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Ivan Linow
Ivan Linow (born Jānis Linaus; November 21, 1888 – November 11, 1940), also known as Jack Linow, was a Latvian-born American wrestler, who became a character actor in American films during the silent and early sound film eras. Biography Born in Latvia on November 21, 1888, Linow began wrestling in the United States in 1918. Between 1918 and 1933, he participated in 92 matches, with a record of 38 wins and 23 losses. Linow's monikers in the ring were "the Cossack" and the "Russian Man-Eater". During his wrestling career, he faced other notable wrestlers of that era, such as Joe Stecher and Ed Lewis. Using his popularity as a wrestler, Linow entered the film industry during the 1920s, his first film being ''Cappy Ricks'' (1921). In his fifteen-year acting career, he appeared in over forty films in supporting and bit parts. While appearing in films, Linow continued his wrestling career. In his final match in July 1931, under the pseudonym Jack Leon, he defeated Young Sandow. Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silver Horde (1930 Film)
''The Silver Horde'' is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Joel McCrea as a fisherman torn between two women, played by top-billed Evelyn Brent and Jean Arthur. Directed by George Archainbaud from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, it is the second film adaptation of the 1909 novel of the same name by Rex Beach, which is a follow up to his earlier novel, ''The Spoilers''. The first filming of ''The Silver Horde'' was a silent 1920 film also titled '' The Silver Horde''. The title is a reference to the salmon fishing industry in Alaska, and the color of the fish bulging in the fishermen's nets. Plot In the Alaskan wilderness, Boyd Emerson and Fraser, arrive by dogsled at a village. They are puzzled to receive a chilly welcome from its inhabitants. Frustrated, Boyd gets into a fight with local George Balt, which is broken up by Cherry Malotte. She invites the newcomers to dinner. She explains that they have stumbled into a bitter struggle between two rival fishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Miles Out
''Three Miles Out'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Madge Kennedy, Harrison Ford, and Marc McDermott. The title of the film refers to the three-mile limit which formerly defined the territorial waters of the United States. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Molly Townsend is on the eve of her marriage to Luis Riccardi, a steamship man who secretly is a bootlegger. She follows John Locke, the man she really loves, on a steamship bound for Rio. He is thrown overboard, leaving her at the mercy of a crew full of bad men. She is nearly their victim when she is rescued by John and her mother. When the police come aboard, the leader of the band reveals the true character of Riccardi, leaving Molly and John happy together. Cast Preservation A complete print of ''Three Miles Out'' is held by the Gosfilmofond Gosfilmofond is a state film archive in Russia. It is the main film archive of the Russian Federation and a member of the In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The River (1929 Film)
''The River'' is a 1929 partial-talkie drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. Much of the film has been lost. A reconstructed Version with the about 45 minutes of surviving film, using still images and explanatory titlecards to bridge the missing scenes, was produced by the Munich Filmmuseum, in collaboration with the cinémathèques of Switzerland and Luxembourg. This version was screened in 2006 by the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. Borzage also directed Farrell, opposite Janet Gaynor, in '' Seventh Heaven'' (1927), '' Street Angel'' (1928), and '' Lucky Star'' (1929) during this period. Plot summary Allen John Spender (Charles Farrell) is a virile outdoorsman and Rosalee (Mary Duncan) is his high society sweetheart. Cast * Charles Farrell as Allen John Spender * Mary Duncan as Rosalee * Ivan Linow as Sam Thompson * Margaret Mann as Widow Thompson * Alfred Sabato as Marsdon * Bert Woodruff as The Miller Rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Far Call
''The Far Call'' is a 1929 American lost film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Charles Morton and Leila Hyams. Produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. It is a late silent film with Fox's Movietone sound on film system containing music and sound effects. Cast * Charles Morton as Pat Loring * Leila Hyams as Hilda Larsen * Warner Baxter * Arthur Stone as Schmidt * Warren Hymer as Soup Brophy * Dan Wolheim as Black O'Neil * Tiny Sandford as Captain Storkerson (*as Stanley J. Sandford) * Ullrich Haupt as London Nick * Charles B. Middleton as Kris Larsen * Pat Hartigan as Lars Johannson * Charles Gorman as Haycox * Ivan Linow as Red Dunkirk * Harry Gripp as Pete * Sam Baker as Tubal * Bernard Siegel as Aleut Chief See also *1937 Fox vault fire The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cock-Eyed World
''The Cock-Eyed World'' is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy feature film. One of the earliest "talkies", it was a sequel to '' What Price Glory?'' (1926), it was directed and written by Raoul Walsh and based on the Flagg and Quirt story by Maxwell Anderson, Tom Barry, Wilson Mizner, and Laurence Stallings. Fox Film Corporation released the film at the Roxy in New York on August 3, 1929. The film stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, reprising their original roles, as well as Lili Damita. The picture was also released in a silent version on October 5, 1929. Plot Flagg (Victor McLaglen) and Quirt (Edmund Lowe) find themselves transferred from Russia to Brooklyn to South America, in each place squaring off over a local beauty. The film remains one of the earliest screen sequels to a critical and popular success with the two lead actors playing the same characters, as well as the original writers and director intact from the first picture. Cast *Victor McLaglen as Top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Magic (1929 Film)
