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Film di Allan Dwan
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Most Dangerous Man Alive
An escaped, but framed, prisoner escapes prison during a cobalt explosion and soon discovers he has grown a special power that makes his body impervious to everything. Learning this, he seeks vengeance on the bad guys who framed him for jail.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.9/10
Enchanted Island
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.5/10
Stirpe maledetta
Texas-border gunrunners kill a federal agent, whose son comes looking for revenge.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.2/10
L'ultima riva
Un rapinatore di banche decide di rifugiarsi in Messico. Per orientarsi al meglio costringe un uomo ad accompagnarlo durante la fuga. Questo altri non è che il marito di una sua vecchia fiamma, Margaret: la situazione si fa ancor più complicata.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
High Air
A father and his estranged son, both tunnel workers in New York City, are forced to deal with each other during a dangerous collapse.
Hold Back The Night
A Marine officer goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife gave him in the last war.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.3/10
Veneri rosse
Un tenebroso magnate e un criminale si contendono la carica da sindaco di una città californiana. Due sorelle, una ninfomane e malata di cleptomania, innamorate di entrambi, finiscono anch'esse nel vortice della corruzione.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.2/10
La jungla dei temerari
Un giocatore professionista legato alla proprietaria di un saloon viene salvato da uno sconosciuto che si fa chiamare Cowboy. Tra i due nasce una solida amicizia tanto che il giocatore, per salvare Cowboy dalle mire di una donna avida e poco seria, compromette il suo legame con la proprietaria del saloon. Tutto viene chiarito ma a Cowboy rimane poco tempo per dimostrare la propria riconoscenza.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.3/10
Le perle nere del pacifico
Due pescatori con uno yacht si uniscono a Rita, donna con un passato, per andare alla ricerca di perle nere su un'isola segreta. Arrivati, scoprono che un altro uomo bianco si è fatto sommo sacerdote; ma George, il figlio di quest'ultimo, è un bersaglio facile per Rita, che sbarca sotto le mentite spoglie di un missionario! L'inevitabile conflitto per le perle porta violenza e corruzione nella tranquilla isola.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.1/10
L'avventuriero di Burma
Accusato di aver ucciso il figlio del Rajà di Burma, Jim Brennan riesce a fuggire. Lo accoglie Jay Moore, una ricca proprietaria terriera che commercia in legno ed elefanti. Lei sospetta qualcosa, ma l'attrazione è più forte. L'arrivo nella piantagione di un poliziotto, però, interrompe l'idillio e dà il via ad un'estenuante caccia all'uomo nella giungla.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
La regina del Far West
La figlia di un proprietario terriero è l'unica della famiglia scampata alla strage compiuta dagli indiani. Questi ultimi, sobillati da un bianco che vuole impadronirsi delle terre di tutta la valle, si trovano a fronteggiare un gruppo di resistenti tra cui Colorado, uno dei loro che ha frequentato l'università dei bianchi e si è "civilizzato". L'indiano buono e i bianchi bistrattati dai prepotenti alla fine hanno la meglio, aiutati anche da un ufficiale degli Stati Uniti in incognito.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.6/10
Il cavaliere implacabile
Juan Oberon, ricco allevatore della California del Sud, sposa Rosa, la nipote di Gaspar Lopez. Intanto Don Domingo, il boss locale che vorrebbe impadronirsi di tutte le terre della zona, invia una spedizione punitiva alla fattoria di Gaspar.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.2/10
La campana ha suonato
A Silver Lode, Dan Ballard viene arrestato poco prima delle nozze dello sceriffo federale Ned McCarthy, con l'accusa di averne ucciso il fratello. Con l'aiuto della fidanzata e di un ex amante, Ballard tenta di dimostrare che Ned non è un vero sceriffo e che vuole espropiarlo dei suoi beni, ma si troverà contro l'intera cittadina. La resa dei conti avverrà in una chiesa.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.1/10
Flight Nurse
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Sweethearts on Parade
Cam Ellerby brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamour and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend.
