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The Ragged Messenger
''The Ragged Messenger'' is a 1917 British drama film directed by Frank Wilson and starring Violet Hopson, Gerald Ames, Basil Gill and George Foley. It was based on the 1904 novel ''The Ragged Messenger'' by W.B. Maxwell. A millionaire's mistress marries his nephew, but their relationship only leads to misery and heartbreak for all. Cast *Violet Hopson as Mary Ainslee *Gerald Ames as Walter Bowman *Basil Gill as Reverend John Morton *George Foley as Henry Vavasour *Henry Gilbey *Ruby Belasco *John MacAndrews John MacAndrews was a British actor of the silent era. Selected filmography * ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1913) * ''The Heart of Midlothian'' (1914) * ''The Chimes'' (1914) * '' For Her People'' (1914) * '' Far from the Madding Crowd'' (1915) ... *Marjorie West References External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films Silent British drama films Films directed by Frank Wilson British black-and-white films 1910s British films {{1910s-UK-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wilson (director)
Frank Wilson (1873–?), was a British actor, writer and film director.Low p.151 Wilson was a prolific director during the silent era, shooting well over 200 shorts and feature films. He worked at the pioneering Hepworth Pictures in Walton Studios and later at Broadwest of Walthamstow Studios. Selected filmography Director * '' The Jewel Thieves Outwitted'' (1913) * ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1913) * '' A Cigarette-Maker's Romance'' (1913) * ''The Heart of Midlothian'' (1914) * ''Justice'' (1914) * '' Her Boy'' (1915) * '' The Nightbirds of London'' (1915) * '' The White Boys'' (1916) * ''The Grand Babylon Hotel'' (1916) * '' A Bunch of Violets'' (1916) * ''A Gamble for Love'' (1917) * ''The Man Behind 'The Times''' (1917) * ''Her Marriage Lines'' (1917) * '' The Woman Wins'' (1918) * ''The Soul of Guilda Lois'' (1919) * ''The Irresistible Flapper'' (1919) * ''With All Her Heart ''With All Her Heart'' is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Frank Wilson and starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Hopson
Violet Hopson (16 December 1887 – 21 July 1973) was an actress and producer who achieved fame on the British stage and in British silent films. She was born Elma Kate Victoria Karkeek in Port Augusta, South Australia on 16 December 1887. Violet Hopson was her stage name, while in childhood she was known as Kate or Kitty to her family. Career Hopson's earliest stage experiences were several performances with Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company in Australia and New Zealand from 1898 to 1900. Her sisters Zoe Karkeek and Wilmot Karkeek were long standing members of this company from 1892. In the early 1900s she travelled to the United States with her older sister Zoe, and later to Britain. British film historian Rachael Low has noted that Hopson was the first British actress to be exploited as a glamorous film star, despite a personality that made "little real impact" on the screen. Her first British film was ''Mr Tubby's Triumph'' made in 1910. From 1912 she worked for Cecil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Ames
Gerald Ames (12 September 1880 – 2 July 1933) was a British actor, film director and Olympic fencer. Ames was born in Blackheath, London in 1880 and first took up acting in 1905. He was a popular leading man in the post-First World War cinema, appearing in more than sixty films between his debut in 1914 and his retirement from the screen in 1928 in a career entirely encompassing the silent era. He was also a regular stage actor who took on many leading roles in the theatre. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He died in 1933 after falling down the steps of Knightsbridge tube station and suffering a heart attack. He was married to the actress Mary Dibley. Partial filmography * ''She Stoops to Conquer'' (1914) * '' The Black Spot'' (1914) * ''The Difficult Way'' (1914) * '' The Christian'' (1915) * ''Love in a Wood'' (1915) * '' The Shulamite'' (1915) * ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1915) * ''Rupert of Hentzau'' (1915) * ''Arsène Lupin'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Gill
Basil Gill (10 March 1877 – 23 April 1955) was a British stage actor and film actor. His stage career included many roles in plays of Shakespeare. Life He was a son of the Rev. John Gill, of Cambridge.Obituary, ''The Glasgow Herald'', page 9, 25 April 1955. His first stage appearance, in Bury, Lancashire in 1897, was in '' The Sign of the Cross'' (Wilson Barrett's most successful play); the following year he appeared in this play in London. He then toured Australia and the USA with ''The Sign of the Cross'' and '' Ben-Hur''. In 1903 he joined Herbert Beerbohm Tree's company at His Majesty's Theatre, London, and appeared in plays of Shakespeare, playing several important roles. He left the company in 1907. He continued to perform, into the 1930s, in Shakespeare's plays during his career. As well as being a Shakespearean actor, he was regarded as a matinée idol and played romantic parts in modern plays. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Foley (actor)
