Bull Montana
Also Known As: Luigi Montagna, Lewis Montagna
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lewis Montagna (born Luigi Montagna, May 16, 1887 – January 24, 1950), better known as Bull Montana, was an Italian-American professional wrestler and actor. Montagna was born on May 16, 1887 in Voghera, Italy and came to the United States as a child. He became a professional wrestler under the name of Bull Montana. He gravitated to films in 1917, appearing first in several of the vehicles of his close pal Douglas Fairbanks. In 1919 he appeared as a gruesome villain in Maurice Tourneur's masterpiece Victory alongside Lon Chaney. Numbered among his many friends was Abe "The Newsboy" Hollandersky, boxer, wrestler, and movie extra, who claimed Montagna offered to help him finance his 1930 autobiography. In the early 1920s Montana, as he was known, often wrestled with his friend Jack Dempsey prior to some of Dempsey's larger fights to help entertain the press and spectators. Montagna was usually cast as a thug, henchman or something not quite sympathetic, and sometimes not quite human (he was the apelike cave dweller in 1925's The Lost World opposite Wallace Beery as Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger). Tempering his on-screen brutishness with humor, Montana starred in his own series of two-reel comedies in the early 1920s, spoofing everyone from Robin Hood (Rob 'Em Good) to the Corsican Brothers (The Two Twins). He appeared in two Buster Keaton films including a role as a professional wrestler in the film Palooka from Paducah. He continued playing movie bits into the 1940s, notably as one of Buster Crabbe's antagonists in the 1936 series Flash Gordon. Like many mashed-face musclemen of the movies, Bull Montana is reputed to have been as gentle as a lamb in real life.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Voghera, Lombardy, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: May 15, 1887
Age: 138 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 24, 1950
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The Lost World
Overview: The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Horror Romance Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-02
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Gay and Devilish
Overview: Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she falls in love with Armitage's handsome nephew Peter (Cullen Landis), Fanchon is in quite a quandary.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-14
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The Unpardonable Sin
Overview: Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-01
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Treasure Island
Overview: Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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Good Morning, Judge
Overview: Freddie, a rich young idler, meets Julia Harrington, a wealthy social service worker who runs a haven for reformed criminals. By telling her he is a hardened criminal, he is allowed to stay at the mission.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-29
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Crazy to Marry
Overview: A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-28
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The Timber Queen
Overview: The Timber Queen follows Ruth Rowland as the inheritor of a wealthy timber business who tries to stay independent of a cruel man who wants to marry her and steal her wealth. The UCLA Film and Television Archive has preserved episodes one, four, eight and nine, and distributor Harpodeon has preserved episode twelve.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-16
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The Border Legion
Overview: Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-28
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Tiger Rose
Overview: A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
Genres: Action Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-21
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Many Scrappy Returns
Overview: Charley and his wife (Eugenia Gilbert) decide to teach a lesson to his brother (Eugene Pallette) who constantly battles with his wife (Anita Garvin). Through a misunderstanding, it isn’t long before the Chase’s knife-wielding barbarian of a cook (Bull Montana) thinks Charley has designs on his wife (Valentina Zimina).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-09
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The Fight Pest
Overview: The Fight Pest is a silent movie short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-12
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Loud Soup
Overview: Loud Soup is a comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-16
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Palooka from Paducah
Overview: A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a professional wrestler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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The Skyrocket
Overview: In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. In the story we see Sharon as a young Hollywood star whose quick rise to fame leaves her self-centered, superficial, and a spendthrift. Ironically, the film that skyrocketed her to fame was written by Mickey. But her success is brief; and when it comes crashing to earth, Mickey is there to pick up the pieces.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-14
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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The Three Must-Get-Theres
Overview: In this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel "The Three Musketeers".
Genres: Romance Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-22
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Never Too Late
Overview: A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-27
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Held to Answer
Overview: John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry though actually he is protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart, Bessie.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-22
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How to Handle Women
Overview: When Leonard Higgins, a cartoonist, meets Prince Hendryx, ruler of the small nation of Vulgaria, he offers to help save the country by advertising the nonexistent crop, the peanut.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-14
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Limousine Love
Overview: On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-13
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He Comes Up Smiling
Overview: Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after the real Bachelor. *Only fragments are known to exist. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-09
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Go and Get It
Overview: Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-18
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The Son of the Sheik
Overview: Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed meet secretly until one night when her father and the gang capture the son of the sheik, torture him, and hold him for ransom.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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The Fire Patrol
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-14
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Down to Earth
Overview: A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order to prove to her and the other patients that their "illnesses" are all in their minds, he hatches a scheme to take them on a boat ride, then get them stranded in the wilderness, where he can show them that they can live without their pills, doctors and "cures".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-16
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The Uneasy Three
Overview: Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) has Charley Chase playing the mastermind of a dimwitted trio of thieves who plan on stealing a priceless jewel.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Overview: Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team who gets drawn into an adventure when he stops to rescue a young woman from some thugs on a country road. It includes a gag featuring an exploding football. The rest of the cast includes Lon Chaney, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana, Josie Sedgwick and Herschel Mayall.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-30
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When the Clouds Roll By
Overview: Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands of a sadistic psychiatrist. Through various means of control, the mad scientist drives Daniel to think he's losing his mind, but ultimately introduces him to the lovely Lucette.