La donna che volevano linciare
Durante la guerra civile americana Charles e Kate, una coppia di fuorilegge, imperversano nei dintorni di Border City. I cittadini più ricchi e potenti sono donne, proprietarie di preziose (date le circostanze) miniere di piombo.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.4/10
La regina dei desperados
Belle Starr, fuorilegge dell'Oklahoma, incontra la banda Dalton quando viene salvata dal linciaggio da Bob Dalton, che si innamora di lei. Lo stesso fanno Mac, membro della banda, e il ricco proprietario di un saloon Tom Bradfield, arruolato in un piano di banchieri per intrappolare i Dalton. I dissensi tra la banda e l'ambivalenza di Bradfield complicano la trama, mentre Belle dimostra la sua abilità con i ferri da tiro, i cavalli e come intrattenitrice di saloon sorprendentemente sexy. Scritto da Rod Crawford
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
I Dream of Jeanie
The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
Voto medio degli utenti: 3.6/10
Nagasaki
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Belle Le Grand
Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister has been placed in an orphanage. Determined to do whatever it takes to get her out, she eventually becomes the proprietor of a notorious gambling establishment.
Voto medio degli utenti: 3.0/10
Il diavolo nella carne
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.4/10
Iwo Jima, deserto di fuoco
Il sergente Stryker (Wayne) è al comando di un plotone di reclute dei marines. Per i suoi modi di addestramento brutali e violenti è odiato da tutta la truppa. Stryker è un soldato che sa quanto valga un buon addestramento per affrontare una battaglia. È per questo che chiede il massimo ai suoi uomini. Questi se ne accorgeranno durante lo sbarco a Iwo Jima, dove scopriranno il lato umano del loro sergente. Classico film di guerra incentrato sulla figura del soldato tutto patria e spirito di corpo (un efficacissimo Wayne). Il film alterna alla finzione veri brani documentari dello sbarco a Iwo Jima, compresa la sequenza della bandiera.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.4/10
The Inside Story
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.5/10
Fiore selvaggio
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.5/10
Northwest Outpost
US cavalry officer James Laurence arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual American takeover of the territory. He faces resistance in the form of Prince Nikolai Balinin, who has no intention of weakening his despotic hold over the local peasants. The plot thickens when Laurence falls in love with Natalie Alanova, the wife of disgraced nobleman Count Igor Savin.
Calendar Girl
Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They both fall in love with the same girl, Patricia O'Neill. The artist paints a picture of her which outrages her father's sensibilities; but, as a result of the picture, she wins a chance to star in a Broadway play. She soon learns that the artist is just a trifler; and she turns to the composer, who loves her sincerely
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.4/10
Rendezvous with Annie
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Getting Gertie's Garter
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an expensive, jeweled garter given to her by O'Keefe in his bachelor days. McDonald intends to show the garter to O'Keefe's suspicious wife, so Our Hero must retrieve the embarrassing accouterment without tipping off the missus.
