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Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer (His Picture in the Papers / The Mystery of the Leaping Fish / Flirting With Fate / The Matrimaniac / Wild and Woolly / Reaching for the Moon / When the Clouds Roll By / The Mollycoddle / The Mark of Zorro / The Nut)

Douglas Fairbanks (Actor), Victor Fleming (Director), Allan Dwan (Director) Rated:
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Genre Classics/Silent Films, Action & Adventure
Format Multiple Formats, Box set, NTSC, Black & White
Contributor Douglas Fairbanks, John Emerson, Victor Fleming, Allan Dwan
Language English
Number Of Discs 5

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While he's noted for his string of swashbuckling roles, here are 11 ancient film treasures from before Fairbanks' pirate days including the Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916), Reaching for the Moon (1930), When the Clouds Roll By (1919) and more, digitally mastered from 35 mm or original negative sources featuring music by Eric Beheim, Philip Carli, Frederick Hodges and more. Also includes an audio essay by Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta. Silent. 5 DVDs. 1916-21/Black & White/12 hrs., 40 min/NR/full screen.

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 13.6 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Victor Fleming, Allan Dwan, John Emerson
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Box set, NTSC, Black & White
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 12 hours and 40 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ December 8, 2009
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Douglas Fairbanks
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Flicker Alley
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001GOEYAG
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 5
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  • Melodious Thunk
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you Flicker Alley!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2021
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    This is a magnificent set of Fairbanks films! Definitely buy this one before it goes out of print!
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    Thank you Flicker Alley!

    Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2021
    This is a magnificent set of Fairbanks films! Definitely buy this one before it goes out of print!
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  • Mark Martucci
    5.0 out of 5 stars Suprisingly good batch of Fairbanks
    Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2014
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    The pre swashbucklers are highly entertaining and quite funny.
    Excellent quality on all. Silent film fans: Go ahead and treat yourself. This is great stuff!!
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  • J W Shaver
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Extraordinary Person
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2013
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    I was intregged with 'Zorro ' and Doug's other late works, so I was pleased to find some of his early works;
    with them and a Biography, I have found an Extraordinary person.
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  • Barbara Underwood
    5.0 out of 5 stars Like buried treasure finally unearthed!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2008
    Receiving this very attractive 5-disc set really is like finding buried treasure of which perhaps only a small number of people were aware even existed. Although the name of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. is familiar to many, his fame in our day has focused only on his immensely successful and popular 1920s action-adventure dramas such as Robin Hood, The Three Musketeers and The Iron Mask. This is about to change, thanks to dedicated silent film producers like David Shepard, and Flicker Alley whose DVDs are always of top quality. Now the modern world can finally see the real Douglas Fairbanks in a surprising and delightful variety of films which made him a superstar already back in 1916. Ten of the films in this selection are examples and highlights of his successful career from the years 1916 to 1921, and the eleventh film is a wonderful new digitally mastered version of "The Mark of Zorro" which began his legendary series of swashbuckling adventure films of the Twenties. A much better picture quality and superb new musical score than previous releases of "Zorro" already make this release worth getting, but there are many more treats in store for Fairbanks fans and general silent film enthusiasts alike, in particular "A Modern Musketeer", complete for the first time after the latter half of the film was presumed lost until recently.

    With Douglas Fairbanks, what you see is what you get. Always full of exuberance and positive energy, the Broadway stage could not contain his spirit, and even motion pictures struggled to keep up with him. His dynamic style bursts out of the screen in every scene, and some of his athletic abilities are absolutely astonishing. For example, several scenes in some of these films show Fairbanks scurrying up buildings with the effortless ease of Spiderman, but without tricks or special effects. He learned various skills such as roping and riding in order to do his own stunts and always be himself in every scene, complete with his ever-present grin and irresistible charm. But he was even more than just a breathtaking on-screen persona because he was active in writing, producing and directing most of his films, and worked with the best cast and crew in the industry to achieve an ever higher standard. The themes, genres and stories in this selection are as surprising, intriguing and entertaining as the man himself, with a fast-paced, action-packed, Western ("Wild and Woolly"), a crime adventure with humour ("The Mollycoddle"), impressive special effects - for 1919 - in an unusual parody about psychology ("When the Clouds Roll By"), a satire about fame and vegetarians ("His Picture in the Papers") and a most bizarre black comedy about drug addiction and smuggling ("Mystery of the Leaping Fish"). While some of these have been available and even reasonably well-known among fans, this set also includes some rare gems such as "Reaching for the Moon", in which Doug the Dynamo plays someone much like himself, who cannot be contained in a dull button factory job and dreams of rubbing shoulders with kings. In fact, most of these films show a great deal of the real Fairbanks personality, and his genuine enthusiasm still flows and reaches out to the viewer nearly a century later with nothing lost in the passing of time. And those viewers familiar only with some of his famous action hero roles will be surprised to see Fairbanks as quite a brilliant and effective comedian in different styles of comedy and with various acting techniques. The films are immensely enjoyable on their own, but an excellent 32-page booklet provides background information on each one, and the producers have chosen the best silent film composers for each film, such as Robert Israel, the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra and Eric Beheim, to name a few. This first rate treatment gives due credit to one of early Hollywood's great pioneers and stars, and this set definitely belongs in any serious silent film collection.
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  • calvinnme
    5.0 out of 5 stars Some of the more watchable and entertaining films of the 1910's
    Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2008
    I'm a big fan of silent film, but I've found very few films from the 1910's to be very watchable. Most of the dramas from that very early period of the silent era are overacted and static, and the comedies are mainly pants-kicking fests. There are a few exceptions - for me anyways. These are most of the films I've found from the 1910's that hold up over time:
    1. The Buster Keaton - Roscoe Arbuckle collaborations
    2. Chaplin's Mutual comedies
    3. De Mille's "The Cheat"
    4. D.W. Griffith's work
    5. The early films of Douglas Fairbanks
    Fairbanks had quite a penchant for comedy, and I really enjoyed his early films. It's been awhile since I've seen them - not even TCM will show films this old that often. They have a sophistication and humor about them that are just delightful.

