Marlene Dietrich in Kurt Bernhardt's The Woman Men Yearn For Among the silent-film classics to be featured at this year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival are Victor Sjöström's He Who Gets Slapped (1924), starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert in the newly founded MGM studios' first production; five-time Oscar nominee Clarence Brown's The Goose Woman (1925), starring Louise Dresser and Constance Bennett, and which was recently restored by UCLA; and William Desmond Taylor's Huckleberry Finn (1920). Taylor's 1922 murder — unsolved to this day — was one of the major scandals that rocked Hollywood in the early '20s. Other festival highlights include [...]...
- 5/24/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Hitting 1,000: '20 'Huck' will be preserved
WASHINGTON -- The National Film Preservation Foundation on Wednesday selected the celebrated 1920 adaptation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as the 1,000th film saved under the program. The classic film is one of the few complete features to survive from director William Desmond Taylor. It will be preserved by George Eastman House from a 35mm color-tinted nitrate print originally found in Denmark. Since its founding by Congress through the National Film Preservation Foundation Act of 1996, the NFPF has provided preservation support to 152 institutions across the nation. NFPF programs target American films that are unlikely to survive without public support.
- 10/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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