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Tom McGuire (actor)
Tom McGuire (1 September 1873 – 6 May 1954) was an English stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1919 and 1949. He was born in Lancashire, England and died in Hollywood, California. Selected filmography * '' The Woman Under Oath'' (1919) * '' The Road of Ambition'' (1920) * '' The Romance Promoters'' (1920) * '' The Girl in the Taxi'' (1921) * '' Cinderella of the Hills'' (1921) * '' See My Lawyer'' (1921) * '' A Front Page Story'' (1922) * '' The Ladder Jinx'' (1922) * '' Single Handed'' (1923) * '' The Self-Made Wife'' (1923) * ''Why Women Remarry'' (1923) * '' The Victor'' (1923) * '' Her Man'' (1924) * '' The Reckless Age'' (1924) * '' Dark Stairways'' (1924) * '' Red Hot Tires'' (1925) * '' Fighting Fate'' (1925) * ''Flaming Waters'' (1925) * '' The Little Giant'' (1926) * '' You'd Be Surprised'' (1926) * ''The Better 'Ole'' (1926) * '' Pleasure Before Business'' (1927) * '' The Missing Link'' (1927) * '' Steamboat Bill, Jr.'' (1928) * '' Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steamboat Bill, Jr
''Steamboat Bill, Jr.'' is a 1928 Silent film, silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the final product of Keaton's independent production team and set of gag writers. Charles Reisner directed the film, and the credited story writer was Carl Harbaugh. The film, named after Arthur Collins (singer), Arthur Collins's popular 1911 recording of the 1910 song "Steamboat Bill," also featured Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron, and Tom Lewis. The film is known for what may be Keaton's most famous film stunt: The facade of a house falls around him while he stands in the precise location of an open window to avoid being flattened. The film was not a box-office success and became the last picture Keaton made for United Artists. Keaton ended up moving to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he made one last film in his trademark style, ''The Cameraman,'' and ''Spite Marriage,'' before his creative control was taken away by the studio. In 2016, the film was sele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reckless Age
''The Reckless Age'' is a 1924 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and starring Reginald Denny. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is based on the novel ''Love Insurance'' by Earl Derr Biggers and is a remake of an earlier Paramount film '' Love Insurance'' (1919), which is now lost. Plot As described in a film magazine, Dick Minot (Denny), crack "trouble-shooter" of Lloyd's International Insurance Company, is assigned to guard Lord Harrowby (Austin) from disaster in connection with his coming marriage to Cynthia Meyrick (Dwyer), an heiress, as the nobleman having taken out an insurance policy against his failure to marry her. Minot proceeds to the Florida resort where Cynthia is and where the marriage is to take place. On the way he meets the heiress, who is beautiful. He promptly falls in love with her, but his duty stares him in the face. He must leave no stone unturned to see that her romance with the nobleman does not fall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breach Of Promise (1932 Film)
''Breach of Promise'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Chester Morris, Mae Clarke and Mary Doran.Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. p.696. . Cast *Chester Morris as James Pomeroy *Mae Clarke as Hattie Pugmire * Mary Doran as Mille Applegate *Theodore von Eltz as District Attorney * Elizabeth Patterson as Cora Pugmire * Charles Middleton as Joe Pugmire * Lucille La Verne as Mrs. Flynn *Eddie Borden as Hotel Clerk *Edward LeSaint as Judge * Alan Roscoe as Committeeman *Harriet Lorraine as Committeewoman *Philo McCullough Philo McCullough (June 16, 1893 – June 5, 1981) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1914 and 1969. He was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Burbank, California. McCullough's film debut came in 1912 ... as Committeeman * Tom Mcguire as Committeeman References External links * * 1930s Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics (1931 Film)
''Politics'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Wells Root and Robert E. Hopkins. The film stars Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Roscoe Ates, Karen Morley, and William Bakewell. It was released on July 25, 1931 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot Crime runs rampant in Lake City and the corrupt mayor is running for another term of office. It appears as though he will win until the disgusted women of the town back homebody Hattie Burns to run against him. Cast *Marie Dressler as Hattie Burns *Polly Moran as Ivy Higgins *Roscoe Ates as Peter Higgins *Karen Morley as Myrtle Burns *William Bakewell as Benny Emerson *John Miljan as Jim Curango *Joan Marsh as Daisy Evans *Tom McGuire (actor), Tom McGuire as Mayor Tom Collins *Kane Richmond as Nifty Morgan *Mary Alden as Mrs. Mary Evans References External links * 1931 films 1931 comedy films American black-and-white films American comedy films Films directed by Charle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Girl (1930 Film)
''City Girl'' is a 1930 American part-talkie sound film, sound drama film directed by F. W. Murnau, and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. It follows a waitress in Chicago who falls in love with a farmer in Minnesota and leaves her life in the city to be with him. It is based upon the play "The Mud Turtle" by Elliot Lester. Though shot as a silent feature, the film was refitted with some sound elements and released in 1930 as a sound film due to the public apathy to silent films. While the film has a few talking sequences, the majority of the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. ''City Girl'' was filmed on location in Athena, Oregon, Athena and Pendleton, Oregon, Pendleton in eastern Oregon in 1928, with some additional exterior shooting taking place in Portland, Oregon, Portland. After location shooting was completed, interior shoots were undertaken on soundstages in Los Angeles. Fox Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice Of The City
