''Makers of Men'' is a 1925 American
silent war
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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 ...
directed by
Forrest Sheldon
Forrest may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Forrest, Australian Capital Territory
* Forrest, Victoria, a small rural township
*Division of Forrest, a federal division of the Australian House of Representatives, in Western Australia
*Electoral distri ...
and starring
Kenneth MacDonald,
Clara Horton and
J.P. McGowan
John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. McGowan remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directo ...
.
[Connelly p.381]
Synopsis
The easily disturbed Jimmy Jones suffers from a nervous disorder that provokes mockery about his cowardice from the fellow inhabitants of his small town even Lillian the woman he is in love with. When the
First World War
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breaks out he volunteers for the Army. After serving in
France
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along with an utterly fearless
Sergeant, he returns home completely cured.
Cast
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Kenneth MacDonald as Jimmy Jones
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Clara Horton as Lillian Gilman
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J.P. McGowan
John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. McGowan remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directo ...
as Sgt. Banks
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W.H. Burton as Hiram Renfrew
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William Lowery
William Lowery (July 22, 1885 – November 15, 1941) was an American silent film actor. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and was signed by the Thanhouser Company in 1914.
Lowery's parents were actors, and he first acted at age 9. He enliste ...
as Steppling
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Ethan Laidlaw
Ethan Allen Laidlaw (November 25, 1899 – May 25, 1963) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 350 films and made more than 500 appearances on television, mainly uncredited in Westerns, between 1923 and 1962.
Laidlaw was bor ...
as Shiftless Poole
References
Bibliography
* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998.
* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
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1925 films
1925 war films
1920s English-language films
American silent feature films
American war films
Films directed by Forrest Sheldon
American black-and-white films
American World War I films
Films set in France
1920s American films
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