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Fangs Of Fate (1925 Film)
''Fangs of Fate'' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Horace B. Carpenter and starring Bill Patton, Dorothy Donald, and Ivor McFadden. Plot As described in a film magazine review, outlaws terrorize the town of Arcady, Arizona. Bob Haynes, a stranger, is attracted by Azalia Bolton, daughter of a boarding house keeper, and protects her from some drunken rowdies. She inspires him to change his life to the better. Sheriff Dan Dodo Briggs offers to make Bob a deputy, but he declines. Later, following a stage coach holdup, he accepts the offered position and brings in the guilty bandits, but confesses that he used to be their leader. The outlaws are sent to jail, but Judge Harcourt paroles Bob into Azalia's custody. Cast * Bill Patton as Bob Haynes * Dorothy Donald as Azalia Bolton * Ivor McFadden as Sheriff Dan Dodo Briggs * Beatrice Allen as Azalia's Mother * William Bertram as Judge Harcourt * Merrill McCormick William Merrill McCormick (February 5, 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ''Odes'' as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96. The only other lyrical poet Quintilian thought comparable with Horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, Caesius Bassus (R. Tarrant, ''Ancient Receptions of Horace'', 280) Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (''Satires'' and '' Epistles'') and caustic iambic poetry ('' Epodes''). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
