Ralph Forbes

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Charleys tant
1

Charleys tant

Mar 22, 1926
Two Oxford University students, Jack and Charles, find themselves in a predicament. They enlist a friend to impersonate Charley's aunt from Brazil as a solution to their problems, not realizing that it would further complicate the situation.
Comedy
Train de luxe
6.8

Train de luxe

May 11, 1934
Dans les années 1930, aux États-Unis. Un producteur de Broadway fait d'une inconnue une vedette. Pour échapper à sa tutelle, elle part à Hollywood où elle triomphe. Pendant ce temps, lui décline. Ils se retrouvent dans le train de Chicago à New-York...
Comedy
La Tour de Londres
5.925

La Tour de Londres

Nov 17, 1939
Au XVeme siecle, le Roi Edouard VI d'angleterre et son jeune frere Richard, duc de Gloucester, se debarrassent de leurs ennemis en les faisant emprisonner et executer par le bourreau Mord a la Tour de Londres.
Drama
La Phalène d'argent
5.9

La Phalène d'argent

Mar 09, 1933
Père sévère, Christopher Strong est opposé à la liaison qu'entretient sa fille Cynthia avec un homme marié. Mais, découvrant l'amour dans les bras d'une aviatrice, il apprendra la tolérance.
Drama
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
6
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
Drama
The Actress
1

The Actress

Apr 27, 1928
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The rest of the play deals with the budding romance and trials and tribulations of their love, as well as the changing face of late-19th-century theatre.
Drama
Rescue Squad
2

Rescue Squad

May 15, 1935
An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an Asian importer raise money for a son's surgery by buying a sacred statuette of Buddha, the sale of which the importer believes will curse him; therefore, the importer secretly plans to poison the collector after receiving the cash and keep the statuette in his possession. The titled "rescue squad" appears only briefly in the picture to help firemen rescue two principal characters from a stuck elevator in a building set afire by accident. There are no arsonists in this film.
Crime
La Fin de Mme Cheyney
6.025

La Fin de Mme Cheyney

Feb 19, 1937
La belle Fay Cheyney voyage vers l’Angleterre à bord du Queen Mary en compagnie de son majordome Charles. Elle est très courtisée par Lord Francis Kelton et Lord Arthur Dilling. Arrivée à Londres, Fay devient la coqueluche de la haute société et la tante d’Arthur, la duchesse d'Ebley, l’invite à passer le week-end chez elle. Mais Fay et Charles sont des escrocs et la belle aventurière semble très intéressée par le collier de perles de la duchesse…
Comedy
Smilin' Through
6

Smilin' Through

Sep 24, 1932
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carteret spends three decades in seclusion, mostly communing with the spirit of Moonyeen, until he learns that her niece, Kathleen, has become an orphan. He adopts and raises the child as his own but is alarmed when, as a young woman, she falls in love with the son of Moonyeen's murderer.
Drama
Daniel Boone
4.8

Daniel Boone

Oct 16, 1936
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
Western
Le Roi des gueux
6.7

Le Roi des gueux

Sep 28, 1938
En 1463, la famine règne à Paris, alors que les Bourguignons assiègent la ville. Tandis que le roi Louis XI s'est rendu à la Cour des Miracles dans l'espoir de découvrir un espion, François Villon tue le Grand Connétable qui se trouve être le traître qui a vendu la capitale française aux Bourguignons. En remerciement, le roi Louis XI amnistie François Villon, recherché pour vol, et le nomme Grand Connétable mais il ne dispose que d'une semaine pour faire ses preuves.
Adventure
Beau Ideal
4.4

Beau Ideal

Jan 25, 1931
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
War
The Trail of '98
6.2

The Trail of '98

Mar 20, 1928
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
Adventure
The Goose and the Gander
4.6
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Comedy
Piccadilly Jim
6.5

Piccadilly Jim

Aug 14, 1936
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
Comedy
Enchanted April
5.4

Enchanted April

Feb 01, 1935
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an old Italian mansion and sharing it with three women. Here the four women plan to spend the month of April away from the cares of home, husbands and the everyday monotony.
Comedy
Beau Geste
6

Beau Geste

Aug 24, 1926
Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
Action
Outcast Lady
6.3

Outcast Lady

Sep 28, 1934
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
Romance
Age of Indiscretion
5.2

Age of Indiscretion

May 10, 1935
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
Romance
Make a Wish
5.9

Make a Wish

Sep 01, 1937
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
Music
The Bachelor Father
6

The Bachelor Father

Jan 10, 1931
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
Comedy
The Lady of Scandal
5.125

The Lady of Scandal

May 24, 1930
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
Comedy
The Legion of Missing Men
5
Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn't know this and thinks she is Garccia's girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid's headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.
Romance
Rich Relations
1

Rich Relations

Feb 01, 1937
A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her.
Comedy
Women Are Like That
5.7

Women Are Like That

Apr 23, 1938
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
Drama
Le Chien des Baskerville
7.1
À la mort de son oncle, Sir Henry Baskerville revient de l'étranger pour s'installer dans le château familial situé dans les landes désolées du Devonshire. Sherlock Holmes découvre un complot visant à assassiner Sir Henry avec un terrible chien.
Mystery
Lilies of the Field
3.5

Lilies of the Field

Jan 05, 1930
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
Drama
The Fountain
9.5

The Fountain

Aug 22, 1934
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.
Drama
The Masks of the Devil
1
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend, Manfred. In order to seduce the girl, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away for months (TCM).
Drama
Pleasure Cruise
5.7

Pleasure Cruise

Apr 01, 1933
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
Comedy
Inside the Lines
5.1

Inside the Lines

Jul 05, 1930
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
Drama
The Green Goddess
4.5

The Green Goddess

Feb 13, 1930
An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India.
Adventure
Annabel Takes a Tour
5

Annabel Takes a Tour

Nov 10, 1938
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour. The trip proceeds with a flurry of Morgan's crazy, slapstick publicity stunts. Then Annabel has her chance to "bag" a real Viscount.
Comedy
Her Wedding Night
6

Her Wedding Night

Sep 28, 1930
Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes she hadn't yet met. Some of his lady friends then show up. Some very good sequences, but also some flat spots. Her "husband's" house is very Hollywood deco and some of the costumes are very good.
Comedy
Thunder Below
1

Thunder Below

Jun 17, 1932
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis, and Ken urges her to return to Walt.
Drama
Love Letters of a Star
1
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
Mystery
Mr. Wu
5.5

Mr. Wu

Mar 26, 1927
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
Drama
Mamba
5

Mamba

Mar 09, 1930
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.
Drama
The Solitaire Man
6.5

The Solitaire Man

Sep 22, 1933
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
Crime
Riptide
6.2

Riptide

Mar 29, 1934
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
Drama
Bombay Mail
6

Bombay Mail

Jan 06, 1934
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
Drama
Marie Stuart
6.3

Marie Stuart

Jul 28, 1936
Lorsqu'elle a débarqué à Leith en Écosse, Marie Stuart se rend au château Holyrood sur une vieille rosse : les pirates ont arraisonné le navire qui transportait ses chevaux. Les lords écossais annoncent à Moray, le demi-frère de Marie, que son règne touche à sa fin. Lors de la première entrevue avec les seigneurs d'Écosse, Marie, heureuse de revenir après treize ans d'absence, affirme hautement son appartenance à la religion catholique. Elle permet à son secrétaire Rizzio de rester, alors que Ruthven voulait que l'étranger se retire. La question d'un remariage est abordée. Les lords proposent lord Darnley, qui présente l'avantage d'être un Stuart, troisième héritier de la couronne d'Angleterre. On lui rapporte un propos malveillant de du comte de Bothwell : Marie et Elisabeth réunies n'équivalent pas à la moitié d'une honnête femme. Elle leur dit alors qu'elle veut devenir elle-même et qu'elle ne se mariera que lorsqu'elle aimera quelqu'un.
Drama
The Whip
1

The Whip

Sep 16, 1928
Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.
Drama
Strange Wives
1

Strange Wives

Nov 30, 1934
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Romance
Restless Youth
1

Restless Youth

Nov 30, 1928
Innocent co-ed Dixie is unjustly expelled for unladylike activities by college chairman John Neil, (who also happens to be the local District Attorney). Dixie uses an employment agency to unknowingly land a job with Neil's attorney son, Bruce. A romance develops between the two until they go to meet the old man, who promptly forces Dixie to break up with Bruce because of her 'sordid' past. Bruce will have none of it, so to get him to drop her she attempts to get 'caught' in an innocent date with her employment agency contact, Haines. Unfortunately, Haines has different ideas about their encounter and will not take "no" for an answer so Dixie is forced to clock him with an urn, killing him. Dixie's trial for murder leads to a courtroom confrontation between father and son, with her fate resting in the balance.
Appel Philo Vance
5.8

