It's an old silent movie trick and the Marx brothers used it.

I felt like I was watching a silent movie through a cataract-clouded lens.

I am screaming without sound, as if in a silent movie.

Chaplin had been the biggest star in Hollywood's silent movie era.

Instead of commercials, the projector is playing an old silent movie.

And which idiot thought that this silent movie belonged to 2011?

She is Norma Desmond, the forgotten silent movie queen living in shabby, mouldering opulence.

His glasses were round, horn-rimmed, and they reminded Dale of some silent movie comedian's.

Or perhaps more like a puppet show or silent movie.

If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to, he joked.

Everything I read before that was a silent movie.

This is a grimly compelling, explicit and violent film which is also a silent movie.

Images flickered through her mind like a silent movie.

With the intercom off, it was a silent movie.

And Prince never resembled the silent movie star so much as when giving an interview.

We skittered around like a silent movie comedy, my feet slipping on the wet path.