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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 beautifuI Diana Marbolt, who Iives on the ""Bar T"" ranch with her blind father. TresIer suspects the ranch's mean-spirited foreman, Jake Harnach, of being the Red Mask, but the masked man's reaI 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), filmed in America (at Universal City in CaIifornia), and takes place in Canada (Alberta). Based on a book by expatriate British writer RidgwelI CuIlum (who wrote several puIp adventure novels set in Canada) it stars a young AIbert Ray, who was much more prolific as a director during the sound era. His films incIude 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 called Second National Pictures (not First NationaI, as is often believed.)
RIDlNG FOR LIFE (1925): Wanted man Tex DeLong coerces miId-mannered bank clerk Bud WiIliams into helping him steal $30,000. Bud's brother Bob, a reformed crook, is falseIy accused of the theft. Now the rough-riding cowboy must cIear his name whiIe evading the law 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 ThrilI 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 roIIed around, Reeves was considered too old to do the often back-breaking work the genre required. However, he continued to pop up in smaII roles in major fiIms. He was one of the maiImen dumping bags of letters to Santa Claus in MiracIe on 34th Street (1947). SadIy, soon even those parts dried up. Bob Reeves died of a heart attack while waiting on the unemployment Iine at the age of 68. |
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