Hallam Cooley

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The Long Arm of Mannister
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Walking aimlessly in the desert, crazed by thirst and hunger, Lucy Mannister and Gaston Sinclair are overtaken by her husband George, who has pursued them around the world.
Drama
Le docteur X
5.6

Le docteur X

Mar 16, 1925
Un épicier et un détective débutant mènent ensemble une enquête sur de mystérieuses disparitions aux alentours d'un asile d'aliénés.
Comedy
The Brass Bullet
1

The Brass Bullet

Aug 10, 1918
Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial
Action
Playing with Fire
1

Playing with Fire

Dec 19, 1921
Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society girl whose father committed suicide under a cloud of financial disgrace, comes to Enid's boardinghouse.
Comedy
No Place to Go
1

No Place to Go

Oct 30, 1927
Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.
Comedy
A Dog Catcher's Love
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A Dog Catcher's Love

Jun 24, 1917
The dog catcher of the title is arrow-narrow Slim , and his "love" is pert Peggy. Alas, his rival is handsome bow-wow fancier E.R. Ketchum, whose luck with women borders on the fantastic.
Comedy
Seven Days
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Seven Days

Sep 20, 1925
Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is compelled to locate a temporary wife. His friend, Kit Eclair, is happy to fill in, but during a party, his home is quarantined for smallpox. To complicate matters, a burglar is hiding from a cop in Wilson's home, and wacky Anne Brown is busy trying to hold a seance.
Comedy
An Old Fashioned Boy
5.8

An Old Fashioned Boy

Oct 31, 1920
David 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.
Comedy
A Light Woman
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A Light Woman

Sep 20, 1920
Young Doris Kane suspects that her fiance, Paul Evans, doesn't love her anymore. She finds out that he is now infatuated with a "vamp", Jeanne DuPre. Paul's father is appalled at his son's behavior, and devises a plan to break up the romance between his son and the vamp by making her fall for him and exposing her perfidy to his son.
Drama
One of the Finest
1

One of the Finest

Jun 01, 1919
Traffic cop Larry Hayes takes care of four-year-old Mary Jane, the daughter of Gus Andrews, a criminal sent to prison because of Larry, and Nellie, a shop girl who visits often.
Comedy
Beauty's Worth
6.1

Beauty's Worth

May 14, 1922
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.
Drama
Back Pay
4

Back Pay

Jun 01, 1930
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
Drama
Sporting Blood
5.5

Sporting Blood

Aug 08, 1931
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
Drama
The Deciding Kiss
1

The Deciding Kiss

Jul 22, 1918
The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich on the cooperative plan. The parties adopting her are single, and one of them, Beulah Page (Winifred Greenwood), has her own ideas on the subject of raising the young - these ideas absolutely precluding the main requisite, love.
Drama
Paris Bound
4.4

Paris Bound

Aug 03, 1929
Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each should be allowed perfect freedom in personal contacts. Complications arise when these ideals are put into practice.
Drama
Are You a Failure?
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Are You a Failure?

Mar 15, 1923
Coddled by his maiden aunts and apparently unable to make decisions, Oliver Wendell Blaine signs up for a mail-order course in "Success." Oliver follows the instructions step by step, builds his self-confidence, and proves himself a hero when a log jam threatens the town. He is made river boss and marries Phyllis Thorpe, daughter of the owner of the lumber-mill.
Drama
Frisco Jenny
6.5

Frisco Jenny

Jan 14, 1933
Frisco Jenny est devenue orpheline durant le tremblement de terre de San Francisco en 1906. Plus tard, elle se retrouve patronne d'une maison de débauche. Ayant mis son fils dans une famille d'adoption, celui-ci, après avoir suivi des études de droit, devient procureur et est désigné pour instruire un procès afin d'éradiquer la prostitution dans la ville…
Drama
The Little Wildcat
1

The Little Wildcat

Dec 08, 1928
A pair of elderly Civil War veterans, Judge Holt and his friend Joel Ketchum, spent most of their time reminiscing about their wartime experiences. In the meantime, Holt's granddaughter falls in love with a devil-may-care aviator. The only problem is that Holt hates aviators and will do whatever he can to break up the romance.
Comedy
Pinto
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Pinto

Jan 10, 1920
When Pinto reaches her eighteenth birthday, the five wealthy Arizonans who adopted her upon the death of her parents decide that ranch life will never make a lady of her. Their old friend Pop Audry, formerly of Arizona and now a member of New York society, agrees to provide Pinto with the necessary education. Accordingly, Pinto and her cowboy nursemaid Looey are dispatched to New York where they lose Audry's address. ...
Comedy
So Long Letty
5.9

So Long Letty

Oct 16, 1929
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
Comedy
Upstairs
1

Upstairs

Aug 03, 1919
While working as a dishwasher in a fashionable New York hotel, Elsie MacFarland often sneaks upstairs to enviously peek at the people dancing to jazz music. Seeing the attractive Elsie dressed in a boy's uniform, wealthy Lemuel Stallings wagers a friend that he can get Elsie onto the dance floor....
Comedy
Too Many Cooks
2.5

Too Many Cooks

Jul 18, 1931
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
Romance
Ladies Must Dress
1

Ladies Must Dress

Nov 20, 1927
Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy clothes of their friends. Eve overhears him talking of this and breaks with him. Then, with the help of her friend, Mazie, she metamorphoses into a ravishing beauty. Joe is remorseful, but the situation is made more complex when he suspects Eve of questionable relations with her boss.
Comedy
Oh, Sailor, Behave!
7

Oh, Sailor, Behave!

