Sentence examples for a silent version from inspiring English sources

There had been a silent version in 1915.

But the actors might have been just as effective in a silent version of the play.

In 1925, Murray made the one film for which she is still remembered: Erich von Stroheim's "The Merry Widow," a silent version of Franz Lehar's operetta.

No director had the temerity to attempt a silent version of "Ulysses," but Buck Mulligan snuck into Hollywood by way of Josef von Sternberg's 1927 gangland classic, "Underworld".

In September of 1927, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released what now seems almost incomprehensible: a silent version of the operetta "The Student Prince".

Among those screening in MOMA's series "Dickens on Film" are George Cukor's "David Copperfield, David Leann's "Oliver Twist," and a silent version of "Our Mutual Friend," from 1921.

Yet, on the other hand, that 1959 "Ben-Hur" was hardly a sacred text but rather a remake of a 1925 silent version inspired in turn by an 1880 novel a former Civil War general and governor of the New Mexico territory wrote in his spare time.

The February schedule includes a screening of a 1924 silent version of Peter Pan with musical accompaniment and a Sunday double-bill of Dallas with cocktails.

And nearly 15,000 people turned out for a screening of a rare silent version of Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 thriller "Blackmail," accompanied by an orchestra, on the city's iconic Potemkin Steps.

VHS and laserdisc There have been three theatrical versions of Jules Verne's science fiction classic, including a 1916 silent version and a 1973 puppetoon; the 1954 Disney version, directed by Richard Fleischer, is the best known and the most influential.

A film of Victory was made in 1996 starring Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe and Rufus Sewell, but it had already been adapted several times, including a 1919 silent version featuring Lon Chaney Sr and again in 1930 as Dangerous Paradise.