Stanhope Wheatcroft
Oyuncu · 1888 – 1966 · New York City, New York, USA
Filmler24
Film8.2KomediDramŞehir Işıkları, görme engelli genç bir kızla evsiz bir gencin hikayesini anlatıyor. Kör bir çiçekçiye aşık olan ve sokaklarda yaşayan iyi niyetli bir serseri, kıza kendisini varlıklı biri olarak tanıtır. Bir milyonerin hayatını kurtarmıştır ve onun kendisine yardım edeceğine güvenmektedir. Adamı ziyaret edip sevdiği kızın gözlerini ameliyat ettirebilecek kadar para ödünç alabileceğini düşünür. Ama zengin insanlar aslında ikiyüzlü bir yaşam sürmektedirler. Mesaj sessiz, fakat evrenseldir: aşkın gözü kördür...
Film7.4SuçAksiyonBrian De Palma 1980’li yıllarda üç saatlik bir şölene dönüştürdüğü Tony Montanalı SCARFACE hikâyesini yakın tarihe kadar bir gizem olan 1931 yapımı SCARFACE filminden aktarmıştır. Hayatı sinema filmine konu olan Howard Hughes, senaryo yazarı Ben Hecht ve Amerikan sinemasının efsane yönetmenlerinden Howard Hawks’ın 1931 yılında gerçekleştirdikleri bu eser “Klasik” ve “Yön verme” vasıflarını hak eden bir çalışmadır. Eserin ana fikri Tony Guarino isimli karaktere dayandırılan Armitage Trail’in aynı isimli romanına dayanmaktadır.Ufak işlerde pişen Sicilya kökenli serseri Tony Camonte, dağlı teknikleri ve megaloman seviyede ki kazanma hırsıyla Chicago Yeraltı Dünyasının en büyüğü olmaya yemin etmiştir. Bu yolda da kendi patronundan şehri yönetenler kulübünün üyelerine herkes birer araçtır. Sırası gelenler bu hırstan kendine düşen payı alacak ve hastanede ki suikast sahnesinde olduğu gibi bir buket çiçek ve kurşunla şehirden ve hayattan uğurlanacaktır.
Film7.2KomediDramWhen all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933 · 183 votes
Film6.7DramWesternOne of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Union Pacific
1939 · 82 votes
Film7.4KomediSuçThief 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 · 325 votes
Film6.0KomediRomantikA cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing witness important to the case of the plaintiff. He attracts the romantic attention of two old roués and one hot Broadway showgirl.
Madame Behave
1925 · 2 votes
Film7.1SuçDramFight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Kid Galahad
1937 · 61 votes
Film5.2TarihDramA beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
The House on 56th Street
1933 · 8 votes
Film6.8WesternDramBrandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
The Iron Horse
1925 · 81 votes
Film5.5DramRomantikConstance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
Break of Hearts
1935 · 9 votes
Film5.6RomantikKomediDowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from plain to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair.
Sin Takes a Holiday
1930 · 24 votes
Film6.7KomediSuçAfter an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off guard by having her fall for a handsome and suave jewel thief who happens to be in the U.S. traveling under an assumed name.
The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934 · 6 votes
Film7.0DramUpon returning home from school one day, Lotus Blossom, a Japanese orphan who lives on the island of Hilo in Hawaii and teaches at a native school, discovers Parker, nearly dead from hunger. Believing his story of a shipwreck, Lotus nurses him back to health and then, mistaking loneliness for love, agrees to marry her patient. Soon tiring of her, Parker deserts her and assumes a new identity.
Locked Lips
1920 · 1 votes
Film7.3RomantikDramA terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
One Way Passage
1932 · 67 votes
FilmDramCamille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hopes of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
Camille
1915
FilmAksiyonDramOn his deathbed Steele Weir's father tells his son of a band of criminals who framed him for murder and robbed him of valuable land in the West. Under contract to build a dam, Steele goes to the headquarters of the gang; and becoming aware of his identity, they plot against him with the services of lawyer Martinez. He, however, proves to be Steele's friend and obtains evidence against the gang. When Ed Sorenson, the leader's son, steals the evidence, Steele's sweetheart, Janet, outwits the enemies, and after many adventures the bandits are convicted and Steele wins the girl.
Cold Steel
1921
Film8.0GizemAksiyonInspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
Girl in Danger
1934 · 2 votes
Film5.3GizemKomediWhen a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
The Death Kiss
1932 · 36 votes
Film10.0KomediDramA young bank clerk wants to marry her, but Nell Fanshawe decides that soda clerk John Stanley is the one for her. Because John does not have enough money to marry, however, Nell encourages him to go to New York, where he becomes a successful antique salesman for Jellaby and Co. Steve Ratling, a vindictive discharged salesman, convinces John to gamble the $300 he took in on a large sale, because he didn't get a deserved raise. After John loses the money, he disappears, leaving a note to Jellaby saying that his pocket was picked, but that he will repay the money.
The Home Town Girl
1919 · 1 votes
Film8.0KomediWorld War I veteran Jack Dunbar who, like a lot of veterans then and now, is finding it hard to land a job. When he fixes the broken down auto of the newly rich Nicholas Small, he finally runs into some luck. The blustery Small explains that the way to get ahead is to blow your own horn, and then he takes Dunbar to an estate, where he is introduced as a millionaire.
Blow Your Own Horn
1923 · 1 votes
Film10.0DramPoverty-stricken John Hargrave is forced to beg employment from rich mill owner Roger Winton in order to save his sick mother's life. Winton refuses to help, and when Hargrave's mother dies, he swears revenge. Eighteen years pass and Hargrave is now owner of a large paper mill, in competition with Winton. Hargrave and Winton's son, Roger Jr., are also rivals for the same woman, Irene Foster, who desires Winton's love but Hargrave's money. Winton, Sr., in an attempted takeover of Hargrave's stock, bribes labor agitators to create turmoil in Hargrave's plant. Hargrave discovers the plot, foils the scheme and discovers Irene's disloyalty. Although stricken with blindness because of the agitation in his life, Hargrave finds true love with his secretary, Margaret Carlisle. Once his sight is restored, he marries Margaret.
A Beggar in Purple
1920 · 1 votes
Film5.9KomediRomantikSet in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams of marrying rich. Her constant daydreaming of wealth annoys her fellow workers, and ruins the heart of one of her worshiping colleagues.
Orchids and Ermine
1927 · 5 votes
FilmKomediDramSpoiled, lazy Harold Chester Winthrop Gordon finds that he has been disinherited, barred from seeing his sweetheart, and expelled from his club. He decides to reform himself and begins by crossing out his first three names with an "x." Thereafter known as "Three X Gordon," he says goodbye to pretty Dorrie Webster and sets out with his friend Archie for the West.
Three X Gordon
1918
Film7.0DramThe story of twin sisters, one raised in Russia, the other in America, and how their lives diverge and re-entangle.
The Right to Happiness
1919 · 3 votes