''Black Magic'' is a 1929 American silent drama film directed by George B. Seitz. As of 2020, no prints of the film survive in archives. Cast * Josephine Dunn as Katherine Bradbroke * Earle Foxe as Hugh Darrell * John Holland as John Ormsby * Henry B. Walthall as Dr. Bradbroke * Dorothy Jordan as Ann Bradbroke * Fritz Feld as James Fraser * Sheldon Lewis as Witchdoctor * Ivan Linow as Zelig * Blue Washington as Unit See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part talking/ all talking feature films made in the US and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926-1929. During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including most notably ... References External links * 1929 films 1929 drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Silent American drama films Films directed by George B. Seitz Fox Film films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-drama-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Old Arizona
''In Old Arizona'' is a 1928 American pre-Code Western film directed by Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film, which was based on the character of the Cisco Kid in the 1907 story " The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry, was a major innovation in Hollywood. It was the first major Western to use the new technology of sound and the first talkie to be filmed outdoors. It made extensive use of authentic locations, filming in Bryce Canyon National Park and Zion National Park in Utah, and the Mission San Juan Capistrano and the Mojave Desert in California. The film premiered in Los Angeles on December 25, 1928, and went into general release on either December 28, 1928, or January 20, 1929. ''In Old Arizona'' contributed to creating the image of the singing cowboy, as its star, Warner Baxter, does some incidental singing. Baxter went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. Other nominations included Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red Dance
''The Red Dance'' (also known as ''The Red Dancer of Moscow'') is a 1928 American film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Dolores del Río and Charles Farrell that was inspired in the novel by Henry Leyford Gates. Although silent, it was released with synchronized music and sound effects. Plot Tasia ( Dolores del Río), a beautiful lower class dancer from Russia, falls for the heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admires him from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him. Cast * Dolores del Río as Tasia *Charles Farrell as Grand Duke Eugene *Ivan Linow as Ivan Petroff *Boris Charsky as An agitator *Dorothy Revier as Princess Varvara * Andrés de Segurola as General Tanaroff *Demetrius Alexis as Rasputin *Henry Armetta as Prisoner (uncredited) *Nigel De Brulier as Bishop (uncredited) *Soledad Jiménez as Tasia's Mother (uncredited) *Muriel McCormac as Tasia as a chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plastered In Paris (1928 Film)
''Plastered in Paris'' is a 1928 American comedy film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Sammy Cohen, Jack Pennick and Lola Salvi. Originally made as a silent film, music and sound effects were then added using the Movietone system. It was intended as a parody of Foreign Legion films such as ''Beau Geste''. However, this drew some criticism for its mockery of the Foreign Legion, which an observer compared to the British Guards Regiments as being above parody.Grieveson & Kramer p.326 In the film, two veterans of the American Legion enlist in the French Foreign Legion by mistake. They are assigned a mission in North Africa. Synopsis Two former American doughboys return to Paris after ten years for an American Legion convention. However, due to a mistake, they end up joining the French Foreign Legion. While serving in North Africa they rescue a General's daughter from a harem. Cast * Sammy Cohen as Sammy Nosenblum * Jack Pennick as Bud Swenson * Lola Salvi as Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Noose (film)
''The Noose'' is an American silent drama film adaptation of the Willard Mack play '' The Noose'', which was released in 1928. It stars Richard Barthelmess, Montagu Love, Robert Emmett O'Connor, and Thelma Todd. The movie was adapted by Garrett Graham and James T. O'Donohoe from the play. It was directed by John Francis Dillon and Richard Barthelmess's performance was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film survives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The play was also the basis of the Paramount Pictures film ''I'd Give My Life'' (1936). Cast *Richard Barthelmess as Nickie Elkins *Montagu Love as Buck Gordon *Robert Emmett O'Connor as Jim Conley *Jay Eaton as Tommy *Lina Basquette as Dot *Thelma Todd as Phyllis *Ed Brady as Seth McMillan *Fred Warren as Dave, Pianist *Alice Joyce as Mrs. Bancroft *Will Walling as Warden (credited as William Walling) *Robert T. Haines as Governor *Ernest Hilliard as Craig *Emile Chautard as Priest *Romaine Fielding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crimson Flash
''The Crimson Flash'' is a 1927 American action film serial directed by Arch Heath. The film is now considered to be lost. Cast * Cullen Landis * Eugenia Gilbert * Thomas Holding (as Tom Holding) * J. Barney Sherry * Walter P. Lewis * Ivan Linow * Mary Gardner * Charles Anthony Hughes as Dale (as Tony Hughes) * Gus De Weil * Ed Roseman * Howard Carey See also * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio This is a list of film serials by studio, separated into those released by each of the five major studios, and the remaining minor studios. The five major studios produced the greater number of serials. Of these the main studios are consider ... References External links * 1927 films 1927 lost films 1920s action films American action films American silent serial films American black-and-white films Pathé Exchange film serials Lost American films Lost action films Films directed by Arch Heath 1920s American films {{action-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Rise To Fame
''His Rise to Fame'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Bernard McEveety and starring George Walsh, Peggy Shaw and Bradley Barker.Munden p.355 A drifter meets a dancer in a cabaret and reforms his life, becoming a championship-winning boxer. Cast * George Walsh as Jerry Drake * Peggy Shaw as Laura White * Bradley Barker as Hubert Strief * Mildred Reardon as Helen Lee * Martha Petelle as 'Ma' Drake * William Nally as Montana Mack * Ivan Linow Ivan Linow (born Jānis Linaus; November 21, 1888 – November 11, 1940), also known as Jack Linow, was a Latvian-born American wrestler, who became a character actor in American films during the silent and early sound film eras. Biography Born ... as Bull Vickers References Bibliography * 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 * 1927 films 1920s sports drama films American b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
