Frank LloydFilmography

The Shanghai Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Ruth Roman, Edmond O'Brien, Richard Jaeckel, Barry Kelley, Whit Bissell

Synopsis: Produced and directed by the prestigious Frank Lloyd, The Shanghai Story was promoted as a "class" production by the bread-and-butter firm of Republic Pictures. The film takes place in the eponymous far-eastern metropolis (courtesy of the Republic backlot), where Communist police chief Colonel Read More

The Last Bomb

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Examination of the B-29 campaign that finally defeated Japan. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Blood on the Sun

Crew: Director

Actors: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Wallace Ford, Porter Hall, Robert Armstrong, John Emery, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two of his best friends are horribly murdered, Condon suspects that the "peaceful" Japanese military government is up to no good. He dedicates himself to getting his hands on Read More

Forever and a Day

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Gladys Cooper, Ida Lupino, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Cummings, Claude Rains, Anna Neagle, Roland Young

Synopsis: The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen narrator. The true star of the film is a stately old Read More

The Spoilers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay, Richard Barthelmess, William Farnum, Harry Carey

Synopsis: The fourth of five movie versions of the rugged Rex Beach novel of the same name, 1942's The Spoilers stars Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, and Randolph Scott. The plot, involving the cheating of Alaskan gold rush prospectors by a crooked gold commissioner, requires that Scott play a villain Read More

Saboteur

Crew: Producer

Actors: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger, Vaughan Glaser, Murray Alper

Synopsis: Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually, Cummings is the fall guy for a clever ring of Nazi spies, headed by above-suspicion American philanthropist Otto Kruger. Our hero goes on a cross-country chase after genuine Read More

Invisible Agent

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke, J. Edward Bromberg

Synopsis: Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall stars as Frank Raymond, grandson of the man who invented the invisibility formula several pictures back. When Nazi agents try to coerce the secret formula out of Raymond, he Read More

The Lady from Cheyenne

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Loretta Young, Robert Preston, Edward Arnold, Frank Craven, Gladys George

Synopsis: In this western, a schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

This Woman Is Mine

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Franchot Tone, John Carroll, Walter Brennan, Carol Bruce, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: One would never know it from the title, but This Woman is Mine is a virile seafaring yarn dealing with the northern fur trade. Based on a sprawling novel by Gilbert W. Gabriel, the film takes place during a trading expedition from New York to Oregon, bankrolled by John Jacob Astor (played by Sig Read More

The Howards of Virginia

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson

Synopsis: Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was no exception, despite the presence of Cary Grant in the lead. Most of the story takes place in the colonial capital city of Williamsburg, Virginia, where Matt Howard (Cary Read More

Rulers of the Sea

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Will Fyffe, Montagu Love, Vaughan Glaser

Synopsis: In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still done by sailing ships. David Gillespie (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is first mate on one of the fastest of such ships, commanded by Captain Oliver (George Bancroft), but he is Read More

If I Were King

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee, Ellen Drew, C.V. France

Synopsis: If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired by the legend of the rebel poet François Villon, whose exploits were filmed earlier as The Beloved Rogue (1927) with John Barrymore, and later transformed into the musical Read More

Wells Fargo

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan, Porter Hall

Synopsis: The third of Paramount's "deluxe" westerns of the 1930s (following The Texas Rangers and The Plainsman) was Wells Fargo, filmed on a Cecil B. DeMille scale by producer-director Frank Lloyd. In his first western appearance, Joel McCrea plays Ramsey McCay, troubleshooter for the newly formed Read More

Maid of Salem

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens, Gale Sondergaard, Louise Dresser

Synopsis: Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch trials". Colbert falls in love with adventurer Fred MacMurray, causing no end of scandal with the Puritan townsfolk. A hateful little girl (Bonita Granville) pretends to be Read More

Under Two Flags

Crew: Director

Actors: Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell, Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis: Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is set in Saharan Africa but was filmed in the Arizona desert. Ronald Colman is Corporal Victor, a man who has taken the rap for a crime committed by his younger brother. Read More

Mutiny on the Bounty

Crew: Director

Actors: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Herbert Mundin, Donald Crisp, Eddie Quillan

