Fortress Of Good Fortune

I'd love to see Nosferatu. I have The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino on a VHS tape (somewhere in my basement) that I taped off American Movie Classics back in college. That was apparently very controversial in 1921!

I'd heard that! And I'd read the stories about all the hysteria over Valentino's death in 1927, too. Movies really captured the American imagination.

It would be interesting to see filmmakers -- besides Mel Brooks ;-) -- make more of them today. There's a lot of beauty in the silence, with only actions and music (and the occasional dialogue card) to tell the story.

I bet there are actors and directors out there who would love the challenge of doing a silent film. :)