Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel Read More »
Tag Archives: Charles Brabin
The Great Meadow (1931) Charles Brabin, Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Boardman, Lucille La Verne
In a little Virginia village in 1777, Daniel Boone comes and talks about Kentucky. Read More »
The Ship from Shanghai (1930) Charles Brabin, Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Carmel Myers
A yachting party of rich socialites sailing from Shanghai falls into the hand of a mutineering crew Read More »
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults Read More »
The Beast of the City (1932) Charles Brabin, Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. Read More »
The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933) Charles Brabin, Irene Dunne, Lionel Atwill, Phillips Holmes, Drama, History, Romance
Showgirl Sally meets young playboy Leonard St. John; they fall in love and are secretly married. Read More »
Day of Reckoning (1933) Charles Brabin, Richard Dix, Madge Evans, Conway Tearle, Drama
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. Read More »
Stage Mother (1933) Charles Brabin, Alice Brady, Maureen O’Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Drama, Musical, Romance
A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband’s stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. Read More »
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor, Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan. They have to get there fast, as the evil genius Dr. Fu Manchu is also searching Read More »