A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921 film)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1921 American silent film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1889 novel" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".
The film was produced by the Fox Film Corporation( later 20th Century Fox) and directed by Emmett J. Flynn based on a screenplay by Bernard McConville.
It is notable as the first film adaptation of Twain's novel and as the second film about time travel to the past( after The Ghost of Slumber Mountain).
The film stars Harry Myers as the titular Yankee Martin Cavendish.
After reading Twain's novel, Cavendish dreams that he, like Twain's protagonist Henry Morgan, is transported back to the time of King Arthur( Charles Clary), where he must use modern know- how to outwit the king's foes Morgan le Fay( Rosemary Theby) and Merlin( William V. Mong).
The screenplay modernizes the novel with many contemporary references, including mentions of Ford Model Ts, the Volstead Act, and the Battle of the Argonne Forest.
The film was popular, and its success likely encouraged Fox to produce the later sound film adaptation of the novel," A Connecticut Yankee".
According to author Barbara Leaming, the film's hanging scene inspired Tom Hepburn, brother of Katharine Hepburn, to commit suicide in 1921.
The film is incomplete in the Library of Congress, and only reels 2, 4 and 7 survive.
To the Ladies' Paradise
To the Ladies' Paradise( German: Zum Paradies der Damen) is a 1922 German silent film directed by Lupu Pick.
It is based on the 1883 novel" Au Bonheur des Dames" by Emile Zola.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1949 American Technicolor comedy musical film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and William Bendix.
Based on the novel" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"( 1889) by Mark Twain, the film is about a mechanic in 1912 who bumps his head and finds himself in Arthurian Britain in AD 528, where he is befriended by a knight and gains power by judicious use of technology.
When he falls in love with the King's niece, her fiancé Sir Lancelot takes exception, and when he meddles in the politics of the kingdom, trouble ensues.
Filmed from October to December 1947," A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" was released on April 22, 1949 and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
The film was a popular success and became one of the highlight films of 1949.
William P. Ragsdale
William Phileppus Ragsdale( – November 24, 1877) was a lawyer, newspaper editor, and translator of the Kingdom of Hawaii and popular figure known for being" luna" or superintendent of the leper colony of Kalaupapa.
Elements of his life story influenced Mark Twain's 1889 novel" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".
Budd Fine
Budd Fine( September 10, 1894 – February 9, 1966) was an American character actor of the silent and sound film eras.
Born Budd Nathan Fine on September 10, 1894, in Hartford Connecticut, Fine served in the US Army during World War I, during which he was awarded a Purple Heart.
Fine broke into the film industry in a film short in 1924," Aggravatin' Papa", and would make his feature film debut later that year with a small role in the silent film," Hold Your Breath".
During the silent film era, he would make mostly shorts, with only a handful of appearances in feature films, including Buster Keaton's" Battling Butler"( 1926), and as a soldier in the Cecil B. De Mille's 1927 epic," The King of Kings".
With the advent of the talking picture, Fine began to work steadily in feature films.
He would have small roles in many notable films, such as: the first talking version of Mark Twain's" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", 1931's" A Connecticut Yankee", starring Will Rogers;" Les Misérables" in 1935, starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton;" Anything Goes"( 1936), starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman; William Dieterle's 1939 version of" The Hunchback of Notre Dame", starring Charles Laughton; the Cary Grant and Jean Arthur vehicle," Only Angels Have Wings", directed by Howard Hawks; another Grant film in 1943, also starring Laraine Day," Mr. Lucky"; the classic film noir," Lady in the Lake"( 1947), starring Robert Montgomery; the 1947 Bob Hope comedy, also starring Dorothy Lamour," My Favorite Brunette";.
The 1950s would see Fine reunite with De Mille, on his epic film," Samson and Delilah"( 1950), starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr; he would also appear that year in the musical," Annie Get Your Gun", starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel.
He appeared in over 100 films, including over 80 feature films.
Lupu Pick
Lupu Pick
( 2 January 1886 – 7 March 1931) was a German actor, film director, producer and screenwriter of the silent era.
He appeared in 50 films between 1910 and 1928.
Born in Romania, Pick's father was a Jewish Austrian, his mother, of Romanian origin.
He began as a stage actor in Hamburg, Flensburg and Berlin before 1910.
In 1917 he founded the film company Rex- Film AG.
He served on the board of the Film Association of Industrialists(" Vorstand des Verbandes der Filmindustriellen"), SPIO and the Film Directors Association of Germany(" Verbandes der Filmregisseure Deutschlands") and worked intensively to establish the union- based umbrella organization of Filmmakers in Germany(" Filmschaffenden Deutschlands")( Dacho).
He was the organization's first chairman.
Pick was married to actress Edith Posca.
Emmett J. Flynn
Emmett J. Flynn( November 9, 1892 in Denver, Colorado – June 4, 1937 in Hollywood, California) was an American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.
New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Fantasy over Mark Twain's theme is a 1988 Soviet adventure film directed by Viktor Gres and based on American author Mark Twain's" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".
The screenplay was written by Mikhail Roshchin, and the film was produced by Dovzhenko Film Studio.
A Connecticut Yankee (film)
A Connecticut Yankee is a 1931 American Pre- Code film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1889 novel," A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".
It was directed by David Butler to a script by William M. Conselman, Owen Davis, and Jack Moffitt.
It was produced by Fox Film Corporation( later 20th Century Fox), who had earlier produced the 1921 silent adaptation of the novel," A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtA Connecticut Yankee" is the first sound film adaptation of Twain's novel.
As in" The Wizard of Oz", many of the actors in the film play more than one role, a character in the real world and one in the dream world.
The film stars Will Rogers as Hank Martin, an American accidental time traveler who finds himself in Camelot back in the days of King Arthur( William Farnum, a Fox star for many years).
Myrna Loy and Brandon Hurst play the evil Morgan le Fay and Merlin, who must be overcome by Hank's modern technical knowledge, while Maureen O'Sullivan plays Alisande.
Fox was likely inspired to produce" A Connecticut Yankee" based on the success of the 1921 silent film.
The 1931 version was likewise successful, and was re-released in 1936.
It is unrelated to the 1927 musical also titled" A Connecticut Yankee".
The hero's name was changed from Hank Morgan to Hank Martin, possibly because the original name sounded too similar to that of actor Frank Morgan.
A trailer for the film exists at the Library of Congress.

Question: Which film has the director who is older, To The Ladies' Paradise or A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur'S Court (1921 Film)?
Answer: To The Ladies' Paradise