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The Blood Ship
''The Blood Ship'' is a 1927 silent drama film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Hobart Bosworth, Jacqueline Logan and Richard Arlen. It is based on the 1922 novel ''The Blood Ship'' by Norman Springer, later remade by Seitz as the 1931 sound film ''Shanghaied Love''. Plot A disgraced sea captain signs on as a hand on a cargo ship, which turns out to be captained by the tyrannical man who ruined his reputation. The other crewmen have mostly been shanghaied aboard and are kept in line by the captain and his brutal first mate. The former captain begins to plot a mutiny to take control of the ship from their brutal regime. Cast * Hobart Bosworth as Jim Newman * Jacqueline Logan as Mary Swope Newman * Richard Arlen as John Shreve * Walter James as Capt. Angus Swope * Fred Kohler as First Mate Fitz * James Bradbury Sr. as The Knitting Swede * Arthur Rankin as Nils * Syd Crossley as Cockney Bouncer * Frank Hemphill as Second Mate * Chappell Dossett as Rev. Richard Deaken * Blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George B
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Walter James (actor)
Walter James (June 3, 1882 – June 27, 1946) was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1915 and 1942. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and died in Gardena, California from a heart attack. Partial filmography * ''The Unbroken Road'' (1915) * ''A Daughter of the Gods'' (1916) - Chief Eunuch * ''Souls Adrift'' (1917) - A Swede Sailor * ''The Idol Dancer'' (1920) - Chief Wando * '' Dead Men Tell No Tales'' (1920) - José * ''Fair Lady'' (1922) - Gian Norcone * ''The Secrets of Paris'' (1922) - The Strangler * ''Two Shall Be Born'' (1924) - Hund * '' The Monster'' (1925) - Caliban * ''The Everlasting Whisper'' (1925) - Aswin Brody * ''Little Annie Rooney'' (1925) - Officer Rooney * ''The Seventh Bandit'' (1926) - Ben Goring * ''Glenister of the Mounted'' (1926) - Thorald * ''Battling Butler'' (1926) - The Mountain Girl's Father * ''The Kid Brother'' (1927) - Jim Hickory * ''Rich Men's Sons'' (1927) - Clerk (uncredited) * ''The Blood Ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent American Drama Films
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American Black-and-white Films
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American Silent Feature Films
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1927 Drama Films
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1927 Films
The following is an overview of 1927 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1927 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 10 – Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy ''Metropolis'' premieres in Germany. The film receives its American premiere in New York City on March 6. *March 11 – World's largest movie theatre, the Roxy Theatre, opens in New York City. *April 7 – Abel Gance's ''Napoleon'' often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premieres (in a shortened version) at the Paris Opéra and demonstrates techniques and equipment that will not be revived for years to come, such as hand-held cameras, and what is often considered the first widescreen projection format Polyvision. It will be more than three decades before films with a widescreen format would again be attempted. *May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio Conglomerate (company), conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms. Through an intermediate holding company called Sony Film Holding Inc., it is operated as a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment, Sony Entertainment Inc., which is itself a subsidiary of the multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony, Sony Group Corporation.Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is a wholly owned fifth-tier subsidiary of Sony Corporation. It is directly owned by Sony Film Holding Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.FY2015 Securities Report(in Japanese), Sony Corporation) Based at the Sony Pictures Studios lot i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Film Archive
The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of motion picture history. Although the current incarnation of the Academy Film Archive began in 1991, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acquired its first film in 1929. Preservation Located in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood, California at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, the Archive has a diverse range of moving image material. The Archive's collection comprises 107,000 titles and 230,000 separate items, including early American cinema, a vast collection of documentary films, filmed and taped interviews, amateur and private home movies of Hollywood legends, makeup and sound test reels, and a wide selection of experimental film, as well as Academy Award-winning films, Academy Award-nominated films, and a complete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 of every American film to be deposited at the Library of Congress at the time of copyright registration, but the Librarian of Congress was not required to retain those copies: "Under the provisions of the act of March 4, 1909, authority is granted for the return to the claimant of copyright of such copyright deposits as are not required by the Library." A report created by Library of Congress film historian and archivist David Pierce claims: * 75% of original silent-era films have perished. * 14% of the 10,919 silent films released by major studios exist in their original 35 mm or other formats. * 11% survive only in full-length foreign versions or film formats of lesser image quality. Of the American sound films made from 1927 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Washington
Edgar Hughes "Blue" Washington (12 February 1898 – 15 September 1970) was an American actor and baseball player who played in the Negro leagues from 1915 to 1920 as a pitcher and first baseman. Baseball career Washington started his baseball career as a pitcher with the Chicago American Giants in 1915. He remained with Chicago in 1916. He later played with the Kansas City Monarchs in 1920, appearing in 24 documented major league games. Acting career He appeared in 74 films between 1919 and 1957, mostly playing small, uncredited roles as a porter, a bartender, an African native (as in ''King Kong'' (1933) and ''Tarzan's Magic Fountain'' (1949), a cook, a chauffeur, a ship's crew member, a Nubian slave, and a doorman. Some of his characters had names such as "Ulambo", "Sambo" (sambo) and "Hambone". In the 1933 film ''Haunted Gold'', he portrayed Clarence, John Wayne's comic sidekick. He had uncredited appearances in '' Birth of a Nation'' (1915) and ''Gone with the Wind'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chappell Dossett
Chappell Dossett (1883–1961) was a British stage and film actor.Hanke p. 20 Selected filmography * '' The King's Outcast'' (1915) * ''Charity Ann'' (1915) * '' Partners at Last'' (1916) * '' Judge Not'' (1920) * '' The Cowboy and the Countess'' (1926) * '' Name the Woman'' (1928) * '' The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu'' (1929) * ''Madame X ''Madame X'' (original title ''La Femme X'') is a 1908 play by French playwright Alexandre Bisson (1848–1912). It was novelized in English and adapted for the American stage; it was also adapted for the screen twelve times over sixty-five ...'' (1929) References Bibliography * Hanke, Ken. '' A Critical Guide to Horror Film Series''. Routledge, 2013. External links * 1883 births 1961 deaths English male film actors English male silent film actors 20th-century English male actors English male stage actors Male actors from London British emigrants to the United States {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
