Richard Barthelmess Movies

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Theda Bara

Born and raised in poverty, Marguerite Clark has learned to expect very little out of life and thus is rather surprised to learn that she is the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marguerite Clark

First National gala celebrity banquet with stars.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Cary Grant

World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons...

Genre: War

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mail carrier for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Gallop

Bab comes home for the Christmas holidays. Given to fabrications, Bab has been keeping a diary in which she describes and imaginary boyfriend named...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Marguerite Clark

The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United...

Genre: War

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Brent

The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

A man murders his wife's lover and escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him, joined by a young man who eventually...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carol Dempster

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers....

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

A group of New York society folk on a yachting excursion are forced to put into a New England fishing village for repairs. The engaged couple Reggie...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Boy Leyton is second mate on board the Lady Spray, the ship on which his father is Captain Leyton. Boy is often chided by his father for his...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

For the sake of his impoverished mother, Joe Newbolt bonds himself to harsh Isom Chase. Ollie Chase tires of the difficult life her husband has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out....

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Murphy

"Bilge" Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seamstress in a small harbor who has never had a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.

Genre: Western

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

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

Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

An orphan (Richard Barthelmess) is adopted by Major Buford (Claude Gillingwater) is educated in Lexington and joins the Union Army as a Captain. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

A Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that overthrew the Czar. One of their twin sons, Schulke,...

Genre: War

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Fay

Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, addicted to melodramatic stories of love and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Gish

Exiled French patriot helps to find the men who want to betray emperor Napoleon III by selling military secrets to the German government.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manufacturer's candy shop, where she delights the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Gish

Polly has herself arrested and committed to a reformatory in order to investigate conditions at the institution, after the committee charged with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Gish

A young woman is in love, but the man of her affections wants only her and no part of her vast wealth.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Gish

Joan is loved by a young man of the village and they are married. In a few weeks the husband, a soldier, is sent to the war-front along with his...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Alla Nazimova

When Bab Archibald's father gives her $1,000 with the proviso that the gift will serve as her allowance for the year, our heroine proceeds to blow...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marguerite Clark

A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Young David Carroll takes over the publication of a local newspaper in Vermont. Although he is attracted to Dot, "the most sophisticated girl in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adolph Lestina

A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Duncan, the son of a village postmaster, is in love with Sylvia, daughter of a rich and snobbish family. He enrolls at West Point but ends up having...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

Bobby Jones instructs Joe E. Brown and the other members of their foursome in proper club grip.

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Cast: Bobby Jones

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Vincent Price

Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Albert Whalen, a hotel elevator operator, together with one of the pretty chambermaids, Annie Jackson, on the hotel staff are accused of breaking and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Bobby Jones gives Frank Craven some helpful tips on his short game.

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Cast: Bobby Jones

The Voice of Hollywood hosted by Pat O'Brien. Features Joan Blondell, Robert Montgomery, Elissa Landi, Warner Baxter, and the coronation of Mary...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pat O'Brien

When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

Two men who bear a striking resemblance to each befriend each other while stationed in France during WWI. One is fatally fatally wounded and requests...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

For their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brother's gangster boss. Considered a lost film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle

In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eddie Bartell

A young husband is left at home looking after a new baby when his wife leaves him to return to her career as a dancer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

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 home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Robeson

U. S. Cavalry Lieutenant Ranson belittles the exploits of a bandit known as "The Red Rider," and boasts to his fellow officers that he could hold up...

Genre: Western

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

He hid from life in the ruins -he came out of the ruins to death! A man condemned to live in the shadow of a great love-never to realize it until he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Silent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madge Kennedy

A prince comes to America and falls in love with a regular girl.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

The McCulloughs agree to separate when Julian is seven years of age. His mother raises him according to her own ideas and fourteen years pass. He...

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Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married the Duke of Ferrara. After Lucretia's brother is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Florence Reed

Melia Nobbs, a young Canadian woman, supports both her invalid father Ambrose and brother Henry. When Henry faces arrest for helping himself to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Winifred Allen

Bartender Billy Holliday loses his job for refusing to supply drinks to minors at the behest of his employer. In the little country town he wanders...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George M. Cohan

Wealthy Lucy Winter falls in love itinerant gardener George Turner much to her father's chagrin. In flashback we find there is a deep seated reason...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lillian Gish

Once upon a time there was a beautiful little Princess, Tweedledee, who lived with her father and seven brothers in 'The Kingdom of the Seven Dials'....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Marguerite Clark

Marion, a young girl, is given up by her guardian to be raised by her father who has a criminal past. Under the enchanting influence of his daughter,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marguerite Clark

Three men, disillusioned in love and intent on getting away from all women, rent a cabin and retreat there. But the young woman who owns the cabin,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marguerite Clark

The sole support of her invalid mother and young crippled brother, Heloise Broulette is forced to become the mistress of Leland Norton in order to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olga Petrova

Robert Kincairn, the dissolute son of a British colonel, is gallant enough to take the blame for a robbery perpetrated by his fiancee Enid. Thrown...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Standish, a wealthy Northerner, deserts his untutored Southern wife shortly after their daughter Primrose's birth, preferring to wed the cultured but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gladys Leslie

Nance Molloy's cheerful disposition, in sharp contrast to the slum near the cathedral where she and her parents make their home, earns her the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Pennington

Beam opens a boarding house and many interesting characters are introduced. She spreads her optimism to their lives. Also to her blind father by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gladys Hulette

To protect the family name, a man of morals and integrity marries a young woman his brother got pregnant. The woman continues her loose ways with no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Q. Nilsson