Voto medio degli utenti: 3.0/10
Milioni in pericolo
Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.8/10
Nella camera di Mabel
Il neo sposo Gary Ainsworth una volta aveva regalato all'ex fidanzata Mabel un paio di mutandine con le sue iniziali ricamate nel merletto. Temendo che la moglie possa scoprire la sua affettuosa amicizia con una delle sue amiche, Gary tenterà di recuperare l'indumento incriminante dalla stanza di Mabel. Non sarà però per lui un'impresa facile.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.0/10
Abroad with Two Yanks
Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Around the World
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Here We Go Again
It's Fibber and Molly's 20th anniversary and they want to throw a big party. But when everyone declines their invitation, they decide to go on a second honeymoon instead. After one night at the broken down Ramble Inn, where they spent their first honeymoon, they decide to go across the lake to a swanky (and expensive) lodge, where they bump into their old friends Edgar Bergan, Charlie McCarthy, Gildersleeve, and Mrs. Uppington, so the party is on again.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.0/10
Friendly Enemies
During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly loyal to "the old country". His stubbornness results in tragedy for his old friend and a lesson in the consequences of blind loyalty.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.7/10
Rise and Shine
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Look Who's Laughing
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Trail of the Vigilantes
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
Young People
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.6/10
Sailor's Lady
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.0/10
Gli indomabili
Nel 1881 Wyatt Earp arriva a Tombstone (Arizona). Rapinato dagli uomini di Carter, accetta la stella di sceriffo, fa amicizia con Doc Holliday e, dopo la sua uccisione, va da solo all'OK Corral e uccide i banditi a uno a uno.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.2/10
The Gorilla
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.7/10
D'Artagnan e i tre moschettieri
La famosa avventura di Athos, Porthos, Aramis e D'Artagnan alla ricerca dei gioielli della regina raccontata in forma di parodia: D'Artagnan è un vero moschettiere, ma gli altri tre sono servitori travestiti che hanno preso il posto degli autentici spadaccini. Il quartetto è così protagonista di avventure vittoriose ma giocate all'insegna della comicità.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.8/10
Suez
Francia, 1860. Il nobile e ingegnere Ferdinand de Lesseps diventa rivale di Napoleone Bonaparte e viene esiliato in Egitto. Lì, l'uomo concepisce l'idea di un canale navigabile che collega l'Europa e l'Asia: il canale di Suez.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.2/10
Josette
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.5/10
Rondine senza nido
Rebecca è una bambina dalla voce splendida. L'impresarioTony Kent, dopo averla ascoltata, le propone un'audizione alla radio convinto cha potrebbe ottenere successo. Per una serie di casi fortuiti, Rebecca non riesce a cantare alla radio e suo zio Harry, avido e avaro, pensando di non ricavare nulla dall'avere in casa la bambina, la affida alla vecchia zia Miranda. Tony riesce a rintracciare Rebecca e la fa esibire alla radio anche se deve superare l'ostilità della zia, contraria al mondo dello spettacolo e timorosa che qualcuno voglia approfittarsi della bambina. Quando Rebecca ottiene un trionfo alla radio, lo zio Harry torna con la pretesa di portare via con sé la bambina, che però si rivela molto più astuta di lui.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.7/10
Zoccoletti olandesi
L'orfanella Heidi è condotta, da una zia egoista, presso lo scontroso nonno. Le spontanee grazie della bambina riconquistano il vecchio alla socializzazione con i compaesani, ma la zia rapisce la nipote per sfruttarne le doti di umanità collocandola come compagna di una ricchissima piccola inferma. Heidi fa guarire l'ammalata, ma altre traversie l'attendono prima di potersi ricongiungere al nonno. Shirley Temple, campionessa indiscussa di mossette "irresistibili", fu una autentica diva della sua epoca, idolatrata da un pubblico preda del sentimentalismo più caramelloso. È un cinema che oggi richiede una "complicità" smisurata.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.8/10
That I May Live
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.5/10
One Mile from Heaven
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.7/10
Woman-Wise
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
15 Maiden Lane
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
High Tension
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.4/10
Human Cargo
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Song and Dance Man
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
Navy Wife
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Black Sheep
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son he's not seen since infancy.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.0/10
I Spy
Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Counsel's Opinion
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
Her First Affaire
A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé.He conspires with the author's wife to show the girl how foolish she's been.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.8/10
While Paris Sleeps
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.8/10
Wicked
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.7/10
Chances
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Molly is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with Tom.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.0/10
Man to Man
A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.7/10
What a Widow!
A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.5/10
South Sea Rose
A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears short skirts and shocks the puritanical New Englanders in her new home with her wild candid ways...
Frozen Justice
The picture is based on the 1920 novel, Norden For Lov og Ret, by Ejnar Mikkelsen, set in Nome, Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898 and 1899. Presumed lost.
Voto medio degli utenti: 1.0/10
The Far Call
A greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the governor's daughter who learns that the poacher is the estranged son of a prominent citizen.