''The Voice of the City'' is a 1929 American pre-Code crime mystery film by Willard Mack and starring Robert Ames. The work uses an original screenplay by Willard Mack, and is not related to the story of the same name by O. Henry. silentera.com; accessed January 26, 2016. The film became available on DVD on January 31, 2012 from the . Premise A young man is accused of murder and a master detective is set to track him down and uncover conclusive evidence of his guilt, but the more he works on the case, the more he becomes convinced that the accused is not the real killer. He discovers that the ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Missing Link (1927 Film)
''The Missing Link'' is a 1927 American synchronized sound comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin, Ruth Hiatt and Tom McGuire. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The title of the film is a reference to the so-called "missing link" that connects man and the ape. Plot Cast * Syd Chaplin as Arthur Wells * Ruth Hiatt as Beatrice Braden * Tom McGuire as Colonel Braden * Crauford Kent as Lord Melville Dryden * Nick Cogley as Captain * Sam Baker as The Missing Link * Otto Fries * Kewpie Morgan as Baggage Master Reception The film was a major production by Warner Brothers, with a budget of $313,000. It earned $608,000, more than any other silent film released by the studio that season. The ''New York Times'' critic Mordaunt Hall praised the film, observing "there are sequences in this comic contraption that are almost ceirtai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleasure Before Business
''Pleasure Before Business'' is a 1927 silent film comedy directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Max Davidson and Virginia Brown Faire. The film was produced and distributed by then upstart studio Columbia Pictures. Preserved at the Library of Congress. Cast * Pat O'Malley as Dr. Burke *Virginia Browne Faire as Ruth Weinberg *Max Davidson as Sam Weinberg *Rosa Rosanova as Sarah Weinberg *Lester Bernard as Morris Fishbein * Tom McGuire as Scotchman *Jack Raymond as Louie *Henri Menjou as Captain Preservation and status A complete copy of the film is held at the Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o .... References External links * allmovie/synopsis: ''Pleasure Before Business'' 1927 films Films directed by Frank R. Strayer Columbia Pictures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Better 'Ole (1926 Film)
''The Better 'Ole'' is a 1926 American synchronized sound World War I comedy drama film. Released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., this film is the second full-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process, two months after the first Vitaphone feature ''Don Juan (1926 film), Don Juan''; with no audible dialogue, the film does have a synchronized musical score and sound effects. This film was also the second onscreen adaptation of the 1917 Edwardian musical comedy, musical ''The Better 'Ole'' by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot. Charlie Chaplin's eldest brother Sydney Chaplin played the main lead as Old Bill (comics), Old Bill in perhaps his best-known film today. This film is also believed by many to have the first spoken word of dialog, ''"coffee"'', although there are those who disagree. At one point during the film, Harold Goodwin (American actor), Harold Goodwin's character whispers a word to Sydney Chaplin which is also faintly heard. This was discovered by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You'd Be Surprised (film)
''You'd Be Surprised'' is a 1926 American silent film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Raymond Griffith. A murder mystery-comedy, the production includes intertitles written by humorist Robert Benchley. A full copy of the film is preserved in the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' p. 214. c. 1978 by The American Film Institute. Plot *Please Fill This Part In. Cast *Raymond Griffith as Mr. Green, The Coroner *Edward Martindel as Mr. White, The District Attorney *Earle Williams as Mr. Black, The Deputy District Attorney * Thomas McGuire as Inspector Brown *Dorothy Sebastian as Dorothy *Granville Redmond as Grey, A Valet *Roscoe Karns as A Party Guest *Carl M. LeViness as A Party Guest *Isabelle Keith as A Party Guest *Dick La Reno as The "Jury" Foreman *Monte Collins as The Milkman Juror *Jerry Mandy Jerry Mandy (June 5, 1892 – May 1, 1945) was an American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Little Giant (1926 Film)
''The Little Giant'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by William Nigh and starring Glenn Hunter, Edna Murphy, and David Higgins. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Elmer Clinton, raised by his Uncle Clem, an old peddler, is made the sales manager of a big washing machine company. He becomes full of an undue sense of his own cleverness, and those around him pander to this self-conceit with flattery. Royce Enfield, the son of the company's owner, plots to ruin him, and all the marketing campaigns are failures. Elmer and his wife Myra do not live within their means and quarrel. Clem sells several washing machines quietly on the side. Elmer discovers that Royce has been double-crossing him and whips him in a fight. Elmer gets rid of the parasitic crowd that had been flattering him, begins marketing and driving up sales based on what Clem had taught him, and is reconciled with his wife. Cast * Glenn Hunter as Elmer Clinton * Edna Murphy as Myra Clinton * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flaming Waters
''Flaming Waters'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Malcolm McGregor, Pauline Garon, and Mary Carr. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Danny O'Neil moves to Oil City with his mother, seeking to find Jasper Thorne, who swindled his mother. He gets the best of Thorne in an oil deal and buys a well that turns out to be a gusher, the spray from its overflow covering the area surrounding their ranch. A lamp thrown by Thorne ignites the oil. Danny's foolish friend Midge Botsford opens the gate on the reservoir, and a flaming flood results. Danny rescues his mother and Doris Laidlaw, and he wins the young woman's heart. Cast Preservation *A print is preserved in the Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
