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Bertram Millhauser
Bertram Millhauser (March 25, 1892 – December 1, 1958) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for more than 60 films produced between 1911 and 1960. He was born in New York City, New York and died in Hollywood, California from a myocardial infarction, heart attack. Partial filmography * ''The Challenge (1916 film), The Challenge'' (1916) * ''The Fatal Ring'' (1917) * ''The Black Secret'' (1919) * ''The Fatal Sign'' (1920) * ''The Phantom Foe'' (1920) * ''Velvet Fingers'' (1920) * ''The Yellow Arm'' (1921) * ''The Timber Queen'' (1922) * ''Speed (serial), Speed'' (1922) * ''Plunder (serial), Plunder'' (1923) * ''The Eagle's Talons'' (1923) * ''Code of the Sea'' (1924) * ''Fools in the Dark'' (1924) * ''Feet of Clay (1924 film), Feet of Clay'' (1924) * ''Forty Winks (1925 film), Forty Winks'' (1925) * ''Silence (1926 film), Silence'' (1926) * ''Fighting Love'' (1927) * ''The Leopard Lady'' (1928) * ''Girls Gone Wild (film), Girls Gone Wild'' (1929) * ''Conspiracy (1930 film) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York, New York
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, entertainment, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, research, technology, education, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plunder (serial)
''Plunder'' is a 1923 American drama film serial directed by George B. Seitz. During the production of this serial, on August 10, 1922, John Stevenson, a stuntman for Pearl White, was killed doing a stunt from a moving bus to an elevated platform. The film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archive and a trailer is preserved at the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', p. 143 c.1978 by The American Film Institute Cast * Pearl White as Pearl Travers * Warren William as Mr. Jones (credited as Warren Krech) * Harry Semels as Jud Deering * Tom McIntyre * William Nally * Wally Oettel * Edward J. Pool * Charles 'Patch' Revada Chapter titles # The Bandaged Man # Held By the Enemy # The Hidden Thing # Ruin # To Beat a Knave # Heights of Hazard # Mocked from the Grave # The Human Target # Game Clear Through # Against Time # Spunk # Under the Floor # Swamp of Lost Souls # The M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life Of Jimmy Dolan
''The Life of Jimmy Dolan'', released in the UK as ''The Kid's Last Fight'', is a 1933 American pre-Code film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Loretta Young. John Wayne has a small supporting role as a frightened boxer. The story was based on a 1933 play called "Sucker" by Bertram Millhauser. The film was remade in 1939 as ''They Made Me a Criminal''. Plot Southpaw boxer Jimmy Dolan believes in clean living outside the ring, but blonde vixen Goldie West gets him drunk after a fight. Then when reporter Magee plans to write about Jimmy's behavior, a punch in the face accidentally kills Magee. With the fighter certain to face charges and possible incarceration, his manager Doc Woods makes off with Jimmy's money and watch. Driving away with Goldie, they end up in a fiery car crash and are killed. Doc's face is unrecognizable, and because he's wearing Jimmy's watch, it is believed the boxer is dead. A detective, Phlaxer, is unconvinced. The watch is on the wrong wrist for a left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherlock Holmes (1932 Film)
''Sherlock Holmes'' (a.k.a. ''Conan Doyle's Master Detective Sherlock Holmes'') is a 1932 American Pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie is based on the successful stage play ''Sherlock Holmes'' by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and is directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation. Brook had played Holmes previously in '' The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' and the "Murder Will Out" segment of ''Paramount on Parade''. Reginald Owen plays Dr. Watson, and Ernest Torrence is Holmes's arch-rival, Professor Moriarty. Reginald Owen played Sherlock Holmes the following year in ''A Study in Scarlet''. Owen is one of a small number of actors to play both Holmes and Watson. Examples of other such actors include Jeremy Brett, who played Watson on stage in the United States and, most famously, Holmes on British television, Carleton Hobbs, who played both roles in British radio adaptations, and Patric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Who Loved
''Three Who Loved'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by George Archainbaud from a screenplay by Beulah Marie Dix based on a story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Martin Flavin. The film revolves around a love triangle (Betty Compson, Conrad Nagel, and Robert Ames). It was produced by RKO Pictures, which also distributed the film, releasing it on July 3, 1931. A print of this film is held by Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress'' p.184 c.1978 by American Film Institute Plot Helga Larson Hanson is living in Sweden, but is engaged to the American fledgling attorney John Hanson. Hanson has Helga move to the United States, and sets her up in the same boarding house he lives in, prior to their marriage. His summons of her might be a bit premature, since once she arrives, he is too busy with his job and preparing for his bar exam, to spend much time with her. Lonely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conspiracy (1930 Film)
''Conspiracy'' is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery melodrama film produced and distributed by RKO Pictures and directed by Christy Cabanne. It is the second adaptation of the play ''The Conspiracy'' by Robert B. Baker and John Emerson and stars Bessie Love and Ned Sparks. Plot After their father is killed, brother and sister Margaret and Victor Holt devote themselves to bringing down the drug gang responsible for his death. Victor rises to become an attorney in the district attorney's office, and eventually Margaret wangles her way into becoming the secretary for James (Marco) Morton, the head of the drug ring. When Morton discovers Margaret's true identity, he contrives a plot to lure her brother into a trap and kill him. Margaret learns of the plot and rushes to save her brother. In the ensuing melee, she kills Morton in her attempt to save Victor, who is also seemingly killed. Afraid of being convicted of murder, she flees the scene. In hiding, she becomes friends with a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls Gone Wild (film)
