The film, Bardelys the Magnificent, has been long lost to nitrate decomposition. I am just curious how almost 200 hundred people have rated this film. Were these voters alive in 1926 and saw the film upon it's release? Are the voters just guessing it must be a great film because John Gilbert stars? Just wondering...
shareIt has been found and is scheduled to be released on DVD in July by Flicker Alley.
shareAnd besides, it was never lost to nitrate decomposition. MGM was contractually obligated either to repurchase the rights after ten years or destroy all copies of the film, and chose to do the latter. This is one silent whose disappearance nobody blamed on nitrate decomposition. It's doubly a miracle that a print was found.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. Gandhi.