Wallace Beery
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1885-03-31
Locus Natus: Clay County, Missouri, USA
Et ut: Wallace Fitzgerald Beery
The Lost World
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
release : 1925.02.02popularis : 7.949
Three Ages
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is...
release : 1923.09.24popularis : 10.176
Grand Hotel
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
release : 1932.05.25popularis : 9.626
The Secret Six
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton....
release : 1931.04.18popularis : 3.102
The Champ
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
release : 1931.11.21popularis : 5.824
Treasure Island
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in...
release : 1934.08.17popularis : 5.841
Viva Villa!
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
release : 1934.04.27popularis : 4.322
The Last Trail
The successful operations of a lone bandit known as "The Night Hawk" terrorize a frontier town, and when a stranger arrives riding a fine horse,...
release : 1921.11.01popularis : 1.472
The Hour and the Man
A lawyer defends a woman accused of murdering her husband without knowing that the murdered man was his own brother.
release : 1914.01.09popularis : 1.263
Looking for Trouble
Mr. Simp is subservient to all his wife does or says, and as his wife is a militant suffragette, Mr. Simp is a firm adherent to the cause. He...
release : 1914.01.21popularis : 0.892
Wrong All Around
Howard Simpkins suspects his wife and is therefore jealous.
release : 1914.04.22popularis : 1.14
The Bargain Hunters
This is a pleasing story of a young married couple, who are the victims of a boarding house. They decide to move, to keep house for themselves, and a...
release : 1914.04.08popularis : 1.713
The Winner
Dan Ryan and Fritz Noodle, two would-be politicians, succumb to the charming mannerisms of the Widow Guggenheimer. The widow is undecided which one...
release : 1914.04.17popularis : 1.588
And He Came Back
Mr. Secondchoice becomes very much peeved when he discovers early one morning that his wife has decorated the living room with photographs of her...
release : 1914.04.15popularis : 2.012
The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar
Thomas Terpin. James Riding and Jack Hazard are sitting in the club when the talk drifts to a daring housebreaker, whom the police are powerless to...
release : 1914.03.11popularis : 2.217
Mrs. Manly's Baby
Mrs. Manly and Mrs. G. Howe Wise are close friends and sisters in the same Suffrage Legion in a small town, but Mrs. Manly makes a legal error by...
release : 1914.02.25popularis : 1.478
Jane
Because her father breaks her engagement to a young man, Jane, a spoiled girl of luxury, retires to a country hospital of which her father is a...
release : 1914.06.09popularis : 0.834
Making Him Over -- For Minnie
Ruth, a young manicurist, is desperately in love with Jimmie White, a mechanic. Ruth's friends make fun of her beau, as he is uneducated both in the...
release : 1914.05.06popularis : 1.332
Actor Finney's Finish
James Finney, a would-be actor, is discharged from the Gaiety Theater and thrown bodily into the street.
release : 1914.05.20popularis : 1.288
Oh, Doctor
Beulah Crane, a student at boarding school, becomes very much interested in a young fellow she thinks is a doctor.
release : 1914.03.17popularis : 1.132
Three Little Powders
Mrs. Wallace Williams is much given to conversation and, when she and her husband have a word battle, she of course wins out, making her husband...
release : 1914.05.13popularis : 0.928
The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine
The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine
release : 1914.06.17popularis : 1.982
This Is the Life
Farmer Stebbens and his son, Hiram, attend a convention in New York City, and while there become acquainted with two chorus girls, who lead them a...
release : 1914.06.10popularis : 0.325
Sweedie the Swatter
Mrs. Highstrung's maid leaves her at a very inopportune time, as she has just received a telegram from some friends that they will arrive in the city...
release : 1914.07.13popularis : 1.621
The Epidemic
Argentino Boldo has a valuable book in his possession that Texas Tommy, Hesitation Nell and One-Step McGinnis desire to appropriate. The hero....
release : 1914.06.24popularis : 2.278
The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps
He was too big for this world when a Phrenologist told him he was a modern Napoleon.
release : 1914.07.15popularis : 1.654
Countess Sweedie
Countess Von Swatt goes on a slumming party and loses one of her calling cards in the "hash house" where Sweedie works. Sweedie finds the card. Next...
release : 1914.11.16popularis : 0.805
Sweedie's Hero
Sweedie gets a job as mop artist in a hotel. She starts out from home encumbered with baggage and a pet dog of uncertain ancestry. Arrived at the...
