Mahlon Hamilton

Movies24

• Movie6.3

  ComedyRomance

  Bold performer Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent financial need, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation — flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.

  I'm No Angel

  1933 · 66 votes

• Movie6.6

  ComedyMusic

  A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.

  Thrill of a Romance

  1945 · 7 votes

• Movie6.9

  ThrillerDrama

  A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

  Act of Violence

  1949 · 109 votes

• Movie5.5

  RomanceWestern

  Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

  Flame of Barbary Coast

  1945 · 24 votes

• Movie6.1

  ComedyAdventure

  While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.

  Too Hot to Handle

  1938 · 22 votes

• Movie5.7

  MysteryThriller

  In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.

  Fingers at the Window

  1942 · 18 votes

• Movie6.7

  ComedyDrama

  A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

  The Romance of Rosy Ridge

  1947 · 6 votes

• Movie6.8

  HorrorScience Fiction

  Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

  The Devil-Doll

  1936 · 125 votes

• Movie6.8

  ComedyRomance

  Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

  Love Crazy

  1941 · 39 votes

• Movie5.6

  MusicRomance

  Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.

  Small Town Girl

  1953 · 13 votes

• Movie8.0

  After Trueman Tisdale, a young officer in the Coast Guard, marries Martha, a pretty young woman, he discovers that her previous relationship with a ne'er-do-well named Nate Sanderson has created gossip in their New England hometown of Bayport.

  Her Indiscretion

  1927 · 1 votes

• Movie5.7

  RomanceComedy

  Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

  The Ghost Comes Home

  1940 · 3 votes

• Movie7.3

  DramaComedy

  David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job

  The First Hundred Years

  1938 · 3 votes

• Movie7.0

  DramaRomance

  A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

  The Hucksters

  1947 · 21 votes

• Movie8.0

  Drama

  Raised in the lap of luxury, Norma Russell is ill-prepared for her father's financial reverses. In exchange for a $25,000 loan, Norma's dad promises her hand in marriage to bank president Howard Dundore.

  Extravagance

  1916 · 1 votes

• Movie6.3

  Crime

  This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can become a major clue.

  They're Always Caught

  1938 · 10 votes

• Movie6.0

  ComedyRomance

  Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

  Slightly Dangerous

  1943 · 8 votes

• Movie6.5

  ComedyRomance

  An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.

  Little Old New York

  1923 · 13 votes

• Movie6.5

  Western

  A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.

  The Boss Rider of Gun Creek

  1936 · 2 votes

• Movie6.5

  CrimeDrama

  In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.

  The Perfect Set-Up

  1936 · 4 votes

• Movie6.4

  DramaRomance

  A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

  Back Street

  1932 · 14 votes

• Movie7.3

  ComedyDrama

  PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprising the role she made famous as a poor Irish farm girl who inherits a fortune but would rather have happiness instead. While a bit too old for the character supposedly in her late teens or early twenties, Laurette was tailor made for it.

  Peg o' My Heart

  1922 · 3 votes

• Movie6.1

  Drama

  An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.

  Madame X

  1937 · 9 votes

• Movie10.0

  Western

  Cardsharp Jack Cardigan decides to go straight when he meets Doris Bradfield, but is forced to use his talents on behalf of her dad, whose land-grant title has fallen into the hands of Jed Harden through the gambling weakness of Bradfield's son Tom.

  The Code of Honor

  1930 · 1 votes