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The Silent Cinema Blogathon: Cabiria (1914)

indexIt’s the Silent Cinema Blogathon, hosted by In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood – follow the link to get the full list of blogs participating and movies being reviewed.
Join the fun.

Now, here at Karavansara, we go for pulp adventure, historical fiction and other less-than-sophisticated forms of entertainment, and it is therefore fitting that we take a look at a movie that was the mother of all sword & sandal flicks, of all the historical movie fantasies and Greco-Roman “peplums”.
A movie that almost exactly one century ago, was the first movie to be shown in the White House.

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Quest for the Diamond

519d7vy2qgl-_sy445_You know I’m a sucker for old style adventure movies.
And when I learned there’s an adventure flick I missed, and it’s based on a “lost” story by Louis L’Amour, I started searching.

The Diamond of Jeru, a classic tale of greed and divided loyalties set in Burma in 1955, was shot – under incredibly avverse conditions – in 2001.
It features Billy Zane, Paris Jefferson and Keith Carradine – a solid enough cast, for my tastes1.

So, as I said, I started looking for the movie.
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Contact form

I’ve been made aware of the fact that it’s pretty hard to get in touch with me.
So far we’ve used the post comments – but now it’s time to do like professional bloggers do, and so I set up a contact form.
You can find the link up in the top right corner of the blog.

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Any message posted through the form will be delivered in my mail box – and I’ll reply ASAP.
And of course I will not sell your data or spam you.

 


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Looking for Bill Barnes

Something funny happened – my character, Felice Sabatini, from The Ministry of Thunder and Cynical Little Angels, was compared to Bill Barnes.

Bill Barnes?
Now who the heck is this Bill Barnes chap?

I could say the name rang a bell – but I could not place the character.
Some research was needed.

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