Mitchell Lewis Movies

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Bancroft

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

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gary Cooper

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katherine MacDonald

The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on...

Genre: History

Cast: Ronald Colman

Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milton Sills

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald

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...

Genre: Western

Cast: Pat O'Malley

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Dunne

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

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

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stan Laurel

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joseph Cotten

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Al Jolson

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Peter Lorre

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Dunne

Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania, to play the King once more. Lost Adaptation of the eponymous Anthony Hope nove, the sequel of the Prisoner of...

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Cast: Elaine Hammerstein

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Florence La Badie

Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bert Wheeler

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Winninger

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Judy Garland

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor McLaglen

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

Ex-Plumber is a 1931 Comedy short.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ramon Novarro

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Charles Collins

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Sterling

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...

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Cast: Edmund Lowe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pauline Starke

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitchell Lewis

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sally O'Neil

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....

Genre: Western

Cast: Mitchell Lewis

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramon Novarro

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ralph Ince

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alla Nazimova

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Harry Langdon

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lon Chaney

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Aileen Pringle

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dolores Costello

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

Genre: Family

Cast: Rin-Tin-Tin

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Steffi Duna

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

Genre: History

Cast: Carey Wilson

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenn Ford

Lost 1928 film by Benjamin Benjamin Christensen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milton Sills

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Florence Vidor

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

Genre: Western

Cast: Edward Arnold

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Young

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mary Ellis

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

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Cast: Milton Sills

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Woolsey

An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Taylor

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nelson Eddy

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Wallace Beery

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Morgan

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Virginia Weidler

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Leslie Caron

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...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Melvyn Douglas

A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Arnold

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Huston

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Lowe

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert Young

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mickey Rooney

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aileen Pringle

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...

Genre: Western

Cast: Buck Jones

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Dorothy Dalton

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carey Wilson

Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Clark Gable

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...

Genre: Western

Cast: Wallace Beery

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Gary Gray

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Bancroft

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Howard

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jackie Cooper

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young

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

Genre: History

Cast: Charles Farrell

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitchell Lewis

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lloyd Nolan

Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Taylor

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...

Genre: Western

Cast: Clark Gable

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...

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Cast: Betty Bronson

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...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Marguerite Snow

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

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gary Cooper

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

Genre: History

Cast: Lloyd Bridges

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Rod La Rocque

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leon Ames

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dolores del Río

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Q. Nilsson

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edwin Maxwell

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

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

Genre: War

Cast: Edward Arnold

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitchell Lewis

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Compson

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guy Bates Post

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miriam Cooper

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sothern

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lynne Carver

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dick Powell

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast: George Murphy

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dorothy Dalton

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Mitchell Lewis

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.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Van Heflin

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

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Cast: Renée Adorée

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pete Smith

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....

Genre: Horror

Cast: Dorothy Dwan

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

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Cast: Mitchell Lewis

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...

Genre: War

Cast: William Boyd

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lana Turner

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kathryn Grayson

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fredric March

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Gaynor