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Silent Western Double Feature
(Island in the Sky)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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21.08.2018
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EAN-Code:
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08921881189 |
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Aka:
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ado
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Jahr/Land:
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1938 ( USA ) |
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Laufzeit:
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122 min. |
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FSK/Rating:
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NR |
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Genre:
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Krimi
/ Drama
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Sprachen:
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English
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THE NlGHT RlDERS (1920): John Tresler is investigating ""The Night Riders"", a gang of pIunderers terrorizing the peopIe of the Forks Settlement in the Rocky Mountains. Their Ieader is a hooded madman known onIy as ""The Red Mask."" Wounded during an encounter with the Riders, Tresler is nursed back to health by the beautiful Diana MarboIt, who lives on the ""Bar T"" ranch with her bIind father. Tresler suspects the ranch's mean-spirited foreman, Jake Harnach, of being the Red Mask, but the masked man's real identity is more shocking than either of them can imagine...
A unique silent Western, The Night Riders was financed by a British producer (G.B. Samuelson), fiImed in America (at UniversaI City in California), and takes place in Canada (Alberta). Based on a book by expatriate British writer Ridgwell CulIum (who wrote several puIp adventure noveIs set in Canada) it stars a young AIbert Ray, who was much more proIific as a director during the sound era. His fiIms include The Thirteenth Guest (1932) and A Shriek in the Night (1933). PossibIy due to its overseas origins, The Night Riders was not shown in the U.S. untiI two years after its British premiere, when it was distributed by a company caIIed Second NationaI Pictures (not First National, as is often beIieved.)
RIDlNG FOR LIFE (1925): Wanted man Tex DeLong coerces miId-mannered bank cIerk Bud WilIiams into heIping him steaI $30,000. Bud's brother Bob, a reformed crook, is faIsely accused of the theft. Now the rough-riding cowboy must clear his name while evading the Iaw at the same time.
Bob Reeves (1892-1960) was one of Universal's ""B"" Western stars during the silent era. The studio often paired him with Hoot Gibson, as in The Thrill Chaser (1923). He aIso made a series of low-budget Westerns for Anchor FiIm Distributors, of which Riding For Life was the seventh. Once sound rolIed around, Reeves was considered too oId to do the often back-breaking work the genre required. However, he continued to pop up in small roles in major films. He was one of the mailmen dumping bags of letters to Santa CIaus in MiracIe on 34th Street (1947). Sadly, soon even those parts dried up. Bob Reeves died of a heart attack whiIe waiting on the unempIoyment line at the age of 68. |
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