#silentflickersunday — Public Fediverse posts
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Yes, that’s a real ship from the late 1800s that was bunt and sunk for “Old Ironsides” but tbh you can’t argue with the results
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So yeah.. I’m like 85% certain that people got hurt making these huge action scenes b/c y’know it was 1926 and most of the budget went towards getting real ships for the film
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Other famous cast members with small roles include: Boris Karloff and Gary Cooper has an ultra teensy uncredited role as well (this was one of many uncredited roles at the start of his career)
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“But you already punched my nose…?”
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The Cook is played by George Godfrey who was a heavyweight champion boxer known as “The Leiperville Shadow” with only 21 career losses. He was in fewer than 10 films but he’s really in this.
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It’s fair to assume that basically all of these dudes boarded the USS Constitution already with nasty cases of amoebic dysentery
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5 schillings is about 6 cents in USD ..which would be less than $2 USD today😑
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Yes. There was a musical number in this silent epic war action film.
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Okay, so the history in this is fuzzy at best but at least the print is surprisingly clear
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And now our feature presentation: “Old Ironsides” (1926), a historical war action film (https://youtu.be/Fwp67RZtJ6s?si=B8v-7PKLZHDvuEgb) directed by action-director James Cruze and written in part / assistant directed by Dorothy Arzner
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