Warner OlandFilmography

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

Actors: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field, Sidney Blackmer, Harold Huber

Synopsis: Charlie Chan was the Jessica Fletcher of the 1930s; no matter where he took a vacation, someone got murdered! This time, the wily Chan (Warner Oland) and son Lee (Keye Luke) are on holiday in Monte Carlo when a casino messenger is killed while en route to Paris. The messenger was carrying a Read More

Charlie Chan on Broadway

Actors: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Joan Marsh, J. Edward Bromberg, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: In New York to attend a police testimonial in his honor, Honolulu detective Charlie Chan runs smack dab into another murder. The victim is a blackmailing nightclub singer who had listed the names of all known criminals in Manhattan in her diary. The diary disappears, and Charlie joins a glib Read More

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

Actors: Warner Oland

Synopsis: En route from Honolulu to Los Angeles by steamship, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is pressed into action when a fellow passenger is killed. The dead man was a prominent horse breeder, whose favorite stallion has been entered in the Santa Anita handicap. At first glance, it appears as though the Read More

Charlie Chan at the Circus

Actors: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, J. Carrol Naish, Francis Ford, Maxine Reiner

Synopsis: Enjoying a break from crime-solving, oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) takes his 12 children to the circus. It isn't long, however, before he's sucked into yet another murder case, with a more colorful array of suspects than usual. Meanwhile, Number One Son Lee Chan (Keye Luke) tries to Read More

Charlie Chan at the Opera

Actors: Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, Charlotte Henry, Thomas Beck

Synopsis: "Warner Oland vs. Boris Karloff" read the billing on the opening credits of Charlie Chan at the Opera. Karloff plays a once-famous opera star who has long been confined to an insane asylum. He escapes, ostensibly to seek revenge on the diva wife (Nedda Harrigan) who'd betrayed him years earlier. Karloff Read More

Charlie Chan in Paris

Actors: Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, Erik Rhodes, John Miljan

Synopsis: The otherwise standard series entry Charlie Chan in Paris is distinguished by the presence of actor Keye Luke, making his first appearance as Charlie Chan's (Warner Oland) "Number One Son" Lee. Summoned to Paris by undercover agent Nardi (Dorothy Appleby), Honolulu detective Chan hopes to get the Read More

Charlie Chan's Secret

Actors: Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley, Henrietta Crosman, Edward Trevor

Synopsis: A serial-like pace and some stylish directorial choices by Gordon Wiles distinguish this "Charlie Chan" entry. The reading of a will is delayed until one of the principal heirs to the fortune, can be located. He shows up at the family mansion, only to be promptly murdered. It is now up to Read More

Shanghai

Actors: Loretta Young, Charles Boyer, Warner Oland, Fred Keating, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: The stigma of miscegenation (horrors!) is at the base of this very dated romantic melodrama. Charles Boyer stars as Dmitri Koslov, an enterprising Eurasian who rises from rickshaw driver to powerful industrialist, all the while concealing his mixed parentage. Koslov falls in love with beautiful Read More

The Werewolf of London

Actors: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Spring Byington

Synopsis: Originally intended as a vehicle for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, this Universal production predated The Wolf Man by six years, but failed to whip up audience enthusiasm for the monster popularized by Lon Chaney, Jr. in the studio's later classic. Henry Hull stars as botanist Dr. Glendon, whose Read More

Charlie Chan in Egypt

Actors: Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck, Rita Hayworth, Stepin Fetchit

Synopsis: As much a horror film as a murder mystery, Charlie Chan in Egypt is one of the best entries in the "Chan" series. The story is motivated by a King Tut-like curse, which has apparently befallen the members of an archeological expedition. Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is brought into the case when a Read More

Charlie Chan in Shanghai

Actors: Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Jon Hall, Charles Locher, Russell Hicks, Keye Luke

Synopsis: After wrapping up his last case in Egypt, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) heads to Shanghai for a well-deserved rest. It isn't long, however, before Chan has been summoned by the local constabulary to help smash an international dope ring. He is aided by erudite American intelligence agent James Read More

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

Actors: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Warner Oland, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel

