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[Home Movies Hoffman - CHMHOF162 1927 So. California Riverside]
This home movie from the 1920s features various scenes of people enjoying outdoor activities and exploring the natural scenery of a coastal area. Some of the activities shown include playing in the sand and waves on the beach, riding amusement park rides, swimming in a pool and ocean, and feeding pigeons. There are also scenes of people posing in front of historic buildings and architectural points of interest, such as Mission San Juan Capistrano. View of the water, shore, cliffs and mountains are also shown. The movie also features people posing against the landscape, along the cliffs by the sea. There is also a scene of a young girl and two men climbing along rocks near the ocean. Additionally, there are scenes of people driving on roads, walking down the street and in gardens, and playi...
published: 12 Feb 2019
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California Home Movies (1920s)
Private home movies taken in California in the 1920s.
To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
1920s, home movies, California, cars, adults socializing and clowning around outside
published: 23 Mar 2020
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The King of Kings (1927) [1080p] [Roadshow Version Without Soundtrack]
'The King of Kings is a 1927 American silent epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It depicts the last weeks of Jesus before his crucifixion and stars H. B. Warner in the lead role.
Featuring the opening and resurrection scenes in two-color Technicolor, the film is the second in DeMille's Biblical trilogy, preceded by The Ten Commandments (1923) and followed by The Sign of the Cross (1932).
Cast
H. B. Warner as Jesus
Dorothy Cumming as Mary, the mother of Jesus
Ernest Torrence as Peter
Joseph Schildkraut as Judas Iscariot
James Neill as James the Great
Joseph Striker as John the Apostle
Robert Edeson as Matthew the Apostle
Sidney D'Albrook as Thomas, the Doubter
David Imboden as Andrew – a Fisherman
Charles Belcher as Philip the Apostle
Clayton Packard as Bartholomew the A...
published: 07 Jun 2023
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Husband Hunters (1927) [1440p]
'Husband Hunters is a 1927 American comedy-drama silent film released by Tiffany Productions, directed by John G. Adolfi, and starring Mae Busch, Charles Delaney and Jean Arthur.
Plot
The film looks at the exploits of chorus girls Marie (Mae Busch) and Helen (Duane Thompson) who have dedicated themselves to finding and marrying millionaire husbands. The two ladies enlist the help of the innocent young Lettie Crane (Jean Arthur) in their scheme. Lettie is a girl from a small town who dreams of one day making it big on Broadway.
After being enlisted by the two, Lettie is left heartbroken by a callous young man and regrets her involvement. However, by the film's end, she is the only one of the trio who finally finds true love. Another chorus girl, Cynthia Kane (Mildred Harris) follows the a...
published: 09 Jun 2023
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) [1080p] [Original Movietone Score]
'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American silent romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story "The Excursion to Tilsit", from the 1917 collection with the same title by Hermann Sudermann.
Murnau chose to use the then new Fox Movietone sound-on-film system, making Sunrise one of the first feature films with a synchronized musical score and sound effects soundtrack. The film incorporated Charles Gounod's 1872 composition Funeral March of a Marionette, which was later used as the theme for the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1965). Frédéric Chopin's A minor prelude also features p...
published: 06 Jun 2023
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Mr. Wu (1927) [1080p]
'Mr. Wu is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Lon Chaney, based on a 1913 stage play. Chaney portrays a Chinese patriarch who tries to exact revenge on the Englishman who seduced his daughter.
Cast
Lon Chaney as Mr. Wu / Grandfather Wu
Louise Dresser as Mrs. Gregory
Renée Adorée as Wu Nang Ping
Holmes Herbert as Mr. Gregory
Ralph Forbes as Basil Gregory
Gertrude Olmstead as Hilda Gregory
Mrs. Wong Wing as Ah Wong
Claude King as Mr. James Muir
Sonny Loy as Little Wu
Anna May Wong as Loo Song
Toshia Mori as Nang Ping's friend (credited as Toshia Ichioka)
Production
Mr. Wu was originally a stage play, written by Harold Owen and Harry M. Vernon. It was first staged in London in 1913; the first U.S. production opened in New York on October 14, 1914 with st...
published: 26 Jun 2023
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College (1927) [1080p]
'College is a 1927 comedy-drama silent film directed by James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, and starring Keaton, Anne Cornwall, and Harold Goodwin.
Plot
In Southern California, Ronald graduates high school as its "most brilliant scholar". At his graduation, Ronald speaks on "the Curse of the Athlete", arguing that books are more important than athletics. His speech offends most of the student body, especially the popular athlete Jeff, and causes Ronald's sweetheart Mary to reject him.
Ronald decides to follow Mary to Clayton, which the dean describes as an "athlete-infested college". Hoping to impress Mary, Ronald tries out for the baseball and track and field teams, but proves to be totally inept. At the same time, he attempts to work as a soda jerk and as a waiter in blackface while tryi...
published: 08 Jun 2023
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Mr. Wu (1927) [No Audio]
'Mr. Wu is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Lon Chaney, based on a 1913 stage play. Chaney portrays a Chinese patriarch who tries to exact revenge on the Englishman who seduced his daughter.
Cast
Lon Chaney as Mr. Wu / Grandfather Wu
Louise Dresser as Mrs. Gregory
Renée Adorée as Wu Nang Ping
Holmes Herbert as Mr. Gregory
Ralph Forbes as Basil Gregory
Gertrude Olmstead as Hilda Gregory
Mrs. Wong Wing as Ah Wong
Claude King as Mr. James Muir
Sonny Loy as Little Wu
Anna May Wong as Loo Song
Toshia Mori as Nang Ping's friend (credited as Toshia Ichioka)
Production
Mr. Wu was originally a stage play, written by Harold Owen and Harry M. Vernon. It was first staged in London in 1913; the first U.S. production opened in New York on October 14, 1914 with st...
published: 26 Jun 2023
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Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho (The Gaucho) (1927)
'The Gaucho (the official full title of the film is Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho) is a 1927 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez set in Argentina. The lavish adventure extravaganza, filmed at the height of Fairbanks' box office clout, was directed by F. Richard Jones with a running time of 115 minutes.
Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance considers the film "a near masterwork" and "an anomaly among his [Fairbanks’] works." Vance also considers it a "daring departure, the film is an effort of unanticipated darkness in tone, setting, and character. The spirit of adolescent boyish adventure, the omnipresent characteristic of his prior films, is noticeably absent. It has been replaced by a spiritual fervor and an element of seething sexuality the likes of which has never bee...
published: 09 Jun 2023
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California's Historic Movie Palaces Still Operating
Featured here are 14 California grand movie palaces that escaped the wrecking ball and are thriving throughout the Golden State, including San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles, Fresno, Stockton, and many other cities.
Motion Picture exhibitors realized that people came to the movies to escape reality—and they set upon extending the fantasy from the films to the theaters themselves. As a result, Grand movie palaces in California were built, including the spectacular Fox San Francisco, Paramount, and RKO Hillstreet theatres in Los Angels. Unfortunately, they were all demolished, but fortunately, many California of these magnificent theatres were saved.
In the first half of the 20th Century, theatre architects borrowed themes from world architecture, particularly exotic Chinese, ...
published: 10 Jun 2021
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[Home Movies Hoffman - CHMHOF162 1927 So. California Riverside]
This home movie from the 1920s features various scenes of people enjoying outdoor activities and exploring the natural scenery of a coastal area. Some of the ac...
This home movie from the 1920s features various scenes of people enjoying outdoor activities and exploring the natural scenery of a coastal area. Some of the activities shown include playing in the sand and waves on the beach, riding amusement park rides, swimming in a pool and ocean, and feeding pigeons. There are also scenes of people posing in front of historic buildings and architectural points of interest, such as Mission San Juan Capistrano. View of the water, shore, cliffs and mountains are also shown. The movie also features people posing against the landscape, along the cliffs by the sea. There is also a scene of a young girl and two men climbing along rocks near the ocean. Additionally, there are scenes of people driving on roads, walking down the street and in gardens, and playing baseball.
We digitized and uploaded this film from the Center From Home Movies Archive. Email us at
[email protected] if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.
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This home movie from the 1920s features various scenes of people enjoying outdoor activities and exploring the natural scenery of a coastal area. Some of the activities shown include playing in the sand and waves on the beach, riding amusement park rides, swimming in a pool and ocean, and feeding pigeons. There are also scenes of people posing in front of historic buildings and architectural points of interest, such as Mission San Juan Capistrano. View of the water, shore, cliffs and mountains are also shown. The movie also features people posing against the landscape, along the cliffs by the sea. There is also a scene of a young girl and two men climbing along rocks near the ocean. Additionally, there are scenes of people driving on roads, walking down the street and in gardens, and playing baseball.
We digitized and uploaded this film from the Center From Home Movies Archive. Email us at
[email protected] if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.
- published: 12 Feb 2019
- views: 134
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California Home Movies (1920s)
Private home movies taken in California in the 1920s.
To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
1920s, home movie...
Private home movies taken in California in the 1920s.
To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
1920s, home movies, California, cars, adults socializing and clowning around outside
https://wn.com/California_Home_Movies_(1920S)
Private home movies taken in California in the 1920s.
To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
1920s, home movies, California, cars, adults socializing and clowning around outside
- published: 23 Mar 2020
- views: 3850
2:37:18
The King of Kings (1927) [1080p] [Roadshow Version Without Soundtrack]
'The King of Kings is a 1927 American silent epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It depicts the last weeks of Jesus before his crucifixion and ...
'The King of Kings is a 1927 American silent epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It depicts the last weeks of Jesus before his crucifixion and stars H. B. Warner in the lead role.
Featuring the opening and resurrection scenes in two-color Technicolor, the film is the second in DeMille's Biblical trilogy, preceded by The Ten Commandments (1923) and followed by The Sign of the Cross (1932).
Cast
H. B. Warner as Jesus
Dorothy Cumming as Mary, the mother of Jesus
Ernest Torrence as Peter
Joseph Schildkraut as Judas Iscariot
James Neill as James the Great
Joseph Striker as John the Apostle
Robert Edeson as Matthew the Apostle
Sidney D'Albrook as Thomas, the Doubter
David Imboden as Andrew – a Fisherman
Charles Belcher as Philip the Apostle
Clayton Packard as Bartholomew the Apostle
Robert Ellsworth as Simon – the Zealot
Charles Requa as James the Less
John T. Prince as Thaddeus
Jacqueline Logan as Mary Magdalene
Rudolph Schildkraut as Caiaphas – High Priest of Israel
Sam De Grasse as Pharisee
Casson Ferguson as Scribe
Victor Varconi as Pontius Pilate
Majel Coleman as Proculla – Wife of Pilate
Montagu Love as Roman Centurion
William Boyd as Simon of Cyrene
Micky Moore as Mark
Theodore Kosloff as Malchus – Captain of the High Priest's Guard
George Siegmann as Barabbas
Julia Faye as Martha
Josephine Norman as Mary of Bethany
Kenneth Thomson as Lazarus
Alan Brooks as Satan
Viola Louie as Adulterous Woman
Muriel McCormac as Blind Girl
Clarence Burton as Dysmas – the Repentant Thief
Jim Mason as Gestas – the Unrepentant Thief
May Robson as Mother of Gestas
Dot Farley as Maidservant of Caiaphas
Hector V. Sarno as Galilean Carpenter
Leon Holmes as Imbecile Boy
Otto Lederer as Eber – a Pharisee
Bryant Washburn as Young Roman
Lionel Belmore as Roman Noble
Monte Collins as Rich Judeaean
Lucio Flamma as Gallant of Galilee
Sôjin Kamiyama as Prince Of Persia
André Cheron as Wealthy Merchant
Willy Castello as Babylonian Noble
Noble Johnson as Charioteer
Jim Farley as Executioner
James Dime as a Roman soldier
Cast notes
Sally Rand was an extra in the film, years before becoming notorious for her "fan dance" at the 1933 World's Fair.
