David Abel

Рождение : 1883-12-15, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Смерть : 1973-11-12

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Abel (15 December 1883 – 12 November 1973) was a cinematographer. Born in Amsterdam to Russian parents, Abel began his career in 1916. He came to the United States as a child in the first decade of the 1900s and worked as a portrait photographer in New York before entering films with Flying A Studios in 1913. His credits include Grumpy (1930), The Virtuous Sin (1930), Huckleberry Finn (1931), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), and The Affairs of Susan (1945). At RKO Pictures during the 1930s, Abel was a favorite collaborator of director Mark Sandrich and was responsible for the photography of five Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals (The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet, Swing Time, and Shall We Dance). Other credits include The Awful Truth, Huckleberry Finn, Hips, Hips, Hooray!, Grumpy, The Virtuous Sin, and History Is Made at Night. He filmed a total of 110 films. He retired in 1937, but Sandrich persuaded him to come back as cameraman for the classic Holiday Inn (1942). After two more films, Follow the Boys (1944) and The Affairs of Susan (1945), Abel left Hollywood film work for good.

Фильмы

Романы Сьюзан
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Мистеру Эйкину накануне свадьбы открываются интересные подробности прошлого его невесты, мисс Сьюзан Даррел. Ее бывшие поклонники рассказывают мистеру Эйкину непохожие друг на друга истории о совершенно разной Сьюзан. Какая же из этих Сьюзан настоящая?
Следуя за парнями
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История о неразлучной троице Тони, Китти, и Ник Вест которая покорила весь Голливуд своим актерским мастерством и, не испугавшись трудностей военной жизни, внесла свой вклад в борьбу с нацистами в Европе. Великолепный музыкальный фильм созданный для развлечения зрителей и сегодня смотрится легко и непринужденно благодаря великолепной игре актеров и превосходно поставленным музыкальным номерам.
Праздничная гостиница
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Мюзикл,о певце и танцоре Джиме Харди, который оставляет шоу-бизнес, чтобы стать фермером-джентльменом в Новой Англии. Однако фермерская жизнь оказывается для него слишком трудной и обыденной, и, пытаясь «убить двух зайцев», герой превращает свою ферму в загородный развлекательный клуб, широко открывающий двери в дни национальных праздников и торжеств.
Давайте потанцуем
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Танцовщик Пит Питере — гениальный мастер своего жанра. Его импресарио и продюсер Джеффри, чтобы заинтриговать публику, выдает его за русского по фамилии Петров. Однако «Петрова» все время тянет танцевать что-то «несерьезное», в основном степ. К тому же он неравнодушен к танцовщице и актрисе Линде Кин, которая успешно выступает с танцевальными номерами. И он решает, что девушка должна танцевать только с ним. Чтобы познакомиться и завоевать сердце красавицы, танцор идет на различные ухищрения, порой очень комичные…
History Is Made at Night
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A romantic headwaiter fights to save a woman from her possessive ex-husband.
Criminal Lawyer
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Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
Make Way for a Lady
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An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
Время свинга
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Счастливчик Гарнетт, игрок и танцор, помолвлен на Маргарет Уотсон. В самом начале фильма он, танцуя, выскакивает со сцены и отказывается выйти на поклон, так как опаздывает на свадьбу. Его друзья разыгрывают шутку с манжетами его брюк, утверждая, что без манжет такие брюки не носят. В результате Счастливчик опаздывает на свадьбу. Когда же он все-таки является, отец Маргарет ставит ему условие: он должен уйти и вернуться только тогда, когда заработает 25 тысяч долларов, дабы доказать, что он не пройдоха. Но когда Счастливчик знакомится с учительницей танцев Пенни Кэррол, то он делает все возможное, чтобы НЕ заработать эти деньги, так как, конечно, он в нее влюбляется…
Bunker Bean
Cinematography
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Bunker Bean
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A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Следуя за флотом
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После долгих странствий по морям и океанам эскадра кораблей встает на якорь возле Лос-Анжелеса. Моряки, соскучившиеся по суше, получают увольнительную на берег. Среди них самые веселые парни команды Симэн — Бэк Бэйкер и Мэт Байлг Смит. Они намерены познакомиться с хорошими девушками, весело провести время, и, конечно же, их планы сбываются. Ребята встречают сестер Шерри и Конни Мартин которыми увлекаются, и, похоже, очень серьёзно…
Я слишком много мечтаю
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Аннет Манард обучается своим дядей, который хочет из нее сделать оперную певицу, а девушка так молода, что не помышляет об оперной карьере, а хочет жить сейчас и сегодня. А сегодня — карнавал. Суровый дядя грозиться запереть ее в монастырь, но девушка сбегает вечером через окно, чтобы напоследок насладиться воздухом свободы и, в буквальном смысле слова, сваливается на голову молодому дарованию Джонатану, который мнит себя будущим великим композитором. После небольшой перепалки молодые идут вместе гулять, не пропуская по дороге ни одно питейное заведение, в результате чего, проснувшись на следующий день Джонатан увидел в своей комнате спящую девушку, которая оказалась его женой…
Цилиндр
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В богатом Лондонском отеле американский певец и танцовщик Джерри Трэверс глубокой ночью показывает своему импресарио очередной танцевальный номер. Звонкий стэп танцора разбудил красавицу Дэйл Тремон, снимающую комнату этажом ниже. Возмущенная девушка поднялась наверх и знакомство с нарушителем тишины состоялось.