Tide of Empire
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
La maschera di ferro
Alla corte di Francia nascono due gemelli, figli del re Luigi XIII e di Anna d'Austria, ma il cardinale di Richelieu fa rapire uno dei due neonati, nascondendolo in Spagna per evitare rivendicazioni al trono da parte del gemello escluso. Passano gli anni. Luigi XIV è salito al trono. Ma i moschettieri dovranno intervenire per risolvere il problema della maschera di ferro, un misterioso prigioniero chiuso in fortezza che è del tutto simile al re.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.7/10
The Big Noise
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney Island, would make a good husband for his daughter Sophie. Sophie, however, has her sights set on Bill Hedges, the son of a wealthy farmer in upstate New York. Her father arranges for her to marry Hurd in exchange for a 25% interest in the concession, but matters come to a halt when John slips and falls off a subway platform and is injured.
French Dressing
Philip and Cynthia Grey are a pair of recently-wed Bostonians, and Cynthia is properly back-bay no-action quiet and dowdy, and Philip resigns himself to the quietness (no action) regularity of their home. But then along comes a blonde, Peggy Nash, who adds some action and outside-regularity to Philip's life. Cynthia is somewhat upset at this turn of events, and decides to go to Paris - the Wickedest City in the World - and get a quiet divorce. Cynthia soon finds out that Paris is a really gay city, especially after Henri de Briac, shows up and offers to be her guide to the delights of Paris (primarily him). Cynthia quickly sheds some of her dowdy ways and dowdy clothes, and is having herself what was once quaintly described as a gay old time. Philip then shows up in Paris, deciding he wants Cynthia back as his wife, and Peggy shows up right behind him and, soon, it is up to Henri to make the pairing-arrangements for the foursome.
Voto medio degli utenti: 1.0/10
East Side, West Side
Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that fully exploits star George O’Brien’s championship boxing prowess.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.2/10
The Joy Girl
Though she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich. He turns out to be a fraud who thought she was an heiress. She returns to a successful hat shop she maintains catering to socialites. Her true love turns out to be in fact, a rich man who let her think he was not to test her.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
The Music Master
Former Viennese orchestra leader Anton von Barwig has been searching for his daughter, taken by his ex-wife, for many years. The search has reduced him to penury since a crooked detective swindled him. One day he meets a young society girl, Helene Stanton, seeking music lessons for her fiancé, Beverly Cruger, and recognizes her as his child. Barwig finally confronts her foster father, who had run away with his wife in Vienna, who pleads with him to stay silent for his daughter’s future. He acquiesces but Helene discovers the relationship and brushes social considerations aside to be reunited with him.
Summer Bachelors
Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
Voto medio degli utenti: 1.0/10
Tin Gods
In a mountain village in South America, Dr. McCoy and the padre watch Roger Drake enter a small chapel near a towering bridge, and McCoy recounts the story of Drake's life: As a rising engineer, he marries Janet Stone, the ambitious daughter of a wealthy family, and neglects his career while Janet becomes a candidate for the State Assembly. Drake comes into conflict with her political friends, and when their baby falls from its nursery window, the couple remorsefully decide to separate. Drake, degenerated by drink, goes to South America to construct a bridge; there he is stricken by fever and is redeemed by the love and care of Carita, a dancer. Carita, however, learns of Janet's political defeat and her attempt to effect a reconciliation with Drake; thinking he still loves his wife, she leaps from the bridge. Drake returns each year to the chapel he has erected in her memory. A lost film.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Sea Horses
Helen Salvia sets sail with her 4-year-old daughter for Panda, an isolated East African port, where she expects to join her Italian husband, Lorenzo, who deserted her a year after their marriage. Cochran, the burly first mate, and Harvey, the youthful third officer, openly vie for her favor, while Captain Glanville remains aloof. In Panda, Helen discovers that her husband has become a drunken derelict and returns to the ship, but Glanville is forced to buy her release from Salvia. Fearful of the implication, Helen returns ashore with her daughter, flees from Lorenzo's attempts to attack her, and is found by Glanville just as a typhoon breaks in all its fury. In regaining possession of the child from Lorenzo, the captain is wounded; and Cochran, covering their retreat, kills Lorenzo. Cochran pays for his daring with his life, and Helen is free to return to England with Glanville. It is considered a lost film.
