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1961
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In this British comedy, based on a popular radio series, the Lyons family goes on a Parisian holiday. The father attempts to...
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1955
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1954
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1954
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Beneath the gay billows of the big-top seethes a veritable stewpot of illicit romance, false friends, rivalry and murder in...
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Phil Danton
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1943
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Filmed in England at Warner Bros.' Teddington Studios facilities, This Was Paris stars American actors (and current British...
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Butch
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1941
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In this musical, the on-air rivalry between a married pair of American radio stars, each hosting a different show heats to...
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1941
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1941
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In this British murder mystery, Scotland Yard investigates a puzzling killing of an Italian count. The Yard assigns a...
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1940
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The British I Killed the Count was based on the tricky stage puzzler by Alec Coppel. Cockney comedian Syd Walker plays it...
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Bernard Froy
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1939
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In this drama, a journalist assists a young woman seeking revenge upon the newspaper baron who ruined her father. ~ Sandra...
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1939
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In this crime drama, an insurance detective goes undercover to try to bring in a jewel thief. He poses as a gangster and...
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Johnny Hammond
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1938
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This British musical comedy boasts one of the most eclectic casts in film history. Brash Wallace Ford and smoothie Ben Lyon...
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Roy Harley
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1937
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A Kathleen Norris novel was the source for this romantic drama, which begins when widowed navy doctor Quentin Harden...
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Dr. Pete Milford
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1936
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Dancing Feet stars Joan Marsh as Judy, a society deb who lands a job as a dime-a-dance girl to spite her wealthy grandfather...
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Peyton
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1936
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In its first few years of existence, Republic Pictures evinced an eagerness to tackle any sort of offbeat subject. The...
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Steve Londos
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1936
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It's a dark and stormy night. The butler of a large mansion is annoyed by the howling of a cat. He fires a few gunshots at...
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Stephen Brewster
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1935
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Writer-director-star Willard Mack had been dead and gone for several years by the time Together We Live managed to attain a...
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Max
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1935
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Frisco Waterfront stars Ben Lyon as California gubernatorial candidate Glenn Burton. A freak election-day accident at the...
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Glenn Burton
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1935
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In this crime drama, a famous criminal attorney is abandoned by his wife who has tired of his neglect and heavy drinking....
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Roger Kane
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1934
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Often written off as just another Poverty Row effort featuring a fallen-from-grace Erich Von Stroheim, Mascot Pictures'...
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Bob Wilson
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1934
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In this espionage drama, an American in Europe gives the wrong address to a taxi driver and ends up mistaken for a spy in...
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Wally Sawyer
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1933
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Max Miller's best-seller forms the basis of this romantic melodrama about cynical, hard-drinking reporter Joe Miller...
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Joseph Miller
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1933
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The missing girl in this weak whodunit from Warner Bros. is redheaded Peggy Shannon, once seen as the successor of "It Girl"...
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Henry Gibson
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1933
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Ben Lyon plays an aspiring boxer in this pre-code drama. Cookie Bradford (Lyon) toils at a diner and works out at the gym...
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1932
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In this romance, a recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she...
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Jack Williams
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1932
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In this crime drama an escaped killer hunts the man who squealed upon him. He stalks the man onto a train bound for San...
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Jimmy
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1932
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Based on a novel by Rian James, Hat Check Girl stars Sally Eilers as the title character, a pert little number named Gerry...
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Buster Collins
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1932
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This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and...
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Guy Bryson
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1932
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The "Crooked Circle" gang consists of a dozen or so hooded villains, all of whom have sworn revenge on the Sphinx Club, a...
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Brand Osborne
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1932
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William Wellman's Night Nurse survives as a potentially interesting but ultimately unsatisfying melodrama about a nurse...
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Morlie
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1931
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In this comedy, a rebellious son of a powerful industrialist returns home to prepare to take over the company. While their...
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Sidney Brock
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1931
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In this musical comedy, Fred Von Wellingen (Ben Lyon), the scion of a wealthy German family, has fallen in love with Lia...
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Fred Von Wellingen
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1931
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In the South Seas, half-caste Ilanu (Raquel Torres) refuses to marry Kahea (Donald Reed), as she loves Jimmy Bradford...
