Direction: George Melford
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by George Melford. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 18
Spanish Dracula
1931 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction George Melford · Enrique Tovar Ávalos
Cast Carlos Villarías · Lupita Tovar · Barry Norton · Pablo Álvarez Rubio
Synopsis Dracula (1931) is a Spanish-language version of the more famous Tod Browning-directed Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. In the early days of sound, it was common for Hollywood studios to produce Hollywood foreign-language versions of their films (usually in French, Spanish...
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The Sheik
1921 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Rudolph Valentino · Agnes Ayres · Ruth Miller · George Waggner
Synopsis A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.
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5.8
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The Dude Bandit
1933 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Hoot Gibson · Gloria Shea · Hooper Atchley · Skeeter Bill Robbins
Synopsis After Burton kills Dad Mason and makes it look like a suicide, Ace Cooper arrives to investigate. He poses as a coward during the day but at night he becomes the daring Dude Bandit.
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Man of Action
1933 · Movie · 56 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Tim McCoy · Caryl Lincoln · Julian Rivero · Wheeler Oakman
Synopsis When the bank is robbed, the Sheriff shoots the robber and recovers the money bag only to find it empty. Ranger Tim Barlow arrives and over objections of the Sheriff decides to stay and find who has the missing money....
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La voluntad del muerto
1930 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Enrique Tovar Ávalos · George Melford
Cast Antonio Moreno · Lupita Tovar · Andrés de Segurola · Roberto E. Guzmán
Synopsis Is a remake of the 1927 silent film The Cat and the Canary as well as the 1930 lost film The Cat Creeps. It was a common practice during the early days of talkies to recreate American films with a...
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The Colonel's Escape (S)
1912 · Movie · 13 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Carlyle Blackwell · Alice Joyce · C. Rhys Pryce · Karl Formes
Synopsis A short Western in which a colonel and a resistance fighter help each other out in times of war.
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The Round-up
1920 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Mabel Julienne Scott · Irving Cummings · Tom Forman
Synopsis An overweight sheriff does his best to assist a man accused of theft.
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Young Romance
1915 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Edith Taliaferro · Florence Dagmar · Tom Forman · Frederick Wilson
Synopsis This delightful 1915 comedy follows two working-class department store employees (Edith Taliaferro and Tom Forman) as--unbeknownst to each other--they pretend to be swells for one week, masquerading as upper-crust types at a swanky Maine resort.
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Moran of the Lady Letty
1922 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Dorothy Dalton · Charles Brinley · Emilius Jorgensen · Rudolph Valentino
Synopsis Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-too-scrupulous smuggler. When the ship encounters the foundering "Lady Letty," some of the Letty's crew is brought aboard, including Letty 'Moran' Sternerson, feisty...
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The Cowboy Counsellor
1932 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Hoot Gibson · Sheila Bromley · Jack Rutherford · Skeeter Bill Robbins
Synopsis A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.
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The Charlatan
1929 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Holmes Herbert · Margaret Livingston · Rockcliffe Fellowes · Philo McCullough
Synopsis A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Shaken,...
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Homicide Squad
1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Edward L. Cahn · George Melford
Cast Leo Carrillo · Noah Beery · Mary Brian · Russell Gleason
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Love in the Desert
1929 · Movie · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Olive Borden · Hugh Trevor · Noah Beery · Frank Leigh
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The Mexican Joan of Arc (S)
1911 · Movie · 11 min. · United States
Direction George Melford · Kenean Buel
Cast Jane Wolfe · Carlyle Blackwell · Alice Joyce
Synopsis Senor Talamantes and his sons, suspected of being insurgents, are arrested and, without trial, are sentenced to death by Colonel Cephis. The widow Talamantes vows to avenge the unjust death of her husband and her children by organizing a company...
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East of Borneo
1931 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Rose Hobart · Charles Bickford · Georges Renavent · Lupita Tovar
Synopsis Woman treks through jungle to find her missing husband, who had left her years before when he believed she was having an affair. She finds him as the drunken court physician to a tyrannical jungle prince; as if that isn't...
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The Viking
1931 · Movie · 70 min. · Canada
Direction Varick Frissell · George Melford
Cast Charles Starrett · Louise Huntington · Arthur Vinton · Bob Bartlett
Synopsis Luke, a young sailor and fisherman, who thinks he is jinx-ridden, has to be persuaded, and taunted,before he will join a sealing-expedition in the Artic; first by his sweetheart, so he can find that he is not a jinx, and...
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Going Crooked
1926 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Bessie Love · Oscar Shaw · Gustav von Seyffertitz · Edgar Kennedy
Synopsis A young woman is part a jewel theft ring, but opts out of a robbery because guns will be used. A man gets killed in that operation and the district attorney convicts an innocent man.
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East of Java
1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Charles Bickford · Elizabeth Young · Frank Albertson · Leslie Fenton
Synopsis Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
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