Carl Gerard
Actor · 1885 – 1966 · Copenhagen, Denmark
Movies21
Movie5.8RomanceComedySo This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.
So This Is Love
1928 · 14 votes
MovieDramaIn this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummond. She wooed Wall Street businessman Martin Stevens (A. H. Van Buren) away from his interest in her sweet sister Helen (Mary G. Martin). She continued to seek after rich men, eventually marrying young statesman Knowles Murray (Herbert Heyes) (again stolen from Helen) - but still willing to be unfaithful with Stevens who had since regained his fortune. (filmsite.org)
The Vixen
1916
Movie6.3DramaWarA young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
The Little American
1917 · 21 votes
Movie10.0AdventureDramaA young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.
The Silver Horde
1920 · 1 votes
Movie6.8RomanceComedyGold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.
That Certain Thing
1928 · 12 votes
Movie6.4MysteryCrimeA mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
The Public Defender
1931 · 5 votes
Movie10.0RomanceDramaLord Carlyle governs a province in India. Although he weds the beautiful Adrienne, he can't make her love him. And no wonder -- he's not only cruel, he's unfaithful. Adrienne leaves him and boards a ship with the intention of returning to England. But on the boat she meets Andrew Fabian, who is studying for the clergy. They fall in love, and he convinces her to accompany him on a pilgrimage to Damascus.
The Voice from the Minaret
1923 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaA pretty young girl from the country arrives in New York, hoping to become a Broadway star. She achieves that goal, but when she hears untrue stories that she became a star because she's the mistress of her show's wealthy backer, she leaves the show and joins a traveling stock company. Page Brookins, a farmer who doesn't know who she really is, sees one of her shows, meets her, they fall in love and plan to be married. However, her wealthy backer in New York hears about it and sets out to break up the engagement and bring her back to New York.
Youth to Youth
1922 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ThrillerAfter he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news.
The Roadhouse Murder
1932 · 7 votes
Movie7.2ComedyMabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
Up in Mabel's Room
1926 · 3 votes
Movie10.0ComedyChick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
Leathernecking
1930 · 1 votes
Movie10.0CrimeDramaWhen spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from prison. Jean was serving time after being framed by her former employer, Mrs. Ramsey, for a theft just to keep her and her son, Donald Ramsey, from marrying. Jean agrees to the crooks' scheme providing that they help her kidnap the baby that belongs to Donald and the woman that his mother had him marry.
The Hole in the Wall
1921 · 1 votes
Movie9.0HistoryWesternThe former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.
Wild Bill Hickok
1923 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaHistoryDuring the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe. Fast-forward several years and they again find themselves on opposite sides, this time about compensation for the properties of Tories--colonists who sided with the British--during the war. Hamilton falls for Maria Reynolds, who it turns out is secretly the wife of prominent pawnbroker Jacob Clingman, a friend of Burr's. The pair conspire to destroy Hamilton, who is now Secretary of the Treasury and married to the daughter of a prominent army general, by making public several love letters Hamilton had written to Mrs. Reynolds.
The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds
1918 · 1 votes
Movie7.5RomanceAfter her drunken husband Tom brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia can no longer bear the abuse and turns to Arctic explorer Frank, who has long loved her and promised to come back to her whenever she needs his help. A lost film.
Uncharted Seas
1921 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThrough sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes editor Matt Hayward's ( James Corrigan ) partner; and brings about a reconciliation between Hayward and his long time enemy, Mayor Gorham ( Lloyd Ingraham ).
Too Much Business
1922 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaHope Warner, a wealthy young woman, is arrested for speeding in her roadster and meets Martin Van Huisen, a young civil engineer who helps her. Hope falls in love with Martin, but when their wedding is approaching, she is self-conscious about Martin's father's poverty and doesn't invite him to the ceremony.
The Love Piker
1923 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaFormer student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
Crime and Punishment
1917 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaJan Saxe and Peter Harlingen, two young men from Holland, arrive in America with little orphan Bertha Kruger whom they have befriended during the trip and whom they both love. Bertha has come to live with her blind Aunt Sophie, and when Jan secretly raises $500 for an operation to restore her aunt's sight, Bertha marries Peter, believing that he was the donor of the "secret gift."
The Secret Gift
1920 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Adventure
In the mythical kingdom of Lyria, two young Americans get mixed up in a plot to get rid of the rightful king, who at times loses his reason.
The Great Reward
1921 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0DramaCrime
The head of a quartet of jewel thieves tries to make a getaway with the one female in the gang.
Sharp Tools
1928 · 1 votes