director: George B. Seitz
Producer: Harry Cohn