Montagu LoveFilmography

Forever and a Day

Actors: Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Gladys Cooper, Ida Lupino, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, 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 Fighting Devil Dogs

Synopsis: In this serial action film, a group of criminals, led by a costumed villain named the Lightning, are in possession of a dangerous device. A pair of marines set out to find the weapon and foil the crooks. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Wings over the Pacific

Actors: Inez Cooper, Edward Norris, Montagu Love, Robert Armstrong, Henry Guttman

Synopsis: Even by Monogram standards, Wings Over the Pacific is a modest effort. In his final film role, Montague Love plays WW I veteran Butler, who during WW II prefers to take an isolationist stance and squirrels himself away on a remote Pacific island. Alas, Butler's solitude is interrupted when Read More

The Constant Nymph

Actors: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Peter Lorre, Brenda Marshall

Synopsis: Warner Bros.' The Constant Nymph was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in Britain in 1928 and 1933 by producer Michael Balcon. The plot was substantially the same in all three versions: A self-centered European musician (Charles Boyer) is idolized by a Read More

Holy Matrimony

Actors: Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Laird Cregar, Una O'Connor, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: A man trying to leave his fame behind discovers the perils of choosing to be the wrong unknown person in this farcical British comedy. Priam Farli (Monty Woolley) is an eccentric but famous and well-respected artist who prefers to work in total seclusion -- so much so that he's spent the last 20 Read More

Tennessee Johnson

Actors: Van Heflin, Ruth Hussey, Lionel Barrymore, Marjorie Main, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's Read More

The Remarkable Andrew

Actors: William Holden, Ellen Drew, Brian Donlevy, Rod Cameron, Richard Webb

Synopsis: Andrew Jackson is very happy to serve as the secretary of the society that honors his presidential namesake until he is arrested for embezzling from the town coffers. With no one to speak on his behalf, poor innocent Jackson is tossed into jail. There he finds himself haunted by several ghosts Read More

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Reginald Denny, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: From the first frame of its opening credits, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror promises (and subsequently delivers) mystery and thrills several layers deep -- following a short prologue intended to introduce Holmes to contemporary England (circa 1942), there is a series of terror broadcasts Read More

Lady for a Night

Actors: Joan Blondell, John Wayne, Philip Merivale, Ray Middleton, Blanche Yurka, Edith Barrett

Synopsis: The unlikely combination of John Wayne and Joan Blondell adds a bit of vinegar and spice to the so-so costume drama Lady for a Night. Blondell is cast as Jenny Blake, owner of the Memphis Belle-not a WW2 bomber, but a gambling ship moored just outside New Orleans. Jenny's partner and erstwhile Read More

Shining Victory

Actors: James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Barbara O'Neil, Montagu Love

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a loyal research psychologist escapes from Budapest after the nature of his work is discovered. He resettles in Scotland and soon resumes his work. His benefactors provide him a female assistant, and at first the stubborn scientist is not pleased. Eventually the two fall in Read More

The Son of Monte Cristo

Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Florence Bates, Lionel Royce

Synopsis: Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis Hayward plays the title character, Edmond Dantes Jr., who while posing as an epicene dandy works tirelessly to topple the regime of fascistic Balkan despot Count Gurko (George Read More

The Devil and Miss Jones

Actors: Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington

Synopsis: The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store that he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job Read More

Northwest Passage

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis:
Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film adaptation-much less one in Technicolor. Amazingly, MGM retained many of the grim episodes from the Roberts' novel, though - thanks to the Hays Code - most are discussed Read More

Northwest Mounted Police

Actors: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Preston S. Foster, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston

Synopsis: Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as Louis Riel (Francis J. McDonald) tries to organize Indians and French settlers into a fighting force that will battle against the ruling British, Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (Gary Cooper Read More

The Mark of Zorro

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing and swashbuckling son of a 19th century California aristocrat. As a champion of the oppressed, Zorro must face a wicked governor portrayed by J. Edward Bromberg, who, of Read More

The Sea Hawk

Actors: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf the British crown -- are the most dedicated defenders of British interests in the face of the expanding power of Philip of Spain. And Captain Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn) Read More

Private Affairs

Actors: Nancy Kelly, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young, Robert Cummings, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Roland Young and Hugh Herbert make an unorthodox but amusing comedy team in the Universal programmer Private Affairs. Disowned by his wealthy family, Amos Bullerton (Young) ekes out a living as a chalk-board proprietor in a Wall Street brokerage. With the help of his erstwhile friend, cab-driver Read More

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp, Maria Ouspenskaya

Synopsis: Edward G. Robinson portrays real-life German medical researcher Paul Erlich, the man who discovered and perfected "Formula 606," the cure for syphilis. The world at large would prefer to treat the disease as though it does not exist, so Erlich spends most of his life underfunded and frustrated. A Read More

Hudson's Bay

Actors: Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, John Sutton, Virginia Field

Synopsis: This sweeping drama chronicles the foundation a Canadian institution: the Hudson's Bay Trading Company. Set in the 17th century when the fur trade was at its peak the story centers on Radisson, a far-sighted entrepreneurial fur trapper, and his sidekick who dream of establishing a major trading Read More

A Dispatch from Reuters

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Basserman, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on the condition that the studio permit him to play the leading role in the lavish biopic A Dispatch from Reuters. Robinson is cast as Baron Paul Julius Reiter, who in 1833 Read More

The Lone Wolf Strikes

Actors: Warren William, Joan Perry, Eric Blore, Alan Baxter, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl necklace has been stolen by other thieves. Using his consummate skill, the Wolf pulls a deft switcheroo and substitutes the real ones for fakes. He then brings the real necklace Read More

All This and Heaven Too

Actors: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil, Virginia Weidler

Synopsis: An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a once-notorious European scandal. Star Bette Davis, playing Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, is first seen as a French schoolteacher in a 19th century American seminary. When her Read More

