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Otto Matiesen
Otto Matieson (27 March 1893 – 19 February 1932) was a Danish actor of the silent era. He appeared in 45 films between 1920 and 1931. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and died in a car accident in Safford, Arizona. Filmography * '' The Golden Trail'' (1920) * ''Scaramouche'' (1923) * ''The Dangerous Maid'' (1923) * '' Boston Blackie'' (1923) * ''Revelation'' (1924) * '' Captain Blood'' (1924) * '' The Folly of Vanity'' (1924) * '' The Salvation Hunters'' (1925) * '' The Happy Warrior'' (1925) * '' Morals for Men'' (1925) * ''Parisian Love'' (1925) * '' Bride of the Storm'' (1926) * '' Yellow Fingers'' (1926) * ''Whispering Wires'' (1926) * ''The Silver Treasure'' (1926) * ''Christine of the Big Tops'' (1926) * '' While London Sleeps'' (1926) * ''The Beloved Rogue'' (1927) * '' Old San Francisco'' (1927) * ''Surrender'' (1927) * '' The Last Moment'' (1928) * '' The Scarlet Lady'' (1928) * ''The Woman from Moscow'' (1928) * ''The Show of Shows'' (1929) * '' Prisoners'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman From Moscow
''The Woman from Moscow'' is a 1928 American drama film starring Pola Negri. This was Negri's last silent film released with musical score and sound effects. The picture is a remake of Paramount's 1918 Pauline Frederick film ''Fedora'', based on the play by Victorien Sardou. Cast *Pola Negri as Princess Fedora *Norman Kerry as Loris Ipanoff *Lawrence Grant as The General Stroganoff *Paul Lukas as Vladimir, his son *Otto Matieson as Gretch Milner *Maude George as Olga Andreavitshka *Bodil Rosing as Nadia *Jack Luden as Ipanoff's Brother *Martha Franklin as Ipanoff's Mother *Mirra Rayo as Ipanoff's Sister *Tetsu Komai (23 April 1894 – 10 August 1970), also known as Tetsuo Komai, was a Japanese-American actor, known for his minor roles in Hollywood films. Biography Born in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Komai had small parts in over 50 films from the 1920s until the ... as Groom Preservation status *Reels 4, 6, and 7 exist at Lobster Films. References External links *allmovie/sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow Fingers
''Yellow Fingers'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and written by Eve Unsell. The film stars Olive Borden, Ralph Ince, Claire Adams, Edward Peil, Sr., Otto Matieson, and Nigel De Brulier. The film was released on March 21, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American Independent film production studio formed by William Fox (1879–1952) in 1915, by combining his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film C .... Cast Preservation status The film is preserved with a copy located in Europe. References External links * * 1926 films 1920s English-language films Fox Film films Silent American drama films 1926 drama films Films directed by Emmett J. Flynn American black-and-white films American silent feature films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Dawn (film)
''Golden Dawn'' is a 1930 American pre-Code musical operetta film released by Warner Bros., photographed entirely in Technicolor, and starring Vivienne Segal, Walter Woolf King and Noah Beery. The film is based on the semi-hit 1927 stage musical of the same name (music composed by Emmerich Kálmán and Herbert Stothart, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach.) Plot The story takes place in colonial Africa, where Dawn is a white girl, kidnapped in infancy and is being brought up by a black native, Mooda, who runs a canteen in the now German colonial settlement. Dawn falls in love with a British rubber planter, Tom Allen, who is now a prisoner of war. The native black leader of the tribes in that region is also in love with Dawn and becomes extremely jealous when he hears of Dawn's love for Allen, who, in turn, is sent back to Britain by the Germans for attempting to steal Dawn, whom they believe is half black. Eventually, the British regain control of the terr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Crack
''General Crack'' is a 1929 American pre-Code part-talkie historical costume melodrama with Technicolor sequences which was directed by Alan Crosland and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It was filmed and premiered in 1929, and released early in 1930. It stars John Barrymore in his first full-length talking feature. The film would prove to be Crosland and Barrymore's last historical epic together. It was based on the 1928 novel ''General Crack'' by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, published under the name George Preedy, one of her several pen names. Plot The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack (John Barrymore). His father had been a respectable member of the upper ranks of the nobility but his mother was a gypsy. General Crack, as a soldier of fortune, spent his adult life selling his services to the highest bidder. He espouses the doubtful cause of Leopold II of Austria (Lowell Sherman, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisoners (1929 Film)
''Prisoners'' is a 1929 American film produced by Walter Morosco and directed by William Seiter for First National Pictures. The screenplay was written by Forrest Halsey, based on the novel by Ferenc Molnar. Lee Garmes was the cinematographer. It was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature with Corinne Griffith, James Ford, Bela Lugosi, Ian Keith, and Otto Matiesen. Lugosi, in his first talkie, played Brottos, the owner of a Vienna nightclub. Lugosi was very happy that his first sound film was set in Hungary (where he was born) and that the story was based on a Ferenc Molnar Hungarian novel. While Lugosi was off filming "Prisoners", he was temporarily replaced in the San Francisco "Dracula" stage play by one Frederick Pymm (who normally played Butterworth, the attendant). The relatively short sound segment (most of the film is subtitled) picks up with the climactic trial sequence. Critics stated "Bela Lugosi makes a very European villain", but were disappointed that Grif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Show Of Shows (film)
''The Show of Shows'' is a 1929 American pre-Code musical revue film directed by John G. Adolfi and distributed by Warner Bros. The all-talking Vitaphone production cost $850,000 and was shot almost entirely in Technicolor. ''The Show of Shows'' was Warner Bros.' fifth color film; the first four were ''The Desert Song'' (1929), ''On with the Show!'' (1929), ''Gold Diggers of Broadway'' (1929) and ''Paris'' (1929). (''Song of the West'' was actually completed by June 1929 but had its release delayed until March 1930). ''The Show of Shows'' featured most of the contemporary Warner Bros. film stars, including John Barrymore, Richard Barthelmess, Noah Beery Sr., Loretta Young, Dolores Costello, Bull Montana, Myrna Loy, Chester Conklin, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Tully Marshall, Nick Lucas, and Betty Compson. Overview The film was styled in the same format as the earlier Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film ''The Hollywood Revue of 1929''. The high budget of the film meant that although it pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarlet Lady (1928 Film)
''The Scarlet Lady'' is a 1928 American silent drama film, written by Bess Meredyth and directed by Alan Crosland. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Plot During the Russian Civil War, Lya seeks refuge from Cossack soldiers at the palace of Prince Nicholas. She becomes his majordomo and they fall in love, but Nicholas expels her after learning she is a revolutionary and the former mistress of the Bolshevik leader Zaneriff. After returning to her home village, Lya becomes a terrorist. She reencounters Nicholas in disguise as a servant after the Red Army captures his palace. After he is discovered and sentenced to death, she rescues him and they escape together. Cast * Lya De Putti as Lya *Don Alvarado as Prince Nicholas *Warner Oland as Zaneriff *Otto Matieson as The Valet *Hans Joby as Captain * Valentina Zimina as Revolutionary Preservation *A print is held at Cineteca Nazionale, Rome. It was previously thought to be lost. See also * List of early soun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Moment
''The Last Moment'' is a 1928 American drama film conceived and directed by Paul Fejos. The film starred Otto Matieson and Georgia Hale. Fejos made ''The Last Moment'' on a budget of US$13,000. The film told its story without intertitles, which was very unusual for a silent film, and used double- and triple-exposures and expressionistic editing, giving it a style that was not common for commercial releases of that period. Charlie Chaplin saw the film in a private screening and arranged for it to be theatrically released by United Artists. No print of ''The Last Moment'' is known to exist in any archive or private collection, and it is considered a lost film. Plot A man drowns himself in lake. As he is dying, he recalls the crucial moments of his life and the incidents that led to his final, fatal decision. His unhappy childhood, his tumultuous decision to leave home and stow away on an ocean freighter, his unsuccessful attempts to become an actor, and his two tumultuous at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrender (1927 Film)
''Surrender'' is a 1927 American romance film directed by Edward Sloman and written by Charles Kenyon, Edward J. Montagne and Albert DeMond. It is based on the 1915 play ''Lea Lyon'' by Alexander Brody. The film stars Mary Philbin, Ivan Mosjoukine, Otto Matieson, Nigel De Brulier, Otto Fries and Daniel Makarenko. The film was released on November 3, 1927, by Universal Pictures. Cast *Mary Philbin as Lea Lyon *Ivan Mosjoukine as Constantine *Otto Matieson as Joshua *Nigel De Brulier as Rabbi Mendel Lyon *Otto Fries Otto Hugo Fries (October 28, 1887 – September 15, 1938) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1920 and 1938. Biography Fries was born in St. Louis, Missouri and died in 1938 in Los Angeles, California at ... as Tarras *Daniel Makarenko as Russian General References External links * 1927 films American romance films 1920s romance films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Edward Sloman American sile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old San Francisco
''Old San Francisco'' is a 1927 American silent historical drama film starring Dolores Costello and featuring Warner Oland. The film, which was produced and distributed by Warner Bros., was directed by Alan Crosland. Plot Chris Buckwell, cruel and greedy czar of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, is heartless in his persecution of the Chinese, though he himself is secretly a half-caste, part Chinese and part European. Buckwell, eager to possess the land of Don Hernández Vásquez, sends Michael Brandon, an unscrupulous attorney, to make an offer. Brandon's nephew, Terrence, meets the grandee's beautiful daughter, Dolores, while Vásquez refuses the offer. Terry tries to save the Vásquez land grants, but when Chris causes the grandee's death, Dolores takes an oath to avenge her father. Learning that Chris is half Chinese, Dolores induces his feeble-minded dwarf brother to denounce him; he captures her and Terry, but they are saved from white slavery by the great earthquake o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beloved Rogue
''The Beloved Rogue'' is a 1927 American silent romantic adventure film, loosely based on the life of the 15th century French poet, François Villon. The film was directed by Alan Crosland for United Artists. François Villon is played by John Barrymore, and other cast members include Conrad Veidt as King Louis XI and Marceline Day as Charlotte de Vauxcelles. The story had been filmed in 1920 as ''If I Were King'' with William Farnum. The film was later re-made in the sound era again reverting to its original title ''If I Were King'' (1938) with Ronald Colman. And as an operetta, ''The Vagabond King'' (1930), and again in 1956. Plot François Villon is a poet and avid patriot whose father was burned at the stake. François is particularly committed to helping the oppressed and the weak. The Duke of Burgundy is out for the French throne. With cunning and deceit he tries to deceive the superstitious king, who is warned by his astrologers about a war with Burgundy. So the k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
While London Sleeps
''While London Sleeps'' is a 1926 Warner Bros. film about a police-dog, Rinty, who helps Scotland Yard defeat a dangerous criminal organisation known as the Mediterranean Brotherhood that operates out of the Limehouse district of London. Walter Morosco wrote the screenplay. It was the first of many films directed by Howard Bretherton, and one of several created for Rin Tin Tin, a German Shepherd dog used in films during the 1920s and 1930s. The film was also released with a Vitaphone sound-on-disc soundtrack with a music score and sound effects, and only the sound discs survive today. The British release prints censored the more horrific aspects of the film. George Kotsonaros only appeared in two horror films, this one and ''The Wizard'' (1927), and he played a beast-man in both movies. He died in a car accident in Alabama in 1933. Plot Inspector Burke of Scotland Yard concentrates all his forces on the capture of London Letter, a notorious criminal leader in the Limehouse dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |