|
Jack Mower
Jack Mower (September 5, 1890 – January 6, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 520 films between 1914 and 1965. He was born in Honolulu and died in Hollywood. After studying at Punahou College, in Honolulu, Mower moved to the mainland, and performed in vaudeville and in musical comedies on stage. His work on screen included serials and silent films. Mower was a leading man in silent films, but played bit parts after sound films came into vogue. He was in Goodwill Pictures films. Selected filmography ;1920s * '' The Beautiful Gambler'' (1921) * '' The Rowdy'' (1921) * '' Short Skirts'' (1921) * '' Silent Years'' (1921) * '' Saturday Night'' (1922) * ''Manslaughter'' (1922) * '' When Husbands Deceive'' (1922) * '' Pure Grit'' (1923) * '' The Last Hour'' (1923) * '' The Shock'' (1923) * ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1927) ;1930s * ''Bad Company'' (1931) (uncredited) * '' The Phantom Express'' (1932) (uncredited) * '' The Pride of the Legion'' (1932) * '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu ( ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, located in the Pacific Ocean. It is the county seat of the Consolidated city-county, consolidated City and County of Honolulu County, Hawaii, Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island of Oahu, Oʻahu, and is the westernmost and southernmost major U.S. city as well as westernmost and southernmost U.S. state capital. It is also a major hub for business, finance, hospitality, and military defense in both the state and Oceania. The city is characterized by a mix of various Asian culture, Asian, Western culture, Western, and Oceanian culture, Pacific cultures, reflected in its diverse demography, cuisine, and traditions. is Hawaiian language, Hawaiian for "sheltered harbor" or "calm port"; its old name, , roughly encompasses the area from Nuʻuanu Avenue to Alakea Street and from Hotel Street to Queen Street, which is the heart of the present dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shock (1923 Film)
''The Shock'' is a 1923 American silent drama film (a Universal Jewel) directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lon Chaney as a disabled man named Wilse Dilling. The film was written by Arthur Statter and Charles Kenyon, based on a magazine story by William Dudley Pelley. This is one of the rare Lon Chaney films in which his character ends up with the female "love interest." The film is readily available on DVD. Costing only $90,000 to make, the film took in a huge profit for Universal. A lobby card from the film can be seen on the internet, as well as the film's poster art. The film's tagline was "You haven't seen anything yet!" Plot In 1906, Wilse Dilling (Lon Chaney), a crippled gangster living in Chinatown, receives a coded message to go to the home of his boss, Ann Cardington (Christine Mayo), known as "Queen Ann", a powerful crime boss feared in the underworld. When Wilse meets with her, she sends him to the suburban town of Fallbrook, where he is to establish himself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witching Hour (1934 Film)
''The Witching Hour'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code drama film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Sir Guy Standing, John Halliday (actor), John Halliday, Judith Allen and Tom Brown (actor), Tom Brown. Plot While Jack Brookfield runs a gambling gathering at night in his Kentucky house, his daughter Nancy is frequently visited by and becomes engaged to young Northern architect Clay Thorne. His mother, an old friend of Brookfield's, arrives from Baltimore to save her son from the vice of gambling, but when Brookfield shows her her son and his daughter in the garden, she is delighted. Brookfield announces to the gentlemen that for that evening the gambling is over early, due to a feeling he has. After everybody has left, Brookfield's old friend (and customer) Lew Ellinger proposes playing poker. Brookfield answers he is not a gambler, but Ellinger deals the cards anyway. To his astonishment, Brookfield tells him exactly what he has in his hand. When it is repe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper World (film)
''Upperworld'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Warren William as a wealthy married railroad tycoon whose friendship with a showgirl, played by Ginger Rogers, leads to blackmail and murder. ''Upperworld'' is one of the last films released before the strict enforcement of the Hollywood Production Code by Joseph I. Breen, which began on July 1, 1934. Plot Alexander Stream is a multimillionaire. While he is devoted to his wife, Hettie and son, Tommy, she is too busy playing attending and throwing society functions to pay much attention to her husband. While out in his yacht, a young woman, Lilly Linda, is spotted drowning in the ocean. The crew bring her aboard, and Stream loans her some of his clothes. He gives her a ride home in his limousine and she invites him to come in so she can give the clothes back to him. To thank him, she offers to make him breakfast and he ends up skipping all of his morning appointments to have breakfast w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Harum (1934 Film)
''David Harum'' is a 1934 American comedy film directed by James Cruze and written by Walter Woods. The film stars Will Rogers, Louise Dresser, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor, Stepin Fetchit, Noah Beery, Sr. and Roger Imhof. The film was released on March 3, 1934, by Fox Film Corporation. Plot The film is set during the Panic of 1893. In the first scene, David Harum, a banker from the small town of Homeville, is visiting aristocratic General Woolsey in New York City. The general recommends John Lennox for employment at Harum's bank. The general also asks Harum to 'give his opinion' on a horse. Harum offers $100 to buy the horse and the General immediately and gleefully says 'Sold!' which makes Harum realizes he has been taken. The General cheerfully explains that the horse is a balker, that is, it will unexpectedly balk when pulling a carriage. This is the General's revenge for a previous horse deal when Harum had gotten the advantage. The general offers to buy the horse bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Among The Missing (film)
