Antonio MorenoFilmography

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The Searchers

Actors: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle like such Ford classics as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) and a film about one man's troubling moral codes, a big-screen adventure of the 1950s that Read More

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Actors: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: Universal Pictures introduced audiences to yet another classic movie monster with this superbly crafted film, originally presented in 3-D. The story involves the members of a fossil-hunting expedition down a dark tributary of the mist-shrouded Amazon, where they enter the domain of a prehistoric Read More

Saskatchewan

Actors: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, Robert Douglas, J. Carrol Naish, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Saskatchewan is a "northern" starring Alan Ladd as tight-lipped Canadian Mountie Sgt. Thomas O'Rourke. He rescues Grace Markey (Shelley Winters), sole survivor of a Sioux uprising, and the two of them set out across the treacherous Saskatchewan terrain to safety. To keep himself and his companion Read More

Wings of the Hawk

Actors: Van Heflin, Julie Adams, Abbe Lane, George Dolenz, Antonio Moreno

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Gerald Drayon Adams, Wings of the Hawk stars Van Heflin as Irish Gallegher, an American mining engineer working in Mexico. When his gold mine is confiscated by the local government, Gallegher aligns himself with a renegade group of insurrectionists, led by Arturo (Rodolfo Acosta Read More

Thunder Bay

Actors: James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Dan Duryea, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: Thunder Bay was another inspired collaboration between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann. Stewart plays an ex-GI named Steve, who has a hankering to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Together with his army buddy Gambi (Dan Duryea, in a rare good-guy role), Steve attains the financial Read More

Untamed Frontier

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Shelley Winters, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Minor Watson

Synopsis: Reportedly, there was no love lost between the three stars of Untamed Frontier, and perhaps it was this tension that added so much depth to this otherwise formula-bound western. Joseph Cotten plays Kirk Denbow, the straight-laced son of ruthless cattle-baron Matt Denbow (Minor Watson), while Scott Brady Read More

Mark of the Renegade

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse, J. Carrol Naish, Gilbert Roland, Andrea King

Synopsis: MGM's Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse were loaned to Universal for the Technicolor period piece Mark of the Renegade. Set in 19th-century California, the film stars Montalban as Marcos, in league with a band of pirates. Marcos falls into the hands of Don Pedro Garcia (Gilbert Roland), a despot Read More

Crisis

Actors: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso, Ramon Novarro

Synopsis: Cary Grant's utter credibility in the role of a brilliant, world-famous brain surgeon Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson is the single element that keeps Crisis afloat. While vacationing in a politically unstable Latin American country, Ferguson and his wife, Helen (Paula Raymond), find themselves the Read More

Dallas

Actors: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Leif Erickson, Barbara Payton

Synopsis: With Dallas, Gary Cooper revived his long-dormant association with westerns. Cooper plays ex-Confederate officer Blayde Hollister, who rides into Dallas in search of the men who killed his family and stole his land. Because he is considered to be an outlaw by the authorities, Hollister is Read More

Saddle Tramp

Actors: Joel McCrea, Wanda Hendrix, John Russell, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: Joel McCrea was still relatively new to westerns when he starred in Saddle Tramp. McCrea is cast as footloose and fancy free cowpoke Chuck Connor, who has no intention of settling down. Alas, this decision is made for him when Connor "inherits" the four recently orphaned sons of his best friend. Read More

Lust for Gold

Actors: Ida Lupino, Glenn Ford, Gig Young, William Prince, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Producer/director S. Sylvan Simon, a man usually associated with comedies and musicals, turned out a rip-roaring western melodrama when he aimed his sights at Lust for Gold. Most of the film is told in flashback, relating the exploits of Jacob Walz (Glenn Ford), the greedy, homicidal owner of the Read More

Fiesta

Actors: Esther Williams, Akim Tamiroff, Ricardo Montalban, John Carroll, Mary Astor

Synopsis: Esther Williams moves from the swimming pool to the bull ring in this musical drama. Antonio Morales (Fortunio Bonanova) was once a champion bullfighter; now in retirement, Antonio and his wife (Mary Astor) have high hopes that their son Mario (Ricardo Montalban) will follow in his father's Read More

