Its first run having coincided with Lon Chaney having appeared on theater marquees while starring in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, "The Silent Command", directed by J. Gordon Edwards, starred the relatively unknown actor Bela Lugosi. With actresses Alma Tell, Martha Mansfield and Florence Martin, the periodical Photoplay Magazine offered its review as near hyperbole, "Betty Jewel is the prettiest thing in the cast."
Lon Chaney
Scott Lord on the Silent Film of Greta Garbo, Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjostrom as Victor Seastrom, John Brunius, Gustaf Molander - the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film........Lost Films in Found Magazines, among them Victor Seastrom directing John Gilbert and Lon Chaney, the printed word offering clues to deteriorated celluloid, extratextual discourse illustrating how novels were adapted to the screen; the photoplay as a literature;how it was reviewed, audience reception perhaps actor to actor.
Scott Lord on Silent Film
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