Edward T. Lowe Jr.
Edward T. Lowe Jr. (29 June 1880 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States – 19 April 1973) was an American film writer, producer and editor. He wrote 120 films between years 1913–1947, produced 18 films and directed one: '' The Losing Game'' (1915). Edward T. Lowe, Jr. was born June 29, 1890, in Nashville, Tennessee. Lowe's first script was written in 1913 and two years later, he directed his first and only film. Following this, he predominantly concerned himself with writing and producing films. In 1913, Lowe worked as the revising editor of screenplays at Essanay Studios. In 1915, he scripted '' The Mystery of Silent Death'' and predominantly focused on mystery films. He also occasionally worked outside the genre, such as when he was signed by Universal in 1929 to work on ''Broadway'' (1929). In the talkies period, Lowe would work on ''The Vampire Bat'' (1933) and several Charlie Chan films: ''Charlie Chan in Paris'' (1935), ''Charlie Chan in Shanghai'' (1935) and ''Charlie ...
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the state, List of United States cities by population, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and the fourth most populous city in the southeastern United States, southeastern U.S. Located on the Cumberland River, the city is the center of the Nashville metropolitan area, which is one of the fastest growing in the nation. Named for Francis Nash, a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the city was founded in 1779. The city grew quickly due to its strategic location as a port on the Cumberland River and, in the 19th century, a railroad center. Nashville seceded with Tennessee during the American Civil War; in 1862 it was the first state capital in the Confederate ...
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Charlie Chan In Egypt
''Charlie Chan in Egypt'' is the eighth of 16 20th Century Fox Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland in the title role. It was released in 1935. Plot Charlie Chan is brought in when an archaeologist disappears while excavating ancient art treasures in Egypt. Charlie must sort out the stories of the archaeological team, deal with the crazed son of the missing scientist, learn why priceless treasures are falling into the hands of private collectors, and battle many seemingly supernatural events. Cast * Warner Oland as Charlie Chan * Pat Paterson as Carol Arnold, whose father has disappeared, and is engaged to Tom Evans * Thomas Beck as Tom Evans, an archaeologist assisting Professor Arnold at the Pyramids * Rita Hayworth as Nayda (billed as Rita Cansino) * Jameson Thomas as Dr. Anton Racine * Frank Conroy as Professor John Thurston, Carol and Barry's uncle * Nigel De Brulier as Edfu Ahmed, the Arnold family's servant * James Eagles as Barry Arnold, Carol's brother * Georg ...
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Over The Wire
''Over the Wire'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Alice Lake, Alan Roscoe and Alan Hale.Connelly p.393 Cast * Alice Lake as Kathleen Dexter * Alan Roscoe Alan Roscoe (born John Albert Rascoe; August 23, 1888 – March 8, 1933) was an American film actor of the silent and early talking film eras. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1933. Roscoe was born John Albert Rascoe ... as John Grannan * George Stewart as Terry Dexter * Alan Hale as James Twyford References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1921 films 1921 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black ...
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Toby's Bow
''Toby's Bow'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Tom Moore, Doris Pawn, Macey Harlam, Arthur Housman, Colin Kenny, and Augustus Phillips. It is based on the 1919 play of the same name by John Taintor Foote. The film was released by Goldwyn Pictures on December 14, 1919. Plot Cast * Tom Moore as Tom Blake *Doris Pawn as Eugenia *Macey Harlam as Dubois *Arthur Housman as Bagby *Colin Kenny as Bainbridge *Augustus Phillips as Paige *Catherine Wallace as Valerie *Violet Schram as Mona *Ruby Lafayette as Grandmother *George Kuwa as Jap *Nick Cogley as Uncle Toby Production The role of the servant, Uncle Toby, was played by Nick Cogley in blackface. The use of blackface was not unusual in American silent films, and did not disappear in films until the 1930s when public sensibilities regarding race began to change and blackface became increasingly associated with racism and bigotry.Kenrick, JohnBlackface and Old Wounds Musicals101.com. Fro ...
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Men Who Have Made Love To Me
''Men Who Have Made Love to Me'' is a 1918 American silent biographical film starring Mary MacLane, based on her book ''I, Mary MacLane'' (1917), and directed by Arthur Berthelet. The film was produced by early American filmmaker, George K. Spoor. Cast *Mary MacLane as Herself *Ralph Graves as The Callow Youth *Paul Harvey as The Literary Man (as R. Paul Harvey) * Cliff Worman as The Younger Son * Alador Prince as The Prize Fighter *Clarence Derwent as The Bank Clerk *Fred Tiden as The Husband of Another Plot The story of six affairs of the heart, drawn from controversial feminist author Mary MacLane's 1910 syndicated article(s) by the same name, later published in book form in 1917. None of MacLane's affairs - with "the bank clerk," "the prize-fighter," "the husband of another," and so on - last, and in each of them MacLane emerges dominant. Re-enactments of the love affairs are interspersed with MacLane addressing the camera (while smoking), and talking contemplatively with he ...
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House Of Dracula
''House of Dracula'' is a 1945 American horror film released and distributed by Universal Pictures. Directed by Erle C. Kenton, the film features several Universal Horror properties meeting as they had done in the 1944 film '' House of Frankenstein''. The film is set at the castle home of Dr. Franz Edelmann, who is visited first by Count Dracula and later by Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man, who are trying to cure their vampirism and lycanthropy, respectively. Talbot is eventually cured, which leads him to discover the body of Frankenstein's monster in a cave below the base of the castle. Edelemann takes the monster's body back to his laboratory but finds Count Dracula has awakened and by attacking his assistants, he captures Edelmann and forces a reverse blood transfusion, which gives Edelmann a split personality and makes him a killer. The film was developed initially with the title ''Wolf Man vs. Dracula'' to be directed by Ford Beebe with Bela Lugosi reprising his role of Count D ...
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House Of Frankenstein (film)
''House of Frankenstein'' is a 1944 American horror film starring Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr. and John Carradine. The film was directed by Erle C. Kenton based on a story by Curt Siodmak, and produced by Universal Pictures. The film is about Dr. Gustav Niemann who escapes from prison and promises to create a new body for his assistant Daniel. The two murder Professor Lampini and take over his sideshow that involves the corpse of Count Dracula. After disposing of the Count, the two move on to the ruins of Castle Frankenstein where they find the body of Frankenstein's monster and Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man preserved in the castle. Niemann thaws them and promises to cure Talbot of his werewolf curse, but secretly plots to revive Frankenstein's monster instead. The film began production with the intention to write a story involving several Universal's horror properties. Universal had initially planned a film titled ''Chamber of Horrors'' to include several other of their horror-theme ...
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Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon
''Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon'' (1942) is the fourth in the Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series), Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of 14 Sherlock Holmes films which updated the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the then present day. The film is credited as an adaptation of Conan Doyle's 1903 short story "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," though the only element from the source material is the dancing men code. Rather, it is a spy film taking place on the background of the then ongoing Second World War with an original premise. The film concerns the kidnapping of a Swiss scientist by their nemesis Professor Moriarty, to steal a new bomb sight and sell it to Nazi Germany. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson have to crack a secret code in order to save the country. The film is one of four films in the series which are in the public domain Plot Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) pretends to be a Nazi spy to aid scientist Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) and ...
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Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an American film production and distribution company owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment division of NBCUniversal. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States; the world's fifth oldest after Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus, and Nordisk Film; and the oldest member of Hollywood's "Big Five" studios in terms of the overall film market. Its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. In 1962, the studio was acquired by MCA, which was re-launched as NBCUniversal in 2004. ...
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Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
''Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police'' is a 1939 English Castle murder mystery film directed by James P. Hogan, based on the H. C. McNeile novel ''Temple Tower''. It is one of many films featuring the British sleuth and adventurer Bulldog Drummond. In 1930, Fox produced ''Temple Tower'', directed by Donald Gallaher and starring Kenneth MacKenna and Marceline Day, which was also based on the McNeile book. The story is set 28 miles outside London in Rockingham, as a sign on the railroad station states. Plot An absent-minded Professor Downie (Forrester Harvey) makes a call upon Capt. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) as he is making plans for his much-delayed wedding to fiancée Phyllis Claverling ( Heather Angel) in his ancestral home Temple Tower. The professor informs Drummond that a fortune was buried in one of the walled off storerooms underneath his estate, and that Downie was in possession of a book written in code that would lead them to discover the treasure. Unfortun ...
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Bulldog Drummond In Africa
''Bulldog Drummond in Africa'' is a 1938 American adventure crime film. This was the 13th of 25 in the Bulldog Drummond film series from 1922 to 1969. Plot summary Again on the eve of his wedding, Captain Hugh Drummond (John Howard) has more pressing concerns when he sets off from London for Spanish-Morocco, because his fiancée Phillis Clavering ( Heather Angel) has seen Colonel Nielsen (H.B. Warner) from Scotland Yard being kidnapped by an international criminal gang. Their intent is to force him to reveal the secrets of the British Empire's latest military technology. With his fiancée ( Heather Angel), chum 'Algy' ( Reginald Denny), & valet 'Tenny' Tennyson (E.E. Clive) in tow, Bulldog outwits Scotland Yard's bureaucratic blundering, flies his own plane 1200 miles only to find more bureaucratic blundering by the local British Consul ordering him home without delay. Drummond and his friends aren't easy to get rid of, however; they soon mount a rescue plan, eventually liberating ...
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
''Bulldog Drummond Comes Back'' is a 1937 American adventure mystery film starring John Howard as the English adventurer/crime-solver Bulldog Drummond. John Barrymore plays Drummond's friend Colonel Nielsen and is actually Top-billed in the picture. The supporting cast includes Drummond series regular Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, and J. Carrol Naish. The film was directed by Louis King Louis King (June 28, 1898 – September 7, 1962) was an American actor and film director of westerns and adventure movies in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.