Movie: The Lost World (1960) Aug 6, 2008
Wallace Beery, Bessie Love and Lewis Stone had the starring roles in this 10-reel silent. The Lost World (1960). (Suite101.com)
Land before time: 11 great prehistoric flicks Mar 1, 2008
OBriens creations are the real stars of the movie, but future Oscar winner Wallace Beery (for 1932's The Champ) is also wonderful as the violently irascible Professor Challenger, the pompous head of the expedition to the plateau. . (MSNBC -- News)
* Filmdom waking up to high cost of digital archiving Dec 23, 2007
A picture could sit for many, many years, cool and comfortable, until some enterprising executive decided that the time was ripe for, say, a Wallace Beery special collection timed to a 25th-anniversary 3D rerelease of Barton Fink, with a hitherto unseen, behind-the-scenes peek at the Coen brothers trying to explain a Hollywood in-joke to John Turturro. It was a file-and-forget system that didn't cost much and made up for the self-destructive sins of an industry that discarded its earliest works... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
DVD watch: Films with precedents Nov 27, 2007
John Turturro is a New York "message" playwright assigned by studio vulgarians in 1941 to pound out a Wallace Beery wrestling pic. If Turturro is Clifford Odets here, John Mahoney likewise is William Faulkner. (USA Today -- Life)
New DVDs: Away From Me, The Graduate Sep 11, 2007
This two-disc set includes both Irwin Allens 1960 tale, starring Claude Rains, Michael Rennie and Jill St. John as members of an expedition that discovers dinosaurs living in the Amazon, and the 1925 silent adaptation featuring Wallace Beery. The set includes a featurette on the 1960 version, a vintage studio newsreel and a Lost World comic book. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Resurrecting the Champ packs no punch Aug 24, 2007
Resurrecting the Champ is not a sequel to The Champ, the male weepie that won a 1931 Oscar for Wallace Beery and launched Ricky Schroders career when it was remade in 1979. But the script, inspired by an L.A. Times magazine story, has much in common with its hammy predecessors. (MSNBC -- Movies)
A gangster underworld? Jul 20, 2007
In the mid-1910s, the Green Mill was an exclusive hangout for Essanay Studio executives and early film stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Wallace Beery. In recent decades, jazz musicians such as Clifford Jordan, Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. have graced its stage. (Chicago Tribune)
New life for 'bloodiest 47 acres' Jul 2, 2007
Actor Wallace Beery visited his chauffeur who was incarcerated at MSP.. Through the years, violence played a role in daily life. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Captain Jack breaks swashbuckling mold May 25, 2007
"But Bruckheimer said Jack Sparrow isn't vastly different from other pirates who've sailed Hollywood's seas, such as Wallace Beery, who starred as Long John Silver in 1934's "Treasure Island. ""He was outrageous, too," Bruckheimer said. "He was bigger than life and fun. (Florida Today)
Made in Maryland Mar 23, 2007
Starring Wallace Beery, Chester Morris and Virginia Gray. Tin Men (1987)Whoever thought of the complicated lives of aluminum siding salesman and the competitive nature of the business. (Sunspot.net -- Business)
Oscar's kids Feb 21, 2007
Career, post-Oscars: Teamed with Wallace Beery in The Champ (1931), The Bowery (1933) and Treasure Island (1934). Relegated to B-movies as he aged. (USA Today -- Life)
Silent siren out of the box (Gary Arnold) Feb 8, 2007
In Hollywood she began to emerge as a promising newcomer, particularly opposite W.C. Fields in "It's the Old Army Game" and while stirring rivalries between Victor McLaglen and Robert Armstrong in "A Girl in Every Port," directed by Howard Hawks, and then Richard Arlen and Wallace Beery in "Beggars of Life," directed by William Wellman. She also married one of her directors, comedy specialist Edward Sutherland, but each remained ill-suited to domesticity or fidelity. (Washington Times, DC)
Cracking The Film Code Dec 1, 2006
The opening attraction is Raoul Walsh's "The Bowery" (1933), a lusty yarn set in late 19th-century New York starring Wallace Beery as a saloon owner, George Raft as his rival who jumps off the Brooklyn Bridge in a publicity stunt - and Fay Wray as the refined young woman they both pursue. It's playing on a double feature today and tomorrow with Walsh's delightful "Me and My Gal," starring Spencer Tracy as a wisecracking cop and Joan Bennett as a waitress who becomes embroiled with blackmailing... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Fog. Bridges. Cable cars. Gene Wright's panoramic love affair with San Francisco is now a book Nov 26, 2006
He hung out at the Ogden airstrip, where as a teenager he was taught to fly by actor Wallace Beery, who had a girlfriend in town. For cleaning Beery's plane, Wright got flying lessons. (San Francisco Chronicle)
VIDEO PREVIEW: Variety the spice of life with week's top video debuts Oct 10, 2006
Also on tap: Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" (1935), with Ronald Colman caught up in France's 18th-century Reign of Terror, and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" (1934), starring Wallace Beery as quintessential buccaneer Long John Silver. Just in time for Halloween, "Hollywood's Legends of Horror Collection" (also from Warner) spotlights such vintage creepfests as 1935's "The Devil Doll" and "The Mark of the Vampire," both with Lionel Barrymore, and "Mad Love," featuring Peter Lorre. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Life)
Men are such snivelers Aug 27, 2006
The movie: Strong men dissolved into quivering mounds of Jell-O when Wallace Beery, as the crusty, down-and-out boxer Andy "Champ" Purcell, fought one last round to prove to his adoring son Dink (Jackie Cooper) that he still has it. He wins -- and then dies in the locker room while telling the weeping Dink to "smile." Kids in the audience were probably bawling too hard to notice their keening dads. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
ON THE SCREENSpinning one for the Gipper Aug 13, 2006
" Sports movies had been around since the silent era (football, for example, was featured in Harold Lloyd's 1926 comedy classic "The Freshman"; 1931's "The Champ," a sound film starring Wallace Beery and directed by the master King Vidor, was among the first great boxing films), and O'Brien and "Rockne" director Lloyd Bacon had collaborated the year before on a sports film, "Indianapolis Speedway," but "Knute Rockne, All American" perfected the genre and has proved to be the most influential.... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Flynn beats Depp in pirates poll Jul 10, 2006
Wallace Beery as Long John Silver - Treasure Island (1934). Copyright. (India eNews.com)
A pirate's life, Hollywood-style Jul 6, 2006
This "Treasure Island" is the real Robert Louis Stevenson thing, directed by Victor ("Gone With the Wind") Fleming, featuring Wallace Beery at his best as Long John Silver, plus Jackie Cooper as Jack Hawkins -- plus Lionel Barrymore and the best production values then available. "Captain Blood" (1935). (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
