Warner Bros: 1926-1956
by dusky-1 | created - 06 Aug 2013 | updated - 18 Feb 2014 | PublicA list of Warner Bros. pictures from 1926 (debut of Don Juan, their first semi-sound film) to 1956 (the year Jack L. Warner infamously betrayed his brother out of the business). Not included are shorts, pre-1929 First National pictures or pictures which were distributed but not produced by the Warners.
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1. Don Juan (1926)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Romance
In 16th-century Italy, devil-may-care playboy Don Juan runs afoul of the despotic Borgias.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland, Estelle Taylor
Votes: 963 | Gross: $1.92M
First film to use synchronized sound. Remade as 1948's the Adventures of Don Juan.
2. Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles. Meanwhile, her ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise Dresser, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jerry Miley
Votes: 19
3. Millionaires (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy
Meyer Rubens and his wife Esther own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move up to the upper West Side, and her rich sister Reba persuades Meyer to invest in the... See full summary »
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: George Sidney, Louise Fazenda, Vera Gordon, Nat Carr
A lost film.
4. Across the Pacific (1926)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Romance, War
Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Phillipines. To do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Monte Blue, Jane Winton, Myrna Loy, Charles Stevens
Votes: 40
A lost film.
5. The Better 'Ole (1926)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, War, Drama
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Syd Chaplin, Harold Goodwin, Jack Ackroyd, Edgar Kennedy
Votes: 289 | Gross: $1.25M
6. My Official Wife (1926)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, Romance, War
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women, and spectacular settings.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Irene Rich, Conway Tearle, Jane Winton, Gustav von Seyffertitz
7. Private Izzy Murphy (1926)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Isadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen Cohannigan, the daughter of a meat-packer, and ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: George Jessel, Patsy Ruth Miller, Vera Gordon, Nat Carr
A lost film.
8. While London Sleeps (1926)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Rinty is a police-dog (and faithful companion) assigned to a young Scotland Yard police officer who covers the Limehouse district of London. The East India dock in Limehouse is the home of ... See full summary »
Directors: Howard Bretherton, Walter Morosco | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Helene Costello, Walter Merrill, John Patrick
Votes: 34
9. The Third Degree (1926)
80 min | Romance
Circus artist Alicia deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Alicia's deserted daughter Annie Martin is a trapeze performer in a ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dolores Costello, Louise Dresser, Rockliffe Fellowes, Jason Robards Sr.
Votes: 53
Remake of 1919 version.
10. Finger Prints (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Crime
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Louise Fazenda, John T. Murray, Helene Costello, Myrna Loy
Votes: 24
A lost film.
11. Wolf's Clothing (1927)
80 min | Comedy, Family
Barry Baline, a guard at a subway station, has worked at his job for six years without a day off. One New Year's Eve he's told that he won't be needed until the next morning, so he decides ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, John Miljan, Douglas Gerrard
12. The Fortune Hunter (1927)
80 min | Comedy
Cafe bouncer Nat Duncan is astonished to see his old panhandling pal Handsome Harry visiting the cabaret in the company of a bejeweled matron. Harry persuades Nat that he too can marry ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Syd Chaplin, Helene Costello, Clara Horton, Duke Martin
Remake of 1920 version. A lost film.
13. Don't Tell the Wife (1927)
70 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon, Lilyan Tashman, Otis Harlan
Remake of 1925's Kiss Me Again. A lost film.
14. When a Man Loves (1927)
Passed | 111 min | History, Romance
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Sam De Grasse
Votes: 416 | Gross: $0.89M
15. Hills of Kentucky (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Family
In a famine-stricken section of Kentucky, the mountain people are forced to turn out their dogs. One dog, which becomes the leader of a foraging dog pack, is known as The Grey Ghost. Ben, a... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Jason Robards Sr., Dorothy Dwan, Tom Santschi
Votes: 44
16. The Gay Old Bird (1927)
70 min | Comedy
A maid is forced to take the place of the lady of the house when she is temporarily incapacitated.
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: Louise Fazenda, John T. Murray, Jane Winton, William Demarest
Votes: 13
A lost film.
