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1963
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The fourth of five movie versions of the rugged Rex Beach novel of the same name, 1942's The Spoilers stars Marlene Dietrich,...
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Bronco Kid Farrell
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1942
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In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them...
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Ed Kirby
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1942
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This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled...
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J.B. Roscoe
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1940
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Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes....
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Bat McPherson
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1939
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Hollywood star Richard Barthelmess, who's about as French as a hot dog with mustard, plays the title character in the British...
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Gerard de Lancy
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1936
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Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be...
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Tony
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1935
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Produced by Warner Bros. in 1934, A Modern Hero was the only American talkie directed by the great German filmmaker...
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Pierre Radler
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1934
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One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population,...
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Joe Thunder Horse
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1934
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In this drama, a gambler must hide-out from the mob and ends up in a spinster's apartment. The old woman, is unused to...
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Lance McGowan
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1934
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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Thomas "Tom" Holmes
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1933
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Aerial footage distinguishes this romantic-triangle melodrama set among pilots in a flying circus. Jill (Sally Eilers) loves...
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Jim Blaine
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1933
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A Bavarian orphan, raised by a wealthy family, grows up to become a promising physician (Richard Barthelmess). Meanwhile, the...
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Karl Muller
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1932
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In this romantic comedy a demanding French actress is upset because she has not recently received the proper adulation from...
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1932
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Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their...
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Marvin Blake
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1932
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Curiously reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway's Sun Also Rises, The Last Flight dramatizes the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s....
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Cary Lockwood
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1931
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The names have all been changed, but this hard-hitting gangster tale is based on an actual newspaper headline story...
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Breckenridge Lee
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1931
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1931
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Set during World War I, The Dawn Patrol is a study of the pressures and pitfalls of authority. A British Royal Flying Corp...
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Dick Courtney
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1930
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In this western adventure, set in California just after the Spanish-American War, a Mexican rancher becomes a populist...
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Don Francisco Delfina/El Puma
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1930
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Adapted from a story by Rex Beach, Son of the Gods stars Richard Barthelmess as Sam Lee, a young Chinese-American, anxious to...
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Sam Lee
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1930
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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...
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Albert "Binky" Whalen
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1929
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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...
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Steven Dunkin
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1929
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Director Frank Lloyd was nominated for an Academy Award for this rather sappy gangster melodrama starring...
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Jerry Larrabee
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1929
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No, Richard Barthelmess doesn't don women's apparel in the 1929 talkie The Drag. Barthelmess plays a Vermont newspaper...
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David Carroll
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1929
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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Lieut. Pierre Dumont
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1928
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1928
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Nicholai @ Schmulka
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1928
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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...
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Nickie Elkins
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1928
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Such was Richard Barthelmess' popularity in 1927 that audiences were willing to sit through all 12 reels (approximately 130...
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Patent Leather Kid
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1927
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The silent The Dropkick stars Richard Barthelmess as a talented but hopelessly conceited college football star. Because of...
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Jack Hamill
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1927
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The 1926 Ranson's Folly was the second screen version of the rough-and-tumble novel by journalist Richard Harding Davis....
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Lieutenant Ranson
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1926
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Barnabas Barty
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1926
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In this adaptation of a play by A. E. Thomas, Richard Barthelmess stars as Prince Rupert of Koronia, who becomes tired of...
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Prince Rupert
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1926
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The White Black Sheep in this stiff-upper-lip actioner is Robert Kincairn (Richard Bartheless), the dissolute son of a...
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Robert Kincarin
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1926
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The presence of Richard Barthelmess adds a poetic quality to this romantic melodrama. Tony Gillardi (Barthelmess) is a flower...
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Tony Gillardi
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1925
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Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) studies music in Paris, but his parents (Lee Baker and Effie Shannon) call him home and ask...
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1925
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The silent Shore Leave was the first film version of the Hubert Osborne play of the same name (later musicalized as...
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"Bilge" Smith
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1925
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Producer, Will Webb
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1925
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Duncan Irving, Jr.
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1924
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The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes...
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Oliver Bashforth
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1924
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Although Richard Barthelmess was one of the bigger stars of the silent era, not all his films were worthy of his talents....
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Julian McCullough
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1923
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This drama about Cuba's unsuccessful 1850 revolution was based on the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer. Andres Escobar...
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Charles Abbott
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1923
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Boy Leyton
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1923
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Richard Barthelmess plays completely against type in this romantic costume drama. Instead of the usual homespun boy, here he...
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Karl Van Kerstenbroock
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1923
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Like Tol'able David, this Richard Barthelmess picture was directed by Henry King. It's nowhere near as strong as Tol'able...
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John Alden, Jr.
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1922
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Once again, actor Richard Barthelmess and director Henry King team up in an attempt to recreate the magic of Tol'able David....
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1922
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A young man, George Turner (Richard Barthelmess), finds work as a gardener and falls in love with his employer's pretty...
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1922
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Peter Newbolt (father)/John Newbolt
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1922
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In spite of the fact that George V. Hobart's play was merely a trite and overdone story parading as a moralistic allegory, it...
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Youth
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1921
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Richard Barthelmess stars in this classic silent melodrama as David Kinemon, the youngest son of a family living in a small...
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David Kinemon
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1921
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1920
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"I'm not a bad businessman", filmmaker D.W. Griffith once protested, "Honestly I'm not!" Yet industryites were certain that...
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David Bartlett
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1920
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As a child, Nellie Jarvis (Lillian Gish) witnessed a murder, but it only remains a shadowy memory. After the death of her...
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1920
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A more exotic story than 1920s audiences had come to expect from D.W. Griffith, The Love Flower nonetheless adheres to...
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1920
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This D.W. Griffith picture has the distinction of being, arguably, the worst film that the director ever made. For starters,...
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1919
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The story to this farce comedy (one of several that starred Dorothy Gish with Elmer Clifton as director) was written by Harry...
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1919
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Out of all of Griffith's films about the Great War, this one impressed the least. Perhaps Carol Dempster should share part of...
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1919
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Cheng Haun, the Yellow Man
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1919
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1919
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It perhaps goes without saying that the 1918 drama Rich Man, Poor Man bore no relation to the 1976 TV miniseries of the same...
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1918
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1918
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The Seven Swans was one of several fairy-tale adaptations starring Marguerite Clark -- who, though way past thirty, still...
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1918
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When her guardian gets married, twelve-year-old Marian Morgan (Marguerite Clark) is sent to live with her father...
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1917
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Filmmaker Herbert Brenon indulged in his usual spectacular excesses in The Eternal Sin. Victor Hugo's novel Lucretia Borgia...
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1917
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Marguerite Clark added to her already considerable film fame by appearing in a brace of comedies based on a...
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1917
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The title character in Dumas' Camille is a Parisian courtesan, but the heroine is relatively sympathetic, especially when she...
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1917
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1917
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1916
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