List of the best Eugenie Besserer movies: The Fire Brigade(1926), Kindred of the Dust(1922), The Jazz Singer(1927), The Greatest Question(1919), A Lady of Chance(1928), Thunderbolt(1929), Mister Antonio(1929), Madame X(1929), In Gay Madrid(1930), Flesh and the Devil(1926) ... ...
Drama
USA
1926
94 Minutes
May McAvoy Charles Ray Tom O'Brien Eugenie Besserer Warner Richmond Bert Woodruff Vivia Ogden DeWitt Jennings Dan Mason Erwin Connelly
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut... See full summary »
Drama, Romance
USA
1922
80 Minutes
Miriam Cooper Ralph Graves Lionel Belmore Eugenie Besserer Caroline Rankin Maryland Morne Elizabeth Waters William J. Ferguson
Musical
USA
1927
97 Minutes
Al Jolson May McAvoy Warner Oland Eugenie Besserer Otto Lederer William Demarest Roscoe Karns Richard Tucker Nat Carr William Walling Robert Gordon
cantor singer lover mother neighbor father melodramatic winsome uplifting lower east side manhattan, n.y. ghetto stage cabaret family home singing family traditions defiance acceptance father/son relationship
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Drama
USA
1919
80 Minutes
Lillian Gish Robert Harron Ralph Graves Eugenie Besserer George Fawcett Tom Wilson George Nichols Josephine Crowell
An orphan girl is given shelter by a farm family, but soon finds herself in the clutches of a murderous farmer and his wife.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1928
80 Minutes
Norma Shearer Lowell Sherman Gwen Lee Johnny Mack Brown Eugenie Besserer Buddy Messinger
Seasoned grifter Dolly Crandall returns to the 'badger game' but has a change of heart when she falls in love with a young man she believes is a rich Southerner.
Drama
USA
1929
91 Minutes
George Bancroft Fay Wray Richard Arlen Tully Marshall Eugenie Besserer James Spottswood Fred Kohler Robert Elliott E.H. Calvert George Irving Mike Donlin
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1929
73 Minutes
Leo Carrillo James Flood Virginia Valli Gareth Hughes Frank Reicher Eugenie Besserer Franklin Lewis
Drama
USA
1929
95 Minutes
Ruth Chatterton Lewis Stone Raymond Hackett Holmes Herbert Eugenie Besserer Sidney Toler Ullrich Haupt Richard Carle Mitchell Lewis Carroll Nye
wife husband son lover lawyer gambler sad melodramatic brooding touching paris estate courtroom street france city estrangement murder case mother/son relationship unhappy marriage
A young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three.
Musical
USA
1930
71 Minutes
Ramon Novarro Dorothy Jordan Lottice Howell Claude King Eugenie Besserer William V. Mong Beryl Mercer Nanci Price Herbert Clark David Scott George Chandler
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son... See full summary »
Romance, Drama
USA
1926
113 Minutes
Greta Garbo John Gilbert Lars Hanson Barbara Kent William Orlamond George Fawcett Eugenie Besserer Marc McDermott Marcelle Corday Rolfe Sedan
soldier countess count friend uncle pastor melodramatic germany ballroom train station adultery friendship loyalty military violence love triangle forbidden love rivalry transformation 1920s
Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other once fiercely loved.