Captain from Castile

Actors: Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, Antonio Moreno, John Sutton

Synopsis: In this big-budget historical adventure, Tyrone Power stars as Pedro De Vargas, a young and impetuous nobleman in 16th Century Spain. Pedro helps to free a slave who belongs to Diego De Silva (John Sutton), but this proves to be a mistake, as Diego is one of the leaders of the Inquisition. Diego Read More

Notorious

Actors: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin

Synopsis: Though Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious was produced by David O. Selznick's Vanguard Films, Selznick himself had little to do with the production, which undoubtedly pleased the highly independent Hitchcock. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, who goes to hell in a handbasket after her father, an Read More

The Spanish Main

Actors: Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes, John Emery

Synopsis: RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul Henried is his usual stoic self as Laurent Van Horn, a Dutch sea captain shipwrecked on the coast of Cartagena, a Spanish-held island. Sentenced to be hanged, Van Horn and his Read More

Tampico

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Robert Bailey, Marc Lawrence

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1971 film of the same name, this World War II espionage drama was the second to last film from German director Lothar Mendes and stars Edward G. Robinson as oil tanker captain Bart Manson. When Manson rescues the survivors of a torpedoed ship in the Gulf of Mexico, he Read More

Undercover Man

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Antonio Moreno, Nora Lane

Synopsis: Undercover Man was the first of the "Hopalong Cassidy" series to be released by United Artists rather than Paramount. William Boyd and Andy Clyde return as saddle pals Hoppy and California, while Jay Kirby is cast as their partner-in-adventure Breezy. This time, Hoppy and company take on a gang of Read More

Valley of the Sun

Actors: Lucille Ball, James Craig, Cedric Hardwicke, Dean Jagger, Peter Whitney

Synopsis: Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was obviously inspired by the blockbuster comedy western Destry Rides Again (indeed, both films were directed by George Marshall). James Craig stars as Indian scout Jonathan Read More

Maria De La 'O'

Actors: Carmen Amaya, Antonio Moreno, Julio Pena

Synopsis: Filmed in Spain sometime in the late 1930s, Maria De La "O" was brought to American shores by Columbia Pictures in 1942. Onetime Hollywood favorite Antonio Moreno stars as an American artist who returns to Spain after a long absence. Here he makes the acquaintance of fiery gypsy dancing girl Carmen Amaya Read More

They Met in Argentina

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Gene Raymond, James Ellison, Alberto Vila, Buddy Ebsen, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: One of the less laudable results of the United States' wartime "good neighbor" policy with South America was the relentlessly unfunny comedy They Met in Argentina. Looking about as Latin as corned beef and cabbage, Maureen O'Hara stars as spoiled Argentine heiress Lolita, who meets her match in Read More

The Kid from Kansas

Actors: Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Ann Doran, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: In this drama, a South American planter and his neighbors find themselves plagued by vandals who have been destroying their equipment thereby forcing them to sell their fruit at below cost. Meanwhile, the orchardist's foreman hires a vagabond, an escaped convict framed for murder. It is he who Read More

Fiesta

Actors: Ann Ayars, Jorge Negrete

Synopsis: Hal Roach's first Technicolor production was the 48-minute musical Fiesta. The story takes place on the Mexican ranch owned by Don Hernandez (Antonio Moreno), whose niece Cholita (Anne Ayers) is returning home to marry local caballero Jose (George Negrete). When Cholita arrives, however, she has a Read More

Two Latins from Manhattan

Actors: Joan Davis, Jinx Falkenburg, Joan Woodbury, Fortunio Bonanova, Don Beddoe

Synopsis: Two Latins From Manhattan was Columbia's 1941 contribution to the "Good Neighbor Policy" towards South America. Joan Davis heads the cast as pushy nightclub press agent Joan Daley, while Jinx Falkenberg and Joan Woodbury are costarred as Joan's roommates, aspiring showgirls Jinx Terry and Lois Read More

