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51. Evidence (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Evidence is a 1929 Pre-Code crime drama film produced and distributed by the Warner Brothers. It is based on the 1914 Broadway play Evidence by J. duRocher MacPherson and L. duRocher ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Pauline Frederick, Lowell Sherman, William Courtenay, Myrna Loy
Votes: 30
52. Vanity Fair (1911)
35 min | Drama, Short
(Reel One) Amelia Sedley, accompanied by Miss Becky Sharpe, returns from boarding school. Becky is a natural born flirt. Bashful Joseph Sedley falls desperately in love with her. He takes ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Kent | Stars: Helen Gardner, William V. Ranous, John Bunny, Harry Northrup
Votes: 30
53. The Return of Peter Grimm (1926)
70 min | Fantasy
The fondest wish of Peter Grimm, elderly patriarch of a famous tulip growing family, is that his ward Kate will marry his nephew and primary heir, Fredrick. Though she loves another, she ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Alec B. Francis, John Roche, Janet Gaynor, Richard Walling
Votes: 27
54. The Great Moment (1921)
70 min | Drama
Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Russian Gypsy, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin, whom she does not love. During a trip ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Alec B. Francis, Milton Sills, Frank Butler
Votes: 25
55. Oh, You Ragtime! (1912)
5 min | Comedy, Short
This is the story of a great musician who tries out a popular ragtime classic with such telling effect that he nearly puts the entire neighborhood out of commission. Businessmen, laborers, ... See full summary »
Director: Étienne Arnaud | Stars: Alec B. Francis, Julia Stuart, Guy Oliver, Muriel Ostriche
Votes: 24
56. The Mississippi Gambler (1929)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Music, Romance
"The Mississippi Gambler" is a 1929 film made by Universal Pictures, directed by Reginald Barker, and starring Joseph Schildkraut and Joan Bennett.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Joan Bennett, Carmelita Geraghty, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 23
57. Lola (I) (1914)
50 min | Drama
With the electric-ray machine that he invented, a scientist brings his daughter back to life after she dies in a car crash but he fails to revive her soul at the same time.
Director: James Young | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Alec B. Francis, Edward Kimball, James Young
Votes: 22
58. Mary of the Movies (1923)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Romance
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, ... See full summary »
Director: John McDermott | Stars: Marion Mack, Florence Lee, Mary Kane, Harry Cornelli
Votes: 21
59. Transcontinental Limited (1926)
70 min | Drama
A war veteran returns home to find his sweetheart totally upset: Her father will lose his sight unless she can get funds for an expensive procedure. He and some Army mates hatch a plot ... See full summary »
Director: Nat Ross | Stars: Johnnie Walker, Eugenia Gilbert, Alec B. Francis, Edith Yorke
Votes: 21
60. A Thief in Paradise (1925)
80 min | Drama
After years of failure, Maurice Blake becomes a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a risky living by diving for pearls with Philip Jardine, the disinherited son of a San ... See full summary »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Doris Kenyon, Ronald Colman, Aileen Pringle, Claude Gillingwater
Votes: 20
61. The Last Hour (1923)
Crime
Reever McCall, an infamous forger, is on the run from the police with his daughter Saidee. He asks his friend, a former criminal named Steve Cline, for help. Cline, whose brother was killed... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Milton Sills, Carmel Myers, Pat O'Malley, Jack Mower
Votes: 20
62. The Crimson Gardenia (1919)
60 min | Drama, Adventure
Wastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for adventure and romance. Because the costume he is wearing includes a red gardenia, he is ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Owen Moore, Hedda Nova, Hector V. Sarno, Sydney Deane
Votes: 19
63. Playmates (1912)
13 min | Drama, Family, Short
The only child of wealthy parents, Ronald McCumber is obliged to entertain and amuse himself as best he can with his numerous toys, longing for the association of living presence of ... See full summary »
Stars: Julia Swayne Gordon, Hazel Neason, Florence Foley, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 19
64. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1912)
Short, Comedy, Drama
Here is the heart-rending narrative of Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow, and his strenuous courtship, the quilting bee, the village dance, the bragging of Ichabod and the ... See full summary »
Director: Étienne Arnaud | Stars: Alec B. Francis, John G. Adolfi, Dorothy Gibson, Louis R. Grisel
Votes: 18
65. Willie's Sister (1912)
11 min | Short, Romance, Comedy
Willie Green, off to college, tearfully kisses Ma and Pa and Sister goodbye. He arrives on campus and approaches a grave, reverend senior to ask where the proctor is located; the senior ... See full summary »
