Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Julanne Johnston · Anna May Wong · Sojin

Synopsis Douglas Fairbanks is at his most graceful and charismatic in one of the classic silent films of the 1920s. As the thief of Baghdad, his movements are dance-like -- nothing like the athletics he performed in most of his other...

Direction Kevin Brownlow · Michael Kloft

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Charles Chaplin · Sydney Chaplin · Walter Bernstein

Synopsis A fascinating documentary that explores the making of Charles Chaplin's first "talkie" The Great Dictator (1940) and draws many things that between Chaplin and Hitler had in common. The film contains colour home movie footage of the film's production which...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Marguerite De La Motte · William Bakewell · Nigel de Brulier

Synopsis King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Sam De Grasse · Pomeroy Cannon · Joseph Singleton

Synopsis An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Leon Bary · George Siegmann · Eugene Pallette

Synopsis The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France...

Direction Albert Parker

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Billie Dove · Anders Randolf · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Douglas Fairbanks plays a nobleman who wants to revenge his father's murder, so he boards a pirate vessel disguised as one of the thieving, villainous rapscallions, and sets about achieving his goal. This swashbuckling nautical adventure made film history as...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Wallace Beery · Sam De Grasse · Enid Bennett

Synopsis Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of...

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Marguerite De La Motte · Robert McKim · Noah Beery

Synopsis In old Spanish California, the oppressive colonial government is opposed by Zorro, masked champion of the people, who appears out of nowhere with flashing sword and an athletic sense of humor, scarring the faces of evildoers with his Mark. Meanwhile,...

Direction Christy Cabanne · John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Bessie Love · Allan Sears · Tom Wilson

Synopsis Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drink". In fact he's used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to increase his energies or injecting it in his opponents to...

Direction Robert Youngson

Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant

Synopsis A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man," "A Night at the Opera," "Dinner at Eight" and "Bonnie Scotland."

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Merle Oberon · Bruce Winston · Gina Malo

Synopsis Douglas Fairbanks Sr. makes his big-screen swan song with Korda’s deliciously satiric deflation of the Don Juan myth. After having faked his own death and escaped Seville, the aging lothario returns, only to find that he has been promptly forgotten;...

Direction Chuck Workman

Cast Peter Coyote · Robert Altman · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Fred Astaire

Synopsis Documentary based on the first anniversary of the most important exporter of films in the world as it is Hollywood, this story is told by actors and actresses as well as writers and other people who made life in this...

Direction Sam Taylor

Cast Mary Pickford · Douglas Fairbanks · Edwin Maxwell · Joseph Cawthorne

Synopsis In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. But Baptista will not allow the two to get married until his eldest daughter, the extremely headstrong Katherine, is betrothed. This task seems impossible because of Katherine's shrewish...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Marjorie Daw · Kathleen Kirkham · Frank Campeau

Synopsis A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Model T Ford) and sets out across the...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Bebe Daniels · Edward Everett Horton · Claud Allister

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · William Farnum · Earle Browne · Maria Casajuana

Synopsis Yachtsman Steve Drexel bets his friends that he can swim ashore on a remote south-seas island with nothing but a toothbrush and be 'living the life of Riley' when they return. With handmade implements the lighthearted, athletic Steve improbably builds...

Direction Paul Powell

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Constance Talmadge · Wilbur Higby · Fred Warren

Synopsis A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before he can get himself and the minister onto the train,...

Direction Victor Fleming · Theodore Reed

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Albert MacQuarrie · Kathleen Clifford · Frank Campeau

Synopsis Psychiatrist Dr. Ulrich Metz attempts to drive Daniel Brown to suicide.

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Eileen Percy · Richard Cummings · Eugene Ormonde

Synopsis A factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discovers that he is indeed the only heir to the...

Direction Joseph Henabery

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Marjorie Daw · Frank Campeau · Sam Sothern