The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Read More »
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Numbered Men (1930) Mervyn LeRoy, Bernice Claire, Conrad Nagel, Raymond Hackett
Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo Read More »
Stage Struck (1948) William Nigh, Kane Richmond, Audrey Long, Conrad Nagel
The police find the body of hostess Helen Howard (Wanda McKay), disposed of by petty racketeer Nick Mantee (Kane Richmond) Read More »
The Mysterious Lady (1928) Fred Niblo, Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz
In Vienna, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Captain Karl von Raden and his partner Captain Max Heinrich learn in the box office Read More »
Hell Divers (1931) George W. Hill, Clark Gable, Wallace Beery, Conrad Nagel
Clark Gable takes off in his first starring role, a high-flying action-adventure costarring Wallace Beery and directed by George Hill (Tell It to the Marines). Read More »
The Ship from Shanghai (1930) Charles Brabin, Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Carmel Myers, Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
A yachting party of rich socialites sailing from Shanghai falls into the hand of a mutineering crew Read More »
Ann Vickers (1933) John Cromwell, Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Drama, Romance
During WWI, Ann Vickers, a humanitarian who is just starting the adult phase of her life Read More »
The Reckless Hour (1931) John Francis Dillon, Dorothy Mackaill, Conrad Nagel, H.B. Warner, Drama, Romance
In New York City, a young model is swept off her feet by a debonair, handsome young man. Unfortunately for her, he didn’t want to get married but had been stringing her along. Read More »
The Kiss (1929) Jacques Feyder, Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf, Romance, Drama
Irene is unhappily married to an older businessman, but very much in love with a handsome young lawyer. Read More »
Hidden Fear (1957) André De Toth, John Payne, Alexander Knox, Conrad Nagel, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
American policeman Mike Brent (John Payne) arrives in Denmark to help clear his sister of a murder rap in which her partner/boyfriend has been killed Read More »
Love Takes Flight (1937) Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot, Beatrice Roberts, John Sheehan, Adventure, Drama, Romance
On a transcontinental flight from New York City to Los Angeles, Joan Lawson, the flight hostess, attracts the attention of a move producer, Dave Miller Read More »
Three Who Loved (1931) George Archainbaud, Betty Compson, Conrad Nagel, Robert Ames, Drama
John Hanson (Conrad Nagel) is a bank teller and invests in stocks. He and his best friend (another bank teller) Phil Wilson (Robert Ames) live at a boarding house run by his Swedish fiance’s aunt, Mrs. Larson (Bodil Rosing). Read More »
Divorce in the Family (1932) Charles Reisner, Jackie Cooper, Conrad Nagel, Lewis Stone, Drama, Romance
Divorced Ethnologist John Parker loves his two boys, Al and Terry, and misses them terribly when they have to leave his archaeological dig at the end of the summer. Read More »
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) Charles Reisner, Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Musical
Conrad Nagel, representing the Hollywood movie community, and Jack Benny, representing the Broadway stage community, act as the interlocutors of a musical comedy revue. Read More »
Kongo (1932) William J. Cowen, Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel, Drama, Horror
This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a living god. He rules the local natives through superstition and stage magic and he rules the few white people through sadism, keeping them virtual prisoners. He lives for the day he can avenge himself horribly on the man who stole his wife and crushed his spine. Strong and macabre stuff in a nearly forgotten horror film.
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