Alfred Allen
Actor · 1866 – 1947
Movies24
- Movie9.0CrimeDrama
Noted criminologist Miles Manning captures a gang of crooks by posing as a super-criminal--a mysterious man called "The Eel"--when the mayor's daughter, Cordelia, believing that he really is a crook, enlists his assistance in ridding the city of its criminals.
Stolen Secrets
1924 · 1 votes
Movie8.0WesternThe story of a man -- accused of a crime he didn't commit and wounded by the posse -- who hides out on a desert ranch.
Desert Driven
1923 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaA drama directed by Edward Sloman.
Burning Daylight
1920 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaThis exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as Shattered Idols. Jean Hurst, the widow of a British Army officer in India, hates her crippled son David because she thinks he is a coward and a weakling. She sends him away to England for his education. When he returns to India, he falls in love with native girl Sarasvati, who he saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
Shattered Idols
1922 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaWesternJack Savage, a rancher, refuses to sell his property to John Merritt, a millionaire newly interested in ranching. Jack later meets Helen Merritt and falls in love with her, not knowing that she is the wealthy man's daughter.
Bustin' Thru
1925 · 1 votes
Movie10.0HistoryDramaA biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1924 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyAspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best cameraman, to quit in protest of the hiring of a woman. The Mercury hires Scoop, and there begins a heated rivalry between him and Pat. Pat gets a few lucky breaks and manages to get a beat on Scoop during her brief career. After she exposes the theft of a jewel from the turban of a visiting maharajah, she and Scoop are kidnapped by Clayton, the thief, and taken aboard his yacht. Rescued, she and Scoop find love and happiness.
Hot News
1928 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaCrimeBoisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Underworld
1927 · 94 votes
Movie7.2ComedyRomanceDavid Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals their betrothal. But when he finds out that she has other ideas, David tries a trickier method of winning her for his bride.
An Old Fashioned Boy
1920 · 3 votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaWade Hildreth is sent to New York from London to receive a diamond necklace for Lady Gwendolyn from the jeweler Arabin. A gang of crooks led by Pete Fielding, known as "The Shadow," plans to keep Hildreth from going to Arabin's until they have robbed the store. Actress Morn Light, whom the Shadow loves, agrees to entice Hildreth to her apartment to be imprisoned. When she warns Hildreth because she wants to avenge her father's death, which was caused by the Shadow, the Shadow overhears and captures them both.
Loot
1919 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyA French girl falls in love with an American soldier, and after the War she follows him to New York, where he is a police officer. A lost film.
Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
1928 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyStrong-willed Kathleen O'Hara, believes in equality of sexes, makes a pact with her sweetheart, Jim Donahue, when they become joint owners of a California gold mine. According to the agreement, Donahue will do the housekeeping while Kathleen runs the mine; the first to call for help loses his share of the mine.
The Fifty-Fifty Girl
1928 · 1 votes
Movie6.5WesternHarry's bride is murdered at their wedding along with Harry's mother and father, and the good-hearted outlaw turns grimly malevolent.
Riders of Vengeance
1919 · 2 votes
MovieHistoryDuring the days of the California missions, Jose Garcia becomes friends with Luis Lopez, a local Robin Hood determined to redistribute among the poor the loot of the rich. Inspired by Luis, Jose sets out to rob the home of wealthy landowner Don Ortega. On the way, however, Jose gets lost in the desert and is nearly dead when he is found by Don Ortega's aristocratic cousin, Castro Arrellanes, and Castro's daughter Carmen, who take him in and nurse him back to health. Jose quickly falls in love with Carmen, and as a result, renounces his plan of robbing the rich. Then, he learns that Luis has made plans to break into Don Ortega's house.
A Yoke of Gold
1916
Movie5.3DramaCrimeThree crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
White Tiger
1923 · 14 votes
Movie6.9AdventureDramaSix friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
The Flying Fleet
1929 · 7 votes
MovieDramaAn actress falls in love with a shepherd, to the dismay of a wealthy suitor.
The Unattainable
1916
MovieCrimeDramaFrom a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his mark publicly as a dancer, but secretly as a gentleman burglar.
Come Through
1917
Movie10.0AdventureMovie serial Perils of the Wild
Perils of the Wild
1925 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaAdventureA young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
The Grub Stake
1923 · 4 votes
MovieDramaRomanceA jealous dance-hall girl kills her lover. She escapes from the sheriff who is taking her to jail and hides out in the forest with a recluse who lives in a hollowed-out redwood.
Tongues of Flame
1918
Movie8.0WesternThis Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
Sunset Pass
1929 · 1 votes
MovieDramaWhen penniless Westie Phillips briefly meets wealthy Martha Gorham, he falls in love, but Martha forgets the encounter. Harry Arnold, courting Martha, invites her out sailing and arranges to have the yacht wrecked near an uncharted island so that he can be alone with her until rescuers arrive. Meanwhile, without knowing Martha is on board, Westie secures a position on the yacht.
MovieActionThrillerOn the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.
The Red Glove
1919