Wyndham Standing

Widecombe Fair (1928)

Cast: Moore Marriott Wyndham Standing Norman Walker Wiliam Freshman Marguerite Allan   

Length: 63min

Based on the novel by Eden Philpotts, Widecombe Fair affords the modern viewer some fascinating glimpses of British rural life in the 1920s. Wyndham Standing plays a stern country squire who refuses to give his blessings to the romance between his...

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Canadian (1926)

Cast: Thomas Meighan William Beaudine Wyndham Standing Charles Winninger Dale Fuller   

Tags: Rural Drama 

Length: 78min

In 1917, Thomas Meighan played the lead in a film adaptation of Somerset Maugham's The Land of Promise. Nine years later he essayed the same role, Alberta wheat farmer Frank Taylor, in the remake, now titled The Canadian. When she loses her family...

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The City Gone Wild (1927)

Cast: Louise Brooks Thomas Meighan James Cruze Fred Kohler Wyndham Standing   

Tags: Crime Romance 

Length: 6rlmin

Made during Hollywood's first "gangster cycle," The City Gone Wild stars Thomas Meighan as an honest prosecuting attorney. Meighan's integrity is compromised when he falls in love with Louise Brooks, the "moll" of gang boss Fred Kohler. Brooks steals...

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The Reckless Sex (1925)

Cast: Alan James Wyndham Standing Madge Bellamy Walter Long Claire McDowell   

Tags: Adventure Crime Western 

Length: 6rlmin

A young Bostonian (Johnnie Walker) travels West to expect his father's New Mexico estate, which has become a target for gun runners. Along the way he mistakes travelling stock company actress Madge Bellamy for a child and brings her to the ranch. (The...

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The Rejected Woman (1924)

Cast: Bela Lugosi Conrad Nagel C. Aubrey Smith Wyndham Standing Albert Parker   

Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Romance 

Length: 8rlmin

John Leslie (Conrad Nagel) and Craig Burnett (Antonio D'Algy) land their plane near a small Quebec town. Leslie becomes infatuated with Diane DuPrez (Alma Rubens), although her father (George MacQuarrie) wants her to marry Jean Gagnon (Bela Lugosi,...

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The Dark Angel (1925)

Cast: Ronald Colman Samuel Goldwyn Florence Turner Wyndham Standing Helen Jerome Eddy   

Tags: Melodrama War Drama War Romance Drama War Romance 

Length: 8rlmin

This sentimental drama, based on the stage play by H.B. Trevelyan (actually a pseudonym for Guy Bolton), was the American film debut of Vilma Banky, and it made her a star overnight. The setting is World War I, and Captain Alan Trent (Ronald Coleman)...

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The Early Bird (1924)

Cast: Flora Finch Johnny Hines Wyndham Standing Ralph Spence Edmund Breese   

Tags: Action Comedy Crime Romance 

Length: 7rlmin

Independent milkman Jimmy Burke (Johnny Hines) exchanges clothes with a wealthy young man for a costume party. While he's there he befriends a pretty girl who he thinks is a maid, but is actually Jean Blair, president of the Milk Trust (Sigrid...

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Flames of Desire (1924)

Cast: Wyndham Standing Richard Thorpe George K. Arthur Charles Clary Denison Clift   

Tags: Melodrama Drama 

Length: 63min

Distinguished British stage veteran Wyndham Standing starred in this silent melodrama from Fox, ostensibly based on a 1866 play by Ouida. Standing played Daniel Strathmore, a wealthy industrialist fighting over a woman with old friend Ferand Vavasour...

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Vanity's Price (1924)

Cast: Roy William Neill Anna Q. Nilsson Wyndham Standing Stuart Holmes R. William Neil   

Tags: Melodrama 

Length: 63min

This drama was written by future MGM producer Paul Bern. The greatest ambition of actress Vanna Du Maurier (Anna Q. Nilsson) is to own her own theater, but when she meets De Greve, a millionaire (Stuart Holmes), she mysteriously changes her mind. De...

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