Synopsis: This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan orchestrated by Warner Oland. Damsel in distress Loretta Young reports that her wealthy and influential uncle is missing, but all those concerned insist that the uncle never Read More

Mandalay

Actors: Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: The official cast list of Warner Bros. Mandalay states that Kay Francis plays a character named Tanya. For most of the film, however, the heroine -- if she can be called that -- goes by the name of Spot White (or "Spot Cash," as she's cynically designated by one of the lesser characters). Betrayed Read More

Charlie Chan in London

Actors: Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Douglas Walton, Alan Mowbray, Mona Barrie, Ray Milland

Synopsis: Honolulu detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) spends an eventful weekend at an English country estate in this fog-bound series entry. Young Neil Howard (Ray Milland) has been accused of murder, but family friend Geoffrey Howard (Alan Mowbray) expresses the hope that Chan will be able to locate Read More

Charlie Chan's Courage

Actors: Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Donald Woods, Paul Harvey, Murray Kinnell

Synopsis: Warner Oland made his fifth appearance as wily Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan in Fox's Charlie Chan's Courage. Hired to deliver a valuable necklace, Chan shows up at a ranch estate, posing as a servant. His task is complicated when Victor Jordan (Jack Carter), the man who engaged his Read More

As Husbands Go

Actors: Warner Baxter, Helen Vinson, Warner Oland, Catherine Doucet, Eleanor Lynn

Synopsis: Adapted by Sonya Levien and Sam (S. N.) Berhman from a play by Rachel Crothers, As Husbands Go charts the romantic misadventures of Lucille Lingard (Helen Vinson). Slightly bored by her marriage to businessman Charles Lingard (Warner Baxter), Lucille vacations in London, where she nearly has an Read More

The Painted Veil

Actors: Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent, Warner Oland, Jean Hersholt

Synopsis: A W. Somerset Maugham novel was the source for the fair-to-middling Greta Garbo vehicle The Painted Veil. In a situation comparable to the plotlines of most of her silent films, Garbo is lovelessly married to Herbert Marshall, but carries a flaming torch for George Brent. (Also harking back to Garbo Read More

Before Dawn

Actors: Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Dudley Digges, Gertrude W. Hoffman

Synopsis: This suspenseful, exciting mystery is based upon an Edgar Wallace story and centers upon the search for $1 million in buried loot. Only the original thief, Joe Valerie knows its location. He tells the crazed Austrian Dr. Cornelius about it. The good doc secretly schemes to get it for himself, but Read More

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case

Actors: Warner Oland, Heather Angel, Roger Imhof, John Warburton, Walter Byron

Synopsis: Warner Oland returns as wily, philosophical oriental detective Charlie Chan in this expensive-looking series entry. This time, Chan follows the trail of clues when a "respectable" Honolulu businessman sidelining in blackmail and other unsavory activities is murdered. Like the earlier Black Camel Read More

Shanghai Express

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: "It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily," purrs Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express. She certainly has her well-manicured hands full with more men than she can count in this exotic far-Eastern adventure. Among her fellow passengers on the Shanghai Express are her Read More

Passport to Hell

Actors: Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Warner Oland, Alexander Kirkland, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a woman is blamed for another's suicide and ends up deported to Germany. Just as WW I erupts she marries a German commandant's son to keep from being sent to an alien prison camp. While her husband sells classified information to the British in order to pay her way back to Read More

The Son-Daughter

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Helen Hayes, Warner Oland, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: San Francisco's Chinatown provides the setting of this dramatic romance set in 1911. At this time in China, a major uprising has occurred and the rulers of the Ch'ing dynasty have been overthrown and a new president, Sun Yat-Sen, has risen to power. In order to aide the anti-royalist Read More

Charlie Chan's Chance

Actors: Warner Oland, Alexander Kirkland, H.B. Warner, Marian Nixon, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: Warner Oland's third appearance as humble oriental sleuth Charlie Chan was in the 1932 release Charlie Chan's Chance. This time, our hero has a personal reason to solve the murder at hand; he himself was the intended victim, but another man was killed by mistake. Keeping one step ahead of both the Read More

