Biography: Brandon Hurst |
Satanic-featured British actor Brandon Hurst was once singled out by a prominent film historian as one of the five finest villains of the silent screen. He started out as a Philology student, gravitating to the stage in the 1880s. He was 50 years old... more
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Cast: Bobby Blake
Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 11min
Inspired by the success of his favorite comedian Red Skelton, Our Gang member Froggy (Billy Laughlin) decides to become a radio star. Armed with a tattered joke book and a vast array of "funny" props, Froggy and the other gang members begin searching...
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Cast: Bela Lugosi John Huston
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 61min
Having missed the opportunity to direct Frankenstein for Universal, Robert Florey was offered Murders in the Rue Morgue as a consolation, whereupon he transformed a pedestrian property into a minor classic. Owing more to Cabinet of Dr. Caligari than...
Tags: Comedy
Length: 7rlmin
Even fifty years after the fact, director David Butler harbored fond memories of 1928's News Parade. Fearless cameraman "Newsreel Nick" (Nick Stuart) will do anything for a good story, even unto risking his neck. His current assignment is to get an...
Cast: William Powell Doris Kenyon Clive Brook
Length: 90min
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who...
Cast: Greta Garbo John Gilbert Lionel Barrymore
Length: 96min
This MGM-ized adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was originally titled Heat but was changed to Love when someone at the studio pointed out the possible implications of having the opening title read "John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in Heat."...
Length: 7rlmin
Ever since he was wounded in WWI, jockey Bobby Robertson (William Collier Jr.) has been able to predict when it's going to rain. This turns out to be handy in the horse-racing business, with Bobby placing bets on horses he knows to be good "mudders."...
Cast: Richard Barthelmess
Tags: Drama
Length: 8rlmin
The 1926 Amateur Gentleman was the second film version of Jeffrey Farnol's novel of the same name. Richard Barthelmess stars as Barnabas Barty, the rough-hewn son of a prizefighter (Edwards Davis). Barty's dad is accused of a crime he didn't commit;...
Cast: Florence Vidor Gary Cooper George Bancroft Jack Holt Noah Beery, Sr. Adolph Zukor
Length: 7rlmin
Like most Westerns of the era, this Jack Holt vehicle from Paramount includes automobiles and even airplanes. But Holt went his rivals one better by incorporating a machine gun into a fight against a neighboring rancher who is out to ruin him. Based...
Tags: Romance Romantic Drama
Length: 75min
Polly Pearl (Norma Talmadge) is a bar manager who doubles as a cabaret performer in this romantic melodrama taken from the play by Martin Brown. The wealthy society swell Leonard St. Aubyns (Wallace McDonald) falls in love with Polly and the two are...
Cast: William C. DeMille Kathlyn Williams Adolphe Menjou Lewis Stone
Tags: Melodrama
Length: min
The normally low-key William C. deMille veers into the territory of his younger brother, Cecil B. DeMille, with this highly dramatic feature. Actress Corinne d'Alys (Bebe Daniels) is thrilled by her newfound success and aches for more publicity and...
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