Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 17, 1877
Deathday: May 22, 1943
Popularity:
1934-09-27
Overview: Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Genres: Comedy History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-27
Popularity:
1925-02-02
Overview: The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-02
Popularity:
1925-03-15
Overview: Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
Popularity:
1928-10-02
Overview: The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story writers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-02
Popularity:
1918-12-23
Overview: Vantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile, leads a fine upstanding life -- or at least he appears to, so he can curry favor with his wealthy uncle, Vantyne's father. One day, the senior Carter, fed up with his son's antics, decides to play a trick on both Vantyne and Teddy. The old man and his lawyer go off on a hunting trip, and then the lawyer returns with news that Carter was killed in an accident.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-23
Popularity:
1915-10-11
Overview: Through the death of his father, Benton Cabot is left with nothing but a small mountain cabin which he has never seen. He goes to take up his property and in the mountains meets Emmy Garrett, an untutored but attractive girl, just budding into womanhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-11
Popularity:
1921-12-20
Overview: Corporal Jack Borden, of the Northwest Mounted Police, trails the man who killed his partner to New York City. The killer is an unscrupulous promoter who is selling worthless stock in a gold mine. Borden, with the help of Blanche Hall, locates the man in a Bowery dive, but he escapes and Borden tracks him back to Canada. Along the way, he discovers that Blanche and his sweetheart, Milly, are long-separated sisters and brings about a reconciliation.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-20
Popularity:
1934-09-18
Overview: In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-18
Popularity:
1931-01-15
Overview: An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-15
Popularity:
1916-05-22
Overview: "Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance. His spirit is so submerged that he has almost forgotten how to get angry. One night the gaiety going on in Judge Winters' home attracts him, and he crouches on the fire-escape to watch it. He becomes interested in the Judge, in his pretty daughter Peggy, in her cousin Flo, in Flo's admirer, the Count, and in Bob Ewing, a struggling young lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-22
Popularity:
1931-02-21
Overview: An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-21
Popularity:
1937-07-02
Overview: Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
Popularity:
1928-09-02
Overview: Ranger races to the rescue when Jim is framed on a murder charge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-02
Popularity:
1941-12-09
Overview: A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-09
Popularity:
1942-07-03
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
Popularity:
1928-11-04
Overview: SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-04
Popularity:
1919-10-06
Overview: Refusing to marry her stepmother's choice, Gail Prim leaves her life of luxury, after cutting her hair, dressing in her butler's clothes and stealing money and jewels from her father's safe. Spending the night in a barn, she introduces herself to the thieves already there as the Oskaloosa Kid, a wanted criminal, and barely escapes their struggle to get her loot. Meanwhile, the real Oskaloosa Kid kills Reginald Paynter and throws Nettie Penning, whom Reginald was trying to seduce, onto the highway.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-06
Popularity:
1936-09-04
Overview: A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-04
Popularity:
1925-11-15
Overview: Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a job at a trading post, and eventually works his way up to managing the business. He falls in love with the owner's daughter, and shares leadership of the local village with the son of the Rajah. One day, however, a band of pirates attacks the village, and the man is astonished to see that the pirates are none other than the tyrannical captain of his former ship and his crew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
Popularity:
1941-12-31
Overview: A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
Popularity:
1934-06-30
Overview: Two Boy Scouts win an around-the-world trip with a crack aviator, and find themselves crash-landed in the South American jungles after the ace forgets to refuel in Ecuador.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-30
Popularity:
1938-08-12
Overview: A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-12
Popularity:
1938-01-14
Overview: A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
Popularity:
1938-07-22
Overview: Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-22
Popularity:
1931-11-27
Overview: A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-27
Popularity:
1935-03-22
Overview: A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
Popularity:
1939-02-17
Overview: The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
Popularity:
1939-09-15
Overview: A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
Popularity:
1932-06-19
Overview: Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-19
Popularity:
1936-06-05
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
Popularity:
1940-07-01
Overview: The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-01
Popularity:
1928-03-18
Overview: The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-18
Popularity:
1935-02-15
Overview: Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge Sheriff. He also hopes to find the notorious leader of an outlaw gang and to also help Kane prove his innocence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
Popularity:
1925-09-20
Overview: Bill Bangs and his Negro valet, George Washington Black, stray into a mining town and are arrested when they attempt to steal something to eat. The sheriff promises them their freedom if they solve the mystery of a haunted house near the town. Bill agrees.....