The Drums of Jeopardy

Actors: Warner Oland, June Collyer, Lloyd Hughes, George Fawcett

Synopsis: Most existing prints of the 1931 melodrama Drums of Jeopardy are in pretty bad shape, but it's worth enduring the tinny soundtracks and messy splices just to watch Warner Oland in his full villainous glory. Oland plays a mad scientist who seeks revenge on the aristocratic family responsible for Read More

Dishonored

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Lew Cody, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland

Synopsis: Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise. Marlene Dietrich delivers a subtle and witty performance as a Viennese prostitute who offers her services as a spy during WWI. As "Agent X-27" our heroine proves invaluable to her Read More

The Black Camel

Actors: Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi, Dorothy Revier, Victor Varconi, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: Actress Shelah Fane (Dorothy Revier) is in Honolulu to shoot a movie, but her chaotic personal life is keeping her from concentrating on work. She's supposed to marry millionaire playboy Alan Jaynes (William Post Jr.), but she's also got an ex lurking around and a possible skeleton in her closet Read More

The Big Gamble

Actors: Dorothy Sebastian, Warner Oland, William Collier, Jr., James Gleason

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1926 as Red Dice, The Big Gamble stars future "Hopalong Cassidy" Bill Boyd as a heavily-in-debt gambler. The suicidal Boyd makes a deal with mobster Warner Oland, whereby Oland will collect Boyd's huge insurance policy--provided he facilitates the gambler's entry into The Next Read More

Daughter of the Dragon

Actors: Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa, Bramwell Fletcher, Frances Dade

Synopsis: In this entry in the mystery series, the Chinese criminal mastermind exacts revenge upon his enemy Fletcher, the man responsible for slaughtering Manchu's wife and son during an uprising. To get even, he sends out his daughter to kill Fletcher, but en route, she meets up with a Scotland Yard Read More

Charlie Chan Carries On

Actors: Warner Oland, John Garrick, Marguerite Churchill, Warren Hymer, Marjorie White

Synopsis: Warner Oland made his first appearance in the role of Earl Derr Biggers' sagacious, aphorism-spouting oriental detective Charlie Chan in the 1931 Fox production Charlie Chan Carries On. It all begins when Chan, on vacation from his job with the Honolulu police, tries to solve the murder of a Read More

Dangerous Paradise

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: Joseph Conrad's novel Victory inspired some of this South Sea drama. Alma (Nancy Carroll), a violinist hired to play at an island resort, is pressured to make herself available to its male visitors. She flees and hides in a skiff belonging to the reclusive Heyst (Richard Arlen), who is said to Read More

The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

Actors: Warner Oland, Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur, O.P. Heggie, William Austin

Synopsis: In his pre-Charlie Chan days, Warner Oland returned as Dr. Fu Manchu for this sequel to The Mysterious Doctor Fu Manchu (1939). Supposedly the victim of a suicide at the end of the first film, Fu Manchu has actually injected himself with a toxin that will make him only appear dead. Escaping Read More

Paramount on Parade

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Richard Arlen, Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper, William Austin, Clara Bow, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft

Synopsis: Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of practically everyone on the Paramount Pictures payroll. Under the supervision of British musical-comedy favorite Elsie Janis, 11 top directors contributed to the project: Dorothy Arzner Read More

The Vagabond King

Actors: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth, Warner Oland

Synopsis: The legend of renegade French poet Francois Villon was dramatized in the 1901 Justin McCarthy play If I Were King. This theatrical piece inspired several films, as well as the Rudolph Friml/Brian Hooker musical play The Vagabond King (1927). Dennis King recreated his original London and Broadway Read More

The Mysterious Doctor Fu Manchu

Actors: Warner Oland, Jean Arthur, Neil Hamilton, William Austin, Claude King, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: Warner Oland makes the first of four screen appearances as Sax Rohmer's insidious oriental Dr. Fu Manchu.The film makes an effort to explain Fu's hatred of all whites by showing the death of the Doctor's family during the Boxer Rebellion. Twenty years later, Fu Manchu is a full-blooded villain Read More

The Mighty

Actors: George Bancroft, Esther Ralston, Warner Oland, Raymond Hatton, Dorothy Revier