Synopsis: The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the titular 1789 ship mutiny, and this 1935 MGM movie version won the Oscar for Best Picture. Clark Gable stars as Fletcher Christian, first mate of the infamous HMS Bounty Read More

Servants' Entrance

Crew: Director

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly, Louise Dresser

Synopsis: Inasmuch as the film was based on a novel by Swedish author Sigrid Boo, Fox's Servant's Entrance is logically set in Sweden. Heiress Hedda Nillson (Janet Gaynor) certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in Read More

Berkeley Square

Crew: Director

Actors: Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie Taylor, Irene Browne, Beryl Mercer, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: Adapted from John Balderston's successful stage fantasy (itself based on a story by Henry James), Berkeley Square is the story of a modern-day London scientist (Leslie Howard), who is romantically fascinated by the 18th century. A freak accident propels Howard back to 1784, where he assumes the Read More

Cavalcade

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Ursula Jeans, Beryl Mercer

Synopsis: The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film adaptation of the pageant-like stage hit by Noel Coward. The film concentrates on the years 1901 through 1933, as seen through the eyes of an upper-class British family and its Read More

Hoopla

Crew: Director

Actors: Clara Bow, Preston S. Foster, Richard Cromwell, Herbert Mundin, James Gleason

Synopsis: Clara Bow, the saucy "It" girl of the silent screen, made her film farewell in the ragged musical drama Hoopla. Based on the stage play The Barker (previously filmed in 1927), the story takes place during the Chicago World's Fair of 1933. Bow plays Lou, a hootchy-kootchy dancer who is catapulted Read More

The Last Coupon

Crew: Director

Actors: Leslie Fuller, Mary Jerrold

Synopsis: In this farce, an excited miner begins making grandiose plans after he believes that he has won a large football pool. His wife is utterly appalled by his schemes. Fortunately, he didn't win it after all and peace is restored. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Passport to Hell

Crew: Director

Actors: Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Warner Oland, Alexander Kirkland, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a woman is blamed for another's suicide and ends up deported to Germany. Just as WW I erupts she marries a German commandant's son to keep from being sent to an alien prison camp. While her husband sells classified information to the British in order to pay her way back to Read More

The Right of Way

Crew: Director

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Loretta Young, Fred Kohler, William Janney, Snitz Edwards

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1915 and 1920, Sir Gilbert Parker's novel The Right of Way was exhumed once more in 1931. Conrad Nagel stars as Conrad Steele, a Canadian lawyer saddled with a nagging wife (Olive Tell) and a lazy brother-in-law (William Janney). When the latter steals some of Conrad's money Read More

The Age for Love

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Starrett, Lois Wilson, Edward Everett Horton, Mary Duncan, Adrian Morris

Synopsis: Producer Howard R. Hughes intended to use Age for Love to prove that his current flame, silent-film leading lady Billie Dove, would be a smash hit in talkies. Beautiful Dove plays a working girl who consents to marry Charles Starrett, on the condition that she not be expected to bear children. Read More

East Lynne

Crew: Director

Actors: Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel, Cecilia Loftus, Beryl Mercer

Synopsis: Whenever a vaudeville comic of the 1920s wanted to get a quick laugh, he'd announce to his audience "Next Week: East Lynne." To many playgoers, this hoary stage adaptation of Mrs. Henry Wood's 1861 novel represented the height of Victorian nonesuch. Still, there were several silent film versions Read More

The Way of All Men

Crew: Director

Actors: Dorothy Revier, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Anders Randolf, William Courtenay

Synopsis: In this corny disaster drama, patrons of an underground speakeasy in New Orleans attend a victory party and end up terrified when a Mississippi flood threatens to break through a levee and drown them all. Fortunately, the owner is a quick thinker and closes the airtight doors of the establishment. Read More

Son of the Gods

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Constance Bennett, Mildred van Dorn, King Ho Chang, Geneva Mitchell

Synopsis: Adapted from a story by Rex Beach, Son of the Gods stars Richard Barthelmess as Sam Lee, a young Chinese-American, anxious to distance himself from his oriental heredity. While travelling throughout the world, Sam falls in love with wealthy white girl Allana (Constance Bennett). He chooses not to Read More

The Lash

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, James Rennie, Mary Astor, Marian Nixon, Fred Kohler

Synopsis: In this western adventure, set in California just after the Spanish-American War, a Mexican rancher becomes a populist avenger battling injustice and corruption. Among his targets is the wicked gringo land commissioner. He also preserves the honor of a beautiful senorita. In addition to fighting Read More

Weary River

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, William Holden, Louis Natheaux, George E. Stone

Synopsis: Director Frank Lloyd was nominated for an Academy Award for this rather sappy gangster melodrama starring Richard Barthelmess and filmed as a silent with dialogue sequences. Sent up the river by a rival gangster, Jerry Larrabee (Barthelmess) is shown the way to redemption by an understanding Read More

Drag

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Lucien Littlefield, Alice Day

Synopsis: No, Richard Barthelmess doesn't don women's apparel in the 1929 talkie The Drag. Barthelmess plays a Vermont newspaper editor, happily married to Alice Day. That is, he was happy until the day his wife's troublesome in-laws (Lucien Littlefield, Katherine Ward) came to visit. Wifey's parents stay Read More

The Divine Lady

Crew: Director

Actors: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler

Synopsis: Frank Lloyd both produced and directed The Divine Lady, a Hollywood slant on the 19th century romance of Lord Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton. American film star Corinne Griffith, decked out in a blonde wig, is decorative but otherwise unconvincing as Lady Emma, while Hungarian-born Victor Varconi Read More

Young Nowheres

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon, Bert Roach, Anders Randolf, Raymond Turner

Synopsis: In this drama, an elevator operator in a big hotel gets in big trouble after he and a chambermaid are found in a guest's suite. Though they had good reason to be in there, they are charged with breaking and entering. The story has an unexpected twist at the end. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dark Streets

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee

Synopsis: A love triangle between two twin brothers and a lovely young woman provides the framework for this drama (it was the first talkie to feature an actor in a dual role). One of the brothers is a policeman; the other belongs to a band of robbers working the garment district. The cop has orders to Read More

Adoration

Crew: Director

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

Children of Divorce

Crew: Director

Actors: Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Norman Trevor

Synopsis: Kitty Flanders (Yvonne Pelletier), Jean Waddington and Ted Larrabee (Don Marion) are all "children of divorce" -- the two girls are left in a convent school by their mothers and Ted's upbringing is sketchy at best. When the three of them grow up, Ted (now played by Gary Cooper) falls deeply in Read More

Wise Guy

Crew: Director

Actors: James Kirkwood, Betty Compson, Mary Astor, Mary Carr, George F. Marion

Synopsis: George Marion Sr. plays a carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist. He is assisted in this enterprise by jaded Betty Compson, a hard-boiled egg who believes in nothing except money. Inevitably, however, Compson is Read More

Eagle of the Sea

Crew: Director

Actors: Florence Vidor, Ricardo Cortez, Sam de Grasse, André Beranger, Mitchell Lewis

Synopsis: Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a bold American pirate captain who proves to be putty in the hands of New Orleans belle Louise Lestron (Florence Vidor). While dancing with Louise at a masked ball, Sazarac Read More

The Splendid Road

Crew: Director

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Robert W. Frazer, Lionel Barrymore, Roy Laidlaw, DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: This typically overblown Frank Lloyd-directed western takes place in the days of the California Gold Rush. Anna Q. Nilsson stars as Sandra De Hault, who heads to California in the company of three orphaned children she has adopted along the way. Taking up residence in a squalid shack, Sandra falls Read More

Winds of Chance

Crew: Director

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Ben Lyon, Viola Dana, Hobart Bosworth, Victor McLaglen

Synopsis: Frank Lloyd, who directed The Sea Beast, tried to create another epic with this Rex Beach tale of the 1897 gold rush. The story, however, isn't all that interesting, and there are too many important characters that muddy the plot. Pierce Phillips (a miscast Ben Lyon) loses his stake in a shell Read More

Her Husband's Secret

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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

Silent Watcher

Crew: Director

Actors: Glenn Hunter, Bessie Love, Hobart Bosworth, Gertrude Astor, George Nichols