Seven Sinners

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Broderick Crawford, Mischa Auer, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten her kicked out of one port of call after another. Once more causing a riot, Dietrich takes refuge on the first ship out, together with her underhanded cohorts Broderick Crawford Read More

Ambush

Actors: Gladys Swarthout, Lloyd Nolan, William Frawley, Ernest Truex, Broderick Crawford

Synopsis: Finishing out her Paramount Pictures contract, opera star Gladys Swarthout sings not a single note in the tense little thriller Ambush. After pulling off a bank robbery, a clever gang of thieves squirrels itself away in a rural hideout. Complicating matters is the unexpected arrival of Jane Read More

Rose of the Rio Grande

Actors: Movita, John Carroll, Antonio Moreno, Lina Basquette, Don Alvarado

Synopsis: Mexican actress Movita, Franchot Tone's vis-a-vis in Mutiny on the Bounty (and, much later, Mrs. Marlon Brando) stars in the Monogram western Rose of the Rio Grande The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore Read More

Rosa de Francia

Actors: Julio Pena, Antonio Moreno, Consuelo Frank, Enrique de Rosas

Synopsis: The last of Fox Studios' Hollywood-made Spanish-language films, Rose de Francia (Rose of France) stars Rosita Diaz as the title character. Diaz plays Luisa Isabel de Orleans, the French-born wife of Spain's Prince of Asturias. Because of their distrust of France, the Prince's parents refuse to Read More

The Bohemian Girl

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd, Antonio Moreno, Jacqueline Wells, Darla Hood

Synopsis: The excellent box-office returns for the previous Laurel & Hardy comic operas The Devil's Brother and Babes in Toyland encouraged Hal Roach to cast the team in still another operatic adaptation, a self-styled "comedy version" of William Balfe's The Bohemian Girl. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play Read More

Senora Casada Neceisita Marido

Synopsis: In this Spanish language comedy, a bored housewife decides to make her husband jealous. He later gets his revenge by doing the same thing. Misunderstandings and romantic mayhem ensue until at last the couple is happily reunited. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Storm over the Andes

Actors: Jack Holt, Antonio Moreno, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: This low-budget precursor to Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings stars Jack Holt as Bob Kent, the head of a charter-airplane service in South America. When not risking his life flying mail and supplies through the treacherous Andes, Kent must contend with the earthbound hostilities between his Read More

La Ciudad de Carton

Santa

Crew: Director

Actors: Carlos Orellana, Mimi Derba, Lupita Tovar

Synopsis: Santa was based on the incredibly popular novel by Mexican author Don Federico Gamboa. So beloved was the original novel that audiences were predisposed to adore the film, whether it was any good or not. The story concerns the romantic travails of the homely pianist (Carlos Orellana) of a seedy Read More

The Wide Open Spaces

One Mad Kiss

Actors: Jose Mojica, Mona Maris, Antonio Moreno, Tom Patricola

Synopsis: One Mad Kiss was designed to showcase the Latin-American performers in the employ of Fox Studios. Tenor Don José Mojica heads the cast as a dashing Spanish outlaw who fights the corrupt provisional government. Heroine Mona Maris despises the hero at first but learns to love both him and his cause. Read More

Rough Romance

Actors: George O'Brien, Helen Chandler, Antonio Moreno, Noel Francis, Eddie Borden

Synopsis: Burgeoning western star George O'Brien starred in this lavishly mounted but otherwise quite commonplace Northwest melodrama about a crime-fighting lumberjack. A very young John Wayne (still known as Marian Morrison) can be glimpsed in a saloon scene. Wayne's fortunes would escalate later that year Read More

Synthetic Sin

Actors: Colleen Moore, Antonio Moreno, Edythe Chapman, Kathryn McGuire, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: Colleen Moore's starring vehicles were never as "naughty" as their titles suggested. In Synthetic Sin, for example, Moore is cast as virtuous small-town girl Betty. An aspiring actress, Betty scores a huge flop in her local stage debut. Deciding she hasn't "lived" enough to be a good actress, our Read More

