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Actors: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington
Synopsis: The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with the end of reporter Ann Mitchell's (Barbara Stanwyck) job. Fired as part of a downsizing move, she ends her last column with an imaginary letter written by "John Doe." Angered Read More
Actors: Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Edgar Kennedy, Rod La Rocque, Frank Albertson
Synopsis: The third of six feature films based on radio's popular Dr. Christian series, Dr. Christian Meets the Women once more stars Jean Hersholt as the kindly eponymous medico. In this entry, the tiny community of River's End is invaded by Professor Kenneth Parker (Rod La Rocque), a charming charlatan Read More
Actors: Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Byrd, Eddie Quillan, George Zucco, Katherine de Mille
Synopsis: Those wily Egyptians are once again selfishly attempting to keep the treasures of the Pharaohs to themselves in this rough-and-tumble melodrama from Universal. The wiliest of them all is one Abbadi (George Zucco), who leaves no stone unturned in his quest for possession of the fabulous "seven Read More
Actors: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger, Alex Melesh, Maria Ouspenskaya
Synopsis: Harry Carey Sr., C. Aubrey Smith and Charles Winninger play three wealthy bachelors who have spent their lives wrapped up in themselves. Left all alone on Christmas eve, the elderly trio invite a couple of strangers to dinner: misplaced cowpoke Richard Carlson and pretty, but aimless, Jean Parker. Read More
Actors: Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien
Synopsis: Few will argue with the contention that RKO Radio's 1939 adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame was the best of the many screen versions of the Hugo classic. We say this even allowing for certain liberties taken with the source material-liberties calculated by scenarists Sonya Levien Read More
Synopsis: In this romance a run away schoolgirl impersonates a socialite to hook a handsome RAF pilot. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Maxine Doyle, Barbara Pepper, Bryant Washburn, Donald Kerr
Synopsis: Former silent-movie matinee idol Rod LaRocque does what he can with the Poverty Row quickie Taming the Wild. LaRocque is cast as family attorney Dick Clayton, who puts in overtime keeping headstrong heiress June Bolton (Maxine Doyle) out of trouble. Alas, June is attracted to gangster types Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Astrid Allwyn, Oscar O'Shea, William Von Brincken
Synopsis: International Crime is the second of two Grand National programmers inspired by the popular "Shadow" pulp novels by Maxwell Grant. Rod La Rocque plays Lamont Cranston, famed criminologist and (in this film at least) radio crime reporter. This time around Cranston does not "cloud men's minds" Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Lynn Anders, Walter McGrail, James "Doc" Blakely, Kenneth Harlan
Synopsis: The Shadow, the famed radio and pulp-novel hero with the mysterious power to "cloud men's minds" so that they cannot see him, was first brought to the screen by low-budget Grand National Pictures in 1937. Former matinee idol Rod LaRocque stars as the Shadow's man-about-town alter-ego Lamont Read More
Actors: Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael, Lionel Atwill, Rod La Rocque, Guy Bates Post
Synopsis: In this taut WW I espionage thriller set in 1914, an English actor falls in love with a German actress. When the war erupts, the two are torn apart and begin working as spies for their countries. They encounter each other, but now they are enemies. Fortunately their love is too deep and is soon Read More
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
Actors: Reginald Denny, Frances Drake, Gail Patrick, Ian Keith
Synopsis: It's a black night in Hollywood when matinee idol Neil DuBeck (Rod LaRoque) is murdered at the preview of his latest film. Director E. Gordon Smith (Ian Keith), who has long harbored a deep hatred for DuBeck, is the main suspect -- until he too is killed, along with a movie-studio watchman (Spencer Charters Read More
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
Actors: Mona Barrie, Gilbert Roland, John Halliday, Rod La Rocque, Mischa Auer
Synopsis: Lifelong mystery buff Samantha Kinsey (Kellie Martin) is thrilled when she inherits a bookstore that sells only "whodunits." Among the thousands of authors in this field, Samantha's personal idol is Professor Jack Stenning (Robert Wagner), a mystery writer who solves real crimes as a hobby. When Read More
Actors: Ben Lyon, Helen Twelvetrees, Rod La Rocque, Russell Hopton, James Burke
Synopsis: Frisco Waterfront stars Ben Lyon as California gubernatorial candidate Glenn Burton. A freak election-day accident at the voting booth injures both Burton and his hated opponent Dan Elliot (Rod La Roque). While hovering between life and death on the operating table, Burton flashes back to his rise Read More
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Actors: Rod La Rocque, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland
Synopsis: In the same year that she directed Victory of the Faith (1933), her first of several famous cinematic projects for the Nazi Party, German actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl played a supporting role in this epic adventure, co-written and co-directed by her frequent "mountain film" collaborator Dr. Arnold Fanck Read More
Actors: Lillian Gish, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler, O.P. Heggie
Synopsis: The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great Lillian Gish. The star plays Alexandra, a mittel-European princess who falls in love with Dr. Hafler (Conrad Nagel), her brother's tutor. Alas, affairs of state demand that Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Mitchell Lewis, Doris Kenyon, Charles B. Middleton, George Duryea
Synopsis: Latin Lover Rod LaRocque starred as a Mexican Robin Hood in this tepid Western melodrama directed by Lambert Hillyer. With a price on his head, LaRocque's gay desperado comes to the assistance of a fair damsel-in-distress (Doris Kenyon), who is suffering unwanted attention from unscrupulous banker Charles Middleton Read More
Actors: Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler, Gilbert Emery, Hedda Hopper
Synopsis: In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where she is changed from a frowsy hausfrau to a sexy, sophisticated lady. A wealthy dame asks her to help destroy the affair between her granddaughter and the woman's ex-husband. Read More
Actors: Billie Dove, Rod La Rocque, Gwen Lee, Robert Schable, Charles Sellon
Synopsis: Two young people get married for all the wrong reasons in this romance. Both are wealthy and are trying to run away from their problems. The bride wants to flee her overbearing guardian. The groom wants to ditch a blonde gold digger who dogs him everywhere. Following the wedding, the two spend the Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William "Stage" Boyd, Betty Bronson, Harry Stubbs
Synopsis: In this drama, which marks Barbara Stawyck's Hollywood film debut, a woman is taken to an illegal cabaret set aboard a wealthy man's yacht. Her captor, the owner, then locks her in a stateroom. When the cops raid the joint, she is photographed with the wealthy cad. Time passes and the woman ends Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque
Synopsis: In this drama, a notorious pirate meets a Yankee dance-hall girl in the port of Tapit. He also meets her jealous lover whom he kidnaps. He tells the girl that he will only release her lover if she spends a night in his cabin with him. She reluctantly agrees to his terms. After one night, she finds Read More
Actors: Joan Crawford, Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Anita Page, Eddie Nugent
Synopsis: This follow-up to MGM's 1928 hit Our Dancing Daughters reunites the female stars of the earlier film: Joan Crawford (in her last silent film) and Anita Page. Crawford is engaged to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (her real-life husband at the time), but both she and her fiance fall in love with other people Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Marceline Day, Sharon Lynn, Sally Phipps
Synopsis: Marceline Day plays two women in the late-silent Fox release One-Woman Idea. The actress is cast as haughty aristocrat Lady Alicia Douglas, and as alluring half-caste dancing girl Alizar. Honorable Prince Ahmed (Rod La Rocque) harbors a platonic love for the prim-and-proper Lady Alicia, while her Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Jeanette Loff, Joseph Cawthorn, Tom Kennedy, Jerry Mandy
Synopsis: Rod La Rocque stars in this silent farce about an Argentinean playboy, who in spite of being trailed by a bumbling detective (Tom Kennedy) for a crime he didn't commit, manages to not only secure victory in the annual football game against Princeton, but also win the daughter (Jeanette Loff) of Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Tom Kennedy, Mary Carr, Jeanette Loff
Synopsis: Robbed at gunpoint, subway change-maker Rod LaRocque is led to believe that passenger Jeanette Loff was an accomplice in the stick-up. He follows the girl to her home, a lavish Long Island mansion, where he is mistaken as the holdup man. Subway detective Tom Kennedy shows up at the doorstep of Read More
Actors: Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson, Paul Ralli, Tenen Holtz
Synopsis: This Marion Davies vehicle was loosely inspired by the career of Gloria Swanson. Davies plays would-be starlet Peggy Pepper, who arrives at the gates of MGM Studios with her dad Colonel Pepper (Dell Henderson) in hopes of becoming a great dramatic actress. Instead, she a scores a hit as an ingenue Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Lupe Velez, Warner Oland
Synopsis: Produced by Cecil B. DeMille, Stand and Deliver was directed by former D.W. Griffith associate Donald Crisp. Set in postwar Greece, the story concerns an expatriate Englishman named Roger Norman (Rod LaRoque), who is bored with civilian life and seeks out thrills. He gets more than he bargained Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Sue Carol, Richard Tucker, Victor Potel, Ullrich Haupt, Sr.
