''The Windjammer'' is a 1926 American
silent action film
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directed by
Harry Joe Brown
Harry Joe Brown (September 22, 1890 – April 28, 1972) was an American film producer, and earlier a theatre and film director.
Biography
Harry Joe Brown was born in 1890 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a producer, he had a partnership with ...
and starring
Billy Sullivan,
Thelma Hill
Thelma Hill (born Thelma Hillerman; December 12, 1906 – May 11, 1938) was an American silent screen comedian and one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties.
Early life
Hill was born Thelma Hillerman on December 12, 1906, in Emporia, Kansas. ...
and
Billy Franey
William Gerald Franey (June 23, 1889 – December 6, 1940) was an American film actor.
Born in Chicago in 1889, Franey appeared in more than 400 films between 1914 and 1941, mostly playing comedic roles. He was an actor of disheveled appea ...
.
[Munden p.907] It was distributed by the
independent
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Rayart Pictures
Rayart Pictures was one of the early film production and distribution companies operating independently of the major Hollywood studios in the United States during the later silent film era from the mid-to-late 1920s and into the early "talkies" e ...
, the forerunner of
Monogram Pictures
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.
Synopsis
After graduating from
college
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, Billy Tanner enters his family's old
circus
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business. He becomes engaged in a running battle with a champion
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* Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing
*Boxer (dog), a breed of dog
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* Boxer crab
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who he is forced to fight.
Cast
*
Billy Sullivan as Billy Tanner
*
Thelma Hill
Thelma Hill (born Thelma Hillerman; December 12, 1906 – May 11, 1938) was an American silent screen comedian and one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties.
Early life
Hill was born Thelma Hillerman on December 12, 1906, in Emporia, Kansas. ...
*
Billy Franey
William Gerald Franey (June 23, 1889 – December 6, 1940) was an American film actor.
Born in Chicago in 1889, Franey appeared in more than 400 films between 1914 and 1941, mostly playing comedic roles. He was an actor of disheveled appea ...
*
J.P. Lockney
John P. Lockney (March 17, 1867, date of death unknown) was an American actor of the silent film era. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1937. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Partial filmography
* '' The Bride of Ha ...
*
Robert Walker
*
Fred Burns
Frederick D. Burns (born September 6, 1889, in Nevada, Missouri; died December 22, 1971, in Cincinnati, Ohio) was an important figure in Midwest amateur tennis in the early part of the 20th century.
Burns was a journalist by profession from 1911 ...
*
George Magrill
George Magrill (January 5, 1900 – May 31, 1952) was an American film actor who appeared in more than 320 films between 1923 and 1952.
Magrill performed on stage before he began to work in films. Besides his acting, Magrill worked as a s ...
*
Henry Roquemore
Henry Roquemore (March 18, 1886 – June 30, 1943) was an American character actor who primarily played bit parts. He appeared in 229 silent and sound films from 1927 until 1943. Many of his roles were uncredited parts in Western movies, ...
*
Gypsy Clark
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References
Bibliography
* 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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1920s American films
1926 films
1920s action films
1920s English-language films
American silent feature films
American action films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Harry Joe Brown
Rayart Pictures films
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