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Ewald Andre Dupont
Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891 – 12 December 1956) was a German film director, one of the pioneers of the German film industry. He was often credited as E. A. Dupont. Early career A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918. After several successes in his native Germany in silent films, he worked in London and in Hollywood, California. One of his greatest successes was the silent film ''Varieté'' (1925). This film, about an ex-trapeze artist, was noted for its innovative camerawork with highly expressive movement through space, accomplished by the expressionist cinematographer Karl Freund. ''Varieté'' even did well in the United States, screening for 12 weeks at New York's Rialto Theatre. United States Dupont's success was noticed by Carl Laemmle at Universal, who offered Dupont a lucrative contract. His first project was ''Love Me and the World Is Mine'' in the early summer of 1926, which ran well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle (; born Karl Lämmle; January 17, 1867 – September 24, 1939) was a film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. He produced or worked on over 400 films. Regarded as one of the most important of the early film pioneers, Laemmle was born in what is now Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and worked in Chicago for 20 years before he began buying nickelodeons, eventually expanding into a film distribution service, the Laemmle Film Service, then into production as Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), later renamed Universal Film Manufacturing Company, and later still renamed Universal Pictures Company. Early life and education Karl Lämmle was born in 1867 to Julius Baruch Lämmle and Rebekka Lämmle, a Jewish couple in the Radstrasse, a street in the Jewish quarter of Laupheim, in the Kingdom of Württemberg. His father was a cattle merchant, also involved in land transactions. The family struggled financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piccadilly (film)
''Piccadilly'' is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by E.A. Dupont, written by Arnold Bennett and starring Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, and Jameson Thomas. The film was filmed on location in London, produced by British International Pictures. This film initially was released as a silent in February 1929; however, with the advent of sound sweeping through the film industry at the time, the studio re-released the film later the same year in June for cinemas wired for sound. This version included a music score and sound effects by Harry Gordon, along with a five-minute sound prologue with Jameson Thomas who plays Valentine Wilmot in the film and John Longden as the man from China, which was filmed after the main filming was completed. The part-sound version initially was shown in the U.S. In 2004, the film was re-released by Milestone Films after an extensive restoration, with music scored by Neil Brand, replacing the original music-and-sound effects soundtrack. It appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Of The American Docks
''The Secret of the American Docks'' (German: ''Das Geheimnis des Amerika-Docks'') Is a 1919 German silent mystery film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Max Landa, Gustav Botz, and Reinhold Schünzel. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich. Cast *Max Landa as detective *Gustav Botz as James Mistoll * Reinhold Schünzel as Corbett, adventurer *Carl Grünwald as Robert Hatt, Owner of the firm Hatt & Mistoll *Leonhard Haskel as old patch cobber *Ria Jende as Vera *Max Laurence as C. Dale, independent scholar *Rose Lichtenstein as Gertie Mistoll *Albert Paul as Dr. Vaneel, alienist *Karl Platen as Williams, factory worker * Fritz Schulz as Barnes, detective's assistant *Fritz Sterler as Clarence Mistoll *Helene Voß as Lieschen, detective's economist *Max Zilzer Max Zilzer (23 November 1868, in Budapest – 1943, in Berlin) was a Hungarian-born German stage and film actor. Zilzer was Jewish and died under interrogation by the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Japanese Woman
''The Japanese Woman'' (German: ''Die Japanerin'') is a 1919 German silent mystery film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Max Landa, Tzwetta Tzatschewa and Conrad Veidt.Soister p.62 The film's sets were designed by the Hungarian art director Eugen Stolzer. Cast * Max Landa as Detektiv * Conrad Veidt as The Secretary * Leopold von Ledebur as Robert Raymond * Helene Voß as Lieschen * Tzwetta Tzatschewa as Mau-Fo * Bernhard Goetzke as Arabischer Diener im Hause Raymonds * Ria Jende as Mary * Rose Lichtenstein as Stubenmädchen * Camilo Sacchetto as Henry Clavering * Marie Grimm-Einödshofer * Karl Platen Karl Platen (6 March 1877 – 4 July 1952) was a German actor and cinematographer known for '' Girl in the Moon'' (1929) and '' M'' (1931). Biography Karl Platen was born as Carl Platen on March 6, 1877 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He died ... * Loni Pyrmont References Bibliography * John T. Soister. ''Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil (1918 German Film)
''The Devil'' (german: Der Teufel) is a 1918 German silent mystery film directed by E. A. Dupont and starring Max Landa, Gustav Botz, and Tzwetta Tzatschewa Tzwetta Tzatschewa ( bg, Цвета Цачева, 27 December 1900 – 12 December 1975), also known as Manja Tzatschewa, was a Bulgarian film actress of the silent era.Lotte H. Eisner (1964) ''Murnau''. Ramsay. p. 241 Selected filmography * .... Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1918 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by E. A. Dupont German mystery films 1918 mystery films German black-and-white films Silent mystery films 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight (1918 Film)