Synopsis: Basically a silent film, Pathe's Captain Swagger was released with a synchronized music and sound-effects track, courtesy of RCA Photophone. Rod La Rocque stars as American aviator Hugh Drummong, whose fearlessness during WWI earns him the nickname of Captain Swagger. Signing up with a French Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Phyllis Haver, Sam de Grasse, Max Barwyn, Julia Faye
Synopsis: This Cecil B. DeMille-produced swashbuckler was based on Brigadier General, a story by Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle. Set during the Napoleonic era, the film stars Rod La Rocque as young adventurer Etienne Girard, who becomes involved in the political intrigues fomented by the Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Marguerite de la Motte, George Cooper, Walter Long, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Synopsis: This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel The Iron Chance. Alan Beckwith (Rod La Rocque) is a war hero who is very much down on his luck. He makes a deal with big-time bootlegger Andrew North (Gustave von Seyffertitz) -- if North will give him a large sum of Read More
Synopsis: Produced by none other than Cecil B. DeMille, this riotous silent comedy stars Rod La Rocque as Jerry Cleggert, a descendant of a notorious family of pirates forced to marry on the deck of the rotting "Jasper B." or forfeit a large inheritance. Jerry finds the perfect would-be spouse in pretty Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Jobyna Ralston, Louise Dresser, Cyril Chadwick, George Nichols
Synopsis: A novel by Edna Ferber was the source for this Rod LaRocque vehicle. The story begins just before the outbreak of WWI, when Julia Gory (Louise Dresser) wealthy widowed mother of hero Gideon Gory (LaRoque), marries socially prominent doctor Blagden (Cyril Chadwick). Interested only in Julia's money Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Elinor Fair
Synopsis: When not appearing in the films directed by their boss Cecil B. DeMille, Rod LaRocque and Elinor Fair were kept busy in such DeMille-produced programmers as Bachelor Brides. About to be wed to titled Englishman LaRocque, the fair Fair is thrown into a panic when her family jewels are stolen. All Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Jetta Goudal, Noah Beery, Sr., Richard Carle, Arthur Hoyt
Synopsis: Produced but not directed by Cecil B. DeMille, The Coming of Amos nevertheless has many earmarks of a typical DeMille film, including a climax straight out of a gaslit melodrama. Rod LaRocque plays Amos Burden, a handsome Australian who takes a Riviera vacation. Here he falls in love with White Read More
Actors: Bebe Daniels, Rod La Rocque, Henry Stephenson
Synopsis: Bebe Daniels stars in this action-packed comedy -- one of Edward Sutherland's first directoral efforts. Susan Van Dusen (Daniels) is bored by her society life and craves excitement. Her father (Henry Stephenson), however, wants her to settle down and marry one of the sons of his friend Chauncey Read More
Actors: Lillian Rich, Vera Reynolds, Henry B. Walthall, Rod La Rocque, Theodore Kosloff
Synopsis: This was Cecil B. De Mille's last film for Paramount (at least for a few years). Irene Rich plays Flora Lee Peake, a cool beauty who, like Lorelei, lures men to death and destruction. Flora Lee weds the Marquis De San Pilar (Theodore Kosloff) and saves the old homestead. The Marquis finds her with Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Gish, Helen Lee Worthing, George Hackathorne
Synopsis: This mediocre Paramount comedy-drama has one interesting feature -- part of it was shot on-location at New York's El Fey Club, run by the famously brash Texas Guinan. John Bentley (Ernest Torrence) left New York bitter after being jilted by his fiancée; even after becoming a successful Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Jacqueline Logan, George Fawcett, Maurice B. Flynn, Luke Cosgrave
Synopsis: The story to this sea melodrama was written by Byron Morgan. Morgan was best known for the fast-paced auto tales he wrote for Wallace Reid, so this was quite a departure for him. When Bruce McDow (Rod LaRocque) refuses to go aloft to fix a rigging during a storm, and he is branded a coward. McDow Read More
Actors: Pola Negri, Rod La Rocque, Adolphe Menjou, Pauline Starke, Fred Malatesta
Synopsis: Star Pola Negri and director Ernst Lubitsch, who created an international sensation with the German superproduction DuBarry, Woman of Passion, were reunited in the frothy Hollywood comedy/drama Forbidden Paradise. Negri is cast as Catherine, the Czarina of an unnamed but very Russian-looking Read More
Actors: Leatrice Joy, Rod La Rocque, Victor Varconi, Charles Ogle, Theodore Kosloff
