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Tommy Atkins (director)
Tommy Atkins (July 18, 1887 –June 18, 1968) was an American director of the silent and early sound film eras. Born on July 18, 1887, in Springfield, Massachusetts, he made his entrance into the film industry as the assistant director to Ralph Ince on the 1920 silent film ''Out of the Snows''. Eight years later, he made another film, again as assistant director, for FBO Pictures on another silent film, ''Crooks Can't Win''. He worked as the assistant director on another sixteen films between 1928 and 1934, the most notable of which was 1933's ''Morning Glory'', directed by Lowell Sherman and starring Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. In 1934 he directed his first picture, ''The Silver Streak'', which was one of the top money-makers for RKO Pictures that year. He directed two more films, the second of which, '' Hi, Gaucho!'', he also wrote the story for. After ''Hi, Gaucho!'', Atkins left the film industry for the most part, although he did return in 1940 as an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, and the seat of Hampden County. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 155,929, making it the third-largest city in Massachusetts, the fourth-most populous city in New England after Boston, Worcester, and Providence, and the 12th-most populous in the Northeastern United States. Metropolitan Springfield, as one of two metropolitan areas in Massachusetts (the other being Greater Boston), had a population of 699,162 in 2020. Springfield was founded in 1636, the first Springfield in the New World. In the late 1700s, during the American Revolution, Springfield was designated by George Washington as the site of the Springfield Armory because of its central location. Subsequently it was the site of Shays' Rebellio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blockade (1928 Film)
''Blockade'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by George B. Seitz. Cast * Anna Q. Nilsson as Bess * Wallace MacDonald as Vincent * James Bradbury Sr. as Gwynn * Walter McGrail as Hayden See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part talking/ all talking feature films made in the US and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926-1929. During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including most notably ... References External links * 1928 films Silent American drama films American silent feature films 1928 drama films Films directed by George B. Seitz American black-and-white films Film Booking Offices of America films 1920s American films 1920s English-language films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Vickers (film)
''Ann Vickers'' is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama directed by John Cromwell and starring Irene Dunne and Walter Huston. It is based on the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. Plot After a military officer ( Bruce Cabot) gets Ann Vickers (Irene Dunne) pregnant and leaves her, she and friend Malvina Wormser (Edna May Oliver) go to Havana, where she gives birth, though the child dies soon after. Feeling conflicted and regretful, Ann devotes herself to social work, taking a job in a women's prison. However, when she tries to improve the conditions there, she loses her job. She instead writes a book about the harsh realities of the prison and begins a romance with a married judge, Barney Dolphin (Walter Huston). Though progressive in his views, Dolphin is caught taking bribes and is sentenced to prison. Ann, once again pregnant, supports herself by writing until Dolphin is released a few years later. Finally, Ann, Dolphin, and their child are reunited. Cast *Irene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Of The Eagle
''Song of the Eagle'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Charles Bickford, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian and Jean Hersholt. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Its release coincided with the ongoing repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment that had outlawed alcohol. Synopsis The film follows the fortunes of the German American family Hoffman from 1916 to 1933 during World War I, when the United States is at war with their native Germany, and during the Prohibition Era when the family's lager business is suddenly made illegal. If the family's brewery is to continue they need to turn to bootlegging. Cast *Charles Bickford as Joe Anderson *Richard Arlen as Bill Hoffman *Mary Brian as Elsa Kranzmeyer *Jean Hersholt as Otto Hoffman *Louise Dresser as Emma Hoffman *Andy Devine as Mud * George E. Stone as Gus *Gene Morgan as Charlie *Bert Sprotte as Emil Kranzmeyer * George Meeker as August Hoffmann *Julie Haydon Julie Haydon ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Animal Kingdom
''The Animal Kingdom'' (also known as ''The Woman in His House'' in the UK) is a 1932 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith based upon a comedy of manners play of the same name by Philip Barry. The film stars Leslie Howard (actor), Leslie Howard, Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, William Gargan, Ilka Chase, and Neil Hamilton (actor), Neil Hamilton. Howard, Gargan, and Chase also starred in the play when it opened on Broadway theatre, Broadway on January 12, 1932. It was remade 1946 as ''One More Tomorrow (film), One More Tomorrow''. Plot Tom Collier owns a small press that publishes deluxe books. He has been living in the city with his best friend and lover Daisy Sage without being married. Daisy is a successful commercial artist for a fashion magazine. She has just returned from three months in Paris. While Daisy was away, Tom has fallen in love with Cecelia Henry. Tom's wealthy banker father, Rufus Collier, describes his lifelong f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men Of Chance
''Men of Chance'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code Drama (genre), drama film directed by George Archainbaud, starring Ricardo Cortez, Mary Astor, and John Halliday (actor), John Halliday. Plot A destitute Marthe Preston is in dire straits in Paris until gambler Richard Dorval comes to her aid. In gratitude, she agrees to a scheme of Dorval's to seduce and wed his rival, "Diamond Johnny" Silk, then help ruin Johnny's horse-racing business interests. Marthe's inside information enables Dorval and an accomplice, bookie Joe Farley, to bribe Johnny's jockeys to deliberately lose races or to help them influence the odds. Johnny learns the truth and demands she leave. Martha has fallen in love with her husband, however, so she pretends to go along with a plot to poison Johnny's horse, double-crossing Dorval and rejoicing in Johnny's triumph. Cast * Ricardo Cortez as Johnny Silk * Mary Astor as Marthe Preston Silk * John Halliday (actor), John Halliday as Richard Dorv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirteen Women
