Directed by Alan Crosland. Screenplay by Bess Meredyth, titles (uncreditedly) by Walter Anthony & Maude Fulton. Silent…however, this film was made and released with a synchronized Vitaphone musical score – and stands as the first-ever feature film to do so. The backing score is/was performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and was (uncreditedly) composed […]
Directed by Alfred L. Werker. Screenplay by Dale Van Every, Oliver H.P. Garrett, & Roy Huggins, from the novel “The Gaunt Woman” by Edmund Gilligan. “Foreword: When war engulfs the world, giant forces are marshaled for conflict. Smashing victories are won and heroes are heralded far and wide. Often forgotten are the small victories, the […]
Directed by Melville W. Brown. Screenplay by Carey Wilson, from the book “Private Secretary: The Story of Mary Linden” by Alan Brener Schultz. A few minutes into the film – following the opening sequence, in which Mary Linden (Mary Astor) and Ronnie Wales (Ricardo Cortez) bond over games of Blind Man’s Bluff and Truth (as […]
Directed by Peter Godfrey. Screenplay by Charles Hoffman & Catherine Turney, based on a play (“The Animal Kingdom”) by Philip Barry. Additional dialogue by Julius J. Epstein & Philip G. Epstein. Several years prior to this, the Epstein twins had, of course, picked up Oscars (alongside Howard Koch) for their work on CASABLANCA (1942). (Did […]
Directed by Frank Lloyd. Adapted for the screen by J.G. Hawks (well, that certainly seems fated), from the novel by Rafael Sabatini. Titles by Walter Anthony. Silent. I will note from the top that while I have seen the later, these-days-more-well-known version of THE SEA HAWK (that is – the one released in 1940, directed […]
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