Writer
Ayn Rand (no relation to Sally Rand) also was an extra in the film, and met her future husband Frank O'Connor on set.
Micky Moore was the last surviving cast member at his death in 2013.
Production
A giant gate built for this film was later used in the 1933 film King Kong, and was among the sets torched for the "burning of Atlanta" in Gone with the Wind (1939). Other sets and costumes were re-used for the 1965 Elvis Presley film, Harum Scarum.
The movie has two Technicolor sequences, the beginning and the resurrection scene, which use the two-color process invented by Herbert Kalmus.
The 1927 Cummings trial for divorce from her husband Frank Elliott revealed that DeMille, because Christians would not accept any reflections cast upon Christ or his mother, had Cummings sign a contract on August 21, 2026, that regulated her private life for seven years, and included clauses that prevented her from divorcing her husband for any act, to do anything that would give her husband grounds for divorce, or play a prostitute or similar role in any film. The contract did not prevent the divorce.
Release
The King of Kings was the first movie that premiered at the noted Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California on May 18, 1927. The film was screened there again on May 24, 1977, to commemorate the theater's 50th anniversary.
In what is considered one of the earliest applications of market segmentation to film promotion, students ranging from elementary to high school were dismissed early to attend afternoon screenings of the film. The King of Kings was seen by around 500 million viewers between its original release in 1927 and the remake in 1961.
Critical reception
The King of Kings received rave reviews from the critics. The Film Daily stated: "There can be said nothing but praise for the reverence and appreciation with which the beautiful story has been developed. . . The King of Kings is tremendous from every standpoint. It is the finest piece of screen craftsmanship ever turned out by DeMille". Photoplay described the film as "Cecil B. DeMille's finest motion picture effort" and thought he took "the most difficult and exalted theme in the world's history—the story of Jesus Christ—and transcribed it intelligently and ably to the screen." Norbert Lusk of Picture Play believed "The King of Kings is Cecil B. DeMille's masterpiece, and is among the greatest of all pictures. It is a sincere and reverent visualization of the last three years in the life of Christ, produced on a scale of tasteful magnificence, finely acted by the scores in it, and possessed of moments of poignant beauty and unapproachable drama. This is a picture that will never become outmoded."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Kings_(1927_film)
https://wn.com/The_King_Of_Kings_(1927)_1080P_Roadshow_Version_Without_Soundtrack
'The King of Kings is a 1927 American silent epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It depicts the last weeks of Jesus before his crucifixion and stars H. B. Warner in the lead role.
Featuring the opening and resurrection scenes in two-color Technicolor, the film is the second in DeMille's Biblical trilogy, preceded by The Ten Commandments (1923) and followed by The Sign of the Cross (1932).
Cast
H. B. Warner as Jesus
Dorothy Cumming as Mary, the mother of Jesus
Ernest Torrence as Peter
Joseph Schildkraut as Judas Iscariot
James Neill as James the Great
Joseph Striker as John the Apostle
Robert Edeson as Matthew the Apostle
Sidney D'Albrook as Thomas, the Doubter
David Imboden as Andrew – a Fisherman
Charles Belcher as Philip the Apostle
Clayton Packard as Bartholomew the Apostle
Robert Ellsworth as Simon – the Zealot
Charles Requa as James the Less
John T. Prince as Thaddeus
Jacqueline Logan as Mary Magdalene
Rudolph Schildkraut as Caiaphas – High Priest of Israel
Sam De Grasse as Pharisee
Casson Ferguson as Scribe
Victor Varconi as Pontius Pilate
Majel Coleman as Proculla – Wife of Pilate
Montagu Love as Roman Centurion
William Boyd as Simon of Cyrene
Micky Moore as Mark
Theodore Kosloff as Malchus – Captain of the High Priest's Guard
George Siegmann as Barabbas
Julia Faye as Martha
Josephine Norman as Mary of Bethany
Kenneth Thomson as Lazarus
Alan Brooks as Satan
Viola Louie as Adulterous Woman
Muriel McCormac as Blind Girl
Clarence Burton as Dysmas – the Repentant Thief
Jim Mason as Gestas – the Unrepentant Thief
May Robson as Mother of Gestas
Dot Farley as Maidservant of Caiaphas
Hector V. Sarno as Galilean Carpenter
Leon Holmes as Imbecile Boy
Otto Lederer as Eber – a Pharisee
Bryant Washburn as Young Roman
Lionel Belmore as Roman Noble
Monte Collins as Rich Judeaean
Lucio Flamma as Gallant of Galilee
Sôjin Kamiyama as Prince Of Persia
André Cheron as Wealthy Merchant
Willy Castello as Babylonian Noble
Noble Johnson as Charioteer
Jim Farley as Executioner
James Dime as a Roman soldier
Cast notes
Sally Rand was an extra in the film, years before becoming notorious for her "fan dance" at the 1933 World's Fair.
Writer
Ayn Rand (no relation to Sally Rand) also was an extra in the film, and met her future husband Frank O'Connor on set.
Micky Moore was the last surviving cast member at his death in 2013.
Production
A giant gate built for this film was later used in the 1933 film King Kong, and was among the sets torched for the "burning of Atlanta" in Gone with the Wind (1939). Other sets and costumes were re-used for the 1965 Elvis Presley film, Harum Scarum.
The movie has two Technicolor sequences, the beginning and the resurrection scene, which use the two-color process invented by Herbert Kalmus.
The 1927 Cummings trial for divorce from her husband Frank Elliott revealed that DeMille, because Christians would not accept any reflections cast upon Christ or his mother, had Cummings sign a contract on August 21, 2026, that regulated her private life for seven years, and included clauses that prevented her from divorcing her husband for any act, to do anything that would give her husband grounds for divorce, or play a prostitute or similar role in any film. The contract did not prevent the divorce.
Release
The King of Kings was the first movie that premiered at the noted Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California on May 18, 1927. The film was screened there again on May 24, 1977, to commemorate the theater's 50th anniversary.
In what is considered one of the earliest applications of market segmentation to film promotion, students ranging from elementary to high school were dismissed early to attend afternoon screenings of the film. The King of Kings was seen by around 500 million viewers between its original release in 1927 and the remake in 1961.
Critical reception
The King of Kings received rave reviews from the critics. The Film Daily stated: "There can be said nothing but praise for the reverence and appreciation with which the beautiful story has been developed. . . The King of Kings is tremendous from every standpoint. It is the finest piece of screen craftsmanship ever turned out by DeMille". Photoplay described the film as "Cecil B. DeMille's finest motion picture effort" and thought he took "the most difficult and exalted theme in the world's history—the story of Jesus Christ—and transcribed it intelligently and ably to the screen." Norbert Lusk of Picture Play believed "The King of Kings is Cecil B. DeMille's masterpiece, and is among the greatest of all pictures. It is a sincere and reverent visualization of the last three years in the life of Christ, produced on a scale of tasteful magnificence, finely acted by the scores in it, and possessed of moments of poignant beauty and unapproachable drama. This is a picture that will never become outmoded."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Kings_(1927_film)
- published: 07 Jun 2023
- views: 276
49:39
Husband Hunters (1927) [1440p]
'Husband Hunters is a 1927 American comedy-drama silent film released by Tiffany Productions, directed by John G. Adolfi, and starring Mae Busch, Charles Delane...
'Husband Hunters is a 1927 American comedy-drama silent film released by Tiffany Productions, directed by John G. Adolfi, and starring Mae Busch, Charles Delaney and Jean Arthur.
Plot
The film looks at the exploits of chorus girls Marie (Mae Busch) and Helen (Duane Thompson) who have dedicated themselves to finding and marrying millionaire husbands. The two ladies enlist the help of the innocent young Lettie Crane (Jean Arthur) in their scheme. Lettie is a girl from a small town who dreams of one day making it big on Broadway.
After being enlisted by the two, Lettie is left heartbroken by a callous young man and regrets her involvement. However, by the film's end, she is the only one of the trio who finally finds true love. Another chorus girl, Cynthia Kane (Mildred Harris) follows the antics of the trio with both amusement and disapproval.
Cast
Mae Busch as Marie Devere
Charles Delaney as Bob Garrett
Jean Arthur as Lettie Crane
Walter Hiers as Sylvester Jones
Duane Thompson as Helen Gray
Mildred Harris as Cynthia Kane
Robert Cain as Bartley Mortimer
James Harrison as Jimmy Wallace
Nigel Barrie as Rex Holden
Preservation status
Previously thought to be lost film. The film is preserved at the BFI Film and Television, London.
Directed by John G. Adolfi
Written by Douglas Bronston (story), Esther Shulkin
Produced by M.H. Hoffman
Starring Mae Busch
Charles Delaney
Jean Arthur
Duane Thompson
Mildred Harris
Cinematography Joseph Dubray
Edited by Harold Young
Production
company
Tiffany Pictures
Distributed by Tiffany Pictures
Release date
January 15, 1927
Running time 60 minutes
Country United States
Languages Silent
English intertitles'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husband_Hunters
File Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX3Q5i_ksAQ
https://wn.com/Husband_Hunters_(1927)_1440P
'Husband Hunters is a 1927 American comedy-drama silent film released by Tiffany Productions, directed by John G. Adolfi, and starring Mae Busch, Charles Delaney and Jean Arthur.
Plot
The film looks at the exploits of chorus girls Marie (Mae Busch) and Helen (Duane Thompson) who have dedicated themselves to finding and marrying millionaire husbands. The two ladies enlist the help of the innocent young Lettie Crane (Jean Arthur) in their scheme. Lettie is a girl from a small town who dreams of one day making it big on Broadway.
After being enlisted by the two, Lettie is left heartbroken by a callous young man and regrets her involvement. However, by the film's end, she is the only one of the trio who finally finds true love. Another chorus girl, Cynthia Kane (Mildred Harris) follows the antics of the trio with both amusement and disapproval.
Cast
Mae Busch as Marie Devere
Charles Delaney as Bob Garrett
Jean Arthur as Lettie Crane
Walter Hiers as Sylvester Jones
Duane Thompson as Helen Gray
Mildred Harris as Cynthia Kane
Robert Cain as Bartley Mortimer
James Harrison as Jimmy Wallace
Nigel Barrie as Rex Holden
Preservation status
Previously thought to be lost film. The film is preserved at the BFI Film and Television, London.
Directed by John G. Adolfi
Written by Douglas Bronston (story), Esther Shulkin
Produced by M.H. Hoffman
Starring Mae Busch
Charles Delaney
Jean Arthur
Duane Thompson
Mildred Harris
Cinematography Joseph Dubray
Edited by Harold Young
Production
company
Tiffany Pictures
Distributed by Tiffany Pictures
Release date
January 15, 1927
Running time 60 minutes
Country United States
Languages Silent
English intertitles'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husband_Hunters
File Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX3Q5i_ksAQ
- published: 09 Jun 2023
- views: 204
1:34:22
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) [1080p] [Original Movietone Score]
'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American silent romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film d...
'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American silent romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story "The Excursion to Tilsit", from the 1917 collection with the same title by Hermann Sudermann.
Murnau chose to use the then new Fox Movietone sound-on-film system, making Sunrise one of the first feature films with a synchronized musical score and sound effects soundtrack. The film incorporated Charles Gounod's 1872 composition Funeral March of a Marionette, which was later used as the theme for the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1965). Frédéric Chopin's A minor prelude also features prominently in orchestral arrangement.
Sunrise won the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Picture at the 1st
Academy Awards in 1929. Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the film (the award was also for her performances in 1927's 7th Heaven and 1928's Street Angel). The film's legacy has endured, and it is now widely considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made. Many have called it the greatest film of the silent era. In 1989, Sunrise was one of the 25 films selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved Sunrise in 2004. The 2007 update of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films ranked it number 82, and the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll named it the fifth-best film in the history of motion pictures, while directors named it 22nd.
Although the original 35mm negative of the original American version of Sunrise was destroyed in the 1937 Fox vault fire, a new negative was created from a surviving print.
Cast
George O'Brien as The Man
Janet Gaynor as The Wife
Margaret Livingston as The Woman From the City
Bodil Rosing as The Maid
J. Farrell MacDonald as The Photographer
Ralph Sipperly as The Barber
Jane Winton as The Manicure Girl
Arthur Housman as The Obtrusive Gentleman
Eddie Boland as The Obliging Gentleman
Sally Eilers as Woman in Dance Hall with failing straps (uncredited)
Gino Corrado as Manager of Hair Salon (uncredited)
Herman Bing as Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
Gibson Gowland as Angry Driver (uncredited)
Style
Sunrise was made by F. W. Murnau, a German director who was one of the leading figures in German Expressionism, a style that uses distorted art design for symbolic effect. Murnau was invited by William Fox to make an Expressionist film in Hollywood.
The resulting film features enormous stylized sets that create an exaggerated and fairy-tale world; the city street set alone reportedly cost over US$200,000 to build and was re-used in many subsequent Fox productions, including John Ford's Four Sons (1928). Much of the exterior shooting was done at Lake Arrowhead, California.
Full of cinematic innovations, the groundbreaking cinematography (by Charles Rosher and Karl Struss) features particularly praised tracking shots. Titles appear sparingly, with long sequences of pure action and the bulk of the story told in Murnau's signature style. The extensive use of forced perspective is striking, particularly in a shot of the City with normal-sized people and sets in the foreground and smaller figures in the background by much smaller sets.
The characters go unnamed, lending them a universality conducive to symbolism. Veit Harlan compared his German remake Die Reise nach Tilsit (1939); pointing to the symbolism and soft focus of the original, he claimed that Sunrise was a poem, whereas his realistic Die Reise nach Tilsit was a film.
Release
Sunrise premiered on September 23, 1927. It was accompanied by the first ever talking newsreels, which attracted much of the initial interest in the film.
Reception
Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times hailed Sunrise as "A Film Masterpiece". A reviewer for Time, however, called its story "meagre" while writing that the film overall "manages to remain picturesquely soporific for a long evening". Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is now widely considered by film critics and historians to be one of the greatest films ever made.'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise:_A_Song_of_Two_Humans
https://wn.com/Sunrise_A_Song_Of_Two_Humans_(1927)_1080P_Original_Movietone_Score
'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American silent romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story "The Excursion to Tilsit", from the 1917 collection with the same title by Hermann Sudermann.
Murnau chose to use the then new Fox Movietone sound-on-film system, making Sunrise one of the first feature films with a synchronized musical score and sound effects soundtrack. The film incorporated Charles Gounod's 1872 composition Funeral March of a Marionette, which was later used as the theme for the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1965). Frédéric Chopin's A minor prelude also features prominently in orchestral arrangement.
Sunrise won the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Picture at the 1st
Academy Awards in 1929. Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the film (the award was also for her performances in 1927's 7th Heaven and 1928's Street Angel). The film's legacy has endured, and it is now widely considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made. Many have called it the greatest film of the silent era. In 1989, Sunrise was one of the 25 films selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved Sunrise in 2004. The 2007 update of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films ranked it number 82, and the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll named it the fifth-best film in the history of motion pictures, while directors named it 22nd.
Although the original 35mm negative of the original American version of Sunrise was destroyed in the 1937 Fox vault fire, a new negative was created from a surviving print.
Cast
George O'Brien as The Man
Janet Gaynor as The Wife
Margaret Livingston as The Woman From the City
Bodil Rosing as The Maid
J. Farrell MacDonald as The Photographer
Ralph Sipperly as The Barber
Jane Winton as The Manicure Girl
Arthur Housman as The Obtrusive Gentleman
Eddie Boland as The Obliging Gentleman
Sally Eilers as Woman in Dance Hall with failing straps (uncredited)
Gino Corrado as Manager of Hair Salon (uncredited)
Herman Bing as Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
Gibson Gowland as Angry Driver (uncredited)
Style
Sunrise was made by F. W. Murnau, a German director who was one of the leading figures in German Expressionism, a style that uses distorted art design for symbolic effect. Murnau was invited by William Fox to make an Expressionist film in Hollywood.
The resulting film features enormous stylized sets that create an exaggerated and fairy-tale world; the city street set alone reportedly cost over US$200,000 to build and was re-used in many subsequent Fox productions, including John Ford's Four Sons (1928). Much of the exterior shooting was done at Lake Arrowhead, California.
Full of cinematic innovations, the groundbreaking cinematography (by Charles Rosher and Karl Struss) features particularly praised tracking shots. Titles appear sparingly, with long sequences of pure action and the bulk of the story told in Murnau's signature style. The extensive use of forced perspective is striking, particularly in a shot of the City with normal-sized people and sets in the foreground and smaller figures in the background by much smaller sets.
The characters go unnamed, lending them a universality conducive to symbolism. Veit Harlan compared his German remake Die Reise nach Tilsit (1939); pointing to the symbolism and soft focus of the original, he claimed that Sunrise was a poem, whereas his realistic Die Reise nach Tilsit was a film.
Release
Sunrise premiered on September 23, 1927. It was accompanied by the first ever talking newsreels, which attracted much of the initial interest in the film.
Reception
Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times hailed Sunrise as "A Film Masterpiece". A reviewer for Time, however, called its story "meagre" while writing that the film overall "manages to remain picturesquely soporific for a long evening". Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is now widely considered by film critics and historians to be one of the greatest films ever made.'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise:_A_Song_of_Two_Humans
- published: 06 Jun 2023
- views: 440
1:30:16
Mr. Wu (1927) [1080p]
'Mr. Wu is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Lon Chaney, based on a 1913 stage play. Chaney portrays a Chinese patriarch w...
'Mr. Wu is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Lon Chaney, based on a 1913 stage play. Chaney portrays a Chinese patriarch who tries to exact revenge on the Englishman who seduced his daughter.
Cast
Lon Chaney as Mr. Wu / Grandfather Wu
Louise Dresser as Mrs. Gregory
Renée Adorée as Wu Nang Ping
Holmes Herbert as Mr. Gregory
Ralph Forbes as Basil Gregory
Gertrude Olmstead as Hilda Gregory
Mrs. Wong Wing as Ah Wong
Claude King as Mr. James Muir
Sonny Loy as Little Wu
Anna May Wong as Loo Song
Toshia Mori as Nang Ping's friend (credited as Toshia Ichioka)
Production
Mr. Wu was originally a stage play, written by Harold Owen and Harry M. Vernon. It was first staged in London in 1913; the first U.S. production opened in New York on October 14, 1914 with stage star Walker Whiteside playing Wu.
The film was shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California. Script supervisor Willard Sheldon later recalled that Chaney had a good working relationship with director William Nigh and that production went smoothly.
Release
Mr. Wu was released on March 26, 1927. Wu Li Chang, a Spanish-language version of Mr. Wu, was produced in 1930.
Directed by William Nigh
Based on
The play Mr. Wu
by Henry Maurice Vernon
Harold Owen
Starring
Lon Chaney
Renée Adorée
Cinematography John Arnold
Edited by Ben Lewis
Music by Louis F. Gottschal
Production
company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Release date
March 26, 1927
Running time 80 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Wu_(1927_film)
https://wn.com/Mr._Wu_(1927)_1080P
'Mr. Wu is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Lon Chaney, based on a 1913 stage play. Chaney portrays a Chinese patriarch who tries to exact revenge on the Englishman who seduced his daughter.
Cast
Lon Chaney as Mr. Wu / Grandfather Wu
Louise Dresser as Mrs. Gregory
Renée Adorée as Wu Nang Ping
Holmes Herbert as Mr. Gregory
Ralph Forbes as Basil Gregory
Gertrude Olmstead as Hilda Gregory
Mrs. Wong Wing as Ah Wong
Claude King as Mr. James Muir
Sonny Loy as Little Wu
Anna May Wong as Loo Song
Toshia Mori as Nang Ping's friend (credited as Toshia Ichioka)
Production
Mr. Wu was originally a stage play, written by Harold Owen and Harry M. Vernon. It was first staged in London in 1913; the first U.S. production opened in New York on October 14, 1914 with stage star Walker Whiteside playing Wu.
The film was shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California. Script supervisor Willard Sheldon later recalled that Chaney had a good working relationship with director William Nigh and that production went smoothly.
Release
Mr. Wu was released on March 26, 1927. Wu Li Chang, a Spanish-language version of Mr. Wu, was produced in 1930.
Directed by William Nigh
Based on
The play Mr. Wu
by Henry Maurice Vernon
Harold Owen
Starring
Lon Chaney
Renée Adorée
Cinematography John Arnold
Edited by Ben Lewis
Music by Louis F. Gottschal
Production
company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Release date
March 26, 1927
Running time 80 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Wu_(1927_film)
- published: 26 Jun 2023
- views: 121
1:04:51
College (1927) [1080p]
'College is a 1927 comedy-drama silent film directed by James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, and starring Keaton, Anne Cornwall, and Harold Goodwin.
Plot
In South...
'College is a 1927 comedy-drama silent film directed by James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, and starring Keaton, Anne Cornwall, and Harold Goodwin.
Plot
In Southern California, Ronald graduates high school as its "most brilliant scholar". At his graduation, Ronald speaks on "the Curse of the Athlete", arguing that books are more important than athletics. His speech offends most of the student body, especially the popular athlete Jeff, and causes Ronald's sweetheart Mary to reject him.
Ronald decides to follow Mary to Clayton, which the dean describes as an "athlete-infested college". Hoping to impress Mary, Ronald tries out for the baseball and track and field teams, but proves to be totally inept. At the same time, he attempts to work as a soda jerk and as a waiter in blackface while trying to keep these jobs a secret from Mary, who has started dating Jeff.
Eventually the dean asks Ronald why his grades are suffering. After Ronald explains the situation, the dean empathizes with him and orders the rowing coach to make Ronald the coxswain in the upcoming competition. The coach tries to sabotage Ronald by slipping him a sleeping potion so he cannot compete, but the potion is accidentally consumed by the team's other coxswain instead. Despite Ronald capsizing the boat, pulling the rudder off mid-race, and causing collisions with other boats, the Clayton team wins the race anyway.
Meanwhile, Mary starts to appreciate Ronald’s futile efforts to impress her. However, on the day of the boat race, Jeff gets kicked out of college and takes her hostage in her room, locking them in together in an effort to get her expelled so she will marry him. In the end, she manages to contact Ronald by telephone, who in a sudden show of athleticism sprints to her dormitory, pole vaults into her window, and fights off Jeff by throwing household objects at him and demonstrating skills in javelin, shot put, and tackle football. Mary agrees to marry Ronald and they live the rest of their lives together, ending with a shot of side-by-side gravestones.
Cast
Buster Keaton as Ronald
Anne Cornwall as Mary Haynes
Harold Goodwin as Jeff
Flora Bramley as Mary's friend
Snitz Edwards as Dean Edwards
Carl Harbaugh as Crew Coach
Sam Crawford as Baseball Coach
Florence Turner as Ronald's mother
Madame Sul-Te-Wan as Head Cook
Directed by James W. Horne
Buster Keaton
Written by Bryan Foy
Carl Harbaugh
Produced by Joseph M. Schenck
Starring Buster Keaton
Anne Cornwall
Harold Goodwin
Cinematography Bert Haines
Dev Jennings
Edited by Sherman Kell
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
September 27, 1927
Running time 66 min.
Country United States
Language English'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_(1927_film)
https://wn.com/College_(1927)_1080P
'College is a 1927 comedy-drama silent film directed by James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, and starring Keaton, Anne Cornwall, and Harold Goodwin.
