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Originally posted by urgeok
...how many lost classics are there ? someone have a list ?
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I guess we first have to define what is meant by "lost"? If the film had been made, and the prints are extant (like NOSFERATU was for many years and only presumed lost for good), that's one category. But then there are those films that were never made, but planned (like the legendary Hammer "lost projects").
If we stick to what we presume are "lost" but extant works, there aren't that many. Edison's 1910 version of FRANKENSTEIN (in its entirety) would be interesting to see.
The aforementioned LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT tops my list as it apparently does so many folks here in this thread. What's funny, though, is that one Chaney expert thinks LONDON would have been "a stinker." See
http://www.filmthreat.com/Features.a...One.inc&Id=195
Don't mean to take us off-topic, but it's an interesting article if you're a Chaney fan.