17. White Flannels (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz (Louise Dresser), stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank Politz (Jason Robards) to local girl Anne (Virginia Brown Faire), ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Louise Dresser, Jason Robards Sr., Virginia Brown Faire, Warner Richmond
18. What Every Girl Should Know (1927)
70 min | Romance, Drama
A young girl and her two brothers are sent to a children's home after their older brother, the only one supporting them, winds up in jail.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, Ian Keith, Carroll Nye, Mickey McBan
19. Matinee Ladies (1927)
70 min | Comedy
Short on money, law student Bob Ward takes a job as a "dancing companion" at a roadhouse, where most of his clients are women looking for a little excitement outside their marriages. He ... See full summary »
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: May McAvoy, Malcolm McGregor, Hedda Hopper, Margaret Seddon
20. The Brute (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Martin Sondes (Monte Blue) is an easy-going cowhand going up against a shady, saloon owner called "Square Deal" Fenton (Paul Nicholson", whose chief means of making money is befuddling ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Monte Blue, Leila Hyams, Clyde Cook, Carroll Nye
21. Bitter Apples (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance
John Wyncote's father dies, leaving him a bankrupt business. He instructs the family attorney, Thorden, to sell the business and all of his father's other interests. One of the now bankrupt... See full summary »
Director: Harry O. Hoyt | Stars: Monte Blue, Myrna Loy, Paul Ellis, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 32
A lost film.
22. The Climbers (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
The Duchess of Aragon (Irene Rich) is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya (Myrna Loy), who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into ... See full summary »
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Irene Rich, Clyde Cook, Forrest Stanley, Florence Fair
Votes: 10
Remake of 1919's the Climbers. A lost film.
23. Tracked by the Police (1927)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona,to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Jason Robards Sr., Virginia Brown Faire, Tom Santschi
Votes: 44
Debut of Ray Enright.
24. Irish Hearts (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him. However, when he loses his job, Sheila is ... See full summary »
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: May McAvoy, Jason Robards Sr., Warner Richmond, Kathleen Key
Votes: 32
Holds the distinction of lowest IMDB rating on this list. A lost film.
25. The Missing Link (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Arthur Wells (Syd Chaplin), an impoverished poet, impersonates a big-game hunter in an attempt to locate the missing link. However, the poet has an aversion to animals...tame or wild.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Syd Chaplin, Ruth Hiatt, Tom McGuire, Crauford Kent
Votes: 19
26. A Million Bid (1927)
70 min | Drama, Romance
An experimental brain surgeon must decide if he will restore the memory of his wife's abusive first husband.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Malcolm McGregor, Betty Blythe
Votes: 45
Remake of 1914 version.
27. Simple Sis (1927)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: Louise Fazenda, Clyde Cook, Myrna Loy, William Demarest
Votes: 10
28. The Black Diamond Express (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
Dan Foster (Monte Blue), the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon (Edna Murphy), whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon (Myrtle ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Monte Blue, Edna Murphy, Myrtle Stedman, Claire McDowell
A lost film.
29. Dearie (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
Finding herself in dire circumstances, the widowed Sylvia Darling determines that her son, Stephen, will complete his college education and develop his supposed literary talents; thus, she ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Irene Rich, William Collier Jr., Edna Murphy, Anders Randolf
A lost film.
30. Old San Francisco (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance
In San Francisco, a villainous land owner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Dolores Costello, Josef Swickard, Anders Randolf, Charles Emmett Mack
Votes: 410
31. What Happened to Father (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
The title is descriptive and is not a question in which William Bradberry (Warner Oland), an absent-minded Egyptologist, turns from a henpecked husband to a dominating one who, unknown to ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Warner Oland, Florence Fair, William Demarest, Vera Lewis
32. The First Auto (1927)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Drama
Hank owns horses, stables horses and races horses. He favorite horse always wins and he is prosperous and will known. His son (Bob), however dreams only of the future of the horseless ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Barney Oldfield, Patsy Ruth Miller, Russell Simpson, Frank Campeau
Votes: 277
33. The Heart of Maryland (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Drama, Romance
"The Heart of Maryland" (1927) is a silent costume Vitaphone drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars Dolores Costello in the title character and features Jason Robards, Sr.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Dolores Costello, Jason Robards Sr., Warner Richmond, Helene Costello
Votes: 26
Remake of 1921 version.
