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She (1925 Film)
''She'' is a 1925 British-German fantasy adventure film made by Reciprocity Films, co-directed by Leander de Cordova and G. B. Samuelson, and starring Betty Blythe, Carlyle Blackwell, and Mary Odette. It was filmed in Berlin by a British film company as a co-production, and based on H. Rider Haggard's 1887 novel of the same name. According to the opening credits, the intertitles were specially written for the film by Haggard himself; he died in 1925, the year the film was made, and never got to see the finished film. The film still exists in its complete form today. The book has been a popular subject for filmmakers in the silent and sound eras, with at least five short silent film adaptations produced in 1908, 1911, 1916, 1917, and 1919 respectively. The 1925 version was the first ''feature-length'' adaptation, although it was trimmed from its original 95-minute running time down to 69 minutes for US release (it was only released in the US by the Lee-Bradford Corporation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leander De Cordova
Leander de Cordova (5 December 1877 – 19 September 1969) was a Jamaican-born American actor and film director. He was the brother of Rudolph de Cordova. He was the son of Altamont de Cordova and Katherine Lewis. He was also the grandnephew of Jacob de Cordova. Selected filmography Acted * ''The Penal Code'' (1932) – Isaac Lewin * ''Dick Tracy'' (1937, Serial) – Stevens (uncredited) * ''The Emperor's Candlesticks'' (1937) – Bidder (uncredited) * ''Midnight'' (1939) – Footman (uncredited) * ''Torture Ship'' (1939) – Ezra Matthews * ''Zorro's Fighting Legion'' (1939, Serial) – Felipe * ''The Phantom Cowboy'' (1941) – Don Jose Toreno (uncredited) * ''Prairie Pioneers'' (1941) – Father Garcia (uncredited) * ''Mission to Moscow'' (1943) – Heckler (uncredited) * ''The Laramie Trail'' (1944) – Esteban * ''The Gay Senorita'' (1945) – Padre Anselmo (uncredited) * ''Yolanda and the Thief'' (1945) – Elderly Butler (uncredited) * ''Gilda'' (1946) – Servant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A History Of Adventure
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 Films
The following is an overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1925 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *June 26: Charlie Chaplin's ''The Gold Rush'' premieres. It is voted the best film of the year by critics in The Film Daily annual poll *September 25: Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin rebuilt as Germany's largest cinema reopens. *November 5: MGM's war drama film ''The Big Parade'' is released. It is a massive commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing picture of the 1920s in the United States. *December 30: MGM's biblical epic '' Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'' premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million (around $ million when adjusted for inflation) *Hong Shen publishes the film script ''Mrs. Shentu'' in the Shanghai magazine ''Eastern Miscellany''. It is never filmed, but is con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Butler
Alexander Butler was a British film director who made over sixty features and short films during the 1910s and 1920s including many for G. B. Samuelson's production company. Butler directed several British films in Hollywood in 1920, where Samuelson had made an arrangement with Universal Pictures. Amongst his notable films are the Sherlock Holmes adaptation ''The Valley of Fear'' (1916) and the early British horror film '' The Beetle'' (1919).Rigby p.16 Selected filmography * ''Just a Girl'' (1916) * ''The Valley of Fear'' (1916) * '' A Pair of Spectacles'' (1916) * '' A Fair Impostor'' (1916) * '' The Girl Who Loves a Soldier'' (1916) * '' Nursie! Nursie!'' (1916) * ''The Sorrows of Satan'' (1917) * ''The Odds Against Her'' (1919) * '' The Beetle'' (1919) * ''The Disappearance of the Judge'' (1919) * ''Damaged Goods'' (1919) * ''David and Jonathan'' (1920) * ''Love in the Wilderness'' (1920) * ''The Ugly Duckling'' (1920) * ''The Night Riders'' (1920) * ''Married Love'' (1923) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerrold Robertshaw
Jerrold Robertshaw (28 March 1866, in Allerton, West Riding of Yorkshire – 14 February 1941, in London) was a British stage and film actor of the silent era. Selected filmography * ''Dombey and Son'' (1917) * ''Build Thy House'' (1920) * ''The Bonnie Brier Bush'' (1921) * '' A Master of Craft'' (1922) * ''The Wandering Jew'' (1923) * '' Should a Doctor Tell?'' (1923) * '' A Royal Divorce'' (1923) * ''Guy Fawkes'' (1923) * ''Don Quixote'' (1923) * '' The Arab'' (1924) * ''The Sins Ye Do'' (1924) * ''She'' (1925) * '' The Apache'' (1925) * '' A Royal Divorce'' (1926) * '' Huntingtower'' (1927) * ''Tommy Atkins'' (1928) * ''Bolibar'' (1928) * '' You Know What Sailors Are'' (1928) * '' Palais de danse'' (1928) * ''Glorious Youth ''Glorious Youth'' is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Anny Ondra, Randle Ayrton and William Freshman. It is also known by the alternative title of ''Eileen of the Trees''. It was one of two films Cutts m .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich George
Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George (), was a German stage and film actor. Career Weimar Republic George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first directing job, a production of Arnolt Bronnen's ''Parricide'' (1922), when he refused to continue working with the director. He appeared in Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' (1927) and '' Dreyfus'' (1930), as well as starring in '' Berlin Alexanderplatz'' (1931). George was an active member of the Communist party during the Weimar Republic. He worked with theatre director Erwin Piscator and playwright Bertolt Brecht, both of whom identified with the political left. On 12 October 1932, he changed his legal name to his stage name ''George''. (NB. This document documents ''Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz''s birthday on 1893-10-09, as well as the change of his legal name from ''Schulz'' to ''George'' on 12 October 1932.) Nazi era After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Reynolds (actor)
