Biography: Stuart Paton |
If he had made no other film, Stuart Paton would be remembered for his lavish 1916 adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Paton produced, directed, and wrote this rousing adventure fantasy, which managed to weave elements of The Arabian Nights... more
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Cast: Frank Rice
Length: 63min
Alcoholic John Bowers heads to the Great Northwest, hoping that the fresh air and exercise will help him swear off booze. Joining Bowers in his northward journey is his beleaguered wife, played by Blanche Mehaffy. Unfortunately, our "hero" is unable...
Mystery Trooper [Serial] (1932)
Cast: Charles King William Von Brincken
Tags: Action Adventure Western
Length: min
Released by Syndicate, a forerunner of sorts to Monogram Pictures, this Western serial stars veteran silent actor Robert Frazer as Jack Logan, the heir to half of a map to a hidden Indian mine. Evil French-accented trader Jean Gregg (Al Ferguson)...
Cast: Kane Richmond
Tags: Mystery
Length: 55min
The victim of an express office hold-up, a young boy (Bobby Nelson) is saved by yet another Rin Tin Tin wannabe in this incredibly cheap little action-thriller. Having lost not only his father, but also his pet dog in the express office carnage, Bobby...
Cast: William Desmond Wesley Barry
Length: 60min
Charles Delaney, an all-purpose actor who appeared in several Poverty Row productions of the early 1930s, assumes the role of a newspaper reporter in Hell Bent for Frisco. Delaney intends to prove that the deceptively charming Carroll Nye was the...
Length: 60min
A cast of silent-film veterans distinguishes the pedestrian crime drama First Aid. Grant Withers stars as a doctor who is forced to operate on a wounded gangster. As if this wasn't enough of a headache, the gangster's rivals converge upon the doc's...
Length: 50min
Chinatown After Dark is where you'll find Madame Ying Su (Carmel Myers), a "dragon lady" type who'll stop at nothing to get her hands on a rare dagger belonging to the Royal House of Lee Fong. Unbeknownst to the authorities, the dagger contains a...
The Hound of Silver Creek (1928)
Length: 45min
Dynamite, one of canine star Rin-Tin-Tin's many imitators, starred in this silent action melodrama from Universal, in which the pooch saves Silver Creek's new schoolmarm Molly (Gloria Grey) from a serious injury. Later that day, Dynamite witnesses the...
Tags: Police Detective Film Crime Adventure
Length: 60min
Sono Art-World Wide, an enterprising minor-league studio of the early talkie era, did its best to seek out subject matter that would guarantee a respectable box-office showing. Air Police has an alluring title and some first-class aerial photography,...
Cast: Harry Woods
Tags: Action Western B-Western
Length: 59min
A cowpoke is duped and made to appear drunk by an unscrupulous foreman in this Western from small-scale Sono Art-World Widewhich benefited from location filming in the Mojave Desert. Losing his job at the Sutter ranch as a result, Jim (Rex Lease) vows...
Cast: Stuart Paton Henry B. Walthall Walter Brennan
Length: 60min
The answer to the question asked by small-scale Sono Art/World Wide Pictures in this minor crime drama was a resounding -- only if the screenwriters pulled a couple of fast ones. All-purpose leading man Red Lease starred as Jerry Heath, an intrepid...
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