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Robert E. Sherwood

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Sherlock, Jr. (1924) 86% EDIT “Like all Keaton comedies Sherlock, Jr., is constructed with amazing ingenuity.” – LIFE Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Captain January (1924) 79% EDIT “I have always gone well out of my way to dodge Baby Peggy's pictures. Not that I have any particular grudge against this "little wonder lady of the cinema"... But the films in which she appears are always terrible. [Captain January] is no exception.” – LIFE Dec 21, 2023 Full Review The Devil Dancer (1927) 71% EDIT “Aside from Miss Gray and a few spectacular scenes, it isn’t worth so much as a look.” – LIFE Dec 5, 2023 Full Review The Black Pirate (1926) 100% EDIT “The Black Pirate stands at the top of all the movies that I have seen in point of rich, glamourous beauty.” – LIFE Mar 23, 2023 Full Review The Devil Horse (1926) 100% EDIT “Exceptionally pleasant entertainment.” – LIFE Mar 21, 2023 Full Review Safety Last (1923) 97% EDIT “[Safety Last] lacks the usual spontaneity and buoyancy of a Harold Lloyd comedy. Nevertheless, it is marvellously ingenious. It is brimming with tricks that are calculated to tickle the ribs and chill the spine at one and the same instant.” – LIFE Feb 22, 2023 Full Review The Thief of Bagdad (1924) 97% EDIT “The Thief of Bagdad has a marvelous fairy tale quality -- a romantic sweep lifts the audience and vaporizes it into pink, fluffy clouds. It also has much beauty and much solidity of dramatic construction.” – LIFE Oct 22, 2022 Full Review Peter Pan (1924) 98% EDIT “Peter Pan is so extraordinarily beautiful, so utterly true to the childish spirit in which it was originally written, that I have no choice in the matter: I must fall down and blubber.” – LIFE Oct 20, 2022 Full Review The Toll of the Sea (1922) 89% EDIT “Miss Wong, I may say, is a remarkable pantomimist... with a quality of quiet sadness which is reminiscent of Lillian Gish.” – LIFE Oct 18, 2022 Full Review The Cat and the Canary (1927) 94% EDIT “The Cat and the Canary may be written down as an exceptionally effective chiller. ” – LIFE Sep 28, 2022 Full Review The Rogue Song (1930) 79% EDIT “Mr. Tibbett does give his all, and what a lot it is! The sound apparatus quivers under the impact of his vocal blasts; but it is equal to the severe test, and no one can complain that Mr. Tibbett’s fine effect is ruined by faulty recording.” – McCall's Jun 29, 2022 Full Review Ten Modern Commandments (1927) 90% EDIT “Ten Modern Commandments, as I remember it, was a pretty punk picture.” – LIFE Jun 25, 2022 Full Review Boy of Mine (1923) EDIT “Boy of Mine contains much good stuff -- comedy and sentiment -- but it also contains several elements that are not so good. ” – LIFE Jun 21, 2022 Full Review Man, Woman and Sin (1927) EDIT “John Gilbert is the guileless, bewildered youth -- a distinct departure from his usual style and an effective one. Jeanne Eagels, as the predatory Society editor, is excellent when she has the chance to cut loose. ” – LIFE Jun 21, 2022 Full Review The Wedding March (1928) 64% EDIT “All the absurdities in The Wedding March are typical of [von Stroheim,] who has in the past demonstrated a tendency to be a genius at one moment and an utter nit-wit at the next.” – LIFE Jan 20, 2022 Full Review The Navigator (1924) 100% EDIT “You will have occasion to be devoutly grateful for the laughs that it affords. Still, I can't help wishing that Buster Keaton possessed the architectural skill of that shrewd craftsman, Harold Lloyd.” – LIFE Dec 14, 2021 Full Review Robin Hood (1922) 100% EDIT “Here is a motion picture which is so far ahead of any spectacle that has ever gone before that it is impossible to appraise it in the same terms that have been applied to previous efforts.” – New York Herald Dec 14, 2021 Full Review For Heaven's Sake (1926) EDIT “In every moment of the picture, Mr. Lloyd is either preparing, developing or completing a gag, and I can't remember one of them that falls short of its desired objective: loud, uproarious laughter.” – McCall's Dec 14, 2021 Full Review The Last Laugh (1924) 100% EDIT “Here is a marvelous picture -- marvelous in its simplicity, its economy of effect, its expressiveness and its dramatic power.” – LIFE Oct 7, 2021 Full Review The Covered Wagon (1923) 100% EDIT “The Covered Wagon is a great picture, not so much because it is based upon a magnificent theme as because it has been produced with genuine skill.” – LIFE Oct 7, 2021 Full Review EDIT “Don't miss Jazzmania, boys: It's Classy, It's Peppy and It's All Hot.” – LIFE Oct 7, 2021 Full Review Greed (1924) 96% EDIT “Ferocity, brutality, muscle, vulgarity, crudity, naked realism and sheer genius are to be found -- great hunks of them --in Von Stroheim's production, Greed. It is a terribly powerful picture -- and an important one.” – LIFE Oct 7, 2021 Full Review So Big (1924) 75% EDIT “Those who read the novel will be violently irritated by this picture. Those who did not read the novel will merely be bored.” – LIFE Oct 7, 2021 Full Review Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) 100% EDIT “On rare occasions, the moving picture thrusts its head from the primeval muck of mediocrity and proclaims, in loud, clear tones -- "I have an honorable place in the scheme of artistic creation. I can do great things!"” – LIFE Oct 7, 2021 Full Review Seven Chances (1925) 94% EDIT “The laughs that Seven Chances inspires are not all honest laughs. They are tinctured with a certain amount of shame on the part of the audience.” – LIFE Oct 7, 2021 Full Review
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