Biography: Wilbur Mack |
Gaunt, hollow-eyed character actor Wilbur Mack spent his first thirty years in show business as a vaudeville headliner. With his first wife Constance Purdy he formed the team of Mack and Purdy, and with second wife Nella Walker he trod the boards as... more
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Cast: Harry "Snub" Pollard Henry Roquemore Max Wagner
Tags: Mystery Crime Police Drama
Length: 58min
In this crime drama a young boxer joins the police department so he can use their high-quality gymnasium. In time, he comes to like law enforcement. He also falls in love. During the film's climax he breaks up a neighborhood mob, saves two cops in a...
Cast: Betty Compson King Baggot
Tags: Romance Crime Gangster Film
Length: 79min
Ostensibly based of the life and violent death of glamorous New York mobster Arnold Rothstein, this early talkie from Universal featured Broadway actor John Wray as Mort Bradstreet, a powerful but crooked political boss whose friendship with Jay Grant...
Cast: Wilbur Mack Bruce Mitchell
Length: 5rlmin
Real-life aviator Al Wilson starred in a series of popular silent actioners, of which 1929's Sky Skidder was among the last. Hero Al Simpkins (Wilson) invents a revolutionary fuel that will enable pilots to clock 1000 miles on a single pint. The...
Cast: Monte Montague
Tags: Crime
Length: 5rlmin
In the third of five inexpensive silent crime melodramas produced by Universal, former B-Western ace Bill Cody played Wellsley, a wealthy young clubman forced at gunpoint to drive a pretty art thief (Duane Thompson) to her apartment. The place is...
Cast: Ray Taylor
Length: 5rlmin
When Sandow the dog failed to work out as Pathe's answer to Rin Tin Tin, the studio banked its hopes on another noble hound, Grey Boy. The human hero of The Avenging Shadow is Ray Hallor, playing a young bank clerk framed on a robbery charge. Grey Boy...
Length: 55min
A prize-fighter and a professional wrestler meet in a benefit match in this routine comedy-drama. Believing boxer Jack Townsend (Jack Daugherty) is his romantic rival, fortune hunter Peyson Turner (Wilbur Mack) places a stolen bracelet in his...
Tags: Western
Length: 60min
Universal's also-ran cowboy hero Ted Wells starred in this routine silent western directed by genre specialist Ray Taylor. Wells played "Six Gun" Phil Lang, a stalwart cowboy who comes to the aid of a beleaguered old miner (Buck Connors). The oldtimer...
Tags: Western
Length: 53min
Universal's also-ran cowboy star Fred Humes starred in this typical silent oater, billed by the studio as a "Ranch Rider Western." Humes plays Larry Day, the foreman of the 3X Ranch who, with his fellow "range riders," saves old Jake Landis from a...
Length: 60min
Little is known about the low-budget Love of Paquita, but it's a safe guess that the film belied the name of its production company, Hi-Mark Films. Set in Spain, the story details the trials and tribulations of the title character, played by Marilyn...
Tags: Western
Length: 50min
Long before such films as The Little Foxes and Detective Story, director William Wyler served his apprenticeship on low-budget westerns like Ranch Riders. Minor-league cowboy star Ted Wells comes to the rescue of heroine Lillian Gilmore when she...
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