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J. Roy Hunt
J. Roy Hunt (July 7, 1884 Caperton, West Virginia – October 1972 Sheffield, Alabama) born John Roy Hunt was an American motion picture cameraman and cinematographer. His career began around the time of World War I and continued to the 1950s. Hunt served as director of cinematography on numerous films, such as ''Beau Geste'', ''A Kiss for Cinderella'', ''Flying Down to Rio'', and ''She''. Partial filmography *''A Daughter of the Gods'' (1916) * ''The Lincoln Cycle'' (1917) *''The Lone Wolf'' (1917) * ''Victory and Peace'' (1918) *''Pagan Love'' (1920) *''The Branded Woman'' (1920) *''Woman's Place'' (1921) * ''What Women Will Do'' (1921) *''Love's Redemption'' (1921) *''Polly of the Follies'' (1922) *''Sherlock Holmes'' (1922) *'' Smilin' Through'' (1922) *'' Second Youth'' (1924) *''The Rejected Woman'' (1924) *''Dangerous Money'' (1924) *''Argentine Love'' (1924) * ''Her Own Free Will'' (1924) *''The Crowded Hour'' (1925) *''The Manicure Girl'' (1925) *''Wild, Wild Susan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love's Redemption
''Love's Redemption'' is a 1921 American silent adventure drama film directed by Albert Parker and starring Norma Talmadge, Harrison Ford, and Montagu Love. The film is presumed to be lost.Progressive Silent Film List: ''Love's Redemption'' at silentera.com Plot As described in a , Ginger (Talmadge), a young Jamaican woman, secures a position as a housekeeper for Englishman Clifford Standish (Ford), a wealthy plantation owner, when Captain Bill Hennessey (Barnes), with whom she had lived for several years, sails away for England. Clifford struggles as he is addicted to drink. Ginger saves Clifford f ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Branded Woman
''The Branded Woman'' is a 1920 American silent drama film released by First National Pictures. It stars Norma Talmadge who also produced the film along with her husband Joseph Schenck through their production company, Norma Talmadge Productions. The film is based on a 1917 Broadway play ''Branded'', by Oliver D. Bailey and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Albert Parker who also directed. Plot As described in a film magazine, Ruth Sawyer (Talmadge) is the unhappy victim of a notorious marriage between her parents. Her grandfather Judge Whitlock (Fawcett) disowns his son and makes the wife Dot Belmar (Studdiford) swear never to claim her daughter. The judge adopts Ruth under the name Sawyer and is known to her only as her guardian. Dot is now associated with Velvet Craft (Serrano) who runs a gambling house. Dot decides to hit at the judge through Ruth by breaking her promise and goes to see her at a fashionable boarding school. Dot is recognized as a notorious woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild, Wild Susan
''Wild, Wild Susan'' is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring popular Bebe Daniels. Famous Players–Lasky produced and Paramount Pictures distributed. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Wild, Wild Susan'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature Feature may refer to: Computing * Feature (CAD), could be a hole, pocket, or notch * Feature (computer vision), could be an edge, corner or blob * Feature (software design) is an intentional distinguishing char .... References External links * *Lobby poster 1925 films [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Manicure Girl
''The Manicure Girl'' is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bebe Daniels. Plot As described in a film magazine review, a poor young manicurist becomes engaged to a poor young man who has saved enough money to build a bungalow to live in after they are married. The young woman craves riches and becomes interested in a married man who treats her gentlemanly and kindly. This "other" man is becoming estranged from his wife. The manicurist realizes her own influence in wrecking the marriage and, in sympathy with the wife, she effects a reconciliation between the two. Her fiancé lover quarrels with her, but there is a happy ending when the two decide to hasten their marriage. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''The Manicure Girl'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crowded Hour
''The Crowded Hour'' is a 1925 American silent film, silent drama film directed by E. Mason Hopper and starring Bebe Daniels. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the 1918 Broadway play, ''The Crowded Hour'', by Channing Pollock (writer), Channing Pollock and Edgar Selwyn. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Peggy and her pal Matt Wilde are performers in a "Follies" act when Billy Laidlaw sees her and falls in love with her despite the fact that he is already married. When World War I comes, Peggy and her partner become "Y" entertainers in France where she meets Billy. Billy later starts for an ammunition dump, planning to destroy it before the Germans reach it. Peggy is working as a switchboard operator when she finds it a question of saving Billy or a platoon of French soldiers, she chooses the latter. Billy is then captured. Peggy is later blinded during an attack, and then discovers that her nurse is Billy's w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Own Free Will
''Her Own Free Will'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Paul Scardon and starring Helene Chadwick, Holmes Herbert, and Violet Mersereau. It was based on a novel of the same name by the British writer Ethel M. Dell. Cast * Helene Chadwick as Nan Everard * Holmes Herbert as Peter Craddock * Allan Simpson as Jerry Lister * George Backus as Col. Everard * Violet Mersereau as Mona Everard Preservation With no copies of ''Her Own Free Will'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o .... References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * * 1924 films 1924 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentine Love