Romance of the Rio Grande

Actors: Warner Baxter, Mary Duncan, Antonio Moreno, Mona Maris, Robert Edeson

Synopsis: Fox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. As Pablo Wharton Cameron, Warner Baxter essentially repeats his "Cisco Kid" characterization from the earlier picture. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico Read More

Careers

Actors: Billie Dove, Antonio Moreno, Thelma Todd, Noah Beery, Sr., Holmes Herbert

Synopsis: This early talkie, set in French Indochina, centers around the conflict between a French magistrate's wife and his lecherous boss who requires that all wives sleep with him before he will promote their husbands. This wife refuses. Instead she marches into his office and demands an explanation. Her Read More

The Air Legion

Actors: Martha Sleeper, Antonio Moreno, Ben Lyon

Synopsis: FBO Pictures was in the process of transforming into RKO Radio when the silent actioner Air Legion was filmed. Ben Lyon stars as Dave, the son of a late, legendary WWI flight commander. On the strength of his dad's reputation, Dave is hired by an airmail service run by ex-flying ace Steve (Antonio Moreno Read More

Nameless Men

Actors: Antonio Moreno, Claire Windsor

Synopsis: In this silent crime drama, a police detective masquerades as a convict to befriend a young prison inmate who knows the location of the loot from a major robbery. It is there he learns that the boy doesn't know where it is. He does, however, know the name of the one who does. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Adoration

Actors: Billie Dove, Antonio Moreno, Nicholas Soussanin, Nicholas Bela

Synopsis: The impossibly beautiful Billie Dove coasts through the melodramatic convolutions of Adoration. Billie and Antonio Moreno play husband-and-wife Russian aristocrats who are separated during the Revolution. Upon meeting again, Moreno becomes convinced that Billie has been unfaithful. He walks out Read More

The Midnight Taxi

Actors: Antonio Moreno, Helene Costello, Tom Dugan, William Russell, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Anticipating Robert DeNiro by nearly fifty years, New York cabdriver "Taxi" Driscoll (Antonio Moreno) prefers to drive his dilapidated hack in the dead of night. Unlike DeNiro, Driscoll picks up extra folding money by agreeing to transport bootleg booze. It isn't long before our none-too-ethical Read More

The Whip Woman

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Antonio Moreno, Lowell Sherman, Hedda Hopper, Julanne Johnston

Synopsis: In his later interviews, director Allan Dwan seldom had anything to say about his 1928 opus Whip Woman -- and who could blame him? Estelle Taylor, whose tabloid fame as the litigious wife of boxer Jack Dempsey tended to overshadow her acting skills, stars as Sari, a whip-wielding Hungarian peasant Read More

Madame Pompadour

Actors: Dorothy Gish, Antonio Moreno, Nelson Keys

It

Actors: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Jacqueline Gadsden, Julia Swayne Gordon

Synopsis: Contrary to popular belief, Clara Bow was already Paramount's biggest box-office draw when she starred in this delightful rags-to-riches comedy. But It, from the fertile mind of bizarre best-selling author Elinor Glyn, remains perhaps the quintessential Bow picture. Not that the story of a poor Read More

Venus of Venice

Actors: Constance Talmadge, Antonio Moreno, Julanne Johnston, Edward Martindel, Michael Vavitch

Synopsis: Bubbly comedienne Constance Talmadge plays the title character in Venus of Venice. Talmadge is cast as Carlotta, a clever Italian thief with a heart of gold. Escaping from her latest caper, Carlotta takes refuge in the gondola owned by handsome Kenneth (Antonio Moreno). Taking it upon himself to Read More

Come to My House

Actors: Olive Borden, Antonio Moreno, Ben Bard, Cornelius Keefe, Doris Lloyd

Synopsis: Olive Borden closed out her Fox Pictures contract with the mild murder thriller Come to My House. Though she's just become engaged to Murtaugh Pell (Cornelius Keefe), socialite Joan Century (Borden) accepts a midnight-dinner invitation from wealthy bachelor Floyd Benning (Antonio Moreno). While Read More

