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1. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.

Directors: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson

Votes: 7,982 | Gross: $12.45M

2. While New York Sleeps (1920)

80 min | Crime, Drama

Three short stories with the same cast in each: "Out of the Night," in which a woman is saved from a bigamous dilemma by a burglar; "The Great White Way," in which a couple of con men pull ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Estelle Taylor, William Locke, Marc McDermott, Harry Sothern

Votes: 31

3. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)

86 min | Drama

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Raquel Torres, Don Alvarado

Votes: 102

4. The Beast of the City (1932)

Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt

Votes: 1,419 | Gross: $0.89M

5. Twinkletoes (1926)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance

"Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot, a noted prizefighter, who falls in love with her at first sight. She tries to avoid ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Colleen Moore, Kenneth Harlan, Tully Marshall, Gladys Brockwell

Votes: 100

6. The Valley of the Giants (1927)

70 min | Drama, Romance

Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Arthur Stone, George Fawcett

Votes: 17

7. Burning Daylight (1928)

Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

An Alaskan real estate tycoon who's visiting San Francisco loses his fortune to a group of investment sharks.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Arthur Stone, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Votes: 68

8. Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

Passed | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History

A prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.

Directors: Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin | Stars: John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan

Votes: 1,187

9. The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933)

Passed | 84 min | Drama, History, Romance

Showgirl Sally meets young playboy Leonard St. John; they fall in love and are secretly married. When Leonard's father discovers this he sets out to break them apart, and following a bitter... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Irene Dunne, Lionel Atwill, Phillips Holmes, Una Merkel

Votes: 361

10. A Wicked Woman (1934)

Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance

Naomi is almost to term with her fourth child when Ed decides to leave taking all their money and the oldest son Curtis. With the sheriff after him, he is in no mood to think of his family.... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Mady Christians, Jean Parker, Charles Bickford, Betty Furness

Votes: 228

11. Day of Reckoning (1933)

Passed | 69 min | Drama

John and Dorothy are happily married for 4 years when he's suddenly arrested for stealing money, which he did to support his wife's high tastes. George hires a lawyer for John to see that he gets prison time so he can movie in on Dorothy.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Richard Dix, Madge Evans, Conway Tearle, Una Merkel

Votes: 280

12. So Big (1924)

90 min | Drama

Following the death of Selena's father, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town, and a new chapter of her life begins.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Colleen Moore, Joseph De Grasse, John Bowers, Ben Lyon

Votes: 28

13. The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

G | 68 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.

Directors: Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett

Votes: 3,715 | Gross: $0.82M

14. Stella Maris (1925)

70 min | Drama

Stella Maris, the crippled daughter of an aristocratic couple, is brought up in tender solicitude, living in a castle midst gardens and rustic walks. Her constant companions are Walter ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Mary Philbin, Elliott Dexter, Gladys Brockwell, Jason Robards Sr.

Votes: 19

15. What Happened to Mary (II) (1912)

150 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

The forerunner of all serials, "What Happened to Mary" was a series of 12 monthly one-reel episodes, each a complete entity in itself, revolving its immediate dramatic and melodramatic ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Mary Fuller, Marc McDermott, Charles Ogle, Barry O'Moore

Votes: 33

16. Sporting Blood (1931)

Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

The saga of thoroughbred Tommy Boy, born in a rain puddle, and his various owners as he evolves into a a champion stakes horse.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Clark Gable, Ernest Torrence, Madge Evans, Lew Cody

Votes: 379

17. The Washington Masquerade (1932)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

US senator (Lionel Barrymore) falls in love with a young woman (Karen Morley), without realizing she's using him to back the lobbyist she works for.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, Diane Sinclair, Nils Asther

Votes: 175

18. Stage Mother (1933)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband's stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. But when the daughter shows some talent, the mother become a stage mother... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Alice Brady, Maureen O'Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Phillips Holmes

Votes: 260

19. The Great Meadow (1931)

75 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Berk leaves Diony and their baby to hunt down his mother's murderer and is believed to be dead. Evan provides for them & marries Diony. Berk returns and challenges Evan to a fight but Diony will not be fought over "as if I'm not human".

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Boardman, Lucille La Verne, Anita Louise

Votes: 153

20. I Married an Angel (1942)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical

A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.

Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Edward Everett Horton, Binnie Barnes

Votes: 570

21. The Usurer's Grip (1912)

15 min | Short, Crime, Drama

A young clerk, a small salary, a wife and child, the child long ill then the doctor's bill and other bills and debts accumulate; the advertisement in the news about borrowing money on your ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Walter Edwin, Gertrude McCoy, Edna May Weick, Charles Ogle

Votes: 72

22. Vanity Fair (1915)

Drama

Becky, a child, is left an orphan by the death of her father and is consigned to the tender mercies of the Misses Pinkertons, who conduct a fashionable school for girls. Becky feels keenly ... See full summary »

Directors: Charles Brabin, Eugene Nowland | Stars: Minnie Maddern Fiske, Shirley Mason, Yale Benner, Helen Fulton

Votes: 23

23. Kathleen Mavourneen (1919)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance

Kathleen, the daughter of a poor tenant farmer, dreams of her wedding with her beloved Terrence. The dream is interrupted when the Squire of the estate takes an interest in Kathleen and ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Theda Bara, Edward O'Connor, Jennie Dickerson, Raymond McKee

Votes: 25

24. Call of the Flesh (1930)

Passed | 100 min | Musical, Romance

Juan de Dios, from a poor working-class background, is a cantina performer in Seville, singing and dancing with his partner Lola. They have a contentious professional and personal ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Ernest Torrence, Nance O'Neil

Votes: 211

25. New Morals for Old (1932)

Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance

A single mother struggles to raise her son and daughter, who find it difficult to listen to her life lessons. They forge their own lives, and make their own mistakes as a result.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Robert Young, Margaret Perry, Lewis Stone, Laura Hope Crews

Votes: 281

26. The Secret Kingdom (1917)

Adventure, Romance, Thriller

Episode 1: "Land of the Intrigue" Taking advantage of his monarch's lack of funds. Prime Minister Simond of Alania, who secretly aspires to the throne, induces him to pass an obnoxious tax ... See full summary »

Directors: Charles Brabin, Theodore Marston | Stars: Charles Richman, Dorothy Kelly, Joseph Kilgour, Arline Pretty

Votes: 21

27. The Raven (1915)

Not Rated | 57 min | Biography, Drama

Edgar Allan Poe, while at college, incurs many debts and is sent home in disgrace. He is ordered from the house by his father. Shortly after, he marries, and tries to make a living by ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Warda Howard, Ernest Maupain, Eleanor Thompson

Votes: 127

28. Hope, a Red Cross Seal Story (1912)

14 min | Drama, Short

When a Red Cross worker asks a prominent small-town banker for a donation to help fight tuberculosis the banker scoffs, saying that TB is a disease of poor people in the cities, not the ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: George Lessey, Gertrude McCoy, William West, Robert Brower

Votes: 69

29. The Ship from Shanghai (1930)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama

On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert

Votes: 148

30. An Unsullied Shield (1913)

Not Rated | 17 min | Drama, Short

While their degenerate descendant sleeps, ancestral portraits come alive and admonish him.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Wadsworth Harris, Marc McDermott, Margery Bonney Erskine, Mabel Trunnelle

Votes: 104

31. The Ambassador's Daughter (1913)

Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama

The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Miriam Nesbitt, George Lessey, Robert Brower, Marc McDermott

Votes: 91

32. A Soldier's Duty (1912)

11 min | Short, Drama, War

The Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not getting through the enemy's lines to visit her. His pride determines him, and going to ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Augustus Phillips, Gertrude McCoy, George Lessey, Wadsworth Harris

Votes: 19

33. Persuasive Peggy (1917)

Comedy, Drama

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Peggy Hyland, William B. Davidson, Mary Cecil, Gertrude Norman

34. Red, White and Blue Blood (1917)

50 min | Comedy

John Spaulding saves Helen Molloy-Smythe and her mother, who has recently acquired great wealth, from a train robbery while they are on vacation out West. Some time later, John returns to ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Adella Barker, William H. Tooker

35. The Broadway Peacock (1922)

50 min | Drama

A cabaret hostess falls for a young aristocrat, ignoring her friend's warning that the affair will end in heartache.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Pearl White, Joseph Striker, Doris Eaton, Harry Southard

