Douglas Fairbanks Movies

An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexander Knox

Steve Drexel voluntarily strands himself on a deserted island on a bet. He intends to re-create civilization and carves a miniature city of 52nd...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hope Drown

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

Genre: Western

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Jessel

What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks". In fact, he overcomes every situation...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Gallop

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Luc Godard

A European prince is raised in America without knowing his true identity; he spends his time thrill-seeking, but his country needs him when a revolt...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Our Mutual Girl was unique. Not quite a serial, not quite a newsreel and not strictly an advertisement, it combined elements of all three. In 52...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Phillips

A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

An American who has lived much of his life outside the country returns to Arizona for the first time in years and encounters villainy.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A young man drowns his sorrows in strong drink when jilted by his girl. His drunkenness gets him thrown in jail, where he falls in love with the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

In the midst of an emotional depression, a man hires a murderer to kill him. But the despair soon passes, and the man must now escape the killer he's...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the...

Genre: Western

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), from rags to riches, from the slums of London to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Graves

A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established Fairbanks as the American ideal of pop, vim, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to help children from poor neighbourhoods.

Genre: Action

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some cattle. He bores his friends with tales...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A young man fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daughter.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Reggie, a wealthy young man about town, is eager for excitement, so he takes to visiting the rougher sections of the city in search of thrills. He...

Genre: Action

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

The dashing and dazzling Douglas Fairbanks was the movie star who "swashbuckled in Zorro, dueled exuberantly in Robin Hood and soared magnificently...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Goga is a Russian man who has no luck with women. He has a chance meeting with Mary Pickford, and after she kisses him on the cheek, he becomes as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Igor Ilyinsky

A button factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Art Baker

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Art Acord

Double Trouble is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film written and directed by Christy Cabanne and stars Douglas Fairbanks in his third motion...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.

Genre: Western

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama...

Genre: Western

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His...

Genre: Western

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Pickford

First episode of a series of reports on movie stars. Those seen include Douglas Fairbanks, Montague Love, Mary Miles Minter and James Kirkwood and...

Genre:

Cast: Mary Miles Minter

African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo (YAABA) discusses the influence that Charlie Chaplin has been on his work, along with archival footage of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

In order to find out who's behind a cattle rustling operation that's hurting ranchers, a detective for the Cattleman's Protective Association...

Genre: Western

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A lost film. An Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not love her, so she contrives to marry his commanding...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Q. Lewis

Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds with his staid, wealthy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order to prove to her and the other patients that their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting in trouble. He falls in love with the wife of one...

Genre:

Cast: Maitê Proença

A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cary Grant

Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anthony Quinn

Film in the style of a magazine. Various topics, e.g. reading from the book "Ich lasse Dich nicht"; explanation of how a telephone conversation...

Genre:

Cast: Hubert von Meyerinck

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Mary Pickford's name remains inseparable from the legend of American cinema. She invented the star system at the beginning of the 20th century, and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mary Pickford

The world-famous stars and married couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are warmly welcomed to Stockholm on the Midsummer weekend of 1924.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mary Pickford

Short film with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford & W.S. Hart promoting war bonds.

Genre:

Cast: Mary Pickford

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

A Soviet film-obsessed girl has met Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford during their visit to Moscow in 1926 and dreams of going to Hollywood....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antonina Kudryavtseva

This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael York

Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carter DeHaven

A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger known only as Headin' South (Fairbanks) goes forth...

Genre: Western

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A lost film. "The Young Fellow"(Fairbanks), has recently been hired as a cub newspaper reporter for the New York Herald. His editor tasks him with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A lost film. George Travelwell (Fairbanks), an American youth motoring in Morocco, discovers that the governor of El Harib (Frank Campeau) has seized...

Genre: Action

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A lost film. Teddy Drake is a pleasure-seeking aristocrat who ends up expelled from his exclusive Fifth Avenue club for playing practical jokes and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carey Wilson

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ramon Novarro

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Angela Lansbury

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roddy McDowall

A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,”...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kenneth Branagh

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Diane Lane

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Groucho Marx

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sébastien Desjours

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Hudson

With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Cupid Angling is a 1918 silent film starring Ruth Roland and Albert Morrison, with walk-on appearances by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. It was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Roland

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vinicio Marchioni

Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Bevan

Douglas Fairbanks, the screen's great swashbuckler, charmed millions with his energetic athleticism, his boyishly handsome good looks, and his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keri Leigh

The true story of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star; a husband and father whose world-wide fame came from the portrayal of women. His...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Chow

While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Cantor

The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sam De Grasse