    This five-disc DVD collection includes eleven of the films which made Fairbanks famous before he starred in the costume features and swashbuckling tales of the 1920's for which he is best remembered. My favorites that are in this set are "The Nut" and "The Mark of Zorro". I also really liked "The Matrimaniac". It paired Fairbanks with largely forgotten silent comedienne Constance Talmadge and is really quite funny. There's something about Fairbanks in these early films that reminds me of Buster Keaton, although Fairbanks doesn't play characters that were quite so overwhelmed as Keaton's were.

    The set begins with four films produced in 1916 through Triangle-Fine Arts: His Picture in the Papers, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, Flirting With Fate and The Matrimaniac. "The Mystery of the Leaping Fish" has Fairbanks playing "Coke Ennyday" the scientific detective. Directed by Tod Browning and costarring a very young Bessie Love, it is the strangest film in this set.

    The collection continues with three films produced by Fairbanks for Artcraft / Famous Players-Lasky Corp. in 1917 and 1918: Wild and Woolly (1917), Reaching for the Moon (1917) and A Modern Musketeer (1918). Finally, four features that Fairbanks produced for United are included: When the Clouds Roll By (1919), The Mollycoddle (1920), The Mark of Zorro (1920) and The Nut (1921). "The Mark of Zorro" is probably here to contrast what is more typical of Fairbanks' films in the twenties with what he had been starring in up to that point.

    Fairbanks' films were quite good not just because of his talent in front of the camera, but because of the talent behind it. Anita Loos wrote several of the screenplays, and Allan Dwan and Victor Fleming were among Fairbanks' early directors.

    Many of the films in this collection have been digitally mastered from 35mm or original-negative sources with music scores created for these editions by Eric Beheim, Philip Carli, Frederick Hodges, Robert Israel, the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra and Franklin Stover. A Modern Musketeer, long thought to survive only as a fragment, is finally complete in a new restoration by the Danish Film Institute with an optional audio essay by Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta. The Mark of Zorro is digitally re-mastered from an original 35mm fine grain.

    BONUS FEATURES:
    Stills gallery containing over 40 images from Fairbanks's personal collection courtesy of the Douglas Fairbanks Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
    Original pressbook materials from His Picture in the Papers, Wild and Woolly, Reaching for the Moon, A Modern Musketeer, The Mollycoddle and The Nut courtesy of Jeffrey Vance, who has also written a new essay for this collection.
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  • BSK
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Fairbanks packs for any fan and silents enthusiast
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2015
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    One of the best Fairbanks compilations ever.
    Chronologically listed : His Picture in the Papers (1916), The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916), Flirting with Fate (1916), The Matrimaniac (1916), Wild and Woolly (1917), Reaching for the Moon (1917), A Modern Musketeer (1917), When the Clouds Roll By (1919), The Mollycooddle (1920), The Mark of Zorro (1920) and The Nut (1921).
    Includes some hard-to-find titles (Modern Musketeer amongst them), many short early ones and also a couple of more famous features (see product description for details) where he was swashbuckling at his best, along with some delicious "modern" comedies where he often plays a young man who is gradually transformed by circumstances. Amongst the best of the story is often the good and optimistic nature of his characters, even if they're a bit or more than a bit peculiar in their habits and interests. Atlhethic demonstrations, technical achievements and novelties, sense of humor and lots, lots of charm and enjoyment.
    Fairbanks started in Triangle-Fine Arts, evolved to Artcraft Pictures and finally joined D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin to give birth to United Artists; each one of this movements meant a greater control upon filmmaking and distribution for him as he became more and more famous, and the progress is translated into the making of the subsequent films.
    Furthermore, this DVD edition is carefully prepared, inasmuch in image quality as regarding booklet information, musical scores and extra contents (mostly publicity shots and excerpts). The music is specially well chosen, a point which can easily spoil a silent when ignored.
    For those who know Douglas Fairbanks Sr, this pack is plainly fabulous; for those who don't know him yet, it's a way to form an opinion based in a wide range of short and long features, not only his most well-known ones.
    Well worth its value.
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