Best Actor Academy Award winner Warner Baxter in In Old Arizona TIRED IN THE SADDLE What makes Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh's In Old Arizona (barely) watchable decades after its highly successful initial release is its sheer bizarreness. Technically, the…
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'The Marines Are Coming': Gay star's final movie The Marines Are Coming was a last-minute substitution for the 1936 version of M'Liss, starring Anne Shirley, which was originally scheduled but didn't arrive in time for Cinesation 2009. Gay actor William…
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'Latino Images' on Film: From Mary Pickford to Wallace Beery + Great Directors Series
by Andre SoaresTurner Classic Movies' series “Race in Hollywood: Latino Images in Film” kicks off this evening. So what if “Latino” isn't a “race“? So what if it isn't even an ethnic or a cultural group, but merely a U.S.-made sociopolitical construct?…
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The Thief of Bagdad 1924 with Douglas Fairbanks. At least nominally directed by Raoul Walsh, the Douglas Fairbanks production and United Artists release The Thief of Bagdad was in preparation/production for 65 weeks, ultimately costing $1.13 million (approx. $16 million…