Synopsis: After the spectacular epic The Ten Commandments, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille returns to the drawing room for this pleasingly straightforward drama. King Garnet (Rod La Rocque) is the idle son of factory owner David Garnet (George Fawcett). He is in love with Ann Land (Leatrice Joy), the factory's Read More
Actors: Vera Reynolds, Rod La Rocque, Victor Varconi, Ricardo Cortez, Julia Faye
Synopsis: While this Cecil B. DeMille production has many of the elements common to his pictures -- lavish, expensive sets and costumes, a high falutin' society background, and domestic turmoil -- it doesn't quite hit its mark. Part of the reason for this is the dream sequence. Instead of something Read More
Actors: Gloria Swanson, Rod La Rocque, Ricardo Cortez, Allan Simpson, Ida Waterman
Synopsis: This society comedy-drama was given witty direction by Allan Dwan, and was based on The Laughing Lady by respected playwright Alfred Sutro. When Marjorie Colbert (Gloria Swanson) is neglected by her husband, Hector (Allan Simpson), she spends time befriending Harrison Peters (Ricardo Cortez). Read More
Actors: Mae Murray, Rod La Rocque, Robert W. Frazer, Jean Hersholt
Synopsis: This fluffy Mae Murray vehicle was dressed up with a Graustarkian veneer, but in reality it was merely an excuse for the star to wear exotic costumes and perform a few of her famous dance numbers. Jazzmania is a mythical kingdom devoted to dancing and revelry. But the country takes a darker turn Read More
Actors: Mae Murray, Orville Caldwell, Rod La Rocque, Rose Dione, Paul Cazeneuve
Synopsis: Produced by Robert Z. Leonard's Tiffany films and released by Metro, French Doll serves as a showcase for Leonard's dazzlingly beautiful wife Mae Murray. The star plays Georgine Mauzlier, a winsome French lass dealing in fake antiques as a means of supporting her family. Georgine's Read More
Actors: Theodore Roberts, Charles de Roche, Estelle Taylor, Richard Dix, Julia Faye, Rod La Rocque
Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45 minutes recaps the struggle between Moses (Theodore Roberts) and Rameses (Charles de Roche) over the liberation of the Hebrews. Only after the Lord has imposed a series of Read More
Actors: Maurine Powers, Mary Alden, George Hackathorne, J. Barney Sherry
Synopsis: Pigeon Deering (Maurine Powers) is the poor girl from the slums who is witness to a murder in this moral melodrama. She confesses to the crime to satisfy her craving for publicity. Attorney Arthur Beal (Rod La Rocque) successfully clears her name in a much-publicized trial. When Pigeon decides on Read More
Actors: Irene Castle, Rod La Rocque, Warren Cook, Mario Carillo
Synopsis: This society crook drama was one of Irene Castle's last films (she retired from the screen in 1923). John Clinton Warren (Warren Cook) has gotten himself in a financial bind. Edward Langdon (Anders Randolph) has a signature that Warren forged, and the old man's reputation is at stake. To save him Read More
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
Synopsis: The popular silent-film team of Marguerite Clark and Harrison Ford star in Easy to Get. While on their honeymoon, newlyweds Milly (Clark) and Bob Morehouse (Ford) have a falling out. It's all hubby's fault: Milly has overheard Bob insist that all girls are "easy." To prove otherwise, Milly spends Read More
Synopsis: Surprisingly, there's nary a shipwrecked castaway in sight in Miss Crusoe. The title character, played by Virigina Hammond, is a young miss vacationing on a Chesapeake Bay island. Virginia and her hatchet-faced travelling companion Nora Cecil become innocently involved with criminals. Alas, when Read More
Synopsis: This average drama has little to offer, although it does feature a couple of notable up-and-comers in small roles: Rod La Rocque and Tallulah Bankhead. School teacher Jean Carson (Olive Tell) lives in the Yukon and is loved by Ned Fallon, a young prospector (Jere Austin). Ned and Jean's father Read More
Synopsis: After a disastrous fling at "heavy dramatics" in Joan of Plattsburg, Mabel Normand sagaciously returned to comedy with Venus Model. Normand plays Kitty O'Brien, a low-level employee at a bathing suit factory. Despite her capricious on-the-job behavior, Kitty is handsomely rewarded when she submits Read More
Actors: Virginia Valli
Synopsis: Clarence Buddington Kelland's magazine creation "Efficiency" Edgar Bumpus comes to life in this lighthearted 5-reeler. Taylor Holmes, not exactly in flush of youth but still able to convey innocence and naivete, plays a time-motion expert (possibly a takeoff of the Frank Gilbreth character of Cheaper by the Dozen Read More
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