Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (Silent)
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 12 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 14, 2021
- Originally Released: 1919
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Wallace Reid, Lila Lee, Harrison Ford & Charles Ogle | |
Directed by | James Cruze |
Entertainment Reviews:
Description by OLDIES.com:
Hawthorne of the U.S.A. is one of the few surviving features starring matinee idol Wallace Reid. The actor shot to stardom after appearing in D.W. Griffith's classics The Birth of a Nation (1915) andIntolerance (1916). But "Wally"'s true success came from starring in action-packed films with liberal dashes of comedy, similar to the ones Douglas Fairbanks was making with Anita Loos and John Emerson (in fact, Fairbanks had starred in the original stage production of Hawthorne of the U.S.A on Broadway in 1912.) A few months before Hawthorne was filmed, Reid was badly injured in a train wreck. With his contract to Paramount considered top priority, doctors prescribed the actor morphine so he could continue to work at his usual breakneck pace. Tragically, he became hopelessly addicted to the drug, and with no rehabilitation programs available at the time, Wallace Reid died in 1923 at the age of 31. Director James Cruze would go on to make classics such as The Covered Wagon (1923), The Great Gabbo (1929) and I Cover the Waterfront (1933).
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- Sales Rank: 22,202
- UPC: 089218844590
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