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Pedro Regas
Petros "Pedro" Regas (born Panagiotis Thomas Regakos; April 18, 1897 – August 10, 1974 in Hollywood, Los Angeles), a veteran stage actor, Regas was spotted on the Broadway stage by Mary Pickford who persuaded him to go to Hollywood and be in pictures, which he did in 1920 and continued to play in films for 50 years. Regas died of a heart attack and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Partial filmography * ''Señorita'' (1927) - Hernandez Gaucho (uncredited) * ''The Ridin' Renegade'' (1928) - Little Wolf * '' Two Fisted Justice'' (1931) - Henchman Cheyenne Charlie * '' Law and Order'' (1932) - Mexican (uncredited) * '' Scarface'' (1932) - Tony - Bodyguard (uncredited) * '' The Mouthpiece'' (1932) - One of J.B.'s Henchmen (uncredited) * '' Thunder Below'' (1932) - Messenger (uncredited) * ''Tiger Shark'' (1932) - Crewman (uncredited) * '' Trailing the Killer'' (1932) - Manuel * '' The Barbarian'' (1933) - Dragoman (uncredited) * '' Fighting Texans'' (1933) - Stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Buck (animal Collector)
Frank Howard Buck (March 17, 1884 – March 25, 1950) was an American hunter, animal collector, and author, as well as a film actor, director, and producer. Beginning in the 1910s he made many expeditions into Asia for the purpose of hunting and collecting exotic animals, bringing over 100,000 live specimens back to the United States and elsewhere for zoos and circuses and earning a reputation as an adventurer. He co-authored seven books chronicling or based on his expeditions, beginning with 1930's ''Bring 'Em Back Alive (book), Bring 'Em Back Alive'', which became a bestseller. Between 1932 and 1943 he starred in seven adventure films based on his exploits, most of which featured staged "fights to the death" with various wild beasts. He was also briefly a director of the San Diego Zoo, displayed wild animals at the 1933–34 Century of Progress exhibition and 1939 New York World's Fair, toured with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and co-authored an autobiography, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiger Shark (film)
''Tiger Shark'' is a 1932 American pre-Code melodrama romantic film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen and Zita Johann. Plot The wife of one-handed tuna fisherman Mike Mascarenhas falls for the man whose life Mike had saved while at sea. Cast Production notes The film was made in the same year as '' Scarface'', which is considered to be the Howard Hawks' best film of the early sound era. The general storyline was repeated several times in later films such as ''Manpower'' (1941) with Marlene Dietrich and George Raft, in which Robinson plays the same role but as a powerline worker. John Lee Mahin worked on the script for the film uncredited. The film's leading lady Zita Johann may be best remembered for her role in Karl Freund Karl W. Freund, A.S.C. (; January 16, 1890 – May 3, 1969) was a German Bohemian and American cinematographer and film director. He is best known for photographing ''Metropolis'' (1927), ''Dracula'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Hood Of El Dorado (film)
''Robin Hood of El Dorado'' is a 1936 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman for MGM. It stars Warner Baxter as real-life Mexican folk hero, Joaquin Murrieta, and Ann Loring as his love interest, with Bruce Cabot as Bill Warren and J. Carrol Naish as Murrietta's notorious partner, Three-Fingered Jack. The film is based on the life of Murrietta as the Robin Hood of Old California in 1850, a kind, gentle man who is driven to violence. Plot summary In 1848 in California, Mexican farmer Joaquin Murietta has become a criminal to avenge the rape and murder of his wife, Rosita, and lynching of his brother, Jose, at the hands of the Americans. Cast *Warner Baxter as Joaquin Murrietta *Ann Loring as Juanita de la Cuesta *Bruce Cabot as Bill Warren * Margo as Rosita * J. Carrol Naish as Three-Fingered Jack *Soledad Jiménez as Madre Murrietta *Carlos de Valdez as Jose Murrietta * Eric Linden as Johnnie Warren *Edgar Kennedy as Sheriff Judd *Charles Trowbridge as Ramon de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give Us This Night
''Give Us This Night'' is one of five movies produced by Paramount Pictures featuring Gladys Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on the popularity of Grace Moore, another opera singer, who had also expanded her talents into movies. ''''. January 25, 1937. Plot 
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Sutter's Gold
''Sutter's Gold'' is a 1936 American Western film. It is a fictionalized version of the aftermath of the discovery of gold on Sutter's property, spurring the California Gold Rush of 1849. Edward Arnold plays John Sutter. The supporting cast includes Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katherine Alexander, Montagu Love, and Harry Carey as Kit Carson. The film was directed by James Cruze. The film is based on the novel by Blaise Cendrars, and the play ' by Bruno Frank. Production and aftermath Carl Laemmle, president of Universal Pictures, loved action westerns and he wanted to make a big outdoor spectacle, along the lines of the well remembered silent epic ''The Covered Wagon'' (1923). Laemmle hired that film's director, James Cruze, for the new film ''Sutter's Gold''. The studio assembled a "name" cast of popular character players including Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Harry Carey, and Binnie Barnes. Unfortunately neither the studio nor the film had any big "star" names to attract mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Rex And Rinty
''The Adventures of Rex and Rinty'' (1935) is a Mascot film serial directed by Ford Beebe and B. Reeves Eason and starring the equine actor Rex ("The King of Wild Horses") and canine actor Rin Tin Tin, Jr. Plot Cast * Rex the king of wild horses as himself * Rin Tin Tin, Jr. as Rinty * Kane Richmond as Frank Bradley * Norma Taylor as Dorothy Bruce * Mischa Auer as Tanaga * Smiley Burnette as Jensen * Harry Woods as Crawford * Pedro Regas as Pasha * Hooper Atchley as Debor * Wheeler Oakman as Henchman Wheeler * Victor Potel as Kinso, Royal Guard Commander * Allan Cavan Allan Cavan (March 25, 1880 – January 19, 1941) was an American film actor. He appeared in 145 films between 1917 and 1941. Cavan was the son of Mrs. Averila Cavan, and he had a brother, Carl. He began working on films with Sam Goldwyn S ... as Mr. Bruce Additional crew * Story: B. Reeves Easton, Maurice Geraghty, Ray Trampe * Musical Director: Lee Zahler * Supervising Editor: J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Pampas Moon
