Square Shoulders
1929 film
- March 10, 1929 (1929-03-10)
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Square Shoulders is a 1929 American silent crime drama film directed by E. Mason Hopper and starring Frank Coghlan Jr., Louis Wolheim and Anita Louise.[1]
Synopsis
After returning from fighting in World War I, a man falls into bad company with some criminals. Sometime later he returns to his hometown and discovers that his wife has died and his son Tad is now an orphan. He raises the funds to send Tad to a military school without letting him know his true identity. When his former criminal associates blackmail him into taking part in a robbery of the school, they are confronted by Tad. His father takes a bullet intended for him and dies.
Cast
- Frank Coghlan Jr. as John W. 'Tad' Collins Jr.
- Louis Wolheim as John 'Slag' Collins
- Philippe De Lacy as Eddie Cartwright
- Anita Louise as Mary Jane Williams
- C. Montague Shaw as B.T. Cartwright
- Maurice Black as Hook
- Kewpie Morgan as Delicate Don
- Clarence Geldert as Maj. E.H. Williams - Commandant
See also
- List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
- ^ Munden p.760
Bibliography
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
- Square Shoulders at IMDb
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Films directed by E. Mason Hopper
- Tangled Skeins (1916)
- The Selfish Woman (1916)
- The Right Direction (1916)
- The Wax Model (1917)
- The Prison Without Walls (1917)
- The Spirit of Romance (1917)
- As Men Love (1917)
- The Tar Heel Warrior (1917)
- The Regenerates (1917)
- The Hidden Spring (1917)
- Wife or Country (1918)
- Her American Husband (1918)
- Come Again Smith (1919)
- Dangerous Curve Ahead (1921)
- All's Fair in Love (1921)
- Hold Your Horses (1921)
- Brothers Under the Skin (1922)
- The Glorious Fool (1922)
- Hungry Hearts (1922)
- Daddy (1923)
- The Love Piker (1923)
- The Great White Way (1924)
- Janice Meredith (1924)
- The Crowded Hour (1925)
- Paris at Midnight (1926)
- Up in Mabel's Room (1926)
- Almost a Lady (1926)
- The Wise Wife (1927)
- The Night Bride (1927)
- Getting Gertie's Garter (1927)
- The Carnation Kid (1929)
- Wise Girls (1929)
- Their Own Desire (1929)
- Square Shoulders (1929)
- Her Mad Night (1932)
- Shop Angel (1932)
- Midnight Morals (1932)
- No Living Witness (1932)
- Sister to Judas (1932)
- Malay Nights (1932)
- Alias Mary Smith (1932)
- One Year Later (1933)
- Curtain at Eight (1933)
- Hong Kong Nights (1935)
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