Direction: John Emerson

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


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...

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Reaching for the Moon

1917 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

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...

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Ghosts

1915 · Movie · 49 min. · United States

Direction George Nichols · John Emerson

Cast Henry B. Walthall · Mary Alden · Loretta Blake · Monte Blue

Synopsis Helen and Manders are in love and wish to marry. Her parents object to his poverty and want her to marry Alving, a notorious rake, who is wealthy and powerful. Manders protests. The family physician also objects because of the...

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In Again, Out Again

1917 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Arline Pretty · Walter Walker · Arnold Lucy

Synopsis A young man drowns his sorrows in strong drink when his girl jilts him. His drunkenness gets him thrown into jail, where he falls in love with the jailer's daughter. On his release, he tries everything to get back into...

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Wild and Woolly

1917 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Eileen Percy · Calvert Carter · Charles Stevens

Synopsis A rich young Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone, and it is an orderly, civilized place now. The...

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Less Than the Dust

1916 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Mary Pickford · David Powell · Frank Losee · Mary Alden

Synopsis Young Hindu woman Radha, becomes best friends with Captain Raymond Townsend during his service in India, but he soon goes back to England to tend to the estate of an uncle who has just died. Then, Ramlan, the sword maker...

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His Picture in the Papers

1916 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Clarence Handyside · Rene Boucicault · Jean Temple

Synopsis A young man can only get the woman he loves if he becomes famous and manages to get his picture in the newspapers. He determines to let nothing stand in the way of his doing exactly that, and in the...

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The Americano

1916 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Alma Rubens · Spottiswoode Aitken · Carl Stockdale

Synopsis Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia (Aitken) wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the President's beautiful daughter, Juana (Rubens).

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Down to Earth

1917 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Eileen Percy · Gustav von Seyffertitz · Charles McHugh

Synopsis A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order to prove to her and the other patients that their "illnesses" are all in their minds, he hatches a scheme to take them on...

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