Edmund Lowe Movies

In this war drama, Dorothy Dalton is Jenevieve Bouchette, an actress in New York. When she hears that her parents have been killed by German troops, she hastens back to the French village of her youth. The Germans and French have been fighting for possession of the town, and Jenevieve is victimized by a Hun who brands her with "the cross of shame." Jean Picard (Edmund Lowe), a former co-star of Jenevieve's, is now a volunteer in the French Army and he encounters her once again when he is wounded. She saves him from the Germans and sends him on his way. Then to escape the Germans, she puts on the uniform of a dead soldier. Since the French find spy maps on the uniform she has been wearing, she is ordered to be shot, but then the officer in charge sees the cross branded on her breast and releases her. Finally peace comes to the village. Jean returns, but he has lost his memory. All efforts to help him fail until Jenevieve shows him her cross. Then he remembers and the two are reunited. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

It's obvious that this picture's screenwriters, Carey Wilson and Edmund Goulding, were referencing D.W. Griffith's Intolerance -- it begins in ancient Rome before taking its theme to modern-day (meaning 1920) New York. The Rome depicted here is at its most decadent and sensational, with Christians being sacrificed and gladiators fighting in front of a bloodthirsty crowd. And New York is almost as bloodthirsty. To destroy the happiness of a woman who jilted him years ago, a broker (Anders Randolph) kidnaps the woman's daughter Laura (Ray Dean). Her nouveau riche father, John Grimm (Gustav Von Seyffertitz) arrives from Nebraska to search for her. More complications arise when Laura and the broker's son Gordon (Edmond Lowe) fall in love. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Barbara (Olive Tell) has grown tired of the endless chores at her mother's boarding house so she decides to get rid of her penniless sweetheart and marry a rich young man. Unfortunately he loses his wealth shortly after the wedding, then he dumps Barbara when he catches her flirting with an elderly man -- no matter that she was only doing it to get a stock tip. So she strikes out on her own and opens up a millinery shop. It goes under and she decides that maybe her place is with her ex-husband after all. This drab feature was based on a novel, Nothing a Year, by Charles Belmont Davis. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Stage star George Arliss had been a huge success in the 1906 stage play on which this film was based. Other versions had already been filmed, but nothing could compare to Arliss when he decided to reprise his role on screen. His character, Dr. Mueller, is the devil incarnate, determined to ruin the lives of four young lovers -- Georges, a banker (Roland Bottomly), Marie, his fiancée (Lucy Cotton), Georges' artist friend, Paul (Edmund Lowe), and Mimi, his model (Sylvia Breamer). When Marie insists that truth will always win out over evil, Mueller puts her assertion to the test. He sees that Marie and Paul are thrown together so that they fall in love with each other. Then he encourages Mimi to seduce Paul, who is guilty about betraying Georges. Just as Marie and Paul have decided to be together, Mueller convinces her that Paul is still seeing Mimi. Mueller plays with the young lovers as if they were puppets on a string, and nearly wins out. But Mimi figures out his evil lies and machinations. Before he will admit defeat, Mueller makes an unsuccessful stab at abducting Marie, but he is held at bay by a ghostly cross. The last we see of Mueller, he is smilingly engulfed in hellish flames, waiting for a new opportunity. Though new to screen technique, Arliss is delightful in this -- he turns the role into high camp as only an old ham can do. At 53, this strange looking but charismatic actor became as popular on screen as he was on stage. His wife, Florence Arliss, appears as Marie's mother. Also billed is a certain Frederick Bickel, who would later become more well known as Frederic March. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

When Philippa (Mary Thurman) fails to impress the man of her dreams Norman (Edmund Lowe), she conspires to break his heart in this romantic melodrama. After Norman marries Madaline (Florence Dixon), Philippa tells him his father-in-law is the burglar who murdered his mother. Madaline's mother (Edna May Oliver) reveals that it was her first husband who is the killer and that Madaline is no relation to the scoundrel. Arthur Hausman and Tyrone Power co-star in this suspenseful story of a woman scorned and her evil plans for vengeance. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

