Raiding the Vaults August 2, 2008

Toronto Film Society presents the only opporunity to peek into one of the finest film archives in North America. We screen the rare, the newly restored--all on 35mm all in the beautiful Dryden Theatre and all just a 3-4 hour drive from Toronto. Special rates on hotels within a 6 minute walk to Eastman House.
The Programme this year includes 5 feature silent films with live piano
THE COSSACK WHIP 1916-intense pre-Revotutionary Russian spy thriller with equal parts exotica and erotica. Beautiful art direction.
MADCAP MADGE 1917 with Olive Thomas-Betty's practical jokes and monkeyshines jeopardize her respectable family's future fortunes so they pck her off to boarding school-but where's there is a will, there's a way back. Hilarious. A very rare look at a radiant star shortly before her young, tragic death.
MADAME X 1920 w. Pauline Frederick--A mysterious lady, separated from her son for 20 years, must rely on him to defend her on murder charges. Not the first nor the last version of this perinnial soaper but the stellar acting of Frederick makes it the best.
SHERLOCK HOLMES 1922 w. John Barrymore--The great profile in his prime (he played Hamlet on stage that year)is the great detective. Filmed in London. Film was almost lost before a print was discovered in the vaults here and restored to all of it's glory. Film debut of William Powell.
THE CIRCLE 1925 Actors feast on a multi-layer cake of love triangles in Maugham's classic drawing room drama.
SOUND FEATURES
THE LADY OF SCANDAL 1930 In this witty comedy, stage star Ruth Chatterton finds herself surprisingly engaged to a dull as dishwater upper cruster. His family disapproves of her(of course) but her family disapproves of him (but what about all that money?) Who will win?
THE WHITE SISTER 1933 with Clark Gable, Helen Hayes
Gable's animal magnetism and Haye's artisocratic elegance can't compete with fate in this ill-fated love story, photographed by ace William Daniels.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 1935 directed by Joseph von Sternberg with Peter Lorre--Lorre is the screen's most menacing Raskolnikov in this dark, gritty version of the novel. Wonderful Sternberg touches throughout. Lorre's US debut.
THE CITADEL 1938 directed by King Vidor with Robert Donat, Rosiland Russell, Rex Harrison--A young, idealistic doctor is destroyed by coalmine owners when he tries to help sick workers. He retreats to London where he is turned into a gold-digging society doctor. Donat is supported by a galaxy of superior British acting talent in this top MGM production.
STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR 1940 w. Peter Lorre--A newsman is haunted by strange memories after giving key evidence in a murder trial. This taut, weird, pscho-thriller is regarded as the first American film noir. A must see.
SCANDAL AT SCOURIE 1953 w. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon--A wonderful "well-bred"film of the problems faced by a straitlaced middle-aged Irish-Protestant minister and his wife (and to boot theý're Canadian too)when thye take in a little Roman-Catholic girl to the town's disapproval.
ASSORTED SHORTS AND CARTOONS-MANY OF WHICH HAVE BEEN NEWLY RESTORED AND SHOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME
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