Exciting Film Line-up
Cinecon is highly regarded among film fans for screening the rare and unusual films of the silent and early sound era—films that seldom get seen on a big screen. Cinecon combs the major film archives and Hollywood studio vaults to select often forgotten gems that deserve a fresh look and reappraisal. At Cinecon there is something for everyone—comedy, drama, musicals, Westerns. We show the latest restorations—and some one-of-a-kind rarities.
All films will be shown at Grauman's Egyptian Theater at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, most in 35mm. Silent films feature live musical accompaniment.
We have not announced films for Cinecon 46 yet but until we do please take a look at some of the titles that we screened last year at Cinecon 45.
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STRANGE AFFAIR (Columbia, 1944)
Yet another foray into the world of comic mystery with Allyn Joslyn, and past Cinecon guest Evelyn Keyes. This little-seen film ranks with past Cinecon hit, Dangerous Blondes, for laughs and chills. Marguerite Chapman and Edgar Buchanan are also in the cast.
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TRIAL MARRIAGE (1929)
Erle C. Kenton directs this Columbia Pictures melodrama starring Norman Kerry, Sally Eilers, Thelma Todd, and Jason Robards, Sr. A brand new print of a previously "lost" film.
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THE PLAYBOY OF PARIS (1930)
Maurice Chavalier’s fourth American film, The Playboy of Paris features a strong supporting cast, including past Cinecon Career Achievement Award honoree Frances Dee, as well as comic character actors Stuart Erwin and Eugene Pallette. Directed by Ludwig Berger, this film offers more comedy than songs, with Chevalier playing a waiter who inherits a hefty pile of dough—allowing him to wait tables by day and be waited on in the hot night spots of Gay Paree.
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EASY LIVING (1937)
The wonderfully funny Jean Arthur and an equally lighthearted Ray Milland star in this great screwball comedy which takes probing look at why those folks on Wall Street make the big bucks. Mitchell Leisen directs a script by Preston Sturges.
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HATTER’S CASTLE (1942)
Robert Newton, famed for his later portrayal of Long John Silver, gives one of his best and most restrained performances in this British classic based on the novel by A.J. Cronin. Deborah Kerr and James Mason also star in this seldom-seen gem directed by Lance Comfort.
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TRICK FOR TRICK (1933)
Ralph Morgan and Dorothy Appleby in the 1933 Fox melodrama, Trick for Trick
a Cinecon repeat of a rarely-seen classic. Victor Jory, Sally Blane, Tom Dugan and Edward Van Sloon also star in this much-requested tale of dueling magicians with a life in the balance.
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TURN TO THE RIGHT (1922)
Alice Terry, Jack Mulhall and Harry Myers star in this adaptation of Jack E. Hazzard’s famed play. This was director Rex Ingram’s first film after The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Conquering Power, which made Rudolph Valentino a star.
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NIGHTMARE (1942)
Stylishly directed by Tim Whelan (The Thief of Bagdad, 1940), Nightmare is a taut spy thriller in the manner of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps and Saboteur.
Diana Barrymore, who co-stars with Brian Donlevy, gave a sensational performance, and she seemed destined for stardom, but this film would prove to be one of her few starring roles. Her battles with alcohol were chronicled in her 1957 autobiography, Too Much, Too Soon. Diana Barrymore would die in 1960 at the age of 38
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AFRAID TO TALK (1932)
A red-hot pre-code drama about politicians, gangsters and corruption. It takes place in the Great Depression, but it remains timely. Based on a play by “Hollywood 10” writer Albert Maltz, Afraid to Talk was directed by Edward L. Cahn, best known for the classic Western Law and Order (1932).
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SPUDS (1927)
Another silent comedy feature to be screened at Cinecon 45 is this newly restored World War 1 romp starring acrobatic clown Larry Semon.
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Gary Cooper and past Cinecon honoree Mary Brian star in this Civil War drama (or is it a comedy?) set behind Confederate lines. Directed by Frank
Tuttle, the film shows off Cooper at his matinee-idol best.
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Also among the twenty-five unusual feature films tentatively scheduled for Cinecon 45 are:
BROADWAY LOVE (1918)
In the 1910s Universal was one of the few studios willing to take a chance on women directors. Starring Dorothy Phillips and Lon Chaney, Broadway Love was directed by Ida May Park.
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING (1938)
Adolphe Menjou, Jack Oakie and Jack Haley—with comedy, songs and a radio contest.
THE BRIDE COMES HOME (1935)
With the success of The Gilded Lily, Paramount was eager to re-team Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray in another screwball romp. Colbert plays secretary to MacMurray and Robert Young.
LASCA OF THE RIO GRANDE (1931)
Johnny Mack Brown made this one-off Western on his way from being a leading man at M-G-M to a Cowboy star on "Poverty Row." He plays a Texas Ranger who has to track down his girl friend, played by Dorothy Burgess, when she is accused of murder.
PAID TO LOVE (1927)
Howard Hawks directs this frothy film about an American banker who helps a Balkan prince find a wife in a low-life café. George O’Brien stars.
As always films are listed here pending final clearance and are subject to change.
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