Madame Pompadour

Synopsis: Dorothy Gish's screen vehicles for British director Herbert Wilcox were usually a treat, but her 1927 film Madame Pompadour tended to be weighed down by the ponderous stylistic choices of its producer, Germany's E. A. DuPont. Not surprisingly, Gish plays the title character, the celebrated Read More

The Temptress

Actors: Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Roy D'Arcy, Marc MacDermott, Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis: The Temptress was Greta Garbo's second American film, and while it may strike modern viewers as excessively melodramatic, Garbo is always worth watching. The star plays Elena, the wife of Monsieur Canterac (Lionel Barrymore) -- and the mistress of rich Parisian banker Monsieur Fontenoy (Marc MacDermott Read More

Mare Nostrum

Actors: Uni Apollon, Alice Terry, Antonio Moreno, Alex Nova, Kada-Abd-el-Kader, Hughie Mack

Synopsis: Having struck box-office gold with his adaptation of the mystical Vincent Blasco-Ibanez novel The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, producer-director Rex Ingram adapted another Ibanez best-seller, Mare Nostrum, as a vehicle for his hauntingly beautiful actress wife Alice Terry. Set during WWI, the Read More

Flaming Forest

Actors: Antonio Moreno, Renée Adorée, Gardner James, William Austin, Tom O'Brien

Synopsis: Based on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming Forest stars Antonio Moreno as RCMP sergeant David Carrigan. Taking a breather from fighting off Indians, Carrigan must bring headstrong young Roger Audemard (Gardner James) to the authorities to stand trial Read More

Love's Blindness

Actors: Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno, Lilyan Tashman, Sam de Grasse, Douglas Gilmore

Synopsis: Love's Blindness was another bit of hothouse exotica from romance novelist and self-appointed social arbiter Madame Elinor Glyn. This is the story of Jewish maiden Vanessa Levy (Pauline Starke), the daughter of a somewhat disreputable moneylender (Sam De Grasse). Deeply in debt to Vanessa's Read More

Beverly of Graustark

Actors: Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno, Creighton Hale, Roy D'Arcy, Albert Gran

Synopsis: This typically overproduced Marion Davies vehicle casts her in a distaff variation of The Prisoner of Zenda. An American lass, Davies is obliged to impersonate her male cousin (Creighton Hale), heir to the throne of Graustark. Our heroine is quite fetching in male drag, and it's amazing that the Read More

Learning to Love

Actors: Constance Talmadge, Antonio Moreno, Emily Fitzroy, John Harron, Ray Hallor

Synopsis: Once again, Constance Talmadge appears in a film written by John Emerson and Anita Loos -- the combination of star and writer usually turned out a good light comedy. Talmadge plays a character familiar to her fans, the flirtatious heiress. In this instance her name is Patricia Stanhope, and every Read More

Her Husband's Secret

Actors: Antonio Moreno, Patsy Ruth Miller, Ruth Clifford, David Torrence, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: Leon Kent (Walter McGrail) is a ne'er-do-well who throws wild parties. His wife eventually tires of him. She finds sympathy with Ross Brewster, a banker (David Torrence), which angers Kent. After an argument, Kent walks out with the couple's little boy. A couple of decades later, Brewster's Read More

One Year to Live

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Dorothy Mackaill, Sam de Grasse, Rosemary Theby, Leo White

Synopsis: Dr. Lucien LaPierre (Sam de Grasse) desperately wants to marry Elise Duchanier, the maid to a Parisian burlesque star (Aileen Pringle). She falls ill, and to keep her by his side, he tells her that she only has a year to live. Instead of making Elise a homebody, it inspires her to make a stab at Read More

Border Legion

Actors: Antonio Moreno, Helene Chadwick, Rockliffe Fellowes, Gibson Gowland, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: The second of four versions of Zane Grey's story of a dispirited ranch hand who joins a gang of outlaws, this silent western benefitted by the presence of veteran Vitagraph star Antonio Moreno. Moreno plays Jim Cleve, who heads West after being jilted by his girlfriend. He works for a while as a Read More

