We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
1/Henry was best known for westerns, especially those starring The Duke, Randy and Cooper.and Henry’s career spanned just over half a century [1923-1974].
2/His filmography includes 3 silent films as Assistant Director, two of which were 1923’s The Ten Commandments and 1925’s Ben Hur, later remade as Chuck Heston epics in 1956 and 1959 respectively. For the 1923/25 silents Henry was uncredited but was credited for the other silent film 1927’s The Rough Riders.
3/I am familiar with his work from 1946 onward and have seen 17 of his films from that date, my faves being Down to the Sea in Ships, Garden of Evil, Seven Thieves and especially 23 Paces to baker Street.
4/In 5 separate polls of all-time Greatest Directors Henry is ranked 15, 15, 16, 20 and 22 an average placing of 17.6.At the time of his death in 1985 Henry had a lucrative net worth equivalent to 40 million in today’s dollars. Fly in the ointment: no Work Horse love to date.
PART 2 to follow later today, or tomorrow.
Just watched King Vidor and Lewis Milestone, it’s cool with directors, they can be so eclectic. So Mr. Milestone and Mr. Excitement Dana Andrews worked 4 times together.
Not a Dana Andrews fan than Dan? 😉
Thanks for checking out my videos, yep some Hollywood directors were all over the place in subject matter.
Expanding their horizons… variety is the spice of life. [Stop it Steve!]
So many John Derek swashbucklers, so little time, but I think I’ve seen all of them,
Hey Dan….good points on directors….they can be very very eclectic. Good information on Andrews and Milestone.
I didn’t make any points but Steve does make very good videos.
Added Steve’s William Dieterle You Tube Video to this page. Our thoughts found on his channel.
Wow….never even heard of this director before seeing this video. Real curious how many of his movies I have seen….betting not many. First match is #20 Elephant Walk….good climax. #6 The Story of Louis Pasteur….good movie with an excellent performance from Paul Muni. #4 The Life Of Emile Zoe…another good performance from Muni. #3 Portrait of Jeannie…I like this one…but would put the Muni classics ahead of this one. #1 Hunchback…Laughton makes a great Hunchback…one of Maureen O’Hara’s first movies. So a grand total of 5…..out of 40…..not too impressive. I bet our database has about 75% of these listed movies. Still shocked his name escaped me all of these years. Voted up and shared
Hi Bruce, well I only managed 10 out of 40, Flora’s tally 20. My favorite Paul Muni film is still Scarface, followed by Fugitive from a Chain Gang. An intense actor he was the De Niro of his time, and with some Pacino in there too.
Thanks for the comment, vote and share, much appreciated.
William’s career spanned 55 years from the silent era in 1911 until 1966 and comprised a large filmography as a director, an actor, a producer and a writer. His contribution in those fields is broken down as follows:
Director/89 credits
Includes TV movies. Large number of movies in each of silent and sound eras.
Actor/67 credits – 66 from period 1913-1931 and one in 1959.
Producer/7 credits-2 in silent era
Writer/7 credits – Includes 3 TV movies. 2 movies made in silent era
Because of the diversity and extent of his contribution to movies, and given that both the silent and sound eras were involved, his video must have been quite a complicated one for you to compile?
William’s net worth at the time of his death in 1972 was equivalent to 15 million dollars today.
His ranking positions in 5 separate polls of the greatest directors have a wide span: 4, 14, 18,22, 44, average position 20.4
I am familiar with a large number of the films the William was involved with, in fact more familiar than I had been with him personally before your video appeared and encouraged me to research him. I doubt if this is one guy whom the Work Horse will have posted up in his classroom!
Best POSTERS in your video [FL=foreign language] 1/FL saucy one for Dubrosky 2/two for Volcano 3/Joel Met a Lady 4/FL for Laddie’s Red Mountain [with its McCarthy Red-scare era title] 5/FL Paid in Full 6/Myrna DuBarry 7/two for Blockade 8/2nd and 3rd ones for Salome 9/Kismet 10/White Angel 11/FL for Boots Malone.
12/The Great O’Malley 13/two for Elephant Walk [Liz replaced Vivien Leigh] 14/FL Rope of Sand 15/ two for Dark City [Chuck’ debut mainstream film] 16/The Accused 17/FL Juarez 18/Louis Pasteur 19/Midsummer Night’s Dream 20/1st one for Portrait of Jennie 21/two stunners. for Hunchback.
My personal pick of the very best STILLS [LC=lobby card] 1/Laddie in Red Mountain 2/Liz Scott 3/very raunchy one for Salome 4/Granger and Hayworth [Stewart in the heyday of his Hollywood career, which faded around 1960] 5/Kismet 6/Bette in Fog over Manchester 7/Golden Holden in Turning Point [most disappointing Holden film I’ve ever seen] 8/LC Elephant Walk 9/LC Rope of Sand 10/Chuck in romantic mode 11/LC Lawyer Man 12/Jennifer in Love Letters 13/Muni as Pasteur 14/I think that was the Dirty Rat inside the ass’s head? 15/ a boyish Joe Yule Jr 16/Portrait of Jennie 17/two splendid ones for Hunchback.
A cracker video well worth 98% rating under my scoring system. You are certainly leaving WH behind in profile classy directors – and you’ve picked one who was a prolific actor as well.
