The Sea Lion (Silent)
A bitter sea captain, who has never recovered from his wife abandoning him, picks up a stranded young woman who is horrified by his cruelty. Silent Films Bessie Love, Herbert Bosworth Whaling Captain John Nelson arrives home after a long voyage and is shocked to discover that his wife has run off with another man. He returns to his ship a bitter man, known and feared on the seven seas as “the Sea Lion.” Blossom, a young girl who has been marooned for 16 years is discovered on a remote island and brought aboard. She reveals shocking secrets from Nelson’s past that will turn his entire world upside down. Hobart Bosworth was a top star of the early years of Hollywood. He formed his own company, Hobart Bosworth Productions, to film a series of Jack London stories beginning in 1913 with The Sea Wolf which he directed and also starred in as the notorious Captain Wolf Larson. Thirty-one films were produced, ending with The Sea Lion in 1921. Leading lady Bessie Love (1898-1986) starred in the silent version of The Lost World (1925) and earned an Oscar nomination as Best Actress for The Broadway Melody (1929). Her successful career continued almost to the end of her life and earned her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
$7.10
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Dark Alpha’s Silent Night Kindle Edition
Dark Alpha’s Silent Night Kindle Edition
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Seven Keys To Baldpate (Silent)
An author wages $5,000 that he can write a best-selling book in 24 hours. He spends the night at the abandoned Baldpate Inn and he encounters a group of mysterious strangers. Silent Films George M. Cohan, Hedda Hopper The incomparable George M. Cohan stars in the 1917 screen version of the hit Broadway play he adapted from the classic novel by Earl Derr Biggers (creator of Charlie Chan). Having just penned another best-selling novel, George Washington Magee is “the man of the hour.” Magee accepts a $5,000 wager that he can write another best-seller in 24 hours. Seeking solitude, he checks into Baldpate Inn, a remote manor located in the sleepy town of Asquewan Falls, but almost immediately strangers unexpectedly begin turning up, one after the other, including newspaper reporter Mary Norton, who’s trying to interview him. Having assumed he would be alone, Magee is suspicious. This is no mere coincidence. Something clearly is afoot. Now, instead of writing a mystery, Magee is living one — a mystery beyond anything he could have dreamed up. Unquestionably one of the most beloved and renowned entertainers in American culture, George M. Cohan (1878-1942) was a prolific actor, producer and composer, with over 500 songs to his credit (including such patriotic favorites as “You’re a Grand Old Flag,” “Over There” and “Yankee Doodle Dandy”). In 1913, his stage adaptation of Seven Keys to Baldpate became a Broadway hit and led to this early film version, in which he made one of his few screen appearances. His life was immortalized by James Cagney in the Oscar-winning musical Yankee Doodle Dandy , which was released the year he died. Seven Keys to Baldpate has been remade several times over this years, including three different versions released by RKO (1929, ’35 and ’47) and as the all-star House of the Long Shadows in 1983, but often with the emphasis more on mystery and suspense than comedy. Cohan’s co-stars include silent-era bombshell Anna Q. Nilsson and Hedda Hopper (billed under her real name, Elda Furry), who subsequently became one of Tinseltown’s most popular – and most feared – gossip columnists. In 1950, two would be reunited, playing themselves in Billy Wilder’s 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard .
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Silent Passenger
A cold blooded maniac is loose on the train to London in this lost mystery classic. Mystery / Thriller John Loder, Donald Wolfit Mollie Ryder is blackmailed into running off with Maurice Windermere for a romantic tryst. When Windermere’s body is found in a trunk, Mollie’s husband, John, is targeted by Scotland yard as the prime suspect. Enter famed sleuth. Lord Peter Wimsey, who insists on John’s innocence. Using John as bait, Wimsey hatches a brilliant scheme to draw the real killer out into the open. Lord Peter Wimsey, who solves crimes for his own amusement, was the subject of a popular series of books in Great Britain, written by Dorothy L. Sayers, who provided the screenplay for The Silent Passenger. Tall suave leading man John Loder is best remembered for The Private Life Of Henry VIII (1933), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and Now Voyager (1942).
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