''Girls Gone Wild'' was a 1929 pre-Code American melodrama film produced and released by Fox Film Corporation. The film was controversial as an early example of the rising tide of violence and disrespect for the law that would become key themes in the 1930s. Cast * Sue Carol – Babs Holworthy * Nick Stuart – Buck Brown * William Russell – Dan Brown * Roy D'Arcy – Tony Morelli * Leslie Fenton – Boogs * Hedda Hopper – Mrs. Holworthy * John Darrow – Speed Wade * Matthew Betz – Augie Stern * Edmund Breese – Judge Elliott * Minna Redman – Grandma (*Minna Ferry) * Louis Natheaux – Dilly * Lumsden Hare – Tom Holworthy * Fred MacMurray – Extra (Uncredited) Preservation status * The film is considered lost. Release Directed by Lewis Seiler, the film was released in sound and silent versions. The film starred Nick Stuart and Sue Carol, an up-and-coming young film duo being molded by Fox in the Janet Gaynor/Charles Farrell Charles David Farrell (Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Leopard Lady
''The Leopard Lady'' is a 1928 American silent horror film directed by Rupert Julian, written by Beulah Marie Dix, and starring Jacqueline Logan, Alan Hale and Robert Armstrong. The film, based on a play by Edward Childs Carpenter, is about a female animal trainer named Paula who goes undercover at a circus that has been beset by a number of unexplained horrific murders. A gorilla trained to kill people turns out to be the culprit, the simian being played by Charles Gemora (who made a career of playing apes in horror films, including 1932's ''Murders in the Rue Morgue''). The cast boasted several name stars who went on to long acting careers, including Alan Hale, Robert Armstrong, and Richard Alexander (who appeared in numerous B-Westerns and serials). Rupert Julian directed this film late in his fading career, following it up with his final picture ''The Cat Creeps'' (1930), another lost film.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Sile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fighting Love
''Fighting Love'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Nils Olaf Chrisander and starring Jetta Goudal, Victor Varconi and Henry B. Walthall. The film survives complete. It is based on the 1925 novel ''If the Gods Laugh'' by the British writer and explorer Rosita Forbes. The film's sets were designed by the art director Anton Grot. Synopsis After discovering her fiancée kissing another woman, Vittoria marries a family friend in a marriage of convenience and accompanies him to the Italian colony of Libya. While there she encounters a handsome young man and falls in love with him. Wrongly believing her husband to have been killed in a Bedouin attack, the two undergo an Arab wedding ceremony with him. When she discovers the truth she returns to her husband. Cast * Jetta Goudal as Donna Vittoria * Victor Varconi as Gabriel Amari * Henry B. Walthall as Filipo Navarro * Louis Natheaux as Dario Niccolini * Josephine Crowell as Princess Torini * Eulalie Jensen Eul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silence (1926 Film)
''Silence'' is a 1926 American silent crime drama film directed by Rupert Julian and starring Vera Reynolds, H.B. Warner, and Raymond Hatton. Reynolds plays a dual role of a mother and, at a later date, her daughter. Long thought lost, a print was rediscovered in 2016. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Parker. Cast Preservation Prints of ''Silence'' are located in the Archives du Film du CNC at Bois d'Arcy and the Cinémathèque Française The Cinémathèque Française (), founded in 1936, is a French non-profit film organization that holds one of the largest archives of film documents and film-related objects in the world. Based in Paris's 12th arrondissement, the archive offers ... in Paris. References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * * 1926 films 1926 crime drama films American silent feature films American crime drama films Films directed by Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forty Winks (1925 Film)
''Forty Winks'' is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Paul Iribe and Frank Urson and written by Bertram Millhauser. The film stars Raymond Griffith, Theodore Roberts, Cyril Chadwick, William Boyd, and Anna May Wong. The film was released on February 2, 1925, by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Gasper Le Sage (Chadwick) is attorney to the Butterworths and suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth (Dana). He persuades Annabelle Wu (Wong), a Eurasian adventuress, to vamp Lt. Gerald Hugh Butterworth (Boyd) and with his keys obtain the plans for a coast defence movement. Suspicion falls upon Lord Chumley of the British secret service, who is also engaged to Eleanor. Le Sage offers to recover the papers if Ealanor will marry him, but "Chumley" forestalls him and gets the papers and wins the young woman's affections after a lively and variagated chase. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Forty Winks'' located in any film archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feet Of Clay (1924 Film)
''Feet of Clay'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Vera Reynolds and Rod La Rocque, and with set design by Norman Bel Geddes. The film is based on the 1923 novel by Margaretta Tuttle, and Beulah Marie Dix's one-act 1915 play ''Across the Border''. Plot Kerry Harlan (La Rocque) is unable to work because he was injured in a battle with a shark, so his youthful wife Amy (Reynolds) becomes a fashion model. While she is away from home, Bertha, the wife of his surgeon, is trying to force her attentions on Kerry and is accidentally killed in an attempt to evade her husband. After the scandal Amy is courted by Tony Channing, but she returns to her husband and finds him near death from gas fumes. Because they both attempted to make suicide, their spirits are rejected by "the other side" and, learning the truth from Bertha's spirit, they fight their way back to life. Cast * Vera Reynolds as Amy Loring * Rod La Rocque as Kerry Harlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