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
Popularity:
1931-12-28
Overview: An old prospector discovers a bonanza mine of gold on the Diamond Dude Ranch. He tells two men about it and they kill him, and then make plans to acquire the ranch. They run into trouble when the owners put up a fight.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-28
Popularity:
1927-08-13
Overview: There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-13
Popularity:
1938-10-07
Overview: A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
Popularity:
1927-01-22
Overview: Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-22
Popularity:
1942-02-05
Overview: Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-05
Popularity:
1933-05-28
Overview: Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-28
Popularity:
1934-12-14
Overview: Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
Popularity:
1929-10-05
Overview: The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Since all the other inmates/attendees think they are historical figures such as Robin Hood, the Duke of Wellington, Paul Revere, William Tell, Salome, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes and others, it takes a while for Judd to separate the wheat from the chaff and prove he is not deranged. His quest becomes more urgent when he falls in love with a nurse named Josephine, who does not think she is Napoleon's "Josephine" but is convinced Judd thinks he is Napoleaon.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-05
Popularity:
1932-11-25
Overview: A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-25
Popularity:
1936-03-06
Overview: After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
Popularity:
1941-05-30
Overview: Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
Popularity:
1931-01-03
Overview: Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
Popularity:
1933-08-01
Overview: A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a hanging--and the man who is being hanged knows his real identity.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-01
Popularity:
1927-01-08
Overview: In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-08
Popularity:
1939-03-17
Overview: Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
Popularity:
1923-04-29
Overview: A lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-04-29
Popularity:
1925-05-31
Overview: A jungle drama about a woman who befriends a tiger.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-31
Popularity:
1938-01-21
Overview: Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-21
Popularity:
1943-05-31
Overview: Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
Popularity:
1916-07-10
Overview: When his friends decide that "Happy Jack" Lewis needs a wife, they place an ad in the paper for one. Glad Mason replies and sends her picture. Jack's pals decide she is the one, and after he sees her picture, Jack thinks so too -- until the saloon proprietor points out that maybe she doesn't look anything like her photo. In fact, she could be an old hag!
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-10
Popularity:
1942-04-22
Overview: In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-22
Popularity:
1925-07-25
Overview: A 1925 silent Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-25
Popularity:
1917-01-21
Overview: About the year 1900 in a midnight raid on the palace of a Balkan king, emissaries of a great power slay the royal pair, and carry off the infant crown princess. The time shifts to the present. Foreign agents steal the plans of a new shell loaned Great Britain by America. Halkett and Gray, English officers, recover the plans; and the foreign agents endeavor to gain possession of them again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-21
Popularity:
1937-10-15
Overview: A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-15
Popularity:
1938-08-26
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
Popularity:
1927-12-03
Overview: The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. This film was lost in the 1965 MGM vault fire; only a few stills exist.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-12-03
Popularity:
1940-03-08
Overview: Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
Popularity:
1929-12-28
Overview: A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-28
Popularity:
1929-02-24
Overview: A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when an unscrupulous character steals Boyd's girl and his two buddies go off to rescue her. When they don't come back, Boyd goes after them to rescue all. This is all done in flashback from a court martial trial for desertion.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-24
Popularity:
1922-04-01
Overview: Jose Fernand seems interested in luring Helen Barnes onto his ship than he is in smuggling. The innocent orphan miss goes, accompanied by her younger sister Alice. With the boat out to sea, Fernand proceeds to attack the girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-01
Popularity:
1925-07-14
Overview: Cowboy Jack Horton searches for the killer of his father and brother, both of whom were found with an ace of clubs pinned to their bodies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-14
Popularity:
1936-11-28
Overview: Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from happening, Judy and Edna gather a crowd the following Sunday; and to keep its attention, they themselves perform with the orchestra. Edna sings an aria and Judy sings 'Americana'.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-28
Popularity:
1930-09-12
Overview: A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her husband is having an affair to "wake her up".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
Popularity:
1917-11-01
Overview: Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rather at the County Fair, newlywed Peggy decides it is time to assert her independence and steals away to the falls alone, leaving her bewildered husband to follow. After the honeymoon, Ed takes his bride to the home that had been his mother's, and Peggy redecorates the entire house in her husband's absence. Gradually, Ed learns to submit to his wife's modern attitudes until he discovers that her continual visits to the city have not been to the dentist's, as she had said, but to the studio of portrait painter Perry Pipp. Ed angrily confronts Peggy with her deception, forcing her to return home to her parent's house. Later, when Ed learns that Peggy has been posing for a portrait as a birthday surprise, he begs his wife's forgiveness, which she bestows, along with the information that a baby is on it's way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-01
Popularity:
1915-08-16
Overview: The King of Kurland suggests a marriage between his son, the crown prince, and Angela, the Princess of Arcacia, to defuse tensions between their tiny European countries. The tempestuous Angela rejects the idea, so the prince visits Arcacia in the guise of Count Bernardine, determined to secure the union. Unaware of his true mission, Angela grows to love the count, but finally heeds his warnings about impending war and agrees to the arranged marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-16
Popularity:
1922-04-20
Overview: Their father, Michael Kalmar, imprisoned in Siberia, political refugees Ivan and Irma Kalmar seek freedom in Winnipeg, Canada. Encountering persecution at the hands of prejudiced neighbors, including their father's enemy, Makaroff. Ivan's violin playing both attracts Marjorie Menzies and earns him the enmity of District Attorney Mortimer Staunton, a rival for her affection. At a party at Makaroff's home, Irma is insulted, her abuser is slain and Ivan arrested. Her escapee father confesses to the murder but both men are freed when a family servant who admits to the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-20
Popularity:
1937-06-04
Overview: Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
Popularity:
1920-03-29
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-29
Popularity:
1923-03-30
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-30
Popularity: