|
|
1935
|
An idealistic but naive pharmacist believes the mobsters who claim they want him to manufacture illegal medicine to help out...
|
Director
|
1934
|
In this melodrama a Lower East Side doctor struggles to earn enough money to pay for his son's tuition in a prestigious...
|
Director
|
1933
|
|
|
Director
|
1932
|
Behind the Mask is a typically virile Jack Holt vehicle, with the hero at one point shooting himself in the arm to establish...
|
Director
|
1932
|
In this melodrama with strong racist overtones, Clara Bow attempts to revive her failing career by playing a free-spirited...
|
Director
|
1932
|
This was the next-to-last entry of the Cohens and Kellys series, which were becoming increasingly more tiresome with each...
|
Director
|
1932
|
Based on a play by William DuBois, Pagan Lady top-bills Evelyn Brent as the title character, a "woman of the world" named Dut...
|
Director
|
1931
|
|
|
Director
|
1931
|
The names have all been changed, but this hard-hitting gangster tale is based on an actual newspaper headline story...
|
Director
|
1931
|
In this drama, a hard-working New York model abandons her family values for the love of a suave, handsome man who offers her...
|
Director
|
1931
|
Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
|
Director
|
1931
|
A newlywed countess is asked to make a tremendous sacrifice for her husband and herself in this musical comedy-drama. Count...
|
Director
|
1930
|
In this comedy, a boarding house owner becomes the confidant and advisor to a number of troubled gangsters and racketeers....
|
Director
|
1930
|
In this frothy musical, a lovely young woman is wooed by two men. One of them meets her father's approval so it is only...
|
Director
|
1930
|
Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role...
|
Director
|
1930
|
|
|
Director
|
1930
|
Recreating her famous Broadway role from 1920, former Ziegfeld star Marilyn Miller took to the Warner Bros. soundstages with...
|
Director
|
1929
|
In this actioner, a sea captain saves a Shanghai whore who is being tossed out of town. He puts her on board and heads out...
|
Director
|
1929
|
In this courtroom drama, a man is sentenced to death for jealously murdering the man who flirted with his wife....
|
Director
|
1929
|
Children of the Ritz was based on a serialized magazine story by future suspense specialist Cornell Woolrich. Spoiled heiress...
|
Director
|
1929
|
This early talkie, set in French Indochina, centers around the conflict between a French magistrate's wife and his lecherous...
|
Director
|
1929
|
Heart of a Follies Girl was based on a story by Adela Rogers St. John, but one would never know it. The cliché-ridden story...
|
Director
|
1928
|
The Noose was based on a story by H. H. Van Loan -- or rather, the play adapted from that story by Willard Mack. Cheap crook...
|
Director
|
1928
|
|
|
Director
|
1928
|
From all existing evidence, Temptations of a Shop Girl wasn't any better than its title. Heroine Betty Compson is saddled...
|
|
1927
|
|
|
Director
|
1927
|
|
|
Director
|
1927
|
Based on a story which originally appeared in the pages of Liberty magazine, Prince of Headwaiters stars Lewis Stone as the...
|
Director
|
1927
|
Man Crazy is the rather blatant title of this cinemadaptation of Clarissa and the Post Road, a novel by Grace Sartwell Mason....
|
Director
|
1927
|
Dorothy Mackaill has been raised by her embittered mother to despise all men. A beautiful gal, Mackaill can't help but...
|
Director
|
1927
|
|
|
Director
|
1926
|
Love's Blindness was another bit of hothouse exotica from romance novelist and self-appointed social arbiter Madame Elinor...
|
Director
|
1926
|
Famed concert pianist Johann Aradi (Lewis Stone) has earned a "Don Juan" reputation because of his love-'em-and-leave-'em...
|
Director
|
1926
|
The dignified Lewis Stone lets down his hair in a comedy role in the rollicking Too Much Money. Thanks to a series of...
|
Director
|
1926
|
The only truly interesting aspect of this melodrama is the spectacular fire aboard an ocean liner. The scene was shot in...
|
Director
|
1925
|
A wealthy father turns his back on his son after he marries a woman whose mother is a bordello madame in this routine...
|
Director
|
1925
|
Chickie Bryce (Dorothy Mackaill) is a stenographer, who, encouraged by her mother (Gladys Brockwell), longs to marry a...
|
Director
|
1925
|
This comedy-drama was based on a play by Israel Zangwill and meant to cash in on the fame Colleen Moore earned from Flaming...
|
Director
|
1925
|
For quite a few years during the 1920s, Colleen Moore was the perfect flapper personified, and the title to this light comedy...
|
Director
|
1924
|
Corinne Griffith stars in this emotional drama based on the stage play by William Hurlburt. Although Walter Harker (Crauford...
|
Director
|
1924
|
|
|
Director
|
1924
|
This picture practically defined the Roaring Twenties and shot Colleen Moore to superstardom. Because she is neglected by her...
|
Director
|
1923
|
This poorly made domestic drama was called "a program picture for program theaters" by trade paper Motion Picture News. Tim...
|
Director
|
1923
|
|
|
Director
|
1922
|
Considering the kind of material he was given, it's no wonder that John Gilbert was not very happy at the Fox studios. This...
|
Director
|
1922
|
This mystery-melodrama stars William Russell. The husband of Sally McTurk (Florence Deshon, in her final film role) is...
|
Director
|
1921
|
Former Follies girl Justine Johnston is well cast as the star of this drama, which contrasts the bright lights of Broadway...
|
Director
|
1921
|
|
|
Director
|
1920
|
This film was adapted from a well-known novel by Sir Gilbert Parker. Charley Steele (Bert Lytell) is a hard-drinking lawyer...
|
Director
|
1920
|
Jack Boyle's Boston Blackie stories were a popular part of Redbook magazine in the late 'teens, and this film wasn't the...
|
Director
|
1919
|
By 1918, Priscilla Dean's popularity was quickly growing; however, this comedy is not one of her best efforts. Daphne...
|
Director
|
1919
|
The only surprise in putting athletic actor George Walsh in a college picture is that it took his studio, Fox, so long to do...
|
Director
|
1919
|
When her pickpocket father is sent up the river, Nancy (Olive Thomas) has to provide for her younger sisters. She places them...
|
Director
|
1919
|
After finishing school, Betty Brewster (Edith Roberts) wants to go into business; her father (John Cossar), however, wants...
|
Director
|
1918
|
|
|
Director
|
1915
|
Charlie Chaplin's 29th comedy for Keystone was one of his most popular, grossing $130,000 in its initial year of release. It...
|
|
1914
|
In Charlie Chaplin's 27th comedy for Keystone, and arguably his best, he plays not a homeless Tramp, but an inept janitor in...
|
Villainous Manager
|
1914
|
|
|
|
1913
|
|
|
|
1913
|
|
|
|
1913
|
|
|
|
1913
|
|
|
|
1913
|
The "three friends" in this sentimental Gaumont effort are an elderly cab driver, his faithful horse and his pet dog. Early...
|
|
1913
|
|
|
|
1911
|
|
|
|
1911
|
This one-reel Indian melodrama was directed by D.W. Griffith on locations at San Fernando and in the San Gabriel Mountains...
|
|
1911
|