''Thirteen Women'' is a 1932 American pre-Code psychological thriller film, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by George Archainbaud. It stars Myrna Loy, Irene Dunne and Ricardo Cortez. The film is based on the 1930 bestselling novel of the same name by Tiffany Thayer and was adapted for the screen by Bartlett Cormack and Samuel Ornitz. Several characters were deleted from the film's final version, including those played by Leon Ames, Phyllis Fraser, and Betty Furness (in what would have been Furness's film debut at the age of 16). The film portrays only 11 women, not 13, with Fraser and Furness playing the two characters edited from the film.Hall, Mordaunt (1932) "Another Murder Mystery. Thirteen Women ...", part of multiple film reviews, ''The New York Times'', October 15, 1932. Retrieved November 22, 2017. The film premiered in October at the Roxy Theater in New York City on October 15, 1932, then released in Los Angeles, and a few other cities in November 1932. A l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Runaround (1931 Film)
''The Runaround'' is a 1931 comedy-drama film that was photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was directed by William James Craft, from a screenplay by Alfred Jackson and Barney Sarecky, based on a story by Zandah Owen. The film stars Mary Brian, Joseph Cawthorn, Marie Prevost, Johnny Hines, and Geoffrey Kerr. Produced and directed by RKO Radio Pictures, it premiered in New York City on August 7, 1931, and was released national on August 22. It was the first film to be shot in a new Technicolor process which removed grain, resulting in a much improved color. The film was released in Great Britain as ''Waiting for the Bride''. Plot Millionaire playboy Fred White is attempting to make chorus girl Evelyn his latest conquest. Evelyn, on to Fred's scheming, has some scheming of her own, attempting to maneuver Fred into marriage. In a last ditch effort to get Evelyn into bed, Fred purchases a diamond bracelet, to which he has attached a key to the apartment he has leased as their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Who Loved
''Three Who Loved'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by George Archainbaud from a screenplay by Beulah Marie Dix based on a story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Martin Flavin. The film revolves around a love triangle (Betty Compson, Conrad Nagel, and Robert Ames). It was produced by RKO Pictures, which also distributed the film, releasing it on July 3, 1931. A print of this film is held by Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress'' p.184 c.1978 by American Film Institute Plot Helga Larson Hanson is living in Sweden, but is engaged to the American fledgling attorney John Hanson. Hanson has Helga move to the United States, and sets her up in the same boarding house he lives in, prior to their marriage. His summons of her might be a bit premature, since once she arrives, he is too busy with his job and preparing for his bar exam, to spend much time with her. Lonely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silver Horde (1930 Film)
''The Silver Horde'' is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Joel McCrea as a fisherman torn between two women, played by top-billed Evelyn Brent and Jean Arthur. Directed by George Archainbaud from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, it is the second film adaptation of the 1909 novel of the same name by Rex Beach, which is a follow up to his earlier novel, ''The Spoilers''. The first filming of ''The Silver Horde'' was a silent 1920 film also titled '' The Silver Horde''. The title is a reference to the salmon fishing industry in Alaska, and the color of the fish bulging in the fishermen's nets. Plot In the Alaskan wilderness, Boyd Emerson and Fraser, arrive by dogsled at a village. They are puzzled to receive a chilly welcome from its inhabitants. Frustrated, Boyd gets into a fight with local George Balt, which is broken up by Cherry Malotte. She invites the newcomers to dinner. She explains that they have stumbled into a bitter struggle between two rival fishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Singapore Mutiny
''The Wreck of the Singapore'', also known as ''The Singapore Mutiny'', is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Ince, Estelle Taylor, and Jim Mason.Quinlan p. 152 Cast * Ralph Ince as Kelsey * Estelle Taylor as Daisy * Jim Mason as Borg * Gardner James as The Stiff * William Irving as Huber * Harry Allen as Mr. Watts * Carl Axzelle as Cockney * Martha Mattox as Mrs. Watts * Robert Gaillard as Captain * Frank Newburg Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Curre ... as Petty Officer References Bibliography * Quinlan, David. ''The Illustrated Guide to Film Directors''. Batsford, 1983. External links * * 1928 films Films directed by Ralph Ince American silent feature films 1920s English-language films American black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hit Of The Show
''Hit of the Show'' is a 1928 comedy film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Joe E. Brown, Gertrude Olmstead and William Bailey.Quinlan, p. 152 It was originally released as a silent, with some sound added to later versions. Cast See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part talking/ all talking feature films made in the US and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926-1929. During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including most notably ... References Citations Sources * Quinlan, David. ''The Illustrated Guide to Film Directors''. Batsford, 1983. External links * 1928 films Films directed by Ralph Ince American silent feature films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white films 1928 comedy films Silent American comedy films Film Booking Offices of America films Films with screenplays by Edgar Allan Woolf 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
