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The Hazards of Helen (1914) EDIT “The thirteenth of The Hazards of Helen Railway Series, is an unusually thrilling episode, and presents several dangerous ventures, such as Helen dropping an apparently dangerous height from a bridge to the top of a moving freight train.” – Moving Picture World Mar 22, 2023 Full Review EDIT “The reproduction of a story of this character in motion pictures is an achievement of sufficient importance to attract more than the usual degree of interest.” – Moving Picture World Sep 13, 2021 Full Review The Adventures of Dollie (1908) EDIT “One of the most remarkable cases of child-stealing is depicted in this Biograph picture.” – Moving Picture World Aug 19, 2021 Full Review EDIT “Those who see this film will recognize many of the troublesome microbes and will undoubtedly laugh heartily at the man's discomfiture when he discovers the nature of his disease.” – Moving Picture World Jul 16, 2021 Full Review EDIT “A comic that has numerous characteristics of more than ordinary interest.” – Moving Picture World Jul 16, 2021 Full Review In Old Kentucky (1909) EDIT “The photography of the picture is, of course, of a high-class order, and altogether the film breathes a spirit of patriotism which will find an echo in every American mind at this great juncture in the history of the United States.” – Moving Picture World Jun 7, 2021 Full Review Hiawatha (1909) EDIT “Probably every person who has seen the new film has left the theater with a new sense of appreciation of the marvels and beauties of the motion picture in interpreting even the masterpieces of poetry and fiction.” – Moving Picture World Jun 7, 2021 Full Review The Renunciation (1909) EDIT “The staging is managed with fidelity and there is a snap to it which is irresistible, while the dramatic climaxes are all sufficiently interesting to hold the attention unabated.” – Moving Picture World Jun 3, 2021 Full Review EDIT “There is a simplicity and directness about this picture which greatly increases its interest, and the effect upon one is pleasant. It brings back old days, and youthful pleasures and visions, more freely, perhaps, than almost any picture of recent date.” – Moving Picture World Jun 3, 2021 Full Review Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive (2016) EDIT “The technical quality of the film is good and the action is excellent. The makeup of the character representing Poe is to be heartily recommended. The film should serve to draw attention to a character too little known and understood.” – Moving Picture World Jun 3, 2021 Full Review A Lad From Old Ireland (1910) EDIT “Its chief interest lies in the scenery. Probably most audiences will enjoy it, and of course the Irish lad will make the Irish portion of any audience hilarious.” – Moving Picture World Jun 3, 2021 Full Review The Thieving Hand (1908) EDIT “The Thieving Hand is a fine trick film, full of ingenuity and good quality. The closing scene spoils an otherwise perfect reproduction.” – Moving Picture World Jun 3, 2021 Full Review EDIT “A dramatic story, with native life and customs as accurately depicted as possible.” – Moving Picture World May 13, 2021 Full Review EDIT “Sumptuous in production... While the main dramatic features of the Biblical narrative have been seized upon, there is nothing "stagey"... it is handled with a fine dramatic spirit that will win the approval of any audience.” – Moving Picture World May 13, 2021 Full Review A Corner in Wheat (1909) EDIT “The picture is worked out with all the skill and attention to details which characterize the Biograph work and deserves a long run. The company is to be congratulated upon producing such a graphic and satisfactory film.” – Moving Picture World May 13, 2021 Full Review The Jazz Singer (1927) 77% EDIT “Entertainment all the way through, the sort of box-office combination of tears and smiles that always will be sure-fire, The Jazz Singer is nothing short of a magnificent triumph for Warner Brothers, for the Vitaphone, [and] for Al Jolson.” – Moving Picture World Feb 25, 2021 Full Review The Gaucho (1927) 91% EDIT “The direction of F. Richard Jones is a desirable combination of art and box-office angles... If [Douglas Fairbanks] is a hundred per cent in "The Gaucho", this new kid find, Lupe Velez, is scarcely less. She seems to have not only "it," but everything.” – Moving Picture World Oct 21, 2020 Full Review Breakfast at Sunrise (1927) EDIT “The fine hand of Mal St. Clair is evident throughout this frothy dish of cinematics.” – Moving Picture World Oct 21, 2020 Full Review She's a Sheik (1927) 67% EDIT “Frankly improbable, it is clever foolery, with a well-spaced succession of laughs.” – Moving Picture World Oct 20, 2020 Full Review The Lonely Villa (1909) EDIT “We really felt inclined to kick that burglar man for so unceremoniously stripping the jewels from this fair lady's neck. Lonely Villa is another Biograph success.” – Moving Picture World Aug 4, 2020 Full Review The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927) 81% EDIT “Lovely tableaux of diaphanous creatures wafting gossamer garments to the night wind; stalwarts in coats of mail; a mammoth horse dwarfing an entire army into crawling atoms -- spectacles of this kind constantly add pictorial glamor to the plot.” – Moving Picture World Jul 28, 2020 Full Review Frankenstein (1910) EDIT “The scene in the laboratory in which the monster seemed to gradually assume human semblance, is probably the most remarkable ever committed to a film. Frankenstein is a production that will hold an audience spellbound.” – Moving Picture World Jul 26, 2020 Full Review Pippa Passes (1909) EDIT “It is a beautiful picture in every sense and its technical quality is sufficiently good to make it more attractive. If one does not understand the story he can at least enjoy the pictorial qualities.” – Moving Picture World Jul 23, 2020 Full Review
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