List of the best James Cruze movies: The Mating Call(1928), Old Ironsides(1926), Mr. Skitch(1933), I Cover the Waterfront(1933), The Pony Express(1925), The Great Gabbo(1929), Leap Year(1924), Beggar on Horseback(1925), Prison Nurse(1938), The Wrong Road(1937), Hawthorne of the U.S.A.(1919), Terror Island(1920) ... ...
Drama
USA
1928
72 Minutes
Director
Thomas Meighan Evelyn Brent Renée Adorée Albert Roscoe Gardner James Helen Foster Luke Cosgrove Cyril Chadwick
A WWI vet takes on the KKK when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.
Adventure
USA
1926
112 Minutes
Director
George Bancroft Wallace Beery William Conklin Nick De Ruiz Effie Ellsler Charles Farrell Eddie Fetherston George Godfrey Frank Jonasson Duke Kahanamoku Boris Karloff
young man sea captain crew member pirate lieutenant love interest madcap suspenseful gripping ship mediterranean sea tripoli piracy travel capture seafaring navy battle adventure rescue
An American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century.
Comedy
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Director
The Missouri Skitches (Will Rogers, ZaSu Pitts, Rochelle Hudson) drive to California via Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
Drama
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Director
Claudette Colbert Ben Lyon Ernest Torrence Hobart Cavanaugh Maurice Black Purnell Pratt Wilfred Lucas Harry Beresford
reporter smuggler daughter illegal immigrant police officer editor gritty melodramatic waterfront san diego ship apartment hideout news investigation deception smuggling illegal immigration pursuit mystery
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Western
USA
1925
110 Minutes
Director
Betty Compson Ricardo Cortez Ernest Torrence Wallace Beery George Bancroft Frank Lackteen Johnny Fox William H. Turner Al Hart Charles Gerson
Traitorous California Senator tries to use the newly founded Pony Express to further his plans for a California Republic, but Unionist Frisco Jack will try to stop him.
Musical
USA
1929
95 Minutes
Director
Erich von Stroheim Betty Compson Don Douglas Babe Kane
ventriloquist assistant dancer dummy husband wife brooding disturbing outlandish dark café stage backstage puppetry madness performance show business rejection failure fall
An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.
Comedy
USA
1924
56 Minutes
Director
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle Mary Thurman Lucien Littlefield Clarence Geldart Harriet Hammond Allen Durnell Gertrude Short John McKinnon Maude Wayne Winifred Greenwood
A young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle, and in love with a nurse, gets in trouble when he gives advice on marriage to his girlfriends.
Comedy
USA
1925
70 Minutes
Director
Edward Everett Horton Esther Ralston Erwin Connelly Gertrude Short Ethel Wales Theodore Kosloff Betty Compson James Mason Frederick Sullivan
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but fearing poverty, proposes to the wealthy Gladys Cady. One night, he dozes in an armchair and has a nightmare of a wedding and ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1938
67 Minutes
Director
Marian Marsh Bernadene Hayes Minerva Urecal Henry Wilcoxon Ben Welden Ray Mayer John Arledge Addison Richards Frank Reicher Selmer Jackson Fred Kohler Jr.
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1937
62 Minutes
Director
Richard Cromwell Helen Mack Lionel Atwill Horace MacMahon Russ Powell Billy Bevan Marjorie Main Rex Evans Joseph Crehan Arthur Hoyt Syd Saylor
Bank teller Jimmy Caldwell and his fiance, Ruth Holden, grow weary of struggling to make ends meet and decide to rob Jimmy's bank. The selfish young couple agree that even if they spend ten... See full summary »
Comedy, Adventure, Romance
USA
1919
57 Minutes
Director
Wallace Reid Lila Lee Harrison Ford Tully Marshall Charles Ogle Guy Oliver
A light-hearted romantic adventure.
Mystery & Thriller
1920
55 Minutes
Director
Harry Houdini Jack Brammall Lila Lee Wilton Taylor Eugene Pallette Ed Brady Frank Bonner Ted Duncan Fred Turner Rosemary Theby
An inventor travels to the South Seas to help a young woman return a pearl and save her father from a tribe of cannibals.
Western
1923
98 Minutes
Director
J. Warren Kerrigan Lois Wilson Alan Hale Charles Ogle Ethel Wales Ernest Torrence Tully Marshall Guy Oliver Johnny Fox
Based on Emerson Hough's book about the hardships faced by pioneers during their westward trek across America.
Comedy
1923
90 Minutes
Director
Hope Drown Luke Cosgrave George K. Arthur Ruby Lafayette Harris Gordon Bess Flowers Eleanor Lawson King Zany
A young dreamer travels to Tinseltown to break into pictures, but fame and fortune finds other members of her family instead.