Are you thinking of Sidewalk Stories (Lane, 1989)(Palm Pictures/Island Pictures)? louis schwartz On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 01:46 PM, Scott Andrew Hutchins wrote: > I recall many, many years ago (probably early 1990s; I know I had a > VCR by then) seeing a listing in the paper for a feature film from > 1986 or 1987 running on the local PBS affiliate. The end of the > description said the film was silent. I neither recall the title nor > the one line about the subject matter. Does anyone know what this > could be? The IMDb doesn't help since "silent" in the sound section > applies only to those films without recorded music on their initial > release. I thought it might be _Tales from the Gimli Hospital_ until > I actually saw that film and discovered that viewers were > misremembering it as a silent film when it actually has a big > monologue by one of the main characters and the frame story has plenty > of dialogue, as well. > > Scott Andrew Hutchins > [log in to unmask] > > Examine The Life of Timon of Athens at Cracks in the Fourth Wall > Theatre & Filmworks > http://mywebpages.comcast.net/scottandrewh > > "But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, > lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, > fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at > all...why then perhaps we *must* stand fast a little--even at the risk > of being heroes." --Sir Thomas More, _A Man for All Seasons_, by > Robert Bolt > > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html