Biography: Roy Stewart |
At six foot-two and hitting the scale at 190 pounds, dark-haired Roy Stewart was perhaps the largest of the silent screen cowboy stars. Having toured with the famous Floradora Girls, Stewart entered films in the very early 1910s, playing mainly... more
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Cast: Ken Maynard Alan James
Tags: Western
Length: 55min
Ken Maynard's magnificent horse Tarzan took center-stage in this, perhaps the star's most flamboyant entry in the otherwise super low-budget KBS series. A wild stallion, Tarzan releases a group of horses corralled for slaughter by nasty Steve Frazer...
Cast: Reed Howes
Length: 32min
Educational Films, a curiously-named firm specializing in 2-reel comedies, branched out into features with the aviation actioner Sky Ranger. Based on the popular "Russ Farrell" magazine stories, the film stars Reed Howes as the dashing, devil-may-care...
Cast: William Desmond Paul Fix Helen Mack Jack Rockwell
Tags: Action Thriller Romantic Drama Western Traditional Western
Length: 60min
Ken Maynard searches for a wayward youngster in this average Western from his days with low-budget KBS Productions. A rancher turned miner, Ken promises lovely Helen Clark (Helen Mack) to be on the lookout for her rebellious brother Morton (Paul Fix),...
Cast: Florence Vidor Hedda Hopper
Length: 5rlmin
Rita Farrell (Florence Vidor) and John Bruce (Theodore von Eltz) want nothing more out of life than to get married. Unfortunately, the road to the altar is festooned with unexpected obstacles, both natural and man-made. The limit comes when Rita, left...
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 6rlmin
Though cheaply produced and boasting a second-string cast, The Midnight Watch packed a lot of entertainment value in its brisk six reels. Roy Stewart stars as Bob Breemer, a college graduate who aspires to be a detective. Fed up with the boy's...
Length: min
Miles and miles of stock "tenement fire" footage are expended in this inexpensive actioner. Alice Lake stars as a wealthy socialite who turns reformer, aiming her attacks at the city's slum landlords. The more egregious of these crooks turns out to be...
Length: min
The "U.P." in the title refers to the Union Pacific railroad, the trail of which is followed by famed frontier scout Buffalo Bill Cody (here played by Roy Stewart). Hired to provide food for the railroad workers during the Union Pacific's Westward...
Tags: Historical Film Drama Action
Length: 5rlmin
Little Big Horn was a cheapjack attempt to recount the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand on June 25, 1876. John Beck was cast as Custer, evidently for no other reason than he looked the part. Most of the heroics and dramatics were handled by...
Cast: William Wellman Clive Brook Lowell Sherman
Tags: Romantic Drama
Length: 70min
After making one unsuccessful film (The Cat's Pajamas), director William Wellman was in danger of being fired by his new employers at Paramount. He made a rousing comeback with You Never Know Women. Written by the Hungarian-born Ernest Vajda, it...
Cast: Mary Pickford Milton Berle Gustav von Seyffertitz William Beaudine Roy Stewart C. Gardner Sullivan
Length: 81min
Sparrows, Mary Pickford's 1926 release, superbly combines the two elements--sentiment and adventure--that characterized Pickford's best work. At first glance, the film seems to be a horror picture, as satanic potato farmer Grimes (Gustav Von...
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