Дело о любопытной невесте
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Поставив окружному прокурору ещё одно поразительное поражение, Перри планирует провести отпуск в Китае. То есть это было, до тех пор, пока его старая подруга Рода, не встретилась в ресторане. Несмотря на то, что она говорит, что она просит друга, Перри может видеть её. Кажется, её муж Мосли, который, как утверждается, был мёртв в течение четырёх лет, жив и требует денег, поскольку она вышла замуж за богатого. Дело осложняется, когда полиция находит тело Мосли и её обвиняют в убийстве.
A Notorious Gentleman
Cinematography
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
Веселый развод
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Гай Холден популярный американский танцор степа, успешно закончив гастрольное ревю в Париже, прибывает в Лондон в сопровождении своего лучшего друга адвоката Эгберта. Здесь должен состояться финальный концерт европейских гастролей. В лондонском порту он, волей случая, знакомится с Мими Глоссоп и сразу же влюбляется в нее. Девушка же, тем временем, озабочена другой проблемой — она жаждет развестись со своим мужем геологом. Но для этого она должна, по совету юриста, отправиться на английский морской курорт, где все подстроено так чтобы профессиональный нанятый свидетель имел возможность получить доказательства ее неверности. Только в этом случае она сможет получить свободу от уз брака, таковы Английские законы. Конечно же, план юриста терпит крах и возникает путаница, Мими принимает Гая, за подставного свидетеля и соответственным образом начинает с ним обращаться…
Bachelor Bait
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After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Cockeyed Cavaliers
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Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
This Man Is Mine
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The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, drama-queen ex-wife visits.
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
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Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
Ann Vickers
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After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Rafter Romance
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A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
Pick Up
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The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
The Crime of the Century
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A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t happened yet – although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the “mystery”.
Madame Butterfly
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Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
Президент поневоле
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Теодор К. Блэр - успешный банкир, решивший попытать счастья в президентской кампании, которая, однако, начинается не очень успешно. Однопартийцы понимают, что Блэру недостает популярности и умения общаться с аудиторией и уже подумывают лишить его номинации. Но, как подарок судьбы, в этот момент на горизонте появляется абсолютный двойник Блэра – пройдоха Док Варни. Он настолько похож на Блэра, что ему удаётся обвести вокруг пальца даже подругу банкира - Фелисию Хаммонд. Блэр с однопартийцами решают использовать дарованный им шанс и предлагают Варни принять участие в предвыборной кампании вместо Блэра. Очень скоро, благодаря харизме Варни, забуксовавшая было предвыборная кампания вновь начинает набирать обороты и “Блэр” вырывается в лидеры. Но, по мере приближения выборов, заговорщики начинают ломать голову, что же им делать с Варни после того, как Блэр станет президентом...
Merrily We Go to Hell
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A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Sky Bride
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Barnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager, Alec Dugan, performing at fairs and air shows and hawking rides for the locals. But when Speed's rambunctious flying results in tragedy, he gives up flying in despair and guilt. Alec tracks him down and hopes to get him back on his feet and back in the air.
The Miracle Man
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A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
Ladies of the Big House
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A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
Rich Man's Folly
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The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
Huckleberry Finn
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A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
The Secret Call
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The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgraced politician. Reduced to working as a switchboard operator, Wanda is privy to the many secrets and indiscretions of the clients of a big-city hotel. She also finds romance in the form of handsome Tom Blake (Richard Arlen). The huge cast of characters comes in handy for the film's multitude of subplots, none of which ever get their wires crossed. Peggy Shannon acquits herself nicely in her first major role, but by the end of the decade her career was in decline.
Scandal Sheet
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Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
The Virtuous Sin
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Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.
Grumpy
Director of Photography
An exhaustingly cantankerous old man solves a jewel robbery.
Swing High
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To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
The Grand Parade
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No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. Rising to the top of his profession, Kelly plummets to the bottom thanks to his fondness for intoxicating beverages. Molly nurses and coddles Kelly back to health, giving nary a thought for her own comfort or happiness.
The Racketeer
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A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
Square Shoulders
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Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.
Show Folks
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Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody but himself. Eddie likes to tell others how good he is, but seldom shows them. Kitty Mayo, an old-time burlesque queen, who is with the McNary Vaudeville Company, advises Eddie to get himself a partner, as his solo abilities can only be stretched so far. He decides to follow her advice and, while in a theatrical supply shop, he sees Rita Carey rehearsing her dancing act that includes a trained duck. Eddie tells Rita he is a good friend of McNary's, and, with him as her partner, her future in show business will be secured. She agrees to join him and Eddie promptly names the act "Eddie Kehoe and Partner". Despite his conceit, Rita likes Eddie, as do others in the troupe, including Cleo a little gold-digger.
Craig's Wife
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Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and immaculate neatness results in misery for all concerned. Harriet's husband remains blind to his wife's selfishness-until his eyes are opened when he is implicated in a double murder...
Tenth Avenue
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Joe, a weakling gangster, and Bob, an ex-gambler, compete for Lyla Mason, a working girl who also runs a 10th Avenue rooming house in New York city. Bob's desire to show Lyla he can support her leads him back to the gambling table when past-due rent threatens her with eviction. Bob and Joe are both suspected when Fink, a bootlegger, is found murdered in his room.
Midnight Madness
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In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to teach her a lesson, and forces her to live with him in the remote African outback where, eventually, she realizes her true affections.
Stand and Deliver
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Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has no sound track!), while Warner Oland makes such an impressive and villainously seedy bandit, he needs no sound track at all. We can just imagine his oily, purring accents all too well.
The Forbidden Woman
Director of Photography
A colonel of the French army in North Africa believes his brother, a sensitive musician, to be in love with the colonel's wife and so arranges for his brother to be drafted into the colonel's own corps. Unknown to either is the fact that the colonel's wife is actually an Arab spy.
The First Auto
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The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
The Honeymoon Express
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Footloose Widows
Director of Photography
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.
The Cave Man
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A bored society girl cuts a hundred dollar bill in half, writes a message on one half for whoever finds it and throws it out the window of her apartment. The person who finds it turns out to be the driver of a coal truck. So she decides to give him a complete makeover in order to make him presentable to her society friends.
Seven Sinners
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Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch each other in the act. They all pretend to be members of the household when locked in by a well meaning police officer.
Recompense
Director of Photography
A black-and-white melodrama where France, South Africa and England featured prominently in the narrative about Julie Gmelyn, a bright-eyed, single-minded Red Cross nurse and Peter Graham a clergyman who gives up his chaplaincy and goes to war.
The Dark Swan
Director of Photography
An American drama based on a novel
Красавчик Браммел
Director of Photography
Джордж Браммел, капитан гусарского полка, влюблен в Марджери, которая по принуждению семьи выходит замуж за лорда Альвэнли. По воле случая (и благодаря расчету, призванному этому случаю помочь), Браммелу удается заслужить расположение принца Уэльского. Он уходит из армии, становится близким другом принца и непререкаемым авторитетом в области моды и светских манер. Поссорившись с принцем, покинутый всеми, кроме верного слуги Мортимера, Браммел бежит от кредиторов в Кале…
Lovebound
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Mixed Faces
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The Primitive Lover
Director of Photography
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
Little Miss Smiles
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Rip Van Winkle
Cinematography
The story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and even economic field.
Unseen Forces
Cinematography
In the film, Breamer’s character, Miriam Holt (“the girl who sees around corners”), proves her psychic powers by locating children who went missing during the war. Her childhood love Clyde Brunton (Conrad Nagel) is unhappily married to a social climber, but Miriam’s ability to commune with the spirits of the dead (“those we love are always with us”) finds a way to resolve the problem.
The Woman Gives
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A 1920 film directed by Roy William Neill.
A Daughter of Two Worlds
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Она любит и лжёт
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Фильм 1920 года, режиссер Честер Уити.
The Isle of Conquest
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A 1919 film directed by Edward José.
The Way of a Woman
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A 1919 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
The Probation Wife
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A 1919 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
The New Moon
Director of Photography
When anarchist bombs disrupt the engagement ball of Princess Marie Pavlovna, her fiancé, Prince Michail Koloyar, helps her to escape in a carriage. Then Theo Kameneff, secretly in the pay of a foreign government, becomes dictator and, desiring the princess, issues an edict that all women between the ages of seventeen and thirty-two must register and become state property.
Сердце Ветоны
Director of Photography
После того, как дочь-полукровка вождя команчей влюбляется в молодого инженера, который ее бросает, она обращается к белому индейскому агенту, который женится на ней.
Thais
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Madame Bo-Peep
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A 1917 filmd riected by Chester Withey.
A Woman's Awakening
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A 1917 film directed by Chester Withey.
The Bad Boy
Director of Photography
Small town youth Jimmie Bates is a well-intentioned, but troubled youth. Jimmie is a rowdy boy who is always getting into trouble and playing pranks on his friends and neighbors. Although deeply in love with young Mary, he eventually spurns Mary's affection for the more outgoing and worldly young Ruth.
A Sister of Six
Cinematography
A young woman and her five little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their father over gold found on his ranch. Together the seven offspring fight against their greedy neighbors to keep what is rightfully theirs.