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Bernard McConville
Bernard McConville (October 16, 1887 – December 27, 1961) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for more than 90 films between 1915 and 1946. He was born in Denver, Colorado and died in Los Angeles County, California. Partial filmography * '' Gretchen the Greenhorn'' (1916) * '' The Little School Ma'am'' (1916) * '' The Rose of Blood'' (1917) * ''The Babes in the Woods'' (1917) * ''The Deciding Kiss'' (1918) * '' Rosemary Climbs the Heights'' (1918) * '' That Devil, Bateese'' (1918) * '' Bare Fists'' (1919) * '' The Sleeping Lion'' (1919) * ''What Women Love'' (1920) * ''45 Minutes from Broadway'' (1920) * ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1921) * ''Shame'' (1921) * ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' (1921) * '' Without Compromise'' (1922) * '' Stepping Fast'' (1923) * '' Crinoline and Romance'' (1923) * '' Wings of Youth'' (1925) * ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (1925) * '' Volcano!'' (1926) * '' Cannonball Express'' (1932) * '' King of the Pecos'' (1936) * '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denver, Colorado
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the ''Mile High City'' because its official elevation is exactly one mile () above sea level. The 105th meridian we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921 Film)
''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford and starring the latter's elder sister Mary Pickford as both Cedric Errol and Widow Errol. The film is based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. A statue depicting Pickford's role exists today on the facade of New York City's landmarked I. Miller Building. Plot summary Cedric Errol is a poor American boy who finds out that he is the sole heir to a wealthy British earldom and thus becomes Lord Fauntleroy. Cast * Mary Pickford as Cedric Errol and his mother Mrs Errol * Claude Gillingwater as Earl of Dorincourt * Joseph J. Dowling as William Havisham * James A. Marcus as Hobbs * Kate Price as Mrs. McGinty * Fred Malatesta as Dick * Rose Dione as Minna * Arthur Thalasso as The Stranger * Colin Kenny James Colin Ramsey Kenny (born December 10, 1943) is a former Canadian Senator. A member of the Liberal Party, he was appointed to the Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 Births
Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. ** British emigrant ship ''Kapunda'' sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors. * January 21 ** The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States. ** Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of (a record for any Australian capital city). * January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians. * January 28 ** In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are wide and thick. ** Construction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. * February 2 – The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. * February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Legion
''Arizona Legion'' is a 1939 American Western film directed by David Howard from a screenplay by Oliver Drake, based on Bernard McConville's story. Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, it was released on January 20, 1939, and stars George O'Brien and Laraine Day (billed under her earlier stage name of Laraine Johnson). Plot Boone Yeager has sold his ranch and cattle, and now spends his days drinking, gambling, and hanging around a gang of very disreputable individuals. His fiancée, Letty Meade, is distraught over his sudden change in behavior and breaks off their engagement. In addition, his longtime friend Bob Ives, a lieutenant in the local army troop, also severs his relationship with Yeager in response to Yeager's recent activities. However, it is revealed that Letty's father, Judge Meade, has empowered Yeager to infiltrate the local gang and hunt down its leader, while at the same time organizing the Arizona Rangers. Yeager gets in good with the gang, but can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overland Stage Raiders
''Overland Stage Raiders'' is a 1938 " Three Mesquiteers" Western film starring John Wayne and directed by George Sherman. The film is notable for being the final film in which silent film icon Louise Brooks performed. Wayne played the lead in eight of the fifty-one films in the popular series. It was filmed on location at Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, and at the now defunct Conejo Valley Airport in Thousand Oaks, California.Schneider, Jerry L. (2014). ''The Ray "Crash" Corrigan Filmography''. Lulu Press, Inc. Page 195. . Plot summary Cast * John Wayne as Stony Brooke * Ray Corrigan as Tucson Smith * Max Terhune as Lullaby Joslin * Louise Brooks as Beth Hoyt * Elmer as Elmer (Lullaby's Dummy) (uncredited) * Anthony Marsh as Ned Hoyt * John Archer as Bob Whitney * Gordon Hart as W. T.Mullins * Roy James as Dave Harmon * Olin Francis as Henchman Jake * Fern Emmett as Ma Hawkins * Henry Otho as Sheriff Mason * George Sherwood as Henchman Clanton * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Cover The War
''I Cover the War'' is a 1937 American drama action film directed by Arthur Lubin for Universal Pictures, starring John Wayne. It was one of a series of non-Westerns Wayne made for Universal. Plot Two newsreel cameramen ( John Wayne, Don Barclay) are sent to photograph a bandit sheik in the desert. Cast * John Wayne as Bob Adams * Gwen Gaze as Pamela Armitage * Don Barclay as Elmer Davis * Charles Brokaw as El Kadar / Muffadi * James Bush as Don Adams * Pat Somerset as Captain Archie Culvert * Richard Tucker Army Officer * Sam Harris as Colonel Hugh Armitage (as Major Sam Harris) * Olaf Hytten as Sir Herbert * Arthur Aylesworth as Logan * Franklin Parker Franklin Parker (November 8, 1902 – June 12, 1962), also known as Frank Parker or Franklyn Parker, was an American character actor who appeared in over 100 films during his twenty-five year career. Born in Fillmore, Missouri on November 8, 1902 ... as Parker (as Franklyn Paker) Production In February 1937 Trem Carr a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lonely Trail
