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List Of Films Set In The Southern United States
The following is a partial chronological list of movies set in the Southern United States: 1890s * '' Down in Dixie'', 1898 * '' Loading a Mississippi Steamboat'', 1898 * '' Way Down South'', 1898 1900s * '' Arrival of Rex'', 1902 * '' Mardi Gras Parade'', 1902 * '' In Old Kentucky'', 1909 1910s * ''The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg'', 1911 * ''A Gentleman from Mississippi'', 1914 * ''The Birth of a Nation'', 1915 * '' The Coward'', 1915 * ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'', 1918 * ''Almost a Husband'', 1919 * ''John Petticoats'', 1919 1920s * ''The Copperhead'', 1920 * ''Huckleberry Finn'', 1920 * ''Tol'able David'', 1921 * ''Our Hospitality'', 1923 * ''The White Rose'', 1923 * ''America'', 1924 * '' The General'', 1926 * ''Court Martial'', 1928 * ''Hallelujah'', 1929 * ''Show Boat'', 1929 1930s * ''Abraham Lincoln'', 1930 * ''Tol'able David'', 1930 * ''Huckleberry Finn'', 1931 * ''Secret Service'', 1931 * ''I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang'', 1932 * ''The Cabin in the Cotton'', 1932 * ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern United States
The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern and Northeastern United States to its north and the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to its south. Historically, the South was defined as all states south of the 18th century Mason–Dixon line, the Ohio River, and 36°30′ parallel.The South . ''Britannica.com''. Retrieved June 5, 2021. Within the South are different subregions, such as the |
Our Hospitality
''Our Hospitality'' is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone. Starring Keaton, Joe Roberts, and Natalie Talmadge and distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation, it uses slapstick and situational comedy to tell the story of Willie McKay, caught in the middle of the infamous "Canfield–McKay" feud, an obvious satire of the real-life Hatfield–McCoy feud. It was a groundbreaking work for the comedy film genre, as Keaton included "careful integration of gags into a dramatically coherent storyline", "meticulous attention to period detail" and beautiful cinematography and extensive location shooting"—in considerable contrast to the era's other slapstick comedies. Turner Classic Movies describes ''Our Hospitality'' as a "silent film for which no apologies need be made to modern viewers." Plot The Canfield and McKay families have been feuding for so long, no one remembers the reason the feud started in the first place. One stormy night ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wet Parade
''The Wet Parade'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Robert Young, Myrna Loy, Walter Huston, Lewis Stone and Jimmy Durante. It is based on the 1931 novel by Upton Sinclair. The film shows how two families are devastated by the effects of alcohol consumption and Prohibition. In addition to the main story, many small vignettes illustrate the theme, such as a three-minute segment that documents the many steps in the creation of counterfeit imported liquor. When the film was released in March 1932, Prohibition had been law for almost 13 years and would not end until December 5, 1933 with the passage of the 21st Amendment. Plot In 1916, Maggie May Chilcote of Louisiana looks after her heavy-drinking father Roger, tying his shoes for him and retrieving him when he makes a spectacle of himself in public. Roger embarks on a drinking and gambling spree and loses most of the family's money. In the agonies of withdrawal, he kills himself. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cabin In The Cotton
''The Cabin in the Cotton'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Paul Green (playwright), Paul Green is based on the novel of the same title by Harry Harrison Kroll. The film perhaps is best known for a line of dialogue spoken by a platinum-blonde Bette Davis in a Southern United States, Southern drawl -- "I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."—a line lifted directly from the book. In later years it was immortalized by Davis impersonators and quoted in the 1995 film ''Get Shorty (film), Get Shorty''. Plot Marvin Blake is a sharecropper's son who wants to better himself by continued schooling instead of working in the fields under the heat in the Deep South. Initially, greedy Planter (American South), planter Lane Norwood is opposed to the idea and says he needs to work in his fields, but after the sudden death of his over-worked father, he grudgingly helps Blake achieve his goal and gives the young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang
''I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang'' is a 1932 American pre-Code crime-drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni as a wrongfully convicted man on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. It was released on November 10, 1932. The film received positive reviews and three Academy Award nominations. The film was written by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes from Robert Elliott Burns's 1932 autobiography of a similar name '' I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!'' originally serialized in the ''True Detective'' magazine. The true life story was later the basis for the television movie ''The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains'' (1987) starring Val Kilmer. In 1991, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot American sergeant James Allen returns to civilian life after World War I. He has served with distinction, earning a medal from Alli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Service (1931 Film)
''Secret Service'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by J. Walter Ruben and written by Bernard Schubert. The film based on a play by William Gillette, stars Richard Dix, William Post Jr., Shirley Grey, and Nance O'Neil. The film was released on November 14, 1931, by RKO Pictures. Plot Two Union officers, Captain Lewis Dumont and his younger brother, Lieutenant Henry Dumont, receive orders from General Ulysses S. Grant Grant to go behind enemy lines and become undercover agents to feed false information to the Confederate States Army. Lewis is tasked with becoming part of a Confederate telegraph office in Richmond, Virginia, under the guise of a deceased Confederate officer, Thorne. Meanwhile, Henry is ordered to allow himself to be captured by the enemy, during which he is supposed to pass incorrect information about Union positions. Thorne comes upon the tail-end of a skirmish between Union and Confederate soldiers, during which he is wounded. After the batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huckleberry Finn (1931 Film)
