Charles Giblyn Movies
Actor/director Charles Giblyn was a mainstay of the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company from 1914 onward. One of Giblyn's more ambitious efforts was the four-part, twelve-reel The Adventures of Francois Villon; the first chapter, The Oubliette, featured a young Lon Chaney. Giblyn added screenwriting to his accomplishments with 1917's Scandal. After helming such... (read more) jazz-age efforts as The Adventurous Sex (1925) and Ladies Beware (1927), Giblyn returned to his theatrical roots as an actor. Charles Giblyn played character parts in such talkies as Mysterious Fu Manchu (1929) and Prosperity (1932). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
This Side of Heaven
1934
This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre. Lionel Barrymore plays an accountant, who's also the head of a...
What! No Beer?
1933
In this comedy, Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton, Jr.) come up with a scheme to start up a beer brewery with the hope that Prohibition will soon...
Maid to Order
1932
In this comedy-mystery, an ex-vaudevillian becomes an amateur sleuth and begins helping the police locate an international ring of smugglers who have been sneaking diamonds into...
Prosperity
1932
Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) is the matriarch of a banking family who has run the Warren Bank for years, until she turns it over to her son John (Norman Foster) to run,...
Night World
1932
Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat less-than-swank) nightclub owned by good-natured racketeer...
Five and Ten
1931
Based on a story by Fannie Hurst, Five and Ten stars Marion Davies as Jennifer, the spoiled daughter of department-store magnate John Rarick (Richard Bennett)....
Playboy of Paris
1930
In this sparkling musical comedy, a bungling waiter (Maurice Chevalier) loses his job at a tony restaurant. His employment prospects look grim until the opportunistic...
Only Saps Work
1930
Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a...
Party Girl
1930
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. made his talkie debut in the low-budget but imaginative "exploitationer" Party Girl. Fairbanks plays carefree young bachelor Jay Roundtree, the son...
Woman Trap
1929
Although Broadway star Hal Skelly never quite made it in films, it wasn't for lack of trying. In Woman Trap, Skelly is cast against type as hard-bitten police sergeant Dan...
The Mysterious Doctor Fu Manchu
1929
Warner Oland makes the first of four screen appearances as Sax Rohmer's insidious oriental Dr. Fu Manchu.The film makes an effort to explain Fu's hatred of all whites by...
Wright Idea
1928
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The Noose
1928
The Noose was based on a story by H. H. Van Loan -- or rather, the play adapted from that story by Willard Mack. Cheap crook Nickie Elkins (Richard Barthelmess) is the...
Ladies Beware
1927
George O'Hara was never a big star, but he was a good, reliable "bread-and-butter" performer for small but wiry FBO Pictures. The story takes place at a country estate,...
Her Wild Oat
1927
In the tradition of Colleen Moore's best films, Her Wild Oat is nowhere near as "naughty" as its title. Moore is cast as Mary Brown, the orphaned owner of a tiny lunch...
The Adventurous Sex
1925
This overwrought program drama was given a racy title to promote the up-and-coming Clara Bow, but all it really did for her career was keep her face in the public eye....
The Price of a Party
1924
Grace Barrow (Hope Hampton) has become a cabaret dancer in New York, and when she hears her ailing mother needs money, she accepts an offer from Kenneth Bellwood (Arthur...
Leavenworth Case
1923
One morning Ira Leavenworth (William Walcott) doesn't appear for breakfast so his two nieces, Eleanor (Seena Owen) and Mary (Martha Mansfield), and his secretary,...
Loyal Lives
1923
This drama glorified the lowly postman, which probably warmed the heart of Will H. Hays, the head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association -- he was a...
Mountain Woman
1921
Although the star's heyday as a serial queen had passed, this Pearl White feature certainly had its share of thrills. Alexander McGivens (White) was raised like a boy by her...