''Under the Pampas Moon'', also known as ''The Gaucho'', is a 1935 American Western film directed by James Tinling and starring Warner Baxter and Ketti Gallian. Baxter plays an Argentine gaucho. Rita Hayworth also had an early role in the film. The film has been cited as a "ludicrously dated essay into South American caricature". Plot The womanizing gaucho Cesar Campo lives a carefree life on the Pampas. However, when a plane lands nearby he meets an attractive French singer and her unscrupulous fiancée who is so impressed by Cesar's horse that he arranges to have it stolen to enter in a horse race under a false name. Cesar pursues them to Buenos Aires and after a flirtation with the French singer and a series of culture clashes in sophisticated hotels and restaurants he rescues the horse and returns home. Cast *Warner Baxter as Cesar Campo * Ketti Gallian as Yvonne LaMarr * J. Carrol Naish as Tito *John Miljan as Graham Scott *Armida as Rosa * Ann Codee as Madame LaMarr * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Fury (film)
''Black Fury'' is a 1935 American crime film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Paul Muni, Karen Morley, and William Gargan. It was adapted by Abem Finkel and Carl Erickson from the short story "Jan Volkanik" by Judge Michael A. Musmanno, and the play ''Bohunk'' by Harry R. Irving.Herzberg, Bob. ''The Left Side of the Screen: Communist and Left-Wing Ideology in Hollywood, 1929-2009.'' Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland, 2011, p. 42-46. The plot is based on a historic incident during a Pennsylvania walk-out in 1929, in which John Barkowski, a striking coal miner, was beaten to death by private company police.Robertson, James C. ''The Casablanca Man: The Cinema of Michael Curtiz.'' London: Routledge, 1993, p. 31-32. In 1936, at the 8th Academy Awards, Muni was not officially nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, but he came in second on the basis of write-in votes, which were allowed that year. Plot Set in Pennsylvania coal country, the film tells the story of Joe Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of The Pecos (1934 Film)
''West of the Pecos'' is a 1934 American Western film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Richard Dix and Martha Sleeper. The screenplay was written Milton Krims and John Twist, who adapted the serial of the same name by Zane Grey, appearing beginning in ''The American Magazine ''The American Magazine'' was a periodical publication founded in June 1906, a continuation of failed publications purchased a few years earlier from publishing mogul Miriam Leslie. It succeeded '' Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly'' (1876–1904) ...'' in 1931 and later as the 1937 novel. The film, which is thought to be lost, was remade as '' West of the Pecos'' in 1945. Plot References External links * Films produced by Cliff Reid Films directed by Phil Rosen RKO Pictures films American Western (genre) films 1934 Western (genre) films 1934 films American black-and-white films 1930s American films Films based on works by Zane Grey 1930s English-language films English-language Wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Canary (film)
''Grand Canary'' is a 1934 American drama film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Warner Baxter, Madge Evans and Marjorie Rambeau. It is an adaptation of A. J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is ''The Citadel (novel), The Citadel'' (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh coal mining, minin ...'s 1933 Grand Canary (novel), novel of the same title.Goble p.99 Plot A British doctor is forced to leave England after three of his patients die during experimental treatment. He boards a freighter from Liverpool and lands in the Canary Islands. He encounters Lady Mary Fielding, the wife of one of the wealthiest landowners in the area, and explains to her that the patients died ''before'' he could administer his new serum to them, and he has been falsely scapegoated by the medical profession. When a yellow fever outbreak threatens the health of many on the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viva Villa!
''Viva Villa!'' is a 1934 American pre-Code Western film directed by Jack Conway and starring Wallace Beery as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from the 1933 book '' Viva Villa!'' by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade. The film was shot on location in Mexico and produced by David O. Selznick. There was uncredited assistance with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin McGuinness, and Howard Emmett Rogers. Hawks and William A. Wellman were also uncredited directors on the film. The film is a fictionalized biography of Pancho Villa starring Beery in the title role and featuring Fay Wray, who had played the leading lady in ''King Kong'' the previous year. The supporting cast includes Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook, Stuart Erwin, Henry B. Walthall, Joseph Schildkraut and Katherine DeMille. Plot After seeing his poor father lose his land and be whipped to death for protesting, young Pancho Villa stabs one of the killers, then h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Down To Rio
''Flying Down to Rio'' is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film famous for being the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, although lead actors Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond received top billing. Among the featured players are Franklin Pangborn and Eric Blore. The songs in the film were written by Vincent Youmans (music), Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu (lyrics), with musical direction and additional music by Max Steiner. During the 7th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for the new category of Best Original Song for "Carioca", but it lost to " The Continental" from ''The Gay Divorcee'', the next Astaire and Rogers film (and their first with top billing). The black-and-white film, which had a color-tinted sequence, was directed by Thornton Freeland and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Lou Brock. The screenplay was written by Erwin S. Gelsey, H. W. Hanemann and Cyril Hume, based on a story by Lou Brock and a play by Anne Caldwell. Linwood Dunn did the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
