As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Read More »
Tag Archives: Cecil B. DeMille
The Plainsman (1936) Cecil B. DeMille, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison
With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means Read More »
Samson and Delilah (1949) Cecil B. DeMille, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders
Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan Read More »
The Crusades (1935) Cecil B. DeMille, Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith
The Third Crusade as it didn’t happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France Read More »
Four Frightened People (1934) Cecil B. DeMille, Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, Adventure, Drama
Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. Read More »
Unconquered (1947) Cecil B. DeMille, Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, Western
In 1763, felon Abby Hale is sentenced to slavery in America. In Virginia, heroic Capt. Holden buys her, intending to free her Read More »
The Woman God Forgot (1917) Cecil B. DeMille, Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, History, Romance
Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. Read More »
The Affairs of Anatol (1921) Cecil B. DeMille, Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Wanda Hawley, Comedy, Drama
This Day and Age (1933) Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Bickford, Judith Allen, Richard Cromwell, Crime, Drama
Union Pacific (1939) Cecil B. DeMille, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Drama, Western
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. Read More »
Walking Back (1928) Rupert Julian, Cecil B. DeMille, Richard Walling, Sue Carol, Robert Edeson, Drama
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher “borrows” a neighbor’s car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. Read More »
Madam Satan (1930) Cecil B. DeMille, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Musical, Romance, Comedy
Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband. Read More »
The King of Kings (1927) Cecil B. DeMille, H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Biography, Drama, History
Mary Magdalene becomes angry when Judas, now a follower of Jesus, won’t come to her feast. She goes to see Jesus and becomes repentant. Read More »
The Cheat (1915) Cecil B. DeMille, Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean, Drama
Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. Read More »
North West Mounted Police (1940) Cecil B. DeMille, Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (“Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?”, another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. Read More »