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Lasca is a 1919 American silent Western film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Frank Mayo, Edith Roberts and Arthur Jasmine. [1] It is based on the 1882 poem Lasca by Frank Desprez . Cast
Rio Grande dance hall girl Lasca becomes involved in a love triangle between herself, her true love Miles Kincaid, and wealthy Mexican ranchero Jose Santa Cruz who wants her for his bride. Cruz kidnaps both Lasca and Kincaid and holds them hostage on his ranch on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
Lasca is a draughts (or checkers) variant. Lasca may also refer to: Lasca, a 1919 American silent Western; Lasca, an 1882 poem by Frank Desprez; Francesco Lasca (born 1988), Italian road bicycle racer; Lasca, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Marengo County; Lasca, Texas, a ghost town in Hudspeth County
Desprez' best-known work, however, is a poem, Lasca, about a Mexican girl and her cowboy sweetheart caught in a cattle stampede "in Texas down by the Rio Grande."The ballad-like poem, first published in a London magazine in 1882, has often been reprinted, usually with deletions and changes, and recited in many parts of the English-speaking world.
Cage in 2006. Nicolas Cage is an American actor whose career began with a role in the 1981 television pilot The Best of Times.The following year, Cage made his feature film acting debut with a minor role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the second and last time he went by his birth name Nicolas Coppola, which he changed professionally to avoid allegations of nepotism due to his connection to ...
Discography is the study and cataloging of published sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified music genres.The exact information included varies depending on the type and scope of the discography, but a discography entry for a specific recording will often list such details as the names of the artists involved, the time and place of the recording, the title of the ...
Scorsese at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. Martin Scorsese (born 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian whose career spans more than fifty years. To date, Scorsese has directed twenty-six feature length narrative films, seventeen feature-length documentary films, and has co-directed ...
Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama Endless Love. [1] [2] Two years later, he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy Risky Business (1983), [3] [4] which garnered his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. [5]