James Bradbury Sr.
Actor · 1857 – 1940 · Old Town, Maine, USA
Movies24
Movie5.5HistoryDramaAn episodic dramatization of the 18th President of the United States' life, including his early years, affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, debates with Stephen A. Douglas, the election of 1860, his presidency during the Civil War, and finally his assassination at Ford's Theater in 1865.
Abraham Lincoln
1930 · 42 votes
Movie4.0RomanceDramaA sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long afterwards the ship sinks but the pair manage to get into a lifeboat before it goes under. They are later picked up by a passing ship, but it turns out that the crew had just mutinied against their captain and taken over the ship.
Scarlet Seas
1928 · 4 votes
Movie8.0Comedy1928 American comedy film directed by Lynn Shores.
Skinner's Big Idea
1928 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaDee Renaud is a girl playing the "Devil" in an amusement concession at a beach resort. Slick Glicks, the barker, promises the yokels that if they're able to catch the "Lady From Hell," she will reward them with a kiss. But when Glicks tries to go beyond kissing, Dee is rescued by Jim Coakley, son of a New England lighthouse keeper...
The Woman from Hell
1929 · 1 votes
Movie10.0AdventureBlockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a dauntless female prohibition agent. In her pursuit of a gang of Florida rum-runners, Bess assumes three identities. At various junctures, she is "herself," a society belle and a gangster's moll.
Blockade
1928 · 1 votes
MovieDramaRomanceWhen her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah
Movie8.0ComedyDramaWaterfront is a 1928 silent film released with sound effects and music, produced and released by First National Pictures. The film was directed by William A. Seiter and starred Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall, then a popular duo under the First National banner.
Waterfront
1928 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyPlayboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
Fascinating Youth
1926 · 1 votes
Movie8.5DramaTol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
Tol'able David
1930 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ActionComedyGlenn Higgins and Patsy Jones are a song-and-dance team traveling the vaudeville circuit across the United States, and land in a Kentucky tank-town filled with sharpies and wise-guys , wearing spats and carrying canes, who have reasons for wanting a horse named "Hot Heels, not to win the race he is scheduled to run in. This does not bode well for the vaudevillians as Glenn, acting on a hot tip from a hot vamp, has bet the pair's bankroll on "Hot Heels" to win.
Hot Heels
1927 · 1 votes
Movie8.4DramaJazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
Walking Back
1928 · 4 votes
Movie5.0DramaActionTerry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.
The Fire Brigade
1926 · 3 votes
Movie6.3WesternCalifornia's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
Tide of Empire
1929 · 9 votes
Movie4.9MysteryMargaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
Conspiracy
1930 · 13 votes
Movie7.0WesternTom meets his fate when a balloon goes sailing over the ranch: seeing a girl jump with a parachute, he rides to her rescue. Later, during the circus parade, he rides to her assistance, rescuing her from an elephant and thus arousing the ire of the circus manager, whose henchmen begin to chase Tom. Scrambling over the main tent, Tom falls onto the tightrope and lands in a net with the girl while the crowd wildly applauds. Kirk Mallory, who is jealous of Tom's attentions to Millie, frames Tom for a murder; he lands in jail but escapes and reaches Mallory's ranch in time to rescue the girl and administer a thrashing to the villain.
The Circus Ace
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.4ComedyFive years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are remarried and with children.
The Matrimonial Bed
1930 · 5 votes
Movie9.0ActionDramaRacing driver Jack Harlowe falls in love with Helen Drake, the daughter of his father's rival automobile manufacturer. Having promised his father to drive in the big race, Howes must refuse the girl's request that he drive for her father, but when he learns that another man (who has his eye on the girl) plans to drive for her father and throw the race, Howes receives parental permission to win the race for the rival.
The Racing Fool
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film.
Babe Comes Home
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyRomanceIn Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to teach her a lesson, and forces her to live with him in the remote African outback where, eventually, she realizes her true affections.
Midnight Madness
1928 · 1 votes
MovieDramaWhen Cindy Lane becomes pregnant, Mark Brierson, the father, refuses to marry her. Instead, Brierson romances Azalia Deering, whose father, General Deering, owns the town bank. Brierson misuses bank funds, but the bank is saved by Jack Rose, a wealthy farmer. Cindy's father Zeb vows to kill her lover, but she refuses to reveal the man's identity.
At Piney Ridge
1916
Movie7.7DramaA disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.
The Blood Ship
1927 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ActionDramaWar veteran Jim is an airplane designer. His best buddy Dick steals his latest design. Dick wants to impress beautiful Winnie and sell Jim's plans to her father, a rich manufacturer, but Jim turns up at the right moment to claim his invention, and he wins Winnie.
The High Flyer
1926 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyMink Jones of Jonesville, is the lord high executioner and everything else.
Temperance Town
1916 · 1 votes
Movie6.5AdventureComedyA wealthy New Yorker falls in love with a burglar's sister.
Manhattan
1924 · 2 votes