Wild Beauty R5 (1927, silent)

Description: Part 5 (last part) of a silent feature. Features a prominent supporting role for the African American actor Hayes Robinson.

"Art Hemming, a young American soldier, brings a filly that he has saved from shellfire back to his California ranch. He falls in love with Nancy Cunningham, whose father maintains a racing stable; and though in financial difficulty, he hopes to retrieve his fortune in a forthcoming race. Bull Kennedy, hearing of Thunderhoof, a wild horse, plans to capture him and defeat the colonel; he tricks the colonel into a bet, then has his men capture the horse. Thunderhoof escapes and tries to lure the filly, Valerie, away; and the colonel's horse is incapacitated by Thunderhoof in a fight. Kennedy recaptures Thunderhoof, and Art rides Valerie against him as the Cunningham entry; Art wins the race and Nancy, and the colonel pays off the mortage." (https://catalog.afi.com/Film/13320-WILD-BEAUTY. accessed on: 2023-04-10)

Notes on can:
Mogull Bros No. 9103

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Subjects: Animals; Sports; People of African origin or descent; Human-animal relationships

Tags: horses running in western scenes; canyons; Black male horse owner; POC supporting characters; comic antics; mountain lions; cougars; raceway grandstands; Mills Fairground; intertitles; horse racing; close-up of mountain lion paw on horse; mountain lion attached to horse; babies; puppies; silent film; African American people; Black actors

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Creator:

Credits: Carl Laemmle presents Rex, King of WIld Horses, in Wild Beauty
Original Story: Sylvia Bernstein Seid
Adaptation & Continuity: Edward Meagher
Story Supervision: Charles A. Logue
Titles: Tom Reed
Photography: John Stumar
Art Director: Charles D. Hall
Film Editor: Earl Turner
Supervising Film Editor: Lloyd Nosler
Director: Henry MacRae
Players:
Thunderhoof: Rex
Valerie: Herself
Bill Moran: Hugh Allen
Helen Cunningham: June Marlowe
Col. Cunningham: Scott Seaton
Washington: Hayes Robinson
Jim "Bull" Kennedy: William Bailey
Davis: Jack Pratt.

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mogull Bros.

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1927

Geographical Location:

Genre/Form: fiction, feature, silent

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Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reduction print

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: tinted

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 325