release : 1915.05.20popularis : 1.688
The Fickleness of Sweedie
Henry Bigger, a short fat fellow, and Danny Slimson, short but slim, are rivals for the hand of Sweedie. One day while Danny is peeking in the window...
release : 1914.10.05popularis : 1.049
Sweedie at the Fair
Sweedie, the cook at the Rich household, buys a donkey from the captain of the police, but forgets to pay for it. He raids the house in an effort to...
release : 1914.11.23popularis : 2.021
Sweedie Collects for Charity
Mrs. Goodheart, a charity worker, comes home one evening very much discouraged as she is unable to get even a small donation from Mr. Tightwad, the...
release : 1914.12.28popularis : 2.015
Sweedie the Trouble Maker
Sweedie has two admirers, and is undecided as to which one she prefers to marry. Her parents are in favor of Fritz, a little fat German. Sweedie is...
release : 1914.11.09popularis : 1.864
Their Cheap Vacation
The Newlyweds read in the newspaper of an ideal automobile trip which only costs $12. Mr. Newlywed decides to take a few days' vacation and enjoy the...
release : 1914.12.21popularis : 1.161
The New Teacher
The country school board assigns a new teacher, and the lot falls to none other than Sweedie.
release : 1915.02.01popularis : 0.619
Sweedie and the Hypnotist
Sweedie is the scrub lady in the theater. She makes eyes at the stage manager and the hypnotist and is put out of the theater for being so...
release : 1914.12.07popularis : 1.169
The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify
Rube Homer Splivins imitates the actions of a famous matinee idol in order to woo his lady love.
release : 1914.12.09popularis : 2.489
Madame Double X
Mr. Von Crooks and his son are in love with Madame Double X. One night Von Crooks, Jr., elopes with her and then writes to his father to forgive...
release : 1914.12.14popularis : 1.509
Sweedie's Suicide
Sweedie decides to commit suicide when she is jilted by her sweetheart, the captain of the police department. After writing a note to him, she calmly...
release : 1915.01.11popularis : 0.832
Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind
Two excellent fables in one reel. "The Fable of Another Side-Track an dthe Fatal Album," and "The Fable of the Difference Between Doc and a...
release : 1914.12.30popularis : 2.854
Two Hearts That Beat as Ten
Mildred refuses Archie's proposal of marriage. Shortly after Fred arrives and she accepts him as her future husband. As he is leaving the house, his...
release : 1915.01.25popularis : 1.133
Sweedie and Her Dog
Mr. Dingy engages Sweedie as their cook. She insists upon bringing her dog "Skinny" and her parrot along. Mr. Dingy dislikes dogs, but rather than...
release : 1915.01.18popularis : 1.582
Sweedie and the Sultan's Present
Sweedie while reading a book in the kitchen, falls asleep. She dreams that Kao Yama, Sultan of Puff Puff, has sent her a present in the form of a...
release : 1915.01.04popularis : 1.135
The Victor
When Mrs. Justwed receives a note from her mother telling her that she expects to arrive next day, her husband seems overjoyed, and says he intends...
release : 1915.02.15popularis : 0.895
The Our Gang Story
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200...
release : 1994.01.01popularis : 2.219
Sweedie's Skate
Sweedie the cook adorns herself in her employer's jewels and goes to the skating rink where she is the most popular lady on the floor.
release : 1914.09.21popularis : 0.846
Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie
"Chick" Evans, western amateur golf champion, is seen playing golf with his sister. Sweedie is the cook for a family of "get-rich-quicks" and treated...
release : 1914.10.02popularis : 0.999
Sweedie's Clean-Up
Sweedie's father is the owner of a grocery store, and Sweedie takes care of the trade while father plays checkers all day. She is in love with a...
release : 1914.09.28popularis : 1.214
The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man
Buchanan Bartlett, shiftless son of Hiram Bartlett, farmer retired, is sent to college to learn things. Father becomes peeved when he receives a bill...
release : 1914.06.22popularis : 2.061
The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed
The coming "champ" decides he is so good he can go around a Dub like a Cooper around a Barrel.
release : 1914.06.29popularis : 1.284
A Maid of War
While Sweedie is studying her war map in her grog shop, two bums enter the place and start drinking wine. When Sweedie asks them to pay for it they...
