Biography: James Farley |
Brawny character actor James Farley made his entree into films in 1918. Best-served in roles calling for authority backed by muscle, Farley can be seen as Southern General Thatcher in Buster Keaton's The General (1926) and as the executioner in Cecil... more
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Cast: John Wayne Robert North Bradbury
Tags: Revisionist Western Western
Length: 55min
Westward Ho begins as hero John Wyatt (John Wayne) vows to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of cattle rustlers. Years later, Wyatt is put in charge of a band of vigilantes, bent on rounding up a gang of outlaws. He discovers to his chagrin...
Cast: Harry Joe Brown Ken Maynard Paul Hurst
Tags: Western
Length: 63min
Ken Maynard's fourth film under his 1929 contract with Universal came complete with a music score and sound effects, but no dialogue scenes. Maynard played the title role, a cowboy who, to save the spread of beleaguered homesteader Colonel Lee...
Tags: Melodrama Detective Film Drama Mystery Crime
Length: 83min
Writer/director/actor Willard Mack took one look at the blockbuster stage play ~Broadway and said to himself "I can do that, and at half the price." The result was Voice of the City, in which Mack does what amounts to a carbon copy of Thomas Jackson's...
Cast: Francis X. Bushman Neil Hamilton
Length: 70min
Based on William McLeod Raine's 1917 novel -The Yukon Trail, a Tale of the North, this long-lost silent melodrama featured Francis X. Bushman and Neil Hamilton, a couple of prospectors who kill a crazed hermit in self-defense. The hermit's daughter...
Cast: William S. Hart Adolph Zukor
Tags: Western
Length: 77min
In his third-to-last Western, austere silent-screen hero William S. Hart tackles the legend of gambler/lawman Wild Bill Hickock. Unfortunately, Hart's approach was, to quote the trade-paper ~Wid's, "rather dull and tedious." Hart belonged thoroughly...
Cast: Herbert Brenon Richard Dix Theodore Von Eltz
Tags: Crime
Length: 60min
This implausible crime drama had the benefit of Betty Compson's presence: she was best known for playing lady criminals. District attorney Richard Templer (Richard Dix) is trying to solve a drug smuggling case, but to do so he needs to break into the...
Cast: John Gilbert
Length: 5rlmin
"Fox Introduces Unusually Promising Star in John Gilbert," proclaimed trade paper ~Moving Picture World in its review of this drama. Four years later, while at MGM, Gilbert would become one of the silent era's most prominent luminaries. Caleb Thomas...
Tags: Western
Length: 7rlmin
The stern William S. Hart was wearing out his welcome by the early 1920s, at least according to the review of his films. Hart would not give up his austere, almost mythical view of the West, his innate sentimentality, not to mention the demand for a...
Cast: Buck Jones
Length: 5rlmin
Duke Travis (Buck Jones) is the new foreman on a ranch run by pretty Bess Lynne (Ruth Renick) and her brother (William Buckley). Trouble begins with the arrival of a pair of crooked cattle buyers (Arthur Carewe and James Farley) and soon our hero is...
Cast: James Farley William Howard
Tags: Western
Length: min
Silent screen Western hero Buck Jones starred in this average assembly-line oater as a young rancher searching for the villain who murdered his father and ran off with his sister. The villain (James Farley), a notorious gambler, has changed his name...
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