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    Hi Keith

    No brandy! need a clear head to try to sort this lot out!

    re these films

    1927. THE DROP KICK
    1927. THE GREAT K&A TRAIN ROBBERY
    1928. HANGMAN'S HOUSE
    1928. NOAH'S ARK
    1930. MEN WITHOUT WOMEN
    1930. BORN RECKLESS
    1930. ROUGH ROMANCE
    1931. WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS

    I have a copy of all of these in my collection. They were never offically released onto VHS or DVD BUT, there are dealers who have copies from 16mm prints or such like. Which is where I got my copies from. The same is true for the following:

    1928. MOTHER MACHREE- (Fox)
    1928. FOUR SONS- (Fox)
    1926. BARDLEYS THE MAGNIFICENT
    1929. THE BLACK WATCH- (Fox)

    When I managed to get a copy, albeit a "Dealer" copy I never looked into where or if an "official" print might be. However as we know there are copies even 16mm ones out there then we cannot really say they are lost in the true sense, can we? I think its only true to say LOST if there are no dealer copies, no prints in archives and the AFI have no knowledge of any print in existence.

    Of course, there is always the chance that a print might turn up (as in the case of Annie Laurie, officially on the lost list for decades, then the film was rediscovered in 1987 when a private collector donated a print to the Oregon Historical Society who then turned it over to a national archive for preservation.)


    " Elly, please also check the 'Lost' list. as there are a couple in there, not in your recent list, but were included initially." :confused: Not sure what you mean still hung over I guess! But if you explain it slowly and simply then I will be glad to do it.

    Oh and by the way no poetry today?

    Elly

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    Quote from ethanedwards

    Thanks Elly for all that,

    so those members interested,
    Elly's list above represents,
    probably the most definitive, we have




    Hello Keith

    Please see the post in reply to EJ. UCLA copy of three girls lost is incomplete so we should update the list to reflect that please.

    I KNEW that if I poked the bees nest we would get stung:teeth_smile:

    Just kidding its great to get this discussion going (again) and perhaps once we know what is in these local archives we can lobby to get them released to the fans? :hyper:

    Elly

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    Hi

    You are quite right the copy of Three girls lost in UCLA is incomplete. I have asked my friend who is a member of AFI (who have just viewed this film and are including it in thier next catalogue) if this was the print that they viewed and what the entry in the catalogue will say.

    Will let you know when i have a reply.


    Elly

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    Hello Keith

    I have some newer information just in. So have added it in RED below. These ones

    1926.BARDLEYS THE MANIFICENT ****No Complete print known to exist. Approx 30 minutes survives.
    1927. THE DROP KICK - (First National) Uncredited but visibly seen.
    1927. THE GREAT K&A TRAIN ROBBERY- (Fox)
    1928. MOTHER MACHREE- (Fox)***No complete print known to exist (two reels missing)
    1928. FOUR SONS- (Fox)
    1928. HANGMAN'S HOUSE -(Fox) Uncredited, but visibly seen.
    1928. NOAH'S ARK- (Warner Brothers/First National)
    1929. THE BLACK WATCH- (Fox)***No Print Known to exist, considered LOST
    1930. MEN WITHOUT WOMEN-(Fox) credited as Duke Morrison
    1930. BORN RECKLESS- (Fox)
    1930. ROUGH ROMANCE- (Fox) credited as Duke Morrison
    1931. WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS- (Fox)
    1946. DESERT COMMAND (Feature film version of Three Musketeers Serial)

    Are definately NOT lost films. I have copies of these in my collection. (or copies of what is left of Bardelys and Mother Machree).

    Whilst they were never officially released onto VHS or DVD there are dealers who have copies either from 16mm prints or home video tapes. You even see them on ebay.

    I have copies of all of them bought years ago through dealers and the quality ranges from terrible to fair but hey you pay your money as they say.

    I checked around a few dealers yesterday and there are still copies of these around - at a PRICE! Suddenly JW items are now being marketed as "Ultra rare" or "Collectors items" and priced accordingly.

    And why do you think this Collector is unwilling to share Adventures end with anyone? Have never understood that.

    What do you think of taking the above OFF this list and perhaps starting a hard to find list with these on it. Then we will really be closing in on the truly lost or never see in my lifetime films.

