Biography: Harry Hoyt |
"Frankly a hack." This was one film historian's assessment of the directorial career of Harry O. Hoyt -- and frankly, it was an accurate one. While a Yale undergrad, Hoyt began submitting screenplays to Hollywood studios, and continued doing so after... more
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Cast: Charles Starrett
Tags: Action
Length: 66min
A shipwreck strands a newpaperman, his fiancee, and a man falsely accused of murder, on an African island. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
Cast: Evelyn Brent Harry Hoyt
Length: 67min
In this drama, a woman falls for a rumrunner who promises to quit bootlegging and marry her. But first he needs to make one more trip. To assist him she is supposed to warn him of any danger by flashing a light from the coast. Unfortunately, a...
Cast: Myrna Loy Monte Blue Charles Hill Mailes
Length: 55min
One of seven Monte Blue vehicles filmed by Warner Bros. in 1927, Bitter Apples casts the reliable Blue as wealthy John Wyncotte. Hoping to get even with her faithless sweetheart, Belinda White (Myrna Loy) marries John out of spite. She makes it clear...
Cast: Noah Beery, Sr.
Length: 60min
Passion Song was directed by Harry Hoyt, a talented hack best known today for his work on the landmark sci-fi/fantasy endeavor The Lost World. Set in South Africa, the film stars Gertrude Olmstead as Elaine Van Rynn, the wife of Dutch military officer...
Cast: Wallace Beery Carl Laemmle, Sr. Bessie Love Arthur Hoyt Lloyd Hughes
Tags: Adventure Fantasy Prehistoric Fantasy
Length: 62min
This adventure virtually butchers its source, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. But with stop-motion photography and special effects that were incredibly innovative in 1924 and 1925, who cared? These effects were the whole film, and Wallace...
Cast: Clara Bow
Tags: Drama
Length: 60min
Even though Clara Bow was close to achieving true stardom, she was still being cast in crass, low-budget fare. In fact, she has little to do in this overwrought melodrama -- Wallace MacDonald has the meaty role, and is billed above her. Bruce...
Return of Boston Blackie (1927)
Tags: Mystery Detective Film
Length: 77min
Having made his screen debut in the 1918 Boston Blackie's Little Pal and survived an indifferent Fox version in 1923, Jack Boyle's dime-novel detective found a temporary berth in 1927 at down-market Chadwick Pictures, who cast screen newcomer Raymond...
Cast: Natacha Rambova Clive Brook
Length: 7rlmin
Love had already grown cold for Natacha Rambova and her ex-husband, Rudolph Valentino, when this film came out. Why Rambova, a talented costume and set designer, chose to act in any picture, much less this tawdry exploitation film, is a mystery;...
Cast: Wanda Hawley
Tags: Marriage Drama Drama
Length: 62min
The Unnamed Woman stars veteran film player Leah Baird, who also wrote the script. The actress plays the greedy, covetous wife of wealthy businessman Herbert Rawlinson. Unhappy with his mercenary spouse, Rawlinson begins keeping time with Katherine...
Cast: Betty Compson Herbert Rawlinson Armand Kaliz
Length: 62min
Set during the turn of the century, The Belle of Broadway starts out in Paris, where celebrated stage star Madame Adele (Edith Yorke) is making her debut in "DuBarry." During the performance, Mme. Adele's musician husband abruptly walks out of the...
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