Harry Revier

Harry Jack Revier was an independent American director, producer and first generation exploitation film maker best known for his sound films The Lost City , Lash of the Penitentes , and Child Bride .

Harry Revier was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1890. Some sources state that he gained early experience as a cinematographer in Europe, but his name is absent from passenger lists from that time. His earliest known screen credit is as the director of the Victor Film Companys The Imp Abroad , starring James W. Horne. Although Revier worked in the film industry for aboutyears, he only occasionally worked for any of the major studios. Most of his output consisted of lowbudget programmers distributed on the states rights market, oneshot features or serials often made for companies organized only to make that one film, distributed haphazardly if at all . Two exceptions are the Tarzan films that Revier codirected for Edgar Rice Burroughs one of these, The Son of Tarzan , was a considerable hit. Shortly afterward he discovered actress Dorothy Revier, whom he married and launched in her film debut, The Broadway Madonna . Though she did go on to some popularity in the 1920s, it was

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