Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The General is a 1926 American silent Western slapstick romantic action comedy film released by United Artists. It was inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War. The story was adapted from the 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.
Whenever a TV show wanted to simulate silent-movie comedy, Keaton answered the call and guested in such successful series as The Ken Murray Show, You Asked for It, The Garry Moore Show, and The Ed Sullivan Show. Well into his fifties, Keaton successfully recreated his old routines, including one stunt in which he propped one foot onto a table ...
The General, a Buster Keaton film; The General, a Russian war film; The General, a John Boorman drama about Dublin criminal Martin Cahill; The General, a British TV fly-on-the-wall documentary series about a hospital "The General" (The Prisoner), an episode of The Prisoner "The General", an episode of Spyforce
Le Voyage dans la lune (1902) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Georges Méliès (Although Mark Cousins and the title on the screen indicate that the scene being shown is from La lune à un mètre, the scene is actually from Le Voyage dans la lune. The Hour of the Furnaces (1968) dir. Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas; Mulholland Dr. (2001) dir ...
Peacetime curtails the release of war movies, until the release of King Vidor's The Big Parade in 1925. Wings (1927) earns the first Academy Award for Best Picture . As movies transition to sound, Universal releases Lewis Milestone 's All Quiet on the Western Front , showing the German side of the conflict, becoming a powerful statement of war ...
behind the scenes, making-of, in cinema, a behind-the-scenes documentary film about the production of the film or TV series; Behind the Scenes, a 1904 film directed by Alf Collins; Behind the Scenes, a 1908 film directed by D.W. Griffith; Behind the Scenes, a silent film starring Mary Pickford; Behind the Scenes (American TV series), a 1992 ...
The following is an overview of 1926 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) [ edit ]
Behind Closed Doors was a documentary series hosted by Joan Lunden that aired on the ABC and the A&E Network from 1996 to 2001. Lunden took cameras to places that normally were off limits to the general public. Some places featured included: Up in the air aboard a U2 spyplane; Betty Ford Center; Behind the scenes of the New York City Subway