"Blue Blazes" Rawden (1918)
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“A fine example of Hartology, excellently devised as to plot and excellently performed as to playing.” –
Chicago Examiner
Feb 24, 2023
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The Hired Man (1918)
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“Anybody who lets himself miss The Hired Hand is letting slip a mighty nice piece of entertainment.” –
Chicago Examiner
Feb 24, 2023
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Southern Justice (1917)
75%
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“The atmosphere is the thing, the Spring atmosphere that has been caught and celluloided so vividly that it gets across to you.” –
Chicago Examiner
Feb 24, 2023
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My Four Years in Germany (1918)
95%
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“William Nigh has made his production with a serious care worthy of his material.” –
Chicago Examiner
Feb 22, 2023
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The Show Down (1917)
83%
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“It’s a gentle bit of satire on the desert island deluge, but with incident enough to carry it along as a story in itself.” –
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Sep 6, 2022
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The Galley Slave (1915)
86%
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“It is the kind of tale that will keep some people on the edge of their seats and will make a lot of people yawn in sheer weariness at its absurdity.” –
Chicago Tribune
Jan 13, 2022
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Salomy Jane (1914)
100%
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“In places the action is confused, due to its rapidity and the numbers of players concerned but on the whole it is a pleasant thing to witness.” –
Chicago Tribune
Sep 7, 2021
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A Burlesque on Carmen (1916)
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“I think it exceedingly good. It is too long. and some things are overdone, as Chaplin's fight scene, for instance, but it is pretty plumb full of chuckles.” –
Chicago Tribune
Jun 29, 2021
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A Night in the Show (1915)
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“In Charlie Chaplin's picture the little spirit of comedy demonstrates he can still be funny outside of his conventional makeup. It is a daring thing for a player beloved in a familiar guise to attempt another.” –
Chicago Tribune
Jun 29, 2021
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Life Without Soul (1916)
100%
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“The thing is Interesting and not very unpleasing, in spite of its grewsomeness. Excellent photography gives it pictorial charm.” –
Chicago Tribune
Jun 29, 2021
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Reggie Mixes In (1916)
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“One of the funniest characterizations ever accomplished in the celluloid realm is Fairbanks' efforts to play the tough guy.” –
Chicago Tribune
Jun 29, 2021
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His Picture in the Papers (1916)
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“Some subtle bits of burlesque roguery touch things up funnily and furnish matter for a victorious climax.” –
Chicago Tribune
Jun 29, 2021
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Manhattan Madness (1916)
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“People who miss seeing it are missing some of autumn's best smiles.” –
Chicago Tribune
Jun 29, 2021
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The Bargain (1914)
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“It's an interesting wild West story of its own, making up in speed what it lacks in finesse.” –
Chicago Examiner
Jun 29, 2021
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Modern Musketeer (1918)
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“Again blows the Fairbanks breeze carrying its full quota of health-bracing laughter. There's no disappointment in it from any angle.” –
Chicago Examiner
Jun 29, 2021
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
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“The picture abounds not only in plausibilities, but in happy memories, for things are done here which strike answering reminiscent chords in the observers. The little childish happenings are very real.” –
Chicago Examiner
May 13, 2021
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Damaged Goods (1914)
86%
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“It is to be regretted that it is no better a piece of workmanship than it is, for in spite of its pictorial shortcomings, it will probably have a wide circulation and it might have been much more efficient in its purpose had it been more artistic.” –
Chicago Tribune
Mar 12, 2021
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Brewster's Millions (1914)
83%
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“Mr. Abeles did many funny things, and his performances were the only ones that elicited any chuckle. Between his humorous oases there were arid spots of desert dullness.” –
Chicago Tribune
Feb 5, 2021
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The Carpet from Bagdad (1915)
80%
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“One looks at the sights both of setting and fisticuffing of the one of which there is about as much as of the other, but it is hard to stir up a thrill of personal interest in the individual welfare of the fisticuffers.” –
Chicago Tribune
Nov 20, 2020
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The Fall of a Nation (1916)
43%
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“The photography is not of the quality to which we are accustomed in these days of the art of the photoplay.” –
Chicago Tribune
Nov 20, 2020
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“Miss Garden as the courtesan of Alexandria, and Hamilton Revelle, the monk, who saved her at his own peril, are two splendidly contrasted types who set the opera's story into picture language rich in color and texture, if not particularly warm in thrill.” –
Chicago Examiner
Sep 24, 2020
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Madame Jealousy (1918)
71%
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“Pauline Frederick is a force to be reckoned with, even when she is effacing herself, a vital, concrete individual, a real gift to filmland.” –
Chicago Examiner
Aug 1, 2020
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Hearts of the World (1918)
95%
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“Hearts of the World reaches the hearts of the world, which Is the ultimate accomplishment of any one who seeks to bring a message. It sinks into the thoughts, it asks another seeing.” –
Chicago Examiner
Jul 31, 2020
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“It is a seemly, timely piece about love and patriotism, proceeding with nice discrimination, expressed in fine photography, illuminated throughout by the sparkling Alice Brady.” –
Chicago Examiner
Jul 31, 2020
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Down to Earth (1917)
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“Down to Earth gives concrete expression to Mr. Fairbanks' good cheer notions.” –
Chicago Examiner
Jul 31, 2020
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