36. The Adopted Son (1917)

60 min | Drama

A feud has existed between the McLanes and the Conovers in the Tennessee mountains for many years. "Two Gun Carter" leaves Texas after a shooting fray and arrives just in time to witness ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Leslie Stowe, Jack W. Johnston

37. La belle Russe (1919)

60 min | Drama, Romance

Geraldine and Beatrice are the twin daughters of Hatherly, a Church of England parson in a small village. Beatrice, the more impulsive and frivolous of the two, elopes to London with a ... See full synopsis »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Theda Bara, Warburton Gamble, Marian Stewart, Robert Lee Keeling

38. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1914)

Short, Drama

The eighteenth day of April, 1775, still lives in the hearts of all loyal Americans, as the birthday of our country. It was the day the first shots were fired against the British at ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Augustus Phillips, Carlton S. King, Harry Linson, Yale Benner

39. Babette (1917)

50 min | Drama

Babette is living with her father, the jailer and hangman in the castle-jail at La Fourche. Raveau, a criminal, comes to the castle and meets her. Her sweetness and purity cause him to ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Marc McDermott, Peggy Hyland, Templar Saxe, William R. Dunn

40. The Foreman's Treachery (1913)

22 min | Short, Crime, Drama

A halfwit sees a foreman kill the owner of a copper mine.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Marc McDermott, Miriam Nesbitt, Charles E. Vernon, Douglas Munro

41. The Whip (1928)

70 min | Drama

Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Ralph Forbes, Anna Q. Nilsson, Lowell Sherman

42. The House of the Lost Court (1915)

Drama

Young lord of Whitehall Manor, Sir Anthony Elliott, becomes secretly engaged to Elinore Vane, but she marries his brother Paul. Resentful Anthony, decides to go to America, Nina Desmond, ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Robert Conness, Duncan McRae, Helen Strickland, Sally Crute

43. The Man Who Disappeared (1914)

Thriller

Episode 1: "The Black Mask" John Perriton was unmistakably a good fellow. He was never one to spoil a party with a long face and an absence of joviality, nor was he at all likely to break ... See full synopsis »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Marc McDermott, Barry O'Moore, Miriam Nesbitt, Marjorie Ellison

44. That Sort (1916)

Drama

John Heppell, a wealthy young man about town, falls in love with Diana Laska, a noted actress, and marries her. After their child is born he tires of her and goes back to his old way of ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Warda Howard, Duncan McRae, Ernest Maupain, John Lorenz

45. Social Quicksands (1918)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

Claiming that he has no need for social butterflies, Warren Dexter refuses to attend a reception at which he was to meet debutante Phyllis Lane. Humiliated, Phyllis makes a wager that she ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Mabel Frenyear, Leslie Stowe

46. A Matter of Minutes (1914)

Short, Crime, Drama

It will be remembered that Nelson Wales had put his sister into considerable danger and difficulty on account of the fact that the amiable young man had forged her name to a mortgage. John ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Marc McDermott, Barry O'Moore, Miriam Nesbitt

47. Breakers Ahead (1918)

50 min | Drama

After young Ruth Bowman's mother dies, the child is raised by Agatha Pixley, and in time, the girl falls in love with Agatha's son, Eric. While Eric is at sea with Captain Scudder on a boat... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Viola Dana, Clifford Bruce, Mabel Van Buren, Russell Simpson

48. The Sixteenth Wife (1917)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

Though the Turk has 15 wives, he yearns to make our heroine his 16th.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Peggy Hyland, Marc McDermott, George J. Forth, Templar Saxe

49. Mismates (1926)

70 min | Drama

"Mismates" is the story of a wealthy youth who, against his mother's wishes, marries a poor girl and is disowned. At first determined to support himself and his wife, he soon craves the ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Doris Kenyon, Warner Baxter, May Allison, Philo McCullough

50. Mary Jane's Pa (1917)

50 min | Drama

After wandering the world for fifteen years, Hiram Perkins returns home to find his wife running a small town newspaper to support their two daughters. With pity in her heart, Mrs. Perkins ... See full summary »

Directors: Charles Brabin, William P.S. Earle | Stars: Marc McDermott, Mildred Manning, Eulalie Jensen, Emmett King