
Frank Butler
Senarist · 1890 – 1967 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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Film7.0DramTim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, drab woman with no social skills whatsoever. Tim gets so embarrassed by her that he hires a "social secretary" for her to teach her how to function in the social strata in which they find themselves.
A Self Made Wife
1923 · 1 votes
Film8.0KomediRomantikJohn Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when he is in Paris, Mona de Briac comes into his life. Mona comes from an noble family who is facing ruin.
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1923 · 1 votes
Film6.5MüzikKomediDozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Variety Girl
1947 · 12 votes
Film8.0KomediThe head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
Don Key (Son of Burro)
1926 · 2 votes
- Film10.0
The story revolves around two brothers-in-law as business partners in a cloak and suit establishment with a ravishing model as go-between. The married member of the firm scoffs at his partner's declaration that the beautiful model vamp is in love with him. He is soon proven otherwise when he sees her enter the room.
Wild Papa
1925 · 1 votes
Film5.9MaceraDramSheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
The Sheik
1921 · 63 votes
Film9.0DramJack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwood, nurses him back to health and out of gratitude he marries her, ignoring the fact that he has a fiancée, Harriet Halehurst (Eva Novak), back home.
The Tiger's Claw
1923 · 1 votes
Film8.0MaceraA dog is stolen from his home in England and shipped to Canada to become a sled dog. Based on the novel by Jack London.
The Call of the Wild
1923 · 1 votes
Film8.0DramIn Canada, a young woman of Indian blood marries an Englishman who sends her back to England to humiliate his family and the woman who once spurned him. But the man's brother shows her the ways of English civilization, and a great surprise awaits her husband when he returns to his homeland.
Behold My Wife
1920 · 1 votes
Film7.0KomediIn the 16th episode of Hal Roach's Spat Family series, the Spats order a fire engine from a mail catalogue-- and soon they'll need it!
Hot Stuff
1924 · 1 votes
Film10.0DramManuel La Tessa, son of a wealthy South American family, meets Natalie Chester, a young Kentucky woman whose horse has won a race at a South American track. Manuel gives a party in her honor, where she is insulted by one of the guests. Manuel knocks down the offender. The offender, whose father is a powerful figure in the country's politics, challenges Manuel to a duel, but also hires a man to hide in ambush and kill his opponent. Manuel is only wounded and Natalie nurses him back to health. Natalie loves Manuel and seeks to uncover the mystery of the bullet fired at him during the duel. A lost film.
My American Wife
1922 · 1 votes
Film10.0DramA young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
Satan in Sables
1925 · 1 votes
Film6.0DramRomantikA young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
Beyond the Rocks
1922 · 20 votes
Film7.0KomediSecond release in 'The Spat Family' series of 2-reel comedies. In this episode the three of them win a yacht in a tombola and quarrel over the captaincy while Mrs TS goes swimming and risks getting lost.
Heavy Seas
1923 · 1 votes
Film7.0MaceraDramDon Hathaway Jr. goes to Alaska to escape Follies girl and meets with an accident. The girl helps him and takes him to her home where jealous rival accuses him of being a bootlegger, when he is the culprit himself. Hero proves innocence and defeats rival for affection of girl.
30 Below Zero
1926 · 1 votes
Film7.1KomediIn this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, London, and finally Paris, where problems arise on top of the Eiffel Tower.
Seeing the World
1927 · 5 votes
Film8.0DramSir Edward Pelham, married to a Romani Russian, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin, whom she does not love. During a trip to Nevada with her father, she meets engineer Bayard Delavel, who saves her life when she is bitten by a snake; when her father finds her with Bayard in his cabin, he forces them to marry. Believing that Nadine does not love him, Delavel leaves her and prepares to sue for divorce. A lost film.
The Great Moment
1921 · 1 votes
Film7.0WesternThere's gold in them thar hills and Larry Crawford must fight the unscrupulous Bradley and his men to keep it safe.
The Fighting Buckaroo
1926 · 1 votes
Film10.0KomediNewlyweds Angelica and J. Tewkesbury Spat along with Mrs. Spat's brother Ambrose decide to build a house. It is finished in only 48 hours, but their carpentry skills may not be up to snuff. The first episode of The Spat Family series.
Let's Build
1923 · 1 votes
Film6.7DramA young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she's traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don't share her boyfriend's attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known.
Made for Love
1926 · 3 votes
Film10.0KomediThe Spats go on a camping trip that begins with the destruction of their cabin and ends with them being pursued by bandits, a railroad bull, and the police. The Great Outdoors is the fourth episode of The Spat Family series.
The Great Outdoors
1923 · 1 votes