''Midnight'' (German: ''Mitternacht'') is a 1918 German silent crime film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Max Landa, Karl Beckersachs and Reinhold Schünzel.Bock & Bergfelder p.102 Cast * Max Landa as Max, Detective * Karl Beckersachs as Donald Gordon (Kapitän) * Heinrich Peer as Dorian Morny (Graf) * Erich Rahn as Jiu-Jitsu-Meister * Reinhold Schünzel as Dick Tillinghaft (Reporter) * Adolf Paul as Alex Smirnow (Graf) * Wilhelm Diegelmann as Jimmy * Leopold von Ledebur as Präsident der Republik * Margarete Ferida as Helene Trevor (Frau) * Anneliese Halbe as Beatrice Trevor (Stieftochter) * Martin Lübbert as Alfred Clark (Trevors Sekretär * Maria Pospichil as Frau MacAllister * Eberhard Wrede as Kriminalkommissar * Hugo Werner-Kahle Hugo Werner-Kahle (5 August 1882 – 1 May 1961) was a German stage and film actor (and sporadically, a movie director). He appeared in around a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * '' Midnight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe, General Delivery
''Europe, General Delivery'' or ''Europe poste restante'' (German: ''Europa postlagernd'') is a 1918 German silent mystery film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Max Landa, Viktor Senger and Lu Synd. It was part of a series of films starring Joe Deebs, a fiction British detective modelled on Sherlock Holmes. It marked Dupont's directorial debut.Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.28 The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst Stern. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. Cast * Max Landa as Detektiv Joe Deebs * Viktor Senger as Addison Wilmott * Lu Synd as Pussy, seine Frau * Guido Herzfeld as Leon Devries, Kommissar der Kriminalpolizei * Maria Andersen as Anita Ferres * Leonhard Haskel as Jan Suiter, Küster * Lillebil Ibsen as Alice van der Velde, seine Pflegetochter * Helene Voß as Frau Smits, Zimmervermieterin * Hugo Werner-Kahle as Gustav Masson, ihr Onkel * Stefanie Hantzsch * Ernst Lübbert * Martin Lübbert Martin may refer to: Places * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Neanderthal Man
''The Neanderthal Man'' is a 78-minute, 1953 American black-and-white science fiction film produced independently by Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen, as Global Productions Inc., from their own original screenplay. It starred Robert Shayne, Richard Crane and Joyce Terry, was directed by E. A. Dupont, and was originally distributed in the United States by United Artists Corp. Beverly Garland, in a supporting role, appears here in her first feature film under her new stage name (previously she went by the name of Beverly Campbell and made her screen debut as a supporting actor in the 1949 film noir classic ''D.O.A.''). Plot At home in California's High Sierras, Prof. Clifford Groves hears glass breaking and looks up in fear from his book, ''Neanderthal Man and the Stone Age''. He finds his lab window smashed and the room wrecked. The noise awakens his adult daughter Jan. Groves sends her back to bed, telling her that he does not like anyone in his workspace and informing her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Town
''Big Town'' is a popular long-running radio drama featuring a corruption-fighting newspaper editor initially played from 1937 to 1942 by Edward G. Robinson in his first radio role, with echoes of the conscience-stricken tabloid editor he had played in the film Five Star Final. Edward Pawley played the lead role longer, 1943–52, in plots that made the editor more of a hands-on crime-fighter. During the later Pawley years, Big Town was adapted to film and television series, and a comic book published by DC Comics. Radio The radio program aired from October 19, 1937, to June 25, 1952. It was produced by William N. Robson and Crane Wilbur, and written by Jerry McGill. Theme music was by Fran Frey. Edward G. Robinson had the lead role of Steve Wilson, crusading editor of the ''Illustrated Press'', from 1937 to 1942. Claire Trevor was Wilson's reporter sidekick "Lorelei," with Ona Munson taking over that role in 1940. The female lead evolved from the initial script's description ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarf (film)
''The Scarf'' is a 1951 American film noir directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton, and Emlyn Williams. The screenplay concerns a man who escapes from an insane asylum and tries to convince a crusty hermit, a drifting saloon singer, and himself that he is not a murderer. Plot John Ireland stars as John Barrington, an escapee from an institution for the criminally insane. Actually, Barrington is not insane, but the victim of a plot orchestrated by a clever murderer. The only person who believes Barrington's story is Ezra Thompson (James Barton) a turkey farmer who hides him from the authorities. Then a singing waitress named Cash-and-Carry Connie (Mercedes McCambridge) unwittingly provides the clue that will prove Barrington's innocence. Emlyn Williams co-stars as a psychiatrist. Cast * John Ireland as John Howard Barrington * Mercedes McCambridge as Connie Carter * James Barton as Ezra Thompson * Emlyn Williams as Dr. David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B Movies
A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature (akin to B-sides for recorded music). However, the U.S. production of films intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s. With the emergence of commercial television at that time, film studio B movie production departments changed into television film production divisions. They created much of the same type of content in low budget films and series. The term ''B movie'' continues to be used in its broader sense to this day. In its post-Golden Age usage, B movies can range from lurid exploitation films to independent arthouse films. In either usage, most B movies represent a particular genre—the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple, while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound Film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early sound-on-disc systems, and amplification and recording quality were also inadequate. Innovations in sound-on-film led to the first commercial screening of short motion pictures using the technology, which took place in 1923. The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid-to-late 1920s. At first, the sound films which included synchronized dialogue, known as "talking pictures", or "talkies", were exclusively shorts. The earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie (although it had only limited so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
