John G. Adolfi Movies

Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rose Hobart

Young Herbert Thompson, wanting to attain wealth and social status, marries Ann Morton, who comes from a rich and prominent family, throwing over...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marguerite Snow

A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Arliss

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Arliss

While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royale is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: George Arliss

The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Arliss

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Fay

Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Grant Withers

Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs...

Genre: History

Cast: George Arliss

In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Belle Bennett

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Blondell

A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Arliss

In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Armstrong

The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Arliss

Romance on a college campus.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jack Whiting

Unbeknownst to each other, Charles Macklin and his widowed father Arthur are having an affair with an exotic dancer called The Sphinx. When both come...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Herbert Kelcey

After running away from an orphanage, young Alicia Jones disguises herself as a boy and gets a job on a farm. She falls in love with Harry Deigan, a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Caprice

The true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium during the First World War.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julia Arthur

Joyce's mother keeps her younger daughter in the background so that Polly, the elder daughter, can monopolize all the eligible young men, especially...

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Caprice

Effie Marchand refuses to marry a man she has never met, but who has been picked out by her mother, is exiled to boarding school Then, when sculpting...

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Caprice

Effie Marchand refuses to marry a man she has never met, but who has been picked out by her mother, is exiled to boarding school Then, when sculpting...

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Caprice

Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee,...

Genre: History

Cast: Beryl Mercer

Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pauline Frederick

Fearing that his daughter Patsy is becoming a tomboy, John Primmel sends her to a friend back East for education and refinement. Arriving in New...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Caprice

A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Virginia Sale

The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antonio Moreno

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....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Audrey Ferris

A tough newspaper reporter and his pretty assistant are investigating a double murder, and soon find themselves the targets of the as yet unknown...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Grant Withers

May Banks (May McAvoy) is a working-class girl who gets ideas above her station in life when her father, Colonel Banks (Aleck B. Francis), a Coney...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: May McAvoy

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edith Taliaferro

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

Film was released in 1927

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warner Oland

Genre: Crime

Cast: Victor Varconi

French Secret Service agent and boxer Henri D'Alour uncovers a plot to con the government out of millions of francs in its purchase of machinery.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Georges Carpentier

Annette Kellerman, the Australian swimming star of the early 1900s, made a number of films, most of them in the 1910s, which displayed her athletic...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Annette Kellerman

Annette Kellerman, the Australian swimming star of the early 1900s, made a number of films, most of them in the 1910s, which displayed her athletic...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Annette Kellerman

Genre: Western

Cast: Henry Woodruff

The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Belle Bennett

A judge's daughter spurns his wealthy lifestyle and goes to do social work in poorer neighborhoods. There she meets a boxer contending for a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Russell

Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his own people. He is made captain of the U.S. army when...

Genre: Western

Cast: Clara Bow

Marie Devere and Helen Gray are two sophisticated, gold-digging chorus girls on the look-out to marry a rich man, who measure the men they meet by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae Busch

Wallace MacDonald as a car mechanic who invents a revolutionary new carburetor. To prove the efficiency of his creation, MacDonald enters an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Elaine Hammerstein

Elaine Brooks marries Robert Ames, a junior member of the Department of Justice. Mrs. Durand, a spy uses underhanded means to steal important papers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion Davies

Jeb Russell and his son Matt run a bootlegging operation in the basement of the New England schoolhouse where Mercy Brent teaches. When her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martha Mansfield

Years after Barry Thornton disappears from Panama while under suspicion of stealing American defense plans for the canal, his daughter Eleanor, now...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edwin Stevens

Genre: Drama

Cast: Violet Mersereau

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eugene Pallette

Genre: Crime

Cast: Billie West

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Caprice

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Caprice