Narrated by Anjelica Huston, this cable-TV documentary offered an up-close and personal look at the life and career of...
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2002
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Emerging Chaplin profiles the talent of the best-known actor of silent comedy, Charles Chaplin. Follow the emergence of...
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Narrator
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1989
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1989
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Produced for Britain's Thames television in 1979, Hollywood is a 13-part overview of the silent film era, lovingly assembled...
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1988
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The history of censorship in the American film industry is recorded in this documentary hosted by actors Peter Fonda and...
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1987
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This two-part, four-hour TV miniseries was adapted from the same-named 1984 novel by Arthur Hailey. Pamela Sue Martin headed...
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1986
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Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of Lillian Gish. Included are excerpts from:...
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1984
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The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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Himself
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1984
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This video was featured at a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, celebrating the age known as...
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1983
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1982
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This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot --...
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Edward Wanderley
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1981
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A profile of Charlie Chaplin, most noted for his lovable "Little Tramp," from his childhood in England through his early...
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1981
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Suspense novelist Alistair MacLean wrote Hostage Tower directly for television. A master criminal takes over the Eiffel...
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1980
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1972
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1966
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1963
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This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film...
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1961
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Why has total stranger Richard Todd shown up at the villa of wealthy Anne Baxter? Why does he claim to be her long-lost...
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Producer
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1958
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Directed by Roy Kellino, this British comedy stars David Niven as Roger Tweakham, an accountant for a silk manufacturer who...
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Producer
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1956
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Forever My Heart appears to have been fashioned from two half-hour episodes of TV's Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents....
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Producer
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1954
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This film offers a trio suspenseful dramas. In the first, an unhappy wife refuses to mourn the death of her husband, a miner...
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Producer
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1954
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This drama is comprised of two short films originally made to be shown on British television. The first short is the story...
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1954
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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. stars as a horse trainer who's turned to the dark side in this equine drama. Fairbanks' character...
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1954
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This anthology is comprised of three stories. In the first a naive American tycoon boards the famous Orient Express and...
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1954
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This anthology contains three loosely related tales. The first is set in a POW camp where two men fight for a seat on an...
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Producer
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1953
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Producer
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1953
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1952
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As originally syndicated on television in late 1952, Abbott and Costello: The Christmas Show presents approximately one hour...
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1952
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After Mr. Drake's Duck, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. dropped out of filmmaking for seven years to concentrate on TV work. It isn't...
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Don Drake
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1951
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Bette Davis co-stars with her then-new husband Gary Merrill in the British melodrama Another Man's Poison. Adapted from...
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Producer
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1951
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This early nuclear satire offers a twisted retelling of the old fairy tale "The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg." The story...
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Producer
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1951
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In this lively adventure, a daring Irish leader tires to keep Napoleon from invading Ireland. The hero, in every way a...
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Producer, Screenwriter, The O'Flynn
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1949
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Dr. John Marlowe
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1949
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That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, but one set...
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Col. Ladislas Karolyi Teglash
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1948
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is the title character, a young king exiled by evil conspirators. Forced to live far from his homeland,...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1947
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In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven...
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Sinbad
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1947
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One of producer Joseph Levine's earliest projects, Gaslight Follies is a compilation of silent film footage narrated by...
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1945
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Mario/Lucien
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1941
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This studio-bound jungle yarn is uplifted by the spirited performances of its stars. After the death of her aviator lover,...
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Jim Logan
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1940
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Angry natives or a beautiful widow -- which poses the greater threat? Keith Brandon (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is an...
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Keith Brandon
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1940
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Associate Producer, Bill O'Brien
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1940
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In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still...
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David Gillespie
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1939
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In this patriotic British adventure, two courageous brothers try to keep war from erupting in Africa and stop a...
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John Randolph
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1939
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Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a...
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Sgt. Ballantine
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1939
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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1938
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This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She...
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James Trevor
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1938
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Dan Brewster
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1938
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A comparatively little-known entry in the "screwball comedy" genre, David O. Selznick's The Young in Heart goes for quiet...
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Richard Carleton
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1938
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, When Thief Meets Thief chronicles the story of two ex-partners in crime who have fallen in love with...
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Producer, Ricky Morgan
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1937
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Rupert of Hentzau
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1937
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Accused is a British melodrama starring American actor (and confirmed Anglophile) Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Somewhat...
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Producer, Tony Seymour
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1936
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In this British gangster movie, a Chicago gang goes to cool their heels in London. There they try to overtake the town....
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Producer
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1936
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The Amateur Gentleman takes place in England during the Regency era. The hero is Barnaby Barty (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), an...
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Producer, Barnabas Barty
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1936
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In this romance, a down-on-his-luck fellow saves a pretty woman from drowning herself, gives her shelter, and falls in love....
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1935
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Rodolphe
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1935
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This historical drama recounts the events that led up to the rule of Russia's 18th-century Catherine the Great. Arriving from...
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Grand Duke Peter
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1934
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An amoral capitalist is the protagonist of this drama written by one of Hollywood's famous "Ten" (the first people in the...
