My 300 silents (long list)

External Since: Jun 25, 2007 Posts: 63

On Oct 4, 8:55 am, ag....TakeThisOut@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (James Roots) wrote:

> De Mille made a whole bunch of silents with the same plot,
> which is summed up in the titles: Why change your wife / Don't
> change your husband / The marriage circle / Old wives for
> new, etc. He churned them out as if he were a Canon copier
> machine.

Oops -- pull The Marriage Circle from that list. Directed by Ernst
Lubitsch, and I'd put it in another category of movie entirely. And
though also not directed by DeMille, I've heard that "Changing
Husbands" is one of the best in this genre, but I haven't been able to
see it.

Rodney Sauer
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
www.mont-alto.com

External Since: Jun 13, 2007 Posts: 11

CHANGING HUSBANDS is terrific, but I wouldn't group it with the
Lubitsch/DeMille titles listed; particularly not the latter. It's more
along the lines of French farce with mixed-up identities, courtesy of
a dual-role Leatrice Joy.