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The Speed Spook
''The Speed Spook'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines and starring Johnny Hines, Faire Binney and Edmund Breese.Munden p.754 Cast * Johnny Hines as 'Blue Streak' Billings * Faire Binney as Betty West * Edmund Breese as Chuck Brady * Warner Richmond Warner Richmond (born Werner Paul Otto Raetzmann; January 11, 1886 – June 19, 1948) was an American stage and film actor. He began his career as a stock theatre actor and appeared in films in both the silent film and sound eras. His career spa ... as Jud Skerrit * Frank Losee as Sheriff West * Henry West as Hiram Smith References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1924 films 1924 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films American auto racing films Silent American comedy films Films directed by Charles ...
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Charles Hines (director)
Charles Hines (1892–1936) was an American actor and film director of the silent era.Munden p. 359 Born in Pennsylvania, he was the second of three brothers who had careers in the new film industry. He died at the age of 43 in Los Angeles, California. His younger brother, actor Johnny Hines, appeared in 50 films, mostly during the silent era. Hines directed him in some of these films. Their older brother Samuel E. Hines had mostly bit-parts in silents. Selected filmography * '' The Argyle Case'' (1917) (actor) * '' Conductor 1492'' (1924) * '' The Speed Spook'' (1924) * ''The Early Bird'' (1925) * '' The Crackerjack'' (1925) * '' The Live Wire'' (1925) * '' Rainbow Riley'' (1926) * ''Stepping Along'' (1926) * '' The Brown Derby'' (1926) * '' White Pants Willie'' (1927) * '' All Aboard'' (1927) * '' Home Made'' (1927) * '' Chinatown Charlie'' (1928) * '' The Wright Idea'' (1928) * ''Wings in the Dark ''Wings in the Dark'' is a 1935 film directed by James Flood and starring ...
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Warner Richmond
Warner Richmond (born Werner Paul Otto Raetzmann; January 11, 1886 – June 19, 1948) was an American stage and film actor. He began his career as a stock theatre actor and appeared in films in both the silent film and sound eras. His career spanned four decades. He is possibly best recalled for appearances in Westerns in his later career in sound films. Between 1912 and 1946, he appeared in more than 140 films. Early life Warner Richmond was born in Racine, Wisconsin as Werner Paul Otto Raetzmann, one of seven children born to Wilhelm ("William") Raetzmann and Emilie ("Amelia") Licht. Richmond's father was a German immigrant from Hanover who worked as a printer in Reedsburg. His mother was Wisconsin-born and raised, and of German immigrant parents. Growing up in rural Wisconsin, he became an expert horseman, and this skill would later earn him roles in western movies. As a young man, he moved to Chicago and lived with his brother Ewald and worked as traveling salesman of mu ...
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Silent American Comedy Films
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American Auto Racing Films
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American Silent Feature Films
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1920s English-language Films
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1924 Comedy Films
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * '' Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by S ...
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1924 Films
The following is an overview of 1924 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top eight 1924 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 10 – CBC Distributions corp. is renamed and incorporated as Columbia Pictures. * D. W. Griffith, co-founder of United Artists, leaves the company. *April 17 – Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gains control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) *November 15 – In Los Angeles, director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") meets publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst to work out a deal. When Ince dies a few days later, reportedly of a heart attack, rumors soon surface that he was murdered by Hearst. *Loews Theatres acquires the 4,000 seat Capitol Theatre in New York City becoming the flagship of the theatre chain and site of many ...
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Henry West (actor)
Henry West may refer to: * Henry Skinner West (1870–1961), principal of Maryland State Normal School, now Towson University * Henry Wyndham West (1823–1893), English barrister and Liberal politician * Henry F. West (1796–1856), mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana * Henry West (MP for Bedford), MP for Bedford *Henry Litchfield West (1859–1940), journalist and Commissioner of the District of Columbia *Harry West Henry William West (27 March 1917 – 5 February 2004) was a politician in Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1974 until 1979. Career to Stormont West was born in County Fermanagh and educated at Portora R ... (1917–2004), politician in Northern Ireland See also

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Frank Losee
Frank Losee (June 12, 1856 – November 14, 1937) was an American stage and screen actor. A veteran of the Broadway stage he began in silent films in 1915. Often he played the father of Mary Pickford, Pauline Frederick and Marguerite Clark. Career Losee began as a professional actor with Hooley's Stock company, and he went on to act with several stock theater groups. Losee's Broadway credits included ''Present Arms'' (1928), ''For All of Us'' (1923), ''Just Outside the Door'' (1915), ''The Hawk'' (1914), ''The Deadlock'' (1914), ''The Five Frankfurters'' (1913), ''Honest Jim Blunt'' (1912), ''The Return of Eve'' (1909), ''The Rose of the Rancho'' (1906), ''Mizpah'' (1906), ''Nancy Stair'' (1905), ''When We Dead Awake'' (1905), ''Friquet'' (1905), ''Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall'' (1904), ''Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall'' (1903), ''Sky Farm'' (1902), ''Richard Carvel'' (1900), ''A Young Wife'' (1899), ''Cumberland '61'' (1897), and ''The Law of the Land'' (1896). Personal lif ...
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Comedy Film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film and it is derived from the classical comedy in theatre. Some of the earliest silent films were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1930s, comedy films took another swing, as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue. Comedy, compared with other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity. In '' The Screenwriters Taxonomy'' (2017), Eric R. Williams contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character, and story. Therefore the labels "drama" and "comedy" ar ...
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William Wallace Cook
William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) also known by the pen-name John Milton Edwards, was an American journalist and author of popular fiction. His works include westerns, adventure stories, dime novels The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term ''dime novel'' has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, r ..., serials and screen and stage plays. He is best remembered for his science-fiction works. Cook also created ''Plotto'', a system for plot suggestion and content structure that fiction writers can use. This came out in the 1920s, and in 1934 came out with a 7 part instruction guide. As by John Milton Edwards he wrote ''The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully'' in 1912. Works * ''Cast Away at the Pole'' (1904) * ''Adrift in the Unknown'' (1905) * ' ...
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