Before John Ford and Sergio Leon, one of the directors took control of the Western type

Content Warning: This article contains a male of suicide.

1910s and 1920s Hollywood was the Wild West – not only because it was coming out of many Westerners. Damian Chazel “Babylon” It is not a visual accurate, but it picks up the spirit of the times. The first kinetic camera was invented only about 25 years ago, and it spread quickly, as a new technical means and a new financial industry were born in a rapid arrangement. Los Angeles directors brought the cameras to the deserts in California, discovered some horses, assaulted representatives of the famous Wild West shows, and they created almost somewhat. Soon, Westerners became one of the most expensive and popular types, and studios asked that the directors can manage as much as possible in a schedule as possible.

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Hence, the silent cinematic films and their managers were largely abundant compared to directors today. In fact, many silent film makers managed to complete the entire features within weeks, and sometimes even days.

An example of this: Lin Reynolds. Perhaps his adaptation of 1925 for “Riders from” Al -Hakim Al -Ajwani “, Reynolds was one of the masters of the West in the silent era. From 1915 to 1927, Reynolds removed more than 80 shorts, features and additional 58, and many of them in the Western type. Reynolds began his career in his hometown in Iowa, where he worked as a reporter for a newspaper Local.

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However, Reynolds was prolific but unhappy. The story of his notorious death is like his massive production.

Lynn Reynolds was the first length (i.e. more than 40 minutes), “Happened in Honolulu” of 1916, this time between a wealthy young woman and a fish pistol. Reynolds has made a lot of tragedies and romance about love and friendship. She was often pieces of characters that were with broken hearts, obedient longing, and “inappropriate” mixed “inappropriate” degrees. These types of molodrama were common as Westerners in 1910, although they are still continuing to this day. The first movie “Broadway Arizona” in Reynolds is “Broadway Arizona” for 1917, a movie about the cattle farm that finds love in the big city.

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In 1918, “Western Blood” was made with Fine cowboy star Tom MixAnd it was outside the races, as it was. The largest part of Reynold has since been in the Western type. Reynolds continued to work with Mix several times and remained high after that. In the end, he made five or six films annually every year until his death in 1927 at the age of 37.

The story of Reynolds’s death is a tragic story. It seems that he and his wife Kathleen Okonor had a stormy relationship, and the husband often struggled. Some reports claimed that Reynolds was offensive to Oukunor. Then, in 1927, the husband had arranged a dinner party with another couple three weeks after Reynolds, an unexpected snow in Sierra Nevadas. The presence of the company is more than preventing them from controversy, though. I mentioned reports Reynolds and Oukonor accused each other of marital infidelity before Reynolds came out of the room to bring a gun. Then he started death to commit suicide in front of his wife.

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Rynolds was the last movie “Oh! O! Kubuy”, which is in the Western 1927 that was completed by director Edward Liem (son of a sister Universal Honcho and war films lovers Karl Limmet).