George F. Marion

Movies24

• Movie5.0

  DramaMusic

  Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.

  A Lady's Morals

  1930 · 6 votes

• Movie6.6

  CrimeDrama

  Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

  The Big House

  1930 · 56 votes

• Movie8.0

  DramaMusic

  Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.

  Metropolitan

  1935 · 1 votes

• Movie4.8

  Science FictionDrama

  The victim of a political assassination is resurrected by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.

  6 Hours to Live

  1932 · 9 votes

• Movie6.9

  DocumentaryTV Movie

  Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.

  Complicated Women

  2003 · 12 votes

• Movie5.6

  ComedyRomance

  Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.

  Hook, Line and Sinker

  1930 · 15 votes

• Movie9.0

  Western

  Galloping Gallagher (1924)

  Galloping Gallagher

  1924 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  DramaWestern

  1927 American silent Western film directed by Richard Thorpe.

  Skedaddle Gold

  1927 · 1 votes

• Movie5.4

  Mystery

  The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.

  The Bishop Murder Case

  1929 · 16 votes

• Movie6.0

  DramaRomance

  Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

  Anna Christie

  1930 · 58 votes

• Movie5.2

  MysteryThriller

  While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.

  Death from a Distance

  1935 · 5 votes

• Movie6.5

  Drama

  A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.

  Evangeline

  1929 · 8 votes

• Movie

  Comedy

  Henry Mallory, U.S.A., receives orders to join his regiment which is to embark for the Philippines. The Overland Limited is the only train that will enable him to reach the coast in time to escape a court-martial. Having a little time to spare he persuades Marjorie to elope with him and reserves two berths.

  Excuse Me

  1915

• Movie10.0

  Western

  A milquetoast Easterner who on a trip to the Wild West is mistaken for a U.S. marshall.

  Gun-Shy

  1922 · 1 votes

• Movie7.0

  ActionAdventure

  The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitaphone track of effects and music. It was produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by Warner Bros..

  The Isle of Lost Ships

  1929 · 1 votes

• Movie5.3

  DramaRomance

  Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.

  Laughing Sinners

  1931 · 14 votes

• Movie7.0

  DramaRomance

  A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist.

  The Wise Guy

  1926 · 1 votes

• Movie7.3

  CrimeDrama

  A gangster's girlfriend on the run from the police, who suspect her of helping her boyfriend commit a robbery, holes up in a waterfront bar. She stows away on a fishing boat headed out to sea, and winds up falling in love with and marrying one of the fishermen, but doesn't tell him about her past. However, a year after they're married and have a child, her ex-boyfriend gets out of jail and comes looking for her.

  Port of Lost Dreams

  1934 · 3 votes

• Movie5.2

  MysteryWestern

  A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, and where a valuable radium strike may have been made.

  The Fighting Westerner

  1935 · 12 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy

  A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.

  Her First Mate

  1933 · 1 votes

• Movie9.0

  Western

  O'Day, the terror of Red Gulch, wins the entire stake of a gambler named Granger in a poker game but gives it all to Denver Nell, a dancehall girl, when she tells him her sad story. O'Day later discovers that she has returned the money to Granger, and he decides to reform. He goes to another town, where (now known as Good Deed O'Day) he meets an old friend, a wealthy rancher with whose sister, Mary, he is in love. Snowden takes a trip to Denver and returns with Nell, whom he has married.

  Straight Through

  1925 · 1 votes

• Movie9.0

  Comedy

  The owner of a resort hotel promotes Tom Gwynne, a college boy working as a waiter, to manager. As a result of his mismanagement, the hotel loses several thousand dollars. Tom inherits a million and buys the hotel to continue his experimental management, which is to give the employees time and opportunity for self-expression--to do what they like best to do.

  A Million to Burn

  1923 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  DramaRomance

  John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him. But with the passage of time, John discovers (long after everyone else has) that he loves Mary. But by now it's too late. She plans to marry his friend Willie.

  The Girl I Loved

  1923 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy

  A disgruntled 18th century Bostonian who while wishing that he was a pirate, dons the clothes and play-acts the part. He is mistaken for the real pirate, Dixie Bull. More importantly, Errol "slays" the villain and puts his foot upon the pirate's head. This is more than enough and he heads back home to his unappreciated wife

  Clothes Make the Pirate

  1926 · 1 votes