''Among the Missing'' may refer to: * ''Among the Missing'' (Richard Laymon), a 1999 novel by Richard Laymon *''Among the Missing'', a 2001 collection of short-stories by Dan Chaon * ''Among the Missing'' (film), a 1934 drama starring Richard Cromwell {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palooka (film)
''Palooka'' is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film, comedy film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Stuart Erwin in the title role, Lupe Velez and Jimmy Durante, and based on the Joe Palooka, comic strip by Ham Fisher. The film was adapted by Jack Jevne, Arthur Kober, Gertrude Purcell, Murray Roth and Ben Ryan from the comic strip. The film is also known as ''The Great Schnozzle'' in the United Kingdom. Plot Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin) is a naive young man whose father Pete (Robert Armstrong (actor), Robert Armstrong) was a champion Boxing, boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme (Marjorie Rambeau) to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him. But when a shady boxing manager (Jimmy Durante) discovers Joe's natural boxing talent, Joe decides to follow him to the big city, where he becomes a champion and begins to follow his father's path of debauchery, much of it including the glamorous cabaret singer and fortune hunter Nina Madero (Lupe Vélez). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counsellor At Law
''Counsellor at Law'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Elmer Rice is based on his 1931 Broadway play of the same title. Plot The story focuses on several days in a critical juncture in the life of George Simon, who rose from his humble roots in a poor Jewish ghetto on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become a shrewd, highly successful attorney. Earlier in his career, he allowed a guilty client to perjure himself on the witness stand because he believed the man could be rehabilitated if freed. Rival lawyer Francis Clark Baird has learned about the incident and is threatening to expose George, which will lead to his disbarment. The possibility of a public scandal horrifies his socialite wife Cora, who plans to flee to Europe with Roy Darwin. Devastated by his wife's infidelity, George is about to leap from the window of his office in the Empire State Building when his secretary Regina, who is in love with him, comes to his res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House On 56th Street
''The House on 56th Street'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code drama film. The film's plot involves a miscarriage of justice, wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and alienation of a prisoner from her only living relative. Plot A woman is sent to prison for twenty years for a murder she did not commit. When she is released, her husband is dead, and her daughter has been told Peggy is also dead. Cast * Kay Francis as Peggy Martin Van Tyle aka Peggy Stone * Ricardo Cortez as Bill Blaine * Gene Raymond as Monte Van Tyle (Monty Van Tyle in the opening credits) * John Halliday (actor), John Halliday as Lyndon Fiske * Margaret Lindsay as Eleanor Van Tyle Burgess * Frank McHugh as Chester Hunt * William "Stage" Boyd as Mr. Bonelli (as William Boyd) * Hardie Albright as Henry Burgess * Sheila Terry (actor), Sheila Terry as Dolly * Phillip Reed as Freddy * Walter Walker (actor), Walter Walker as Dr. Wyman * Nella Walker as Eleanor Van Tyle Reception According to Warner Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilgrimage (1933 Film)
''Pilgrimage'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by John Ford. Based on a short story by I.A.R. Wylie, the film stars Henrietta Crosman as an Arkansas mother who arranges for her son to be enlisted in the Army during the Great War to prevent him from marrying the woman he loves. The film's title refers to trips that the American Gold Star Mothers organization arranged beginning in the late 1920s, enabling mothers and widows of fallen soldiers to visit the overseas grave sites of their loved ones. Though it received positive reviews upon its release, Pilgrimage was a box office disappointment for Fox. Cast * Henrietta Crosman as Mrs. Hannah Jessop * Heather Angel as Suzanne * Norman Foster as Jim 'Jimmy' Jessop (Hannah's son) * Lucille La Verne as Mrs. Kelly Hatfield * Maurice Murphy as Gary Worth * Marian Nixon as Mary Saunders * Jay Ward as Jimmy Saunders (Mary and Jimmy Hessop's son) * Robert Warwick as Major Albertson * Louise Carter as Mrs. Rogers * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lone Trail
''The Lone Trail'' is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film directed by Forrest Sheldon and Harry S. Webb and starring Rex Lease, Virginia Brown Faire and Jack Mower. It was produced as a second feature on Poverty Row. According to a modern source it partly used edited footage from the earlier serial '' The Sign of the Wolf'', although no contemporary confirmation of this exists.https://catalog.afi.com/Film/6420-LONE-TRAIL?sid=e4462b50-18ee-4242-918e-791b9b0194af&sr=0.3211308&cp=1&pos=1 It has strong similarities to the plot of the 1935 film '' Skull and Crown'' which was based on an earlier story James Oliver Curwood. Plot Cast * Rex Lease as Ranger Tom Lanning * Virginia Brown Faire as Ruth Farnum * Joe Bonomo as Jed * Billy O'Brien as Bud O'Brien * Jack Mower as The Tiger * Robert Walker as Joe * Harry Todd as John Farnum * Josephine Hill as Tom's Sister * Edmund Cobb Edmund Fessenden Cobb (June 23, 1892 – August 15, 1974) was an American actor who appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pride Of The Legion
''The Pride of the Legion'' is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by Ford Beebe and starring Victor Jory, Barbara Kent and Sally Blane Sally Blane (born Elizabeth Jane Young; July 11, 1910 – August 27, 1997) was an American actress who appeared in more than 100 movies. Early life Blane was born in Salida, Colorado, moving to California with her family in 1916.1932 films 1932 crime films American crime films [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