Gunga Din

Actors: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joan Fontaine

Synopsis: 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 crude cockney soldier's tribute to a native Indian water boy who remains at his job even after being mortally wounded. Hardly the sort of material upon which to build 118 Read More

Sons of Liberty

We Are Not Alone

Actors: Paul Muni, Jane Bryan, Flora Robson, Raymond Severn, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill herself after breaking her wrist. He hires the sad girl as a nanny for his bright son, whom he wants to keep away from his neurotic, overbearing wife. The trouble starts when Read More

The Man in the Iron Mask

Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, Warren William

Synopsis: Man in the Iron Mask is independent producer Edward Small's 1939 edition of the much-filmed Dumas classic. The title character is the rightful King of France, imprisoned by his pretender-to-the-throne twin brother (both roles are played by Louis Hayward, with an uncredited Peter Cushing doubling Read More

Juarez

Actors: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield

Synopsis: Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose attempts to establish a puppet government in Mexico on behalf of Napoleon III ended in disaster and death. But when Paul Muni decided that he wanted to play Read More

Rulers of the Sea

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

Land of Liberty

Synopsis: Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from past American historical epics. The project was sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, who also edited Read More

The Buccaneer

Actors: Fredric March, Franziska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's The Buccaneer stars Fredric March, complete with curly hair, pencil moustache and florid "Sacre Bleu!" French accent, as 18th century pirate Jean Lafitte. Operating out of a "buccaneer's haven" of the coast of New Orleans, Lafitte plunders all passing ships for their wealth, but Read More

Kidnapped

Actors: Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic subplot, but that didn't stop 20th Century-Fox from including a female love interest (Arleen Whelan). Bypassing that plot point, Kidnapped stars Freddie Bartholomew as the heir Read More

The Torpedo of Doom

Actors: Lee Powell, Herman Brix, Eleanor Stewart, Montagu Love, Hugh Sothern

Synopsis: The United States Marine Corps. became the focus of this typical Republic Pictures serial directed by two of the best in the business, William Witney and John English. The villain was yet another cloaked figure -- this time an inventor whose contribution to mankind was a weapon capable of Read More

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles

Synopsis: In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of this Flynn version relied on several legendary episodes that had never before been filmed, notably the battle between Robin and Little John (Alan Hale Sr., who played this part three times Read More

If I Were King

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

Professor Beware

Actors: Phyllis Welch, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, William Frawley

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse. Lloyd has the opportunity to join an archeological expedition to search for a missing tablet that will determine his fate, but he has to travel from Los Angeles to New York Read More

The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Mary Astor, David Niven, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Ronald Colman stars in David O. Selznick's classic production of Anthony Hope's swashbuckling adventure. The film takes place in a mythical Central European kingdom with Colman in a dual role as King Rudolf V and Rudolph Rassendyl, a visitor from England who's a distant cousin to the prince. Read More

London by Night

Actors: George Murphy, Rita Johnson, Virginia Field, Leo G. Carroll, George Zucco

Synopsis: London by Night was filmed entirely on the MGM back lot, which admittedly looked more like England than England. Adapted from Will Scott's play The Umbrella Man, this atmospheric thriller concerns the a series of murders committed in foggy Sundial Square by an elusive gentleman known variously as Read More

Parnell

Actors: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Edna May Oliver, Edmund Gwenn, Alan Marshal

Synopsis: The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama. Charles Stewart Parnell (Clark Gable) is a politician and activist whose tireless work towards the cause of Irish independence has earned him the nickname "the Uncrowned King of Read More

Adventure's End

Actors: John Wayne, Diana Gibson, Moroni Olsen, Montagu Love, Maurice Black

Synopsis: In the South Seas, Seaman Duke (John Wayne) boards a whaler, and asks the owner, Capt. Drew (Montague Love) and his daughter Janet (Diana Gibson) to look after the pearls he's gathered. Drew, who's dying, persuades Duke to marry Janet to prevent her from marrying crewman Rand (Moroni Olsen), who's Read More

A Damsel in Distress

Actors: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though it's obvious that leading lady Joan Fontaine can't dance a step. Written by P. G. Wodehouse, Damsel in Distress casts Astaire as Jerry, an American entertainer appearing in Read More

Tovarich

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, Anita Louise, Melville Cooper

Synopsis: Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the core of this successful 1937 Hollywood comedy-drama starring the French-born Charles Boyer as Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff. The prince and his wife, Grand Duchess Read More

The Life of Emile Zola

Actors: Paul Muni, Gloria Holden, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Robert Warwick, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best, even allowing for the dramatic license taken with the material. When first we meet French novelist and essayist Zola, he is starving in a Parisian garret with his painter Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Actors: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson, Barton MacLane, Billy Mauch

Synopsis: In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired by the real-life coronation of Edward VII, created a lavish screen version starring radio favorites Billy and Bobby Mauch in the title roles and Errol Flynn as their dashing Read More

One in a Million

Actors: Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou, Jean Hersholt, Ned Sparks, Don Ameche

Synopsis: Norwegian skating sensation Sonja Henie made her Hollywood screen debut in the splashy 20th Century-Fox musical One in a Million. While preparing for the 1936 Winter Olympics, Swiss skater Greta Muller (Henie) is discovered by American theatrical entrepreneur Tad Spencer (Adolphe Menjou). This Read More

The White Angel

Actors: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Donald Woods, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: Briefly breaking away from her high-gloss modern soap operas, Kay Francis stars as Florence Nightingale in this reverent Warner Bros. biopic. The screenplay concentrates on Nightingale's humanitarian activities during the Crimean War of 1854-55. Defiant in the face of military bureaucracy and the Read More

Hi Gaucho!

