Gus Leonard
Actor · 1859 – 1939 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Gus "Pop" Leonard (February 4, 1859 – March 27, 1939) was an American film actor.
Movies24
Movie7.7ComedyRomanceWhen a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Safety Last!
1923 · 603 votes
Movie7.4ComedyCrimeThief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Trouble in Paradise
1932 · 322 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceAn unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.
The Freshman
1925 · 132 votes
Movie7.3DramaWesternWhen Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
The Wind
1928 · 137 votes
Movie7.1CrimeDramaGabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
The Petrified Forest
1936 · 224 votes
Movie6.4DramaWarThe Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
Noah's Ark
1928 · 24 votes
MovieDramaAfter a love triangle results death, St. Elmo falls from grace and is eventually redeemed in this now lost silent film based on the best selling novel by Augusta Jane Wilson.
St. Elmo
1914
Movie6.9ComedyWesternWith little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
Go West
1925 · 160 votes
Movie6.8HorrorScience FictionRespected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.
The Devil-Doll
1936 · 124 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Hal Roach produced comedy has Will Rogers playing the title character, a rather slow, dimwitted man who works on a ranch where he usually gets pushed around at. A woman (Marie Mosquini) comes to town looking for someone to help her photograph some of the animals so she picks Hank and soon regrets it.
Hustlin' Hank
1923 · 1 votes
Movie7.3ComedyActionA hapless young man living in New York City rallies to save his girlfriend's grandfather's horse-drawn trolley, the last in the city, from being put out of business by a railroad company.
Speedy
1928 · 112 votes
Movie6.4ComedyA meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
Grandma's Boy
1922 · 52 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceSpendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
The Devil to Pay!
1930 · 23 votes
Movie4.2DramaRomanceA murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933 · 6 votes
Movie4.5DramaRomanceProper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man.
New Morals for Old
1932 · 6 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaA vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
The Doorway to Hell
1930 · 25 votes
Movie6.9ComedyA young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
Bumping Into Broadway
1919 · 29 votes
Movie5.1ComedyBaseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, where his naivete and arrogance soon put his relationship and career into jeopardy.
Elmer, the Great
1933 · 9 votes
Movie6.6RomanceComedyMiddle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
One Sunday Afternoon
1933 · 9 votes
Movie6.6ComedyFamilyWhen Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
Mush and Milk
1933 · 7 votes
MovieComedyHarold Lloyd starred in the successful Lonesome Luke series. However, he soon grew tired of the obvious Charlie Chaplin imitation. In an attempt to reinvent himself, Lloyd donned a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, and thus, a new comedy legend was born. Setting himself against Chaplin, Lloyd's "glasses character" was an everyman, a resourceful go-getter who embodied the ambitious, success-seeking attitude of 1920s America.
Beat It
1918
Movie4.2ComedyHarry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.
The Head Guy
1930 · 4 votes
Movie5.5DramaA lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.
When a Feller Needs a Friend
1932 · 2 votes
Movie4.3RomanceComedyA grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
Loose Ankles
1930 · 7 votes