Erich von stroheim

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poster Wandering Willies
Wandering Willies
19mn - Comedy
Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impers…
poster The Monster Maker
The Monster Maker
62mn - Horror, Sci-Fi
Obsessed with a young woman, mad scientist Dr. Igor Markoff injects her father with a horrific disease that causes grotesque deformities. As the pianist's condition deteriorates, he faces an impossible ch…
poster The Waif and the Wizard
The Waif and the Wizard
2mn - Drama, Fantasy
The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's another early example of a two-shot film along the lines …
poster Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy
(3.4/5)
204mn - History, Action, Drama
Helena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir Gajdarov and Albert Steinrück. The film was based on the poem the Iliad by Homer. It was released in tw…
poster The Eyes of the Mummy
The Eyes of the Mummy
(2.7/5)
58mn - Drama, Horror, Adventure
Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer …
poster Invisible Ghost
Invisible Ghost
64mn - Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A respected doctor becomes an unwitting killer, stalking his own household in hypnotic trances triggered by glimpses of his supposedly dead wife who haunts the grounds of his estate.
poster Backstairs
Backstairs
(3.4/5)
50mn - Drama
In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and handsome young man, who soon disappears. The mailman p…
poster Sabotage
Sabotage
(3.6/5)
76mn - Drama, Thriller
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationshi…
poster Hearts and Flowers
Hearts and Flowers
21mn - Comedy
A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
poster Rogues' Tricks
Rogues' Tricks
4mn - Comedy, Action
Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a trick film or something that he's known for, the directo…
poster Extraordinary Illusions
Extraordinary Illusions
2mn - Comedy
Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.
poster The Whole Wide World
The Whole Wide World
(3.5/5)
106mn - Drama, Romance
In 1930s Texas, pulp fiction master Robert E. Howard is introduced to Novalyne Price, a teacher with aspirations of becoming an author herself, and they begin a unique relationship filled with conversatio…
poster Man with the Golden Winchester
Man with the Golden Winchester
(2.7/5)
86mn - Western, Adventure
During Emperor Maximilian's oppressive rule in Mexico, the masked hero Zorro aids an American gun-runner from Louisiana in supplying weapons to Mexican revolutionaries fighting for freedom. When a transpo…
poster The Monster
The Monster
2mn - Fantasy, Horror
An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.
poster The Oyster Princess
The Oyster Princess
60mn - Comedy
A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be se…
poster Victory
Victory
(3.3/5)
62mn - Drama, Romance
Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.
poster Rogues' Gallery
Rogues' Gallery
60mn - Mystery, Thriller
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them…
poster An Awful Moment
An Awful Moment
12mn - Drama
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefully out of the courtroom. Later the gypsy follows the…
poster The Trap
The Trap
(3/5)
60mn - Drama
A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
poster Quo Vadis?
Quo Vadis?
(3.0/5)
137mn - Drama, History
"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- …
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