Actors: John Carroll, Steffi Duna, Montagu Love, Ann Codee

Synopsis: John Carroll made his screen debut in the RKO Radio musical actioner Hi Gaucho. Set in 19th-century Argentina, the story concerns the Romeo-and-Juliet romance between Lucio (Carroll) and Inez (Steffi Duna), respectively the son and daughter of feuding ranchers. At first despising Lucio, Inez grows Read More

Sutter's Gold

Actors: Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katherine Alexander, Addison Richards

Synopsis: Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss immigrant Johann Sutter, who seeks his fortune in the California of the 1830s. Against all odds, Sutter builds up a huge land empire, only to watch its explode when gold is Read More

Hi, Gaucho!

Synopsis: In this Argentine western, a South American gaucho saves a beautiful girl from a shady bandido who masquerades as the Spanish don to whom she is betrothed. Songs include: "Little White Rose," "Song of the Open Road," "Bandit Song," and "Panchita." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lloyds of London

Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of fictional 19th-century Londoner Jonathan Blake (Tyrone Power, in his first starring role). A lifelong friend of naval hero Lord Nelson, Blake puts his job (and the future Read More

Champagne Charlie

Actors: Paul Cavanagh, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Minna Gombell, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: "Champagne" Charlie Courtland (Paul Cavanaugh) is a smooth, sophisticated and highly unethical gambler, plying his trade among the rich and famous. Charlie's backers hope for a huge financial windfall when he begins to court beautiful young heiress Linda Craig (Helen Wood). At the last moment Read More

Reunion

Actors: Jean Hersholt, Rochelle Hudson, Helen Vinson, George "Slim" Summerville, Robert Kent

Synopsis: This second of 20th Century-Fox's Dionne Quintuplets vehicles brings back Jean Hersholt as kindly Canadian obstetrician Dr. Dafoe. The good doctor faces none of the professional crises that plagued him in the first Dionne picture The Country Doctor. Instead, a testimonial dinner is arranged for Read More

Sing, Baby, Sing

Actors: Alice Faye, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Ted Healy, Patsy Kelly

Synopsis: The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub Read More

The Country Doctor

Actors: Jean Hersholt, June Lang, George "Slim" Summerville, Michael Whalen, Dorothy Peterson

Synopsis: The well-publicized (and overexploited) birth of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets in 1934 formed the basis of The Country Doctor. Jean Hersholt starred as Dr. Allan Dafoe, the real-life medico who delivered the famous quints (who appear in person towards the end of the film). The film recounts Dafoe's Read More

The Crusades

Actors: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Katherine de Mille

Synopsis: The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD, when Jerusalem falls into the hands of the Saracens, and the Christians are slaughtered or sold into slavery. A holy man known as The Hermit (C. Aubrey Smith) rallies the Read More

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

Actors: Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Colin Clive, Nigel Bruce, Montagu Love

Synopsis: The old British musical-hall ditty "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" provides the title for this lightweight Ronald Colman vehicle. Colman, playing a refugee Russian prince, is the "man" in question, and the owners of the "broken bank"--that is, the proprietors of the Monte Carlo casino Read More

Clive of India

Actors: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, Francis Lister, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's military forces in India. Though produced on a superficially lavish scale, the film inexpensively sidesteps several of Clive's more famous battles with Indian insurrectionists Read More

The Mystic Hour

Synopsis: A wealthy young playboy becomes involved in the hunt for a master criminal when he catches one of the criminal's henchmen in a woman's bedroom and, at the same time, the criminal is setting his wealthy aunt up for a jewel robbery by posing as a policeman assigned to protect her. He starts to date Read More

Menace

Actors: Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh, Henrietta Crosman, John Lodge

Synopsis: Not to be confused with Universal's 1932 The Menace, Paramount's 1934 Menace does however included a "revenge" motif similar to the plotline of the earlier film. A mental patient, who has sworn vengeance on the wealthy British family he holds responsible for his brother's death, escapes on a dark Read More

Limehouse Blues

Actors: George Raft, Jean Parker, Anna May Wong, Kent Taylor, Montagu Love

Synopsis: It's "Never the twain shall meet" time again, this time in London's Limehouse district. George Raft stars as Harry Young, a half-caste saloonkeeper who shelters beleaguered white girl Toni (Jean Parker) from her tormentors (shades of Broken Blossoms). Harry falls in love with the girl, but mixing Read More

His Double Life

Actors: Lillian Gish, Roland Young, Lucy Beaumont, Charles Richman

Synopsis: His Double Life is a sweet, charming adaptation of the venerable Arnold Bennett play Buried Alive. Roland Young plays Priam Farrell, a famous and reclusive artist who is loath to return to London to accept a knighthood. Hoping to drop out of sight, Farrell trades identities with his recently Read More

Love Bound

Actors: Natalie Moorhead, Jack Mulhall, Clara Kimball Young, Montagu Love, Edmund Breese

Synopsis: Golddigging Verna Wilson (Natalie Morehead) files suit against married millionaire John Randolph (Montague Love) for breach of promise. On the verge of collecting $100,000 in "hush money," Verna discovers that her former lover (Roy D'Arcy) has broken out of jail and is heading after her with blood Read More

The Riding Tornado

Actors: Shirley Grey, Wallace MacDonald, Russell Simpson, Montagu Love, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: A typical low-budget but competently made Columbia Western, The Riding Tornado featured Tim McCoy as a famous rodeo champ who, incognito, wins a supposed killer stallion, Pal, and a purse of 500 dollars in a small town race. Having amicably lost the money in a poker game, Tim is hired by Pal's Read More

Out of Singapore

Synopsis: In this sea-going thriller, an unsavory seaman working on a cargo ship bound for Singapore, enlists the aid of another, plots a mutiny; he also poisons the ship's captain. The conspiracy is overheard by the second mate who ends up falling into the ocean. Meanwhile, the captain's naive daughter Read More

