Biography: Richard Barthelmess |
Richard Barthelmess endeavored to follow the family tradition established by his actress mother Carolyn Harris, appearing in amateur theatricals while attending Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1916, the 21-year-old Barthelmess was invited... more
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The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
Cast: George Murphy
Tags: Musical
Length: 86min
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a...
The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
Cast: Richard Barthelmess
Length: 75min
This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled DA Steve Forbes, a character based on legendary lawyer William Fallon. After railroading an innocent boy into the electric...
Cast: Marlene Dietrich John Wayne William Farnum Harry Carey Randolph Scott Margaret Lindsay
Tags: Adventure Costume Adventure Romantic Adventure
Length: 88min
The fourth of five movie versions of the rugged Rex Beach novel of the same name, 1942's The Spoilers stars Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, and Randolph Scott. The plot, involving the cheating of Alaskan gold rush prospectors by a crooked gold...
Tags: Crime Drama Melodrama Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 71min
Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit ~A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be described as "Grand Hotel goes to the theater." Richard Barthelmess stars as Tony, a condemned murderer, who is handcuffed to...
Length: 60min
In this drama, a gambler must hide-out from the mob and ends up in a spinster's apartment. The old woman, is unused to company as she has spent her life in seclusion after a failed romance in her youth. When the crime lord is killed, the gambler, his...
Length: 70min
One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population, Massacre is more admirable for its intentions than its execution. The film was inspired by the activities of John Collier,...
Tags: Spy Film Action Drama Historical Film
Length: 77min
Hollywood star Richard Barthelmess, who's about as French as a hot dog with mustard, plays the title character in the British costume melodrama Spy of Napoleon. Based on a novel by Baroness Orczy (-The Scarlet Pimpernel), the plot focuses on the...
Cast: Jean Arthur Rita Hayworth Cary Grant Howard Hawks Thomas Mitchell
Tags: Romantic Adventure Buddy Film Adventure
Length: 120min
Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes. Cary Grant heads a ramshackle airmail and freight service, forced to fly in the most perilous of weather conditions to the most...
Cast: G.W. Pabst
Tags: Drama
Length: 70min
Produced by Warner Bros. in 1934, A Modern Hero was the only American talkie directed by the great German filmmaker G. W. Pabst. Richard Barthelmess plays Pierre, the bastard son of blowzy, besotted circus performer Mme. Azais (Marjorie Rambeau)....
Cast: Loretta Young
Tags: Melodrama Message Movie Drama
Length: 72min
What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic" Wilson Mizner) tackles such issues as disenfranchised war veterans, misguided hero worship, drug addiction, the Depression, capitalism,...
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