|
John S. Waters
John Waters (October 31, 1893 – May 6, 1965) was an American film director, second unit director and, initially, an assistant director. His career began in the early days of silent film and culminated in two consecutive Academy Award nominations in the newly instituted (but short-lived) category of Best Assistant Director. He won on his second nomination, for MGM's ''Viva Villa!'', and received a certificate of merit; the certificate was replaced with an Oscar statuette in 1965. Assistant director and director during 1910s and 1920s A native of New York City, John Waters entered the motion picture industry in its formative years. Only a few of his assistant director credits from the 1910s have been recorded, with vehicles for Carlyle Blackwell (''The Shadow of a Doubt'', 1916) and Harold Lockwood (''The Avenging Trail'', 1917) listed among the earliest titles. During this initial phase of his career, he was billed on at least two occasions as John S. Waters and on at least on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vanishing Pioneer
''The Vanishing Pioneer'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by John Waters and starring Jack Holt, Sally Blane and William Powell. Holt's son, Tim makes his screen debut in this film The film is now lost. It is based on a story by Zane Grey. Parts of the film were shot in Zion National Park and Springdale, Utah. Plot A settlement of descendants of historical pioneers is threatened when their water supply is cut off by the large town that is growing nearby. The settlers are led by a rancher who battles back against the corrupt political leadership of the townspeople. Cast * Jack Holt as Anthony Ballard/John Ballard * Sally Blane as June Shelby * William Powell as John Murdock * Fred Kohler as Sheriff Murdock * Guy Oliver as Mr. Shelby * Roscoe Karns as Ray Hearn * Tim Holt as John Ballard, age 7 * Marcia Manon Marcia Manon (born Marcia Elizabeth Harrison, October 28, 1896 – April 12, 1973) was a film actress active during the silent film era of the 1910s a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chester Conklin
Chester Cooper Conklin (January 11, 1886 – October 11, 1971) was an early American film comedian who started at Keystone Studios as one of Mack Sennett's Keystone Cops, often paired with Mack Swain. He appeared in a series of films with Mabel Normand and worked closely with Charlie Chaplin, both in silent and sound films. Early life Conklin was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa. One of three children, he grew up in a violent household. When he was eight, his mother was found burned to death in the family garden. Although first judged a suicide, his father, a devoutly religious man who hoped his son would be a minister, was eventually charged with murder, but found not guilty at trial. Conklin won first prize when he gave a recitation at a community festival. A few years later, he ran away from home after vowing to a friend he would never return, a promise he kept. Heading to Des Moines he found employment as a hotel bellhop, but then moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where his interest i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Colman
Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English-born actor who started his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrated to the United States where he had a highly successful Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film career. He starred in silent films and successfully transitioned to sound, aided by a distinctive, pleasing voice. He was most popular during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. He received Oscar nominations for ''Bulldog Drummond (1929 film), Bulldog Drummond'' (1929), ''Condemned (1929 film), Condemned'' (1929) and ''Random Harvest (film), Random Harvest'' (1942). Colman starred in several classic films, including ''A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film), A Tale of Two Cities'' (1935), ''Lost Horizon (1937 film), Lost Horizon'' (1937) and ''The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film), The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1937). He also played the starring role in the Technicolor classic ''Kismet (1944 film), Kismet'' (1944), with Marlene Dietrich. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Geste (1926 Film)
''Beau Geste'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and based on the 1924 novel ''Beau Geste'' by P. C. Wren. Ronald Colman stars as the title character. Plot Major de Beaujolais leads a French Foreign Legion battalion across the Sahara desert to relieve Fort Zinderneuf, reportedly besieged by Arabs. When he arrives, he receives no response from the Legionnaires manning the walls, only a single shot. He realizes they are dead. The trumpeter volunteers to scale the wall and open the gate, but after waiting 15 minutes, the major climbs inside himself. He finds the dead commandant with a note in his hand addressed to the chief of police of Scotland Yard which states that the writer is solely responsible for the theft of the "Blue Water" sapphire from Lady Patricia Brandon. Soon after, the bodies of the commandant and the man beside him disappear. Then the fort is set afire. The major sends two Americans - later disclosed as the Gestes' friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Sabreur
''Beau Sabreur'' is a 1928 American silent romantic adventure film directed by John Waters and starring Gary Cooper and Evelyn Brent. Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was also prepared. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. Based on the 1926 novel '' Beau Sabreur'' by P. C. Wren, who also wrote the 1924 novel ''Beau Geste''. Produced by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation and distributed by Paramount Pictures, only a trailer exists of this film today. The released feature version is a lost film.(Wayback Machine) In the original novel the lead character Major Henri de Beaujolais is an officer of spahis (Algerian colonial cavalry of the French Army) and has no connection with the better known Foreign Legion. In all surviving stills of ''Beau Sabreur'' Gary Cooper is shown wearing the distinctive spahi uniform and it i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Foreign Legion