''Huckleberry Finn'' (1931) is an American pre-Code comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Jackie Coogan as Tom Sawyer and Junior Durkin as Huckleberry Finn. The picture was based upon the 1884 novel ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain. Cast * Jackie Coogan as Tom Sawyer * Junior Durkin as Huckleberry Finn * Mitzi Green as Becky Thatcher * Jackie Searl as Sid Sawyer * Clarence Muse as Jim * Eugene Pallette as Duke of Bridgewater * Oscar Apfel as The King * Clara Blandick as Aunt Polly * Jane Darwell as Widow Douglas * Warner Richmond as Pap Finn * Charlotte Henry as Mary Jane * Lillian Harmer as Miss Watson * Guy Oliver as Judge Thatcher * Edward LeSaint as Doc Robinson (uncredited) * Frank McGlynn Sr. as Teacher (uncredited) Production This is an adaptation of the classic novel ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain and is a follow-up to ''Tom Sawyer'' (1930). Omitting the entire issue of whether or not Huck ought to turn the slav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tol'able David (1930 Film)
''Tol'able David'' is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of the 1921 silent film ''Tol'able David'', which starred Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. The Columbia film stars Richard Cromwell in the Barthelmess part after he won an audition over thousands of hopefuls and Harry Cohn gave him his screen name and a $75/week contract. It is preserved in the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' published by The American Film Institute, c. 1978 Cast *Richard Cromwell as David Kinemon *Noah Beery as Luke Hatburn * Joan Peers as Esther Hatburn *Henry B. Walthall as Amos Hatburn * Tom Keene as Alan Kinemon *Edmund Breese as Hunter Kinemon * Barbara Bedford as Rose Kinemon *Helen Ware as Mrs. Kinemon * Harlan Knight as Iska Hatburn *John Carradine John Carradine ( ; born Richmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Lincoln (1930 Film)
''Abraham Lincoln'', also released under the title ''D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln"'', is a 1930 pre-Code American biographical film about Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln and Una Merkel, in her second speaking role, as Ann Rutledge. The script was co-written by Stephen Vincent Benét, author of the Civil War prose poem ''John Brown's Body'' (1928), and Gerrit Lloyd. This was the first of only two sound films made by Griffith. The film entered the public domain in 1958 when the initial copyright expired. The copyright holders did not elect to extend it for a second 28-year term. Plot summary The first act of the film covers Lincoln's early life as a storekeeper and rail-splitter in New Salem and his early romance with Ann Rutledge, and his early years as a lawyer and his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois. The majority of the film deals with Lincoln's presidency during the American Civil War and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Show Boat (1929 Film)
''Show Boat'' is a 1929 American romantic drama film based on the 1926 novel ''Show Boat (novel), Show Boat'' by Edna Ferber. The film initially did not use the Show Boat, 1927 stage musical of the same name as a source, but scenes were later added into the film incorporating two of the songs from the musical as well as other songs. This version was released by Universal Studios, Universal in two editions, one a silent film for movie theatres still not equipped for sound, and one a part-talkie with a sound prologue. The film was long believed to be lost, but most of it has been found and released on LaserDisc and shown on Turner Classic Movies. A number of sections of the soundtrack were found in the mid-1990s on Vitaphone records, although the film was made with a Movietone sound system, Movietone soundtrack. Two more records were discovered in 2005. Plot The eighteen-year-old Magnolia meets, falls in love with, and elopes with riverboat gambler Gaylord Ravenal. After her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallelujah (film)
''Hallelujah'' is a 1929 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical directed by King Vidor, and starring Daniel L. Haynes and Nina Mae McKinney. Filmed in Tennessee and Arkansas and chronicling the troubled quest of a sharecropper, Zeke Johnson (Haynes), and his relationship with the seductive Chick (McKinney), ''Hallelujah'' was one of the first films with an all-African American cast produced by a major studio. (Although frequently touted as Hollywood's first all-black cast musical, that distinction more properly belongs to ''Hearts in Dixie'', which premiered several months earlier.) It was intended for a general audience and was considered so risky a venture by MGM that they required King Vidor to invest his own salary in the production. Vidor expressed an interest in "showing the Southern Negro as he is" and attempted to present a relatively non-stereotyped view of African-American life. ''Hallelujah'' was King Vidor's first sound film, and combined sound recorded on l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Court Martial (1928 Film)
''Court Martial'' is a 1928 American silent film war drama film directed by George B. Seitz, starring Jack Holt, Betty Compson as Belle Starr, and Frank Austin as Abraham Lincoln, and released by Columbia Pictures. A foreign release print of the film survives and is preserved in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was shown at the annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival in 2014. Publicity for the film stated that several sequences were shot in early Technicolor, but these do not appear to have survived. Cast * Jack Holt as James Camden *Betty Compson as Belle Starr *Pat Harmon as Bull *Doris Hill as General's Daughter *Frank Lackteen as 'Devil' Dawson * Frank Austin as President Abraham Lincoln *George Cowl George Cowl (1878–1942) was a British film actor active in the United States.Solomon p.300 He also directed four films during the silent era. Selected filmography * ''Dan'' (1914) * ''The Rack'' (1916) * '' The Closed Road'' (1916) * '' The B ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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