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The Man From Downing Street
''The Man from Downing Street'' is a 1922 American silent starring Earle Williams, Charles Hill Mailes, Betty Ross Clark and Boris Karloff. The screenplay was written by Bradley J. Smollen, based on a screen story by Clyde C. Westover, Lottie Horner and Florine Williams. It is thought to be a lost film. Plot Captain Robert Kent (Williams) of the London Secret Service is assigned to Delhi to discover the person responsible for the passing out of government information from the British Commission in India. He is disguised as a Rajah and is the guest of Colonel Wentworth (Mailes), who is in charge of the district. Wentworth is the only one who knows Kent's identity, and the two follow up on one clue after another as several persons become implicated. Finally, only two men remain as the logical suspects. To catch the guilty party, Kent confides to the Colonel that he has issued instructions to the London office to send cables to each of the two suspects on two different matters of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward José
Edward José (5 July 1865 – 18 December 1930) was a Belgian film director and actor of the silent era. He directed 42 films between 1915 and 1925. He also performed in 12 films between 1910 and 1916. Retrieved 15 August 2016 Selected filmography * '' The Stain'' (1914) * '' The Perils of Pauline'' (1914) * '' A Fool There Was'' (1915) * '' |
Herbert Prior
Herbert Prior (2 July 1867 – 3 October 1954) was an English silent film actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1908 and 1934. He was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, and died in Los Angeles, California. Prior was married to actress Mabel Trunnelle. Selected filmography * '' After Many Years'' (1908) * ''At the Altar'' (1909) * ''A Drunkard's Reformation'' (1909) * ''Lady Helen's Escapade'' (1909) * ''The Lonely Villa'' (1909) * ''A Sound Sleeper'' (1909) * ''A Burglar's Mistake'' (1909) * ''Two Memories'' (1909) * '' The Battle of Trafalgar'' (1911) * ''The Lighthouse by the Sea'' (1911) * '' The Lesser Evil'' (1912) * ''The Substitute Stenographer'' (1913) * ''Eugene Aram'' (1915) * '' Miss George Washington'' (1916) * ''The Heart of the Hills'' (1916) * ''The Poor Little Rich Girl'' (1917) * ''The Bottom of the Well'' (1917) * '' The Last Sentence'' (1917) * ''Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots'' (1918) * ''The Model's Confession'' (1918) * ''A Burglar for a Night'' (1918) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitagraph Studios Films
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, it was the most prolific American film production company, producing many famous silent films. It was bought by Warner Bros. in 1925. History In 1896, English émigré Blackton was moonlighting as a reporter/artist for the New York ''Evening World'' when he was sent to interview Thomas Edison about his new film projector. The inventor talked the entrepreneurial reporter into buying a set of films and a projector. A year later, Blackton and business partner Smith founded the American Vitagraph Company in direct competition with Edison. A third partner, distributor William "Pop" Rock, joined in 1899. The company's first studio was located on the rooftop of a building on Nassau Street in Manhattan. Operations were later moved to the Midwoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Edward José
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Black-and-white Films
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American Adventure Films
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American Silent Feature Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 Adventure Films
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1922 Films
The following is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top nine films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows: Events * June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's ''Nanook of the North'', the first commercially successful feature length documentary film. * November 26 – '' The Toll of the Sea'', starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (''The Gulf Between'' was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed). Notable films released in 1922 United States unless stated A *''At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern'' (lost), directed by Lloyd Ingraham, based on the 1905 novel by Myrtle Reed B *''The Bachelor Daddy'' (lost), directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Thomas Meighan *''The Beautiful and Damned'' (lost), directed by William A. Seiter, starring Marie Prevost * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Karloff Filmography
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Henry A
Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876–936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6–1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: **Henry I of Castile **Henry II of Castile **Henry III of Castile **Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the name and to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia Gilbert
Eugenia Gilbert (November 18, 1902 – December 9, 1978) was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared as a leading lady in a number of westerns. In at least three films, she was billed as Eugenie Gilbert. Biography Gilbert was the daughter of W.B. and Eugenia Gilbert. She attended schools in South Orange, New Jersey, and New York City and the Marlborough School in Los Angeles. She won 14 beauty contests, one of which was a national contest sponsored by Rudolph Valentino, which led him to consider her "the most beautiful girl in America." In 1924, Gilbert had her first role as leading lady in a film, after having smaller parts in westerns and comedies. In 1925, she signed a contract with Mack Sennett to act exclusively in his comedy films "for the next several years." Filmography * ''A Certain Rich Man'' (1921) * '' The Man of the Forest'' (1921) * '' The Man from Downing Street'' (1922) * '' The Half Breed'' (1922) * ''Wildcat Jordan'' (1922) * ''Souls in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
