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Every Film I Watch In 2023:

68. The Blot (1921)

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The Blot (Lois Weber, 1921).

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Theodora Goes Wild (1936) Richard Boleslawski

December 8th 2022

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The Lost World 1925

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🦖The Lost World | Complete Original Silent Movie (1925) Film Classic

The Lost World is a 1925 American silent fantasy giant monster adventure film directed by Harry O. Hoyt and written by Marion Fairfax, adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. Produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a major Hollywood studio at the time, the film stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger and features pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O'Brien, a forerunner of his work on King Kong (1933). Doyle appears in a frontispiece to the film, absent from some extant prints. In 1998, The Lost World was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as himself (appears in a frontispiece to the film, missing from some prints) Bessie Love as Paula White Lewis Stone as Sir John Roxton Lloyd Hughes as Edward Malone Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger Arthur Hoyt as Professor Summerlee Alma Bennett as Gladys Hungerford Virginia Brown Faire as Marquette the half-caste girl (uncredited) Bull Montana as Apeman/Gomez Francis Finch-Smiles as Austin Jules Cowles as Zambo Margaret McWade as Mrs. Challenger George Bunny as Colin McArdle Charles Wellesley as Major Hibbard Nelson MacDowell as Attorney (uncredited) Chrispin Martin as Bearer/Cannibal (scenes deleted) Jocko the monkey as himself You are invited to join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded, https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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Louis Calhern and Claire Windsor in The Blot (Lois Weber, 1921)

 Cast: Philip Hubbard, Margaret McWade, Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern, Marie Walcamp. Screenplay: Lois Weber, Marion Orth. Cinematography: Philip R. Du Bois, Gordon Jennings.

One of the prolific and once-celebrated Lois Weber's few surviving films, The Blot, makes me wish that there were many more. The IMDb credits her with 137 titles, almost all of which seem to be lost. She had a reputation for "message" films, and The Blot is no exception: It was apparently inspired by articles in Literary Digest that denounced the poor payment of teachers and clergymen as a "blot" on our civilization; we even see excerpts from the articles on-screen near the end of the film. As unpromising as that sounds, Weber (who co-wrote the screenplay with Marion Orth) uses humor and deft characterization to make her case. She focuses on Professor Griggs (Philip Hubbard) and his wife (Margaret McWade) and pretty daughter, Amelia (Claire Windsor), who are just barely scraping by on his salary plus some extra money he makes by tutoring and that Amelia brings in from a job at the library. But they also have next-door neighbors, the Olsens, who are prosperous middle-class types from the money he earns making shoes; Mrs. Olsen snubs the Griggses, thinking them stuck-up, but their son, Peter, is smitten with Amelia. So is Phil West (Louis Calhern), one of Prof. Griggs's students. Phil is a rich young playboy whose father is on the board of trustees of the college at which Griggs teaches. Another suitor for Amelia is the Rev. Gates, a young minister. Weber skillfully interplays all of these characters in ways that are sometimes comic, sometimes heart-tugging. The effect is almost novelistic: I kept thinking of Booth Tarkington's  dated but still readable books as I watched it. Moreover, after the story crisis is resolved Weber doesn't give us a pat ending: We still don't know which of the several suitors Amelia will wind up with. An extra delight for me was seeing one of my favorite character actors from the '30s, '40s, and '50s, Calhern, as a romantic leading man. Though his magnificent nose doomed him to character parts, he makes a credible go of it as a young swain -- he was only 26 at the time.

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The Blot, Lois Weber (1921)

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The Blot

directed by Lois Weber, 1921

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On the Pixilated Sisters

On the Pixilated Sisters

Fans of Frank Capra’s 1936 classic Mr. Deeds Goes to Town may be delighted to learn that the characters of Jane and Amy Faulkner, the “pixilated sisters”, who testify at Deeds’ trial, were actually a pre-existing vaudeville act, imported and seamlessly integrated into the plot of the film.

The two actresses were Margaret McWade (Margaret May Fish, 1871-1956) and Margaret Seddon(1872-1968).…

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Seen in 2021:

The Blot (Lois Weber), 1921

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2017:37 — The Lost World

(1925 - Harry O. Hoyt) ***

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Margaret McWade in The Blot (1921)

Direction: Lois Weber

Costumes: Not credited

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The wearer of the pants, Animated GIF

Margaret McWade has a small but memorable role as Wallace Beery’s wife in The Lost World. Beery’s…

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Cooper: Now just one more question. Now you see the judge here. He's a nice man, isn't he? Do you think he's pixilated?

Seddon: Oh yes!

McWade: Yes indeed!