George Cooper Movies

With a screenplay by Howard Hawks and direction by Jack Conway, this Mexican border tale couldn't possibly have been anything less than a vigorously rugged production. The all-star cast, including some of the best-known villains of the day (Noah Beery and Walter Long among them), adds to the film's manly tone. Richard Dix stars as a first lieutenant working under Colonel Patterson (J. Farrell McDonald), who is on the trail of some drug smugglers on the Mexican border. Colonel Patterson has been keeping watch over a cantina, where the goings-on seem to be particularly suspicious. The first lieutenant is in love with a girl (Helene Chadwick), whose father (Hardee Kirkland) works for the U.S. government. At the cantina, the lieutenant finds himself strangely attracted to a sultry Mexican girl, but when he finds her outfit hidden away in a deserted cabin, he realizes it was the Farrell girl. His discovery leads him to believe she is part of the smuggling ring. It turns out that she was actually helping her father, but both she and the lieutenant are captured by the smugglers. The U.S. cavalry comes to the rescue in a exciting climax. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Even though this light comedy never leaves the confines of its hospital setting, it's still highly amusing. Billy Grant (Richard Dix) winds up in the hospital after going on a wild spree when his fiancée breaks up with him. Jane Brown (Helene Chadwick) is his nurse, and he begs her to marry him. She agrees because she believes that he is dying. The truth is that Grant has married her just to get back at his relatives, who helped ruin his relationship with his fiancée. Jane asks to be transferred to the maternity ward, and she helps a newborn baby and its mother reunite with its father. While searching for the man, however, Jane breaks some hospital rules and she's in danger of being fired. Grant comes to her aid and also claims her as his wife. This picture was based on two stories by author Mary Roberts Rinehart. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Comedienne Mabel Normand was in the middle of production for this comedy-drama when William Desmond Taylor was murdered. She was the last person to see him alive, and the shock of his death, combined with stressful police interrogations, caused her to have a breakdown. Filming was halted for several weeks, then resumed in the spring of 1922, and the picture itself wasn't released until the next year. A pair of Castilian nobles, Don Fernando (George Nichols) and Don Diego (Eric Mayne) want to combine their two estates through the marriage of their children. But Don Fernando's son, Ramon (Walter McGrail), has fallen in love with Suzanna, the daughter of a peon on his father's estate. Meanwhile, Don Diego's daughter, Dolores (Winifred Bryston), has been expelled from boarding school because of her love affair with Pancho, a toreador (Leon Bary). Don Fernando tries to separate Suzanna from his son by sending her away, and she ends up as Dolores' maid, with the two young ladies less than fond of each other. The plot thickens when it is revealed that the girls were switched at birth, and Suzanna is really Don Diego's daughter. Although Suzanna tries to keep quiet out of respect for the two old men, the truth eventually comes out and she is allowed to marry Ramon, while Dolores is happily left with Pancho. This was Normand's next to last film for Mack Sennett, and apparently it did well at the box office in spite of the previous year's scandal. Critics, however, gave the film mixed reviews since it didn't have the kind of slapstick that was Normand's special talent. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

The six-year-old son of director B. Reeves Eason, Breezy Eason Jr., was killed by a runaway truck during the filming of this silent Western. Little Breezy played Pard, the adopted son of drifter Santa Fe (Harry Carey). The latter gets a job as porter in a Caliente bank, where he discovers that the banker (Alan Hale) is actually the leader of a gang of outlaws. The villain frames Johnny Harron, Carey's young friend, in a robbery and both Harron and Carey are later captured by the outlaw gang. They escape via a subterranean river and arrive in town just in time to save the sheriff (George Nichols) from an angry mob. Carey reveals himself as a special agent sent to catch the villainous Hale, and, with the assistance of the U.S. Cavalry, charges the bandit's lair. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

Despite director Frank Capra's claims that he "discovered" May Robson for his 1933 production Lady for a Day, the venerable Robson had already been in films for two years when she starred in 1916's A Night Out. The actress plays a lonely crotchety old lady whose well-ordered lifestyle is turned topsy-turvy when her grandsons Jonas (Charles Brown) and Waldo (George Cooper) pay her a visit. The two young sprouts persuade "Granmum" to accompany them on a night on the town. At first resistant, the old lady's resolve is weakened by a few sips of champagne, and by the end of the evening she's having a high old time. Having created this role on the Broadway stage, May Robson had no trouble repeating her theatrical triumph on celluloid. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Business magnate Peter Worden (Anders Randolph) and district attorney Adrian Scarsdale (Leo Delaney) are both in love with Beatrice King (Virginia Pearson), daughter of banker Randolph King (Charles Kent). Tension arises when the DA is a assigned to an investigation which may prove troublesome for Beatrice's father. Determined to perform his duty to the full extent of the law, Scarsdale indirectly brings about King's suicide, thereby losing Beatrice's love. Worden offers to square all debts accrued by Beatrice and her brother Richard (George Cooper), not out of altruism but because he hopes to persuade Beatrice to marry him, which she does. Later on, DA Scarsdale is obliged to scrutinize Worden's crooked business practices. Still holding Scarsdale responsible for her father's death, Beatrice angrily threatens to destroy Scarsdale's reputation if he doesn't drop the investigation -- and when this fails, Worden himself tries to frame Scarsdale on a bum rap. But the DA is saved from this conspiracy by Beatrice's brother Richard, who kills Worden in a scuffle. Realizing that Scarsdale was right all along, Beatrice tearfully apologizes, whereupon she is assured by the DA that he has never fallen out of love with her. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide