Biography: Harry J. Revier |
American filmmaker Harry J. Revier directed a number of Hollywood silent films. He specialized in action films and serials. A native of Philadelphia, Revier started his career in Italy as a cameraman. After working in France and England until 1918, he... more
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Tags: Drama Social Problem Film
Length: 62min
Released in typical "roadshow" manner with tag-lines such as "Where lust was called just!" and "A throbbing drama of shackled youth!", this exploitation melodrama set in Appalachia was ostensibly an outcry against the outmoded mountain custom of grown...
Cast: George "Gabby" Hayes Kane Richmond Josef Swickard
Tags: Thriller Science Fiction Adventure Action Jungle Film
Length: min
The legendary so-bad-it's-good serial The Lost City manages to keep the audience on its toes for 12 full chapters. It all begins when Hero Bruce Gordon (Kane Richmond) invents a device to track the mysterious electrical disturbances which are causing...
Cast: Mary Clare
Tags: Comedy
Length: 57min
Bill (Leslie Fuller) is a humble British paperhanger who inherits a modest legacy. He uses the money to purchase a race horse. Before the day is done, Bill has lost both horse and a big race. There's a "stay in your own backyard" moral hereabouts that...
Cast: Robert Cummings Cullen Landis
Tags: Romance Crime Drama Prison Film
Length: 65min
In this crime drama a convicted killer faces the chair for killing a woman. His lover goes to the governor to beg a stay of execution. She tells him the convicts story, which is told in flashback. The trouble begins when the hussy he purportedly...
Cast: J.P. McGowan Pat O'Malley John Miljan Carmelita Geraghty Harry J. Revier
Length: 54min
The Slaver is ostensibly based on a story by James Oliver Curwood. The hero, Pat O'Malley, is a deckhand on the slave ship captained by e-vil John Miljan. O'Malley becomes an abolitionist in a hurry when he falls in love with heroine Carmelita...
Cast: Ruth Clifford Lee Moran
Length: 57min
Minor silent action hero James F. Fulton starred in this low-budget melodrama distributed by Poverty Row company Hi-Mark. Fulton, who would later play The Air Mail Pilot and direct the airborne serial The Eagle of the Night (both 1928), here starred...
Cast: George Morrell Roy Stewart Louise Lovely
Length: min
Early silent screen leading man Roy Stewart played a dual-role in this independently produced "Northwestern" about identical twins, separated at birth, who grow up on opposite sides of the law. The good Stewart becomes a Royal Mounted Police officer...
Tags: Jungle Film Adventure
Length: 241min
Produced by poverty row company National Film Corp., the sequel to Tarzan of the Apes (1918) and The Return of Tarzan (1920) proved a troubled production throughout. Burgeoning Western star Jack Hoxie (then known as "Hart Hoxie") had been pegged to...
The Challenge of Chance (1919)
Cast: Arthur Todd
Length: 6rlmin
It was just as common in 1919 as it is today for athletes to be offered movie contracts. Challenge of Chance stars heavyweight boxing champ Jess Willard, with serial queen Arline Pretty appearing as Jess' leading lady. A western, the film casts...
Cast: Warner P. Richmond
Tags: War Romance War
Length: 7rlmin
WWI flying ace Lt. Bert Hall played himself in the thrill-packed wartime actioner Romance of the Air. When his plane is shot down over occupied territory, Hall disguises himself as a German soldier in hopes of making an undetected escape. Instead, he...
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