Synopsis: After his impressive directorial effort on The Sea Hawk, Frank Lloyd made this far smaller and more intimate film. The idealistic Joe Roberts (Glenn Hunter) adores his wife Mary (Bessie Love) and looks up to his boss, John Steele (Hobart Bosworth), who is a candidate for U.S. senator. Steele Read More

Black Oxen

Crew: Director

Actors: Corinne Griffith, Thomas S. Guise, Clara Bow, Alan Hale

Synopsis: When Madame Zatianny appears, seemingly from nowhere on the social scene, everyone is taken by her beauty. The older ones say she is the mirror image of Mary Ogden, who they had known 30 years before. Lee Clavering, a budding playwright (Conway Tearle), manages to meet Madame Zatianny and they Read More

The Sea Hawk

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace MacDonald, Marc MacDermott

Synopsis: This 12-reel silent adaptation of The Sea Hawk is far more faithful to the Rafael Sabatini original than the 1940 Errol Flynn version. Milton Sills stars as Sir Oliver Tressilien, a wealthy English baronet who is framed for the murder of his fiancée's brother. The instigator of this outrage is Sir Read More

Within the Law

Crew: Director

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Lew Cody, Eileen Percy, Joseph Kilgour

Synopsis: This is the second time Bayard Veiller's play made it to the silent screen (it would be made one more time in 1939 as a talkie). This version is a run-of-the-mill Norma Talmadge vehicle -- lots of high drama, with no expense spared, but in the end nothing much without its excellent cast. Talmadge Read More

Voice from the Minaret

Crew: Director

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien, Edwin Stevens, Winter Hall, Carl Gerard

Synopsis: This picture, based on the novel and play by Robert Hichens, was typical melodramatic fare for star Norma Talmadge. Lord Carlyle (Edwin Stevens) governs a province in India. Although he weds the beautiful Adrienne (Talmadge), he can't make her love him. And no wonder -- he's not only cruel, he's Read More

Ashes of Vengeance

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Conway Tearle, Wallace Beery, Josephine Crowell, Claire McDowell

Synopsis: The massacre of the Huguenots, previously dramatized in broad strokes by Griffith's Intolerance, served as the basis for director Frank Lloyd's Ashes of Vengeance. Norma Talmadge stars as a Huguenot lass who stands defiant against the persecution of the French royal court. She is protected by Conway Tearle Read More

Oliver Twist

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, Gladys Brockwell, George Siegmann, Lionel Belmore

Synopsis: Ostensibly a vehicle for Jackie Coogan, the 1922 Oliver Twist refuses to realign the Charles Dickens novel to accommodate the personality of its star. This Frank Lloyd-directed silent film is one of the most faithful of all cinematic adaptations of the Dickens work. The orphaned Oliver, labelled a Read More

Eternal Flame

Crew: Director

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Adolphe Menjou, Wedgewood Nowell, Conway Tearle, Rosemary Theby

Synopsis: Joseph Schenck pulled out all the stops in this costume drama starring his wife, Norma Talmadge -- it was adapted from Honore de Balzac's novel, La Duchess de Langeais by Frances Marion, and no expense was spared to bring the Napoleonic era to life. When the Duc de Langeais (Adolphe Menjou) makes Read More

Sin Flood

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This character study was adapted from Henning Berger's play, Synafloden, which was known as The Deluge in its English translation. Stratton's Cafe is located in the town of Cottonia, near the banks of the Mississippi River. Since it is below river level, Stratton (Will Walling) has water-tight Read More

Man from Lost River

Crew: Director

Actors: House Peters, Fritzi Brunette, Allan Forrest, James Gordon, Monte Collins

Synopsis: Frank Lloyd's competent directing kept this typical Northwoods drama from sinking too far into the realm of the ordinary. Fosdick, a soft New York society man (Allan Forrest), tries to toughen up by becoming a lumberjack in the Northwoods. He marries Marcia, an orphan at the camp (Fritzi Read More

The Invisible Power

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: House Peters, Irene Rich, DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: In this silent crime melodrama, an ex-con marries a teacher and tries to start a new life in the city. Unfortunately, he is harassed by a detective who is looking for one of the ex-con's former gang mates. When the con refuses to cooperate, the detective frames him and gets him sent back to the Read More

