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4 CLASSIC SILENT FILMS BLACK & WHITE WITH MUSIC - A CLOUDED NAME (1923), ADAM'S RIB (1923), BEAU BRUMMEL (1924) AND RED-HAIRED ALIBI (1932) COMBINED SHIPPING IS AVAILABLE. YOU ONLY PAY THE ACTUAL SHIPPING CHARGE. PUT THE DVDS YOU WANT TO BUY IN YOUR CART, SEND ME A MESSAGE & I WILL SEND YOU AN INVOICE WITH THE COMBINED SHIPPING CHARGE. A CLOUDED NAME (1923) Norma Shearer plays Marjorie Dare, a debutante with a broken heart. Her fiance, Jim Allen, blames Marjorie's family for his father's financial ruin. Because of this, Jim breaks off their engagement and escapes to the wilderness to live the life of a hermit. Undaunted, Marjorie braves no man's land to find her lost lover. There she is captured by the crooked Stewart Leighton, who seeks her family's riches. Now Jim must put aside his grudge and come out of hiding to save the woman he still loves... A Clouded Name marks one of the earliest major roles for legendary actress Norma Shearer (1902-1983). ADAM'S RIB (1923) Marian Ramsay realizes that her wealthy husband Michael has lost interest in her on their 19th wedding anniversary together. Still craving romance, she takes up with "Mr. Jaromir", a mysterious young man who is really the deposed king of the tiny Balkan country of Morania. Their grown daughter Tillie discovers what is going on with her parents and flirts with Jaromir to throw a spanner into the works of her mother's affair. This has the unintended consequence of ruining her relationship with Nathan Reade, a stuffy archaeologist more interested in dinosaur bones than the curves of a woman's body. At the same time, Mr. Ramsay tries to use his fortune to place Jaromir back on the throne of Morania so as to eliminate the competition. All these situations are compared and contrasted with the love lives of cavemen and women fifty thousand years ago, proving that relations between men and women have progressed very little since then. BEAU BRUMMEL (1924) George Brummel, a relatively penniless captain in the British Cavalry, is in love with Maid Margery, the daughter of a tradesman. Though she loves him in return, she is pressured into marrying wealthy Lord Alvanley. No longer seeing any point in the respectable life, Brummel refashions himself as a devil-may-care womanizing dandy. He becomes friends with George, the Prince of Wales, and the two soon become notorious for their carousing. A rift forms in their friendship when newly-widowed Margery re-enters Brummel's life. Now "Beau" Brummel, the most stylish man in Britain, and the Prince of Wales are in direct competition over the hand of the fair (and presently quite rich) maiden...A tragi-comic take on the life of the notorious English dandy, Beau Brummel is best enjoyed as a showcase for the talents of "the Great Profile", John Barrymore. RED-HAIRED ALIBI (1932) A sweet gal from Ohio gets in over her head when she unwittingly accepts employment from a NYC gangster - and discovers that her job is to stand between him and the electric chair. Lynn sells perfume in the lobby of a Columbus hotel until a handsome customer encourages her to come to New York. There he gives her an astronomical $100 a week to pose as his wife in restaurants and at various events - and to occasionally fib to the police that he was WITH her at times when he really WASN'T. What poor naive Lynn doesn't realize is that he's actually a notorious crook, and that she's been covering for him as he wipes out his rivals with bombs and bullets! Human interest and a surprise twist ending are among the plus points of this suspenseful gangster yarn, which is also historically important as the feature film debut of four-year-old Shirley Temple, then on the eve of Hollywood superstardom. - Tom Weaver THE STOLEN JOOLS (AKA THE SLIPPERY PEARLS ) (1931) Starring Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery, Edward G. Robinson, Laurel & Hardy, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Barbara Stanwyck, Our Gang and many more!