Stars: James Morrison, Earle Williams, Tefft Johnson, Anne Schaefer
Votes: 18
66. Half-a-Dollar Bill (1924)
60 min | Drama
Captain Duncan McTeague, ashore in Southport, finds a deserted baby boy with a note and half of a dollar bill pinned to its clothing. The note states that the mother hopes some day to ... See full summary »
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Anna Q. Nilsson, William P. Carleton, Raymond Hatton, Mitchell Lewis
Votes: 17
67. The Gilded Cage (1916)
50 min | Drama, Romance
In the little kingdom of Balkany lived a king and queen who were not liked by their subjects. His Majesty was King John the Fifth, and Her Royal Highness was Queen Vesta. To them was born a... See full summary »
Director: Harley Knoles | Stars: Alice Brady, Alec B. Francis, Gerda Holmes, Montagu Love
Votes: 17
68. The Spider and the Rose (1923)
70 min | Adventure, Drama
The story is set in Southern California during the Mexican regime. Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, returns home to find that Mendozza, his father's secretary, has seized ... See full summary »
Director: John McDermott | Stars: Alice Lake, Richard Headrick, Gaston Glass, Joseph J. Dowling
Votes: 17
69. Thirty a Week (1918)
50 min | Drama, Comedy
Engaged to the wealthy Freddy Ruyter, Barbara Wright favors her father's handsome Irish chauffeur, Dan Murray, and marries him. The newlyweds struggle to survive on Dan's meager income, but... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Tom Moore, Alec B. Francis, Brenda Fowler, Warburton Gamble
Votes: 16
70. Forever After (1926)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance, War
From the day they first met in the schoolhouse in a small New England town, Theodore Wayne, son of a respected lawyer, and Jennie Clapton, daughter of wealthy parents, have been sweethearts... See full summary »
Director: F. Harmon Weight | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Mary Astor, Hallam Cooley, David Torrence
Votes: 16
71. Children of Jazz (1923)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Babs Weston agrees to marry adventurer Richard Forestall before his hasty departure, accepting his ring and promising to be faithful. Richard returns to find that his fiancée has become a "... See full summary »
Director: Jerome Storm | Stars: Theodore Kosloff, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Cain, Eileen Percy
Votes: 15
72. Man of the Hour (1914)
50 min | Drama
When he is ruined by speculating in the stock market by bogus tips given to him by Charles Wainwright, George Garrison commits suicide, but before his death he begs his son Henry to avenge ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Robert Warwick, Alec B. Francis, Ned Burton, Eric Mayne
Votes: 15
73. The End of the World (II) (1925)
Adventure
Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no capital with which to realize them. Abner Hope, who is regarded as a "queer one," tell Jack... See full summary »
Director: Harvey G. Matherson | Stars: Jack Pickford, Claire McDowell, Alec B. Francis, Norma Shearer
Votes: 15
74. The Arrival of Perpetua (1915)
50 min | Comedy
Perpetua is a rich little orphan with a guardian very much older than herself. This man is an absent-minded dreamer, unaware of his responsibility to Perpetua. The girl wants to live in her... See full summary »
Director: Emile Chautard | Stars: Vivian Martin, Julia Stuart, Nora Cecil, M.T. O'Donohue
Votes: 14
75. The Glorious Adventure (1918)
50 min | Drama
Carey Wethersbee and her aunt Lucretia live in an old Southern mansion, which through their quaint manners and outmoded costumes, they imbue with an atmosphere of the antebellum South. ... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Mae Marsh, Wyndham Standing, Sara Alexander, Paul Stanton
Votes: 14
76. The Eternal Three (1923)
70 min | Drama
A doctor's adopted son turns out to be an ungrateful whelp. He beds the doctor's maid, then his secretary, and finally targets the doctor's wife--his own stepmother--as his next conquest.
Directors: Marshall Neilan, Frank Urson | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Claire Windsor, Raymond Griffith, Bessie Love
Votes: 14
77. The Bridge of Sighs (1925)
70 min | Drama
The spoiled, arrogant and slow-witted son of a wealthy businessman falls in love with the daughter of his father's business manager.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Creighton Hale, Richard Tucker, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 14
78. High Steppers (1926)
70 min | Drama
Julian Perryam gets thrown out of Oxford University and returns to the family estate outside of London. He discovers that his sister and his mother are caught up in the "jazz" life and ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Mary Astor, Dolores Del Río, Rita Carewe
Votes: 13
79. The Lion and the Mouse (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
Judge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns considerable stock has been subsumed by the ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: May McAvoy, Lionel Barrymore, Alec B. Francis, William Collier Jr.
