Max Asher
Actor · 1885 – 1957 · Oakland, California, USA
Movies24
Movie7.0WesternAdventureA short western/crime film.
Dog Scents
1926 · 1 votes
Movie6.2ComedyTwo rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Crazy Like a Fox
1926 · 13 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA Baby Peggy two-reeler
Sweetie
1923 · 1 votes
Movie9.0WesternAlthough the dance troupe of which she is leading lady is successful in South America, Lou urges her husband, Jim, to seek another environment for the sake of their 2-year-old son. When Dan McGrew offers to put Lou on the New York stage and beats Jim in a fight, she runs away with him to Alaska, where she becomes a decoy in the Malamute saloon. Learning that Lou has been duped by her abductor, Jim follows them to the Klondike and kills McGrew. Husband, wife, and child are then reunited.
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
1924 · 1 votes
MovieComedyBegins with a child-cast parody of "The Kid." The Adams portion finds the guy chased about town because they are looking for some crook in a gray derby...and Jimmie happens to have one.
Grief
1921
Movie7.0DramaDirected by B. Reeves Eason. With William Fairbanks, Eva Novak, Lydia Knott, Bob Rhodes.
Women First
1924 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0ActionAdventure
A dog and his dead master's brother track down murderers.
Avenging Fangs
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.3Comedy"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with Percival "Sailor" Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him a U.S. Navt recruiting office, and, the next thing they know, both are in the Navy and aboard an overseas transport ship. Madelyn Phillips is on board and Scruggs is the the ship's Master-of-Arms. They overhear a mysterious conversation between Madelyn and the ship's radio officer. Later, Madelun induces the pair to take her off the ship and into a row boat. She disappears and they are picked up by a French ship, which sinks a German U-Boat. When the war ends they learn that Madelyn was an operative of the U.S. Secret Service.
We're in the Navy Now
1926 · 5 votes
MovieComedyWith a little-known director and second-string cast, the two-reel Moonlight Nights is typical of these low-budget independent productions. The comedy’s plot is not much: Told by his exasperated father to find a job, a klutzy rich kid named Art (Joe Moore) follows a bevy of dancers to their nightclub, where he tricks the maître d' into hiring him as a waiter. No guest proves safe from Art’s clumsy antics, but the shapely cabaret performers, led by Mademoiselle Fifi (Gloria Joy), dance on in the ensuing chaos.
Moonlight Nights
1925
Movie9.0WesternBilly Haven, a young rancher, accidentally discovers that clay found on his ranch will, when mixed with water, become the most beautifying mud-pack cosmetic that any young girl, or old woman, could desire. Then the land-grabbers, clay-speculators, cosmetic companies and a show girl or two show up to get a piece of the action.
Galloping Fury
1927 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyBy deeds of valor both Mike and Jake seek to win the same girl.
Mike and Jake as Heroes
1913 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyNuts in May, re-cut, with added footage and outtakes from _Pest, The (1922)_ , combined with newly shot sequences to bridge the scenes.
Mixed Nuts
1922 · 2 votes
Movie4.7A strong wind blows a city slicker and a local girl together. A Joe Rock Comedy
The Whirlwind
1922 · 3 votes
Movie5.7ComedyGreedy, Unscrupulous Rudolph learns that Belinda has just inherited $10,000, and he decides to steal it from her. He and his henchmen arrive at her house just as the money is being delivered. Meanwhile, Hairbreadth Harry observes the whole scene, and he hides the money for Belinda. But while Rudolph keeps Harry and Belinda occupied, his henchmen are already going about the job of stealing the money.
Danger Ahead
1926 · 3 votes
MovieAdventureA dog helps to recover a million dollars worth of diamonds.
- Movie8.0Comedy
She's My Baby
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DramaThis film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
Show Boat
1929 · 4 votes
Movie7.0Comedy"Lewis Sargent of 'Huckleberry Finn" fame, now grown up, and Alice Ardell are the principal players in this Standard Comdy which deals with the attempts of a love-sick young couple to wed despite an irate father who shows his temper by demolishing straw hats. They finally elope, resulting in a chase scene. Slapstick comedy of average amusement value". - Synopsis via The Moving Picture World. Originally two reels, one survives.
Vamping Babies
1926 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ActionDramaThe Bandit Tamer is a 1925 American silent film directed by J.P. McGowan.
The Bandit Tamer
1925 · 1 votes
Movie6.7ActionCrimeA young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.
Soul of the Slums
1931 · 3 votes
MovieComedyJake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
Movie9.0WesternAdventureIn a small western town, a man meets a girl whose father is a land agent. To please her, he buys a plot of land from her father. Next thing he knows, he's mixed up in a plot to drive him off his land.
The Call of the Wilderness
1926 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
Carmen's Wash Day
1914 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaHarry Wells, a New Yorker, takes his friend Bob Travers, a westerner visiting the city, to a cafe for an evening of pleasure. When Bob becomes interested in Floss, the chief chorus girl, he incurs the wrath of Spike, owner of the cafe, who is in love with her.
Burning Up Broadway
1928 · 1 votes