Vanity Fair

Actors: Myrna Loy, Conway Tearle, Barbara Kent, Walter Byron, Anthony Bushell

Synopsis: First filmed in 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair has undergone several cinemadaptations, most memorably as the pioneering Technicolor feature Becky Sharp (1935). This 1932 version is perhaps the least known, probably because it has been updated to the 20th century Read More

The Silver Lining

Actors: Maureen O'Sullivan, Betty Compson, John Warburton, Montagu Love, Mary Doran

Synopsis: This socially-conscious drama is set in a slum and centers on the events that lead a parsimonious slum lord to change her ways. It all begins when a little boy stumbles down three flights of rickety stairs. The landlady is later approached by a lawyer who tries to collect damages for the child. Read More

Stowaway

Midnight Lady

Actors: Sarah Padden, John Darrow, Claudia Dell, Theodore Von Eltz, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Midnight Lady is a low-budget variation of the evergreen stage and screen meller Madame X. In one of her rare starring roles, Sarah Padden is cast as Nita St. George, the hard-boiled owner of a big-city speakeasy. Unexpectedly, Nita is reunited with her daughter Jean (Claudia Dell), who has been Read More

Stowaway

Synopsis: A depressed dance hall girl causes all kinds of problems when she stows away on a freighter and is discovered by the second mate in this drama. He agrees to keep her hidden, but unfortunately the first mate finds out about her and mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Alexander Hamilton

Actors: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Dudley Digges, Alan Mowbray, Ralf Harolde

Synopsis: Alexander Hamilton was not precisely the life story of America's first secretary of the treasury--in fact, it doesn't even depict the most portentous moment of Hamilton's life, his fatal duel with Aaron Burr. Instead, Alexander Hamilton concentrates on Hamilton's efforts to pass the "Assumption Read More

The Lion and the Lamb

Actors: Walter Byron, Carmel Myers, Raymond Hatton, Montagu Love, Miriam Seegar

Synopsis: Lion and the Lamb takes place in Columbia Pictures' idea of London. Upon returning home after a long absence, globetrotting playboy Dave (Walter Byron) finds that he's inherited an Earldom. Thanks to a case of mistaken identity, however, Dave is intercepted en route to his ancestral estate by a Read More

Outward Bound

Actors: Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Beryl Mercer, Dudley Digges, Helen Chandler, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: This unusual supernatural drama, based on a 1924 Broadway stage hit, concerns a disparate group of people who find themselves sailing to an unknown destination on a ship constantly shrouded in fog. Tom Prior (Leslie Howard) discovers that he's travelling with his ex-boss Mr. Lingley (Montagu Read More

Love Comes Along

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Lloyd Hughes, Montagu Love, Ned Sparks, Alma Tell

Synopsis: Love Comes Along was based on Conchita, a stage melodrama by Edward (Kismet) Knoblock. The story takes place on the mythical island of Caparjota, a gathering spot for virtually every hot-to-trot sailor in the universe. One of these amorous tars is Johnny Stark (Lloyd Hughes), who falls hard for Read More

A Notorious Affair

Actors: Billie Dove, Basil Rathbone, Kay Francis, Montagu Love, Ken Thomson

Synopsis: The sacrifice of a socialite is chronicled in this romantic drama. To be with her beloved musician, the wealthy woman gives up her wealth and social standing. Tragedy ensues when she discovers that he is having an affair with another noblewoman causing her to take up again with an old flame. When Read More

The Cat Creeps

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton, Lilyan Tashman, Jean Hersholt

Synopsis: The Cat Creeps is the first of three talkie versions of John Willard's durable stage melodrama The Cat and the Canary (filmed under its original title in 1927). Twenty years after the death of misanthropic millionaire Cyrus West, the old man's heirs are summoned to the spooky ancestral mansion for Read More

Reno

Actors: Ruth Roland, Montagu Love, Sam Hardy

Synopsis: Silent serial queen Ruth Roland made an unsuccessful bid at talking-picture stardom in the low-budget Reno. After six years of marriage to Alexander W. Brett (Montague Love), his wife Felicia (Roland) can stand no more of her husband's brutal bullying. She heads to Reno, establishes the standard Read More

Double Cross Roads

Actors: Robert Ames, Lila Lee, Montagu Love, Ned Sparks

Synopsis: In this crime drama a reformed safecracker is pressured by his ex-cellmate to pull off one last job. The cellmate gives the safecracker a chance for peace and happiness on an isolated farm. There he meets a pretty woman and her grandmother. He falls in love with the young woman. Unfortunately, he Read More

The Furies

Actors: Lois Wilson, Montagu Love, H.B. Warner, Theodore Von Eltz

Synopsis: The plays of Zoe Akins were so stilted and mannered that one critic referred to watching them as "the curse of an Akins heart." The film versions of Akins's efforts were slightly better, as proven by The Furies. Lois Wilson stars as attractive Mrs. Sands, who despite her married status is ardently Read More

Back Pay

Actors: Corinne Griffith, Grant Withers, Montagu Love, Hallam Cooley, Vivien Oakland

Synopsis: In this melodramatic early sound-film an innocent country gal tires of her dull pastoral life and equally boring beau so she heads for the big city in search of adventure. Instead she finds herself the kept woman of a rich war profiteer. Deep down, she still loves the country boy who has been Read More

Kismet

Actors: Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, David Manners, Mary Duncan, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role he'd created on stage in 1911, Otis Skinner stars as Hajji, the wily Baghdad beggar who goes from rags to riches to rags again to riches again in the space of 24 hours. Read More

Inside the Lines

Actors: Betty Compson, Ralph Forbes, Montagu Love, Mischa Auer, Ivan Simpson

Synopsis: Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan, was responsible for the international-espionage yarn Inside the Lines. The time is WWI, and the place is Gibraltar, where English girl Jane (Betty Compson) is accidentally reunited with her pre-war sweetheart, German-born Wodehouse (Ralph Forbes). Read More

