On the Jump is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Walsh, Frances Burnham and James A. Marcus. A journalist resigns from a newspaper when it is taken over a pro-German sympathizer, and sets out to expose him as a German agent. George Walsh - 1920 His older brother was the prolific film director, Raoul Walsh.
"Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king’s evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews. Set in the 4th century B.C., this Biblical epic stars Richard Egan (Demetrius And The Gladiators, A Summer Place) as Ahasuerus and Italian leading man Sergio Fantoni as Haman. Esther is portrayed by none other than Joan Collins, who would later gain fame as the scheming Alexis Carrington, in the hit TV series Dynasty. Directed by Raoul Walsh 1960" "Yep, it’s one of those big biblical flicks packed with romance, plotting, betrayal and murder, but unlike the classics, this one comes with a script that’s a jumbled chaotic mess and makes little to no sense". "It desperately tries to check off every bible-film trope it can think of, including a four horse chariot chase through the countryside, but it fails to do any of them very well and I spent the majority of the runtime bored, confused and apathetic. Needless to say it's a film I have no desire to revisit".
Me and My Gal. 1932. USA. Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns. 80 min. "A notorious flop for Fox and star Spencer Tracy when it was first released, Me and My Gal now seems like a quintessential urban comedy of the Great Depression. Tracy is a wisecracking waterfront cop who has a hankering for the no-less-caustic coffee-shop waitress Joan Bennett; director Raoul Walsh chronicles their verbal and physical give and take with bracingly pre-Code erotic frankness. The topical storyline takes in everything from the gangster menace (with a fugitive killer played by Walsh’s brother, George), the imminent repeal of Prohibition, and the MGM film of Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude (which Tracy’s character remembers as “Strange Innertube, or sumthin’”). It’s also fun to imagine this film as the backstory to Father of the Bride, in which Tracy and Bennett were reunited in 1950".
SATURDAY MORNING WESTERN ROUNDUP: “THE BIG TRAIL” Discussion, review and commentary about the Raoul Walsh’s 1930 epic, “The Big Trail”. This is the movie that was supposed to make John Wayne a star. It took 9 years later for that to happen with John Ford’s, “Stagecoach”.
^^^.. "The apple did fall far from this tree" ????? .^^^ Hmph! .Tyrone Power Jr. died at age 44. . I'd like to have seen him at 62 with a scruffy beard. Tyrone Power Sr. with Junior, 1931
Raoul Walsh, between the Western and the Southern: Pursued (1947), Silver River (1948), Colorado Territory (1949) Sarah Hatchuel "This essay analyses how three films directed by Raoul Walsh and released as Westerns at the end of the forties are, in fact, steeped in the codes of “Southern” films, recalling films such as Gone with the Wind and heralding The Night of the Hunter or Walsh’s own “Southern” Band of Angels". "These “Westerns” merge classical themes of the genre (the conquest of the West, mining, railroad extension, attacks on stagecoaches, train robberies, outlaws — in a typically male world) with the themes of plantation films: nostalgia for a paradise lost, the predominance of the past, a clandestine or mixed-race identity, Gothic elements, dilapidated houses, graveyards and memento mori, and strong female characters". "Pursued, located in the wild landscapes of New Mexico, is built on the hero’s quest to recover his identity, on the ghostly return of the repressed and on the recognition of the destroyed childhood home; the film re-plays the Civil War in a conflict against the Spaniards, while constructing a complex Scarlett-like female character". "Silver River mixes the ruthless environment of the silver mines with more refined places such as steam boats, game houses and ballrooms; the character of Georgia, with a first name that connotes the South, represents a blend of the Southern Belle and Calamity Jane". "Finally, Colorado Territory presents outlaw Wes McQueen as a runaway slave, emphasizes the uprooting of the Winslows after their departure from the Deep South to settle in the Far West, and dramatizes the direct opposition between two women — the Southern Belle, Julie Ann, and the Indian half-blood, Colorado, whose names assert their geographical origins". "The meeting of the Western and the Southern seems to give rise to an intense confrontation between a male-coded world and a female-coded world, in a war of the sexes that challenges filmic and social norms".
From our WFAA Newsfilm Collection: footage of the USA Film Festival on @SMU campus in the Bob Hope Theater, featuring our founder, Bill Jones, director Raoul Walsh, & critic Judith Crist. April 9, 1973.
By Peter B. Flint Jan. 3, 1981 "Directing skillfully, quickly and exuberantly, Mr. Walsh's major aim was to entertain. He denied having any philosophy about moviemaking, once saying: ''I just did my job. I let others make up the theories.'' "He was widely respected for his patience and advice to actors, counseling one that a scene ''was fine for the last act of 'Macbeth.''' ''Now let's do it for us.'' "The director was an inveterate spinner of yarns, and Richard Schickel, the critic, wrote that, like Mr. Walsh's anecdotes, ''He used the screen as he used words, to tell stories simply, clearly, humorously, sometimes poignantly, always with plenty of movement which never seemed forced.'' "Andrew Sarris, the critic, wrote that the movie maker ''always possessed the necessary technical skills and artistic instincts to bring off the most ambitious physical spectacles,'' adding that ''his best films are genuinely exciting, though neither profound nor pretentious.''
East of Suez (1925) Starring Pola Negri and Edmund Lowe (silent) On the set Translation from Portuguese: . Raoul Walsh directing Paramount's Pola Negri in "Slave of your beauty."
Big to do: Joan Bennett, screen star, and Raoul Walsh, director make whoopee at their table in the Agua Caliente Hotel in 1933