Paul Schofield Movies
Not to be confused with British actor Paul Scofield (as has sometimes happened), American screenwriter Paul Schofield was in Hollywood from 1921 to 1939. While most of Schofield's silent film credits are forgettable, a few stand out: That Royle Girl (1926) represented the second and last collaboration between director D.W. Griffith and comedian W.C. Fields, while Fascinating Youth (1926) was designed to show off Paramount's latest crop of new contractees, among them such stars-to-be as Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Thelma Todd. His talkies tended to be B-pictures along the lines of the 1939 Tailspin Tommy entry Mystery Plane. One of Paul Schofield's few A-credits of the 1930s was the big-budget Paramount Western Wells Fargo (1937). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi- 1921
Former socialite Maurice "Lefty" Flynn made a bid for western stardom in this mild silent western about a stranger mistaken for an outlaw, the notorious "Night Hawk." He finds a believer in lovely Winifred Sampson (Eva Novak) who shelters the presumed outlaw from the authorities until her fiancee, unscrupulous dam engineer William Kirk (Wallace Beery) turns him in. The Stranger, however, is in reality a detective in disguise and has enough evidence to arrest Kirk, the real outlaw. The commonplace plot was used twice more, in 1927 (as a vehicle for Tom Mix) and 1933, starring George O'Brien. The brawny Flynn never made it as a bona fide western star and was actually better known from the gossip pages than for any particular film. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
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