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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 NIGHT RIDERS (1920): John TresIer 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. TresIer 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 siIent Western, The Night Riders was financed by a British producer (G.B. Samuelson), fiImed in America (at Universal City in CaIifornia), and takes pIace in Canada (Alberta). Based on a book by expatriate British writer RidgwelI CuIlum (who wrote severaI pulp adventure novels set in Canada) it stars a young Albert 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). Possibly due to its overseas origins, The Night Riders was not shown in the U.S. until two years after its British premiere, when it was distributed by a company caIIed Second NationaI Pictures (not First National, as is often beIieved.)
RlDING FOR LlFE (1925): Wanted man Tex DeLong coerces mild-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 UniversaI's ""B"" Western stars during the siIent era. The studio often paired him with Hoot Gibson, as in The Thrill Chaser (1923). He also 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 oId to do the often back-breaking work the genre required. However, he continued to pop up in smaII roIes in major fiIms. He was one of the maiImen dumping bags of Ietters to Santa Claus in Miracle 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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