William Fox
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American film executive and producer, born in 1879. Founder of Fox Film Corporation in 1915, which would later become 20th Century Fox after a merger in 1935. Fox was one of the pioneers of the American film industry, building a studio empire that encompassed production, distribution, and exhibition. He produced Regeneration (1915), one of the first feature films released by his company.
Produced
Drama, Adventure
John Gilbert stars as Edmond Dantès in this Fox Film Corporation adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment and revenge. Directed by Emmett J. Flynn, the film follows Dantès from his betrayal by jealous rivals, through years of solitary confinement in the Château d'If, to his transformation into the Count of Monte Cristo and his methodical vengeance against those who destroyed his life. Estelle Taylor plays Mercedes, the woman he loves. Long thought lost, a print surfaced in the Czech Republic and the film has been restored. As a work published before 1930, the film is in the public domain in the United States.
Drama · Adventure · Silent
Monte Cristo
1922 - Drama
Crime, Drama
Directed by Raoul Walsh, Regeneration is a 1915 American silent crime drama and one of the first full-length gangster films. Based on the 1903 memoir My Mamie Rose by Owen Frawley Kildare, the film stars Rockliffe Fellowes as Owen Conway, a poor orphan who rises to become a gang leader on the Lower East Side before a chance encounter with social worker Marie Deering (Anna Q. Nilsson) inspires him to seek redemption. Long feared lost, the film was rediscovered by preservationist David Shepard and selected for the United States National Film Registry in 2000. It was the first full-length feature directed by Walsh, who would go on to become one of Hollywood's most prolific directors.
Crime · Drama · Silent
Regeneration
1915 - Crime