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Joe Martin
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1934
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Adapted from a "drawn from life" novel by Sir Phillip Gibbs, Captured is the story of the men in a German POW camp during...
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Digby
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1933
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Bill Keller
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1933
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Jimmy Dolan (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is a light heavyweight champion, with the world at his feet. Then he gets into a fight...
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Jimmy Dolan
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1933
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A Somerset Maugham story was adapted for The Narrow Corner, a film about Man's inability to escape his destiny. Douglas...
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Fred Blake
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1933
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Katharine Hepburn won her first Oscar for her portrayal of Eva Lovelace, a small-town community-theatre actress who comes to...
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Joseph Sheridan
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1933
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop of this costume epic that centers around a young nobleman who, with his maid,...
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Screenwriter, Nikiti
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1932
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Undoubtedly inspired by Charles Lindbergh's unprecedented sudden fame (but not the ensuing tragedy), Mary McCall's 1932 novel...
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Scotty McClenahan
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1932
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A Grand Hotel derivation set in a major metropolitan train terminal, Union Depot features most of the reliable Warner Bros....
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Chic Miller
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1932
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1932
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James Cagney was originally pegged to play brash Broadway columnist Jimmy Russell in this pleasant if somewhat lightweight...
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Jimmy Russell
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1932
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1931
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Based on the stage comedy The Hottentot (filmed under that title in 1928), L'Aviateur is the French-language version of the...
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1931
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Jack Ingleside
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1931
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In this romantic comedy, a milquetoast bookworm finds his life transformed when he takes the advice of a fortune teller and...
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Larry O'Brien
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1931
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Norman Overbeck
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1930
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In this comedy, a boarding house owner becomes the confidant and advisor to a number of troubled gangsters and racketeers....
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Dick Rollins
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1930
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This unusual supernatural drama, based on a 1924 Broadway stage hit, concerns a disparate group of people who find themselves...
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Henry
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1930
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A young woman stands to inherit a million bucks in this comedy. The deal is thus: her aunts will give her a cool million if...
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Gil Hayden
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1930
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In this corny disaster drama, patrons of an underground speakeasy in New Orleans attend a victory party and end up terrified...
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Billy Bear
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1930
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Set during World War I, The Dawn Patrol is a study of the pressures and pitfalls of authority. A British Royal Flying Corp...
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Douglas Scott
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1930
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The first "talkie" gangster movie to capture the public's imagination, Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar started a cycle of...
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Joe Massara
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1930
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Jay Rountree
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1930
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In this mostly silent drama, an overprotective brother tries to keep his sister from getting further involved with a group...
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Steve Maxwell
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1929
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The Careless Age was based on Diversion, a play by John Van Druten. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays Wyn, a headstrong young...
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Wyn Hayward
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1929
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This college musical chronicles the travails of a college football star who wants to quit playing. To stop him, the...
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Marty Reid
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1929
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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Gil
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1929
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In this crime drama, the girls of an escort service get into trouble with the police. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1929
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In this courtroom drama, a man is sentenced to death for jealously murdering the man who flirted with his wife....
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Douglas Stratton
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1929
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Presently unavailable for public reappraisal, the biting and cynical melodrama Power of the Press would seem to be a...
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Clem Rogers
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1928
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Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could...
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Geoffrey Merrick
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1928
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No, Dead Man's Curve does not star Jan and Dean-mainly because it was filmed before either one of them was born. The film...
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Vernon Keith
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1928
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Based on the oft-filmed play by Kenyon Nicholson, The Barker represented the talking-picture debut of silent-screen favorite...
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Chris Miller
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1928
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Steve
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1928
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The "modern" mother in this modest melodrama released by Columbia was played by Helene Chadwick, a minor screen vamp of the...
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1928
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Though Will Rogers was still packing 'em in on Broadway, he was considered a Hollywood has-been when he starred in the...
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Fairleigh Bright
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1927
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Also known as Women Love Diamonds, this MGM picture was to have been a Greta Garbo vehicle, but when Garbo went on strike for...
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1927
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Though Is Zat So? was playwright/actor James Gleason's Broadway breakthrough, Gleason himself did not appear in the first...
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1927
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Warner Brothers' Broken Hearts of Hollywood is still another of the "mother love" dramas that festooned the silent era....
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Hal Terwilliger
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1926
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The titular "man bait" is svelte shopgirl Madge Dreyer (Marie Prevost), who can't convince her customers and male co-workers...
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Jeff Sanford
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1926
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The physical attributes of lovely leading lady Esther Ralston are amply displayed in American Venus. This satire of beauty...
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1926
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Padlocked began as a serial for Cosmopolitan magazine, written by Rex Beach. After only a couple of chapters were published,...
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1926
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One of the silent era's most popular tearjerkers, this soapy melodrama was adapted by legendary screenwriter Frances Marion...
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1925
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By using a borrowed medal, Russ Kane, a crook (Warner Baxter), is able to get a job as an air mail pilot. His plan is to...
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Sandy
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1925
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Chess Weymer
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1925
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Paramount gave their newest star, an adolescent Douglas Fairbanks Jr., every advantage in his film debut. As support, young...
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Stephen Harlow, Jr.
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1923
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