This week’s mystery movie has been the 1928 MGM film “The Wind,” starring Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Earle, William Orlamond, Carmencita Johnson, Laon Ramon and Billy Kent Schaefer, with a screenplay by Frances Marion adapted from the novel by Dorothy Scarborough. It was directed by Victor Seastrom.
It is available on DVD from Amazon Spain.
“The Wind” opened Dec. 14, 1928, in Los Angeles, having been held by MGM for a year, presumably to reshoot the ending.
In the Nov. 5, 1928, New York Times, critic Mordaunt Hall said:
Yesterday afternoon’s rain was far more interesting than the Capitol Theatre’s current screen, offering, “The Wind,” an adaptation of a story by Dorothy Scarborough. The rain was real, and in spite of the lowering skies there was life and color around you. In the picture, the wind, whether it is a breeze or a cyclone, invariably seems a sham, and Lillian Gish, the stellar light in this new film, frequently poses where the wind is strongest; during one of the early episodes she does her bit to accentuate the artificiality of this tale by wearing the worst kind of hat for a wind.
In the Dec. 15, 1928, Los Angeles Times movie critic Edwin Schallert said:
The plot of the picture is in its way logical enough, though some of the circumstances test the imagination considerably…. Photographically, for example, there are some scenes which are decidedly mechanical and Miss Gish’s acting has the fault at times of being theatrical. However there is very much to commend the production pictorially, and as a whole Miss Gish’s acting has a splendid vitality. It is all the more regrettable on this account that the melodrama of certain situations is overemphasized, with the resulting loss of a certain finer reality.
For Monday, we have a mystery gent.
Update: This is William Orlamond.
For Tuesday, we have a mystery woman.
Update: This is Dorothy Cumming.
For Wednesday, we have a mystery gent.
Update: This is Montagu Love.
Brain Trust roll call: Anne Papineau (mystery movie and mystery guests), Mike Hawks (mystery movie and mystery guests) and Mary Mallory (mystery movie and mystery guests).
For Thursday, we have this intense gent, who says: “All will become clear by Friday.”
Update: This is Lars Hanson.
Brain Trust roll call: Sheila (mystery movie and mystery guests), Mary Mallory (Wednesday’s mystery guest), Anne Papineau (Wednesday’s mystery guest), Mike Hawks (Wednesday’s mystery guest) and Ellen (mystery movie and Wednesday’s mystery guest).
And for Friday, we have a non-mystery woman who is apparently caught in the Santa Anas.
Update: This is Lillian Gish.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Thursday’s mystery guest), Anne Papineau (Thursday’s mystery guest — very funny), Mike Hawks (Thursday’s mystery guest), Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie and mystery guests) and Bob Hansen (mystery movie and Thursday’s mystery guest).
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Jim Welch?
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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O.P. Heggie?
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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Andy Clyde?
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Alas, I’m afraid not. Andy would be too easy for a Monday. 🙂
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James Finlayson?
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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A relatively young, Bert Mustin?
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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No idea, but it looks like someone playing ‘Cookie’ on a wagon train.
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William Orlamond and Dorothy Cumming in “The Wind.”
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William Orlamond and Dorothy Cumming make this THE WIND 1928.
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William Orlamond, Dorothy Cumming, Montagu Love in ‘The Wind’.
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Montagu Love.
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Montagu Love
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We are all in love with Montague Love.
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Today’s (Wednesday’s) mystery gent is Montague Love. The photo is from 1928’s “The Wind.”
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Lars Hanson today.
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Bruce Dern! Or his daddy.
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What an interesting idea. But alas, no.
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Lars Hanson, Den Svenska Cowboy
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Lars Hanson.
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THE WIND
Monday: William Orlamond
Tuesday: Dorothy Cumming
Wednesday: Montagu Love
Thursday: Lars Hanson
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Thursday’s gentleman is Lars Hanson, in the movie The Wind from 1928. The female star was Lillian Gish!
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Friday is Zazu Pitts. Is the movie Greed?
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Alas, I’m afraid not. But it is one of the landmarks of silent film.
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Miss Lillian Gish today.
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The movie is what “they” call Maria. 🙂
Victor Seastrom, Dorothy Cumming, Montague Love, Lars Hanson, and Lillian Gish
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Friday – Lilian Gish – The Wind
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Thurs
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Lars Hanson for Thurs
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Monday – William Orlamond
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Tues is Dorothy Cumming
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Wen is Montagu Love
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Good morning Miss Lillian Gish.
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Lars Hanson plus Lillian Gish equals the tragic THE WIND [1928]. Shown on TCM occasionally.
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It’s kind of striking how similarly Zazu and Lillian Gish photograph. I think even D.W. Griffith mentioned it.
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Lillian Gish in Thw Wind
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Friday: Lillian Gish in “The Wind?”
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Lillian GIsh for Friday. An appropriate picture because I think the film is ‘The Wind’.
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My source says that the wind swept Lilian Gish is appearing in Wind with Lars Hanson, ya, and Montagu Love.
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Lillian Gish in advice to the Lovelorn?
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