One Night at Susie’s is an OK 1930 pre-code crime/romantic melodrama. Very pre-code. The theatre world is depicted in all its sleazy reality. The plot has more holes than a hoodlum who’s just been ventilated by a machine gun.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/one-night-at-susies-1930.html

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One Night at Susie’s (1930)

One Night at Susie’ s is a 1930 First National pre-code crime/romantic melodrama. Susie (Helen Ware) appears to be a boarding house operator...

The Black Pirate is a 1926 Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler shot in early Technicolor. With battles, pirates, a princess and romance. And sex (with the princess to be offered to the pirates as a sexual plaything) and violence. Lots of fun.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-black-pirate-1926.html

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The Black Pirate (1926)

The Black Pirate is a 1926 Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler so I was always going to enjoy this one. Fairbanks conceived the idea, he wrote t...

A still from THE BLACK PIRATE (1926) dir. by Albert Parker, starring #DouglasFairbanks and #BillieDove. Shot in gorgeous, two-color (red and green) #Technicolor.

Swashbuckling adventure and romance through a pastel-colored lens.

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Dublin's Freeman's Journal carried this image to begin 1923, captioned "Billie Dove, of screen fame, has decided to write something bright and cheerful for each [diary] page in 1923, and she declares she can think up enough good things for the whole year." #EarlyIrishCinema1923 #SilentFilm #BillieDove #HappyNewYear