Stage Struck
Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she and her cook boyfriend, Orme Wilson, hope to one day own their own diner. Although Orme loves Jennie, he also has a weakness for stage stars -- so when a riverboat theatrical crew comes to their town, he is smitten by lead actress Lillian Lyons. Desperate to keep Orme, Jennie insists on going onstage to best Lillian, but is soon out of her depth.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.2/10
The Coast of Folly
Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20 years. When Mr. Gathway dies, he leaves his huge fortune to his daughter, Joyce, on the condition that she never become involved in scandal. Joyce becomes interested in Larry Fay, whose wife sues her for alienation of affections. In Paris, Nadine, who has become the Countess de Tauro, hears of the scandal and returns to the United States, intent on helping the daughter she once deserted. A lost film.
Night Life of New York
John Bentley hates New York City, because of an unhappy romance as a young man, but his son, Ronald, tired of living in Iowa, is determined to take up residence in Manhattan. The elder Bentley therefore conspires with his New York manager, William Workman, to involve Ronald in so much trouble that he will gladly return to the sedate life of an Iowa burgher. Arriving in Manhattan, Ronald strikes up an acquaintance with Meg, a telephone operator, whose brother, Jimmy, has come under the evil influence of Jerry. Jerry and Jimmy rob a wealthy woman, and Ronald is charged with the crime on circumstantial evidence, keeping quiet in order to protect Jimmy.
Argentine Love
While his daughter, Consuelo, is visiting the United States, Emanuel García, the Mayor of Alcorta in the Argentine, arranges for her marriage to Juan Martin, in return for Martin's financial assistance. On her return, Consuelo, who is in love with Philip Sears, an American engineer working in Argentina, refuses Juan but gives no reason. Juan is furious with outraged pride and soon kills Rafael Cornejo, the son of a senator, when he flirts with Consuelo.
Wages of Virtue
A carnival strongman and his girlfriend flee to Algiers to escape a murder charge but there they are caught again in a web of jealousy, deceit and murder.
Her Love Story
When Princess Marie of the Balkan kingdom of Viatavia falls in love with Captain Rudi of the King's Guards, her father quickly arranges her marriage with the king of a neighboring country. Although Marie and Rudi are secretly wed by a Gypsy, the duke ignores the marriage and exiles Rudi. When a child is born to Marie, she declares to the king that it is Rudi's and is thereafter banished to a convent; however, Rudi returns and helps Marie retrieve her child from the palace, and they find happiness in another land.
Manhandled
A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.5/10
A Society Scandal
Hector Colbert sues his wife Marjorie for a divorce after Peters, an admirer of Marjorie, deliberately compromises her. Colbert's lawyer, Daniel Farr, believing that Marjorie's behavior was wrong, gets the divorce, but he ruins the reputation of a fun-loving woman who was simply bored with her husband. Later, she and Farr meet; she plots a revenge against the lawyer but confesses her fabrication when she realizes that she loves him.
Big Brother
When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge properly. The court takes custody of Midge, but Donovan proves himself by recovering a payroll stolen by some of his ex-colleagues, thereby winning Midge and Kitty, his girl.
Zaza
Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.2/10
Lawful Larceny
During his wife's absence, Andrew Dorsey is snared by Vivian Hepburn, owner of a crooked gambling house, and her silent partner, Guy Tarlow. Dorsey loses so much money that Vivian persuades him to give her one of his firm's checks for a large sum of money. Hearing her husband's confession, Marion Dorsey, returned from Europe, determines to retrieve the check.
The Glimpses of the Moon
Although Susan Branch is herself without finances, she has many wealthy friends who supply her with clothes and gay times. She is in love with struggling author Nick Lansing, who also attracts the interests of Susan's chief patron, Ursula Gillow, and is persuaded by Ellie Vanderlyn to marry him for at least a year's happiness. Their marriage falls apart when their wedding gifts are spent; they become involved with the Vanderlyns' domestic affairs; and Ursula decides she wants Nick for herself. However, the lawyer handling the Lansings' divorce proceedings brings them back together, and Nick sells his novel. A lost film.
