Robert Ellis
Writer · 1892 – 1974 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Movies24
- Movie7.0DramaWestern
Mounted Fury is a 1931 American drama film directed by Stuart Paton and written by Betty Burbridge.
Mounted Fury
1931 · 1 votes
Movie6.9DramaCrimeSocially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
American Madness
1932 · 49 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceClub pianist Ted Mason writes a love song for Beth Barton. A rival named Goldie steals the song for her husband, Steve, to publish. Beth faces unfair blame from her friends and teacher because of the popular song. Ted proves he wrote it by creating an even better song, exposing the theft, and winning Beth back.
Ragtime
1927 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaWesternReturning from the war to his father's California sawmill, Bob Cameron takes up with Hinky Dink, a cocky Englishman and man of the road. Ignoring a "no trespassing" sign on Cameron's property, Hinky is caught in a steel trap; Cameron, seeking aid, is threatened by Eben Beauregard, an old southerner, but the appearance of Antonia "Tony" Lee, Bob's childhood friend, quells his temper.
Whispering Canyon
1926 · 1 votes
Movie6.8ComedyAsaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1934 · 4 votes
Movie3.0DramaElnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934 · 3 votes
Movie5.8DramaA high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways.
Call Her Savage
1932 · 24 votes
- Movie10.0ComedyRomance
Louisiana is a mountain girl living in North Carolina. A poor girl, she is sent by her father to work in a resort hotel in order to obtain some cultural improvements. There she falls in love with a wealthy young man, much to the chagrin of the angry young mountain boy who wants her to give up her cultured ways and come back to the hills with him.
Louisiana
1919 · 1 votes
Movie7.5RomanceAdventureMaria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak, he vows revenge on his wife.
Madame Spy
1934 · 2 votes
Movie6.8RomanceCrimeTwo telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
I've Got Your Number
1934 · 8 votes
Movie3.3DramaRomanceA playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
What Men Want
1930 · 3 votes
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceHelen Corning, a rich "Yankee" widow's daughter, antagonizes her Southern neighbors when she speeds in her roadster. After she causes Brett Page's stalled Ford to overturn, Helen rams Judge Carroll's wagon, upsetting his eggs which fly into his whiskers. Furious, the Judge sends Helen to jail for thirty days. Brett, taking advantage of the town's ancient law that allows townspeople to hire prisoners for twenty cents per day, takes the uncooperative Helen into his home to cook and clean.
In for Thirty Days
1919 · 1 votes
Movie5.7MusicCrimeA naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Broadway
1929 · 16 votes
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceThe Honorable Hugh Wentworth, arriving from England with a valuable diamond to millionaire Edward Ensloe. Ensloe's eldest daughter Eleanor has romantic designs on Hugh, but he is more attracted to her tomboy sister Peggy. Eleanor is concerned with fashion and society while Peggy prefers tomboy pursuits with her younger brother Bob.
Peggy Does Her Darndest
1919 · 1 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceMary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
Slightly Married
1932 · 6 votes
Movie9.0DramaJoan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' lives more bearable but incurs Lowrie's wrath when he fires him for smoking in the mine. Bent on vengeance, Lowrie is beaten when he picks a fight with Fergus, then defiantly smokes in a mine tunnel. There is an explosion, Joan rescues Fergus, and their love triumphs over their class barriers. −
The Flame of Life
1923 · 1 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceA chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family.
The Love Trap
1929 · 12 votes
Movie10.0WesternA wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
Daring Danger
1932 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceA woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
The Good Bad Girl
1931 · 4 votes
Movie6.7DramaCrimeA man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.
The Penal Code
1932 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ActionAdventureSoldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
Soldiers of the Storm
1933 · 1 votes
Movie5.1ThrillerMysteryA man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
The Sphinx
1933 · 17 votes
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeWell respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
A Very Honorable Guy
1934 · 2 votes
Movie8.0RomanceDramaIn the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
Aloha
1931 · 1 votes