Direction: Herbert Brenon

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


Laugh, Clown, Laugh

1928 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Lon Chaney · Bernard Siegel · Loretta Young · Cissy Fitzgerald

Plot A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.

7.2

127 votes

7.2

127 votes

Peter Pan

1924 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

6.7

283 votes

6.7

283 votes

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1913 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast King Baggot · Jane Gail · Matt Snyder · Howard Crampton

Plot Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

6.1

93 votes

6.1

93 votes

Beau ideal

1931 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Ralph Forbes · Loretta Young · Irene Rich · Lester Vail

Plot In England, Otis Madison learns from the girl that he loves, Isobel Brandon, that the man she loves is his best friend, John Geste, and so there is nothing that...

5.0

26 votes

5.0

26 votes

The Case of Sergeant Grischa

1930 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

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

Plot 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...

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A Daughter of the Gods

1916 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

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Beau Geste

1926 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Ronald Colman · Neil Hamilton · Ralph Forbes · Alice Joyce

Plot Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from...

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Sorrell and Son

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast H.B. Warner · Anna Q. Nilsson · Mickey McBan · Carmel Myers

Plot Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is...

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The Sign on the Door

1921 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Norma Talmadge · Charles Richman · Lew Cody · David Proctor

Plot Ann Hunniwell, innocently accompanying Frank Devereaux, her employer's son, to a questionable New York cafe, is arrested in a raid and is photographed by a newspaperman, although Devereaux manages to...

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The Lone Wolf

1917 · Movie · min. · United States

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The Great Gatsby

1926 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Warner Baxter · Lois Wilson · Neil Hamilton · Georgia Hale

Plot Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbour, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is...

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Girl of the Rio

1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Dolores del Rio · Leo Carrillo · Norman Foster · Stanley Fields

Plot Girl of the Rio finds the gorgeous Dolores del Rio as a cabaret dancer in the employment of slick gambler, Leo Carrillo, who has his eye on the beauty. When...

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The Side Show of Life

1927 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Ernest Torrence · Anna Q. Nilsson · Louise Lagrange · Maurice de Canonge

Plot Andrew Lackaday, an English circus clown brought up in France, rises to the rank of brigadier general during the war. Returning to his old profession as a juggler, he finds...

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The Spanish Dancer

1923 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

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The Flying Squad

1940 · Movie · 64 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Sebastian Shaw · Phyllis Brooks · Jack Hawkins · Basil Radford

Plot Dedicated young Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of Mark McGill, murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London. Hindering his investigation is pretty Ann Perryman who...

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Dancing Mothers

1926 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Alice Joyce · Norman Trevor · Clara Bow · Conway Tearle

Plot Young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.

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The Rescue

1929 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Ronald Colman · Lili Damita · Alfred Hickman · Theodore von Eltz

Plot The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom...

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Black Eyes

1939 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Otto Kruger · Mary Maguire · Walter Rilla · John Wood

Plot A waiter in Moscow, pre-1914, leads his daughter into thinking he is prosperous businessman.

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Transgression

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Kay Francis · Paul Cavanagh · Ricardo Cortez · Nance O'Neil

Plot Elsie sets out for a holiday in Paris and develops an affair while her husband spends a year working in India.

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