Genres: Romance Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-28
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Victory
Overview: Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-07
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On the Front Page
Overview: After being beaten to a story of scandal involving Countess Polasky, James W. Hornby assigns his son 24 hours to find an even more scandalous story about the countess. After spending the night in the wrong street looking for the wrong countess, he comes up with a plan: the butler will be seen in a comprimising situation with the countess, and then photographed. The countess, who is sick of reporters, has other ideas... Written by Paul L
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-28
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Johanna Enlists
Overview: A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-14
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One Wild Week
Overview: Pauline Hathaway is informed on her 18th birthday by the family lawyer that she will inherit half a million dollars, provided that her behavior meets with his approval; otherwise, the money will revert to her aunt. With new clothes Pauline sets out to visit her mother's friend, Mrs. Brewster. Framed en route by a pickpocket, she is sentenced to a reformatory for 30 days. In court, however, she has been seen by Bruce Reynolds, an amateur investigator and nephew of Mrs. Brewster who is convinced of her innocence.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-08
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Painted People
Overview: Ellie Byrne and Don Lane, chums, living in the poor section of a factory town, go away to make their fortunes. Ellie wishes to become a lady so that she can marry Preston Dutton, a society chap, and Don becoming infatuated with Stephanie Parrish, daughter of a wealthy man. Ellie becomes a leading actress and Don the author of her first play. Ellie refuses Dutton’s suit when she learns he is after her money, and Stephanie returns Don’s engagement ring. Ellie and Don go back to the factory town disillusioned. They realize that they love each other and in reality had not bettered themselves for someone else but for each other. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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His Majesty, the American
Overview: A European prince is raised in America without knowing his true identity; he spends his time thrill-seeking, but his country needs him when a revolt threatens the crown.
Genres: Romance Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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Hello, 'Frisco
Overview: A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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The Sting of Stings
Overview: Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share their good fortune and offer to take six underprivileged children out for a fun day at the carnival. Unfortunately, the children come from Juvenile Hall, and each one is more trouble than the last.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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Big City
Overview: Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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Hard Luck
Overview: A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-14
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Brass Buttons
Overview: Kingston Hollister admires Bernice Cleveland from afar. He asks Officer Callahan, the policeman on the beat, about her and mistakenly believes she is a lady's maid. So the wealthy Hollister disguises himself as the cop so he can meet her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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Dick Turpin
Overview: In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to rescue his sweetheart from a terrible marriage.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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Spaceship to the Unknown
Overview: A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Foolish Age
Overview: After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an office to help derelicts. For her secretary, she picks an ex-gangster named Bubbs out of the throng.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-16
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Glorifying the American Girl
Overview: A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend, who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-07
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Wild and Woolly
Overview: A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone and it is an orderly and civilized place now. The townsmen, not wanting to lose a rich potential resident, contrive to make over the town to suit the young man's fantasy.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-24
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No Father to Guide Him
Overview: Charley's battle-axe mother-in-law breaks up his marriage and tries to separate him from his son. Charlie abducts the boy for a father-son outing to the beach. The mother-in-law pursues and comedy ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-05
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Laughing at Danger
Overview: A young fellow, down in the dumps after a belle breaks his heart, believes his father is setting up staged escapades and dangers in an attempt to get him out of his rut. His father isn't, and the dangers-- a cadre of hoods, car chases, a death ray-- are real!
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-23
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Snap Judgment
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Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-19
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Cowardice Court
Overview: A feud in the Adirondack Mountains develops when Randolph Shaw will not give up a shack and its acreage adjoining the estate of Lord Cecil Bazelhurst, whose wife, the former Evelyn Banks of Jersey City, married him for his title and now wants to get rid of Randolph's ugly shack. When Randolph meets Cecil's sister Penelope, a romance begins which is furthered after one of the Bazelhurst servants shoots Randolph in the arm for trespassing and Penelope, who earlier had looked upon the feud as a joke, runs away to Randolph's house and accepts his engagement proposal. Cecil and his men pursue Penelope, but are frightened away by Randolph's men and are forced to spend a miserable stormy night in the woods. The next day everyone becomes reconciled when Lady Evelyn realizes that the desired property will now be in the family, and Randolph offers Cecil and his men dry, if ill-fitting, garments to wear.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
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