Bar 20 Justice 1938  N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lesley Selander
Cast: William Boyd, George "Gabby" Hayes, Russell Hayden, Gwen Gaze, Paul Sutton, Pat J. O'Brien, Walter Long, William Duncan, John Beach, Joe De Stefani
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) helps out a widow, Anne Dennis (Gwen Gaze), who is being victimized by outlaws who want her ore-rich mine.
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 The Birth of a Nation 1915  N/R, 159 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Western / Romance
aka: The Clansman
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, Donald Crisp, Raoul Walsh, Eugene Pallette, Elmo Lincoln, Robert Harron, John Ford, Joseph Henabery, Howard Gaye, Walter Long
With this epic film, Hollywood reached new heights in the production of extravaganzas. However, it is also an example of how filmmaking can be used as propaganda–in this case, glorifying the Ku Klux Klan. The film begins with lifelong friends the Camerons (Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, and Mae Marsh) being separated from the Stonemans (Lillian Gish, Ralph Lewis, and Robert Harron) by the Civil War and the Mason Dixon line. When the war ends, Ben Cameron (Walthall) organizes a secret group, the Ku Klux Klan, to "restore" order. Music and battle noises were added for a 1930 reissue.
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Blood and Sand 1922  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Fred Niblo
Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, Nita Naldi, George Field, Walter Long, Leo White, Rosa Rosanova, Rosita Marstini, Charles Belcher, Fred Becker, Jack Winn, Harry Lamont, Gilbert Clayton, George Periolat, Sidney De Gray
Popular Spanish bullfighter Juan Gallarde (Rudolph Valentino) marries the love of his life Carmen (Lila Lee) but then has a love affair with sexy Dona Sol (Nita Naldi). His performances in the bullring lack daring during his affair with Dona Sol, and he is gored by a bull. Carmen nurses him back to health, and Juan returns to the bullring. But, when he spots Dona Sol in the stands, his attention is diverted, the bull charges, and Juan is killed.
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City of Missing Girls 1941  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Elmer Clifton
Cast: H.B. Warner, Astrid Allwyn, John Archer, Sarah Padden, Philip Van Zandt, George Rosener, Kathryn Crawford, Patricia Knox, Walter Long, Gale Storm, Danny(2) Webb, Boyd Irwin
A phony art school is actually an auditioning center for naive young women who are to be placed in nightclubs. When several of the women are murdered, reporter Nora (Astrid Allwyn) sets out to uncover what is going on when she is unhappy with the action taken by officials. She finds that the murderer is her own father.
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Drift Fence 1936 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Texas Desperadoes
Director: Otho Lovering
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Tom Keene, Katherine DeMille, Benny Baker, Leif Erickson, Stanley Andrews, Richard Carle, Irving Bacon, Jan Duggan, Effie Ellsler, Walter Long, Chester Gan, Richard Alexander, Budd Fine
Jim Traft (Benny Baker) meets Jim Travis (Tom Keene) at a rodeo and tells Travis of his troubles with cattle rustlers. Travis, who is actually a Texas Ranger, suggests that he impersonate Traft in building a fence to keep the rustlers out. But Travis must not only fight the rustlers, but he needs to convince neighbor Slinger Dunn (Buster Crabbe) that the fence must be built. Travis wins not only the battle of the rustlers but also wins the love of Slinger's sister, Molly (Katherine DeMille).
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Flaming Lead 1939 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Ken Maynard, Eleanor Stewart, Walter Long, Tom London, Ralph Peters, Carleton Young, Reed Howes, Bob Terry, Dave O'Brien, Kenne Duncan, Ethan Allen, John Merton, Carl Mathews
While stranded in Chicago, Clark (Ken Maynard) takes a job at a nightclub as an entertainer performing rope and gun tricks in order to fund his way back home. He meets horse rancher Gordon (Dave O'Brien) who needs Clark's aid in stopping a gang of rustlers who are stealing his horses. Clark agrees to help, and heads West to take care of the situation.
