Charles Bennett
Actor · 1891 – 1943 · Dunedin, New Zealand
Movies23
Movie8.0MysteryDramaNewspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Citizen Kane
1941 · 6.2K votes
Movie7.1DramaRomanceMiddle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Mrs. Miniver
1942 · 298 votes
Movie6.5AdventureFamilyIn this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
Treasure Island
1934 · 80 votes
Movie6.5AdventureWarBritish army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
Gunga Din
1939 · 189 votes
Movie6.9ThrillerWarShortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
Man Hunt
1941 · 132 votes
Movie6.1ComedyMusicOn leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.
Born to Dance
1936 · 31 votes
Movie6.5ComedyAbbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
It Ain't Hay
1943 · 16 votes
Movie6.6ComedyDramaA society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
I Live My Life
1935 · 10 votes
MovieComedyBobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures.
Whose Baby?
1917 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaA London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
The Light That Failed
1939 · 8 votes
Movie6.2ComedyA womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914 · 85 votes
Movie5.7ComedyMabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Mabel's Busy Day
1914 · 45 votes
Movie5.6AnimationComedyPirate John and his crew threaten Christmas after taking over the Captain's role as Santa.
The Captain's Christmas
1938 · 21 votes
Movie5.4ComedyA painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
The Face on the Barroom Floor
1914 · 51 votes
Movie5.7DramaWesternA short western about a cowardly sheriff who leaves it up to his wife to catch a murderer, and then takes the credit himself.
The Craven
1912 · 3 votes
Movie5.2ComedyCharlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves two police officers, all five people end up in the local pond to cool off.
Recreation
1914 · 68 votes
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeA British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Step Lively, Jeeves!
1937 · 5 votes
Movie5.2ComedyMabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Mabel's Blunder
1914 · 28 votes
Movie5.8ComedyCharlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
The Property Man
1914 · 43 votes
MovieActionDaniel Robin has become mixed up with a band of criminals known as "the 13," and is shot when he refuses to do their bidding. His daughter Ruth, brought home from boarding school, reaches his bedside before he expires. He tells her that she will be given thirteen keys. Instructions will be provided with each key and, if she follows the instructions, she will eventually fully learn of her birthright. Many adventures then follow as Ruth attempts to solve the puzzle of each key and establish her true birthright.
Movie6.2ComedyGloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Gloria's guardian, and he is also in charge of Bobbie's inheritance. The scheming guardian and his sister have been spending Bobbie's money, and they hope to have the sister marry Bobbie so that they can keep control over his money.
Teddy at the Throttle
1917 · 17 votes
MovieComedyMarried ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.
Movie3.7CrimeA once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.
Narcotic
1933 · 18 votes