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The Shepherd Of The Hills (1919 Film)
''The Shepherd of the Hills'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Louis F. Gottschalk and Harold Bell Wright, and based on Bell Wright's 1909 novel of the same name. It was remade in 1941 by director Henry Hathaway. Plot A world-weary man arrives in a small Ozark town to atone for the wrongdoing of his son, who had a child with one of the town's residents and split town years earlier. Cast * Harry Lonsdale as The Shepherd * Cathrine Curtis as Sammy Lane * George A. McDaniel as Young Matt * Don Bailey as Old Matt * Elizabeth Rhodes as Aunt Molly * Lon Poff as Jim Lane * C. Edward Raynor as Little Pete * Bert Sprotte as Wash Gibbs * George Hackathorne as Ollie Stuart * Louis Darclay as The Artist * E.K. Kendall as Postmaster * Ardita Mellinina as The Girl at the Spring (credited as Ardita Mellonino) * William De Vaull William De Vaull (December 12, 1870 – June 4, 1945) - also credited as William P. DeVaull - was an American film actor. He appeared in more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis F
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Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway (March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985) was an American film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring Randolph Scott and John Wayne. He directed Gary Cooper in seven films. Background Born Henri Léopold de Fiennes Hathaway in Sacramento, California, *a "Born March 13, 1898 in Sacramento, California." he was the son of an American actor and stage manager, Rhody Hathaway (1868–1944), and a Hungarian-born Belgian aristocrat, the Marquise Lillie de Fiennes (Budapest, 1876–1938), who acted under the name Jean Hathaway. This branch of the De Fiennes family came to America in the 19th century on behalf of King Leopold I of Belgium and was part of the negotiations with the Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Rogier (1800–1885), to secure the 1862 treaty between Belgium and what was then known as the Sandwich Islands and is now called Hawaii. The title Marquis, commissioned by the King of the Belgians, comes from his g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Black-and-white Films
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Films Set In The United States
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On American Novels
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Films
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William De Vaull
William De Vaull (December 12, 1870 – June 4, 1945) - also credited as William P. DeVaull - was an American film actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1915 to 1927. Filmography References External links * 1870 births 1945 deaths Male actors from San Francisco American male silent film actors American male film actors 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hackathorne
George Hackathorne (February 13, 1896 – June 25, 1940) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1916 and 1939. Hackathorne was born and educated in Pendleton, Oregon. Despite his mother's wishes that he get a college education, he chose to be an actor. He began his career as a child actor in stock theater, after which he performed in vaudeville. He and his brother had a dramatic act that toured the United States. On June 25, 1940, Hackathorne died in Hollywood, California, at age 44. He was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Partial filmography * ''Oliver Twist'' (1916) * ''Tom Sawyer'' (1917) - Sid Sawyer * ''Huck and Tom'' (1918) - Sid Sawyer * '' Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley'' (1918) - Amarilly's Brother (uncredited) * '' A Law Unto Herself'' (1918) - Bertrand Von Klassner at age 20 * '' The Heart of Humanity'' (1918) - Louis Patricia * ''Sue of the South'' (1919) - Shad Peters * '' Josselyn's Wife'' (1919) - Joe Latim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Sprotte
Bert Sprotte (9 December 1870 – 30 December 1949) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 70 American films between 1918 and 1938. He was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * '' Selfish Yates'' (1918) * ''The Border Wireless'' (1918) * ''Breed of Men'' (1919) * '' The Shepherd of the Hills'' (1919) * ''Two Moons'' (1920) * '' The Golden Trail'' (1920) * '' Jes' Call Me Jim'' (1920) *'' Below the Deadline'' (1921) * ''The Night Horsemen'' (1921) * ''Guile of Women'' (1921) * ''Trailin''' (1921) * '' The Blazing Trail'' (1921) * ''For Big Stakes'' (1922) * '' A Question of Honor'' (1922) * ''Conquering the Woman'' (1922) * '' Silver Spurs'' (1922) * ''The Fighting Streak'' (1922) * ''Thelma'' (1922) * ''The Prisoner'' (1923) * ''The Purple Dawn'' (1923) * ''Trimmed in Scarlet'' (1923) * ''Snowdrift'' (1923) * ''The Miracle Baby'' (1923) * ''Soul of the Beast'' (1923) * '' Rosita'' (1923) * ''Wild Bill Hickok'' (1923) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lon Poff
Alonzo M. "Lon" Poff (February 8, 1870 – August 8, 1952) was an American film actor who appeared in almost 100 films between 1917 and 1951. Born in Bedford, Indiana, he was the son of Mrs. Mary E. Poff, and he had a sister, Grace Poff. He died in Los Angeles, California. His grave is located in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Selected filmography * 49-'17'' (1917) - Bald-Headed Wrangler (uncredited) * '' The Scarlet Car'' (1917) - Constable (uncredited) * ''The Grand Passion'' (1918) - Villager (uncredited) * '' The Light of Western Stars'' (1918) - Monta Price * '' The Shepherd of the Hills'' (1919) - Jim Lane * '' The Last Straw'' (1920) - Rev. Beal * '' Bonnie May'' (1920) * ''Sand!'' (1920) - Jim Kirkwood (uncredited) * ''Square Shooter'' (1920) - Sandy * ''The Man Who Dared'' (1920) - Long John * '' The Old Swimmin' Hole'' (1921) - Professor Payne - Schoolmaster * ''Big Town Ideas'' (1921) - Deputy * ''The Three Musketeers'' (1921) - Father Joseph * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shepherd Of The Hills (1941 Film)
''The Shepherd of the Hills'' is a 1941 American drama film starring John Wayne, Betty Field and Harry Carey. The supporting cast includes Beulah Bondi, Ward Bond, Marjorie Main and John Qualen. The picture was Wayne's first film in Technicolor and was based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright. The director was Henry Hathaway, who directed several other Wayne films including '' True Grit'' almost three decades later. The story was filmed previously in the silent era by author Wright himself '' in 1919'', released on State Rights basis. It was filmed again, in ''The Shepherd of the Hills (1928 film)'', starring Molly O'Day at First National Pictures, and later, in color in 1964. The film also prominently features two uncredited pieces of music. The first is used as a leit motif to represent the spirit of Young Matt's deceased mother: the Wiegenlied ("Guten Abend, gut' Nacht" 868 of Johannes Brahms, commonly known in English as the Brahms Lullaby. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Bell Wright
Harold Bell Wright (May 4, 1872 – May 24, 1944) was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and nonfiction. Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, he had a very successful career; he is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction. Between 1902 and 1942 Wright wrote 19 books, several stage plays, and many magazine articles. More than 15 movies were made or claimed to be made from Wright's stories, including Gary Cooper's first major movie, ''The Winning of Barbara Worth'' (1926) and the John Wayne film '' The Shepherd of the Hills'' (1941). Early life Wright was born in Rome, New York, to Alma Watson and William A. Wright. In his autobiography, ''To My Sons'', Wright reports that his father, a former Civil War lieutenant and lifetime alcoholic, dragged "his wife and children from place to place, existing from hand to mouth, sinking deeper and de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
