Saturday, December 17, 2022

See the Frank Borzage/Austin Strong Silent Classic, Seventh Heaven (1927), Starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, in the First of Their 12 Pictures Together, for Free and Without Commercial Interruption, at WEJB/NSU!

Re-posted by N.S.

“A street cleaner saves a young woman’s life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.”

Writer: Austin Strong (play), Benjamin Glazer (screenplay)

Katherine Hilliker (adaptation), H.H. Caldwell (adaptation)

Katherine Hilliker (titles), H.H. Caldwell (titles)

Country: USA Language: None | English

Filming Locations: 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California

Runtime: 119 min Sound Mix: Silent | Mono Color: Black and White Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1 Format: 35 mm






Complete, Silent Classics (with One Exception) Available at WEJB/NSU:

C.B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (1914);

D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915);

D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages (1916);

Charlie Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms (1918);

Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920);

Buster Keaton's One Week (1920);

D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East (1920);

F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1921);

The Kid (1921), Charlie Chaplin’s First Feature as Director, Co-Starring Jackie Coogan;

Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s First Pictures Featuring the Evil Genius, Dr. Mabuse: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, Teil I (Dr. Mabuse, the Player, Part I); and Dr. Mabuse, Teil II: Inferno (both 1922, released one month apart) with English Subtitles;

James Cruze’s The Covered Wagon (1923);

John Ford’s The Iron Horse (1924);

Buster Keaton’s The General (1926);

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger (1927);

F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927);

Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s Dystopian Science Fiction Epic, Metropolis (1927), Plus Its Soundtrack Suite; and

Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou’s First Talkie: M: Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931) (M: A City Searches for a Murderer).



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Janet Gaynor’s life was effectively ended in 1982 when a drunken driver in San Francisco ran a red light and crashed into a taxi carrying Gaynor, her husband Paul Gregory, her friend Mary Martin, and Martin’s manager Ben Washer. Washer was immediately killed, and the others (including the cab driver) injured, with Gaynor’s injuries so severe as to require months of hospitalization and eventually led to her death in 1984. Robert Cato, the drunk driver who caused this mayhem, was sentenced to three years in prison. After Gaynor’s death there was a question as to whether Cato would face a new charge of vehicular homicide, but I haven’t found any follow-up to the story, so it probably didn’t happen.