The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Read More »
Tag Archives: George Bancroft
Scandal Sheet (1931) John Cromwell
The ruthless editor of a sensationalistic newspaper is devoted to printing Read More »
White Gold (1927) William K. Howard, Jetta Goudal, Kenneth Thomson, George Bancroft
A beautiful young Mexican girl marries an Arizona sheep rancher and returns Read More »
Little Men (1940) Norman Z. McLeod, Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. Read More »
Derelict (1930) Rowland V. Lee, Louis J. Gasnier, George Bancroft, Jessie Royce Landis, William ‘Stage’ Boyd
Adventure follows a ship on its watery course between Latin America and the United States. Read More »
Underworld (1927) Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson, George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
‘Nobody helps me — I help them!’ boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed Read More »
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life – including playing the tuba in the town band. Read More »
The Docks of New York (1928) Josef von Sternberg, George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova
Bill Roberts works as a stoker on a coal-red barge. It’s dirty, hard work and the men have to put up with a foreman, Andy Read More »
Young Tom Edison (1940) Norman Taurog, Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft
Inventor Thomas Edison’s boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. Read More »
Blood Money (1933) Rowland Brown, George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Frances Dee
Bill Bailey is a Los Angeles bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. Read More »