A couple are shipwrecked and saved by a sea captain. The ruthless man blinds the husband in a fight and his sexual advances...
|
|
1938
|
American leading lady Marian Marsh plays the title character in the British Girl Thief. Actually, the biggest thing young...
|
Mackintosh
|
1938
|
In this British comedy, a cricket widow decides to get even on her sports mad husband by taking his milquetoast best friend,...
|
Director
|
1937
|
When assistant Noel Madison kills professor J. Fisher White for his diamond formula, White's daughter Brook examines the case...
|
Director
|
1937
|
In this British thriller, a mild-mannered bank clerk has a sort of breakdown, gets tired of seeing other people always get...
|
Director
|
1937
|
In this comedy, a private detective earns his license via a correspondence course and then sets off to pursue a ring of...
|
Director
|
1937
|
In this comedy, a wealthy heir is shamed by his fiancee at a fancy party and ends up taking off to the bad side of town....
|
Director
|
1937
|
|
|
Director
|
1936
|
A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up...
|
Director
|
1936
|
One man's attempts to convince his fellow jurors of the defendant's innocence provides the basis of this drama. The others...
|
Director
|
1936
|
A criminologist, who wishes to discourage his son from a career as detective, organizes a picture theft which the son...
|
Director
|
1936
|
In this actioner, a prisoner must break out in time to keep his wife, who has involved herself with a creepy gang, from...
|
Director
|
1936
|
The port of Southampton provides the locale for a series of escapades of British sailors on a 6 hour leave. ~ Rovi...
|
Director
|
1936
|
In this comedy, a pickle magnate becomes an amnesiac following a train crash. He subsequently opens a beauty salon and ends...
|
Director
|
1935
|
|
|
Director
|
1935
|
|
|
Director, Producer
|
1935
|
The Black Mask is a gentleman crook who robs from the rich to give to the deserving. A crusading newspaperman is sympathetic...
|
Director
|
1935
|
|
|
Director
|
1935
|
|
|
|
1935
|
Dapper, diminutive Monty Banks was a major comedy star in silent pictures, but his pronounced Italian accent proved a...
|
|
1935
|
Burly American character actor Ralph Ince both directs and stars in the British Blue Smoke. Ince plays a prizefighter whose...
|
Director
|
1935
|
In this thriller, the co-owner of a rubber plantation finds himself in trouble after he rejects the advances of his...
|
Director
|
1934
|
With William Boyd in the cast, one would think that Flaming Gold was a "Hopalong Cassidy" western -- and one would be wrong....
|
Director
|
1934
|
Ex-con Carney manages to keep blackmailer's away from his daughter who never realizes who her hero is because Carney had...
|
Director
|
1934
|
Though the story isn't much, this actioner does offer a neat behind-the-scenes look at the travails of Hollywood stuntmen as...
|
Director
|
1933
|
Mascot Films, the feisty precursor to Republic Pictures, was responsible for 1933's The Big Payoff. In a rare top-billed...
|
|
1933
|
Dorothy Burgess, the fiery Tonia of the Academy award-winning In Old Arizona (1929), plays a woman who will do anything to...
|
Jack Sheldon
|
1933
|
The wonderful Warner Bros. stock company goes through its customarily breezy paces in Havana Widows. Joan Blondell and...
|
|
1933
|
In this western, a newcomer to a Western community is suspected of precipitating a crime wave. To prove his innocence and...
|
Director, Cicero
|
1933
|
Dolores Del Rio plays Dolores in Girl of the Rio -- which, one supposes, makes perfect sense. The heroine is a cabaret dancer...
|
O'Grady
|
1932
|
|
|
Diamond Barnett
|
1932
|
|
|
1932
|
An early screen version of the oft-filmed tale of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Law and...
|
|
1932
|
|
|
|
1932
|
Men of Chance refers to those well-dressed gentlemen who stake their fortunes upon the outcome of horse races....
|
Farley
|
1932
|
In this police drama, a cop, known for being a rock under pressure, endeavors to cope with the aftermath of a...
|
|
1932
|
|
|
Jack Reed
|
1932
|
It may be hard to believe, but Gorilla Ship is almost as ludicrous as its title. Wheeler Oakman plays Mr. Wells, a...
|
Capt. Larsen
|
1932
|
|
|
|
1932
|
In this crime drama, an assistant DA must scramble to save the life of an innocent man he mistakenly sent to the chair....
|
|
1932
|
Hatchet Man is a dated but fascinating film set amidst the "tong wars" in San Francisco's Chinatown. Tong hatchet man Wong...
|
|
1932
|
Star Witness starts out as a homey family comedy and develops into a rather gutsy thriller. Chic Sale plays a cantankerous...
|
|
1931
|
Silent screen star John Gilbert had a tough time adapting to the talkies--not due to his voice, as is commonly believed, but...