Superstition
Will Clayton is superstitious. He is ridiculed for his superstitions, fired for them, gets involved in a murder mystery, is captured by bandits, despised by the girl, but he clings to his amulets and his horseshoe. Finally, when the girl agrees to marry him if he throws away her silly amulets and horseshoe, he takes her in his arms, throws a horseshoe out the window, and it knocks the gun out of his rival's hand just as he is about to shoot.
Robin Hood
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.4/10
The Hidden Woman
Ann Wesley, a wealthy society girl is loved by Bart Andrews. Andrews reproaches Ann for her frivolity and believes she has a better self hidden within her.
The Sin of Martha Queed
Due to a misunderstanding, and the vicious streak of her relative David Boyd, Martha Queed is believed to be involved in an illicit affair with Arnold Barry. Her small-minded father, Marvin, insists they marry but the following morning when David is found murdered Arnold is suspected. As sentencing approaches a series of events materialize to prove his innocence.
A Broken Doll
Ranch hand Tommy Dawes has a special bond with little Rosemary, the crippled daughter of his boss Bill Nyall. When Tommy accidentally breaks Rosemary's favorite doll one day, he borrows a $20 gold piece from the foreman's mattress to go to town and buy a new doll. However, on the way there he is ambushed and robbed by an escaped convict
A Perfect Crime
Wally Griggs is your classic meek, mild bank messenger, destined to a threadbare life of earning 63 dollars a month. At least this is what he seems to be. But when he's not working Griggs is the dashing James Brown, an adventurer and storyteller who is familiar with bank president Halliday. A publisher, fascinated by Brown's wild tales, offers him a deal. Griggs also uses his alter ego to help Mary Oliver, the girl her loves.
The Forbidden Thing
Puritanical Abel Blake is planning to marry the domestically oriented Joan when she is called away to a neighboring fishing village to care for her sick uncle. In her absence, Abel falls under the corrupting influence of some friends who take him to Ryan's, a notorious dance hall, where he meets seductress Glory Prada. Glory determines to make a conquest of Abel, who gradually falls under her spell and finally marries her. After learning of the news, Abel's mother dies of grief and Joan marries Dave, a fisherman.
In the Heart of a Fool
Laura Nesbit, daughter of old Dr. Nesbit and belle of the younger social set in the town of Harvey, plans to marry Grant Adams, the editor of the local paper, until she flirts with rising but unethical lawyer Tom VanDorn to arouse her beau's jealousy. A saddened Grant is drawn into an affair with town siren Margaret Muller, with whom he has an illegitimate son. On the rebound, Laura marries VanDorn and Margaret weds attorney Henry Fenn. History repeats itself when Laura's husband becomes infatuated with Margaret, which breaks up both marriages. Meanwhile, Grant has given up his newspaper to become a foreman in the mines. After he is injured in an explosion, Grant is taken to the Nesbit home, where Laura's care restores his health. When Grant's little son is shot and killed during a strike, he becomes so overwrought with grief that he confesses the boy's parentage to Laura, who forgives his past and they begin a new life together.
Voto medio degli utenti: 1.0/10
A Splendid Hazard
Karl Breitman, obsessed with the notion that he is a descendant of Napoleon, is driven to restore the monarchy in France. To accomplish this, he courts Hedda Gobert, who, he has learned, possesses Napoleon's papers. Upon winning Hedda, Breitman steals the documents, which lead him to America and the home of Admiral Killigrew where, the papers allege, the emperor's hidden wealth resides.
The Scoffer
Dr. Stannard Wayne -- like all "good" men of the times -- is a God-fearing soul. He marries the former mistress of his friend, Dr. Arthur Richards, without knowing her past. Richards, an abortionist, resumes his affair with the woman and runs off with her. But before he leaves, he frames Wayne for one of the illegal operations he has done, and the innocent man is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out, Wayne has become angry and cynical.