Tom Reynolds (9 August 1866 in London, England – 25 July 1942) was a British actor. Selected filmography * ''The Lyons Mail'' (1916) * ''Onward Christian Soldiers'' (1918) * '' A Member of Tattersall's'' (1919) * '' The Right Element'' (1919) * ''Mrs. Thompson'' (1919) * '' The Winning Goal'' (1920) * '' Aunt Rachel'' (1920) * '' The Husband Hunter'' (1920) * '' The Pride of the Fancy'' (1920) - Professor Ruston * ''The Last Rose of Summer'' (1920) - Palliser * '' Tilly of Bloomsbury'' (1921) * '' The Magistrate'' (1921) * ''For Her Father's Sake'' (1921) * '' Mr. Pim Passes By'' (1921) * ''The Game of Life'' (1922) * ''A Bachelor's Baby'' (1922) * '' The Knockout'' (1923) * '' A Royal Divorce'' (1923) * '' The Cost of Beauty'' (1924) * '' She'' (1925) * ''Birds of Prey Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds). In additio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beetle (film)
''The Beetle'' is a 1919 British silent film, silent horror film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Leal Douglas, Maudie Dunham, Hebden Foster and Fred Morgan (actor), Fred Morgan. It was based on the 1897 novel ''The Beetle (novel), The Beetle: A Mystery'' by Richard Marsh (author), Richard Marsh. The 1897 novel went into print a few months after Bram Stoker's ''Dracula'' hit bookshelves, and it outsold ''Dracula'' at the time. It has since passed into relative obscurity, although it seems to have served as Stoker's inspiration for his 1903 ''The Jewel of Seven Stars'', which also involved an ancient Egyptian princess reincarnating into the body of a modern-day woman. Director Alexander Butler went on to an acting role in the similarly themed 1925 film ''She (1925 film), She''. Jonathan Rigby has called Leal Douglas’s High Priestess “the polymorphous title role”. Plot An Ancient Egyptian princess (Leal Douglas) transforms herself into a beetle in order to gain rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sorrows Of Satan (1917 Film)
''The Sorrows of Satan'' is a 1917 British silent fantasy film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Gladys Cooper, Owen Nares and Cecil Humphreys. It was made at Isleworth Studios. It was based on the 1895 novel of the same name by Marie Corelli (1855-1924). The plot involves a poverty-stricken author who is so depressed about his life that he agrees to sell his soul to the Devil. The Devil was depicted as a sympathetic character in the novel on which this film is based, having begged for forgiveness from God who cruelly refuses him, thus making the blockbuster novel a topic of controversy when it was published. This film version does not follow the novel that closely, with Satan appearing as a handsome, wealthy prince. Christopher Workman opines "Despite being terribly unoriginal, the film....was by all accounts commercially successful". It was remade in 1926 by Paramount, directed by D. W. Griffith.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1929 Film)
''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (german: Der Hund von Baskerville) is a 1929 German silent mystery film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Carlyle Blackwell, Alexander Murski, Livio Pavanelli. The film is an adaptation of the 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was the last Sherlock Holmes adaptation in the silent film era. The film boasted an unusually international cast, including American actor Carlyle Blackwell, German actor Fritz Rasp, British actress Alma Taylor, Russian actor Alexander Murski and Italian actor Livio Pavanelli. In 2009, a tape with this film (and other lost films of the silent cinema era) was discovered in the basement of the local church in Sosnowiec, Poland. In 2019, Flicker Alley released the film, digitally restored on DVD and Blu-ray, along with the 1914 version. Plot summary Cast Production Richard Oswald had penned an earlier adaptation of Conan Doyle's tale for the 1914 serial ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Story Of The London Fog
''The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog'' is a 1927 British silent thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen and Ivor Novello. Hitchcock's third feature film, it was released on 14 February 1927 in London and on 10 June 1928 in New York City. The film is based on the 1913 novel '' The Lodger'' by Marie Belloc Lowndes and the play ''Who Is He?'' co-written by Belloc Lowndes. Its plot concerns the hunt for a Jack the Ripper-like serial killer in London. Hitchcock's first thriller, the film established him as a name director. Upon its release the trade journal ''Bioscope'' wrote: "It is possible that this film is the finest British production ever made". It also saw Hitchcock make his first cameo appearances in a film; he was depicted sitting in a newsroom, and in the second, standing in a crowd as the leading man is arrested. Plot A young blonde woman screams. She is the seventh victim of a serial killer known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", he became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology '' Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (1955–65). His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Best Director despite five nominations. Hitchcock initially trained as a technical clerk and copy writer before entering the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer. His directorial debut was the British-German silent film '' The Pleasure Garden'' (1925). His first successful film, '' The Lodger: A Story of the London F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