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 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 N/R, 163 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Intolerance
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Howard Gaye, Elmo Lincoln, Walter Long, Bessie Love, Tully Marshall, Erich von Stroheim, Monte Blue, Donald Crisp, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse, Vera Lewis, Eleanor Washington
This great film presents four stories, each in a different era from ancient Babylon to the present. All of the stories involve man's intolerance to man. The stories include a mountain girl in Babylonia and religious rivalry at the time, Pharisees' condemnation of Jesus Christ, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris and how it coincides with two Huguenots preparing for marriage, and social reformers in modern America destroying the lives of a young couple.
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The Little American 1917 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance
Director: Cecil B. MeMille
Cast: Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton, Wallace Beery, Hobart Bosworth, DeWitt Jennings, Ben Alexander, Carl Gerard, Walter Long, James Neill, Colleen Moore, Ramon Novarro
The year is 1914, and American Angela Moore (Mary Pickford) has two suitors–Karl is from Germany, and Jules is French. Then war breaks out, and Karl and Jules return to their countries to fight. Angela sails for France to visit her aunt, but her ship is sunk by a U-boat. Angela survives and goes to her aunt's chateau where she learns that her aunt has died. Angela has inherited her aunt's chateau. The Germans attack, and Angela begins to send messages to the Allies but is caught and sentenced to be executed. Karl comes to her aid, denounces the Kaiser, and is also sentenced. Now, the French, along with Jules, arrive in time to free Mary and Karl who then sail back to the United States.
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 The Maltese Falcon 1931  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Dangerous Female
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Bebe Daniels, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, J. Farrell MacDonald, Oscar Apfel, Thelma Todd, Walter Long, Dwight Frye
Although not as popular as the Humphrey Bogart version 10 years later, this first (of three) filming of Dashiell Hammett's story, is good. Private Eye Sam Spade (Ricardo Cortez) takes a case for Ruth (Bebe Daniels), whose sister is missing. Ultimately, it becomes a case of looking for a valuable statuette (with others also in pursuit) and pursuing the murderer of his partner. The 1936 version is titled "Satan Met a Lady."
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Martyrs of the Alamo 1915 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Christy Cabanne
Cast: Walter Long, Alfred Paget, Tom Wilson, John T. Dillon, Allan Sears, Augustus Carney, Juanita Hansen, Ora Carew, Douglas Fairbanks, Fred Burns, Sam De Grasse
D.W. Griffith supervised the direction of this action-filled recreation of the siege of the Alamo when 185 gallant men fought Santa Anna's Mexican army of 5,000.
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Moby Dick 1930 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Walter Long, Nigel De Brulier, Noble Johnson, Virginia Sale, John Ince, Lloyd Hughes, May Boley, Tom O'Brien
Any resemblance to Herman Melville's classic story is purely coincidental in this strange adaptation of his story about Captain Ahab's obsession with the great white whale.
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North of the Rio Grande 1937 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Nate Watt
Cast: William Boyd, George "Gabby" Hayes, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum, Bernadene Hayes, Jack Rutherford, Lorraine Randall, Lee J. Cobb, John Beach, Walter Long
Hoppy poses as a notorious train robber in order to get to the man responsible for killing Hoppy's brother. The trail leads to a leading citizen, who is in reality "Lone Wolf," head of the train-robbing gang. Sidekick Windy (George "Gabby" Hayes)does a good stint as a barroom piano player.
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Other Men's Women 1931 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: James Cagney, Grant Withers, Mary Astor, Regis Toomey, Joan Blondell, Fred Kohler, J. Farrell MacDonald, Walter Long, Lillian Worth, Pat Hartigan, Lucille Ward, Pat Harmon, Kewpie Morgan, Bob Perry, Lee Moran
Passions seethe while Lily (Mary Astor) is at one corner of a love triangle involving railroad workers Bill (Grant Withers) and Jack (Regis Toomey)–and Jack is her husband. The two men fight on a train, Jack falls off the engine, and his injuries leave him permanently blind. Later, a torrential rainstorm hits the area, and a railway bridge is threatened by the swelling waters. Bill tries to save the bridge by stalling a train on the bridge to give it extra weight. But, Jack takes over, throws Bill off the train, and drives the train to the bridge where it crashes into the water, bringing about his demise.
