Edwin Sturgis Movies

Outside the Law

1930

A remake of his 1921 film of the same name, Tod Browning's Outside the Law offers Edward G. Robinson in an incisive, pre-Little Caesar gangster portrayal. Robinson,...

Let It Rain

1927

Douglas MacLean, who made his mark during the 1920s as a light comedian, stars as a Marine sergeant in this comedy-drama, which he co-produced with Paramount. The...

Wolf's Clothing

1927

New York subway guard Barry Baline (Monte Blue) is struck down by a speeding car on New Years' Eve. The driver, a mentally unhinged millionaire named Johnson Craigle (John...

Seven Keys to Baldpate

1925

Earl Derr Biggers' novel was made into a play by George M. Cohan and had already come to the screen twice before (once with Cohan himself in the lead role) when this...

Legally Dead

1923

This Universal melodrama took the "rescuing the hero at the last minute" ploy to ridiculous extremes. Milton Sills has the hapless job of trying to make his character --...

Miss Crusoe

1919

Surprisingly, there's nary a shipwrecked castaway in sight in Miss Crusoe. The title character, played by Virigina Hammond, is a young miss vacationing on a Chesapeake Bay...

Just for Tonight

1918

Just for Tonight is one of the few films in which the butler really did do it. "It" is the theft of several valuable jewels, a robbery for which Lucy Fox is unjustly...

Peck's Bad Girl

1918

It seems like Goldwyn advertised every picture starring Mabel Normand by crowing that she had returned to the slapstick persona that made her a popular Keystone star....

Doing Their Bit

1918

"Doing Their Bit" was a 1918 code phrase for giving one's heart and soul to the War Effort. Jane and Katherine Lee, a popular kiddie sibling duo known as the "two little imps",...

The Rainbow Princess

1916

Hope (Ann Pennington) has an act in a traveling circus where she is "the rainbow princess" and performs a Hula dance. The owner of the circus pawns the girl off on Judge...