Appel Philo Vance

Feb 03, 1940
Philo est à Vienne travaillant pour le gouvernement des États-Unis pour voir si Archer Coe vend des dessins d'avions à des puissances étrangères. Il saisit les plans avec la signature Archer, mais est capturé par la police avant qu'il ne puisse échapper. Déporté, il revient à l'Amérique et des plans pour faire face à Archer, mais Archer est retrouvé mort dans sa chambre fermée à clé avec un fusil à la main. Bien qu'il ressemble à un suicide, Vance sait mieux et le coroner estime que Archer a été tué, frappé avec un objet contondant et poignardée - qui fait du suicide improbable. Mais Vance est sur l'affaire et cherche à voir si les secrets du gouvernement ont été vendus et qui a assassiné Coe. Ceci est un remake de « The Assassiner Kennel Case » à l'aide des dessins d'avions et d'espionnage au lieu de la porcelaine chinoise et des spectacles de chiens.
Crime
Streamline Express
4.7

Streamline Express

Sep 15, 1935
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
Comedy
Kidnapped
6

Kidnapped

May 27, 1938
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Adventure
Owd Bob
1

Owd Bob

Jan 01, 1924
An old farmer's sheepdog is saved when a rival's dog is proved to be a sheep killer.
Drama
Shock
6

Shock

Jul 19, 1934
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.
Drama
The Enemy
5.5

The Enemy

Dec 08, 1927
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
Drama
The Three Musketeers
6.4

The Three Musketeers

Nov 01, 1935
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Action
L'aventure vient de la mer
5
L'élégante Dona St Columb s'ennuie à mourir dans sa vie londonienne trop balisée. Elle cherche surtout à échapper aux propositions inconvenantes du meilleur ami de son mari, lord Rockingham. Elle prend ses cliques et ses claques et s'en va s'installer dans son château de Cornouaille. Elle y fait la connaissance d'un corsaire français, Jean Benoit Aubrey. Rien ne semble pouvoir rapprocher ces deux êtres que tout, patrie, origines et formation, sépare. Pourtant, l'amour les unit bientôt, au point de placer Dona St Columb devant un choix difficile...
Romance
Curtain Call
7.3

Curtain Call

Apr 18, 1940
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
Comedy
The Latest from Paris
1

The Latest from Paris

Feb 04, 1928
The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, heroine Ann Dolan works for Blogg, while her sweetheart Joe Adams is employed by Littauer.
Drama
The Phantom Broadcast
4.8

The Phantom Broadcast

Mar 14, 1933
A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his accompanist, a hunchbacked piano player, is actually the voice behind the arrogant, abusive "singer"'s fame. The two men fall for the same girl, and when the singer turns up dead, suspicion falls upon his assistant and the girl.
Mystery
The Avenger
6

The Avenger

Aug 10, 1933
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
Drama
Roméo et Juliette
6.2

Roméo et Juliette

Sep 03, 1936
A Vérone, malgré la haine qui sépare leurs deux familles, Juliette, fille des Capulet et Roméo, issu de la famille Montaigu, s'aiment passionnément. A tel point que les deux jeunes gens décident de se marier secrètement.
Drama
Adventure in Diamonds
5.2

Adventure in Diamonds

Mar 08, 1940
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
Crime
Pension d'artistes
7

Pension d'artistes

Oct 08, 1937
À Footlights Club, une pension de femmes artistes, cohabitent Jean Maitland, une danseuse blonde sarcastique ; Linda Shaw, une brune prétentieuse ; Kaye Hamilton, une jeune comédienne obsédée par son art ; Catherine Luther, une ancienne vedette ; Judy Canfield, une rousse exubérante, Ève, Annie et bien d'autres encore. Terry Randall, une riche héritière souhaitant faire ses preuves sur scène, s'intègre au groupe et partage sa chambre avec Jean. Au même moment, Anthony Powell, un agent artistique de Broadway très réputé, reçoit la visite d'un étrange individu pour son prochain spectacle.
Comedy
Réveille
1

Réveille

Jun 01, 1924
A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.