Flaming Barriers

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, Antonio Moreno, Charles Ogle, Robert McKim

Synopsis: A matinee idol of the pre-1920 years, Antonio Moreno was on the wane when, in 1921, the emergence of Rudolph Valentino sparked a demand for "Latin Lover" types. Moreno's 1924 vehicle Flaming Barriers was directed by George H. Melford, the man who started the Valentino craze with his direction of The Sheik Read More

Tiger Love

Actors: Antonio Moreno, Estelle Taylor, G. Raymond Nye, Manuel Camere, Edgar Norton

Synopsis: Although the story to this romantic adventure was founded on the Manuel Penella opera El Gato Montes, its utter lack of originality shows that it really could have come from any number of sources. Nevertheless, the performance of Latin lover Antonio Moreno manages to compensate for the material. Read More

Story without a Name

Actors: Agnes Ayres, Antonio Moreno, Tyrone Power, Louis Wolheim, Dagmar Godowsky

Synopsis: Alan Holt (Antonio Moreno) is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy Drakma (Tyrone Power Sr.) wants to get his hands on the invention and he sends his henchmen to attack Holt in his laboratory. Holt's sweetheart, Mary Walsworth (Agnes Read More

Bluff

Actors: Agnes Ayres, Antonio Moreno, Clarence Burton, Fred J. Butler

Synopsis: Agnes Ayres, who'd once been topbilled over Rudolph Valentino, was beginning the slow downward slide when she starred in Bluff. Ayres plays a young woman who must raise a great deal of money in a hurry to afford medical treatment for her brother. Thus she poses as a world-reknowned fashion Read More

Lost and Found on a South Sea Island

Actors: House Peters, Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno, Mary Jane Irving, Rosemary Theby

Synopsis: Starring veteran leading man House Peters, this Raoul Walsh-directed silent melodrama was filmed on location in Tahiti. Peters played Captain Blackbird, who, on the island of Pago Pago meets lovely Lorna (Pauline Starke), a white girl promised by an evil trader, Faulke (eorge Siegmann), to Chief Read More

The Exciters

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Antonio Moreno, Burr McIntosh, Diana Allen, Cyril Ring

Synopsis: The Exciters is the old one about a footloose heiress who must marry by the age of 21 or forfeit her fortune. The girl (Bebe Daniels), an inveterate thrill-seeker, chooses as her mate a handsome gangster (Antonio Moreno). Lots of thrills and laughs occur as a result of this shaky union. The Read More

My American Wife

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Antonio Moreno, Josef Swickard, Eric Mayne, Gino Corrado

Synopsis: Gloria Swanson is My American Wife in this farfetched but entertaining romantic drama. Married to Argentinian horse rancher Josef Swickard, Gloria is romanced by handsome aristocrat Antonio Moreno. This one has the whole shootin' match: duels, blood feuds, midnight trysts, and a pulse-pounding Read More

Spanish Dancer

Actors: Pola Negri, Antonio Moreno, Wallace Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Gareth Hughes

Synopsis: The rights to Don Cesar, the novel by Vicente Blasco-Ibanez, were originally purchased by Paramount as a vehicle for Rudolph Valentino. When he and the studio had a parting of the ways, the story was rewritten for Pola Negri, with Gypsy dancer Maritana as the lead. This was Negri's third film for Read More

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Actors: Mary Miles Minter, Antonio Moreno, Ernest Torrence, Ed Brady

Synopsis: This remake of the 1916 Cecil B. DeMille picture was Mary Miles Minter's final film for Paramount. June Tolliver (Minter) is a Kentucky mountain girl whose family is feuding with the Falins. But their differences are temporarily put on hold when revenue officer John Hale (Antonio Moreno) comes Read More

The Secret of the Hills

Actors: Antonio Moreno, Lillian Hall, Kingsley Benedict, George Clair

Synopsis: This mystery melodrama was based on a novel by British author William Garrett. Antonio Moreno stands out as Guy Fenton, an American newspaper correspondent based in London. When he rescues a girl in distress he embroils himself in a mystery. The girl, Marion (Lillian Hall), has an uncle who has Read More