Voice in the Dark

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When Blanche Warren (Irene Rich) finds out that her sister, Adele (Ora Carew), is about to marry the notorious Hugh Sainsbury (Alan Hale), she and Adele's sweetheart, Chester Thomas (William Scott), rush to the sanitarium where Sainsbury works. Blanche arrives first and the next morning Sainsbury Read More

A Tale of Two Worlds

Crew: Director

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Wallace Beery

Synopsis: This is one of a number of silent pictures in which a young American is raised as a Chinese girl, and even though she has no Asian features to speak of, she never guesses she's white until the film's end. While they are visiting China on business a curio collector, Carmichael (Dwight Crittenden) Read More

Madame X

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The role of Jacqueline Floriot -- the Madame X of the film's title -- is a tour de force for any actress. After having an affair she is thrown out of her home only to sink to the depths of drug addiction after her lover leaves her. Then twenty years later she murders a blackmailer to keep scandal Read More

The Silver Horde

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This picture, based on the novel by Rex Beach, centers around Alaska's salmon industry. In order to marry Mildred Wayland (Betty Blythe), Boyd Emerson (Curtis Cooksey) must make something of himself. His quest leads him to Alaska's salmon fisheries, where he joins forces with Big George Holt Read More

The Woman in Room 13

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Pauline Frederick stars in this mediocre melodrama, based on the play by Max Marcin and Samuel Shipman. Laura (Frederick) is married to John Bruce, a corrupt police commissioner (Charles Clary). When she finds him carousing with another woman, she divorces him. Eventually she finds happiness with Read More

World and Its Woman

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While his father (Alec B. Frances) is meeting with an American civil engineer (Edward J. Connelly), little Prince Michael Orbeliana (Francis Marion -- apparently no relation to screenwriter Frances Marion) listens to a fairy tale, read to him by engineer's daughter Marcia Warren (May Giraci). In Read More

Pitfalls of a Big City

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this old-fashioned (for 1919!) melodrama, pickpocket Molly Moore (Gladys Brockwell) goes straight, opens up a restaurant and sends her sister Marion (Neva Gerber) through school. Molly's sweetheart Jerry (William Scott) joins her in leading an honest life, but their former friend Spike (William Sheer Read More

The Man Hunter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: At the time William Farnum made this adventure film, he was near the peak of his stardom. After a wild, drunken night, wealthy George Arnold (Farnum) wakes up to discover that he has proposed to a young woman, Helen Garfield (Louise Lovely). He resolves to honor the commitment, but then Henry Read More

The Heart of a Lion

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Fox's Heart of a Lion was based on the Ralph Connor novel The Doctor, with both the title and the storyline refashioned to fit the talents of virile William Farnum. The star plays farmer Barney Kemper, who toils and slaves so that his younger brother Dick can finish his medical-school education. Read More

For Freedom

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Robert Wayne (William Farnum) and his brother-in-law are swindled by Howard Stratton (Herbert Frank) -- Stratton gets Wayne's sister Edith (Anna Lehr) embroiled in an affair, and when Wayne goes to save her, he misses an important meeting which causes his brother-in-law to lose control of his Read More

Les Miserables

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables had already been adapted to film at least a dozen times when this lavish 1917 version emanated from the walls of the Fox studios. Virile William Farnum stars as French peasant Jean Valjean, whose descent into Hell begins when he steals a loaf of bread to feed his Read More

Rainbow Trail

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This sequel to Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage reunited the star and director of the earlier film, namely William Farnum and Frank Lloyd. Farnum is cast in the dual role of fugitive cowboy Lassiter and his look-alike son Shefford. Following in his dad's footsteps, Shefford devotes himself Read More

True Blue

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: True Blue begins with the marriage of black-sheep British nobleman Gilbert Brockhurst (Charles Clary) to the daughter of a Western rancher. When he learns that he has inherited his father's title and estate, Brockhurst deserts his wife (Frances McKeever) and young son Bob. Upon attaining Read More

The Kingdom of Love

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Director Frank Lloyd briefly parted company with his favorite star William Farnum to helm the Jewel Carmen vehicle The Kingdom of Love. The story begins when little Violet and Frank Carson are separated in childhood when their parents divorce. Years later, the grown-up Frank (Fred Milton) meets Read More