The French Foreign Legion (, also known simply as , "the Legion") is a corps of the French Army created to allow List of militaries that recruit foreigners, foreign nationals into French service. The Legion was founded in 1831 and today consists of several specialties, namely infantry, Armoured Cavalry Arm, cavalry, Military engineering, engineers, and Airborne forces, airborne troops. It formed part of the Army of Africa (France), Armée d'Afrique, French Army units associated with French colonial empire, France's colonial project in North Africa, until the end of the Algerian War in 1962. Legionnaires are today renowned as highly trained soldiers whose training focuses on traditional military skills and on the Legion's strong ''Morale, esprit de corps'', as its men come from different countries with different cultures. Consequently, training is often described as not only physically challenging, but also very stressful psychologically. Legionnaires may apply for French citize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Outlaw (1927 Film)
''The Last Outlaw'' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Gary Cooper, Jack Luden, and Betty Jewel. Written by John Stone and J. Walter Rubin, based on a story by Richard Allen Gates, the film is about a frontiersman who falls in love with a pretty woman whose brother is accused of murder. He tries to prove the young man innocent of the charges, but when he is appointed sheriff, he is obliged to track down and arrest the boy. A 16mm reduction positive print exists of this film. Plot On his way to Steer City, Buddy Hale (Gary Cooper) rescues Janet Lane ( Betty Jewel) from a runaway horse. Unknown to Buddy, the woman's brother Ward (Jack Luden) just shot the sheriff. Heading a ring of indignant ranchers whose cattle are being systematically rustled, Ward suspects that the sheriff and Justice Bert Wagner are leading the gang of thieves. Justice Wagner makes Buddy sheriff and sends him to arrest his predecessor's murderer. Soon after, Ward i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Bound (1927 Film)
''Arizona Bound'' is a lost 1927 American silent Western film directed by John Waters and starring Gary Cooper, Betty Jewel, and El Brendel. Written by Richard Allen Gates, Alfred Hustwick, Marion Jackson, and John Stone, the film is about an Arizona cowboy who spends most of his time caring for his white horse and pursuing a local girl, who is unimpressed with his irresponsible ways. After he takes a job as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold, he is attacked by a Texas gang. After being accused of being one of the bandits, he narrowly escapes lynching, retrieves the gold, and establishes his innocence and wins the trust of the local girl. ''Arizona Bound'' was filmed on location in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. Produced by E. Lloyd Sheldon for Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, the film was released on April 9, 1927, in the United States. Plot In the small mining town of Mesquite, cowboy Dave Saulter (Gary Cooper) spends most of his time looking aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nevada (1927 Film)
''Nevada'' is a 1927 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film directed by John Waters (director born 1893), John Waters and starring Gary Cooper, Thelma Todd, and William Powell. Based on the novel ''Nevada (Grey novel), Nevada'' by Zane Grey, the film is about a former outlaw hired to protect a ranch owner's daughter, which angers the ranch foreman who is in love with the girl. The villainous foreman spreads a rumor of his rival's dark past to the sheriff, and the former outlaw is soon on the run again. Eventually he captures a gang of cattle rustlers led by the foreman, and with his reputation restored, he marries the girl. This lavish Western (genre), Western film was remake, remade in 1944 as a B movie version titled ''Nevada (1944 film), Nevada'' starring Robert Mitchum—the only time Cooper and Mitchum played the same role; the remake was so early in Mitchum's career that he was billed with "Introducing Bob Mitchum as Jim Lacy." ''Nevada'' still survives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Baxter
Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film ''In Old Arizona'', for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd Academy Awards. He frequently played womanizing, charismatic Latin bandit types in Westerns, and played the Cisco Kid or a similar character throughout the 1930s, but had a range of other roles throughout his career. Baxter began his movie career in silent films with his most notable roles being in ''The Great Gatsby'' (1926) and '' The Awful Truth'' (1925). Baxter's notable sound films are ''In Old Arizona'' (1929), '' 42nd Street'' (1933), ''Slave Ship'' (1937) with Wallace Beery, '' Kidnapped'' (1938) with Freddie Bartholomew, and the 1931 ensemble short film '' The Stolen Jools''. In the 1940s, he was well known for his recurring role as Dr. Robert Ordway in the '' Crime Doctor'' series of 10 films. For his contributions to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drums Of The Desert (1927 Film)
''Drums of the Desert'' is a 1927 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film directed by John Waters (director born 1893), John Waters and written by Zane Grey and John Stone. The film stars Warner Baxter, Marietta Millner, Ford Sterling, Wallace MacDonald, Heinie Conklin, George Irving (American actor), George Irving, and Bernard Siegel (actor), Bernard Siegel. The film was released on June 4, 1927, by Paramount Pictures. Cast * Warner Baxter as John Curry * Marietta Millner as Mary Manton * Ford Sterling as Perkins * Wallace MacDonald as Will Newton * Heinie Conklin as Hi-Lo * George Irving (American actor), George Irving as Professor Elias Manton * Bernard Siegel (actor), Bernard Siegel as Chief Brave Bear * Guy Oliver as Indian Agent References External links * lobby long poster 1927 films 1927 Western (genre) films Paramount Pictures films Films directed by John Waters (director born 1893) American black-and-white films Silent American Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
