Martha Mattox
Actor · 1879 – 1933 · Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Movies24
- Movie10.0Western
Ace High is a silent Western short.
Ace High
1919 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyAssuming he is marrying a wealthy girl, Peter Foley passes a fraudulent check. To save him from jail, Julia Barry poses as his wife. Peter is actually in love with Alice Blake. He encounters complications with motorcycle cop Bull, who is engaged to Julia. A friend of Alice adds to the mix-up. All wind up snowbound together in a mountain lodge.
Snowbound
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaWesternStory of Western life. The action centers about a fight to put through a single track from a mine in Alaska to the coast. If not completed within certain time heroine loses title to property. Young engineer aids in successful fight.
Breaking Through
1921 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceA young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.
Half Marriage
1929 · 6 votes
Movie6.3DramaRomanceAn American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932 · 104 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceInnocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Careless Lady
1932 · 5 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceA comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
The Girl Said No
1930 · 5 votes
Movie6.4HorrorMysteryA policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.
Murder by the Clock
1931 · 11 votes
Movie6.9ComedyHorrorRelatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.
The Cat and the Canary
1927 · 87 votes
Movie7.0DramaWarOswald Lane is welcomed by his hometown as a war hero and enjoys recounting his adventures to anyone who will listen. He accepts an invitation to stay in the home of his rather colorless brother, Andrew, and is soon not only making love to Martha, the Belgian maid, but is also finding Andrew's wife, Hester, receptive to his flirting. After stealing money entrusted to Andrew by his church, Oswald is on his way out of town when he passes a school fire, rescues several children, and is himself seriously burned. Andrew offers his own skin for grafting, and Oswald directs Hester to return the money.
The Hero
1923 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaInfatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite Viola Morgan falls madly in love with professional soldier Sir Arthur Little at a dinner party. The two marry, and before long Viola has relocated to Egypt with her husband. Soon bored by her hothouse existence, Viola succumbs to the attentions of young British attache Ronald Perry.
Infatuation
1925 · 1 votes
Movie6.4DramaComedyThe daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of parental concern, separates the lovers by sending his daughter away so that she might forget her lover, unaware of their married state. During this time, she gives birth to a daughter. After some months, the young mother returns to her family manor and presents her father with his new granddaughter, which causes a most unfortunate scene. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her enraged father falsely accuses his son-in-law of theft and has him incarcerated in order to separate the lovers in an irrational attempt to force his daughter to forget this "unworthy" young man.
The Family Secret
1924 · 6 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is now a hypochondriac of the first order. Now an adult Rufus has learned his late father has left him $750,000 but he won't inherit the sum for three more years. Rufus is certain he is on death's door and will never last three years so his Doctor arranges for a loan of $100,000 to pay for a live in nurse. Rufus only has to sign over his inheritance to the greedy trio of Clinch, McIntosh and Peck who along with the doctor are confident he'll live long enough to pay his debt.
Oh, Doctor!
1925 · 4 votes
Movie5.4CrimeThrillerMad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.
Murder at Dawn
1932 · 8 votes
Movie5.7ComedyDramaA poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the family's money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.
The Delicious Little Devil
1919 · 15 votes
Movie5.1WesternHorrorJohn Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan and his gang are also there to get the gold. A mysterious Phantom is also present. Mason's plan to expose Ryan as an outlaw and to force him to turn his share to Janet works. But when distracted by the Phantom, John is made a prisoner by the gang.
Haunted Gold
1932 · 24 votes
Movie6.7RomanceDramaA young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.
Torrent
1926 · 10 votes
Movie7.0A man flees his frustrating home and work life and is injured by a streetcar.
The Nut-Cracker
1926 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaNara, the daughter of a wealthy Russian killed by the Bolsheviki, flees to America and meets Adam Pine, a sculptor, who marvels at the beauty of her hands. Through him she meets Mrs. Vanessa Yates, a patroness of the arts, and Dr. Emlen Claveloux, who is completely absorbed in science. Connor Lee, a fake spiritualist, persuades her that she has a God-given power to cure ill people, and profits financially by her success in this work. This brings her into conflict with the physician, whom she loves, but her faith in the power of will and her beauty of character finally teach him that faith is at least an important adjunct to medicine.
The Hands of Nara
1922 · 1 votes
Movie6.3WesternEfforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
Heroes of the West
1932 · 3 votes
Movie8.0WesternA ranch owner runs afoul of a land grabber, and both of them are in love with the same girl, the daughter of a railroad owner.
Firebrand Trevison
1920 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaAn orphan (Richard Barthelmess) is adopted by Major Buford (Claude Gillingwater) is educated in Lexington and joins the Union Army as a Captain. He rediscovers his childhood sweetheart (Molly O' Day) and after his adopted father dies in the civil war, he gives up his inheritance in Kentucky for the girl he loves and moves back to be to his real birthplace to be with her. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come is a lost 1928 silent film drama directed by Alfred Santell and starring Richard Barthelmess. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures. The film is a remake of a 1920 Goldwyn Pictures film with the same title starring Jack Pickford, also lost.
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
1928 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyCrimeA gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
Finger Prints
1927 · 1 votes
Movie5.8CrimeHorrorA Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.
Behind the Mask
1932 · 17 votes