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

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

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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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