Talk:Raoul Walsh

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[edit] Pancho Villa

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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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)