''The Lonely Trail'' is a 1936 American Western film starring John Wayne and Ann Rutherford. Plot Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists the help of Holden before learning that Holden too is plundering the local folk. Cast * John Wayne as Captain John Ashley * Ann Rutherford as Virginia Terry * Cy Kendall as Adjutant General Benedict Holden * Bob Kortman as Captain Hays * Fred "Snowflake" Toones as Snowflake * Sam Flint as Governor of Texas * Dennis Moore as Dick Terry * Jim Toney as Trooper Jed Calicutt * Etta McDaniel as Mammy * Yakima Canutt as Trooper Bull Horrell * Lloyd Ingraham as Tucker (bookkeeper) * James A. Marcus as Mayor * Bob Burns as Rancher Jeff Pruitt * Rodney Hildebrand as Cavalry captain * Eugene Jackson as Harmonica player/dancer Crtical reception Writing for '' Jacobin'' in 2015, Eileen Jones criticized the film for promoting the Lost Cause of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of The Pecos
''King of the Pecos'' is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring John Wayne and Muriel Evans. Cast * John Wayne as John Clayborn * Muriel Evans as Belle Jackson * Cy Kendall as Alexander Stiles * Jack Clifford as Henchman Ash * Arthur Aylesworth as Hank Mathews * Herbert Heywood as Josh Billings * J. Frank Glendon as Lawyer Brewster * Edward Hearn as Eli Jackson * John Beck as Mr. Clayborn * Mary MacLaren as Mrs. Clayborn * Bradley Metcalfe as Little John * Yakima Canutt Enos Edward "Yakima" Canutt (November 29, 1895 – May 24, 1986) was an American champion rodeo rider, actor, stuntman, and action director. He developed many stunts for films and the techniques and technology to protect stuntmen in performing t ... as Henchman Pete See also * John Wayne filmography References External links * 1936 films 1936 drama films 1936 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Films directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannonball Express (film)
''Cannonball Express'' is a 1932 American action film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Rex Lease, Tom Moore and Lucile Browne.Langman & Finn p.37 Cast * Rex Lease as Ned Logan * Tom Moore as John Logan * Lucile Browne as Sally * Leon Ames as Jack Logan * Ruth Renick Ruth Renick (born Ruth Griffin; September 23, 1893 - May 7, 1984) was an American actress on stage and in films. She made her debut in film in 1919, in a silent film. Her career spanned the shift to "talkies", and Renick had her last role in a ... as Mary Logan References Bibliography * Langman, Larry & Finn, Daniel. ''A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties''. Greenwood Press, 1995. External links * 1932 films 1930s action films American action films Films directed by Wallace Fox American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{action-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volcano! (1926 Film)
''Volcano!'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by William K. Howard and starring Bebe Daniels, ricardo Cortez, and Wallace Beery. The picture was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on a 1920 Broadway play ''Martinique'' by Laurence Eyre. It is preserved in the Library of Congress, UCLA Film and Television Archives, and The Museum of Modern Art. Cast See also * List of early color feature films This is a list of early feature-length color films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major-studio f ... References External links * *Line drawn artwork poster (archive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom Of The Opera (1925 Film)
''The Phantom of the Opera'' is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ''Le Fantôme de l'Opéra'', directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star. The film remains most famous for Chaney's ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. The picture also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis and Snitz Edwards. The last surviving cast member was Carla Laemmle (died 2014), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as a "prima ballerina" in the film when she was about 15 years old. The film was released on September 6, 1925, premiering at the Astor Theatre in New York. The film's final budget was $632,357. In 1953, the film entered the List of films in the public domain in the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wings Of Youth (1925 Film)
''Wings of Youth'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and written by Bernard McConville. The film stars Ethel Clayton, Madge Bellamy, Charles Farrell, Freeman Wood, Robert Cain, and Katherine Perry. The film was released on May 21, 1925, by Fox Film Corporation The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American Independent film production studio formed by William Fox (1879–1952) in 1915, by combining his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film C .... Plot As described in a film magazine review, Mrs. Katherine Manners loves her three grown daughters who are in boarding school. When she plans a party for them at home, they phone from the school that they cannot come because they are too busy. But she hears the sounds of a party in the background, so she goes to the school where she finds her daughters with young men. She is told that two of the daughters plan to be married, while the thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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