It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: The Shocking Miss Pilgrim read more
Wilse Dilling (Lon Chaney) is a man with a bad reputation, known as “dangerous” by the police in Chinatown, where he lives. He has few friends, due not only to his bad reputation, but also to the fact that he can’t walk without the assistance of crutches or a wheelchair (which peop read more
Wrap your head around this fact: Two decades before Quentin Tarantino was born, Ernst Lubitsch directed a comedy about Nazis. Unlike Tarantino, whose own Nazi film was typically bloodthirsty, Lubitsch was best known for light fare, especially sophisticated sex farces so insightful and lac read more
Wrap your head around this fact: Two decades before Quentin Tarantino was born, Ernst Lubitsch directed a comedy about Nazis. Unlike Tarantino, whose own Nazi film was typically bloodthirsty, Lubitsch was best known for light fare, especially sophisticated sex farces so insightful and lacking in pr read more
Watch the incomparable Lon Chaney in The Shock (1923). Chaney’s transformative skills are taken to the nth as he plays a cripple named Wilse Dilling. See him actually get the girl, for once. Director: Lambert Hillyer Cast: Lon Chaneyonline moviesThe Shock read more
Watch the incomparable Lon Chaney in The Shock (1923). Chaney’s transformative skills are taken to the nth as he plays a cripple named Wilse Dilling. See him actually get the girl, for once. Director: Lambert Hillyer Cast: Lon Chaneyonline moviesThe Shock read more
