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Gunnar Hedes Saga / The Blizzard (1923) Direction: Mauritz Stiller Cast: Einar Hanson, Mary Johnson, Stina Berg, Hugo Björne, Pauline Brunius Screenplay: Mauritz Stiller; from Selma Lagerlöf's novel Mary Johnson, Einar Hanson, The Blizzard Directed by Mauritz Stiller, the Swedish drama Gunnar Hedes saga / The Blizzard tells the confusing story about how a reindeer stampede affected the life of a violin player. I found the continuity hard to follow, perhaps because, as the San Francisco Silent Film Festival program explained, "Great chunks of The Blizzard have been missing for years." The Blizzard stars Einar Hanson as Gunnar Hedes, the son of an aristocratic family. When a troupe of traveling performers comes to his village, Gunnar falls in love with the waif-like violinist Ingrid (Mary Johnson), who looks a bit like Greta Garbo in Stiller's Gösta Berlings Saga, released the following year. After the reindeer disaster, Gunnar goes mad and imagines that...

Frank Lloyd (below the camera), Gary Cooper, Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Einar Hanson in Children of Divorce Frank Lloyd III: Silent Films Any movies Frank Lloyd wanted to make, but that he wasn’t able to? What were his biggest financial and/or critical hits? His biggest flops? I am not aware of any films that Lloyd wanted desperately to make but could not. Certainly, he would have liked to have made a sequel to Mutiny on the Bounty, and even had plans to shoot the scenes with Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh in England as the actor was unable to travel to the U.S. at that time. He did try and purchase the rights to The Hurricane, which Goldwyn acquired and which [...]...