The Luck of the Irish
William Grogan, lives in New York City and meets the outside world only through the little basement window of his plumbing shop. One day he sees and falls in love with a pretty pair of feet, belonging to Ruth Warren, a schoolteacher who is lusted after by Norton Colburton, a dissolute playboy. Ruth is about to marry Colburton, but at the last minute runs away and decides to take a Cook's tour. On the boat, she meets Grogan, who has inherited a fortune, and recognizing the feet, he falls in love with their owner.
Voto medio degli utenti: 1.0/10
Soldiers of Fortune
Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza, the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract.
The Dark Star
A fabulous jewel known as the 'Dark Star' is stolen; a pastor's daughter gets involved, falling into the depths of a spy plot concerning war plans and fortifications...
Getting Mary Married
A young woman must resist the charms of a handsome stranger and stay single if she wants to inherit a fortune.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.2/10
Cheating Cheaters
Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each plot to rob the other.
He Comes Up Smiling
Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after the real Bachelor. *Only fragments are known to exist. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Bound in Morocco
A lost film. George Travelwell (Fairbanks), an American youth motoring in Morocco, discovers that the governor of El Harib (Frank Campeau) has seized a young American woman for his harem. Disguised as an inmate of the harem, George nearly wrecks the place while he rescues her. One thrilling incident follows upon the heels of another in their attempts to get away, and it ends with him setting one tribe against another, leaving them free to peacefully ride away.
Mr. Fix-It
A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our hero thwarts them and saves the day.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Headin' South
A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger known only as Headin' South (Fairbanks) goes forth in search of Spanish Joe (Campeau), a Mexican responsible for most of the treachery and outlawry along the U.S.-Mexican boarder. Headin' South gains quite a reputation as he goes along and finally believes himself worthy of joining Joe's band. in a whirlwind finish in which Joe is captured, Headin' South meets one of Joe's near victims (MacDonald) and falls in love with her."
A Modern Musketeer
A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Model T Ford) and sets out across the West in search of excitement and adventure.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.2/10
Fighting Odds
A woman determines to clear her imprisoned husband of false charges by entrapping the real culprit herself.
Fifty-Fifty
Naomi is a young aspiring artist known to her Bohemian friends as "The Nut." Naomi's alleged nuttiness does not in any way impede the efforts by wealthy Frederick Harmon to make the unworldly heroine his bride. When their first baby is born, Naomi becomes so obsessed with motherhood that she completely ignores poor Harmon, who, to offset his loneliness, begins squiring the vampish Helen Carew. Helen manages to convince Harmon that Naomi has been unfaithful, leading inevitably to divorce-court litigation.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
L'allegra favola di Black Burke
Dopo aver passato alcuni anni nell'avventuroso e ruvido West, Steve O'Dare torna alla vita raffinata e monotona della sua cerchia di amici di New York. Ben presto si stanca di quell'ambiente da mollaccioni ma gli amici lo rassicurano che ben presto potrà vivere l'emozione di una vera avventura se resterà a New York. Poco propenso a credere a quella favola, Steve si reca dal conte Marinoff, perché vuole conoscere la sua pupilla, una bella ragazza che lo ha colpito quando l'ha notata tra i clienti di un elegante ristorante. Prima di poter entrare nel palazzo, Steve viene però aggredito da una dozzina di uomini da cui si deve difendere. È quella l'avventura che gli amici gli avevano promesso. Deluso da quelle emozioni alla camomilla, Steve manda a chiamare dei cowboy suoi amici con i quali organizza un vero assalto: rapita la bella pupilla che, in ogni caso, si dimostra molto ben disposta nei suoi confronti, manda a dire a tutti che se l'è sposata.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Il meticcio della foresta
In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with flair by Allan Dwan. Fairbanks stars as Lo Dorman, who has been ostracized from society because of this mixed ethnicity - his Native American mother was abandoned by his white father. When Lo catches the eye of the rich white debutante Nellie (Jewel Carmen), he becomes a target for the racist Sheriff Dunn (Sam De Grasse), who wants to break them up and take Nelli for his own. This love triangle becomes a quadrangle with the arrival of Teresa (Alma Rubens), who is on the run from the law. Through fire and fury Lo must decide who and what he truly loves.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.6/10
An Innocent Magdalene
When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When Dorothy soon thereafter becomes pregnant, Forbes vows to reform, but authorities arrest him on a gambling charge, and he serves a year in prison. During that time, and just before the birth of the baby, a woman comes to Dorothy and claims to be Forbes' wife. Stunned, Dorothy returns to her father, but the colonel throws her out, and so, on her own, she has her baby, whom the community believes to be illegitimate. Convinced that she has sinned, Dorothy is about to kill herself when Forbes, just out of jail, finds her and explains that the other woman simply had been an ex-sweetheart trying to win him back.