Silks and Saddles

Actors: Marian Nixon, Richard Walling, Mary Nolan, Otis Harlan, Claire McDowell

Synopsis: The racetrack provides the setting of this drama that tells the tale of a jockey who throws a race to impress a sexy girl. Later, the jockey redeems himself to his former employer and the boss's daughter, who has loyally loved him all along, by riding a dangerously spirited horse that no one else Read More

Bulldog Drummond

Actors: Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Joan Bennett, Lilyan Tashman, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his services as adventurer for hire. This gets him mixed up with lovely Joan Bennett, whose wealthy father is being held against his will in a gloomy sanitarium. Armed with little more than bravado Read More

The Mysterious Island

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Jane Daly, Lloyd Hughes, Montagu Love, Harry Gribbon

Synopsis: Jules Verne's fantastic 19th century novel Mysterious Island provided the title and little else for this spectacular filmization. Lionel Barrymore plays an altruistic scientist who has built an underground city, hoping to use the modernistic devices he has installed to bring about world peace. But Read More

A Most Immoral Lady

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Walter Pidgeon, Montagu Love, Josephine Dunn

Midstream

Actors: Ricardo Cortez, Claire Windsor, Montagu Love, Helen Jerome Eddy, Larry Kent

Synopsis: In this romance, a wealthy old Wall Street financier falls in love with a younger woman. To win her heart, he decides to go to Europe for a youth restoring operation. While there, he fakes his own death. He then returns, disguised as his nephew and begins an affair with the comely lass. Things go Read More

The Voice Within

Charming Sinners

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Mary Nolan, William Powell, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton). In retaliation, Kathryn begins a Read More

The Last Warning

Actors: Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Mack Swain, Roy D'Arcy, Tom O'Brien

Synopsis: In this mystery, a producer reopens a theater where five years before, a lead actor was killed on stage during a performance. The murder remained unsolved. To solve the mystery, the producer stages the same play with the same cast. As the play is performed, the same series of events occurs and the Read More

The Divine Lady

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

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

Her Private Life

Synopsis: Based on Zoë Akins's 1923 novel Déclassée and the 1925 film of the same title, Her Private Life stars Billie Dove as Lady Helen Haden, a married Englishwoman blackmailed after having a fling with American gambler Ned Thayer (Walter Pidgeon). When Sir Bruce Haden (Montagu Love) divorces her, Lady Read More

The Noose

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Montagu Love, Jay Eaton, Lina Basquette

Synopsis: 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 Nickie Elkins (Richard Barthelmess) is the son of equally dishonest Buck Gordon (Montague Love). When his ex-wife (Alice Joyce) marries Governor Bancroft (Robert T. Haines) Read More

Hawk's Nest

Actors: Milton Sills, Mitchell Lewis, Montagu Love, Doris Kenyon, Stuart Holmes

The Haunted House

Actors: Chester Conklin, Flora Finch, Edmund Breese, Larry Kent, Barbara Bedford

Synopsis: This nonsensical comedy-melodrama was a vehicle for two relics from the dawn of cinema history, walrus-mustached Chester Conklin and scrawny Flora Finch. A parody of the "old dark house" melodramas then in vogue, the film is chock full of hidden rooms, sliding panels and clutching hands. Convinced Read More

Devil's Skipper

Actors: Belle Bennett, Montagu Love, Cullen Landis, Mary McAlister, Gino Corrado

Synopsis: The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas. Though her crews constantly threaten to mutiny, "The Devil Skipper" Read More

The Wind

Actors: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Earle

Synopsis: The Wind, Victor Sjostrom's final American film, is a western only in its locale: its symbolism-laden story of physical and spiritual repression, culminating in a violent, hysterical outburst, has more in common with the European or Scandanavian cinema than with the usual MGM product. Lillian Gish Read More

Jesse James

Actors: Nora Lane, Montagu Love, Mary Carr, James Pierce

Synopsis: Silent cowboy star Fred Thomson raised quite a bit of controversy by portraying the famous outlaw in a sympathetic vein -- there were still a few oldsters around in those days who remembered the furor raised by the James gang. This role was a surprising turn for Thomson, whose films were generally Read More

The Tender Hour

Actors: Billie Dove, Ben Lyon, Montagu Love, Constantine Romanoff, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: Billie Dove stars as Marcia Kane, whose head is turned by the charming but sinister Grand Duke Sergei (Montague Love). Handsome and virtuous Wally McKenzie (Ben Lyon) is in love with Marcia, but how can he possibly compete with a "title"? Tricked into a marriage with the Grand Duke, Marcia soon Read More

Rose of the Golden West

Actors: Mary Astor, Gilbert Roland, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Montagu Love, Flora Finch

Synopsis: This tale of California's Spanish days is gorgeous fiction, from the sumptuous settings to the stars -- the leads are lovely, doe-eyed Mary Astor and the impossibly handsome Gilbert Roland. Juan (Roland) is about to elope with the convent-bred Elena (Astor), when he is chosen to assassinate the Read More

Good Time Charley

Actors: Helene Costello, Warner Oland, Clyde Cook, Montagu Love, Hugh Allen

Synopsis: Warner Oland took time out from his customary screen villainy to play the title character in the sentimental backstage drama Good Time Charley. A small-time provincial actor, Charley has an ego that far outdistances his talent. Meanwhile, his old nemesis John Hartwell (Montague Love), the man Read More

One Hour of Love

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, Robert W. Frazer, Montagu Love, Taylor Holmes, Duane Thompson

Synopsis: Manhattan debutante Jerry McKay (Jacqueline Logan) heads West with her father J.W. (Montague Love) to inspect some of her family's property. No sooner has she arrived in the wide-open spaces than Jerry has had a confrontation with J.W.'s two-fisted chief engineer James Warren (Robert Frazer). Read More

The Night of Love

Actors: Ronald Colman, Vilma Banky, Montagu Love, Natalie Kingston, Laska Winter

Synopsis: Based on a story by 17th-century Spanish playwright Calderon de la Barca, A Night of Love is based on the ancient (and historically suspect) tradition of droit du seigneur. Ronald Colman stars as gypsy prince Montero, whose wedding night is rudely interrupted by the despotic Duke de la Garda (Montague Love Read More

The King of Kings

Actors: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill

Synopsis: Having scored big-time box office with his first Biblical epic, The Ten Commandments (1923), Cecil B. DeMille hoped to top this success with his 1927 The King of Kings. Inasmuch as he was now dealing with the life of Christ, DeMille had to be careful to serve up equal amounts of showmanship and Read More

Haunted Ship

Actors: Dorothy Sebastian, Montagu Love, Tom Santschi, Ray Hallor, Alice Lake

Synopsis: The Haunted Ship was adapted from the Jack London story White and Yellow. Villainous schooner captain Montague Love casts his wife and son adrift on a raft, convinced that his wife Alice Lake has been unfaithful with first mate Tom Santschi. For the next fifteen years, Love makes life hell for the Read More

Brooding Eyes

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Robert Ellis, Ruth Clifford, Montagu Love, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: Lionel Barrymore was at a low career ebb when he agreed to appear in the independently produced Brooding Eyes. Barrymore emulates his brother John in the role of Slim Jim Carey, the "black sheep" of an aristocratic British family. A professional blackmailer, Carey suddenly and mysteriously Read More

The Silent Lover

Actors: Milton Sills, Natalie Kingston, William Humphrey, Arthur Edmund Carewe, William V. Mong

Synopsis: So far as his fans were concerned, Milton Sills could have played a ballerina and still cashed in at the box office. In this adaptation of Lajos Biros' play Der Legioner, Sills is cast as French aristocrat Count Pierre Tonai, who after losing all of his money joins the Foreign Legion "to forget." Read More

The Social Highwayman

Actors: John Patrick, Montagu Love, James Gordon, Frank Brownlee

Synopsis: The Social Highwayman is a light-fingered jewel thief who preys on high-society folk. Greenhorn newspaper reporter Jay Walker (John Patrick) decides to make a name for himself by bringing the crook to justice. Before his adventure is through, our hero is in store for quite a few surprises, and not Read More

Don Juan

Actors: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Estelle Taylor, Warner Oland, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no dialogue) Don Juan is a first-rate production by any standards, and would have been just as good with or without musical accompaniment. John Barrymore plays the legendary lover Read More

The Son of the Sheik

Actors: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love, Bull Montana, Karl Dane

Synopsis: The Son of the Sheik, Rudolph Valentino's last film, may well be his best. A sequel to (and vast improvement upon) Valentino's 1922 blockbuster The Sheik, the 1926 film casts the legendary Latin Lover in the dual role of the now-older Sheik and his son Ahmed. The latter falls in love with Read More

The Desert's Price

Actors: Buck Jones, Florence Gilbert, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Once again the battle between cattle ranchers and encroaching sheep farmers takes center stage in a silent western, this time with an added touch of Romeo and Juliet. Returning from college, Wils McCann (Buck Jones discovers that the long-standing feud between his family and their neighbors is Read More

Hands Up

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Marian Nixon, Virginia Lee Corbin, Mack Swain, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Sophisticated, silk-hatted silent-film comedian Raymond Griffith had at least one classic in him, and Hands Up was that film. Griffith plays a Southern spy during the Civil War, sent West to retrieve a vital gold shipment. Along the way, he meets boisterous Mack Swain (who was nearly booted from Read More

The Mad Marriage

Synopsis: Stage ingenue Rosemary Davies, in her only film appearance, starred in this romantic melodrama written and directed by Frank P. Donovan. Davies played Mary Jane, a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice (Florence Turner), attempts to offer her respectability by marrying a wealthy old Read More

The Ancient Highway

Actors: Jack Holt, Billie Dove, Montagu Love, Stanley Taylor, Lloyd Whitlock

Synopsis: Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a rugged logger in The Ancient Highway. When not cutting down trees and shouting "TIMMMM-BERRRRR!", Holt has to deal with someone who's sabotaging the camp. The miscreant turns out to be the odious Montagu Love, whom Holt dispenses with in a climactic fisticuffs Read More

Sinners in Heaven

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Richard Dix, Holmes Herbert, Florence Billings

Synopsis: This South Seas tale, based on the novel by Clive Arden, very much reflects the morals of its era. Barbara Stockley (Bebe Daniels) is raised in a very proper English town. Her friend, Mrs. Fields (Florence Billings), invites her on a trip by aeroplane to Australia with her brother, Alan Croft (Richard Dix Read More

Who's Cheating?

Actors: Montagu Love, Marie Burke, Zena Keefe, William H. Tooker

Synopsis: Dorothy Chappell, who wrote the story for this film, stars as June Waugh in this romantic melodrama. June falls in love with Pennsylvania coal miner Larry Fields (Ralph Kellard) after she saves him from drowning. Larry left his hometown in disgrace when he couldn't swim to save a victim from a Read More

Restless Wives

Synopsis: Fledgling director Gregory LaCava manages to give this routine domestic drama some spark. Polly Benson (Doris Kenyon) is that old movie cliché -- the wealthy wife who is neglected by her husband (James Rennie). When a business engagement causes him to miss their wedding anniversary, Polly goes Read More

Love of Women

Actors: Helene Chadwick, Montagu Love, Maurice Costello, Mary Thurman, Lawford Davidson

Synopsis: This domestic drama was supposed to be an indictment of the supposedly lax divorce laws then current. Because Redfield (Maurice Costello) has fallen on hard times financially, his wife, Eugenie (Marie Shotwell), welcomes the arrival of Bronson Gibbs (Montagu Love), who offers to save the family if Read More

Son of the Sahara

Synopsis: By 1924, sheik pictures were old hat, but director Edwin Carewe tried to add a little spice to this one by filming it on-location in the Sahara Desert. When Cassim's father is killed during an attack on a French fort, the boy (George Chebat) swears vengeance on Colonel Barbier (Montagu Love). He Read More

Roulette

Actors: Montagu Love, Norman Trevor, Maurice Costello, Edith Roberts, Mary Carr

Synopsis: Seemingly the only reason for this drama was its proliferation of cameos -- the gambling hall where the action takes place sports the likes of Flora Finch, Henry Hull, Diana Allen and Dagmar Godowsky. The actual star is Edith Roberts. Before he can avenge a crooked card game, Dan Carrington Read More

The Darling of the Rich

Actors: Betty Blythe, Montagu Love, Charles Gerrard, Gladys Leslie, Julia Swayne Gordon

Synopsis: When her father dies, Charmion Winship (Betty Blythe) is left completely penniless. But she wants to live well so she travels to New York in search of the good life. A gang of crooks hire her to pose as a princess. She is supposed to be the owner of a valuable jewel collection which she is selling Read More

Leopardess

Actors: Alice Brady, Edward Langford, Montagu Love, Charles Kent

Synopsis: What was Paramount thinking when it cast ladylike Alice Brady as a white girl raised amongst South Sea savages? This ludicrous romance was also a clinker for Montagu Love, one of silent cinema's most reliable villains. Scott Quigg (Love) claims he can tame any living thing and finds his biggest Read More

Eternal City

Actors: Barbara La Marr, Lionel Barrymore, Bert Lytell, Richard Bennett, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Bruno, a tramp (Richard Bennett), takes in a waif, David, who is later adopted by a man whose daughter, Roma, wants a playmate. The children grow up (to be played by Bert Lytell and Barbara LaMarr), and when World War I breaks out, David and Bruno enlist. David is reported dead and Roma, who is a Read More

The Secrets of Paris

Actors: Lew Cody, Gladys Hulette, Montagu Love, Dolores Cassinelli, J. Barney Sherry

Synopsis: Lew Cody leads an excellent cast in this colorful romance. While visiting France, Prince Rudolph (Cody) falls in love with a peasant girl (Jane Thomas), but her parents force her to marry a man of their own choosing. Both the girl and her unwanted husband suffer early deaths, and her daughter Read More

What's Wrong with the Women?

Actors: Wilton Lackaye, Julia Swayne Gordon, Constance Bennett, Montagu Love, Rod La Rocque

Synopsis: The answer to the burning question posed by this low-budget domestic drama was that they tended to want more from life than their husbands were able to afford. Janet Lee's (Barbara Castleton) new "jazz wild" lifestyle all but brings her husband Jack (Rod la Rocque) to the brink of bankruptcy. When Read More

Beauty Shop

Actors: Raymond Hitchcock, Billy B. Van, James J. Corbett, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Musical comedy star Raymond Hitchcock portrayed the character of Dr. Arbutus Budd both on stage and on screen. The only problem with the screen version is that there was no singing, and little comedy. Dr. Budd is an eccentric beauty doctor who is facing financial ruin. An advertisement which shows Read More

Love's Redemption

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Harrison Ford, Montagu Love, H. Cooper Cliffe, Ida Waterman

Synopsis: In 1922 Norma Talmadge was one of the most popular stars of the silent screen, but every now and then she'd wind up in a clinker; this cliched drama, made shortly before her production company moved from the East to the West Coast, was certainly one of them. Even Anthony Paul Kelly, a noted Read More

Peter Ibbetson

Actors: Wallace Reid, Elsie Ferguson, Montagu Love, George Fawcett, Dolores Cassinelli

Synopsis: aka Forever George du Maurier's classic novel was made into a play by John Raphael which starred John and Lionel Barrymore. In their places, the film version had lesser lights Wallace Reid and Montagu Love playing Peter and his uncle, Colonel Ibbetson, respectively. Peter is an orphan raised by Read More

Case of Becky

Actors: Constance Binney, Glenn Hunter, Frank McCormack, Montagu Love, Margaret Seddon

Synopsis: Uriah Stone (Montagu Love) is a hypnotist who runs a sideshow. His assistant, Dorothy (Constance Binney), is under his spell -- when he gives her a hypnotic stare and waves a diamond ring in front of her, she becomes Becky, her evil alter ego. One of Stone's subjects advises Dorothy to run away. Read More

Shams of Society

Actors: Barbara Castleton, Montagu Love, Macey Harlam, Julia Swayne Gordon, Ann Brody

Synopsis: Even though he pays all her bills, Herbert Porter (Montagu Love) refuses to give his wife Helen (Barbara Castleton) any cash. So she heads to a gambling hall with Mrs. Crest (Julia Swayne Gordon), but instead of making any money, she loses five hundred dollars which she doesn't have. She pawns her Read More

Forever

World and His Wife

Synopsis: "The world and his wife" is a reference to those gossips who lurk in the background, talking about everyone else's affairs. Originally, the story was a Spanish poem, which was made into a play that was translated into English by Charles Frederic Nirdlinger, then filmed here. Don Julian (Montagu Love Read More

Man's Plaything

Synopsis: This low-budget melodrama was released by Republic. Nellie Vaughan (Grace Davison) leaves home because of the constant arguments between her father and her brother, Dan (J.W. Johnson). She finds work as a flower girl in a cafe, where she meets the wealthy Pelton Van Teel (Montague Love). Devlin Read More

The Riddle: Woman

A Broadway Saint

Synopsis: Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn't succumbed to the city's vices. When his vacation comes up, he goes to Boonsburg to visit his uncle (George Bunny) and aunts (Emily Fitzroy and Annie Laurie Spence). He finds small-town life far more wicked than living in the big city. A Read More

Through the Toils

Synopsis: Montagu Love has a different type of dual role in this drama -- instead of playing lookalikes or twins, he plays two novelists, one young and the other old. Noel Graham (Love) is a young writer who has a bunch of pets but no girlfriend. One day he loses his puppy and finds it at the home of Lewis Read More

The Cabaret

Synopsis: Even though the plot to this World Film programmer was slight, the cast included some of the studio's most well-known names. After the death of her grandfather (Captain Charles), Helene (June Elvidge), a singer, finds work as a model at a studio belonging to four artists -- Jeffrey Darrel (Montagu Read More

Vengeance

Synopsis: Vengeance is set somewhere in India, where disgraced nobleman Montague Love tries to carve out a new life for himself. After marrying an Indian girl and siring a son, the nobleman dies, but not before swearing vengeance against his own brother, the man responsible for his ruination. Upon reaching Read More

Rasputin, the Black Monk

Synopsis: Unlike The Fall of the Romanoffs, which was released at about the same time, this telling of the overthrow of the Russian autocracy plays fast and loose with the facts (rather odd, since in 1917, this was a current event creating daily newspaper headlines). The Russian Revolution according to Read More

The Awakening

Synopsis: The Awakening resurrected the time-honored bromide about the brilliant peasant artist who is seduced and corrupted by wicked old Paris. This time it's painter Jacques Revilly (Montague Love), who ends up plying his trade only to support his liquor habit. But after rescuing street waif Marguerite (Dorothy Kelly Read More

Yankee Pluck

Synopsis: For John Pollard (Charles Bowser), drink and debt go hand in hand. He's ready to marry his daughter Polly (Ethel Clayton) off to one of his creditors, but she won't have it. She's in love with Lieutenant Richard Travers (Edward Langford). The Lieutenant has created some plans that will foil enemy Read More

The Dancer's Peril

Synopsis: A young Russian woman rises to become one of the world's most famous ballet dancers in this romantic silent drama. Her story begins as she, the lead dancer of the Imperial Ballet, becomes the love object of Russia's Grand Duke. They marry, but because the government disapproves of the union she is Read More

The Men She Married

Synopsis: In this melodramatic silent outing, a young girl gets into trouble when she marries a bigamist who robs her of her jewels and then flies off for Latin America. Later she receives notice of his death. Eventually, she finds a decent widower and becomes his bride. Unfortunately, matters get sticky Read More

The Hidden Scar

Synopsis: This story was very much typical of its era -- Janet Hall (Ethel Clayton) is "wronged" by Henry Dalton (Montagu Love) and becomes pregnant. She has the child and begs Dalton to marry her but he refuses. However, when he comes to a sudden end, he leaves her with a cottage and a small income. Then Read More

Husband and Wife

Synopsis: When Doris Baker (Ethel Clayton) spends her husband Dick (Holbrook Blinn) into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where he works to cover some speculative investments. He is joined in these plans by one of the bank's directors, but when Doris unknowingly snubs the director's wife, he Read More

A Woman's Way

Synopsis: Screenwriter Frances Marion, who wrote the scenario for this picture early in her career, takes the classic story of a married man who falls for another woman, and gives its comic twist extra added punch. The young man in question, Howard Stanton (Carlyle Blackwell), has been married for a year Read More

Friday the 13th

Synopsis: When Virginian Judge Lee Sands (Charles Brandt) is ruined by a Wall Street manipulator, his daughter Beulah (Gerda Holmes) heads north to New York City and obtains work as a stenographer. But she's not just trying to make her way in a cruel world; she's working for Peter Brownley (Clarence Read More

Scarlet Oath

Synopsis: This melodrama involves the old twin sisters mix-up. Exiled Russian Nihilist Ivan Pavloff (Philip Hahn) has twin daughters. In desperate need for money, he gives up one girl, Nina, to a rich couple, while the other one, Olga, stays with him. The girls grow up (to be played by Gail Kane), and Nina Read More

Bought and Paid for

Synopsis: This comedy-drama, based on a popular play of the era by George Broadhurst, is the classic story of a poor girl who marries a millionaire. But the millionaire, Robert Stafford (Montagu Love), is an alcoholic who, after one of his nights of heavy drinking, asserts that he "bought and paid for" Read More

The Gilded Cage

Synopsis: Long before she became a top character actress, Alice Brady was the in-house ingenue for the World Film Manufacturing Company. The fact that Brady's father, theatrical producer William H. Brady, was the head man at World might have been a contributing factor to the actress' prolific output for the Read More

Antique Dealer

The Face in the Moonlight

Synopsis: The Face in the Moonlight in this World Films 5-reeler belonged to a wanted criminal, played by Robert Warwick. The heroine espies the face and declares her undying love. Thing of it is, the girl doesn't love the criminal but instead is enamored of his "good" twin brother. The story, set during Read More

A Royal Family

Synopsis: A Royal Family was produced by Columbia Films -- no relation to the later Columbia, but instead a division of Metro Pictures. Prolific "B"-picture "regular" William Nigh both directed the film and played a leading role, while other familiar names in the cast included Montague Love and Fuller Mellish Sr. Read More

Hearts in Exile

Synopsis: The John Oxenham stage melodrama Hearts in Exile was first transferred to the Big Screen in 1915 by the World Film Corporation. Clara Kimball Young stars as Hope Ivanova, the daughter of a Russian fisherman. Turned down by her true love Paul Pavloff (Vernon Steele), Hope marries Baron Serge Palma (Claude Fleming Read More

The Suicide Club

Synopsis: Evidently, this 1914 British four-reeler was the first film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club. Montague Love, who had a long career ahead of him as a movie villain, is here cast as the dashing hero Florizel, a prince in disguise. Through a fluke, Florizel finds himself at a Read More