|
|
1931
|
|
|
|
1931
|
John Barrymore is the "State's Attorney" in the RKO picture of the same name. A brilliant criminal lawyer, Barrymore counts...
|
|
1931
|
The title alone should clue the reader that Numbered Men is a prison picture. Based on the stage play Jail Break, the film is...
|
|
1930
|
The first "talkie" gangster movie to capture the public's imagination, Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar started a cycle of...
|
|
1930
|
Produced by Fox Studios, The Big Fight was ultimately released by a lesser firm, Sono-Art. Lola Lane stars as manicurist...
|
|
1930
|
That marvelous old barnstormer Hobart Bosworth stars in this early Columbia talkie as a rough-and-tumble sea captain named...
|
Director
|
1929
|
Chorus girl Sally O'Neil (Teena Johnson) may be "hard-boiled," but she's no golddigger. Thus, when the father of her wealthy...
|
Director, Intertitle Writer
|
1929
|
A very topical early talkie from low-budget companyColumbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer...
|
Roller McCray
|
1929
|
Ralph Ince both directs and stars in the silent crime melodrama Chicago After Midnight. Ince plays a gang leader who is...
|
Director
|
1928
|
The heavy-breathing Singapore Mutiny owes a great deal to such previous passion-in-the-tropics efforts as Rain and...
|
Director
|
1928
|
|
|
Director
|
1928
|
|
|
Director, Producer
|
1928
|
Chorus girl Barbara Page (Viola Dana) gives up the footlights when she becomes the wife of bank clerk Dick Cobb (Tom Gallery...
|
Director
|
1927
|
Ralph Ince was one busy beaver in 1927, starring in and directing several low-budget programmers. In Shanghaied, Ince plays a...
|
Director, Producer
|
1927
|
Footloose flapper Peggy Marston (Dorothy Revier) runs away from her oppressive household and right into the arms of Big...
|
Director
|
1927
|
|
|
Director, Big Bill Wellman
|
1927
|
Not only does Ralph Ince direct this South Seas romance, he also plays a dual role. Tod and Tom Pembroke (both Ince) are twin...
|
Director
|
1926
|
Two alumni from the old Thomas Ince Studios -- director Emmet Flynn and Tom's actor-director brother Ralph -- collaborated on...
|
Brute Shone
|
1926
|
Ralph Ince both directs and stars in Jack London's oft-filmed tale of the sea. The Ghost, a seal-poaching schooner, has as...
|
Director
|
1926
|
|
|
Director, Billie
|
1926
|
The Lone Wolf, Louis Joseph Vance's celebrated thief-turned-sleuth, began his long association with Columbia Pictures in...
|
Director
|
1926
|
Ralph Ince both directed and co-starred in FBO's Bigger Than Barnum. The story focuses on the Blandins, a family of circus...
|
Director, Carl Rabelle
|
1926
|
Evelyn Brent takes on a Douglas Fairbanks Sr.-type role in this action-adventure film. Senorita Catalina (Brent), the ward of...
|
Director
|
1925
|
Once again, Evelyn Brent plays a girl crook who eventually reforms in this entertaining melodrama, in which nearly every...
|
Director
|
1925
|
This silent drama, based on the novel by the Countess de Chambrun, had quite a few unusual twists. Amy and Matthew Dale...
|
Director
|
1925
|
Piccadilly Charlie (Gladden James) and his female associate (Evelyn Brent) are on the run from the police after a jewel...
|
Director
|
1925
|
When the jazz era of the 1920s was in full swing, it seemed like every week several new pictures about the scandalous...
|
Director
|
1924
|
Anton Kleschna (Alphone Ethier) is a notorious Parisian thief, and he brings his daughter, Leah (Dorothy Dalton), into the...
|
Director
|
1924
|
The meek and mild Gladstone Smith (Charles Ray) is a reporter for the morning edition. While following a lead on a murder...
|
Director
|
1924
|
Much of the first part of this melodrama, which takes place in a tropical setting, was shot in color. This includes many of...
|
Director
|
1924
|
When her latest show closes, Pat O'Brien (Margaret Livingston) returns home. The stable owned by her fiancé, Dan Mallory...
|
Director
|
1924
|
Moving Picture World sung the praises of this drama, adapted from the stage play by Adeline Leitzbach and Theodore Leibler...
|
Director
|
1923
|
Thomas Meighan was appropriately cast in this ocean-bound romance based on the novel A Light to Leeward by Peter B. Kyne....
|
Director
|
1923
|
Post-World War I youth were a different breed from prior generations, and this drama, adapted from the Cosmo Hamilton story,...
|
Director
|
1922
|
Norma Shearer returned to her native Canada -- at least in spirit -- for this routine Northwoods melodrama produced in...
|
Director
|
1922
|
Handsome Conway Tearle stars in this crime drama. Even from childhood, Billy Clifford (Jerry Devine) has shown a streak of...
|
Director
|
1922
|
Suave Conway Tearle playing a prize fighter? At least he plays a middle weight in this colorful romantic drama, so his build...
