[dropcap]T[/dropcap]wenty-eight year old King Vidor released his fourteenth motion picture on Jun. 3, 1923.  Talent, hard work and a little luck turned the star-struck Texan into one of Hollywood’s finest film makers.

The Galveston native, who survived the 1900 hurricane as a boy of six, was mesmerized by the newfangled medium called “the movies.”  Landing a part-time job at a local theater, he spent countless hours watching the screen spring to life with thrilling tales of fa...