A Still More Lovable Tom Mix -- October 13, 2021

Moving Picture World, 01-October-1921

I was amazed to see how elaborate this two-page ad for Tom Mix's The Night Horseman, which was a sequel to The Untamed. Both films were based on novels by Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust), who wrote lots of Westerns. He later created the character Doctor Kildaire.

Motion Picture News, 07-August-1920

A less-elaborate ad for The Untamed. 

Moving Picture World, 08-October-1921

Lynn Reynolds directed. May Hopkins was the leading lady.

 

Exhibitors Herald, 29-October-1921

The Rough Diamond was "a new kind of Tom Mix Picture." It appears to have been a Ruritanian romance/comedy. It is probably lost. 

Moving Picture World, 29-October-1921

Eva Novak was his leading lady. Eddie Sedgwick directed. 

More Dramatic Punch Than All the Others Put Together -- January 9, 2021

 

Motion Picture News, 01-January-1921

William S Hart was an experienced stage actor who was fascinated with the American west. He often played what became known as the Good-Bad Man. He starred in The Testing Block with Eva Novak. Lambert Hillyer directed. Here we see Bill fighting other members of the gang to see who will take possession of Eva Novak. 

The Testing Block -- December 11, 2020

 

Motion Picture News, 25-December-1920

William S Hart was an experienced stage actor who was fascinated with the American west. He often played what became known as the Good-Bad Man. He starred in The Testing Block with Eva Novak. Lambert Hillyer directed. Here we see Hart protecting a child who was probably played by Richard Headrick.

The Testing Block -- November 7, 2020

 

William S Hart was an experienced stage actor who was fascinated with the American west. He often played what became known as the Good-Bad Man. He starred in The Testing Block with Eva Novak. Lambert Hillyer directed. I like the portrait of Hart in this trade ad. I wouldn't mess with him.