I banditi del West
Passin' Through è un bandito alla Robin Hodd, ruba ai ricchi per dare ai poveri. In questo caso, ai figli illegittimi, perché lui è convinto di essere nato al di fuori del matrimonio. Scopre però che sua madre era stata sposata e che il marito era stato ucciso da Bud Frazer, un vecchio corteggiatore respinto, che si era voluto vendicare e che poi aveva perseguitato la donna finché anche lei non era morta. Passin' Through decide di trovare Frazer non solo per vendicare la morte dei genitori, ma anche per salvare Amy, la sua ragazza, che il malvivente ha rapito. Le cose sembrano però volgere al peggio, perché Passin' Through si trova a dover combattere da solo contro tutta la banda di Frazer. Quando arrivano i soccorsi, la situazione si capovolge e lui fa fuori il bandito insieme ai suoi scagnozzi. Riunito alla bella Amy, Passin' Through cavalca con lei verso un futuro migliore.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.3/10
Doug è uno scervellato
Figlio del ricco Wiggins, Sunny si prende cura dei derelitti e se li porta a casa, dove li ospita e li nutre. Il padre, furibondo, lo butta fuori di casa. Imperturbabile, Sunny trova ospitalità al dormitorio e lì insegna ai poveri a prendere la vita con ottimismo e a sorridere. Un medico, allora, gli chiede di curare il proprio padre, il milionario Jonathon Pepper, depresso cronico. Il compito si rivela troppo gravoso perfino per il sorridente Sunny che, però, in casa di Pepper incontra e si innamora della figlia del milionario. Scopre, altresì, un complotto per rapire Jonathon. Sunny, all'arrivo dei rapitori, lotta per difendere il vecchio e i malfattori lo colpiscono alla testa. Per la prima volta, dopo anni, Jonathon finalmente ride. Sunny diventa socio di Pepper, ne sposa la figlia e viene riaccolto a casa dal padre
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.4/10
Betty of Greystone
After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been the caretaker, to spend some time alone there. She meets David Chandler, Graystone's owner, who is attracted to her and tells her to come back whenever she wants to. Betty's mother soon remarries, but her new stepfather is not the same kind of man that her father was
Jordan Is a Hard Road
A bandit reforms himself and gives up his baby into better hands. Years later, he attempts to reunite with his daughter without revealing who he is.
A Girl of Yesterday
A lost film. A girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.
The Foundling
Molly O, a young girl abandoned by her wealthy painter father, David King, after her mother's death; she endures an orphanage and a cruel boardinghouse before her father, remorseful and famous, unknowingly adopts the impostor niece of the orphanage matron instead, leading to Molly's return as a maid in his home, ultimately revealing her true identity and reuniting them. Version destroyed by fire.
The Pretty Sister of Jose
Pepita, a radiant and merry Spanish beauty, and her playful brother Jose, witness their mother, whose faded beauty led her husband to abandon her for another, plunge a dagger into her breast.
May Blossom
May Blossom loves Richard Ashcroft, a Southern officer, and accepts his proposal of marriage immediately after receiving one from her father's choice, a suitor named Steve Harland, who loves her madly. She sorrowfully tells him she prefers Richard, nearly breaking Steve's heart. That night, without a chance to bid May good-bye, Richard is arrested