Though the story isn't much, this actioner does offer a neat behind-the-scenes look at the travails of Hollywood stuntmen as...
|
|
1933
|
This western features a case of mistaken identity after a friendly cowboy is thought to be the dreaded outlaw "Denver Ed."...
|
|
1933
|
While Tonart Studios is filming a gangster movie, one of the actors is killed in a shooting accident. After several other...
|
|
1933
|
|
|
Kirby
|
1932
|
Clark Gable was officially elevated to stardom with this airborne MGM action-adventure, but good old Wallace Beery (whom...
|
|
1932
|
Having signed for eight Westerns with poverty row entrepreneur E.W. Hammons, Ken Maynard went on to deliver a series of solid...
|
|
1932
|
Future Academy Award-winner Hattie McDaniel briefly brightened the proceedings in this, one of her two B-Western appearances...
|
|
1932
|
Filmed on location at Lone Pine, CA, this above average Ken Maynard oater features the veteran cowboy star in the title role,...
|
Mark Edmunds
|
1932
|
A varied group of more or less greedy relatives is once again gathered at the reading of a will in this atmospheric thriller...
|
|
1932
|
Also known as The Hidden Corpse, Strangers of the Evening is an effective blend of horror and humor. There's dirty work at...
|
|
1932
|
Edna May Oliver portrays a society dowager called for jury duty on a murder trial wherein a pretty young woman is accused of...
|
|
1932
|
In his first Western for 1932, Buck Jones went mostly for laughs playing a former Texas ranger inheriting an Arizona ranch...
|
|
1932
|
In this mystery, a detective is called in to investigate the fate of a derelict ship that was found floating off the coast...
|
Marsden
|
1932
|
In her final starring role, silent screen diva Mae Murray plays Dolly, a young gold digger who manages to trap a rich...
|
|
1931
|
Adapted from a play by Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison, Subway Express takes place entirely on a single subway car. When a...
|
Edward Tracy
|
1931
|
A wimpy king is forced to take responsibility for his little North Sea island kingdom after his iron-fisted wife goes on a...
|
|
1931
|
Columbia spent the 1920s and 1930s dusting off its reliable "two guys/one girl" military plotline and dressing it up in a...
|
|
1931
|
Made to exploit the panic caused by Black Tuesday, this thriller centers on the attempts of a broker to prove that a...
|
|
1931
|
Talking pictures made a star out of veteran movie villain Louis Wolheim, perhaps because his voice revealed a heart and soul...
|
|
1931
|
|
|
1930
|
The Fall Guy isn't Lee Majors in this 1930 RKO Radio programmer but instead a hapless druggist played by Jack Mulhall. Upon...
|
|
1930
|
|
|
|
1930
|
In this drama, an older railroad supervisor is engaged to a lovely young woman. Unfortunately, she falls in love with the...
|
|
1930
|
|
|
1930
|
Legendary Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who was capable of reducing audiences to paroxysms of helpless laughter by telling them...
|
|
1930
|
In his movie debut, Rudy Valley portrays the crooning saxophone player who falls in love with a beautiful young woman....
|
|
1929
|
|
|
Major
|
1929
|
That marvelous old barnstormer Hobart Bosworth stars in this early Columbia talkie as a rough-and-tumble sea captain named...
|
Captain Black
|
1929
|
Another of RKO Radio's "leftovers" from its previous existence as FBO Pictures, The Red Sword is set in a backlot Russia....
|
Litvoski
|
1929
|
|
|
|
1929
|
An early sound film for flapper star Olive Borden, this low-budget effort from FBO featured the erstwhile "Joy Girl" as...
|
|
1929
|
|
|
|
1928
|
Driftwood was based on a South Sea yarn penned by colorful turn-of-the-century journalist Richard Harding Davis. En route to...
|
|
1928
|
|
|
Ward
|
1928
|
Columbia's The Sideshow was obviously inspired by the success of such big-top dramas as First National's The Barker. The...
|
|
1928
|
A veritable harvest of cliches, Duty's Reward concentrates on the exploits of fearless newspaper editor George Fawcett....
|
|
1927
|
A James Oliver Curwood story was the source for this rugged Canadian Mountie melodrama. Alan Roscoe plays Sgt. Steve Drew,...
|
Sergeant Steve Drew
|
1926
|
The Strong Man was the second starring feature of silent screen comedian Harry Langdon--not to mention first feature-length...
|
|
1926
|
Lightning the Dog, Columbia Pictures' answer to Rin Tin Tin, heads the cast of Lure of the Wild. Displaying a range of...
|
Jim
|
1925
|
There is nothing original about this drama -- it's the old tale of the small-town girl who heads for the bright lights of the...
|
Al Manning
|
1925
|
|
|
|
1924
|
|
|
|
1924
|
When her latest show closes, Pat O'Brien (Margaret Livingston) returns home. The stable owned by her fiancé, Dan Mallory...
|
Dan Mallory
|
1924
|
This was the second silent version of the oft-filmed Rex Beach novel (made three more times in the sound era). Roy Glennister...
|
|
1923
|
The role of Jacqueline Floriot -- the Madame X of the film's title -- is a tour de force for any actress. After having an...
|
|
1920
|
Kate Carewe (Alma Rubens) lords over the dancehall in a lawless gold rush town. When preacher Ralph Bowen (Albert Roscoe)...
|
|
1919
|
|
|
|
1918
|
|
|
|
1918
|
Theda Bara doesn't do much vamping in her follow-up to Salome. She is Lillian Marchard, nursemaid to the lecherous Mortimer...
|
|
1918
|
|
|
|
1918
|
Her Body in Bond was another money-spinning collaboration between actress Mae Murray and her director husband...
|
|
1918
|
Acceding to the demands of her status-seeking mother, Nella Pendleton (Dorothy Phillips) agrees to marry a wealthy but much...
|
|
1918
|
By 1917, Theda Bara had become one of the screen's biggest stars, and her fans had long been suggesting that she portray...
|
Pharon
|
1917
|