Irving Cummings
Director · 1888 – 1959 · New York City, New York, USA
Movies23
Movie8.0DramaThrillerNorine Lawton is a young woman living by her wits in New York City. When she becomes friendly with Count Bonzi, a swindler, he enlists her aid in his scheme to sell worthless Mercer oil company stock to wealthy Christopher Gibbons, a retired war hero.
Beautifully Trimmed
1920 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaBecause Amy Fortesque's dying grandfather advises her to get all the joys out of life, she marries Dick Gaylord because he is funny, rather than Walter Melrose, a staid young lawyer who loves her.
What Every Woman Learns
1919 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyYoung bride Patricia Morley's flirtatious ways at a summer resort keep her husband Henry in a state of continual anxiety. At an old-fashioned barn dance, Patricia enacts the role of a chicken breaking out of an egg, and Henry's wrath explodes. After accusing her of being in love with another man, Henry returns to New York and files for divorce. Heartbroken, Patricia sends her friend Victoria French to tell Henry that she is dying.
Some Bride
1919 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaA man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French man the daughter, now grown up, attracted to a descendant of that same Parisian as well?
Her Code of Honor
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
This rarely seen, silent religious feature was produced by the Catholic Art Association. After making it big on Wall Street, John Harden boasts that he is the master of his own fate and believes in neither God nor the Devil. Needless to say, he pays mightily for this hubris. His family is reduced to poverty, his friends desert him, and things turn from bad to worse until his childhood faith is restored.
The Blasphemer
1921 · 1 votes
MovieDramaThe World's Great Snare is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Kaufman.
Movie9.0ActionDramaA young Scottish immigrant to Canada becomes a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Cameron of the Royal Mounted
1921 · 1 votes
Movie6.3WesternComedyA lovesick sheriff protects his town, embroiled in a feud between a crafty bandit leader and the family of the prospector he stole from.
The Round-Up
1920 · 6 votes
Movie4.9DramaRomanceA Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian plays herself in the film which is based on her published memoirs. It is thought to be the first film about made about genocide. All known complete copies of the film have been lost. A restored and edited 24-minute segment of the historic motion picture was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California. It is based on a rare surviving reel of film edited in Soviet Armenia.
Auction of Souls
1919 · 8 votes
Movie5.8DramaThe first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1914 · 12 votes
MovieDramaThe Woman Who Gave is a lost 1918 American silent melodrama film directed by Kenean Buel and starring Evelyn Nesbit, a former Gibson Girl, "It girl" model and showgirl involved in a 1906 "trial of the century" that involved a killing and an allegation of rape – whose films often exploited the fame of her life story. The film was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. The film went into release the day before fighting in World War I ended.
Movie9.0DramaMen, Women, and Money
1919 · 1 votes
MovieDramaPoverty forces Helen Shirley, a country lass, into New York in search of a living. Shy and unsophisticated, Helen falls an easy victim of the notorious band which preys upon young girls and she is easily induced to go to a boarding house which is in reality the headquarters of the gang.
The Saleslady
1916
Movie7.0DramaIn China, a boy reads a legend about a mysterious woman's power over a wealthy Mandarin prince. In New York, Betty Cardon, a social butterfly, disregards her husband Blair's order to stop gambling their money at bridge, and finds herself in debt to Geoffrey North, who, encouraged by her flirting, now wants sexual payment. Cherry Blossom, a Chinese girl who refuses to be sold by her father to the brutal Li Hsun, a wealthy Mandarin, hides in Betty's home after Betty's friend, Susan Pettigrew, a mission worker, introduces them.
Mandarin's Gold
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
In the Mesh of Her Hair
1914 · 1 votes
Movie6.6DramaA Broadway actress uses her sex appeal to ruin a marriage only to dump her lover for a richer prospect.
Sex
1920 · 29 votes
MovieDramaHistoryThe story of the rise and fall of Rasputin, the so-called "mad monk" who dominated the court of the Russian czar in the period prior to the Russian revolution.
MovieAdventureThis serial told the story of the diamond heir loom of the Stanley family.
Movie3.3DramaThe wicked Belle gets her hands on Nigel Stanyon, a young man who was about to embark on a career as a minister. She seduces him, empties his bank account and tosses him aside. In the depths of despair, Nigel is discovered by Brian, a wealthy old friend, who secures him a job as an overseer on his family estate. One day Brian embarks on a trip abroad, and Nigel is astounded when he returns home with a new wife—Nigel's old flame, Belle.
The Tree of Knowledge
1920 · 3 votes
Movie9.0WesternA girl engaged to a member of the Royal Mounted Police is forced to marry a vicious blackmailer after he gains incriminating evidence on her father.
The Man from Hell's River
1922 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaDisillusioned by the transience of wealth when her father's bank balance can no longer support his family's posh lifestyle, and when her fiancé Clay Wimborn admits that he has gone into debt to shower her with presents, Daphne Kip determines to become financially independent.
The 13th Commandment
1920 · 1 votes
MovieDramaRoma Winnet, the author of Jealousy, loves and marries Bob Lawson, but worries that her own difficulties with that emotion will destroy their relationship. When Dave Blake enlists in the secret service, he entrusts Ethel Clarke, his girlfriend and Roma's best friend, to Bob's care, an arrangement that immediately causes Roma to fret.
Wrath of Love
1917
Movie5.8DramaComedyNick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich and his son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making him take the blame for Mark's illegitimate daughter, and also nearly ruins the family business by selling off some stock at too low a price.
The Saphead
1920 · 54 votes