Aug 15, 1930
Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."
Music
Tonight at Twelve
1

Tonight at Twelve

Sep 29, 1929
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonight at Twelve is a 1929 American drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and written by Matt Taylor, Harry A. Pollard and Owen Davis. It is based on the 1928 play Tonight at 12 by Owen Davis. The film stars Madge Bellamy, Robert Ellis, Margaret Livingston, Vera Reynolds, Norman Trevor and Hallam Cooley. The film was released on September 29, 1929, by Universal Pictures.
Naughty But Nice
1

Naughty But Nice

Jun 25, 1927
Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).
Romance
Her Wild Oat
1

Her Wild Oat

Dec 25, 1927
In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon and falls for a duke’s son, played by Larry Kent, who is pretending to be his own chauffeur. With her savings, she pursues him to a resort hotel, only to be mistaken for a duchess. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Národní filmový archív in 2007.
Comedy
Black Waters
1

Black Waters

Apr 05, 1929
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
Crime
Soup to Nuts
5.8

Soup to Nuts

Sep 28, 1930
Le magasin de costumes de M. Schmidt est en faillite parce qu'il passe son temps sur des inventions à la Rube Goldberg ; les créanciers envoient un jeune manager qui tombe amoureux de la nièce de Schmidt, Louise, mais elle n'en aura pas. Les amis de Schmidt, Ted, Queenie et quelques pompiers maladroits essaient d'aider; les choses tournent mal lorsque Louise doit être sauvée d'un incendie.
Comedy
Fancy Baggage
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Fancy Baggage

Jan 26, 1929
In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
Drama
Stolen Kisses
5

Stolen Kisses

Feb 23, 1929
A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.
Comedy
What Men Want
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What Men Want

Jul 12, 1930
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
Drama
Ladies at Play
1

Ladies at Play

Nov 15, 1926
Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of, but, so far, her aunts haven't approved of any man she knows. Ann tries to get a bashful hotel clerk to marry her in name only, and then get a divorce, but he refuses to because he is in love with her. Her cousin then brings in another clerk and Ann now has two men on her hands. Ann now wants to marry the first clerk, having discovered she also loves him, but the aunts object. She then hires two gigolos to charm her aunts into a compromising situation.
Comedy
What Do Men Want?
3

What Do Men Want?

Nov 13, 1921
According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank Glendon) wants to be an inventor. Then he wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, Hallie (the lovely Claire Windsor). Then he wants children. Then, when his inventions bring him financial success, he becomes restless, so he takes up with another woman. Eventually he figures out that the woman's reputation is less than squeaky clean, so he wants his wife back.
Drama
The White Sin
6

The White Sin

Feb 24, 1924
Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in an act so heinous as to defy belief, has the captain of his yacht perform a fake marriage ceremony. He ruins poor Hattie Lou, and then abandons her ashore the very next morning. A year later, the destitute girl and her starving baby are wandering the streets. When she sees a newspaper headline announcing that Grant has drowned at sea, Hattie Lou hatches a desperate plan for survival. She will present herself to the wealthy Van Gore's, who cannot fail to provide for their late son's widow and child!
Drama
Forever After
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Forever After

Oct 24, 1926
A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.
Romance
Sporting Youth
1

Sporting Youth

Feb 04, 1924
Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty Rockford, daughter of a wealthy automobile manufacturer.
Drama
The Foolish Age
1

The Foolish Age

Oct 16, 1921
After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an office to help derelicts. For her secretary, she picks an ex-gangster named Bubbs out of the throng.
Comedy
Free to Love
5

Free to Love

Nov 19, 1925
An ex-reformatory girl seeks a new life with the help of a fatherly judge and an earnest young minister. Trouble ensues when a criminal gang catch up with her.
Drama
Her Night of Nights
1

Her Night of Nights

Jun 26, 1922
Molly, a glamorous clothing model in New York, though yearning for a life of luxury, spurns the advances of her boss's son in favor of a shipping clerk, late of the backwoods.
Comedy
One Week of Love
1

One Week of Love

Nov 01, 1922
Spoiled society girl Beth Wynn agrees to stake her marriage to Francis Fraser on the outcome of an airplane race with him.
Drama
Trumpet Island
5

Trumpet Island

Sep 01, 1920
Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store.
Drama
Holiday
5.8

Holiday

Jul 03, 1930
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
Comedy