Tag: raoul walsh
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The Big Trail (1930) Review
The Big Trail (1930) Director: Raoul Walsh ★★★★★ The Big Trail is a beautiful film about the Oregon Trail pioneers. It is an early prelude to the forthcoming explosion of the Western genre, starring a young and unknown John Wayne in his first big role (age 23). Unfortunately the film was a box-office failure, but […]
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Review
9/5/2016 The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Director: Raoul Walsh ★★★☆☆ The Thief of Bagdad is loosely borrowed from parts of the classic of world literature, the Thousand and One Arabian Nights. The film is a grand early blockbuster of the silent era. It stars the “first celebrity” of Hollywood, Douglas Fairbanks, and it was reported […]
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