34. The Bush Leaguer (1927)
70 min | Comedy
"Specs" White owns a garage in town and is the local baseball team's #1 pitcher--but he's more interested in working on his latest invention, a new and improved gas pump, than pitching on ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Monte Blue, Clyde Cook, Leila Hyams, William Demarest
A lost film.
35. The Desired Woman (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Diana Maxwell, a British army officer's-wife cause havoc, desire and jealousy among the men stationed in an isolated outpost in the Sahara desert and other locations.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Irene Rich, William Russell, William Collier Jr., Douglas Gerrard
Votes: 32
36. Slightly Used (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy
Cynthia Martin (May McAvoy) in order to get around the insistence of her father (Rudolph Anders) that her two younger sisters Helen (Audrey Ferris) and Grace (Sally Elers) can not marry ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, Robert Agnew, Audrey Ferris
Remade as 1930's the Flirting Widow.
37. Jaws of Steel (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Rinty (Rin-Tin-Tin) has to live down a false accusation of being a vicious killer he does so by protecting a baby girl (Mary Louise Miller) from a multiplicity of hazards.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Jason Robards Sr., Helen Ferguson, Mary Louise Miller
Votes: 24
38. One-Round Hogan (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
"One-Round' Hogan is a heavyweight prizefighter with a knockout punch contending for a championship bout who, because of the death of a friend, almost wrecks his own career by holding back.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Monte Blue, Leila Hyams, James J. Jeffries, Frank Hagney
39. A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Cynthia Botts is the headmistress of a girls' school who is left a fortune on the condition that no scandal could ever be associated with her name. But scandal in the form of Sandy McTavish and Charlotte Ralston is just around the corner.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Louise Fazenda, Clyde Cook, Myrna Loy, William Demarest
Votes: 15
40. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 11,068 | Gross: $7.63M
First partial-talkie film. Warner Bros. won a special Academy Award for producing "the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry." Remade in 1952.
41. Sailor Izzy Murphy (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama
Izzy Murphy (George Jessel) is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: George Jessel, Audrey Ferris, Warner Oland, John Miljan
A lost film.
42. The College Widow (1927)
67 min | Comedy, Romance
The College Widow (1927) is an American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Archie Mayo. The film is based on the 1904 Broadway play by George Ade ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Dolores Costello, William Collier Jr., Douglas Gerrard, Anders Randolf
Votes: 16
Remade in 1930 as Maybe it's Love and 1936 as Freshman Love. A lost film.
43. A Reno Divorce (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance
An attractive heiress, Carla (May McAvoy), and David (Ralph Graves), a successful artist, fall in love following an automobile accident. and are married. Their idyll is interrupted by a ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Graves | Stars: May McAvoy, Ralph Graves, Hedda Hopper, Robert Ober
44. A Dog of the Regiment (1927)
Passed | 50 min | Drama, Family, War
During World War I, Rin-Tin-Tin finds that he must rescue his master, a fighter pilot, from his wrecked aircraft. He also has to help him escape his rival, who has ordered him shot so he ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Dorothy Gulliver, Tom Gallery, John S. Peters
A lost film.
45. Good Time Charley (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
Charley Keane is a well-known vaudeville performer who seems to have everything going for him--fame, money, and a beautiful daughter on whom he dotes. Unfortunately, things start to slide ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Warner Oland, Helene Costello, Clyde Cook, Montagu Love
Votes: 43
A lost film.
46. The Silver Slave (1927)
70 min | Drama
Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, Holmes Herbert, John Miljan
47. The Girl from Chicago (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A southern belle from Dixie, Mary Carlton (Myrna Loy), aided by her police detective lover "Handsome" Joe (Conrad Nagel), outwits and brings to justice the Chicago gangster, "Big Steve" ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Myrna Loy, William Russell, Carroll Nye
Votes: 15
48. Ginsberg the Great (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Johnny Ginsberg (George Jessel) is a tailor's assistant whose ambition is to become a successful conjurer/magician. He joins a carnival and fails but not before apprehending a gang of jewel... See full summary »
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: George Jessel, Audrey Ferris, Gertrude Astor, Douglas Gerrard
A lost film.
