Direction: Monta Bell
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Monta Bell. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Downstairs
1932 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast John Gilbert · Paul Lukas · Virginia Bruce · Hedda Hopper
Plot All seems joyful in the house of the Baron and Baroness von Burgen (Reginald Owen and Olga Baclanova). A symbiotic relationship exists between the servants downstairs and the masters above....
6.6
32 votes
6.6
32 votes
Torrent
1926 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Ricardo Cortez · Greta Garbo · Gertrude Olmstead · Edward Connelly
6.6
54 votes
6.6
54 votes
Lady of the Night
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Norma Shearer · Malcolm McGregor · Dale Fuller · George K. Arthur
Plot David Page is loved by two very different women: Molly, an overpainted and undereducated floozy, and Florence, a refined graduate of a finishing school. Both lovelorn ladies played by Norma...
6.3
35 votes
6.3
35 votes
Upstage
1926 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Norma Shearer · Oscar Shaw · Tenen Holtz · Gwen Lee
Plot Dolly (Norma Shearer) is a stagestruck girl who gets her career petered out until she displays show-must-go-on courage by standing-in as target in a knife-throwing act.
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Lights of Old Broadway
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Marion Davies · Conrad Nagel · Frank Currier · George K. Arthur
Plot Marion Davies plays twins separated at birth: Anne becomes a society girl in New York and Fely becomes an Irish poor girl turning to the musical world. Dirk (Conrad Nagel),...
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Young Man of Manhattan
1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Claudette Colbert · Norman Foster · Ginger Rogers · Leslie Austin
Plot Toby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature writer for...
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After Midnight
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Norma Shearer · Lawrence Gray · Gwen Lee · Eddie Sturgis
Plot A story of New York's nightlife: Mary (Norma Shearer) is a cabaret hostess with a heart of gold and her sister Maizie (Gwen Lee) is a gold-digger with no heart.
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China's Little Devils
1945 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Harry Carey · Paul Kelly · 'Ducky' Louie · Gloria Ann Chew
Plot World War II drama about a group of young Chinese children who band together to defend their country, using sabotage and guerrilla warfare to aid the American Flying Tigers in...
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East Is West
1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Lupe Velez · Lew Ayres · Edward G. Robinson · E. Alyn Warren
Plot Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is...
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Up for Murder
1931 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Lew Ayres · Genevieve Tobin · Purnell Pratt · Richard Tucker
Plot Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
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Man, Woman and Sin
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast John Gilbert · Jeanne Eagels · Gladys Brockwell · Marc McDermott
Plot John Gilbert plays Albert Whitcomb, who is devoted to his mother (Gladys Brockwell). He lands a job as a cub reporter at a newspaper and becomes romantically entangled with the...
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The King on Main Street
1925 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Adolphe Menjou · Bessie Love · Greta Nissen · Oscar Shaw
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Pretty Ladies
1925 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast ZaSu Pitts · Tom Moore · Ann Pennington · Lilyan Tashman
Plot Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to...
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