This Hawaiian romance was the last picture directed by Julia Crawford Ivers, who also penned the screenplay. Although it was later rumored she left Hollywood after the murder of director William Desmond Taylor (even though she was guiltless, she was embroiled in the scandal), she continued writing screenplays throughout the rest of the silent era. Ivers died in 1930, when sound was still in its infancy. This nicely done picture ended her directing career on a good note. Konia Markham (Betty Compson) is the daughter of an Hawaiian mother and American father. (Hawaii at the time was not yet a state, and wouldn't be for another 36 years.) She and her father, John (Edward Martindel), live on the islands, and when the handsome Bob Rutherford (Edmund Lowe) sails in from the States, she falls madly in love with him. She only discovers that Rutherford is engaged to Ethel Granville (Arline Pretty) when the girl shows up on the island. Konia tracks down a native priest and tries to have him pray Ethel to death (something some native priests were said to be capable of doing). But she repents her action and halts the proceedings just in time. Riddled with guilt, she prepares to throw herself into a volcano. Rutherford comes to her rescue. Ethel, realizing that her fiancé really loves Konia and not her, willingly gives him up. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Although John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the poem Barbara Frietchie, it was actually the Clyde Fitch play that served as inspiration for both this and the 1915 film by the same name. In the days before the Civil War, southerner Barbara Frietchie (Florence Vidor) falls in love with Captain Trumbull (Edmund Lowe), a northern friend of her brother, Arthur (Charles Delaney). But when the war between the states breaks out, Trumbull must fight for the North. His troops take over Frederickstown, where the Frietchies live, and Barbara discovers her love for him overrides her feelings for the Confederacy. The couple goes to Hagerstown to marry, but a Confederate advance prevents the wedding. Arthur Frietchie wounds Trumbull and takes him into his own home. Because she believes her sweetheart is dying, Barbara hangs the stars and stripes out the window as the Confederates march by. The crowd is furious, but Stonewall Jackson, impressed by her courage, announces that anyone who harms her is to be shot. One man, Trumbull's rival, Jack Negly (Joe Bennett), ignores the order and shoots Barbara. She is not seriously wounded, and she then discovers that Trumbull is still alive. She nurses him back to health, and after the war they are finally married. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Prince Kaloney (Edmund Lowe) is loyal to Messina's King Louis (Sheldon Lewis), even after he has been deposed. While trying to inspire the people to bring back the king, Kaloney is shot. Patricia Carson, an American heiress (Claire Adams) nurses him back to health. The king, meanwhile, is happy with his carefree life of exile, and he plots to have the prince betrayed to the conspirators in office. When he meets Patricia, he forgets his mistress and tries to win her. The jealous mistress causes a lot of trouble for the king, who is forced to flee. Kaloney is reunited with Patricia and he sets out to see that the little crown prince is placed on the throne. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

When rector Daniel Gilchrist (Edmund Lowe) preaches material sacrifice to his wealthy congregation, he is forced out of his parish. His sweetheart, Clare (Brenda Bond), dumps him in favor of Jerry Goodkind (Raymond Bloomer), the son of a wealthy man (George Lessey). Gilchrist goes on to found a mission, while Jerry's constant womanizing tortures Clare. When she returns to her former flame, however, he insists that happiness comes through service. Hennig, a vindictive and misguided miner (A.J. Herbert), incites a mob to attack Gilchrist, but they come to a halt when Mary, a crippled little girl (Anne Dale), is healed by her faith and walks. Jerry's father compares Gilchrist's life to that of his son, and wonders whether the ousted rector has had the more successful life. This drama actually turned out better than the Channing Pollock play on which it was based -- something that doesn't happen often in motion pictures. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

This mythical kingdom romance, based on The Lady From Longacre by Victor Bridge, is spiced up with a mystery angle. It wasn't exactly original, but it made for an entertaining programmer. Wealthy American Tom Conway (Edmund Lowe) and his pal, pugilist Tiger Bugg (Ben Hendricks), rescue a girl from attackers during their stay in London. The girl gives her name as Isabel Francis (Dolores Costello), and the men put her up for the night. When Molly Montrose (Margaret Livingston), an actress friend of Conway's, loses her jewels, Isabel is a prime suspect -- until it is revealed that she is really a foreign princess. She is kidnapped by royal spies and taken back to her own country. Conway and Molly go to track her down. They undergo numerous thrilling adventures before rescuing the princess. Conway and Isabel are united, while Molly finds a lover of her own. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Adapted from a novel by Julian LaMothe, The Winding Stair stars Edmund Lowe as Paul, a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away outpost, he discovers that the revolt is actually a subterfuge hatched by the Arabs, so that the city under Paul's command will be left unguarded and defenseless. Unable to convince his superiors that they're leaving themselves open to slaughter, Paul goes undercover, disguising himself as a native in order to infiltrate the rebel camp. While in Arab garb, our hero manages to rescue his sweetheart, cabaret dancer Marguerite (Alba Rubens), from suffering a ghastly fate at the hands of the villains. But even though Paul also manages to prevent the enemy attack, his superiors assume that he's deserted, and drum him out of the Legion. Only by serving valiantly in WWI is Paul able to redeem himself in the eyes of his country. "Winding" is right: this one has more plot twists than a TV soap opera. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Based on a 1911 novel by Elinor Glyn, this melodrama seems at first to focus on the dilemma of whether to marry for material gain or for love. This choice is put before the young heroine Velma (Aileen Pringle). For Velma, it is no choice at all. She steadfastly refuses an arranged marriage to a nobleman, a marriage meant to save the mortgage on her uncle's estate. As she fights for her right to choose a husband, she falls in love with Lord Tancred (Edmund Lowe). Little does she know at this point that Lord Tancred is exactly the man her uncle wanted her to wed in the first place. She goes through with the marriage of her dreams, only to find out that the nobleman of the original arranged marriage and Lord Tancred are one and the same. Upset by this imagined betrayal, she reacts by adamantly refusing to have anything to do with her husband, certain that he married her only to save her uncle's estate. But lo and behold, Velma makes an unusual discovery that changes her mind. Even in 1926, the plot and its premises stretched credibility for most people. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide