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Tag Archives: Cecil B. DeMille
The Captive (1915) Cecil B. DeMille, Blanche Sweet, House Peters, Gerald Ward
With her brother killed Sonya is given Turkish captive Mahmud to do the hard work on the farm. Read More »
Joan the Woman (1916) Cecil B. DeMille, Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth
John Trent, a World War I British officer, finds an ancient sword in his trench bunker just prior Read More »
This Day and Age (1933) Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Bickford, Judith Allen, Richard Cromwell
DeMille returns to the high school milieu of The Godless Girl when that institution was still so fresh Read More »
The Sign of the Cross (1932) Cecil B. DeMille, Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi
After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Read More »
The Virginian (1914) Cecil B. DeMille, Dustin Farnum, Jack W. Johnston, Sydney Deane
Wyoming schoolteacher Molly Wood is attracted to a cowboy known as “The Virginian.” Read More »
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) Cecil B. DeMille, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian Read More »
Why Change Your Wife? (1920) Cecil B. DeMille, Thomas Meighan, Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels
Robert and Beth Gordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Read More »
The Buccaneer (1938) Cecil B. DeMille, Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff
In the War of 1812, the British have sacked Washington and hope to capture New Orleans Read More »
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) Cecil B. DeMille, Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso
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 »
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 »