George Foley was a British actor of the silent era. Selected filmography * ''The Battle of Waterloo'' (1913) * '' Jobson's Luck'' (1913) * '' The Life of Shakespeare'' (1914) * '' The King's Romance'' (1914) * '' The Woman Who Did'' (1915) * '' A London Flat Mystery'' (1915) * ''The Price He Paid'' (1916) * '' The Answer'' (1916) * '' Beau Brocade'' (1916) * ''A Gamble for Love'' (1917) * ''Drink'' (1917) * '' The Snare'' (1918) * '' A Sheffield Blade'' (1918) * '' The Ticket-of-Leave Man'' (1918) * '' Because'' (1918) * ''The Odds Against Her'' (1919) * ''The Grip of Iron'' (1920) * ''Mary Latimer, Nun'' (1920) * ''Little Dorrit'' (1920) * ''Trent's Last Case'' (1920) * '' Vi of Smith's Alley'' (1921) * ''A Lowland Cinderella'' (1921) * ''The Penniless Millionaire'' (1921) * ''A Romance of Old Baghdad'' (1922) * '' In the Blood'' (1923) * ''A Couple of Down and Outs'' (1923) * '' Love and Hate'' (1924) * ''A Romance of Mayfair ''A Romance of Mayfair'' is a 1925 British rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ragged Messenger (novel)
''The Ragged Messenger'' is a 1917 British drama film directed by Frank Wilson and starring Violet Hopson, Gerald Ames, Basil Gill and George Foley. It was based on the 1904 novel ''The Ragged Messenger'' by W.B. Maxwell. A millionaire's mistress marries his nephew, but their relationship only leads to misery and heartbreak for all. Cast *Violet Hopson as Mary Ainslee *Gerald Ames as Walter Bowman *Basil Gill as Reverend John Morton *George Foley as Henry Vavasour *Henry Gilbey *Ruby Belasco *John MacAndrews John MacAndrews was a British actor of the silent era. Selected filmography * ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1913) * ''The Heart of Midlothian'' (1914) * ''The Chimes'' (1914) * '' For Her People'' (1914) * '' Far from the Madding Crowd'' (1915) ... *Marjorie West References External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films Silent British drama films Films directed by Frank Wilson British black-and-white films 1910s British films {{1910s-UK-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John MacAndrews
John MacAndrews was a British actor of the silent era. Selected filmography * ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1913) * ''The Heart of Midlothian'' (1914) * ''The Chimes'' (1914) * '' For Her People'' (1914) * '' Far from the Madding Crowd'' (1915) * ''Barnaby Rudge'' (1915) * '' The Nightbirds of London'' (1915) * ''The Bottle'' (1915) * '' Molly Bawn'' (1916) * '' A Place in the Sun'' (1916) * ''Trelawny of the Wells'' (1916) * ''The American Heiress'' (1917) * ''Nearer My God to Thee'' (1917) * ''A Gamble for Love'' (1917) * ''The Man Behind 'The Times''' (1917) * '' A Grain of Sand'' (1917) * '' The Hanging Judge'' (1918) * ''The Poet's Windfall'' (1918) * ''Boundary House'' (1918) * '' The Nature of the Beast'' (1919) * '' His Dearest Possession'' (1919) * ''The Forest on the Hill'' (1919) * '' Sunken Rocks'' (1919) * ''The Kinsman'' (1919) * ''Broken in the Wars'' (1919) * ''Once Aboard the Lugger'' (1920) *'' Alf's Button'' (1920) * ''John Forrest Finds Himself'' (1920) * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Films
1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as "Classical Hollywood". __TOC__ Events *January – ''Panthea'' is released, the first film from the company that Joseph Schenck formed with his wife, Norma Talmadge, after leaving Loew's Consolidated Enterprises. *February – Buster Keaton first meets Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in New York and is hired as a co-star and gag man. *April 9 – Supreme Court of the United States rule in Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Manufacturing Co. which ends the Motion Picture Patents Company appeal and results in the end of the company. *April 23 â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Drama Films
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. * January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months. * January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. * January 22 – WWI: United States President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 ** WWI: British armed merchantman is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. ** An anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco occurs, and police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent British Drama Films
Silent may mean any of the following: People with the name * Silent George, George Stone (outfielder) (1876–1945), American Major League Baseball outfielder and batting champion * Brandon Silent (born 1973), South African former footballer * Charles Silent (1842-1918), German-born American jurist Arts, entertainment, and media Music * "Silent" (Gerald Walker), the first single from the rapper * Silent (rock group), a Brazilian rock group * The Silents, an Australian psychedelic rock band Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * Dark (broadcasting) or silent, an off-air radio or TV station * Silent film, a film with no sound Other uses * Air Energy AE-1 Silent, a German self-launching ultralight sailplane * Buffalo Silents, a 1920s exhibition basketball team whose members were deaf and/or mute * Silent Family, a German aircraft manufacturer * Silent Generation, a demographic cohort between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers * Silent letter, a letter in a word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Frank Wilson
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] |
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