J. Gordon Edwards
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Hollywood film director J. Gordon Edwards began his career as a theatrical actor and stage director. The Canadian-born Edwards made his directorial debut on film in 1914 for Fox Pictures. Soon he began helming all of the studio's mega-budget... more
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Cast: J. Gordon Edwards Robert Young Herbert Heyes Arthur Hohl Olaf Hytten
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 7rlmin
Herbert Heyes, a prominent stage and screen actor of the teens and twenties (and the father of writer/director Douglas Heyes), stars in It is the Law. Heyes is framed for murder by Arthur Hohl, who is jealous over the fact that he lost his girl friend...
Cast: J. Gordon Edwards William H. Tooker
Length: 7rlmin
This mystery-drama was one of the last films from director J. Gordon Edwards, who is best known for his work in the 1910s with screen vamp Theda Bara (Edwards died in 1925). It is also the final film made by very minor screen star (Barbara Castleton)....
Cast: J. Gordon Edwards William Fox Nerio Bernardi Edy Darclea Violet Mersereau
Length: 96min
After being made into a stage play by Wright Lorimer and Arnold Reeves, the Old Testament story of David was adapted for the screen. Director J. Gordon Edwards spent over a year in Palestine, Jerusalem and Egypt filming, with a primarily Italian cast....
Cast: John W. Boyle J. Gordon Edwards Betty Blythe George Siegmann Herbert Heyes
Tags: Drama Historical Film
Length: 9rlmin
It is easy to imagine Theda Bara playing the lead in this Fox Biblical epic, especially since its credited director is J. Gordon Edwards, who manned the megaphone for many of Bara's films. But by 1920, Bara had pretty much left films (she would only...
Cast: J. Gordon Edwards Enzo de Felice Jacques Gretillat Alexander Salvini Guido Trento
Tags: Biopic Drama Historical Film
Length: 12rlmin
The Fox studio wasn't known for its big-budget spectacles, but when it needed to, it could really come through, as proven here. Director J. Gordon Edwards spent eight months in preparation and a couple of months in Italy filming the story of the last...
Cast: Bela Lugosi J. Gordon Edwards Edmund Lowe William Fox Henry Armetta
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 8rlmin
Captain Richard Decatur (Edmund Lowe) is a young commander who is an undercover agent for the U.S. secret service. His ship cruises in the Panama Canal zone where he uncovers an enemy plot to dynamite the famous passage that connects the Atlantic and...
The Joyous Troublemakers (1920)
Cast: John W. Boyle J. Gordon Edwards William Farnum George Nichols
Tags: Parody/Spoof Satire Comedy Drama Melodrama
Length: 6rlmin
Like all of director J. Gordon Edwards' silent films, Joyous Troublemakers no longer exists. Existing documentation indicates that the story was a Fairbanksian romp, with William Farnum as the devil-may-care hero. To tame a spoiled, shrewish socialite...
Cast: J. Gordon Edwards
Length: min
Richard Hall (William Farnum) is a successful author and businessman, but his wife Alice (Alice Fleming) is more interested in her opera career than she is in their marriage. This causes more than a little friction and it culminates in Hall attacking...
Cast: William Farnum J. Gordon Edwards Herschel Mayall G. Raymond Nye Jackie Saunders
Tags: Sea Adventure Adventure
Length: min
When famed insurance firm Lloyds suspects that Captain Machen (Herschel Mayall) is scuttling his ships for the insurance money, they hire Jim Landers (William Farnum) to investigate. Landers joins the crew of Machen's ship, the Dorothy Low, and...
Cast: J. Gordon Edwards
Tags: Swashbuckler Period Film Drama
Length: min
Don Caesar de Bazan (William Farnum) falls in love with Maritana (Estelle Taylor), when he sees her dancing before Queen Isabel's court. But Prime Minister Don Jose (Paul Cazeneuve) has other plans for the girl -- he wants to use her to compromise...
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