As adventure movies go, Harry O. Hoyt’s famous 1925 The Lost World starts off hitting all the right notes. An explorer’s journal has survived after a South American expedition—the explorer has not—and it purports the discovery of dinosaurs and other prehistoric...
Irvin Willat’s 1919 Behind the Door, out now on Blu-ray from Flicker Alley, is an early example of the relationship between technique and emotion that makes a good film a good film. At only 70 minutes, Willat sweeps up the...