The Naulahka

Synopsis: In the days before television and the Internet, faraway places such as the Middle East and Asia -- and their cultures -- seemed especially mysterious and unfathomable. Rudyard Kipling was one author of the late 1800s and early 1900s who fed readers' taste for the exotic with his tales of India and Read More

Aladdin from Broadway

Synopsis: The plot of Aladdin from Broadway is predicated on the actual turn-of-the-century native uprising in Damascus. An Englishman and his infant daughter are kidnapped by insurgents and spirited away to the desert stronghold of wicked Otto Lederer. Eighteen years later, an American adventurer (Antonio Moreno Read More

The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop

Synopsis: Vitagraph leading man Antonio Moreno played just about everything but a cocker spaniel during his pre-1920s prime. In Captain of the Gray Horse Troop, the Latino heartthrob is cast as Captain George Curtis, assigned to a post in Indian territory. Here he discovers that the Native American Read More

By Right of Possession

Synopsis: This two-part silent Western melodrama starred Mary Anderson as a woman mine owner who manages to quell a riot with the assistance of a brave sheriff (Antonio Moreno). They marry and leave the mountains in favor of the prairie. The second half of the film is set in a ranching community. Moreno is Read More

Money Magic

Synopsis: Mrs. Gilman (Laura Winston), who runs a camp hotel in a rugged mining town, is doomed to a life of drudgery. Her daughter Bertha (Edith Storey) can't bear to watch her struggle anymore, so she marries a rich invalid, even though she doesn't love him. But complications arise when she meets Ben Read More

Angel Factory

Synopsis: Darrow (Antonio Moreno) is a wealthy young man who uses his money to help educate slum children. However, when he helps out a young woman, Florence (Helen Chadwick), who has been thrown out of her home, it draws the wrath of both Betty, his fiancée (Margaret Greene), and Tony (Armand Cortez), a Read More

Kennedy Square

Synopsis: A Southern gentleman's alcoholism nearly costs him the love of his life in this silent drama set just before the Civil War. Fortunately for the troubled lovers, a wiser, more experienced friend is around to help the young man overcome his addiction and reunite with his lady love. The duo hold an Read More

Rose of the South

Synopsis: This story of the Civil War is told in flashback. Some new college students want to know about the bullet hole in Mr. Curtis's old classroom and he relates a story about his own college days, in the 1860s: There was a rivalry between two men, Dick Randolph (Antonio Moreno) and Watkins (Gordon Read More

The Island of Regeneration

Synopsis: Long before he was kindly old Dr. Meade in Gone With the Wind, Harry Davenport was a sort of renaissance man of the American theatre, serving as actor, writer, producer and director. Wearing his director's cap, Davenport helmed the 1915 silent feature Island of Regeneration. Juvenile star (and Read More

On Her Wedding Night

Synopsis: On Her Wedding Night is when young society bride Helen Carter (Edith Storey) abruptly becomes a widow. In fact, she is on the phone with her new husband Denton (Denton Vane) when he is shot and killed. The sole witness to the crime, Italian immigrant Carlo Picalli (William Dunn), is so shocked by Read More

A Price for Folly

Synopsis: Playboy Jean de Segni Antonio Moreno pays A Price for Folly that is a dear one in this 5-reel Vitagraph melodrama. After an extended drinking binge, Jean picks up a couple of chorus girls and celebrates some more. Meanwhile, his father, the Duke de Segni (Charles Kent), lies on his deathbed Read More

Judith of Bethulia

Actors: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish

Synopsis: Conservative Biograph Studios, having galloped to prominence on the coattails of their star director D.W. Griffith, refused to allow Griffith to make any film longer than two reels. Ignoring this edict, Griffith permitted his Biblical epic Judith of Bethulia to stretch to four reels; Biograph's Read More

In the Latin Quarter

The Peacemaker

The House of Discord

So Near, Yet So Far

Two Daughters of Eve