Reviews
Love's Prisoner (1919)
At last, we see Olive live and breathe!!!
If you are among the many Olive Thomas fans, your breath >will all but leave you as you see her alive and well, moving around and beautiful as ever! The film itself isn't too great but if they found lost >footage of Olive just reading a book for 90 minutes, I'd >be as ecstatic. Olive plays a young woman who lives with >her 3 sisters and their Father, who is arrested [at the >very beginning] for crimes of his past. The girls must >survive so Olive gets a job and they all move in with the >kindly old neighbor gentleman. Olive has a miserable run >of luck and decides crime is her only option. The last bit of the film is missing and an attempt to explain the ending is what you get via title cards. The >music score is rather ersatz due to being played entirely >on an electronic keyboard. At any rate, this is a rare opportunity to see the mythical Olive Thomas and proof that she shines as bright >as any star in the heavens.
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
Better have plenty of tissues for this one!!!
If this film doesn't make your eyes well up with tears, >you should check your pulse...you may be dead! Lillian Gish gives a STUNNING performance in this D.W. >Griffith masterpiece. She plays a beautiful young girl >who is badly abused by her pugilist father. A Chinese man >(played by Richard Barthelmess) falls in love with her >with horribly tragic consequences. Gish is Goddess material here, replete with the acting >skills of the most well seasoned Thespian. A MUST SEE!!!
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Mesmerized (1985)
There's a reason this one's in the cut-out bin...
I found this film to be disturbing; not in a David Lynch way but more like some odorous menacing person sitting beside you on a bus that you really don't want to look at but do and then regret it. There were no redeeming factors to be found in spite of the fine acting of Foster & Lith