Highest rated movie: Big City (1937)
Lowest rated movie: Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
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Movies starring Bull Montana have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
Big City - released in 1937 - is Bull Montana's highest rated movie, with a score of 70% based on 1 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Bull Montana is Glorifying the American Girl - released in 1929 - with a score of 51% based on 5 reviews.
Lewis Mountain (born Luigi Montagna, May 16, 1887 – January 24, 1950), better known as Bull Montana, was an Italian-American professional wrestler and actor.
The mountain was born on May 16, 1887 in Voghera, Italy and came to the United States as a child.
He became a professional wrestler under the name of Bull Montana. He gravitated to films in 1917, appearing first in several of the vehicles of his close pal Douglas Fairbanks. In 1919 he appeared as a gruesome villain in Maurice Tourneur''s masterpiece Victory alongside Lon Chaney. Numbered among his many friends was Abe "The Newsboy" Hollandersky, boxer, wrestler, and movie extra, who claimed the Mountain offered to help him finance his 1930 autobiography.
In the early 1920s Montana, as he was known, often have wrestled with his friend Jack Dempsey, prior to some of Dempsey's larger fights to help entertain the press and spectators.
The mountain was usually cast as a thug, henchman or something not quite sympathetic, and sometimes not quite human (he was the apelike cave dweller in 1925's The Lost World opposite Wallace Beery as Arthur Conan Doyle''s Professor Challenger). Tempering his on-screen brutishness with humor, Montana starred in his own series of two-reel comedies in the early 1920s, spoofing everyone from Robin Hood (Rob 'Em Good) to the the Corsican Brothers (The Two Twins). He appeared in two of Buster Keaton's films, including a role as a professional wrestler in the movie Palooka from Paducah. He continued playing movie bits into the 1940s, notably as one of Buster Crabbe''s antagonists in the 1936 series Flash Gordon. Like many mashed-face musclemen of the movies, Bull Montana is reputed to have been as gentle as a lamb in real life.
Bull Montana has acted in films with Wallace Beery, Boris Karloff, Rudolph Valentino and Spencer Tracy.
Bull Montana has worked with these film directors: Frank Borzage, Joseph Henabery, Millard Webb and George Fitzmaurice.
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