Cast: Alec B. Francis

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Joan Crawford · Edwards Davis · Tom Murray

Direction George Fitzmaurice

Cast Greta Garbo · Ramon Novarro · Lionel Barrymore · Lewis Stone

Synopsis 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 up-and-coming officer. In order to get her hand on secret...

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charlotte Henry · Leon Errol · Louise Fazenda · Ford Sterling

Synopsis 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 to her, like changing her size or playing croquet with...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Rudolph Valentino · Gloria Swanson · Edythe Chapman · Raymond Blathwayt

Synopsis 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 can live comfortably. Soon after the wedding, she finds herself...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Eleanor Boardman · Malcolm McGregor · Alec B. Francis · Eugenie Besserer

Synopsis 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 sets are sumptuous, the actors beautiful, the set-up intriguing, but...

Direction Étienne Arnaud

Cast Dorothy Gibson · Alec B. Francis · Julia Stuart · John G. Adolfi

Synopsis 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 the script and played a fictionalized version of herself recounting...

Direction Phil Whitman

Cast Evalyn Knapp · John Wayne · Reginald Barlow · Alec B. Francis

Synopsis 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 to prove she's okay.

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast May McAvoy · Jack Mulhall · Myrtle Stedman · Barbara Bedford

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Chester Morris · Betty Compson · Alec B. Francis · Gustav von Seyffertitz

Synopsis 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 his chance comes to escape, he takes it, ending up...

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Claire Windsor · Kenneth Harlan · Hobart Bosworth · Pauline Starke

Synopsis 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 of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground...

Direction David Burton · Nick Grinde

Cast Basil Rathbone · Leila Hyams · Roland Young · Alec B. Francis

Synopsis 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 was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was...

Direction John Ford

Cast George O'Brien · Jacqueline Logan · J. Farrell MacDonald · Alec B. Francis

Synopsis 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.

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Florence Reed · William Desmond · Robert Frazer · Irving Cummings

Direction Clarence G. Badger

Cast Mabel Normand · Rod La Rocque · Alec B. Francis · Alfred Hickman

Synopsis 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 is in danger of ruin from a romantic scandal

Direction James Cruze

Cast Jack Pickford · Claire McDowell · Alec B. Francis · Norma Shearer

Direction William Cowen

Cast Dickie Moore · Irving Pichel · William Boyd · Doris Lloyd

Synopsis An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.

Direction Maurice Tourneur

Cast Vivian Martin · Alec B. Francis · Chester Barnett

Synopsis 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 and proven yourself worthy of confidence." Giles meets Sally, the...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast May McAvoy · Louise Fazenda · Edward Everett Horton · Alec B. Francis

Synopsis Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'

Direction Robert Milton · Ray Enright

Cast Leslie Howard · Alison Skipworth · Beryl Mercer · Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Synopsis 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 exception of a young suicide couple who have not quite...

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Norma Talmadge · Gilbert Roland · Lilyan Tashman · Rose Dione

Synopsis 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 a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and...