Direction: Marshall Neilan
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Marshall Neilan. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 16
Daddy Long Legs
1919 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Mary Pickford · Milla Davenport · Percy Haswell · Fay Lemport
Synopsis Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that...
6.2
26 votes
6.2
26 votes
Stella Maris
1918 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Mary Pickford · Ida Waterman · Herbert Standing · Conway Tearle
Synopsis Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do. Unity...
6.2
33 votes
6.2
33 votes
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Mary Pickford · Eugene O’Brien · Helen Jerome Eddy · Charles Ogle
Synopsis With her family in financial difficulties, Rebecca is sent to live with her two strict, unfeeling aunts, who do not appreciate the young girl's charm and energy. Rebecca must make new friends and must adjust to surroundings that are sometimes...
5.3
34 votes
5.3
34 votes
Go and Get It
1920 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan · Henry Roberts Symonds
Cast Pat O'Malley · Wesley Barry · Agnes Ayres · J. Barney Sherry
Synopsis An intrepid newspaper reporter attempts to solve a series of murders committed by a gorilla carrying the transplanted brain of a human.
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The Vagabond Lover
1929 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Rudy Vallee · Sally Blane · Marie Dressler · Charles Sellon
Synopsis A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
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M'Liss
1918 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Mary Pickford · Theodore Roberts · Thomas Meighan · Tully Marshall
Synopsis M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
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The Lemon Drop Kid
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Lee Tracy · Helen Mack · William Frawley · Minna Gombell
Synopsis Con artist and racetrack tout Wally Brooks hands a lemon drop to a man in a wheelchair, saying it will cure whatever ails him, then persuades the man, a millionaire named Griggsby, to bet $100 on a horse. Wally knows...
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Swing It Professor
1937 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Pinky Tomlin · Paula Stone · Milburn Stone · Mary Kornman
Synopsis A music professor is fired from his job for not knowing enough about modern "swing" music. He goes to Chicago to learn more about the subject in hopes of getting his job back, but he winds up getting mixed up...
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Social Register
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Colleen Moore · Charles Winninger · Pauline Frederick · Alexander Kirkland
Synopsis Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to...
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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
1918 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Mary Pickford · William Scott · Kate Price · Ida Waterman
Synopsis Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and...
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Sweethearts on Parade
1930 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Alice White · Lloyd Hughes · Marie Prevost · Kenneth Thomson
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Dinty
1920 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction John McDermott · Marshall Neilan
Cast Wesley Barry · Noah Beery · Colleen Moore · Aaron Mitchell
Synopsis Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.
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The Little Princess
1917 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Mary Pickford · Norman Kerry · Katherine Griffith · Anne Schaefer
Synopsis Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
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Catch-As Catch-Can (S)
1931 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast ZaSu Pitts · Thelma Todd · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams · Reed Howes
Synopsis ZaSu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
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Her Wild Oat
1927 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Colleen Moore · Larry Kent · Hallam Cooley · Gwen Lee
Synopsis Mary Lou Smith is a hardworking owner of a food wagon. She decides to take her hard earned money and splurge on a vacation where the rich and famous gather for fun. The guests at this beach treat her badly...
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Chloe, Love Is Calling You
1934 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Olive Borden · Reed Howes · Molly O'Day · Francis Joyner
Synopsis A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisians swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband.
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