release : 1914.11.30popularis : 1.174
The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in
The Busy Business Boy lands at his desk like the Early Bird with the intention of tearing off a week or two of correspondence in an hour or so. But...
release : 1914.08.05popularis : 2.061
When Knights Were Bold
The Earl is disgusted when his parents insist that he marry the girl of their choice, not his own. He has been reading a book called "When Knights...
release : 1914.09.07popularis : 0.933
The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth
Old man Suggs was feeling Kippy one day, so his son Joel, a little short of pocket money, persuades him to sign over all his property to him, and...
release : 1914.08.12popularis : 1.477
Sweedie and the Double Exposure
The boy has a camera and snaps Sweedie, the cook, while sitting on the bench in the back yard. Later he takes a picture of his father while sitting...
release : 1914.08.17popularis : 0.851
Topsy-Turvy Sweedie
Mr. Rhyme, a poet, is distracted at his work by the different noises in his home. To cap the climax his aunt arrives, bringing with her all her pets.
release : 1914.08.10popularis : 1.426
She Landed a Big One
Sweedie tells her beau that her love has grown cold, so he decides to jump in the lake and end it all.
release : 1914.10.19popularis : 0.71
Three Boiled Down Fables
#1: The Household Comedian; #2: Why Essie's Friends Got the Fresh Air; #3: The Prevailing Craze.
release : 1914.11.11popularis : 0.41
Sweedie and the Lord
Mr. and Mrs. Skidoo receive a letter from Lord Bunkum, saying he is coming to pay them a visit. They decide they do not wish to see the Lord, so they...
release : 1914.06.27popularis : 0.788
Sweedie Springs a Surprise
Sweedie, the cook at the Prim household, is a little too rough to suit Mr. Prim, who is about three feet shorter than herself. He decides to...
release : 1914.08.24popularis : 1.184
In and Out
Hans and Fritz are two street musicians. Hans plays the flute and Fritz the bass violin. They have great trouble in finding a boarding house where...
release : 1914.08.03popularis : 0.44
Rivalry and War
Krautmeyer owns a bakery while Schmidt runs a delicatessen store next door. They fight continually and when each receives a letter informing him that...
release : 1914.10.26popularis : 1.432
Love and Soda
The plumber, a powerful fellow, decides to give up his trade and become a soda fountain clerk in order that he may compete with the small,...
release : 1914.08.31popularis : 1.142
The Plum Tree
A young woman's father arranges a loveless marriage for her to a banker to whom he owes money, but she is eventually reunited with the man she truly...
release : 1914.09.18popularis : 1.196
A Pound for a Pound
Starvation faces the little post of Red Gold. Jack Thorpe, in a final effort to obtain food for his wife and baby, offers all his gold for one pound...
release : 1915.02.16popularis : 1.193
Love and Trouble
Sweedie holds a clandestine meeting with her beau in the kitchen of her employers, a young married couple. Her love affair influences her cooking and...
release : 1915.03.15popularis : 0.933
The Fable of the Roistering Blades
Out in the celery belt there is a stunted flag station whose leading citizens still wear gum arctics. In this lonesome kraal two highly respected...
release : 1915.08.25popularis : 1.437
Just a Few Little Things
Archie, a man well past the age of forty-five proposes to Mildred, a young and pretty girl and is rejected. Fred, her youthful lover then enters and...
release : 1916.07.26popularis : 0.721
The Bouquet
The girl gets a beautiful bouquet of flowers from her fiancé, who wants her to enjoy the fragrance because these flowers will be in their new...
release : 1915.04.15popularis : 0.82
The Slim Princess
Gloom overcasts the palace of Count Selim Nalagaski, governor general of Morovenia, Turkey. All efforts to make the count's elder daughter, the...
release : 1915.05.24popularis : 1.362
Sweedie Learns to Ride
Sweedie, with her arms splattered by dough, looks out the window and sees her mistress just mounting he horse for her morning ride. The simple,...
release : 1915.03.22popularis : 0.61
Ain't It the Truth?
When Donald Wellington is ordered from the house by his sweetheart's father, they decide to elope. He calls for her next day in his speedster, but...
release : 1915.02.22popularis : 0.755
Sweedie's Hopeless Love
Sweedie has fallen in love with the grocery boy, and in order to gaze upon his smiling face orders groceries at every possible opportunity.
release : 1915.03.01popularis : 0.874
Sweedie in Vaudeville
Sweedie, the theater's scrubwoman, in love with the unappreciative props, become enamored with the idea of a stage career.
release : 1915.05.13popularis : 0.745
Are Waitresses Safe?
Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her...
release : 1917.11.18popularis : 2.423
Father's New Maid
Mr. Grouch has a decided antipathy for young men who call on his daughter. He shows it by ejecting all visitors. But the daughter is so popular that...
release : 1915.03.08popularis : 0.834
Done in Wax
Once upon a time a professor ordered the wax figure of King Woof, a celebrated eastern potentate who had died from eating too much pomegranate juice...
release : 1915.04.22popularis : 0.637
Sweedie's Finish
Sweedie, the servant girl, is in love with a fireman, but her affections are not returned. The fireman escapes her caresses and gains the firehouse...
release : 1915.06.10popularis : 0.745
The Janitor
John, the janitor, has a pet monkey that accompanies him on his different jobs. Because of the monkey's wonderful ability, John is given a post of...
release : 1916.07.06popularis : 1.427
Bombs and Banknotes
The Janitor arrives, turns his things over to the valet, puts on overalls and jumper and gets to work. The President and daughter arrive, the...
release : 1917.01.02popularis : 1.962
Sweedie, the Janitor
A janitor finds a piece of jewelry dropped by a young woman, which he in turn gives to his wife. Feeling sorry for the young woman, the janitor tries...
release : 1916.11.10popularis : 0.629
A Bedroom Blunder
A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not...
release : 1917.10.07popularis : 1.217
That Night
There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune left her, whereupon Beery, the proprietor,...
release : 1917.12.16popularis : 0.879
The Lone Wolf's Daughter
At a London auction, Princess Sonia bids against her husband, exiled Prince Victor, for a Corot landscape in which incriminating letters Sonia wrote...
release : 1919.12.21popularis : 0.323
Patsy
Patsy is the awkward sister of the lovely Grace. She is also in love with Grace's boyfriend. Mother shows favoritism towards Grace, and father is too...
release : 1921.02.01popularis : 0.881
813
Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling...
release : 1920.11.14popularis : 0.952
The Love Burglar
A young man infiltrates the underworld by pretending to be a convicted burglar. While undercover, he meets a young woman who turns out to be no more...
release : 1919.07.13popularis : 0.843
Soldiers of Fortune
Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho....
release : 1919.11.22popularis : 3.581
The Rookie's Return
A young soldier is discharged from the service and has trouble making a living. However, when he inherits a great deal of money, he finds his...
release : 1920.12.26popularis : 1.362
Sleeping Acres
Australian actor Snowy Baker's first American movie made for producer Willian N. Selig who specialized in adventure tales. A contemporary fan...
release : 1921.01.01popularis : 0.971
The Ne'er to Return Road
A mother is waiting for her boy, not knowing that he is dead. An escaped convict falls exhausted at her door, and she gives him food and drink while...
release : 1921.10.09popularis : 1.428
Sweet Revenge
Mr. Phil Culture provokes his friends by boasting of his remarkable strength and physical perfection. In order to get even, four of his friends...
release : 1913.09.17popularis : 1.245
A Foot of Romance
Jim Foley is a splendid fellow, but his huge feet, which are almost as large as his heart, are continually getting him into trouble. Jim takes his...
release : 1914.01.07popularis : 1.802
Wild Honey
Lady Vivienne is implicated in a murder as a result of refusing the romantic suit of Henry Porthen. Years later, in South Africa, she encounters the...
release : 1922.03.06popularis : 0.972
The Flame of Life
Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers'...
release : 1923.02.05popularis : 0.856
Only a Shop Girl
Dann Mulvey (William Scott), just released from prison, is falsely accused of murder. The real culprit is the least-suspected person, who makes a...
release : 1922.12.15popularis : 0.925
I Am the Law
Brothers Tom and Bob Fitzgerald are both members of the Northwest Mounted Police. Bob falls in love with schoolteacher Joan Cameron when he saves her...
release : 1922.06.01popularis : 0.648
Bavu
An illiterate, uncouth brute rises to power during the Russian Revolution, plots to wreak vengeance on all who cross him, and incites the peasantry...
release : 1923.05.07popularis : 1.799
Let Women Alone
A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Viola Brothers Shore.
release : 1925.01.04popularis : 0.996
Another Man's Wife
Vengeful husband pursues, kidnaps his wife aboard a deserted ship when he becomes injured and taken aboard, then sinks in a collision following a...