49. Brass Knuckles (1927)
Passed | 68 min | Drama
Zac Harrison (Monte Blue), upon his release from prison assumes responsibility for seeing to the needs of June Curry (Betty Bronson), the 17-year-old daughter of a fellow inmate who has ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Monte Blue, Betty Bronson, William Russell, George E. Stone
50. If I Were Single (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
Rich girl Joan Whitney (Myrna Loy) does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May (May McAvoy) and Ted Howard (Conrad Nagel) and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, Myrna Loy, George Beranger
Votes: 18
51. Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)
60 min | Comedy, War
Fifi, (Mryna Loy), a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham, (Tom Wilson), and Eggs, (Heinie Conklin), in France during World War One.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Tom Wilson, Heinie Conklin, Myrna Loy, William Irving
Votes: 45
A lost film.
52. Husbands for Rent (1927)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
After six months of marriage--a whole half-year!--a couple decides that they have made a mistake and plans to divorce. Her father, though, has other ideas and hatches a plot to to make them... See full summary »
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Owen Moore, Helene Costello, Katherine Perry, John Miljan
Screen debut of Hugh Herbert. A lost film.
53. Beware of Married Men (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Womanizer Leonard Gilbert (Richard Tucker) lures a variety of ladies to his apartment, complete with cocktail shakers, plush pillows and a Japanese manservant as symbols of sophistication. ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Irene Rich, Clyde Cook, Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy
Votes: 21
A lost film.
54. A Race for Life (1928)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Danny O'Shea (Bobby Gordon) runs away from hone with his pet dog Rinty (Rin-Tin-Tin) and heads for a race track determined to become a famous jockey. Aided by Rinty he is soon riding in a big race.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Virginia Brown Faire, Carroll Nye, Robert Gordon
Votes: 17
A lost film.
55. 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
A lost film.
56. Across the Atlantic (1928)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Romance
Brothers Hugh and Dan Clayton are both in love with Phyllis, their father's secretary. She finally chooses Hugh, and they marry before he joins the army and is sent overseas as a fighter ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Monte Blue, Edna Murphy, Burr McIntosh, Robert Ober
A lost film.
57. Powder My Back (1928)
70 min | Comedy
Powder My Back is a lost 1928 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Irene Rich. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. who released it with a Vitaphone music and sound effects track.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, George Beranger, Anders Randolf
Votes: 11
A lost film.
58. Tenderloin (1928)
Passed | 85 min | Drama
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's" in New York City's "Tenderloin" district, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, Mitchell Lewis, Dan Wolheim
Votes: 80
Partial-talkie. A lost film.
59. Domestic Troubles (1928)
Passed | 58 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Twin brothers James and Horace Bullard have opposite personalities. James, a fun dandy, marries a club-woman. Horace, introvert and prudish, marries a butterfly.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Clyde Cook, Louise Fazenda, Betty Blythe, Jean Lefferty
A lost film.
60. The Crimson City (1928)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Gregory Kent (John Miljan) is on the run for a crime he did not commit.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Myrna Loy, John Miljan, Leila Hyams, Sôjin Kamiyama
Votes: 31
A lost film.
61. Rinty of the Desert (1928)
Passed | 54 min | Family
Rinty (Rin-Tin-Tin), a dog of the desert, wanders into a big city and finds many reasons to turn his back on humanity. He is given a home by sweet June Marlow (Audrey Ferris) but he soon ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Audrey Ferris, Carroll Nye, Paul Panzer
Votes: 17
A lost film.
62. Glorious Betsy (1928)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, History
The real-life courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, and his rich wife from the American south, Elizabeth Patterson. Napoleon did not approve of the union and fixes him up with another girl.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott
Votes: 159
Partial-talkie. Remade in 1936 as Hearts Divided.
63. Pay as You Enter (1928)
Passed | 55 min | Comedy, Romance
Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones (Clyde Cook) and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones (William Demarest) are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith (Louise Fazenda)
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Louise Fazenda, Clyde Cook, William Demarest, Myrna Loy
Votes: 21
A lost film.
64. 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
Partial-talkie. Remake of 1919 version.
65. Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Street cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom Ticketts) on the conditions that he retain the uncle's valet, Briggs (William Demarest). ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Louise Fazenda, Clyde Cook, William Demarest, Gertrude Astor
A lost film.
66. Lights of New York (1928)
Passed | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A gangster frames two bootleggers for the shooting of a police officer in New York during the prohibition.
Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 943 | Gross: $1.20M
First all-talkie film. First Warner Bros. gangster movie.
67. Women They Talk About (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A story of two closely-knit relationships, one of which involves John Harrison (Anders Randolph), the mayor of a city and his renewed friendship with a widow and former sweetheart Irene ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, William Collier Jr., Anders Randolf
Votes: 18
A lost film.
68. Caught in the Fog (1928)
70 min | Thriller
Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, Mack Swain, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 27
69. State Street Sadie (1928)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Framed for the murder of a policeman, gangster Joe Blake commits suicide. "The Bat," a gang leader, is the real murderer. Joe's twin brother, Ralph, joins the gang to get revenge and clear ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Myrna Loy, William Russell, George E. Stone
Votes: 19
A lost film.
70. The Terror (1928)
85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda, Edward Everett Horton, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 69 | Gross: $1.22M
A lost film.
71. The Singing Fool (1928)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Musical
A singing waiter and composer (Al Jolson) loves two women (Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn), conquers Broadway and holds his dying son, singing "Sonny Boy."
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn, Arthur Housman
Votes: 279 | Gross: $10.90M
Partial-talkie. Believed to be the most successful Warner Bros. picture.
72. Land of the Silver Fox (1928)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Family
In his first 'barking talkie", set in the far-North in the silver-fox trapping country, Rin-Tin-Tin plays a much-abused dog who is rescued by a young girl and he, in turn, provides ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Leila Hyams, John Miljan, Carroll Nye
Votes: 38
73. Beware of Bachelors (1928)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Romance
A young couple, Ed (Willain Collier Jr.) and May (Audrey Ferris) have to stay married for a year in order to receive a large monetary windfall from a kindly relative. If they don't the ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Audrey Ferris, William Collier Jr., Tom Ricketts, George Beranger
74. Noah's Ark (1928)
Passed | 135 min | Drama, War
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
Directors: Michael Curtiz, Darryl F. Zanuck | Stars: Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda
Votes: 917 | Gross: $1.37M
75. The Home Towners (1928)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The story of Vic Arnold (Richard Bennett), a man who falls in love with Beth Calhoun (Doris Kenyon), a girl half his age, much to the disapproval of an elderly friend, P.H. Bancroft (Robert... See full summary »
Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Richard Bennett, Doris Kenyon, Robert McWade, Gladys Brockwell
A lost film. Remade in 1936 as Times Square Playboy and in 1940 as Ladies Must Live.
76. On Trial (1928)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A court-room drama in which Robert Strickland (Bert Lytell) finds himself on trial for the murder of his friend.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Pauline Frederick, Bert Lytell, Lois Wilson, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 24
Remade in 1939.
77. The Little Wildcat (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A pair of elderly Civil War veterans, Judge Holt and his friend Joel Ketchum, spent most of their time reminiscing about their wartime experiences. In the meantime, Holt's granddaughter ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Audrey Ferris, James Murray, Robert Edeson, George Fawcett
A lost film.
78. My Man (1928)
Passed | 99 min | Drama
A mailman, lives a normal everyday life, until one day, something unexpected happens, and everything he knew changes.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Fanny Brice, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Edna Murphy, Andrés de Segurola
Votes: 33
Screen debut of Fannie Brice. A lost film.
79. Conquest (1928)
75 min | Drama
Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One of the pilots is injured and the other ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Monte Blue, H.B. Warner, Lois Wilson, Edmund Breese
A lost film.
80. Synthetic Sin (1929)
72 min | Comedy
Famed playwright Donald's latest work flopped because fiancée Betty is too unsophisticated to play the lead. It's time for the flower of Magnolia Gap, Virginia to travel to Gotham for some ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Colleen Moore, Antonio Moreno, Edythe Chapman, Kathryn McGuire
Votes: 53
81. Cheyenne (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
A champion rodeo rider enters a series of rodeo competitions, and is winning every one so far. However, his enemies are plotting to stop him from taking part in the contests by any means necessary.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Gladys McConnell, James Bradbury Jr.