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing my William Dieterle video. The generous rating, info and trivia are very much appreciated.
Happy you liked the posters, lobby cards and stills.
Dieterle directed a few silent films but they weren’t rated high enough for inclusion. I also have to watch out for films in which the subject is an uncredited director, I don’t include them unless the subject directed most of the film.
That was the great James Cagney with the head of an ass in the photo.
Mickey Rooney played the mischievous sprite Puck in Midsummer Nights Dream. I have a soft spot for that film from watching it on TV as a kid. The Devil and Daniel Webster is another childhood favorite. Portrait of Jennie is a late teens early 20s favorite.
Four films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Emile Zola, Daniel Webster, Quasimodo and Jenny Appleton.
Two more scored 9 out of 10 – Dr. Paul Ehrlich and Louis Pasteur.
According to IMDB – William Dieterle directed five different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Brian Aherne, Walter Huston and Jennifer Jones. Muni and Schildkraut won for their performances in Dieterle’s movies.
HI STEVE
Fine feedback – much appreciated. By my calculations here is the breakdown of William’s 89 directed movies. On many occasions he used the name of Wilhelm Dieterle
63 credited cinematic sound movies
5 uncredited sound movies
12 TV movies
1 TV series [1 episode]
8 silent movies.
Interesting information Bob. William Dieterle…unknown to me yesterday…today known and with lots of information. Hey Steve….interesting Cagney photo in your video. Good stuff as always.
“Good subject. Voted up and shared. Despite so many stellar stars in his movies…my first match is #16 Ministry Of Fear…which is almost a Hitchcock like movie. #8 Woman in the Window…the original dream movie? #7 Scarlet Street..the sister movie to #6…same cast..same sets…different stories. #6 Fury…..one of Spencer Tracy’s rare successful Fox movies. #3 The Big Heat….great movie…and the movie that really got Lee Marvin’s career going. #2 Metropolis…one of the great sci-fi movies. #1 M….Peter Lorre at his best….considered a masterpiece…and rightly so. So that is 6…..but his Top 3…and 5 of the Top 7. At least I saw the right ones…lol. Good stuff.
Added Steve’s You Tube Video To This Page…one day we will also have a Lang page.
Hi Bruce, maybe these videos will inspire you to produce more film director pages at the UMR.
Metropolis is one of my all time favorites, wrote an article on that and ‘M’ at Hubpages years ago. I have all the various editions of Metropolis on DVD and blu-ray including the Moroder ‘pop synth’ version. Your tally 6, mine 8 and Flora 17.
Thanks for the comment, vote and share, it is appreciated.
Hey Steve….I almost did a page on Fritz tonight….but for some reason I had been thinking about Scatman Crothers lately…..so he bumped Fritz…..but maybe soon he will get the call. I knew Metropolis was one of your favorites. I always liked how Queen used Metropolis in one of their videos…Radio Ga Ga if I remember correctly. Always glad to share your videos.
STEVE
Don’t take it to heart. You will see from my earlier post that Anthony Quinn incorrectly “bumps” Jeff Chandler on Bruce’s Scatman page.
Hi Bob, in Bruce’s defense I think that when he first included East of Sumatra in his database he hadn’t yet had a Jeff Chandler page, just an Anthony Quinn page and as we know he tries to include as many links from the index page as possible in that box. He could update it now and include Jeff.
Ditto Angela Lansbury instead of Hedy Lamarr in the Samson box. He’s merely trying to cross-index the pages he has available. But I do agree some need updating.
Btw wasn’t there a flurry of posts from someone named anonymous recently correcting all the 1945-1946 etc yearly pages? not sure what he was up to or why, must have had a lot of time on his hands. 🙂
Hey Bob…..that has been fixed.
Hey Steve….you were 100% correct. I agree….some need to be updated…..just this monster I have created……is so large….that it hard to control sometimes. Baby steps got us here….baby steps to fix it. Last count was over 7,000 UMR pages that are earning views.
Thanks to both of you for the visits and feedback.
Just checked the database…shocked how many of his movies were just sitting there….43 movies.
MovieYear (UMR Rank)
Life of Emile Zola, The (1937)
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939)
I’ll Be Seeing You (1944)
Love Letters (1945)
Salome (1953)
Story of Louis Pasteur, The (1936)
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1935)
Kismet (1944)
Elephant Walk (1954)
Juarez (1939)
Rope of Sand (1949)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
White Angel, The (1936)
This Love Of Ours (1945)
All That Money Can Buy/Devil & Daniel Webster (1941)
Accused, The (1949)
Dr. Erlich’s Magic Bullet (1940)
September Affair (1950)
Last Flight, The (1931)
Red Mountain (1951)
Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Another Dawn (1937)
Great O’Malley, The (1937)
Searching Wind, The (1946)
Jewel Robbery (1932)
Tennessee Johnson (1942)
Blockade (1938)
Paid In Full (1950)
Dispatch From Reuter’s, A (1940)
Syncopation (1942)
Omar Khayyam (1957)
Lawyer Man (1932)
Dr. Socrates (1935)
Boots Malone (1952)
Dark City (1950)
From Headquarters (1933)
Man Wanted (1932)
Peking Express (1951)
Turning Point, The (1952)
Fog Over Frisco (1934)
Scarlet Dawn (1932)
Secret Bride, The (1934)
Satan Met A Lady (1936)