Talk:Raoul Walsh

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Pancho Villa
Revised:
 * In 1914 he became assistant to D.W. Griffith and made his first full-length feature film The Life of General Villa in the same year after actually riding with Pancho Villa in Mexico,

This has been discredited many times: Maltin has note on it in his Guide. I will get a source when I have the time. Ellsworth 16:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Hamlet
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 * Many years earlier, Barrymore had inscribed a photograph of himself to Walsh with this quote from Hamlet: 'Each man in his time plays many different parts. You have played them all.'

I could not find that quote or anything close to it in the wikisource text of Hamlet. Can someone help? Ellsworth 18:22, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes. It's from As You Like It. (It's a slight misquottaion--"Each" should be "One" and an extraneous "different" has slipped somehow. I'll leave both errors for now, on the assumption that they're Barrymore's mistakes, but whoever added this originally should double check.) Amolad (talk) 19:54, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Birth of a Nation
Walsh played Lincoln's murderer in Griffith's towering classic The Birth of a Nation (1915), often cited by critics (along with Citizen Kane) as the greatest movie ever made.

This should probably have a source to go along with it --especially considering that "The Birth of a Nation" is generally considered racist, if influential. Not sure if it's really appropriate to call it a "towering classic" otherwise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.193.196 (talk) 23:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

PT 109
In the 1960's my father showed me an article in Life magazine that reported that Raoul had been replaced as director of the film about the war efforts of JFK. It was later that we found out why. Raoul being an avid horse lover was out with an admiral who happened to be abusing the animal he was riding. Irratated by the way the man was beating his ride, Raoul demanded He stop using his whip on the horse or he would take it and give the officer a taste of it himself. Imediately following that episode the Officer reporrtedly told the heads of studio if Walsh was on the project, they would be without any ships to work with. On a trip to Warner studios I ran into an old hand that new Raoul, in the museum on the lot. Eddie a hand on a number of Raoul's films, shared with me the day he ran into Raoul on the street outside the studio. Raoul was laughing out loud when Eddie greeted him and asked whats so funny Mr. Walsh. He replied come here Eddie and showed him the paper in his hand. It was a check with a one and a lot of zero,s said Eddie. Raoul chuckled, "this is what they paid me not to do a film." Robert Raoul Walsh, Jr. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.188.99.94 (talk) 04:52, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it is a *stub*-- but it has many good links
While Gun Fury is the only Walsh film I recall having seen (serendipitously, at that), I too feel there is much more to be said about Walsh's long career. Why have I saved Gun Fury and periodically re-watch it and have discarded Citizen Kane?

I would like to thank the contributors of the individual Walsh-film Articles for *filling in some blanks*

And tho incomplete, this Walsh stub is fascinating. TheLordSayeth (talk) 09:40, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Add Battle Cry to my viewed Walsh films. I cannot bring myself to discard it either. TheLordSayeth (talk) 05:24, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

English and Irish
The professor who narrates the TCM DVD of White Heat states that Walsh is of Irish and Spanish descent and attended Catholic school.

But that does not sound entirely consistent with someone whose papers are at Wesleyan.

Varlaam (talk) 06:22, 22 December 2011 (UTC)