George B. French

Movies24

• Movie7.0

  ThrillerMystery

  American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

  Foreign Correspondent

  1940 · 465 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaWestern

  One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

  Union Pacific

  1939 · 82 votes

• Movie5.2

  ActionAdventure

  A female ape takes to mothering the orphaned boy (Tarzan) and raises him over the course of many years until a rescue mission is finally launched and the search party combs the jungle for the long-time missing Lord Greystoke. But then, one of the search members, Jane Porter, gets separated from the group and comes face to face with fearsome wild animals. Tarzan saves her from harm just in the knick of time and love begins to blossom.

  Tarzan of the Apes

  1918 · 24 votes

• Movie6.2

  ComedyMusic

  An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

  Thank Your Lucky Stars

  1943 · 39 votes

• Movie6.9

  Comedy

  Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

  The Battle of the Century

  1927 · 61 votes

• Movie6.1

  ComedyRomance

  A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.

  True Confession

  1937 · 23 votes

• Movie7.2

  Comedy

  A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.

  Here Comes Cookie

  1935 · 9 votes

• Movie4.5

  DramaRomance

  A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.

  Way Down East

  1935 · 4 votes

• Movie9.0

  Comedy

  A Monty Banks comedy that includes the 'Undressing in the Upper Berth' routine

  Horse Shoes

  1927 · 1 votes

• Movie9.0

  Drama

  She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, Swifty She Weaves the Web of Destruction and then Regeneration. A Drama of Lights and Shadows.

  The Sawdust Paradise

  1928 · 1 votes

• Movie5.0

  Comedy

  Jimmy, who buys everything on the Easy Payment plan, wants to marry Betty, whose dad believes Cash Is King.

  Easy Payments

  1919 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  Following a jewelry store robbery, Charley becomes the prime suspect due to his flashy antics and accidental collaborations with the true perpetrators.

  Bigger and Better Blondes

  1927 · 2 votes

• Movie6.0

  AdventureAction

  Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane's family) goes to their ranch near San Francisco. Tarzan shows up in a tuxedo and rescues Jane from outlaws...

  The Romance of Tarzan

  1918 · 2 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  Part of Universal's series of one-reel Bluebird Comedies, this one stars Arthur Lake as a student who's confined to his dorm room to study on the night of a big costume party. When Professor Wise (George B. French) comes to check up on him, he finds Lake in a bathrobe, book in hand. As soon as the prof leaves, Lake rips off the robe to expose his Scots costume.

  Hop Along

  1927 · 1 votes

• Movie6.6

  AdventureAction

  Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lions, dropped into a pit when a volcano splits the ground, nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers, and so on.

  The Adventures of Tarzan

  1921 · 6 votes

• Movie8.0

  ActionAdventure

  Lieutenant Willis returns home from France, where he was an aviation ace, to find that his father has been falsely jailed for the murder of Judson Blair.

  Flyin' Thru

  1925 · 1 votes

• Movie

  Comedy

  Try & Helpus are two junk dealers, who have to raise five hundred to pay the rent which the villainous landlord demands. Various times the five hundred is placed in their hands but Always it is removed therefrom by a grouchy policeman.

  Out for the Coin

  1917

• Movie8.0

  ActionThriller

  Learning his father's railroad business from the ground up, layabout Leonard Hathaway undertakes to win a large ore-hauling contract by making his the company with the fastest train. No trick is overlooked by the villain, Thomas Webber, but the hero thwarts his opponents and proves himself worthy.

  The Lost Limited

  1927 · 1 votes

• Movie

  Comedy

  Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.

  Charley's Aunt

  1925

• Movie9.0

  Comedy

  This film will be liked by hen-pecked husbands and those who like to slip out evenings for a game of draw. But the moral is: Don't let your friend's apartment be raided by the police.

  Four of a Kind

  1919 · 1 votes

• Movie7.0

  Action

  A Swahili village is affected by disease. The nearby diamond mine is using this as an excuse not to ship diamonds back to HQ in South Africa. The mine president has sent a doctor, his beautiful daughter and her caregiver to find out what is going on and to cure the natives. They are travelling on foot. To speed things up the president sends his ace flyer up...

  Won in the Clouds

  1928 · 2 votes

• Movie9.0

  Drama

  When he goes to war, Theodore Pendergast is a snob. When he returns from the trenches of France, he is a democrat whose best friend is Butch McGuire, an ex-prizefighter and regular guy. Ted (as he is now called) takes Butch home with him to meet his father, and the old gentleman immediately has Ted committed to a sanitarium.

  The Snob Buster

  1925 · 1 votes

• Movie6.0

  Comedy

  The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.

  Thundering Fleas

  1926 · 11 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy

  Young Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.

  Call the Wagon

  1923 · 1 votes