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Tom Reed (screenwriter)
Tom Reed (1901–1961) was an American screenwriter.McNulty p.314 He began his career working at Universal Pictures and later spent time at Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox and MGM. His 1954 screenplay for '' Night People'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story. His final years were spent working in television. Filmography * ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (1925) * '' Painted Ponies'' (1927) * '' A Man's Past'' (1927) * ''Galloping Fury'' (1927) * ''The Lone Eagle'' (1927) * ''The Last Performance'' (1927) * ''Wild Beauty'' (1927) * '' Out All Night'' (1927) * ''Stop That Man!'' (1928) * '' Thanks for the Buggy Ride'' (1928) * '' Good Morning, Judge'' (1928) * '' Red Lips'' (1928) * '' A Trick of Hearts'' (1928) * '' The First Kiss'' (1928) * '' The Grip of the Yukon'' (1928) * ''Finders Keepers'' (1928) * '' The Rawhide Kid'' (1928) * '' The Last Warning'' (1928) * '' Lonesome'' (1928) * ''Midnight Rose'' (1928) * ''Broadway'' (1929) * '' Synthetic Sin'' (1929) * '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelton, Washington
Shelton is a city in, and the county seat of, Mason County, Washington, United States. Shelton is the westernmost city on Puget Sound. The population was 10,371 at the 2020 census. Shelton has a council–manager form of government and was the last city in Washington to use a mayor–commission form of government. History Shelton was officially incorporated in 1890. The city was named after David Shelton, a delegate to the territorial legislature. The land was previously called "Cota" and was inhabited and managed by the Squaxin Island Tribe, or "People of the Waters", who had inhabited the land for centuries before contact with white settlers. The land was ceded, along with 4,000 sq. miles of Indigenous land, on December 26, 1854, with the passage of the Treaty of Medicine Creek. After the passage of the treaty, David Shelton and his wife, Frances Shelton, each took a claim of land enabled by the Donation Land Claim Act totaling 640 acres in what would eventually be incorpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stop That Man!
''Stop That Man!'' is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Nat Ross and starring Arthur Lake, Barbara Kent and Eddie Gribbon.Langman p.398 The screenplay concerns a man who accidentally assists a group of criminals. Plot summary The young brother of two police officers borrows one of their uniforms. While masquerading as a cop, he accidentally assists a group of criminals committing a burglary. Fortunately he is able to capture the culprits and deliver them to the real police. Cast * Arthur Lake as Tommy O'Brien * Barbara Kent as Muriel Crawford * Eddie Gribbon as Bill O'Brien * Warner Richmond Warner Richmond (born Werner Paul Otto Raetzmann; January 11, 1886 – June 19, 1948) was an American stage and film actor. He began his career as a stock theatre actor and appeared in films in both the silent film and sound eras. His career spa ... as Jim O'Brien * Walter McGrail as 'Slippery Dick' Sylvaine * George Siegmann as 'Butch' Barker * Joseph W. Gir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synthetic Sin
Synthetic Sin is a 1929 American comedy film directed by William A. Seiter, based on a play of the same name. While filmed as a silent, it was released by Warner Bros. accompanied with a Vitaphone music soundtrack and sound effects. However most of the Vitaphone discs are still lost, apart from the final reel. Plot Famed playwright Donald Anthony returns home to Magnolia Gap, Virginia, and proposes to Betty Fairfax. She accepts and he offers her the lead part in his next play, but the play is a disaster. Donald tells her that she is unsuited for the role, that it requires someone with more life experience. Rather than return home defeated, Betty stays in New York, in a bad neighborhood where local gangsters adopt her as their own. When Donald comes to visit her, they eject him. There is a gunfight, and in the resulting confusion Donald sweeps in and rescues Betty. After the excitement, Betty gives up her dreams of the stage and devotes herself to Donald. Cast *Colleen Moore as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway (1929 Film)
''Broadway'' is a 1929 film directed by Paul Fejos from the 1926 Broadway (play), play of the same name by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It stars Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis (actor, born 1892), Robert Ellis, Merna Kennedy and Thomas E. Jackson. This was Universal's first talking picture with Technicolor sequences. The film was released by the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray and DVD in 2012, with Paul Fejo's ''Lonesome''. Plot Roy Lane and Billie Moore, entertainers at the Paradise Nightclub, are in love and are rehearsing an act together. Late to work one evening, Billie is saved from dismissal by Nick Verdis, the club proprietor, through the intervention of Steve Crandall, a bootlegger, who desires a liaison with the girl. "Scar" Edwards, robbed of a truckload of contraband liquor by Steve's gang, arrives at the club for a showdown with Steve and is shot in the back. Steve gives Billie a bracelet to forget that she has seen him helping a "drunk" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Rose (film)
''Midnight Rose'' is a 1928 American silent crime drama film directed by James Young and starring Lya De Putti, Kenneth Harlan, and Henry Kolker. Cast * Lya De Putti as Midnight Rose * Kenneth Harlan as Tim Regan * Henry Kolker as Corbin * Lorimer Johnston as English Edwards * George Larkin as Joe * Gunboat Smith as Casey * Wendell Phillips Franklin as Sonny * Frank Brownlee as Grogan * Fred Carpenter as Cupid (uncredited) Preservation With no prints of ''Midnight Rose'' 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 .... References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * *Lobby cardat gettyimages.com 1928 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonesome (1928 Film)