release : 1924.09.07popularis : 1.178
Unseen Hands
A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward for saving her. Unbeknown to the wife, Scholast is a...
release : 1924.05.25popularis : 0.844
The Devil's Cargo
John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a newspaper. He is determined to clear the town of the...
release : 1925.02.02popularis : 1.207
Coming Through
Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford marries Alice Rand, the daughter of his boss, John Rand. Rand is aware of Blackford's motivations and he...
release : 1925.02.17popularis : 1.142
In the Name of Love
Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood sweetheart, Marie Dufrayne.
release : 1925.08.10popularis : 1.361
Wife Savers
While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, much to the dismay of Colette's self-appointed...
release : 1928.01.07popularis : 0.859
Fireman, Save My Child
Two firemen must put up with a variety of travails in their job, especially their chief's spoiled and bratty daughter, who keeps turning in false...
release : 1927.08.01popularis : 1.472
Rugged Water
After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer...
release : 1925.08.17popularis : 0.921
Two Flaming Youths
Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some...
release : 1927.12.17popularis : 0.877
Dinner at Eight
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of...
release : 1933.12.22popularis : 7.415
The Big House
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are...
release : 1930.06.14popularis : 5.581
China Seas
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only...
release : 1935.08.09popularis : 7.159
The Sea Hawk
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
release : 1924.06.14popularis : 2.612
The Last of the Mohicans
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their...
release : 1920.11.21popularis : 6.583
The Stolen Jools
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...
release : 1931.04.04popularis : 5.399
Into Society and Out
This amusing and diverting comedy depicts the trials and tribulations of a French nobleman to win the hand of a rich American girl. He is about to...
release : 1914.02.04popularis : 1.04
Money Talks
Mr. Forflush has a great desire for spending money, but his salary does not warrant the luxuries his life necessitates. The time finally comes when...
release : 1914.07.20popularis : 1.455
The Image Book
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts...
release : 2018.10.11popularis : 4.833
Min and Bill
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
release : 1930.11.29popularis : 3.431
Tugboat Annie
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps...
release : 1933.08.04popularis : 2.904
Beggars of Life
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains,...
release : 1928.09.22popularis : 5.063
A Date with Judy
Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship...
release : 1948.07.29popularis : 5.9
Salute to the Marines
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first...
release : 1943.09.02popularis : 5.1
Thunder Afloat
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
release : 1939.09.15popularis : 3.151
The Bugle Sounds
An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
release : 1942.01.30popularis : 1.916
This Man's Navy
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized...
release : 1945.01.04popularis : 3.694
Jackass Mail
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
release : 1942.07.01popularis : 0.956
Ah, Wilderness!
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance...
release : 1935.12.25popularis : 5.233
The Mighty Barnum
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind),...
release : 1934.12.23popularis : 1.538
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...
release : 1972.01.10popularis : 5.293
When Comedy Was King
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
release : 1960.03.29popularis : 2.605
The Spanish Dancer
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position,...
release : 1923.10.06popularis : 4.029
West Point of the Air
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
release : 1935.03.23popularis : 2.746
The Mighty McGurk
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York's Bowery District.
release : 1947.01.02popularis : 4.406
The Mollycoddle
An American who has lived much of his life outside the country returns to Arizona for the first time in years and encounters villainy.
release : 1920.06.13popularis : 2.279
Flesh
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
release : 1932.12.08popularis : 7.898
A Message to Garcia
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
release : 1936.04.10popularis : 3.245
Stand Up and Fight
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
release : 1939.01.06popularis : 6.971
Port of Seven Seas
In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets...
release : 1938.07.01popularis : 1.78
A Tale of Two Worlds
A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
release : 1921.03.13popularis : 1.767
Billy the Kid
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat...
release : 1930.10.16popularis : 6.757
Victory
Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.
release : 1919.12.07popularis : 2.617
The Man from Dakota
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
release : 1940.02.16popularis : 2.37
Slave Ship
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
release : 1937.06.16popularis : 4.13
Barnacle Bill
A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
release : 1941.04.07popularis : 4.285
20 Mule Team
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will...
release : 1940.05.03popularis : 8.732
Way for a Sailor
A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
release : 1930.11.01popularis : 1.715
White Tiger
Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
release : 1923.12.17popularis : 1.871
The Red Lily
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor...
