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Slim Fingers
''Slim Fingers'' is a 1929 American crime film directed by Joseph Levigard and written by William Berke and Carl Krusada. The film stars Bill Cody, Duane Thompson, Wilbur Mack, Monte Montague, Arthur Morrison and Charles King. The film was released on March 24, 1929, by Universal Pictures. Cast * Bill Cody as Al Wellsley *Duane Thompson as Kate *Wilbur Mack as Dan Donovan *Monte Montague Walter Harry "Monte" MontagueKatchmer, George A. (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses'. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 264. ."United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940", ... as Valet *Arthur Morrison as Riley * Charles King as Morgan References External links * 1929 films Silent American crime films 1929 crime films Universal Pictures films American silent feature films American black-and-white films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films English-language crime films {{1920s-U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Berke
William A. Berke (October 3, 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – February 15, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) was an American film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He wrote, directed, and/or produced some 200 films over a three-decade career. Biography Berke broke into motion pictures in 1922 as a writer for silent westerns. For these assignments, he used the pseudonym William Lester. In the early 1930s, he formed a partnership with independent producer Bernard B. Ray to make feature films at Ray's Reliable Pictures studio, next door to Columbia Pictures. Berke, now using his own name for screen credits, was equally capable in making comedies, mysteries, action adventures, and westerns. In 1942, he joined Columbia, initially directing that studio's westerns with Charles Starrett and Russell Hayden, and then branching into more mainstream fare. In 1944, he moved to RKO Radio Pictures, handling a variety of movies, including detective fiction (Dick Tracy, The Falcon ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Film
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920s English-language Films
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number) 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 (number), 18 and preceding 20 (number), 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics Nineteen is the eighth prime number. Number theory 19 forms a twin prime with 17 (number), 17, a cousin prime w ... * One of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (1987 film), a 1987 science fiction film * '' 19-Nineteen'', a 2009 South Korean film * '' Diciannove'', a 2024 Italian drama film informally referred to as "Nineteen" in some sources Science * Potassium, an alkali metal * 19 Fortuna, an asteroid 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'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Black-and-white Films
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Universal Pictures Films
The following are lists of Universal Pictures films by decade: Lists * List of Universal Pictures films (1912–1919) * List of Universal Pictures films (1920–1929) * List of Universal Pictures films (1930–1939) * List of Universal Pictures films (1940–1949) * List of Universal Pictures films (1950–1959) * List of Universal Pictures films (1960–1969) * List of Universal Pictures films (1970–1979) * List of Universal Pictures films (1980–1989) * List of Universal Pictures films (1990–1999) * List of Universal Pictures films (2000–2009) * List of Universal Pictures films (2010–2019) * List of Universal Pictures films (2020–2029) See also * Universal Pictures Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or simply Universal), is an American filmmaking, film production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered at the 10 Universal Ci ... * List of United International Pictures films * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Crime Films
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number) * One of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (1987 film), a 1987 science fiction film * '' 19-Nineteen'', a 2009 South Korean film * '' Diciannove'', a 2024 Italian drama film informally referred to as "Nineteen" in some sources Science * Potassium, an alkali metal * 19 Fortuna, an asteroid 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 * "Stone in Focus", officially "#19", a composition by Aphex Twin * "Nineteen", a song from the 1992 album ''Refugee'' by Bad4Good * "Nineteen", a song from the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent American Crime Films
Silent may mean: People * Brandon Silent (born 1973), South African former footballer * Charles Silent (1842-1918), German-born American jurist * List of people known as the Silent Music * Silent (band), a Brazilian rock band * The Silents, an Australian psychedelic rock band * Silent, a song by Gerald Walker, from the album I Remember When This All Meant Something... Other uses * Silent film, a film with no sound * Dark (broadcasting) or silent, an off-air radio or TV station * Air Energy AE-1 Silent, a German self-launching ultralight sailplane * Buffalo Silents, a 1920s exhibition basketball team whose members were deaf and/or mute * Silent Pool, a lake in Surrey, United Kingdom * Silent (TV series), a 2022 Japanese television drama See also * Silent Generation, a demographic cohort between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers * Silent letter, a letter in a word which is not pronounced * Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933), 30th president of the United States, nicknamed "Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Films
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number) * One of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (1987 film), a 1987 science fiction film * '' 19-Nineteen'', a 2009 South Korean film * '' Diciannove'', a 2024 Italian drama film informally referred to as "Nineteen" in some sources Science * Potassium, an alkali metal * 19 Fortuna, an asteroid 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 * " Stone in Focus", officially "#19", a composition by Aphex Twin * "Nineteen", a song from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' by Bad4Good * "Nineteen", a song fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Pictures
Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or simply Universal), is an American filmmaking, film production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered at the 10 Universal City Plaza, Universal Studios complex in Universal City, California, and is the flagship studio of Universal Studios, Inc., Universal Studios, the film studio arm of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers (producer), Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States and the fifth oldest globally after Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus and Nordisk Film, and is one of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studios. Universal's most commercially successful film franchises include ''Fast & Furious, Jurassic Park'', and ''Despicable Me''. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Krusada
Carl Krusada (1879–1951) was an Austrian-born American screenwriter.Zmuda p.100 He began his career in the silent era, sometimes using the name Val Cleveland. During the 1930s he worked prolifically writing screenplays for B Westerns produced by a variety of Poverty Row companies. Selected filmography * ''The Scoffer'' (1920) * '' White Eagle'' (1922) * ''The Timber Queen'' (1922) * '' Solomon in Society'' (1922) * '' The Truth About Wives'' (1923) * '' Winning a Woman'' (1925) * '' Ridin' Thunder'' (1925) * '' Lorraine of the Lions'' (1925) * '' King of the Saddle'' (1926) * '' The Valley of Bravery'' (1926) * '' The Trail of the Tiger'' (1927) * '' The Arizona Whirlwind'' (1927) * '' The Golden Stallion'' (1927) * '' Heroes of the Wild'' (1927) * ''Three Miles Up'' (1927) * ''Won in the Clouds'' (1928) * '' The Price of Fear'' (1928) * '' The Vanishing Rider'' (1928) * '' How to Handle Women'' (1928) * '' Beauty and Bullets'' (1928) * '' The Gate Crasher'' (1928) * '' The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Marker
Harry Marker (October 7, 1899 – October 18, 1990) was an American Oscar-nominated film editor, who also worked in the television medium. Over the course of his 45-year career, he worked on more than 100 films and television shows. In 1946 he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Film Editing for ''The Bells of St. Mary's''. Life and career Born William Harry Marker Jr. on October 7, 1899, in Tipton, Indiana, he entered the film industry at the age of 17, as an editor on the 1918 silent film, '' Selfish Yates''. During the silent film era, he would edit 15 films, including such notable movies as: '' The Jailbird'' (1920), directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Douglas MacLean; the 1920 comedy '' Silk Hosiery'', directed by Fred Niblo and starring Enid Bennett; '' The Rookie's Return'' (1920), a comedy directed by Jack Nelson and starring Douglas MacLean; the 1928 Western, '' The Border Patrol'', starring Harry Carey and directed by James P. Hogan; and '' Burning Bridges'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
