Direction: Joseph De Grasse

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Joseph De Grasse. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Alas and Alack (S)

1915 · Movie · 13 min. · United States

Direction Joseph De Grasse

Cast Cleo Madison · Arthur Shirley · Mary Kearnen · Lon Chaney

Synopsis A fishwife tells her young daughter the story of a princess who fell in love with a prince; but an evil fairy tears them apart and summons a hunchback to imprison her in a seashell where she moans for all...

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5.4

24 votes

A Mother's Atonement (S)

1915 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Joseph De Grasse

Cast Cleo Madison · Lon Chaney · Arthur Shirley · Wyndham Standing

Synopsis Old Ben Morrison and his daughter, Jen, an unsophisticated girl, live on an island not far from the mainland. Jasper Crane, middle-aged sensualist of the rougher type, bargains with Jen's father, in hopes of marrying and gaining possession of the...

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Flowing Gold

1924 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Joseph De Grasse

Cast Anna Q. Nilsson · Milton Sills · Alice Calhoun · Crauford Kent

Synopsis Soldier of fortune Calvin Gray finds work in a Texas oil town aiding the Briskows, a family of homesteaders who have become rich from the discovery of oil on their property. The Briskows allow Gray to manage their investments, and...

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Direction Joseph De Grasse

Cast Dorothy Phillips · Vola Vale · Jack Mulhall · Lon Chaney

Synopsis We meet Helen (Dorothy Phillips) in the middle of creating the past that will haunt her for the rest of the film -- she and her lover, Ralph Kelton (Jack Mulhall), are caught in a rainstorm and they are forced...

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Heart o' the Hills

1919 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Joseph De Grasse · Sidney Franklin

Cast Mary Pickford · Harold Goodwin · Allan Sears · Fred Huntley

Synopsis In the Kentucky hills, Jason Honeycutt lives with his harsh stepfather Steve, not far from where his friend Mavis Hawn lives with her widowed mother. Mavis spends much of her time preparing for the day when she can discover who...

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Triumph

1917 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Joseph De Grasse

Cast Dorothy Phillips · Lon Chaney · William Stowell · William Dyer

Synopsis This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of...

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The Place Beyond the Winds

1916 · Movie · 39 min. · United States

Direction Joseph De Grasse

Cast Dorothy Phillips · Jack Mulhall · Lon Chaney · Joseph De Grasse

Synopsis Priscilla Glenn is a product of the woods, a wild, impulsive, nature-loving child. Her father is her antithesis, seeing none of the beauties of nature, thinking women only creatures to be browbeaten. Between her mother and herself there existed a...

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The Hidden Way

1926 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Joseph De Grasse

Cast Mary Carr · Gloria Grey · Tom Santschi · Arthur Rankin

Synopsis Two ex-jailbirds join up with a con man. After saving a farm girl's life, they are rewarded with lodging by her widowed mother. The older man and the con man devise a plan to swindle the generous lady by convincing...

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If My Country Should Call (S)

1916 · Movie · 24 min. · United States

Direction Joseph De Grasse

Cast Dorothy Phillips · Helen Leslie · Frank Whitson · Lon Chaney

Synopsis The whole Ardath family is collected together to discuss the proposed marriage between Margaret and Robert Ogden, a British citizen. The consensus of opinion is that the match is desirable in every way. The old Colonel says that in case...

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