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Svengali

Svengali (1931) more movies like this

directed by Archie Mayo
featuring John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Bramwell Fletcher, Donald Crisp, Lumsden Hare

The George du Maurier novel Trilby, about a hypnotist who controls a female musician, was originally filmed as Trilby, a 1920s silent. In the 1931 talkie, the emphasis shifts from the music student to the teacher, Svengali. John Barrymore gives a scenery-chewing performance as Svengali, who is originally seen tutoring Honori (Carmel Myers). Trilby ...

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Murder by Invitation

Murder by Invitation (1941) more movies like this

directed by Phil Rosen
featuring Wallace Ford, Marian Marsh, Sarah Padden, George Guhl, Wallis Clark

Stars-on-the-downslide Wallace Ford and Marian Marsh briefly rallied in the above-average Monogram melodrama Murder by Invitation. Ford is cast as usual as a wisecracking reporter, this time christened Bob White. Our hero is one of several acquaintances and relatives invited to an old dark house to attend the reading of a will. At the stroke of ...

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Prison Nurse

Prison Nurse (1938) more movies like this

directed by James Cruze
featuring Henry Wilcoxon, Marian Marsh, Bernadene Hayes, Ben Welden, Ray Mayer

The title character in Republic's Prison Nurse is a "woman in white" named Judy, played by Marian Marsh. Together with her friend Pepper (Bernardine Hayes), Judy hires on at a maximum-security prison smack dab in the middle of flood country. When she's not braving the elements and fending off the advances of the convicts, Judy is doing her best to ...

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The Black Room

The Black Room (1935) more movies like this

directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Thurston Hall, Katherine de Mille

A curse pronounced upon land baron DeBerghmann has devastating long-range consequences for his twin sons Gregor and Anton. Twenty years later, Anton (Boris Karloff) has developed into a debauched and much-hated despot, disposing of his enemies by dumping their bodies into the titular "black room" on his estate. But when Anton's kindly, benevolent ...

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Youth on Parole (1937) more movies like this

directed by Phil Rosen
featuring Marian Marsh, Gordon Oliver, Margaret Dumont, Peggy Shannon, Miles Mander

Sentenced to prison for a crime they did not commit, a desperate pair of young lovers attempts to capture the culprits responsible for framing them and destroying their lives. Philip and Bonnie were two strangers with little in common, that is until they were framed for a daring daytime jewelry store heist. When the two innocents fail to convince ...

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When's Your Birthday? (1937) more movies like this

directed by Harry Beaumont
featuring Joe E. Brown, Marian Marsh, Fred Keating, Edgar Kennedy, Maude Eburne

On the whole, Joe E. Brown's vehicles for independent producer David L. Loew were distinct retrogressions from his films at Warner Bros., but When's Your Birthday? still contains some very funny moments. This time, Joe plays Douglas Willoughby, a mild-mannered astrologer who through a series of incredible plot twists becomes a prizefighter. Though ...

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The Eleventh Commandment (1933) more movies like this

directed by George Melford
featuring Marian Marsh, Theodore Von Eltz, Alan Hale, Marie Prevost, Gloria Shea

"Thou Shall Not Be Caught" is the commandment referred to in this low-budget melodrama ostensibly based on Ella Wendel, a New York recluse whose death provoked an avalanche of claimants to her 36-million-dollar estate. Poverty Row company Allied Pictures raised the amount to 50 million dollars and had Alan Hale act the dead woman's long-lost ...

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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (1935) more movies like this

directed by Josef von Sternberg
featuring Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh, Tala Birell, Elizabeth Risdon

The story goes that Peter Lorre wanted to star in a film version of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, but was certain that Columbia Pictures chieftain Harry Cohn would turn the project down flat. So Lorre hired a secretary to type up a synopsis of the story in words of one syllable then submitted this simplified resume to Cohn. Enthusiastic over ...

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