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Harry Cording
Hector William "Harry" Cording (26 April 1891 – 1 September 1954) was an English-American actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his roles in the films '' The Black Cat'' (1934) and ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1938). Life and career Cording was born Hector William Cording on 26 April 1891 in Wellington, Somerset. He was brought up and was educated at Rugby, and he was a member of the English Army in World War I. In 1919, he became steward for a British steamship line whose ships, such as the ''Vauban'' and the ''Calamares'', which he had worked on, frequently called at the Port of New York. After a number of trips, he resigned and decided to stay in the United States. He later settled permanently in Los Angeles, where he began a film career. His first role was as a henchman in ''The Knockout'' (1925), followed by similar roles over the next few years. Cording appeared in many Hollywood films from the 1920s to the 1950s. With an imposing six-foot height, stocky build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terror By Night
''Terror by Night'' is a 1946 Sherlock Holmes crime drama directed by Roy William Neill and starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The story revolves around the theft of a famous diamond aboard a train. The film's plot is a mostly original story not directly based on any of Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales, but it uses minor plot elements of "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," "The Adventure of the Empty House," "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," and ''The Sign of Four''.Alan Barnes (writer), Alan Barnes, ''Sherlock Holmes On Screen: The Complete Film and TV History'', Titan Books, Third Edition, January 31, 2012, , page 287 The film is one of four films in the series which are in the public domain Plot In London, Vivian Vedder (Renee Godfrey) verifies that a carpenter has completed a coffin for her recently deceased mother's body, which she is transporting to Scotland by train. She boards the train that evening, as do Lady Margaret Carstairs (Mary Forbes), who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century-Fox
20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by 20th Century Studios and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Buena Vista Home Entertainment) distributes the films produced by 20th Century Studios in home media under the 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment banner. For over 80 years – beginning with its founding in 1935 and ending in 2019 (when it became part of Walt Disney Studios), 20th Century Fox was one of the then "Big Six" major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 from the merger of the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures and was originally known as the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (while owned by TCF Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feel My Pulse
''Feel My Pulse'' is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Bebe Daniels. A copy of ''Feel My Pulse'' is preserved in the Library of Congress archives. Retrieved November 18, 2022. Plot Barbara Manning (Daniels) is a wealthy who inherits a |
Four Sons
''Four Sons'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed and produced by John Ford and written for the screen by Philip Klein from a story by I. A. R. Wylie first published in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' as "Grandmother Bernle Learns Her Letters" (1926). It is one of only a handful of survivors out of the more than 50 silent films Ford directed between 1917 and 1928. It starred Margaret Mann, James Hall, and Charles Morton. The film is also notable for the presence of the young John Wayne in an uncredited role as an officer. Though "silent," it was released with a Movietone music and sound effects track. A family is torn apart by the advent of World War I. It was remade in 1940 with the same title, starring Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich, and directed by Archie Mayo, although the war was updated to World War II. Plot Mother Bernle is a widow in Bavaria with four sons: Franz, Johann, Andreas and Joseph. Joseph receives a job offer from the United States, and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Command (1928 Film)
''The Last Command'' is a 1928 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz from a story by Lajos Bíró. Star Emil Jannings won the first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 1929 ceremony for his performances in this film and ''The Way of All Flesh,'' the only year that multiple roles were considered. In 2006, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for the National Film Registry. The supporting cast includes Evelyn Brent and William Powell. Plot In 1928 Hollywood, director Leo Andreyev (William Powell) looks through photographs for actors for his next movie. When he comes to the picture of an aged Sergius Alexander (Emil Jannings), he pauses, then tells his assistant (Jack Raymond) to cast the man. Sergius shows up at the Eureka Studio with a horde of other extras and is issued a general's uniform. As he is dres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daredevil's Reward
''Daredevil's Reward'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Eugene Forde and written by John Stone. The film stars Tom Mix, Natalie Joyce, Lawford Davidson, Billy Bletcher, Harry Cording, and William Welsh. The film was released on January 15, 1928, by Fox Film Corporation. Cast * Tom Mix as Tom Hardy * Natalie Joyce as Ena Powell * Lawford Davidson as Foster * Billy Bletcher as Slim * Harry Cording as Second Heavy * William Welsh as James Powell See also * Tom Mix filmography * 1937 Fox vault fire The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industr ... References External links * * 1928 films Fox Film films 1928 Western (genre) films Films directed by Eugene Forde American black-and-white films Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s English-langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Delight (1927 Film)
''Turkish Delight'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Paul Sloane for DeMille Pictures Corporation. It stars Julia Faye, in her first top-billed performance, and Rudolph Schildkraut. Cast *Julia Faye as Zelma *Rudolph Schildkraut as Abdul Hassan *Kenneth Thomson as Donald Sims *Louis Natheaux as Achmet Ali *May Robson as Tsakran * Harry Allen as Scotty * Toby Claude as Nassarah Preservation A complete 16 mm print of the film exists at the UCLA Film and Television Archive The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Also a nonprofit exhibition venue, the archiv .... Stills File:Turkish Delight Still 01.jpg, alt= File:Turkish Delight Still 02.jpg, alt= References External links * 1927 films 1927 comedy films Silent American comedy films American silent feature films Producers Distributing Corpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Jack (1927 Film)
''Black Jack'' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Orville O. Dull and written by Harold Shumate. The film stars Buck Jones, Barbara Bennett, Theodore Lorch, George Berrell, Harry Cording and William Caress. The film was released on September 25, 1927, by Fox Film Corporation. Cast * Buck Jones as Phil Dolan * Barbara Bennett as Nancy Blake * Theodore Lorch as Sam Vonner * George Berrell as Judge * Harry Cording as Haskins * William Caress as First Deputy * Buck Moulton as Second Deputy * Murdock MacQuarrie as Holbrook * Frank Lanning as Kentuck * Mark Hamilton as Slim * Sam Allen as Ed Holbrook Preservation status * The film is currently a lost Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography *Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland * Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US History *Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee ... film. References External links * * {{allmovie, 85210, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Knockout (1925 Film)
''The Knockout'' is a 1925 silent film drama directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills. It was based on the novel ''The Come-Back'' by Morris DeCamp Crawford. It was produced by and released by First National Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine reviews, Sandy Donlin, world’s light heavyweight boxing champion, hurts his right arm and is told by his doctor that, if he uses the arm in the fight, he will never use it again. Because he thinks the arm useless, he accepts the offer of the lumberman Parker to become his manager in a Canadian lumber camp. Donlin accepts because he has just met and fallen in love with Jean Farot, daughter of Parker’s rival. Parker wants Donlin at the camp because he can whip Jack Ducane, the foreman for Farot, who has blocked the efforts of Parker’s men to jam Farot’s logs. Ducane accuses Donlin of getting the Farot loggers drunk to cause them to jam the logs. Donlin learns in the ensuing fight that the right arm has healed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shock Punch
''The Shock Punch'' is a 1925 American silent boxing drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It starred Richard Dix and Frances Howard. Plot Coming face-to-face with a couple of ruffians, champion boxer Terrence O'Rourke and construction worker Bull Mallarkey, the equally tough Randall Savage flattens each with a single punch. Randall has a romantic interest in Dorothy Clark, whose father is erecting a new building. To get closer to her, Randall lands a job as a riveter. He then learns that not only is Bull Malarkey foreman of the crew, but is plotting to ruin Dorothy's father in business as well. Randall makes sure that does not happen. Cast Preservation A print of ''The Shock Punch'' is preserved at the Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loyal Order Of Moose
The Loyal Order of Moose is a fraternal and service organization founded in 1888 and headquartered in Mooseheart, Illinois. Moose International supports the operation of Mooseheart Child City & School, a community for children and teens in need, located west of Chicago; and Moosehaven, a retirement community for its members near Jacksonville, Florida. Additionally, the Moose organization conducts numerous sports and recreational programs, in local Lodge/Chapter facilities called either Moose Family Centers or Activity Centers, in the majority of 44 State and Provincial Associations, and on a fraternity-wide basis. There is also a Loyal Order of Moose in Britain. These organizations together make up the Moose International. History The Loyal Order of Moose was founded in Louisville, Kentucky, in the spring of 1888 by Dr. John Henry Wilson. Originally intended purely as a men's social club, lodges were soon founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri, and Crawf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherlock Holmes (1939 Film Series)
A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively. The first two films in the series were produced by 20th Century Fox and released in 1939. The studio stopped making the films after these, but Universal Pictures acquired the rights from the Doyle estate and produced a further twelve films. Although the films from 20th Century Fox had large budget, high production values and were set in the Victorian era, Universal Pictures updated the films to have Holmes fighting the Nazis, and produced them as B pictures with lower budgets. Both Rathbone and Bruce continued their roles when the series changed studios, as did Mary Gordon, who played the recurring character Mrs Hudson. In the 1970s four of the Universal-produced films fell into the public domain when their copyright was not renewed. These four films were restore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