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1931
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Class distinction rears its ugly head in this otherwise tuneful little musical from the pens of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz...
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Hap Harrigan
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1931
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Constance Bennett, Hollywood's favorite "wronged" heroine, is the star of the misleadingly titled Bought. Thing of it is,...
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Nicky Amory
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1931
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In this WW I comedy, several young men decide to join the army. Each one has his own reason for joining up. Songs include:...
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Georgie Wilson
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1931
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My Past is based on a novel called Ex-Mistress, a title that was rejected outright by the Hollywood censors. Even so, what...
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Robert Byrne
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1931
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1931
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Divesting herself of her own production company, silent-screen queen Gloria Swanson entered into a two-picture deal with...
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Tony Blake
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1931
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It is difficult to explain why the fly-by-night distribution firm of Road Show Pictures dragged the silent sagebrusher West...
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Kit Carson
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1931
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When European princess Lee comes back to her Midwestern hometown, she is thought to be a seamstress and goes along with the...
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1931
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Bebe Daniels plays a safecracker posing as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a...
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Jimmy
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1930
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Based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst, this dreary and primitive early talkie was unleashed on a derisive audience in January...
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Rollo Farley
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1930
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In this drama, a suave playboy gets jealous when his lover falls for a new man. Then the mistress' sister comes to town and...
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1930
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No one was surprised in 1929 that aviation mogul Howard R. Hughes would produce a paean to World War I flying aces like...
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Monte Rutledge
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1930
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FBO Pictures was in the process of transforming into RKO Radio when the silent actioner Air Legion was filmed. Ben Lyon stars...
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Dave
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1929
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Two brothers fall for the same woman in this drama. While one of the brothers had been off fighting the war, the other had...
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Steve Moran
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1929
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Although a humble stable boy, Ben Lyon is a whiz when it comes to medical know-how. This endears Lyon to his boss, Fred...
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1929
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Busy character actor Sam Hardy was afforded a rare starring role when he played the title character in High Hat. Despite his...
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1927
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Recently fired by comedian Harry Langdon, young director Frank Capra found it difficult to line up any new projects. He was...
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Mike
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1927
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1927
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The Perfect Sap was based on Not Herbert, a popular stage farce of the period. Ben Lyon stars as Herbert Alden, a wealthy but...
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Herbert Alden
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1927
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Billie Dove stars as Marcia Kane, whose head is turned by the charming but sinister Grand Duke Sergei (Montague Love)....
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Wally McKenzie
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1927
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The Great Deception is set during WWI. Educated in Germany, British youth Cyril Mansfield (Ben Lyon) is seemingly uncertain...
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Cyril Mansfield
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1926
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Ralph Hillier
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1926
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Prince of Tempters was adapted from The Ex-Duke a story by prolific author E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story focuses on two...
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Francis
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1926
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This playful spoof on the film business featured several stars including Ben Lyon, Lois Wilson, and Blanche Sweet. John Hart...
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John Hart @ Don Juan Hartes
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1926
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1926
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Seven years after its end, there was a resurgence of films about World War I. This one, based on the novel Invisible Wounds...
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Billy Morrow
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1925
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Frank Lloyd, who directed The Sea Beast, tried to create another epic with this Rex Beach tale of the 1897 gold rush. The...
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Pierce Philips
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1925
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Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama -- not exactly the forte of either of these stars. Charming but...
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Frank Jerome
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1925
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Paula (Fritzi Brunette), a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he...
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Danny Wade
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1925
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Ellie Byrne (Colleen Moore) and Don Lane (Ben Lyon) are childhood pals -- their fathers (Charles Murray and Russell Simpson)...
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Don Lane
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1924
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Although Gloria Swanson was known as a clotheshorse, occasionally her studio would allow her to rely purely on her acting...
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Marvin
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1924
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Douglas Vantine
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1924
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Lieutenant Prell
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1924
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1924
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Dirk DeJong
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1924
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This picture practically defined the Roaring Twenties and shot Colleen Moore to superstardom. Because she is neglected by her...
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1923
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn had first become familiar with Montague Glass' "Potash and Perlmutter" series of stories when he was...
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1923
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1921
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1919
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