release : 1924.09.08popularis : 5.596
Hell Divers
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
release : 1932.01.16popularis : 4.131
Stablemates
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
release : 1938.10.07popularis : 3.049
Big Jack
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
release : 1949.04.12popularis : 1.79
Sergeant Madden
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 2.015
Bad Bascomb
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
release : 1946.05.26popularis : 3.536
Rationing
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
release : 1944.03.24popularis : 0.669
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
release : 1935.09.27popularis : 1.562
Ashes of Vengeance
This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot...
release : 1923.08.06popularis : 4.475
The Signal Tower
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a...
release : 1924.07.19popularis : 2.332
The Bowery
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was...
release : 1933.10.07popularis : 3.431
Behind the Door
Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is drawn into the war with Germany, he enlists and...
release : 1919.12.14popularis : 2.041
A Lady's Morals
Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.
release : 1930.11.08popularis : 1.138
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film...
release : 2004.02.03popularis : 2.08
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 4.086
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...
release : 1961.12.31popularis : 2.425
Teddy at the Throttle
Gloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Gloria's guardian, and he is also in charge of...
release : 1917.04.01popularis : 1.932
The Bad Man of Brimstone
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
release : 1937.12.31popularis : 1.053
Casey at the Bat
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York...
release : 1927.03.08popularis : 1.381
The Christmas Party
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...
release : 1931.12.17popularis : 6.133
My Wife's Relations
Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large...
release : 1922.05.15popularis : 8.813
Barbary Coast Gent
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He...
release : 1944.09.01popularis : 1.82
Partners in Crime
After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Richard Deming witnesses a store robbery and is...
release : 1928.03.01popularis : 1.375
Alias a Gentleman
Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.
release : 1948.02.03popularis : 0.924
A Blind Bargain
Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb's...
release : 1922.12.03popularis : 2.346
Land of Liberty
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
release : 1939.06.15popularis : 2.2
Old Hutch
Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash.
release : 1936.09.25popularis : 1.765
The Man from Hell's River
Adventure of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
release : 1922.05.01popularis : 2.397
A Clever Dummy
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
release : 1917.07.15popularis : 3.731
Chinatown Nights
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the...
release : 1929.03.29popularis : 2.671
The Little American
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality...
release : 1917.07.12popularis : 2.803
Behind the Front
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing that it's the same pickpocket who stole his...
release : 1926.02.22popularis : 2.239
We're in the Navy Now
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with Percival "Sailor" Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him...
release : 1926.11.06popularis : 3.209
River of Romance
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he...
release : 1929.06.28popularis : 2.88
Stormswept
Despondent over the infidelity of his wife, William McCabe wanders on the waterfront considering suicide, but instead he saves the life of Shark...
release : 1923.02.18popularis : 1.457
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being...
release : 1921.03.06popularis : 10.253
Adventure
David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan...
release : 1925.04.26popularis : 3.822
Old Ironsides
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then...
release : 1926.12.06popularis : 9.657
Wyoming
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
release : 1940.09.13popularis : 3.988
Going Hollywood
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she...
release : 1933.12.22popularis : 2.146
That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
release : 1974.06.21popularis : 5.02
The Round-Up
A lovesick sheriff protects his town, embroiled in a feud between a crafty bandit leader and the family of the prospector he stole from.
release : 1920.10.10popularis : 2.951
The Drums of Jeopardy
The story centers around two small statuettes containing valuable emeralds, which are said to project a sinister influence on the possessor. The czar...
release : 1923.11.01popularis : 2.533
Sweedie Learns to Swim
Sweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming class for instruction. She is thrown out of the...
release : 1914.10.11popularis : 1.275
Robin Hood
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel,...
release : 1922.10.18popularis : 8.834
The Sagebrush Trail
Having banned the carrying of firearms in his jurisdiction, Larry Reid, the sheriff of Silvertown (Roy Stewart), pursues a trespasser of the strict...
release : 1922.04.30popularis : 0.442
Patria
Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves...
release : 1917.01.14popularis : 0.785
Johanna Enlists
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
release : 1918.09.14popularis : 1.505
The Pony Express
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James...
release : 1925.09.03popularis : 1.932
The Bad Man
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy...
release : 1941.03.28popularis : 1.799
The Good Old Soak
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
release : 1937.04.23popularis : 1.701
So Big
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father...
release : 1924.12.28popularis : 2.527
We're switching to Hollywood
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak...
release : 1931.06.09popularis : 1.644
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Overview of director King Vidor's filmography.
