Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Call of the Wild. Jack London's story of Buck, the heroic husky of the North, who gave complete devotion to the master who rescued him from other men's brutality, is graphically and convincingly treated in this film version. Jack Mulhall as the kindly miner never leaves one in doubt as to the heart of gold that throbs beneath his mackinaw. And Walter Long, the would-be oppressor of the helpless, is villainous enough for anyone's taste. There isn't too much snow and for once, for a wonder, the dog-hero, though highly...
Peter B. Kyne, writer of sea stories: " I instructed my attorneys to sue the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation for $100,000, charging damage to my pen reputation in the film Homeward Bound, which the Corporation advertised as an 'adaptation' of my short story, The Light to Leeward. I called their film 'a picture for morons.' I called their perversion of my story a betrayal of the public. I added: 'Jesse L. Lasky wouldn't know ethics if he met them in his grog. I hazard the opinion that he never heard of the word...
Virtually every day of the tournament there was an exchange of telegrams between Tilden and Miss Pola Negri, emotional film star, in Hollywood. Just before his crowning triumph Tilden read a long wire from Miss Negri that informed him the " entire Hollywood colony " was backing him against the Californian...
Marion Davies, Hearst cinema actress: "An actor in Yolando, my film now in the making, was thrown from a castle window into a moat. His hands caught in his flowing sleeves, he could not swim, he struggled, he was sinking. Instantly I threw him my scarf, but he could not grasp it. He was saved by a brave policeman...
...told, too, how film infants lose their normal childhood because they are not allowed to play in other children's back yards. Violent games are forbidden owing to the likelihood of accident. Sleeping hours are all awry. The children are primarily edified by the spectacle of their parents fighting over the weekly pay check...