Writing

Dwinelle Benthall

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Writing

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6 titles

Known for

California Straight Ahead poster
7.0

Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.

California Straight Ahead

1925

Burning Daylight poster
5.4

Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson. He journeys to San Francisco, makes three million dollars and loses it in San Francisco. He returns to Alaska and eventually finds his treasure.

Burning Daylight

1928

The Heart of a Follies Girl poster
9.0

A clerk falls in love with a beautiful dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies. Not being able to support the girl in the manner to which she is accustomed, he commits forgery in order to get the money to buy her an engagement ring. Complications ensue.

The Heart of a Follies Girl

1928

The Shepherd of the Hills poster
7.0

David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Ozark family, becomes known as The Shepherd because of his gentle and kindly ways. Years earlier, his son betrayed a mountaineer's daughter, and The Shepherd hopes to atone for his error. When a continued drought threatens the people with starvation and ruin, they lose faith in the "miracle man" and mock him, though he begs them to keep the faith.

The Shepherd of the Hills

1928

Heart to Heart poster
7.0

Princess Delatorre, the recent widow of an Italian royal, pays a visit to her old hometown in America and is quickly mistaken for a local seamstress of dubious reputation.

Heart to Heart

1928

The Whip poster
10.0

Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.

The Whip

1928

Behind the camera

California Straight Ahead poster
7.0

Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.

California Straight Ahead

1925

Burning Daylight poster
5.4

Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson. He journeys to San Francisco, makes three million dollars and loses it in San Francisco. He returns to Alaska and eventually finds his treasure.

Burning Daylight

1928

The Heart of a Follies Girl poster
9.0

A clerk falls in love with a beautiful dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies. Not being able to support the girl in the manner to which she is accustomed, he commits forgery in order to get the money to buy her an engagement ring. Complications ensue.

The Heart of a Follies Girl

1928

The Shepherd of the Hills poster
7.0

David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Ozark family, becomes known as The Shepherd because of his gentle and kindly ways. Years earlier, his son betrayed a mountaineer's daughter, and The Shepherd hopes to atone for his error. When a continued drought threatens the people with starvation and ruin, they lose faith in the "miracle man" and mock him, though he begs them to keep the faith.

The Shepherd of the Hills

1928

Heart to Heart poster
7.0

Princess Delatorre, the recent widow of an Italian royal, pays a visit to her old hometown in America and is quickly mistaken for a local seamstress of dubious reputation.

Heart to Heart

1928

The Whip poster
10.0

Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.

The Whip

1928