Strong Boy

1929 film

March 3, 1929 (1929-03-03)

Running time

62 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSound (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)

Strong Boy is a 1929 American sound comedy film directed by John Ford. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Movietone process. The film, which was Ford's last silent film, is now considered to be lost.^[1] A trailer for the film was discovered in the New Zealand Film Archive in 2010 and subsequently preserved by the Academy Film Archive the same year.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Cast

Victor McLaglen as Strong Boy
Leatrice Joy as Mary McGregor
J. Farrell MacDonald as Angus McGregor
Clyde Cook as Pete
Buddy Roosevelt as Wilbur Watkins (credited as Kent Sanderson)
Douglas Scott as Wobby
Slim Summerville as Slim
Tom Wilson as Baggage master
Eulalie Jensen as Queen of Lisonia
David Torrence as Railroad president
Dolores Johnson as Prima donna
Robert Ryan as Baggage man
Jack Pennick as Baggage man

See also

List of lost films
List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

References

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Strong Boy". silentera.com. Retrieved March 24, 2008.
^ "New Zealand Project Films: Highlights". filmpreservation.org. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.

External links

Strong Boy at IMDb

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Films by John Ford

Silent films

Sound films

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The Lost Patrol (1934)
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Judge Priest (1934)
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
The Informer (1935)
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Mary of Scotland (1936)
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Stagecoach (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Tobacco Road (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
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The Fugitive (1947)
Fort Apache (1948)
3 Godfathers (1948)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
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Wagon Master (1950)
Rio Grande (1950)
The Quiet Man (1952)
What Price Glory (1952)
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Mogambo (1953)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
Mister Roberts (co-d, 1955)
The Searchers (1956)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)
The Rising of the Moon (1957)
Gideon's Day (1958)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Two Rode Together (1961)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Donovan's Reef (1963)
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Television

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"The Colter Craven Story" (1960)
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Productions

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Salute (1929)
Flesh (1932)
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
Young Cassidy (1965)

Documentaries
and training films

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The Battle of Midway (1942)
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Korea: Battleground for Liberty (1959)
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Vietnam! Vietnam! (1971) (produced and co-wrote)

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