    So then the list would look like this below with only 6 on the really LOST list. No bad considering how many films are totally lost.

    Elly


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    hello Arthur

    I have posted the list now.

    elly

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    Ad venture's End


    Theatrical Release 1/1/1937
    Studio Universal Pictures
    Director Arthur Lubin

    Starring:John Wayne , Diana Gibson , Moroni Olsen , Montagu Love , more cast
    Directed By: Arthur Lubin
    Run Time: 68 min.
    Genre: Action and Adventure, Drama

    In the South Seas, Seaman Duke (John Wayne) boards a whaler, and asks the owner, Capt. Drew (Montague Love) and his daughter Janet (Diana Gibson) to look after the pearls he's gathered. Drew, who's dying, persuades Duke to marry Janet to prevent her from marrying crewman Rand (Moroni Olsen), who's thereafter suspicious of Duke. When the crew learns Duke knows where more pearls are, they want to go after them, but Duke sides with Janet, who's after whales, though he's still opposed by Rand. Eventually, incited by Blackie (Maurice Black), the crew mutinies, forcing Rand and Duke to work together.

    Cast
    John Wayne
    Diana Gibson
    Moroni Olsen
    Montagu Love
    Maurice Black
    Paul White
    Cameron Hall
    Patrick J Kelly
    George Cleveland
    James T Mack

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    Sweetheart of Sigma Chi 1933

    A college movie that concentrates on the romances between the coeds and the fraternity guys. Carlisle plays the hard-to-get, though very flirtatious, girl who succumbs to the embraces of Crabbe, fraternity rowing star. Starrett also makes a pretty good bid for Carlisle's affections. Pleasant and unpretentious, with a few witty bits of humor added for flavor. Songs include: "Fraternity Walk," "It's Spring Again" (George Waggner, Ed Ward), "Five Minutes More" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn), "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" (Byron D. Stokes, F. Dudleigh Vernor).

    Year: 1933
    Rated NR
    Parental Rating: Acceptable for children
    TV Guide Rating:
    Country of Origin: U.S.
    Genre: Musical
    Format: Black & White
    Production Co(s).: Monogram
    Running Time: 77
    British Title: GIRL OF MY DREAMS

    CAST



    Mary Carlisle: Vivian
    Buster Crabbe: Bob North
    Charles Starrett: Morley
    Florence Lake: Dizzy
    Eddie Tamblyn: Coxswain
    Sally Starr: Madge
    Mary Blackford: Bunny
    Tom Dugan: Trainer
    Burr McIntosh: Professor
    Major Goodsell: Coach
    Grady Sutton: Pledge
    Purnell Pratt: Doctor
    Franklin Parker: House Prexy
    Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra: Their Self
    Leif Erickson: Their Self
    Betty Grable: Their Self
    Bill Carey: Their Self
    Muzzy Marcellino: Their Self
    The Three Midshipmen: Their Self
    The Blue Keys: Their Self

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    That’s my boy 1932
    1hr 11min
    1932
    Synopsis
    A young football hero learns valuable life lessons on the way to becoming a pro in this sports drama. Tommy is a promising player who is working his way through college. He quickly becomes a star on the campus grid-iron, but when he gets entangled in a stock swindle, he nearly destroys his budding career. Fortunately, Tommy smartens up and pays back all of the money he gained when he inadvertently cheated some innocent investors. The USC national championship football team of 1931 appears in the film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

    Cast
    Richard Cromwell Tommy
    Dorothy Jordan Dorothy
    Arthur Stone Pop
    Douglas Dumbrille Adams
    Lucien Littlefield Uncle Louie
    Russell Saunders Pinkie
    Sumner Getchell Carl
    Otis Harlan Mayor
    Dutch Hendrian Hap
    Douglas Haig Tommy as a Boy
    Leon Ames Al Williams
    Joan Marsh
    John Wayne

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    Three Girls Lost
    Drama, 1hr 12min
    1931
    Synopsis
    Even before the Fox Studios merged with 20th Century Productions in 1935, the company was dedicated to the proposition that three leading ladies were better than one. The "Three Girls Lost" of the title are played by Loretta Young, Joyce Compton and Joan Marsh. Lovely Loretta and wisecracking Joyce do all right by themselves when they leave their home town for wicked old Chicago. Alas, Joan falls in with thieves and sharpsters, forcing the other two girls to help her out. Of particular interest is the presence in the cast of 24-year-old John Wayne, amusingly miscast as a well-groomed socialite. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


