future silent film aficionados need to know where to begin. Image Credit: United Artists. No genre suits itself to silent cinema better than slapstick comedy, and no one did slapstick comedy ...

All that glitters is not gold, and there is a fair amount of dross in this anthology of the great comic moments of the silent films. Considered purely as entertainment, The Golden Age of Comedy ...

Think of silent cinema and chances are a number of images will come to mind. Count Orlok’s shadow on the stairs in Nosferatu (1922), perhaps, or the cityscapes of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927).