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Tag Archives: Cecil B. DeMille
The Woman God Forgot (1917) Cecil B. DeMille, Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth

Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. Read More »
Union Pacific (1939) Cecil B. DeMille, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. Read More »
Reap the Wild Wind (1942) Cecil B. DeMille, Ray Milland

Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. Read More »
Manslaughter (1922) Cecil B. DeMille, Leatrice Joy, Thomas Meighan, Lois Wilson

Lydia Thorne, a wealthy girl who loves speed and thrills, is unsympathetic when Evans Read More »
The Plainsman (1936) Cecil B. DeMille

With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means 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 »
Male and Female (1919) Cecil B. DeMille, Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton

Lord Brockelhurst, his unwilling betrothed Lady Mary, his butler Crichton Read More »
Unconquered (1947) Cecil B. DeMille, Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva

In 1763, felon Abby Hale is sentenced to slavery in America. 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 »
Dynamite (1929) Cecil B. DeMille, Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. Read More »
The Squaw Man (1931) Cecil B. DeMille, Warner Baxter, Lupe Velez, Eleanor Boardman

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion Read More »
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 »