Synopsis: In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in Read More

Faker

Synopsis: A good cast was wasted in this poor silent melodrama about a young wastrel, Frank Clayton (Gaston Glass), who engages a fake spiritualist in an attempt to trick his estranged father (Charles Hill Mailes) into changing his will. Hired by Hadrian (Warner Oland) to impersonates the young man's mother Read More

Chinatown Nights

Actors: Wallace Beery, Florence Vidor, Warner Oland, Jack McHugh, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Despite the creative input of producer David O. Selznick and director William A. Wellman, Chinatown Nights was just so much chop suey. In her first (and last) talking-picture appearance, silent screen queen Florence Vidor plays Joan Fry, a San Francisco socialite who ruins her reputation when she Read More

The Studio Murder Mystery

Actors: Neil Hamilton, Chester Conklin, Warner Oland, Florence Eldridge, Guy Oliver

Synopsis: The newly constructed Paramount sound stages were used as a backdrop for the Pirandellian thriller The Studio Murder Mystery. Fredric March stars as Richard Hardell, a silent-screen idol whose transition to talkies is threatened by his inability to remember his lines. Driven to distraction Read More

The Scarlet Lady

Actors: Lya de Putti, Don Alvarado, Warner Oland, Otto Matiesen, John Peters

Wheel of Chance

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Bodil Rosing, Warner Oland, Anne Schaefer, Lina Basquette

Stand and Deliver

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

Dream of Love

Actors: Joan Crawford, Nils Asther, Aileen Pringle, Warner Oland, Carmel Myers

Synopsis: The venerable French stage drama Adrienne Lecouvreur was redressed by MGM as the Joan Crawford vehicle Dream of Love. It's a rags-to-riches yarn, as a fiery gypsy girl (Crawford) becomes an internationally popular actress. Loved by thousands of fans, Adrienne Lecouvreur is unable to find true love Read More

The Jazz Singer

Actors: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugénie Besserer, William Demarest, Otto Lederer

Synopsis: On the verge of receivership in 1926, Warner Bros. studio decides to risk its future by investing in the Vitaphone sound system. Warners' first Vitaphone release, Don Juan, was a silent film accompanied by music and sound effects. The studio took the Vitaphone process one step farther in its 1927 Read More

Old San Francisco

Actors: Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard, John Miljan

Synopsis: It's hard to believe that Darryl F. Zanuck, producer of such anti-prejudice films of the 1940s as Gentleman's Agreement and Pinky, wrote the incredibly racist screenplay of Old San Francisco. After a lengthy prologue detailing the establishment and settlement of San Francisco by the Spanish Read More

Sailor Izzy Murphy

Actors: George Jessel, Warner Oland, Clara Horton, Otto Lederer, Audrey Ferris

Synopsis: This sequel to the 1927 George Jessel vehicle Private Izzy Murphy finds Jessel reprising the role of Lower East Side entrepreneur Izzy Goldberg. That's right, "Goldberg" -- Izzy doesn't adopt the name of "Murphy" until he abandons the perfume business to pose as an underworld thug. It's all for Read More

When a Man Loves

Actors: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Sam de Grasse, Stuart Holmes

Synopsis: The same winning combination responsible for Don Juan-star John Barrymore, director Alan Crosland and screenwriter Bess Meredyth, once more aligned their talents for When a Man Loves. This adaptation of the classic novel and opera Manon Lescaut has been slightly rearranged to make the titular Read More

What Happened to Father

Actors: Warner Oland, Flobelle Fairbanks, William Demarest, Vera Lewis, John Miljan

Synopsis: Long before he was established as screendom's Charlie Chan, Warner Oland was Warner Bros.' "all-purpose" character actor, playing everything from kindly rabbis to evil Chinese warlords. In What Happened to Father, Oland was afforded the opportunity to display his comedy prowess as henpecked 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

Million Bid

Actors: Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Malcolm McGregor, Betty Blythe, William Demarest

Synopsis: A Million Bid came about because Warner Bros. promised a film of that title to exhibitors in early 1927. Unable to deliver at that time, Warners offered theaters its annual Dolores Costello "special" Old San Francisco instead. Exhibitors were so pleased with this money-maker that they were willing Read More