''Lonesome'' is a 1928 American comedy drama part-talkie film directed by Paul Fejös, and starring Barbara Kent and Glenn Tryon. Its plot follows two working-class residents of New York City over a 24-hour-period, during which they have a chance meeting at Coney Island during the Independence Day weekend and swiftly fall in love with one another. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. In 2010, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was released on Blu-ray disc and DVD on August 28, 2012, as part of the Criterion Collection. It was remade in 1935 as a comedy called ''The Affair of Susan''. Plot In New York City, Mary is a telephone operator who lives alone and is lonely. Jim is a factory worker who also lives alone, and feels disconnected from the world. During the Independence Day weekend, both Mary and Jim decide to vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Warning
''The Last Warning'' is a 1928 American mystery film directed by Paul Leni, and starring Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, and Margaret Livingston. ''The Last Warning'' was also one of the very last silent films Universal made — except it was also released in a “part-talkie” version, with roughly sixty feet of sound scenes added (only a minute or two). Its plot follows a New York producer's attempt to re-stage a play five years after one of the original cast members was murdered in the theater. The film is based on the 1922 Broadway melodrama of the same name by Thomas F. Fallon, which in turn was based on the story ''House of Fear'' by Wadsworth Camp, the father of the writer Madeleine L'Engle. Conceived as a followup to Leni's wildly successful 1927 production '' The Cat and the Canary'' (also starring La Plante), the film was produced by Universal Pictures under Carl Laemmle. Principal photography took place in Los Angeles in the summer of 1928 on sets recycled from Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rawhide Kid (film)
''The Rawhide Kid'' is a lost 1928 "ethnic" American silent Western film directed by Del Andrews and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and released by Universal Pictures. Cast * Hoot Gibson as Dennis O'Hara * Georgia Hale as Jessica Silverberg * Frank Hagney as J. Francis Jackson * William H. Strauss William H. Strauss (June 13, 1885 – August 5, 1943) was an American film actor active in the 1920s and 1930s. A character actor he appeared in a variety of supporting roles. By 1928, Strauss had acted on stage and screen for more than 30 y ... as Simon Silverberg * Harry Todd as Comic * Thomas G. Lingham as Deputy References External links * * 1928 films Lost Western (genre) films 1928 Western (genre) films Universal Pictures films Lost American films American black-and-white films Films directed by Del Andrews 1928 lost films Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s American films {{silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finders Keepers (1928 Film)
''Finders Keepers'' is a surviving 1928 silent military-comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and ?Otis B. Thayer and starring Laura La Plante and John Harron. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film may or may not be a remake of a 1921 film ''Finders Keepers'' singularly directed by Thayer. Cast *Laura La Plante - Barbara Hastings *John Harron - Carter Brooks *Edmund Breese - Colonel Hastings * Eddie Phillips - 2nd Lt. Kenneth Purdy *Arthur Rankin - Pvt. Blondy Jones *Jack Oakie - B.B. Brown *Joseph P. Mack - Chaplain *Edgar Dearing - Seargeant *William Gorman - Bozo *S. May Stone - Mrs. Satterlee ''unbilled'' *Andy Devine - -Doughboy/Gate Guard *Richard "Skeets" Gallagher Richard "Skeets" Gallagher (July 28, 1891 – May 22, 1955) was an American actor. He had blue eyes and his naturally blond hair was tinged with grey from the age of sixteen. Biography He was born on July 28, 1891 in Terre Haute, Indiana ... - Soldier who pursues Blondy Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grip Of The Yukon
''The Grip of the Yukon'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Ernst Laemmle, the nephew of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle. The film starred Francis X. Bushman and Neil Hamilton, and is based on a story by William MacLeod Raine, "The Yukon Trail, A Tale of the North". Plot An old-time Alaskan miner dies and leaves his fortune and holdings to his daughter in the states. She comes north and is befriended by two old friends of her father. And she needs all the befriending they can provide as a true-blue villain has designs on her holdings and attributes. Cast * Francis X. Bushman - Colby MacDonald * Neil Hamilton - Jack Elliott * June Marlowe - Sheila O'Neil * Otis Harlan - Farrell O'Neil * Burr McIntosh - Chardon, hotelkeeper * James Farley - Sheriff Preservation status ''The Grip of the Yukon'' is now presumed lost Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography *Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland * Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Kiss (1928 American Film)
''The First Kiss'' is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper. Based on the short story ''Four Brothers'' by Tristram Tupper, the film is about a Chesapeake Bay fisherman who turns to pirating in order to be rich enough to marry a society girl. ''The First Kiss'' was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. Today it is considered to be a lost film.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The First Kiss'' at silentera.com /ref> Some filming took place on the |
A Trick Of Hearts
''A Trick of Hearts'' is a lost 1928 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. Plot Carrie Patience has been elected as the new town sheriff. In order to discredit the new sheriff, Ben Tully begins staging phony robberies while disguised as a woman. Black Jack kidnaps Ben's girlfriend, Connie Meade. Cast * Hoot Gibson as Benjamin Franklin Tully * Georgia Hale as Connie Meade * Joe Rickson as Black Jack * Rosa Gore as Sheriff Carrie Patience * Howard Truesdale as Dad Tully * Heinie Conklin as Blackface Comic * George Ovey as Whiteface Comic * Nora Cecil as The Mayor * Dan Crimmins as The Ex Sheriff * Grace Cunard as The Constable See also * Hoot Gibson filmography This is a complete filmography of American actor Hoot Gibson (August 6, 1892 – August 23, 1962), including his performances between 1910 and 1960. Gibson appeared in more than 200 films. Background Gibson's career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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