Cast: Alec B. Francis
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Alec B. Francis. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1926 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Harry Edwards
Cast Harry Langdon · Joan Crawford · Edwards Davis · Tom Murray
6.7
59 votes
6.7
59 votes
Mata Hari
1931 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction George Fitzmaurice
Cast Greta Garbo · Ramon Novarro · Lionel Barrymore · Lewis Stone
Plot 1917. Mata Hari is a German spy, working in Paris. She has already seduced the Russian general Shubin, and has now set her eyes on lieutenant Rosanov, a a young...
6.4
751 votes
6.4
751 votes
Alice in Wonderland
1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Charlotte Henry · Leon Errol · Louise Fazenda · Ford Sterling
Plot On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening...
6.4
330 votes
6.4
330 votes
Beyond the Rocks
1922 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Rudolph Valentino · Gloria Swanson · Edythe Chapman · Raymond Blathwayt
Plot Love, duty, and the scent of narcissus. Theodora, a young and penniless aristocrat, marries a much older man, self-made millionaire grocer Josiah Brown, so that her father and spinster sisters...
6.3
61 votes
6.3
61 votes
The Circle
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Eleanor Boardman · Malcolm McGregor · Alec B. Francis · Eugenie Besserer
Plot This MGM film, directed by Frank Borzage (7th HEAVEN, STREET ANGEL, etc.), and adapted from a stage play by Somerset Maugham, is a prime example of the drawing-room drama. The...
5.9
31 votes
5.9
31 votes
Saved from the Titanic (S)
1912 · Movie · 10 min. · United States
Direction Étienne Arnaud
Cast Dorothy Gibson · Alec B. Francis · Julia Stuart · John G. Adolfi
Plot Saved from the Titanic was a 1912 silent motion picture short starring Dorothy Gibson, an actual survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. She co-wrote...
5.3
31 votes
5.3
31 votes
His Private Secretary
1933 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Phil Whitman
Cast Evalyn Knapp · John Wayne · Reginald Barlow · Alec B. Francis
Plot Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed. She takes a job with the company...
4.2
25 votes
4.2
25 votes
The Mad Whirl
1925 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast May McAvoy · Jack Mulhall · Myrtle Stedman · Barbara Bedford
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
1930 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Herbert Brenon
Cast Chester Morris · Betty Compson · Alec B. Francis · Gustav von Seyffertitz
Plot Grischa Paprotkin is a simple sergeant in the Russian Army, who has been captured by the Germans during World War I, and who sits in a Prisoner-of-war camp camp. When...
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Little Church Around the Corner
1923 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Claire Windsor · Kenneth Harlan · Hobart Bosworth · Pauline Starke
Plot A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out...
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The Bishop Murder Case
1930 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction David Burton · Nick Grinde
Cast Basil Rathbone · Leila Hyams · Roland Young · Alec B. Francis
Plot The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he...
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Thank You
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast George O'Brien · Jacqueline Logan · J. Farrell MacDonald · Alec B. Francis
Plot Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay on a chicken farm in the small village of Dedham.
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Her Code of Honor
1919 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Florence Reed · William Desmond · Robert Frazer · Irving Cummings
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The Venus Model
1918 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Clarence G. Badger
Cast Mabel Normand · Rod La Rocque · Alec B. Francis · Alfred Hickman
Plot A young lady designs a wonderfully received bathing suit and saves her employer from financial disaster. In the course of this, she falls in love with her employer's son, who...
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Oliver Twist
1933 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction William Cowen
Cast Dickie Moore · Irving Pichel · William Boyd · Doris Lloyd
Plot An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
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The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
1914 · Movie · 54 min. · United States
Direction Maurice Tourneur
Cast Vivian Martin · Alec B. Francis · Chester Barnett
Plot Giles Bateson is expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown...
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The Terror
1928 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast May McAvoy · Louise Fazenda · Edward Everett Horton · Alec B. Francis
Plot Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'
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Outward Bound
1930 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Robert Milton · Ray Enright
Cast Leslie Howard · Alison Skipworth · Beryl Mercer · Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Plot A disparate group of passengers, finding themselves aboard a darkened, fog-enshrouded crewless boat, realize the one thing they have in common is that they are all dead, with the possible...
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Camille
1926 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Fred Niblo
Cast Norma Talmadge · Gilbert Roland · Lilyan Tashman · Rose Dione
Plot Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of...
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The Return of Peter Grimm
1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Alec B. Francis · John Roche · Janet Gaynor · Richard Walling
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