Biography: Frank O'Connor |
A onetime stage actor, Frank O'Connor was a prolific writer/director in the silent era. During his busiest period as a director (1921-1929), he wrote and helmed such enjoyable time-fillers as Lawful Cheaters (1926). Returning to acting when sound came... more
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Cast: Betty Compson
Tags: Crime Thriller Supernatural Horror Mystery Crime Horror
Length: 69min
Filmed on the very cheap, Mystic Circle Murder (aka Religious Racketeers) is distinguished by the presence of Mme. Harry Houdini, in a rare movie appearance. The widow of the famed magician introduces the film by warning the viewer to steer clear of...
Cast: Larry Steers
Length: 7rlmin
In this youthful drama, a young high-school drop out is obsessed with find the gangsters who killed his brother, a racketeer. His search leads him to the dusky off-Broadway nightclubs where he encounters a dancer with whom he falls in love. Later they...
Cast: Francis X. Bushman Ethel Clayton
Length: 60min
In this melodrama, one of the earliest talkies, an unhappy clown retires from the circus and turns to horticulture. He is so fixated upon his flowers that he pays no attention to his wife, an ex-circus widow whose marriage to the clown was arranged....
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A long lost silent comedy-drama, Colleen was a great success for Madge Bellamy, whose popularity reached its zenith in the mid-1920s. According to the ~Motion Picture News, Bellamy played a debutante who falls in love with the son (Charles Morton) of...
Cast: Phyllis Haver
Tags: Comedy
Length: 6rlmin
This by-the-numbers farce stars Phyllis Haver as Phylliss Warren, a good-time girl who finds herself in jail. She might well have remained there were it not for the fact that she knows where a fortune in stolen loot is hidden. Hoping to retrieve the...
Cast: Pauline Frederick
Tags: Drama
Length: 6rlmin
This omance featured respected old-timers (Pauline Frederick in a starring role and Leah Baird as screenwriter) and a fresh up-and-comer (pretty WAMPAS baby star Marion Nixon). Jean Valyon (Richard Tucker) is sent to Devil's Island to serve a life...
Cast: Frank O'Connor
Length: 60min
The low-budget Sinews of Steel originally premiered in New York as one-half of a double feature, paired with the equally inexpensive She's My Baby. On the outs with his steel-magnate father, young Gaston Glass proves his worth by establishing his own...
Length: 58min
It is said that "B"-picture producer Sam Sax was so budget-conscious that he'd write eating scenes into his films to avoid giving his actors a lunch break. One of Sax's penny-pinching silent efforts was Speed Limit, a vehicle for light comedian...
Tags: Drama
Length: 6rlmin
Produced by poverty-row Gotham Pictures, Silent Power calls upon the talents of two of the studio's busiest employees: character actor Ralph Lewis and director Frank O'Connor. An anti-capital-punishment tract, the film casts Lewis as executioner John...
Cast: Hobart Bosworth Pat O'Malley Gladys Brockwell Marian Nixon
Tags: Drama
Length: 77min
Spangles was adapted by actress Leah Baird from the novel by Nellie Revell, with Revell receiving "star" billing in the credits. Marion Nixon plays the title character, a gorgeous bareback rider with a travelling circus. Spangles falls in love with...
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