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| Bruce Calvert... |
 Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 8:21 pm |
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http://www.cinefamily.org/calendar/wednesday.html#silent
5/14 at (no spam) 8pm / SERIES: BOB MITCHELL'S FAVORITE WESTERNS
The Great K & A Train Robbery
Bob told us to pick any Tom Mix western, 'cause he hadn't seen 'em; he just
really wants to. The Great K & A Train Robbery is an exemplar of the kind
of entertainments Mix regularly delivered to cheering boys everywhere. Bob:
"All these movies are based around the brief period of the Pony Express,
which only lasted for ten years, but it was so colorful that the memory went
on in stories, plays and movies for a long time after. But Tom Mix's movies
were made before I started playing, and besides, they were considered too
vulgar for the audience back then at the Pasadena Playhouse - we never even
saw a Chaplin or a Keaton film there! But Mix was household name; he
typified the Western milieu I dreamt about as a kid. Tom Mix was the big
name we all wanted to be. There was Hoot Gibson, and of course, William S.
Hart, but Mix was Cowboy #1!"
Dir. Lewis Seiler, 1926, 16mm, 53 min.
Tickets - $10
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Bruce Calvert
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