Clifford McLaglen
Actor · 1892 – 1978 · Cape Town, South Africa
Clifford McLaglen was born on 15 June 1892 in Cape Town, South Africa. He was an actor, known for Off the Dole (1935), Forbidden Cargoes (1926) and In the Blood (1923). He died on 7 September 1978 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK.
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MovieDramaHistoryEnglish-language, dubbed sound and partly re-edited version of Der Kampf ums Matterhorn. During an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Matterhorn, Edward Whymper finds himself rescued by an italian guide, Jean Antoine Carrel. The two men quickly build a friendship and agree to reach the peak together. However, local villagers plot to divide the alliance of Whymper and Carrel and both men join rival teams as they set out in a race to conquer the mountain. A mountaineering drama based on the novel by Carl Haensel and inspired in the dramatic true story of Edward Whymper, who led the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865.
- Movie6.0Romance
The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising her as his nephew (Nils Asther) and finally the Marquis of Corbal of the film's title, played by Hugh Sinclair.
The Marriage of Corbal
1936 · 3 votes
Movie8.2DramaStruggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.
Movie5.5DramaMysteryDuring a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
1935 · 23 votes
Movie8.5DramaA young count rents a villa near Rome to be near a woman he's courting. While there, he strikes up a friendship with a young woman living with a violent husband.
Villa Falconieri
1928 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DramaYoung Jan Bergwall visits his grandmother, the so-called centenary, at Woyland Castle. There he meets his cousin Andrea, who everyone calls "Fundvogel". Jan is fascinated by the young girl's beauty, and soon there is an erotic tension in the air between the two. Although they both have strong feelings for each other, they are afraid to make a commitment, even though their domineering grandmother is determined that they marry. Panicked that he might feel obliged to marry Andrea, Jan escapes from this place. Andrea is deeply disappointed and seeks revenge. Out of spite, she becomes involved with the falconer Bartel and is later raped in a wooden hut. The centigress, concerned about morals and customs, then sends Fundvogel to a convent. She escapes from there and flees into the arms of Jan. When he learns from a letter from the countess what has happened to Andrea, he leaves her a second time. In her despair, Fundvogel then throws herself off a bridge into the floods with suicidal intent.
Fundvogel
1930 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedySyd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.
A Little Bit of Fluff
1928 · 1 votes
Movie9.0CrimeDramaDie Schmugglerbraut von Mallorca
1929 · 1 votes
MovieCrimeGerman crime film
Großstadtpiraten
1930
Movie6.6ComedyMusicWithout a job, a young man is given the opportunity to run his ill uncle's private-detective agency. He finds himself mixed up with everything from an unfaithful husband who is a secret nudist to a schoolteacher who believes his pupil's father is beating him.
Off the Dole
1935 · 4 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeA newspaper reporter sets out to track down the murderer of a policeman.
Late Extra
1935 · 6 votes
Movie10.0DramaA group of 413 women answer an ad looking for British women to sail to and marry miners in Australia. One does not survive the voyage, and conflict arises over who will have to remain unmarried.
Das Land ohne Frauen
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.0AdventureLt. Cmdr. Good is a naval officer who goes on an extensive search for his long-lost friend who mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island.
The Call of the Sea
1930 · 1 votes
Movie7.3DocumentaryThe life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor.
Movie9.0AdventureIn the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.
The White Sheik
1928 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald.
A Little Bit of Bluff
1935 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
Drama by Romano Mengon
Sei gegrüßt, Du mein schönes Sorrent
1930 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
Drama set around a circus at Blackpool. A clown loves a young housekeeper and saves her from a fire caused by a jealous lion tamer.
The Three Kings
1928 · 1 votes
Movie9.5DramaCrimeA man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
- Movie9.0DramaWar
The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.
Boadicea
1927 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0AdventureDrama
A woman frames her stepson for theft and he takes the place of his father's drugged champion and wins a boxing match.
In the Blood
1924 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.
The Bermondsey Kid
1933 · 1 votes