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Pardon Us 1931 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Parrott
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilfred Lucas, Walter Long, James Finlayson, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin, Boris Karloff, Hal Roach, Eddie Dunn
In Laurel and Hardy's first full-length feature film, they become "bootleggers" when they sell their home-brewed beer. As a result, they end up in jail.
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 Shadows 1922 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Forman
Cast: Lon Chaney, Marguerite De La Motte, Harrison(2) Ford, John St. Polis, Walter Long, Buddy Messinger, Priscilla Bonner, Frances Raymond
Lon Chaney's excellent performance is the highlight of this tale of a Chinese laundryman, Yen Sin (Chaney), who is washed ashore at an East Coast fishing village during a storm. But, the God-fearing inhabitants of the village demonstrate prejudice against Yen, who runs a laundry from a houseboat. Eventually he befriends and is befriended by young minister John (Harrison Ford) who marries a widow, Sympathy (Marguerite De La Motte). But, blackmail ruins John, and Yen comes to the rescue by uncovering the truth, after which Yen returns to the sea in his boat.
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 The Sheik 1921 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: George Melford
Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Long, Lucien Littlefield, George Waggner, Patsy Ruth Miller, Frank Butler, Charles Brinley, Loretta Young
This film made Valentino a household word, though the film itself is not all that good. By today's standards, race and gender issues would stand out in the manner they are portrayed. But, it is still a fun film to watch. Sheik Ahmed (Rudolph Valentino) falls for a British socialite (Agnes Ayres), abducts her, and takes her to his desert tent. There he teaches her subservience. While trying to escape, she is captured by a foe of the Sheik. When Ahmed saves her, she realizes her love for him.
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The Shock 1923 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Cast: Lon Chaney, Virginia Valli, Jack Mower, William Welsh, Henry A. Barrows, Christine Mayo, Harry De Vere, John(2) Beck, Walter Long, Bob Kortman, Togo Yamamoto
Wilse (Lon Chaney), a crippled man, is also a member of a gang of blackmailers. When he falls in love with the daughter, Gertrude (Virginia Valli), of his most recent victim, Wilse decides to go straight–and he may succeed after an earthquake destroys the evidence of his criminal activities.
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The Yankee Clipper 1927 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Rupert Julian
Cast: William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Frank Coghlan Jr., John Miljan, Walter Long, Louis Payne, Burr McIntosh, George Ovey, Zack Williams, William Blaisdell, Harry Holden, Julia Faye, Clarence Burton, Stanton Heck, Nicholas Soussanin
This silent film involves a race between an American ship, "The Yankee Clipper" manned by Hal Winslow (William Boyd), and a British ship, "The Lord of the Isles" manned by Huntington (Louis Payne). The race begins at Foo Chow, China, and will end at Boston harbor. The winner will win the rights to China's tea trade with America and also will become the owner of the losing ship. Before leaving Foo Chow, Winslow is visited by his opposing captain's daughter, Lady Jocelyn (Elinor Fair), and her fiance Raul de Vigny (John Miljan). Before Lady Jocelyn and de Vigny disembark, the ship sails away from the harbor, and problems lie ahead–including a typhoon, a mutiny encouraged by de Vigny, and even an attempted rape of Lady Jocelyn and murder of de Vigny after a chase that leads to the top of the rigging.
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| 1. Bar 20 Justice (1938)
2. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
aka: The Clansman
3. Blood and Sand (1922)
4. City of Missing Girls (1941)
5. Drift Fence (1936)
aka: Texas Desperadoes
6. Flaming Lead (1939)
7. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
aka: Intolerance
8. The Little American (1917)
9. The Maltese Falcon (1931)
aka: Dangerous Female
10. Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)
11. Moby Dick (1930)
12. North of the Rio Grande (1937)
13. Other Men's Women (1931)
14. Pardon Us (1931)
15. Shadows (1922)
16. The Sheik (1921)
17. The Shock (1923)
18. The Yankee Clipper (1927)
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