Riders of the Purple Sage

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Lassiter (William Farnum) quits the Texas Rangers and spends his life in pursuit of a group of Mormons who kidnapped his married sister. In a town on the Utah border, he meets the Withersteens and falls in love with their daughter, Jane (Mary Merch). He also befriends Venters (William Scott), and Read More

Blindness of Divorce

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: As indicated by its title, this cautionary drama was a plea against divorce, arguing that if our grandmothers and grandfathers could stick together through thick and thin, why can't we? Essentially a series of gut-wrenching courtroom scenes and custody battles, the film was populated by "types" Read More

The Price of Silence

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: William Farnum stars as young Senator Frank Deering, the protégé of political power broker Judge Vernon (Frank Clark). Deering is in love with Vernon's daughter Grace (Vivian Rich) but is seemingly too shy to declare himself. After rescuing crippled street urchin Jimmy Dugan (Gordon Griffith) from Read More

American Methods

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: William Farnum's features never failed to pack 'em in, no matter what the plot. In American Methods, Farnum plays a French-American who heads to the land of his ancestors to take over an iron mine he's just inherited. The French locals resent Farnum's American manners and mores (things haven't Read More

Intrigue

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When his own country refuses to consider buying his invention -- an electrical x-ray gun -- American inventor Guy Longstreet (Cecil Van Auker) takes it to the warring nations in Europe. Baron Rogniat (Howard Davies) offers to buy it for his country, but the president of one of the opposing nations Read More

When a Man Sees Red

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Brawny William Farnum fights his way through this drama, based on a Saturday Evening Post story entitled "The Painted Lady," which was written by Larry Evans. First mate Luther Smith (Farnum) returns to his home port to discover that his sister (Lulu May Bower) has died after being raped. Not long Read More

A Tale of Two Cities

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: One of the big hits in 1917, this epic retelling of Dicken's classic tale features exceptional production values and special effects as well as some great battle scenes as it tells the French Revolution-set tale of a pair of men who look exactly alike. Their paths cross when they discover that Read More

Sins of Her Parent

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Richard Carver (Carl Von Schiller) and Adrian Courtney (Gladys Brockwell) are in love, but Richard's father Robert (William Clifford) won't allow them to marry because he does not know Adrian's origins. So Richard begins a search for Adrian's parentage which brings him to a mining camp in Alaska. Read More

Stronger Love

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Another tale of feuding mountaineers, The Stronger Love was no better nor worse than other films of its type. Vivian Martin plays Ness, daughter of the Serviss clan, while Jack Livingston is cast as Rolfe, of the hated Rutherford family. True to form, Ness and Rolfe fall in love, but this time it Read More

The Tongues of Men

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Still in the leading-lady phase of her career, veteran stage actress and drama coach Constance Collier was top-billed in the Oliver Morosco production The Tongues of Men. Collier plays Jane Bartlett, a singer of such a notorious reputation (mostly undeserved) that she is openly condemned from the Read More

Code of Marcia Gray

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This gripping crime drama is based on the true story of the events surrounding the destruction of New York City's Knickerbocker bank, the results of which caused a major panic in 1907. The trouble began when the institution's banker president is arrested for embezzling and manipulating the money Read More

The Black Box [Serial]

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Anna Little, Laura Oakley, William Worthington

The Opened Shutters

Synopsis: Pioneering woman director Lois Weber scripted the 4-reel The Opened Shutters from a novel by Clara Louise Burnham. The title refers symbolically to the invisible shutters people construct around themselves so that their true natures remain hidden to the world. Anna Little stars as an insecure Read More

Damon and Pythias

Synopsis: Otis Turner may have been billed as the "dean of American directors," but he was no D.W.Griffith. Even so, Turner did a good job with the epic excesses of the multireel Universal costumer Damon and Pythias. Based chiefly on a novel by Edward Bullwer-Lytton, the story is the familiar one about two Read More

The Invisible Power

Crew: Director

Synopsis: House Peters and Irene Rich star in this routine crime drama about an ex-con's reformation. When Sid Chambers (Peters) gets out of prison, he finds his friend and fellow crook, Bob Drake (Sydney Ainsworth), very ill. He takes him to the country to recuperate, and they board with the Millers Read More