    Cast
    Loretta Young Noreen McMann
    John Wayne Gordon Wales
    Lew Cody William Marriott
    Joyce Compton Edna Best
    Joan Marsh Marcia Tallant
    Kathrin Clare Ward Mrs. McGree
    Paul Fix Tony

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    Girls Demand Excitement 1931

    No relation to the 1935 Mascot programmer of the same name, Girls Demand Excitement offers an early starring appearance by John Wayne. The Duke is cast as college basketball player Peter Brooks, who's in love with sports-happy Joan Madison (Virginia Cherrill). Their hot-and-cold relationship culminates in a boys-against-the-girls basketball match, a scene only slightly less ridiculous than an early sequence in which a bunch of sexually integrated psychology students are assigned to test the "emotional reaction" to a group necking session! Evidently designed as a musical, Girls Demand Excitement contains no songs whatsoever, robbing future generations of the spectacle of John Wayne serenading his lady love. With films like these, it's no wonder that Wayne had to start his career all over again in cheap westerns. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
    Starring: Virginia Cherrill , John Wayne , Marguerite Churchill , Helen Jerome Eddy , more cast
    Directed By: Seymour Felix
    Released By: Unknown
    Run Time: 64 min.
    Genre: Comedy

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    The Deceiver
    Crime & Espionage, 1hr 6min
    1931

    Synopsis
    Most of The Deceiver takes place in the Broadway theater where matinee idol Thorpe (Ian Keith) is starring in a production of Othello. A rat with women, Thorpe has scattered broken female hearts all along the Great White Way, giving lots of people plenty of incentive to murder him. Sure enough, he is murdered, as is another fellow who holds a vital clue as to the identity of the killer. Second-guessing the detectives, hero Tony (Lloyd Hughes) tries to solve the mystery himself, if only to clear heroine Ina (Dorothy Sebastian) of suspicion. The guilty party is tricked into confessing by the cagey Tony. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


    Cast
    Lloyd Hughes Tony Hill
    Dorothy Sebastian Ina Fontanne
    Ian Keith Reginald Thorpe
    Natalie Moorhead Mrs. Lawton
    Richard Tucker Mr. Lawton
    George Byron Speedy
    Greta Granstedt Celia Adams
    Murray Kinnell Breckenridge
    DeWitt Jennings Insp. Dunn
    Allan Garcia Payne
    Harvey Clark Nat Phillips
    Sidney Bracey Barney
    Nick Copeland Stage manager
    Colin Campbell Dr. Schulz
    John Wayne Richard Thorpe as a corpse

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    The Lone Star Ranger 1930

    Director: A.F. Erickson
    Starring: George O'Brien , Sue Carol , Russell Simpson , Warren Hymer

    Released: 1930 ( USA )
    Run Time: 64 min.
    Genre: Action, Western


    A superior entry in western star George O'Brien's Zane Grey series for Fox Studios. Lensed on location in Utah's Monument Valley (long before it was "adopted" by John Ford), the film was adapted for the screen by Zane Grey from a novel by Max Brand, which had previously done service as a Tom Mix vehicle (and would later be remade by Fox with John Kimbrough in the lead). At the outset of the film, Buck Duane (O'Brien) is an outlaw, but upon rescuing Mary Aldridge (Sue Carol) from a runaway stagecoach, he vows to turn over a new leaf. He takes to ranching, whereupon the governor offers him a pardon -- if he will agree to lasso a gang of cattle rustlers. What no one knows is that the leader of the outlaws is Mary's father Colonel Aldridge (Russell Simpson). There are plenty of well-rehearsed thrills in Lone Star Ranger, but the film's most charming moment is purely spontaneous: upon meeting Sue Carol for the first time, a shirtless George O'Brien instinctively sucks in his stomach! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

    Prints of the sound and silent versions of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.