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 1.788
Now We're in the Air
Wally and Ray are cousins intent upon getting the fortune of their Scots grandad, an aviation nut. They become mixed-up with the U. S. flying corps...
release : 1927.10.21popularis : 1.176
The Night Club
After having been stood up at his own wedding, a young man vows that he will have nothing more to ever do with women. However, he soon discovers that...
release : 1925.04.26popularis : 1.774
The Laundress
Wallace Beery dresses up as a lady to fool the man.
release : 1914.11.02popularis : 0.683
From the Ends of the Earth
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at...
release : 1939.05.28popularis : 2.563
The Virgin of Stamboul
Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his...
release : 1920.03.27popularis : 1.644
Drifting
In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has...
release : 1923.08.26popularis : 0.563
Judy Garland: By Myself
As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life...
release : 2004.02.25popularis : 1.961
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...
release : 1940.05.29popularis : 1.65
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
release : 1975.08.06popularis : 4.134
Mr. Dippy Dipped
Mr. Dippy and his daughter Ruth are both very fond of the water and spend a good deal of time at the beach. Ruth meets and falls in love with the...
release : 1913.09.03popularis : 0.137
His Athletic Wife
Mrs. Strong, by reason of a good right arm, is absolute manager of her husband and his finances. While on a shopping expedition she collides with a...
release : 1913.08.26popularis : 0.594
Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...
release : 2003.05.06popularis : 4.603
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...
release : 1940.10.24popularis : 4.801
Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
release : 1944.01.01popularis : 1.8
The Wanderer
Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to the city of Babylon, where he lavishes Tisha...
release : 1925.08.19popularis : 2.173
The Eternal Struggle
Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vancouver.
release : 1923.10.08popularis : 2.035
The Great Divide
Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation,...
release : 1925.02.15popularis : 1.59
The Unpardonable Sin
Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War.
release : 1919.04.01popularis : 1.168
The Life Line
Jack Hearne, known as the Romany Rye, prefers living with the gypsies rather than claiming the right to his part of his half brother Phillip...
release : 1919.10.05popularis : 1.24
Trouble
Danny, a ragamuffin orphan, is adopted by a brutal plumber and his frail wife. His fear of hunger, resulting from his foster father's indifference,...
release : 1922.08.07popularis : 0.437
The Big Killing
The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their...
release : 1928.07.01popularis : 1.41
Hurricane's Gal
Allen Holubar silent seafaring pirate ship adventure thriller
release : 1922.07.01popularis : 0.745
The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
release : 1964.09.02popularis : 4.038
Madonna of the Streets
Rev. John Morton, who is determined to follow as closely as possible the teachings of Jesus, inherits a considerable fortune when his uncle dies....
release : 1924.10.19popularis : 3.266
The Northern Trail
Short starring Lewis Stone and Wallace Beery.
release : 1921.07.03popularis : 0.878
The Rosary
After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with only some marshland while his nephew, Bruce Wilton,...
release : 1922.01.16popularis : 3.541
The Golden Snare
Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer Bram Johnson.
release : 1921.07.10popularis : 1.841
The White Mouse
Sergeant Blake of the Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the border to break up a ring of smugglers who are bringing illegal Chinese immigrants into...
release : 1921.11.06popularis : 3.075
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the previous year.
release : 1923.10.15popularis : 1.177
A Dash of Courage
A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The...
release : 1916.05.07popularis : 1.46
Hearts and Sparks
Hearts and Sparks is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Parrott (Charley Chase) and starring Gloria Swanson. When Mack Sennett...
release : 1916.06.04popularis : 0.872
Volcano
Zabette de Chauvalons leaves a convent in Brussels to join her father on the island of Martinique, escorted by Père Bénédict. In...
release : 1926.05.23popularis : 1.987
Dynamite Smith
Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is...
release : 1924.10.12popularis : 2.36
Sweedie Goes to College
Sweedie, the cook, reads an ad in the newspaper for a maid to give her services in exchange for college tuition. She applies and is accepted.
release : 1915.02.08popularis : 0.581
The Broken Pledge
Three young girls, pledged to spinsterhood and contempt for mankind, go camping in the woods. Three boys, unpledged to anything save fun and the joy...
release : 1915.06.17popularis : 1.256
Stairs of Sand
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.
release : 1929.06.08popularis : 1.898