Plot
In Southern California, Ronald graduates high school as its "most brilliant scholar". At his graduation, Ronald speaks on "the Curse of the Athlete", arguing that books are more important than athletics. His speech offends most of the student body, especially the popular athlete Jeff, and causes Ronald's sweetheart Mary to reject him.
Ronald decides to follow Mary to Clayton, which the dean describes as an "athlete-infested college". Hoping to impress Mary, Ronald tries out for the baseball and track and field teams, but proves to be totally inept. At the same time, he attempts to work as a soda jerk and as a waiter in blackface while trying to keep these jobs a secret from Mary, who has started dating Jeff.
Eventually the dean asks Ronald why his grades are suffering. After Ronald explains the situation, the dean empathizes with him and orders the rowing coach to make Ronald the coxswain in the upcoming competition. The coach tries to sabotage Ronald by slipping him a sleeping potion so he cannot compete, but the potion is accidentally consumed by the team's other coxswain instead. Despite Ronald capsizing the boat, pulling the rudder off mid-race, and causing collisions with other boats, the Clayton team wins the race anyway.
Meanwhile, Mary starts to appreciate Ronald’s futile efforts to impress her. However, on the day of the boat race, Jeff gets kicked out of college and takes her hostage in her room, locking them in together in an effort to get her expelled so she will marry him. In the end, she manages to contact Ronald by telephone, who in a sudden show of athleticism sprints to her dormitory, pole vaults into her window, and fights off Jeff by throwing household objects at him and demonstrating skills in javelin, shot put, and tackle football. Mary agrees to marry Ronald and they live the rest of their lives together, ending with a shot of side-by-side gravestones.
Cast
Buster Keaton as Ronald
Anne Cornwall as Mary Haynes
Harold Goodwin as Jeff
Flora Bramley as Mary's friend
Snitz Edwards as Dean Edwards
Carl Harbaugh as Crew Coach
Sam Crawford as Baseball Coach
Florence Turner as Ronald's mother
Madame Sul-Te-Wan as Head Cook
Directed by James W. Horne
Buster Keaton
Written by Bryan Foy
Carl Harbaugh
Produced by Joseph M. Schenck
Starring Buster Keaton
Anne Cornwall
Harold Goodwin
Cinematography Bert Haines
Dev Jennings
Edited by Sherman Kell
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
September 27, 1927
Running time 66 min.
Country United States
Language English'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_(1927_film)
- published: 08 Jun 2023
- views: 63
1:30:30
Mr. Wu (1927) [No Audio]
'Mr. Wu is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Lon Chaney, based on a 1913 stage play. Chaney portrays a Chinese patriarch w...
'Mr. Wu is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Lon Chaney, based on a 1913 stage play. Chaney portrays a Chinese patriarch who tries to exact revenge on the Englishman who seduced his daughter.
Cast
Lon Chaney as Mr. Wu / Grandfather Wu
Louise Dresser as Mrs. Gregory
Renée Adorée as Wu Nang Ping
Holmes Herbert as Mr. Gregory
Ralph Forbes as Basil Gregory
Gertrude Olmstead as Hilda Gregory
Mrs. Wong Wing as Ah Wong
Claude King as Mr. James Muir
Sonny Loy as Little Wu
Anna May Wong as Loo Song
Toshia Mori as Nang Ping's friend (credited as Toshia Ichioka)
Production
Mr. Wu was originally a stage play, written by Harold Owen and Harry M. Vernon. It was first staged in London in 1913; the first U.S. production opened in New York on October 14, 1914 with stage star Walker Whiteside playing Wu.
The film was shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California. Script supervisor Willard Sheldon later recalled that Chaney had a good working relationship with director William Nigh and that production went smoothly.
Release
Mr. Wu was released on March 26, 1927. Wu Li Chang, a Spanish-language version of Mr. Wu, was produced in 1930.
Directed by William Nigh
Based on
The play Mr. Wu
by Henry Maurice Vernon
Harold Owen
Starring
Lon Chaney
Renée Adorée
Cinematography John Arnold
Edited by Ben Lewis
Music by Louis F. Gottschal
Production
company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Release date
March 26, 1927
Running time 80 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Wu_(1927_film)
https://wn.com/Mr._Wu_(1927)_No_Audio
'Mr. Wu is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Lon Chaney, based on a 1913 stage play. Chaney portrays a Chinese patriarch who tries to exact revenge on the Englishman who seduced his daughter.
Cast
Lon Chaney as Mr. Wu / Grandfather Wu
Louise Dresser as Mrs. Gregory
Renée Adorée as Wu Nang Ping
Holmes Herbert as Mr. Gregory
Ralph Forbes as Basil Gregory
Gertrude Olmstead as Hilda Gregory
Mrs. Wong Wing as Ah Wong
Claude King as Mr. James Muir
Sonny Loy as Little Wu
Anna May Wong as Loo Song
Toshia Mori as Nang Ping's friend (credited as Toshia Ichioka)
Production
Mr. Wu was originally a stage play, written by Harold Owen and Harry M. Vernon. It was first staged in London in 1913; the first U.S. production opened in New York on October 14, 1914 with stage star Walker Whiteside playing Wu.
The film was shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California. Script supervisor Willard Sheldon later recalled that Chaney had a good working relationship with director William Nigh and that production went smoothly.
Release
Mr. Wu was released on March 26, 1927. Wu Li Chang, a Spanish-language version of Mr. Wu, was produced in 1930.
Directed by William Nigh
Based on
The play Mr. Wu
by Henry Maurice Vernon
Harold Owen
Starring
Lon Chaney
Renée Adorée
Cinematography John Arnold
Edited by Ben Lewis
Music by Louis F. Gottschal
Production
company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Release date
March 26, 1927
Running time 80 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Wu_(1927_film)
- published: 26 Jun 2023
- views: 144
1:35:37
Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho (The Gaucho) (1927)
'The Gaucho (the official full title of the film is Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho) is a 1927 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez set in Arge...
'The Gaucho (the official full title of the film is Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho) is a 1927 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez set in Argentina. The lavish adventure extravaganza, filmed at the height of Fairbanks' box office clout, was directed by F. Richard Jones with a running time of 115 minutes.
Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance considers the film "a near masterwork" and "an anomaly among his [Fairbanks’] works." Vance also considers it a "daring departure, the film is an effort of unanticipated darkness in tone, setting, and character. The spirit of adolescent boyish adventure, the omnipresent characteristic of his prior films, is noticeably absent. It has been replaced by a spiritual fervor and an element of seething sexuality the likes of which has never been seen before in one of his productions.”
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks - The Gaucho
Lupe Vélez - The Mountain Girl
Joan Barclay (as Geraine Greear) - The Girl of the Shrine (younger)
Eve Southern - The Girl of the Shrine
Gustav von Seyffertitz - Ruiz, The Usurper
Charles Stevens - The Gaucho's First Lieutenant
Nigel De Brulier - The Padre
Albert MacQuarrie - Victim of the Black Doom
Mary Pickford - Virgin Mary (cameo)
Legacy
A new preservation print of The Gaucho, created by the Museum of Modern Art, was first shown at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2008. It has subsequently been screened at MoMA (2008), and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (2009) to promote the new book Douglas Fairbanks with author Jeffrey Vance introducing the screenings.
The nickname for the sports teams of the University of California-Santa Barbara is The Gauchos in honor of Fairbanks' acting in the eponymous film.
Directed by F. Richard Jones
Written by Douglas Fairbanks
Produced by Douglas Fairbanks
Starring Douglas Fairbanks
Lupe Vélez
Cinematography Tony Gaudio
Edited by William Nolan
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
November 21, 1927
Running time 115 minutes
Languages Silent
English intertitles
Box office $1.4 million'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gaucho
File Source: https://archive.org/details/1927-the-gaucho
https://wn.com/Douglas_Fairbanks_As_The_Gaucho_(The_Gaucho)_(1927)
'The Gaucho (the official full title of the film is Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho) is a 1927 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez set in Argentina. The lavish adventure extravaganza, filmed at the height of Fairbanks' box office clout, was directed by F. Richard Jones with a running time of 115 minutes.
Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance considers the film "a near masterwork" and "an anomaly among his [Fairbanks’] works." Vance also considers it a "daring departure, the film is an effort of unanticipated darkness in tone, setting, and character. The spirit of adolescent boyish adventure, the omnipresent characteristic of his prior films, is noticeably absent. It has been replaced by a spiritual fervor and an element of seething sexuality the likes of which has never been seen before in one of his productions.”
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks - The Gaucho
Lupe Vélez - The Mountain Girl
Joan Barclay (as Geraine Greear) - The Girl of the Shrine (younger)
Eve Southern - The Girl of the Shrine
Gustav von Seyffertitz - Ruiz, The Usurper
Charles Stevens - The Gaucho's First Lieutenant
Nigel De Brulier - The Padre
Albert MacQuarrie - Victim of the Black Doom
Mary Pickford - Virgin Mary (cameo)
Legacy
A new preservation print of The Gaucho, created by the Museum of Modern Art, was first shown at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2008. It has subsequently been screened at MoMA (2008), and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (2009) to promote the new book Douglas Fairbanks with author Jeffrey Vance introducing the screenings.
The nickname for the sports teams of the University of California-Santa Barbara is The Gauchos in honor of Fairbanks' acting in the eponymous film.
Directed by F. Richard Jones
Written by Douglas Fairbanks
Produced by Douglas Fairbanks
Starring Douglas Fairbanks
Lupe Vélez
Cinematography Tony Gaudio
Edited by William Nolan
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
November 21, 1927
Running time 115 minutes
Languages Silent
English intertitles
Box office $1.4 million'
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gaucho
File Source: https://archive.org/details/1927-the-gaucho
- published: 09 Jun 2023
- views: 130
2:56
California's Historic Movie Palaces Still Operating
Featured here are 14 California grand movie palaces that escaped the wrecking ball and are thriving throughout the Golden State, including San Francisco, Oaklan...
Featured here are 14 California grand movie palaces that escaped the wrecking ball and are thriving throughout the Golden State, including San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles, Fresno, Stockton, and many other cities.
Motion Picture exhibitors realized that people came to the movies to escape reality—and they set upon extending the fantasy from the films to the theaters themselves. As a result, Grand movie palaces in California were built, including the spectacular Fox San Francisco, Paramount, and RKO Hillstreet theatres in Los Angels. Unfortunately, they were all demolished, but fortunately, many California of these magnificent theatres were saved.
In the first half of the 20th Century, theatre architects borrowed themes from world architecture, particularly exotic Chinese, Aztec, and Egyptian motifs. Still, the most popular look was Art Deco, with its streamlined chrome and sinuous curves.
But with the rise of the multiplex cinemas, these grand palaces were boarded up, used for other purposes, or demolished.
Enjoy watching the video featuring 14 grand California palaces that have been saved from destruction by developers and the wrecking ball.
https://wn.com/California's_Historic_Movie_Palaces_Still_Operating
Featured here are 14 California grand movie palaces that escaped the wrecking ball and are thriving throughout the Golden State, including San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles, Fresno, Stockton, and many other cities.
Motion Picture exhibitors realized that people came to the movies to escape reality—and they set upon extending the fantasy from the films to the theaters themselves. As a result, Grand movie palaces in California were built, including the spectacular Fox San Francisco, Paramount, and RKO Hillstreet theatres in Los Angels. Unfortunately, they were all demolished, but fortunately, many California of these magnificent theatres were saved.
In the first half of the 20th Century, theatre architects borrowed themes from world architecture, particularly exotic Chinese, Aztec, and Egyptian motifs. Still, the most popular look was Art Deco, with its streamlined chrome and sinuous curves.
But with the rise of the multiplex cinemas, these grand palaces were boarded up, used for other purposes, or demolished.
Enjoy watching the video featuring 14 grand California palaces that have been saved from destruction by developers and the wrecking ball.
- published: 10 Jun 2021
- views: 508