82. Fancy Baggage (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy, George Fawcett, Hallam Cooley
Votes: 16
A lost film.
83. Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help with one of her father's guests shortly before his planned departure. Her suspicions about ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, Sheldon Lewis, William V. Mong
Votes: 481
84. Stark Mad (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Mystery
An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: H.B. Warner, Louise Fazenda, Jacqueline Logan, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 30
A lost film.
85. His Captive Woman (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A cabaret dancer, kills her sugar-daddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer, but is captured by the detective trailing her.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Gladden James, Jed Prouty
Votes: 24
86. The Greyhound Limited (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
A train engineer and his fireman are best friends, until the engineer breaks up a romance between his pal and a trampy girl he knows is no good for him, which also breaks up their ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Monte Blue, Edna Murphy, Grant Withers, Lucy Beaumont
87. The Million Dollar Collar (1929)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Family
Bill Holmes (Matty Kemp) rescues Rinty (Rin-Tin-Tin) from a car wreck, not realizing that a stolen $50,000 diamond necklace is hidden in the dog's collar. He discovers this fact when he ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Matty Kemp, Evelyn Pierce, Philo McCullough
Votes: 14
88. Weary River (1929)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, William Holden, Louis Natheaux
Votes: 562
89. The Redeeming Sin (1929)
75 min | Drama, Romance
At the Café du Chat Noir, Joan Billaire, a dancer, attacks Mitzi for schooling her brother, Petit, in picking pockets and is saved from a knifing by Lupine, a thief. Later, Lupine enlists ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, George E. Stone, Philippe De Lacy
A lost film. Remake of 1925 version.
90. Children of the Ritz (1929)
71 min | Drama
A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur. Their situations are changed when her family loses all their money and he wins $50,000 at a racetrack. They get married, but it's not long ... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, James Ford, Richard Carlyle
A lost film.
91. The California Mail (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Western
During the American civil war, the Union is at a point where it desperately needs gold to pay for the armies and to maintain its credit. Agent Bob Scott is sent to California to eliminate ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Dorothy Dwan, Lafe McKee
92. The Lawless Legion (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Sheriff Keiver's ( Howard Truesdell ) daughter, Mary ( Nora Lane ), promises to marry Cal Stanley ( Ken Maynard ) if he will drive a large herd of cattle from drought-stricken East Texas ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Ken Maynard, Nora Lane, Paul Hurst, J.P. McGowan
Votes: 17
93. The Royal Rider (1929)
Passed | 67 min | Western
A cowboy is hired to protect the king of a small country. It turns out that the king is actually a young boy, and revolutionaries are out to overthrow him. Complicating matters is the ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Ken Maynard, Olive Hasbrouck, Philippe De Lacy, Theodore Lorch
94. Stolen Kisses (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: May McAvoy, Claude Gillingwater, Hallam Cooley, Edna Murphy
A lost film.
95. Sonny Boy (I) (1929)
70 min | Comedy
On the eve of her divorce, a mother enlists her sister's aid in smuggling her young son out of the house, fearing that she will lose custody of him and hides out in the apartment of her ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Davey Lee, Edward Everett Horton, Betty Bronson, Gertrude Olmstead
Votes: 18
A lost film.
96. Why Be Good? (1929)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton, Bodil Rosing, John St. Polis
Votes: 562
97. Die Mitternachts-Taxe (1929)
Taxi at Midnight is a 1929 silent German thriller.
Director: Harry Piel | Stars: Harry Piel, Betty Bird, Philipp Manning, Hans Sanden
98. One Stolen Night (1929)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Drama, Romance
When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Suden, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and ... See full summary »
Director: Scott R. Dunlap | Stars: Betty Bronson, William Collier Jr., Mitchell Lewis, Harry Todd
A lost film. Remake of 1923 version.
99. Kid Gloves (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment,... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Edward Earle, Edna Murphy
A lost film.
100. Love and the Devil (1929)
70 min | Drama
Complications arise when a young married woman is found in another man's bedroom.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Milton Sills, María Corda, Ben Bard, Nellie Bly Baker
Votes: 21
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