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    Cheer up and Smile 1930

    A pre-Dagwood Arthur Lake plays a hapless hayseed who becomes a popular crooner in this fluffy musical comedy that begins during the robbery of a big-city radio station. There the gunman forces him to sing on the air. The audience loves him and he is an instant star. Delighted with his sudden success, the bumpkin sends for his beloved pumpkin back home so they can marry. The young singer's boss, afraid that married life will steal away his new-found gravy train, tries his darnedest to break the young lovers up and even convinces a seductress to ruin the youth. Look closely for John Wayne in a bit part. Songs include: "The Shindig," "Where Can You Be?" and "You May Not Like It But It's A Great Idea." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide


    Cast
    Dixie Lee
    Margie
    Arthur Lake
    Eddie Fripp
    Olga Baclanova
    Yvonne
    Charles Judels
    Pierre
    Whispering Jack Smith
    Himself
    Johnny Arthur
    Andy
    John Darrow
    Tom
    Sumner Getchell
    Paul
    Buddy Messinger
    Donald
    Franklin Pangborn
    Professor
    Jack Smith
    Himself
    John Wayne


    Crew
    Sidney Lanfield
    Director
    Howard J. Green
    Screenwriter
    Joseph A. Valentine
    Cinematographer
    Al Rockett
    Associate Producer
    Ralph Dietrich
    Editor
    Richard Cornell
    Short Story Author
    Jesse Greer
    Songwriter
    Ray Klages
    Songwriter

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    Words and Music
    1929 - William Fox Studio
    Main Cast: Lois Moran, David Percy, Helen Twelvetrees, William Orlamond. Directed by James Tingling.
    This was Duke's first movie in which he was given billing, and his last known silent movie. He was billed as Duke Morrison, and played Pete Donahue. It was also his first movie with Ward Bond, who became his best friend. The movie, a college musical, was first released as a silent film, and later with sound.
    WORDS AND MUSIC


    Fox Film Corp., 1929. Directed by James Tinling. Camera: Charles Clarke. With Lois Moran, David Percy, Helen Twelvetrees, William Orlamond, Elizabeth Patterson, Duke Morrison, Ward Bond, Richard Keene, Frank Albertson, Muriel Gardner, Bobby Renee, Wilma Wray.

    Fraternity brothers Phil Denning and Pete Donahue are competing to have campus sweetheart Mary Brown lead their musical numbers in the college's annual revue. Phil wins out, but Mary gets involved in a practical joke directed toward the straitlaced dean of women and is about to be exposed by Dorothy Blake, who sets as the price of her silence the leading part in Tom's number.
    A good sport, Mary joins Pete's skit and helps make it a success. Then, when she hears about Dorothy's ruse, Mary boldly confesses to Dean Crockett that she is responsible for the practical joke, replaces Dorothy in Phil's number, and wins the contest for him. AFI

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    Strong Boy
    (1929) American
    B&W : Feature film
    Directed by     John Ford
    Cast: Victor McLaglen [William ‘Strong Boy’ Bloss], Leatrice Joy [Mary McGregor], Clyde Cook [Pete], Slim Summerville [Slim], Kent Sanderson [Wilbur Watkins], Tom Wilson [baggage master], Jack Pennick [baggageman], Eulalie Jensen [the queen], David Torrence [railroad president], J. Farrell MacDonald [Angus McGregor], Dolores Johnson [usherette], Douglas Scott [Wobby], Robert Ryan [porter]
    Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporaton. / Scenario by James Kevin McGuiness, Andrew Bennison and John McLain, from a story by Frederick Hazlett Brennan. Cinematography by Joseph H. August. Intertitles by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Presented by William Fox. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Silent film.

    Survival Status: The film is presumed lost (a print may exist in Australia).

    In this comedy drama, an enormous baggage handler earns the reputation of being an all-'round good joe and soon gets promoted. He is in love with Joy, a pretty newsstand girl. Despite his good work, which includes stopping a train robbery, she realizes that her lovable lug will never rise to become the white-collar worker he aspires to become. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

    Summary:
    Strong Boy, a baggage handler in a railroad station, saves the child of a railroad vice president from being crushed by a trunk and is promoted to the head of the lost-and-found department. Mary McGregor, his sweetheart, becomes disgusted and walks out on him. Strong Boy later returns a pearl necklace to a movie star and is again promoted, this time to the position of fireman on the locomotive of which Mary's father is the engineer. Strong Boy prevents a holdup and is forgiven by Mary, whom he marries. AFI