''Argentine Love'' is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Allan Dwan and based on a short story by Vicente Blasco Ibanez that stars Bebe Daniels. In the film, the legal guardians of an Argentine woman arrange her marriage to a man of their choice, but are unaware that she already has a boyfriend. Her betrothed is determined to kill any rival suitors, and murders a senator's son for merely flirting with his fiancee. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, during a two year absence in the United States, the guardians of Consuelo Garcia (Daniels) arrange her marriage to Juan Martin (Cortez), who lives in the same hometown in Argentina. However, she is in love with the American Philip Sears (Rennie), who is coming to her country to build a bridge, so she turns Juan down. Juan is furious and vows to kill anyone who comes between them, and does kill Rafael (Gonzales), the son of Senator Cornejo (Majeroni), after he sees him flirting with Consuelo. Juan se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Money (1924 Film)
''Dangerous Money'' is a 1924 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Frank Tuttle and starred popular Bebe Daniels. Plot Cast *Bebe Daniels as Adele Clark * Tom Moore as Tim Sullivan *William Powell as Prince Arnolfo da Pescia * Dolores Cassinelli as Signoria Vitale *Mary Foy as "Auntie" Clark *Edward O'Connor as Sheamus Sullivan * Peter Lang as Judge Daniel Orcutt *Charles Slattery as O'Hara *Diana Kane Preservation With no copies of ''Dangerous Money'' located in any film archives, |
The Rejected Woman
''The Rejected Woman'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Albert Parker (in New York) and written by John Lynch. The film stars Alma Rubens, Conrad Nagel, and Béla Lugosi in a supporting role as Jean Gagnon. It was produced by Distinctive Pictures and distributed by Goldwyn- Cosmopolitan Distributing Corporation. A print of ''The Rejected Woman'' is preserved at the George Eastman House. Plot John Leslie (Nagel) is a rich, New York City man who leads a brilliant life. While piloting his plane in Canada, he meets Diane Du Prez (Rubens) while seeking refuge from a storm. Shortly after John returns to New York City, Diane moves to town and the two began dating. Leslie's friends are scandalized by the relationship as Diane is poor, shabbily dressed and unsophisticated. Unbeknownst to John, his business manager James Dunbar ( Wyndham Standing) offers Diane financial assistance so that she can buy the clothing and receive the proper training to fit in with John's upper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Youth (1924 Film)
''Second Youth'' is a 1924 American silent romantic comedy film produced by Distinctive Pictures (George Arliss) and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures. The film is one of the few and rare silent appearances of Broadway husband and wife team Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Roland Francis, a timid silk salesman, is much sought after by the ladies, but he avoids them. A sub-deb, a stenographer, an extremely modern miss, and, worst of all, Mrs. Benson, a very experienced widow, are all trying to land him in the matrimonial net. The latter, having disposed of three husbands, wants to grab Francis for a fourth trial, and is naturally the hardest of the lot to evade. Anne Winton decides that a young woman has the right to flirt whenever and with whomever she pleases, and selects Francis as her victim. Anne, stimulated by the gibes of a sportive brother-in-law, invites Francis out to supper, takes him in Bohemian circles, lures him under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smilin' Through (1922 Film)
''Smilin' Through'' is a 1922 American silent drama film based on the 1919 play of the same name, written by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin (together under the pseudonym Alan Langdon Martin). The film starred Norma Talmadge, Harrison Ford, and Wyndham Standing. It was co-written and directed by Sidney Franklin, who also directed the more famous 1932 remake at MGM. The film was produced by Talmadge and her husband Joseph M. Schenck for her company, the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation. It was released by First National Pictures. Popular character actor Gene Lockhart made his screen debut in this film. The story is essentially the same as the popular Jane Cowl play, with Talmadge in the dual role of Kathleen and Moonyean. Kathleen, a young Irish woman, is in love with Kenneth Wayne but is prevented from marrying him by her guardian John Carteret. John is haunted by memories of his thwarted love for Kathleen's aunt, Moonyean. The story was an especially popular one and was filmed twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherlock Holmes (1922 Film)
''Sherlock Holmes'' (released as ''Moriarty'' in the United Kingdom, UK) is a 1922 American silent film, silent mystery film, mystery drama film starring John Barrymore as Sherlock Holmes, Roland Young as Dr. Watson, Dr. John Watson and Gustav von Seyffertitz as Moriarty. The movie, which features the screen debuts of both William Powell (credited as William H. Powell) and Roland Young, was directed by Albert Parker (director), Albert Parker. It was written by Earle Browne and Marion Fairfax from the Sherlock Holmes (play), 1899 play by William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle based upon Doyle's characters, and was produced by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. The film was considered lost film, lost for decades, but was rediscovered in the mid-1970s and restored by George Eastman House. Plot University of Cambridge, Cambridge student Prince Alexis (Reginald Denny (actor), Reginald Denny) is accused of stealing the athletic funds. Friend and fellow student Watson recommends he seek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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