Biography: Edward Peil Sr. |
Enjoying a screen career that began in 1908 and lasted until the early '50s, Edward Peil Sr. remains one of those faces every lover of classic Hollywood movies knows so well but just cannot quite place. A barnstormer of the old school, Peil supported... more
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Cast: Tim McCoy Sam Newfield
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 58min
Tim McCoy is the Texas Marshal in this better than usual PRC western. McCoy is forced to take on a hooded vigilante group called the League of Patriots. He suspects in this case that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, and he's right: The...
Cast: John Wayne George "Gabby" Hayes
Tags: Western Traditional Western B-Western
Length: 59min
John Wayne once again goes undercover to catch a wanted outlaw in this average entry in his 1934-1935 Western series for Monogram Pictures. Wayne plays John Carruthers, a U.S. marshal, and his quarry is the Polka Dot Bandit, aka Danti (Yakima Canutt),...
Cast: Milton Sills
Length: 59min
Based on the George W. Sutton Jr. story ~Dawn of My Tomorrow, Framed turned out to be another winner for box-office "reliable" Milton Sills. The story begins with the court-martial of military officer Raoul Hilaire (Sills); thanks to a series of...
Cast: Bessie Love Edward Peil Sr.
Tags: Crime
Length: 53min
Generally, during the silent era, Caucasian actors, not Asians, would play "Oriental" roles. In this omantic drama, Bessie Love is not exactly the most realistic Chinese girl. Bob, a sailor (William E. Aldrich), gets involved in drug smuggling...
Length: min
Actress Leah Baird produced this domestic drama, wrote both the story and scenario, and starred in it. When Rose Manning (Baird) comes home in the middle of the night wearing only half her clothes and covering herself with a coat belonging to her old...
Cast: Rowland V. Lee
Length: 6rlmin
This rags-to-riches fairy tale came from the Goldwyn studios. Letty Gravely (Helene Chadwick) is at the mercy of her brutal stepfather because she has no one else in the world. She decides to end it all by jumping into the lake, but she is rescued by...
Cast: D.W. Griffith Lillian Gish Donald Crisp Richard Barthelmess
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama Melodrama
Length: 102min
Based on "-The Chink and the Child", a story by Thomas Burke, Broken Blossoms is one of D.W. Griffith's most poetic films. Richard Barthelmess plays a young Chinese aristocrat who hopes to spread the gospel of his Eastern religion to the grimy corners...
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa
Length: min
This was one of Sessue Hayakawa's more unusual films. His character, Tatsu, is a brilliant but half-mad artist who lives in the mountains and is constantly searching for his soul mate, whom he calls his "dragon princess." He finds her in the city --...
Cast: Tod Browning
Length: 2rlmin
Having lost his wife and son, Dr. Farrell (Fred A. Turner) focuses all his devotion on his surviving daughter Naida (Billie West). He takes her away with him to an isolated home on the California coast, where she meets their neighbor Tom O'Day (Edward...
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