Movies: Herbert Brenon

The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder....

Grace Leonard, a typical woman of the New York stage, beautiful but old in sin, seduces William Craig, who becomes a thief in order to shower luxuries upon her. He is sentenced to prison and emerges five years later as a sad-faced, gray-haired man, e...

This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. This version, made by the Fox Studios, stars famous "vamp" actress Theda Bara in the role that Lillian Gish later made famous...

Unhinged art dealer William Barton seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the theft of $2,500 from the safe in his gallery. However the son has an alibi in Barton's wife, with whom ...

It tells the story of Dante Alighieri's love to Beatrice Portinari, loosely based on Dante's poetry....

A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon....

'Nurse saves captain from invading Germans and is saved herself when he leads counter-attack.' (British Film Catalogue)...

Two professors who hire a sailor to lead them on a treasure hunt, and they soon find themselves in a dangerous situation involving pirates. The sailor, Bill, initially struggles to remember the location of the ruins, but eventually discovers a lost c...

A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures....

Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute....

Jacqueline Laurentine Boggs, the daughter of an American hog farmer, is schooled in France and comes to stay with an English family. There she brings a dose of reality to her snobby hosts....

A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life. A lost film....

A depiction of German airships attacking Great Britain....

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