Direction: George Melford

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by George Melford. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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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5.8

579 votes

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.

5.8

136 votes

5.8

136 votes

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

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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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