|
Director
|
1922
|
Director/actor Ralph Ince was sometimes touted as "the greatest of Lincoln impersonators." This drama is one of many films in...
|
Director
|
1921
|
A real submarine was used to film parts of this so-so melodrama -- quite a novelty in the early '20s. Ralph Ince both...
|
Director
|
1921
|
Frederick Osborne (Harry T. Morey) is a self-made man whose wife, Frances (Kathlyn Williams), is a naive but eager social...
|
Director
|
1921
|
|
|
Director
|
1921
|
Flotsam (Olive Thomas) is the tomboy daughter of a lighthouse keeper with a dark secret: he killed a man. At least, that's...
|
Director
|
1920
|
Girlish Gladys Leslie, who was once a rival of Mary Pickford, gets the opportunity to do a bit of vamping in this light...
|
Director
|
1919
|
|
|
Director
|
1919
|
This drama, which was produced by Madame Olga Petrova's own company, was based on the novel Patience Sparhawk and Her Times...
|
Director
|
1919
|
This comedy-drama was based on the stage play of the same name. In spite of his father's attempts to interest him in...
|
Director
|
1919
|
In spite of its title, Virtuous Men is not a drawing room comedy, but a melodrama set in an upstate New York lumber camp. Bob...
|
Director
|
1919
|
Brian Lazar (Eugene O'Brien) is a struggling artist with looks as well as talent. It's the former that really attracts the...
|
Director
|
1919
|
Hale Hamilton stars as the appropriately named Johnny Gamble, a maverick race-car driver. To win a bet, Johnny enters a...
|
Director
|
1918
|
Adapted from a series of short stories by Edna Ferber, Our Mrs. McChesney was transformed into a stage vehicle for...
|
Director
|
1918
|
In this adaptation of the lighthearted Randolph Chesters novel, Hale Hamilton plays Johnny Gamble. Johnny's business, the...
|
Director
|
1918
|
|
|
Director
|
1917
|
|
|
Director
|
1917
|
The Awakening resurrected the time-honored bromide about the brilliant peasant artist who is seduced and corrupted by wicked...
|
Director
|
1917
|
|
|
Director
|
1917
|
|
|
Director
|
1916
|
|
|
Director
|
1916
|
Madeline (Lucille Lee Stewart) and Jeanette (Jessie Miller) are pals, but apparently their relationship isn't all that cozy....
|
Director
|
1916
|
A story by Cyrus Townsend Brady was the foundation for the lavish Vitagraph star vehicle My Lady's Slipper. The popular...
|
Director
|
1916
|
Juggernaut might be better known today if it hadn't had the bad luck to open the same week as D.W. Griffith's super-spectacle...
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1915
|
This Vitagraph three-reeler stars two of the studio's most popular attractions, Anita Stewart and John Emerson. While married...
|
Director
|
1915
|
|
|
Director
|
1915
|
|
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1915
|
|
|
Director
|
1915
|
The largest of the early film companies, Vitagraph, joined the burgeoning serial craze in 1915 with this desert island...
|
Director
|
1915
|
Ralph Ince directs his sister-in-lawAnita Stewart in this overwrought melodrama. Stewart plays Rose Peters, a woman wronged...
|
Director
|
1915
|
Marguerite Bertsch, one of Vitagraph's busiest screenwriters, was responsible for the three-reel "melodramatic farce" Uncle...
|
Director
|
1914
|
|
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1914
|
|
|
Director
|
1914
|
"A Melodrama in Three Acts," this Vitagraph production was written for the screen by Marguerite Bertsch. The villain of the...
|
Director
|
1914
|
This Keystone half-reeler is all about a rancher in search of a wife and a husband who'd like to get rid of his spouse....
|
Director
|
1914
|
It's just possible that Vitagraph didn't take this three-reel backstage yarn too seriously: the studio advertised the picture...
|
Director
|
1914
|
|
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1914
|
|
|
Director
|
1914
|
|
|
Director
|
1914
|
Running three reels, Vitagraph's 413 makes good use of the studio's versatile stock company. Intercepting a coded message...
|
Director
|
1914
|
|
|
Director
|
1914
|
|
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1914
|
|
|
Director
|
1913
|
|
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1913
|
|
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1913
|
|
|
Director
|
1913
|
|
|
Director
|
1913
|
|
|
Director
|
1913
|
|
|
Director
|
1913
|
|
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1913
|
|
|
Director
|
1913
|
|
|
Director
|
1913
|
|
|
Director
|
1913
|
|
|
Director
|
1913
|
|
|
Director
|
1913
|
|
|
Director
|
1913
|
|
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1912
|
|
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1912
|
|
|
|
1912
|
|
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1912
|
In this video, a silent version of A Tale of Two Cities is accompanied with another silent film, In the Switch Tower, with...
|
|
1911
|
|
|
|
1911
|