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The Black Watch ad in The Film Daily, 1929 . The Black Watch is a 1929 American Pre-Code adventure epic film directed by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, and David Torrence. It was written by James Kevin McGuinness and based on the 1916 novel King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy.
1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.
Black and Tan (film) The Black Book (serial) The Black Domino (film) The Black Forest Girl (1929 film) Black Hills (1929 film) Black Magic (1929 film) The Black Watch (film) Black Waters; Blackmail (1929 film) Blaze o' Glory; The Blue Express; Blue Skies (1929 film) Blue Songs (film) Bobby, the Petrol Boy; The Body Punch; The Bondman (1929 film ...
The film is a series of unconnected scenes celebrating the advent of sound technology in the context of "black music". Hearts in Dixie unfolds as a series of sketches of life among American blacks. Although the characters are not slaves they are nevertheless racial stereotypes in terms of the contemporary white images of the period.
Black Hills: Norman Dawn: Katherine Dawn, George Fisher, George Chandler: Drama: Independent: Black Magic: George B. Seitz: Josephine Dunn, Earle Foxe: Drama: Fox Film [24] The Black Watch: John Ford: Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy: Adventure/Crime/Drama: Fox Film [25] [26] Blue Skies: Alfred L. Werker: Freddie Burke Frederick, Ethel Wales ...
The days of the silent film are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound is on.. February 1 – The Broadway Melody is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of Broadway Melody films that will run until 1940.
That's Black Entertainment is a 1989 documentary film starring African-American performers and featuring clips from black films from 1929–1957, narrated and directed by William Greaves. [1] The clips are from the Black Cinema Collection of the Southwest Film/Video Archives at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. [ 2 ]
The Scar of Shame (1929) by Frank Peregini. The Scar of Shame is a silent film shot in the winter of 1927 and released in April 1929. It is a silent melodrama film featuring black actors and was written for a predominantly black audience. [1] It premiered from April 13–17, 1929 in the M&S Douglas Theatre in New York City.