Votes: 13
80. No Greater Love (1932)
Passed | 59 min | Drama
Owing more than just a passing nod to "Abie's Irish Rose," a kindly Jewish delicatessen owner in New York City, Sidney Cohen, adopts a young, crippled Irish girl, Mildred, with much opposition from many quarters.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Dickie Moore, Alexander Carr, Richard Bennett, Beryl Mercer
Votes: 11
81. The General's Daughter (1911)
Drama, Short
During the war with the Mad Mahdi, General Dent of the English Army and his three daughters are located in the Soudan. Flower, his youngest, is his favorite. Mohammed Ahmed calls upon the ... See full summary »
Stars: Alec B. Francis, Anne Schaefer, Helen Case, Evangeline Blaisdell
Votes: 11
82. The Last Man (1932)
65 min | Mystery
While traveling near Suez in a dense fog, the freighter Glencoe almost runs into an apparently abandoned freighter that is drifting aimlessly. As the crew investigates the mysterious vessel... See full summary »
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: Charles Bickford, Constance Cummings, Alec B. Francis, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 10
83. The Military Air-Scout (1911)
Short, Drama
The story takes place three years into the future. Events represented take place in 1914, when supposedly there is a war between the united European states and the United States of America.... See full summary »
Director: William Humphrey | Stars: Earle Williams, Edith Storey, Alec B. Francis, Henry H. Arnold
Votes: 10
84. The Music Master (1927)
80 min | Drama
Anton von Barwig, formerly an orchestra leader in Vienna, searches for his daughter who was taken from him by his wife many years before. Out of pride, he refuses help and is gradually ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Alec B. Francis, Lois Moran, Neil Hamilton, Norman Trevor
Votes: 8
85. Pals First (1926)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Richard Castleman, master of Winnecrest Hall in Louisiana, goes on a sea voyage recommended by his cousin and physician, Harry Chilton, who thereupon begins romancing Castleman's fiancée, ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Dolores Del Río, Alec B. Francis, George Cooper
86. The Auction Block (1917)
Passed | Drama, Romance
A wealthy businessman proudly watches as his son begins his own business, a shoe store. However, things start to take a turn for the worst when the father's estranged wife inserts herself ... See full summary »
Director: Laurence Trimble | Stars: Rubye De Remer, Florence Deshon, Dorothy Wheeler, Florence Johns
87. Lord and Lady Algy (1919)
60 min | Comedy
Lord and Lady Algy separate on cordial terms, after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is courted by Algy's philandering... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Tom Moore, Naomi Childers, Leslie Stuart, Frank Leigh
88. The Witch (I) (1913)
30 min | Short, Drama
Selectman Marsh, a miserly elder, is in love with Mary Martin, daughter of Widow Martin, but she resents his attentions. Governor Brent, a stranger in the village, comes across her in the ... See full summary »
Director: O.A.C. Lund | Stars: Alec B. Francis, Mildred Bright, Robert Frazer, Julia Stuart
89. Vanishing Millions (1926)
Director: Alan James | Stars: William Fairbanks, Vivian Rich, Alec B. Francis, Sheldon Lewis
90. The Little Snob (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
May Banks (May McAvoy) is a working class girl who gets ideals above her station in life when her father, Colonel Banks (Alec B. Francis), a Coney Island employee, save enough money to send... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: May McAvoy, Robert Frazer, Alec B. Francis, Virginia Lee Corbin
91. The Tender Hour (1927)
80 min | Romance, Drama
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Billie Dove, Ben Lyon, Montagu Love, Alec B. Francis
92. The Sacred Flame (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance, War
Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Pauline Frederick, William Courtenay, Conrad Nagel, Lila Lee
93. The Shepherd of the Hills (1928)
90 min | Drama
John Boles (as Young Matt) is a troubled young mountain man, but a stranger comes to help him in an unlikely way.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Alec B. Francis, Molly O'Day, John Boles, Matthew Betz
94. The Sons of a Soldier (1913)
Short, Drama
The earlier scenes depict the members of the older branches of the Primrose family in the trying crises of the Revolution and the Civil War, showing their mettle and preparing the way for ... See full summary »
Director: O.A.C. Lund | Stars: Frederick Truesdell, Barbara Tennant, Jack W. Johnston, Guy Hedlund
95. The Butterfly Man (1920)
60 min | Drama
Sedgewick Blynn is a gigolo--albeit a broke one--determined to marry into money, no matter what it takes. One evening he saves a young child from burning to death in a fire and is hailed as... See full summary »
Directors: Louis J. Gasnier, Ida May Park | Stars: Lew Cody, Louise Lovely, Lila Leslie, Rosemary Theby
96. The Yellow Passport (1916)
50 min | Drama
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Director: Edwin August | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Edwin August, John St. Polis, Alec B. Francis
97. The Perils of Divorce (1916)
50 min | Drama
A few years into their marriage, Constance and John Graham apparently have proved wrong all of the doubters who advised against their May-December romance. Then, Alice Lorraine, who loved ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin August | Stars: Edna Wallace Hopper, Frank Sheridan, Macey Harlam, Ruby Hoffman
98. The Spectre Bridegroom (1913)
Short, Drama
At a Hallow's Eve party at Baron Von Landshort's, the young people are peeling apples. They throw a long peeling over their shoulders, and the initial of the thrower's sweetheart Hilda's ... See full summary »
Director: Étienne Arnaud | Stars: Alec B. Francis, Mildred Bright, Susanne Willis, Lillian Kingsbury
99. The Coast of Folly (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Anthony Jowitt, Alec B. Francis, Dorothy Cumming
Gross: $0.26M
100. The Face in the Dark (1918)
60 min | Crime, Mystery
Jane Ridgeway, the daughter of retired Secret Service man Charles Ridgeway, has inherited her father's knack for solving crimes and puts her talent to work when her sweetheart, Richard ... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Mae Marsh, Niles Welch, Alec B. Francis, Harry Myers