The Marriage Clause

Actors: Billie Dove, Francis X. Bushman, Grace Darmond, Warner Oland

Synopsis: Though his glory days as a matinee idol were well behind him in 1926, Francis X. Bushman cut quite a dashing figure in the romantic drama The Marriage Clause. Bushman is cast as Broadway impresario Barry Townsend, who takes it upon himself to make a star out of aspiring actress Sylvia Jordan (Billie Dove Read More

Tell It to the Marines

Actors: Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Eddie Gribbon, Carmel Myers

Synopsis: A tough-as-nails Marine sergeant sets about training a rag-tag group of boys into men. Though sporting a rough and gruff exterior, the sergeant is really a caring, gentle sort. During training, he is especially rough on a smart-alecky young man, whom he hones into a first rate fighter. More Read More

Twinkletoes

Actors: Colleen Moore, Kenneth Harlan, Tully Marshall, Gladys Brockwell, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: Set in a not-so-reasonable facsimile of London's Limehouse district, Twinkletoes stars Colleen Moore as the title character, a slum girl who aspires to become a dancer. Enduring one defeat and disillusionment after another, Twinkletoes is about to end it all by jumping into the Thames. She is Read More

Man of the Forest

Synopsis: Although she made an unforgettable impression in Charles Chaplin's The Gold Rush, Georgia Hale spent the rest of her short acting career appearing in undistinguished films. She has good company in this one, a Western -- her co-stars are Jack Holt and Warner Oland. Nancy Raynor (Hale) is arriving 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 Mystery Club

Actors: Matt Moore, Charles Puffy, Edith Roberts, Mildred Harris, Alfred Allen

Synopsis: The publicity packet for The Mystery Club boasted an "all-star cast" -- which, by 1926 standards, it was. Nat Carr, Henry Herbert and Jed Prouty play the three members of the Mystery Club who enter into a wager predicated on the notion that each of the men will be able to commit a crime and escape Read More

Flower of Night

Actors: Pola Negri, Joseph J. Dowling, Youcca Troubetzkoy, Warner Oland, Edwin J. Brady

Synopsis: According to the Paramount publicity mill, Joseph Hergesheimer wrote this unoriginal tale of California's early days especially for Pola Negri. Like all too many of Negri's Paramount vehicles, this drama was not worthy of her talents. Don Geraldo y Villalon (Joseph Dowling) hates Americans because Read More

The Winding Stair

Actors: Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe, Warner Oland, Mahlon Hamilton, Emily Fitzroy

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Julian LaMothe, The Winding Stair stars Edmund Lowe as Paul, a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away outpost, he discovers that the revolt is actually a subterfuge hatched by the Arabs, so that the city under Paul's command Read More

Don Q, Son of Zorro

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, Jack McDonald, Donald Crisp, Stella de Lanti, Warner Oland

Synopsis: Douglas Fairbanks returns as the great Spanish swashbuckler in this sequel to The Mark of Zorro. Don Cesar de Vega (Douglas Fairbanks) is the son of the famous masked avanger, Zorro; he's been sent to Spain to continue his education and learn the ways of his homeland. He soon becomes a favorite of Read More

Riders of the Purple Sage

Actors: Tom Mix, Beatrice Burnham, Arthur Morrison, Seesel Ann Johnson, Warner Oland

Synopsis: First filmed by Fox in 1918 with William Farnum, Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage became a typically lavish Tom Mix extravaganza, filmed on locations at picturesque Lone Pine, California. Mix plays Jim Lassiter, the bold Texas Ranger whose sister, Millie Erne (Beatrice Burnham), and her Read More

Infatuation

Actors: Corinne Griffith, Percy Marmont, Malcolm McGregor, Warner Oland, Clarissa Selwynne

Synopsis: Not a remake of the 1915 Margarita Fischer vehicle of the same name, Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. The dazzlingly beautiful Corinne Griffith plays British socialite Viola Morgan, who falls madly in love with professional soldier Sir Arthur Little (Percy Marmont Read More

One Night in Rome

Synopsis: Although Laurette Taylor starred in this drama on Broadway and reprised her role for the screen, she seems miscast. Taylor was much more effective as the Irish lass of Peg O' My Heart than she is here as an Italian duchess. Duke Danaili (Alan Hale) is accused of treachery to Italy, and to cover up Read More

The Fighting American

Actors: Pat O'Malley, Mary Astor, Raymond Hatton, Warner Oland

Synopsis: The story to this romantic satire was penned by William Elwell Oliver, the winner of a writing contest that Universal Studios held for college students. Not surprisingly, it opens up on campus, where Bill Pendleton (Pat O'Malley) has made a bet with his fraternity brothers -- he will propose to Read More

So This Is Marriage?

