Michael F. Blake Movies

Documentary about John Ford's relation to Monument Valley.

A veteran street cop is assigned a new partner. The partner is not exactly what he seems to be, though--he is an experimental android who has been pro...

A tribute to producer Irving Thalberg.

Short documentary about the making of the John Ford/John Wayne film "Stagecoach".

In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the nai...

The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.

Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subje...

Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios...

A video tour of Chaney's actual make-up case and the "double-amputee" costume worn in The Penalty, guided by Michael F. Blake, the author of three boo...

Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the g...

An in-depth look at the Lon Chaney Sr. horror classic and other "Phantom" films.