Roy D'Arcy
Actor · 1894 – 1969 · San Francisco, California, USA
Movies23
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceAn American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.
Flying Down to Rio
1933 · 75 votes
Movie7.0MusicRomanceIn 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939 · 42 votes
Movie3.7DramaWorking as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell him that his wife is cheating on him with other members of the crew. The boys end up in deeper trouble, after they are thrown in the brig and the ship starts sinking...
Buttons
1927 · 3 votes
Movie6.7DramaRomancePrince Danilo falls in love with dancer Sally O'Hara. However, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids the marriage due to her being a commoner. Thinking she's been jilted by her prince, Sally marries lecherous old Baron Sadoja, whose wealth has kept the kingdom afloat. When he suddenly dies, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
The Merry Widow
1926 · 42 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceA beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
Romance
1930 · 19 votes
Movie6.8ComedyThe star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.
Hot Curves
1930 · 4 votes
Movie9.0DramaBased on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople.
Orient Express
1934 · 1 votes
Movie6.7RomanceDramaA seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
The Temptress
1926 · 23 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceYoung José lives with his guardian, Don Julian, a middle-aged diplomat recently married to young Felicia. Society gossips in Madrid find the situation increasingly scandalous.
Lovers
1927 · 1 votes
Movie3.4HorrorThe story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. An evil count has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending the count's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, one of the members of the expedition has his own agenda.
Revolt of the Zombies
1936 · 31 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceSet in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.
Forbidden Hours
1928 · 1 votes
Movie4.0DramaA gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.
Love Bound
1932 · 9 votes
Movie7.7DramaWarDuring the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
Winners of the Wilderness
1927 · 3 votes
Movie7.4ActionDramaRafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926 · 14 votes
Movie6.4RomanceDramaA group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
La Bohème
1926 · 16 votes
Movie5.5ComedyRomanceBeverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan.
Beverly of Graustark
1926 · 17 votes
Movie5.9DramaMysteryMoriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his girl. But Moriarty has sworn that Holmes, Lt. Col. Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and his trial judge shall all be hanged too. When Moriarty escapes and proceeds to put his threat into operation, Holmes has to postpone his retirement.
Sherlock Holmes
1932 · 10 votes
Movie4.5DramaWith a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Hollywood Boulevard
1936 · 4 votes
Movie5.8DramaAdventureCaptain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the First World War.
The Black Watch
1929 · 18 votes
Movie5.0ComedyWhile breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
Sing and Like It
1934 · 4 votes
Movie5.4ActionThe Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
The Shadow of the Eagle
1932 · 12 votes
Movie5.5ActionAdventureJeffrey (Matt More), a jewelry store clerk prevents a robbery and, as a reward, given a vacation in Honolulu, provided that he transports a valuable emerald to the Hawaiian Islands. On the boat he meets a blonde named Mary (Dorothy Revier) whom he mistakes for a jewel thief called Blonde Mary (Hazel Howell).
Beware of Blondes
1928 · 2 votes
Movie6.7HorrorMysteryA story about a haunted old theater where an old Broadway play is being brought back despite threats from the ghost of a dead actor.
The Last Warning
1928 · 28 votes