Mitchell Lewis

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a...

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The...

Tired of her friends and life as a society leader, Ninon Le Compte goes north to the Hudson Bay area to inspect trapping holdings inherited from her...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year...

Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.

Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from...

Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.

This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove and Bob Hill find an infant in the...

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married...

A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing...

Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking hands, kissing, and why ships are christened.

Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.

Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is...

Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in cities and towns across the U.S. Jolson falls in love with an...

The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania to play the King once more. Lost adaptation of the eponymous Anthony Hope novel, the sequel of the "Prisoner...

This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million...

Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a...

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow...

Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the...

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord...

Ex-Plumber is a 1931 Comedy short.

Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor...

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and...

A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to...

Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married...

A 19th century French schoolmaster gives his last lesson before the occupying Germans take over the village and the school.

Josie, a New York showgirl with a mind of her own and a heart of gold, finds herself stranded on the island of Fiji. While seeking a way home she is...

Montana cattleman Austin Brandt is jilted by Rosemary, who elopes with stranger Royce Greer, but he is consoled by his twenty-year-old niece Joan....

An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.

Captain "Wolf" Larsen, the absolute master of a seal schooner, is a mystic and philosopher, though he rules his men with an iron hand. On a ferry...

Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist.

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.

U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's...

A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.

Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the...

When Rin-Tin-Tin's master is found murdered, Rinty is accused of the crime.

A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.

An elderly Catherine de Medici reflects back on how the prophecies of Nostradamus accurately predicted the fates of her husband, her three sons and...

Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might...

Lost 1928 film by Benjamin Benjamin Christensen

Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac.

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful...

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although...

After bringing down yet another German pilot and escaping uninjured from his burning aircraft, Haggerty (Milton Sills) and his buddy, aircraft...

Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient...

An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural lands of China.

A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their...

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.

A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already...

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...

A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang.

A young woman is forced by her abusive father to marry an older man even though she is in love with a kindly young doctor.

The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the...

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing...

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence...

Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes—and proceeds to swindle—American high...

Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off his gambling debt. He joins a gang of outlaws led by...

Three castaways all from differing levels of society reach and board a deserted schooner in mid-ocean.

Author Frank R. Stockton, often asked the question, finally decides to divulge the untold ending of his story, The Lady or the Tiger?

A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a...

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...

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...

After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy...

During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of...

Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As...

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then...

On a stormy night at sea, a Captain and the First Mate talk about the girl that they are both in love with. Then they agree to play a game of cards...

The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the...

Billy "The Kid" Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who postpones his life of crime when he is befriended and hired by peaceful cattle rancher Eric...

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things...

When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for...

Zudora, not knowing she's an heiress to a $20 million fortune, lives with her uncle, a mystic and detective, who covets her inheritance. She wants to...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.

The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the...

Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a significant role in the introduction of mass...

Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and...

This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.

In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a...

The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country...

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When...

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on the battlefield by Germans during WWII makes its...

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

"Half-breed" trapper Jacques LaRouge is infatuated with Memory Baird (Fritzi Brunette), the daughter of the owner of the trading post. When fugitive...

This dramatic adventure finds the flirtatious Cherry O'Day as the daughter of the Shanghai saloon keeper Terrence. She works in the dive and...

Crooked mine dealer Scotty McGee lures away gold prospector Tim Kendal's wife, Olga, who married out of gold madness. Kendall gets revenge when he...

After attempting to succeed in his father-in-law’s fishing business, Gordon Gray persuades his wife, Rena, to return to his home and wealthy...

Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a...

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of...

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.

Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

Love complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska.

Big Steve and Little Lefty, a pair of hobos, are happily drifting through life until the First World War comes and enter it and find their lives...

Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.

Two men fight for the love of a young woman in the far north.

An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.

A ship's captain keeps a tame gorilla as a pet. During a mutiny the captain is injured by a blow and the gorilla saves him by hiding him in a cave....

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.

A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three...

Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a...

A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a...

Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent...

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather...

A man fights for this life in the Canadian Northwest.

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

This Passing Parade short tells the true story of Vermont blacksmith and inventor Tom Davenport, who lived the first half of the 19th century.

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans...

The Bar Sinister is a 1917 silent film drama directed by Edgar Lewis.

Impoverished by the Civil War and eager to replenish his fortune in the West, Colonel Halliday, his wife, and his daughter, Beth, proceed toward...

Dr. Robert Winston loses faith in himself and his religion when his own mother dies under his scalpel. Abandoning his profession, he moves to the...

Echo, the orphaned "flower of no man's land," has been raised by an Indian foster father, Kahoma. Then, when opera singer Roy Talbot goes West to...

"King Spruce" is personified in John Barrett, lumber magnate of the North woods. His domineering character is shown when his daughter Elva falls in...

On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House"...

After leaving Sing Sing for serving time for theft, The Boy drifts into a small Pennsylvania town and falls in love with Marie, an innocent local...

A drama directed by Edward Sloman.

Foreman Dick Bream, of the lumber firm of Hill and Burchard, resigns from his job to buy a profitable tract of land with stranger Allen Mackenzie....

When a cruel sea-captain named Bennett murders the mother of his child, the little girl is rescued and raised by Gale, a storekeeper. Years later,...

In a kingdom in fifteenth century Italy, Duke Roberto overthrows the king and abandons his heir Gigi in the wilderness to die. However, he is...

Lumberjack Anthony Briggs has lived alone in the Canadian North Woods ever since his wife took their daughter and ran off to New York City with...

A woman, engaged to one man, is forced to marry another, who is subsequently arrested, leaving his wife with a terrible decision to make when her...

Hugh Whittaker believes he is terminally ill, and, as an act of mercy, weds a young woman named Mary, who has been deserted by her lover. He travels...

Captain Duncan McTeague, ashore in Southport, finds a deserted baby boy with a note and half of a dollar bill pinned to its clothing. The note states...

Randall Ridgeway. a lumber king, learns that one of his contracting companies in northern Maine is carrying on crooked transactions. His son, Burt,...

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

When Captain Nathaniel Somers is killed during an attack by thugs, his loyal first mate Pike promises to care for the captain's son Dick. Pike, aware...

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

Newspaper reporter John Templeton is suspected of being "The Snake," the murderer of a banker who is the father of the reporter's sweetheart, Joan...

The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border...