Biography: James Mason |
Mustachioed, French-born silent screen villain James Mason, a former musician, was one of the few professional extras to move into featured roles. In the 1920s, Mason established himself as the ideal "Boss Villain" in budget Westerns and would play... more
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Cast: David Ross Lederman Virginia Brown Faire
Length: 48min
Canine star Rin Tin Tin topped the cast of Warner Bros.' A Race for Life. The combination of star and title was in itself enough to pack theaters, but Warners insisted upon adding a plot, if only to appease the critics. In this one, Rinty becomes the...
Cast: Bruce Mitchell Helen Jerome Eddy
Length: 50min
Speed Classic went into production under the less formalized title They're Off! Yes, it's an auto-race drama, starring Rex Lease as a speed-crazy young socialite. Despite the protests of his girlfriend Mildred Harris, Lease enters an important race,...
Cast: Ken Maynard Sol Polito
Tags: Western
Length: 7rlmin
One of Ken Maynard's very best silent westerns, The Unknown Cavalier was filmed on locations in Death Valley, California. Maynard plays Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds. The villain,...
Cast: Estelle Taylor Ralph Ince Martha Mattox
Length: 60min
The heavy-breathing Singapore Mutiny owes a great deal to such previous passion-in-the-tropics efforts as Rain and The Hairy Ape. Estelle Taylor plays a shady Broadwayite who books passage on an oil tanker. It isn't long before the all-male crew...
Cast: Scott R. Dunlap
Length: min
Billed "Charles Jones" for the occasion, Fox cowboy Buck Jones found himself on Broadway in this silent melodrama. He played Bill Moreland, a cowboy who befriends a stranded chorus girl, Janet Ainslee (Fritzi Brunette). Bill sells his prize dogs to...
Cast: Tom Mix
Tags: Western
Length: 57min
Based on a story by Max Brand (Frederick Faust), this minor Tom Mix western is really just a romantic comedy in which Tom fights off rivals James Mason (an earlier James Mason, not the British star) and J. Gordon Russell. Betty Jewel, who later...
Cast: Harry Carey
Tags: Western
Length: 55min
A peaceful, hard-working farmer is almost hanged for a crime he didn't commit in this, the second version of Bret Harte's ~Tennessee's Pardner. Harry Carey starred as the farmer who inadvertently helps a condemned man escape the sheriff's posse. He is...
Cast: Adolphe Menjou Buck Jones
Tags: Western
Length: min
Western ace Buck Jones had one of his best early roles in this well-mounted silent action melodrama directed by Bernard J. Durning. Jones played Stanley Carson, a cowboy who, while visiting the Deep South, gets in trouble with a gang of crooked...
Cast: Tom Moore Eileen Percy
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure
Length: 62min
This melodrama about the moral redemption of two crooks stars Eileen Pearcy and Tom Moore. Whitey (Moore) goes from being a war hero to a crook. He earns the admiration of Kitty, a fellow crook (Pearcy), when he saves her from the advances of Mal...
Cast: Thomas Ince Lloyd Hughes Lambert Hillyer
Length: 7rlmin
The handsome but uninspired Lloyd Hughes plays a young Cajun man in this drama produced by Thomas Ince. Jeff Newland (Edward Burns) is an unruly youth whose aristocratic Southern father, Colonel Newland (Frank Keenan), disowns him. In his place, the...
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