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    Speakeasy

    Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
    Written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Edwin J. Burke
    Starring Lola Lane, Paul Page
    Release date(s) 1929
    Running time 62 min.
    Country United States
    Language English

    Speakeasy was a 1929 sports filmdrama directed by Benjamin Stoloff adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Edwin J. Burke. Lola Lane and Paul Page played the lead roles and the film also starred John Wayne who had a minor role in the film at age 22.
    Cast
    Lola Lane as Alice Woods
    Paul Page as Paul Martin
    Sharon Lynn as Mazie
    Warren Hymer as Cannon Delmont
    Helen Ware as Min
    Henry B. Walthall as Piano player
    Stuart Erwin as Cy Williams
    James Guilfoyle as Davey
    Erville Alderson as City Editor
    Joseph Cawthorn as Yokel
    Ivan Linow as Wrestler
    Marjorie Beebe as Speakeasy Patron
    Sailor Vincent as Speakeasy Patron
    Helen Lynch as Speakeasy Patron
    John Wayne

    Much of this drama is comprised of newsreel footage. It chronicles the exploits of a luckless college prize-fighter attempting to go professional. Unfortunately he is exploited by his dishonest manager. The innocent pugilist is eventually befriended and assisted by a pretty reporter who helps free him from his wicked
    manager. During the big fight, the fighter takes a real lickin' when he discovers that the reporter has not come to the fight. This is a very early talkie.

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    The Forward Pass
    (1929) American
    B&W : Eight reels
    Directed by Eddie Cline


    Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Marion Byron, Phyllis Crane, Bert Rome, Lane Chandler, Allan Lane, Floyd Shackleford, the University of Southern California football team


    Distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Howard Emmett Rogers, from a story by Harvey Gates. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disk sound system. / The film was also released in a silent version. / Full-sound film.

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    Annie Laurie (www.silentera.com)
    (1927) American
    C/B&W : Nine reels / 2661 metres
    Directed by John S. Robertson
    Cast: Lillian Gish [Annie Laurie], Norman Kerry [Ian MacDonald], Creighton Hale [Donald], Joseph Striker [Alastair], Hobart Bosworth [MacDonald chieftain], Patricia Avery [Enid], Russell Simpson [Sandy], Brandon Hurst [Campbell chieftain], David Torrence [Sir Robert Laurie], Frank Currier [Cameron of Lochiel], Richard Alexander [MacDonald clan member], Mary Gordon [first midwife], Margaret Mann [second midwife], Henry Kolker [King’s representative], Major Roup, [?] John Wayne?
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Josephine Lovett, from a story by Josephine Lovett. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Merrill Pye. Costume design by André-ani. Cinematography by Oliver T. Marsh. Intertitles by Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings. Edited by William Hamilton. / Released 11 May 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequence. / Gish’s third MGM film. The film was rediscovered in 1987 when a private collector donated a print to the Oregon Historical Society who then turned it over to a national archive for preservation. Technicolor appears in the final reel. / Silent film.

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    Mother Machree
    (1928) American
    B&W : Seven reels
    Directed by John Ford

    Cast: Belle Bennett [Ellen McHugh], Neil Hamilton [Brian McHugh/Brian van Studdiford], Philippe de Lacy [Brian McHugh, as child], Pat Somerset [Robert De Puyster], Victor McLaglen [Terence O'Dowd], Ted McNamara [Harpist of Wexford], John MacSweeney [Irish priest], Eulalie Jensen [Rachel van Studdiford], Constance Howard [Edith Cutting], Ethel Clayton [Mrs. Cutting], William Platt [Pips], Jacques Rollens [Signor Bellini], Rodney Hildebrand [Brian McHugh Sr.], Joyce Wirard [Edith Cutting, as child], Robert Parrish [child], John Wayne

    Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Gertrude Orr, from the novel Mother Machree by Rita Johnson Young. Cinematography by Chester Lyons. Intertitles by Katharine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell. Edited by Katharine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell. Music score by S.L. Rothafel and Erno Rapee. / Premiere at the Globe Theatre in New York, New York on March 5, 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / The film was originally shot in September 1926. John Wayne's appearance is unbilled. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects. Fragmentary print exists (reels one, two and five) in the Library of Congress film archive; reels three and four are presumed lost.