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Boardman, Warner Oland

Synopsis: This domestic comedy-drama seems to owe a lot of its spirit to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who made quite a few similar films. When Beth (Eleanor Boardman) marries Peter Marsh (Conrad Nagel), they find their ideas of domestic bliss are very different. Peter dreams of power and a large family Read More

Curlytop

Actors: Shirley Mason, Warner Oland, Wallace MacDonald

Synopsis: The story to this melodrama came from one of the "Limehouse" stories written by Thomas Burke, the same author who wrote the original Broken Blossoms story. Unfortunately this tale is no Broken Blossoms -- Shirley Mason, while being a fine little comedienne, is no Lillian Gish, and director Maurice Elvey Read More

His Children's Children

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Dorothy Mackaill, James Rennie, George Fawcett

Synopsis: It was impossible for director Sam Wood to include all of Arthur Train's sprawling novel in this picture. Instead he seems to have turned it into a rather simplistic morality play about a flapper's redemption -- the sort of subject which was common in the 1920s. Old Peter B. Kayne (George Fawcett) Read More

East Is West

Actors: Constance Talmadge, Warner Oland, Frank Lanning

Synopsis: Although it sounds ludicrous to slap a black wig on vivacious blonde Constance Talmadge and try to pass her off as a Chinese maiden, somehow it worked in this picture, which was based on the famed play by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymes. Talmadge didn't look particularly Asian -- and it really Read More

The Pride of Palomar

Actors: Forrest Stanley, Marjorie Daw, James O. Barrows, Joseph J. Dowling

Synopsis: This virile drama, produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures, was based on the novel by then-popular author Peter B. Kyne. After serving in Siberia during the Great War, Don Mike Farrell (Forrest Stanley) returns to California to discover that his father has died and the family Read More

The Avalanche

Synopsis: Elsie Ferguson has a dual role, as mother and daughter, in this tale of gambling fever. Chichita (Ferguson) has a gambler father who is murdered, and later on she marries another gambler, who shoots himself. When she meets yet another gambler, Nick Delano (Warner Oland), she marries him too, and Read More

Mandarin's Gold

Synopsis: Thanks to his wife Betty's (Kitty Gordon) addiction to bridge, Blair Carlton (Irving Cummings) is eternally overdrawn at the bank. He finally puts his foot down and forbids her to touch another card, but she pays him no heed and ends up even further in debt. When the financial well finally runs Read More

The Naulahka

Synopsis: In the days before television and the Internet, faraway places such as the Middle East and Asia -- and their cultures -- seemed especially mysterious and unfathomable. Rudyard Kipling was one author of the late 1800s and early 1900s who fed readers' taste for the exotic with his tales of India and Read More

The Eternal Sappho

Synopsis: Like virtually all of Theda Bara's starring vehicles, The Eternal Sappho is a lost film. Contemporary historians, however, have been able to piece together its plot from publicity releases and the studio's cutting continuity. In this one, Bara plays a contemporary woman who imagines that she's Read More

Destruction

Synopsis: That cinematic "vampire" Theda Bara played the wicked wife of a Pennsylvania foundry owner who not only kills her own stepson with her insatiable lust, but almost destroys the entire town in the process. The flamboyant Miss Bara was more ludicrous than ever, but Destruction proved to be a box Read More

Sin

Synopsis: After Lady Audley's Secret and The Two Orphans failed at the box office, Fox was in no mood to tinker with Theda Bara's image any longer. With this picture, she went back to vamping. She's Rosa, a young and passionate Italian woman here. Rosa gets mixed up with a mobster, Pietro (Warner Oland, who Read More