Against the Law 1997  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Jim Wynorski
Cast: Richard Grieco, Nancy Allen, Nick Mancuso, Frank Lloyd, Herb Mitchell, Christopher Pettiet, Tim Colceri, Cole S. McKay, Randy Hall, Steven Ford, Thomas Mikal Ford, Randy Crowder
Gunfighter Rex (Richard Grieco) makes a career of challenging policemen to showdowns in order to gain the reputation as the world's fastest gun. Now he comes across an officer, John Shepard (Nick Mancuso), who has gained attention for gunning down crooks. Rex's reputation would soar if he could get a showdown with Shepard.
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Berkeley Square 1933  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie Taylor, Irene Browne, Beryl Mercer, Lionel Belmore, Alan Mowbray, Samuel S. Hinds, Olaf Hytten, David Torrence
Based on a successful Broadway play, this film represents the first movie in which time travel is featured. Leslie Howard plays the scientist who travels back in time to 1784 London where he enters the body of his ancestor.
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Blood on the Sun 1945 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller / Romance
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Wallace Ford, Rosemary DeCamp, Robert Armstrong, John Emery, Frank Puglia, Philip Ahn, Marvin Miller, Rhys Williams, Porter Hall, John Halloran, Leonard Strong, James Bell, Hugh Beaumont
This film involves the activities of American newspaper reporter Nick Condon (James Cagney) in Tokyo between World War I and World War II. Condon tries to uncover the "Tanaka Plan"–a grand scheme for Japanese world domination. The Japanese police are on Condon's trail, but he gets help from Chinese-American spy Iris (Sylvia Sidney) who sees this as her chance to settle a score with the Japanese High Command.
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Cavalcade 1933 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Ursula Jeans, Herbert Mundin, Una O'Connor, Beryl Mercer, Irene Browne, Frank Lawton, Margaret Lindsay, Billy Bevan
This film, an Oscar winner for Best Picture, is Noel Coward's story of the effects of World War I on the British Marryot family (Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook) over a 30 year period–before, during, and after the war. Frank Lloyd also won an Oscar for Best Director. A third Oscar was received for Art Direction.
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The Divine Lady 1929  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler, Dorothy Cumming, William Conklin, Montagu Love, Helen Jerome Eddy, Julia Swayne Gordon, Michael Vavitch, Evelyn Hall
Amidst exciting sea battles, this film tells the story of the scandalous affair between Lady Hamilton (Corinne Griffith) and Lord Horatio Nelson (Victor Varconi), which leads to her influence providing supplies for Nelson's fleet and, ultimately, the British victory. Frank Lloyd won an Academy Award for Best Director.
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The Howards of Virginia 1940  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Paul Kelly, Richard Carlson, Alan Ladd, Irving Bacon, Elisabeth Risdon, Anne Revere, Peter Cushing
This is the story of how one family endured the American Revolutionary War.
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If I Were King 1938 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee, Ellen Drew, Henry Wilcoxon, Sidney Toler, Paul Harvey, Heather Thatcher, Stanley Ridges, Walter Kingsford
Poet Francois Villon (Ronald Colman) and Louis XI (Basil Rathbone) match wits as Louis grants Villon one week as a grand constable before enacting his sentence of death.
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The Last Command 1955 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt, J. Carrol Naish, Ben Cooper, Virginia Grey, Jim Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Slim Pickens
San Antonio's famous Battle of the Alamo is depicted in this film starring Sterling Hayden as James Bowie, Arthur Hunnicutt as Davy Crockett, and J. Carrol Naish as Santa Anna.
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Madame X 1920 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Pauline Frederick, William Courtleigh, Casson Ferguson, Hardee Kirkland, Lionel Belmore, Alan Roscoe, Maude Louis, John Hohenvest, Correan Kirkham, Sidney Ainsworth, Willard Louis, Cesare Gravina, Maude George
This is one of the best of all versions of "Madame X," the sad story in which the heroine (Pauline Frederick) becomes pregnant and is forced to give up her son. Years later, she returns and kills a man who is intending to blackmail her husband (William Courtleigh). In the subsequent trial, her attorney is her own son (Casson Ferguson)–neither knows of their relationship.
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Maid of Salem 1937 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Louise Dresser, Gale Sondergaard, Beulah Bondi, Bonita Granville, Donald Meek, Harvey Stephens, E.E. Clive, Benny Bartlett, Edward Ellis, Virginia Weidler, Halliwell Hobbes, Pedro de Cordoba, Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Barbara Clark (Claudette Colbert) lives in Salem, Massachusetts, during the "witch trials" of colonial days. When she falls in love with Roger Coverman (Fred MacMurray) who is on the lam from Virginia, her romance causes a scandal. After young Ann Goode (Bonita Granville) pretends to be possessed, she is tried and sentenced to be burned at the stake. Now, Barbara is accused of witchcraft, but Roger arrives in town to save Barbara and Ann, and all ends well.
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Mutiny on the Bounty 1935  N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Donald Crisp, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan, Henry Stephenson, Spring Byington, Ian Wolfe, Mamo Clark, Francis Lister, David Torrence, Percy Waram, DeWitt Jennings
This depiction of the 1787 mutiny aboard H.M.S. Bounty is a classic. The cruel Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton) sails his ship, H.M.S. Bounty, from England to Tahiti where the crew, including Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) and his friend midshipman Byam (Franchot Tone), enjoy the island paradise. While Tahiti was a paradise, life on the Bounty proves anything but, and the overly strict discipline of Bligh becomes so intense that First Mate Fletcher Christian leads the crew in a mutiny and sends Bligh and a few crew members adrift at sea in an open boat. The film received an Academy Award for Best Picture. It also was nominated for seven others–including three for Best Actor (Laughton, Gable, and Tone) and Best Director (Frank Lloyd).
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Oliver Twist 1922 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Jackie Coogan, Gladys Brockwell, Lon Chaney, Lionel Belmore, Esther Ralston, George Siegmann, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Nelson McDowell, Lewis Sargent, Joan Standing, Carl Stockdale, Edouard Trebaol, Taylor Graves, Florence Hale
This is a good rendition of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Performed as a silent movie, it stars Jackie Coogan in the title role of the young pickpocket Oliver Twist and Lon Chaney as his tutor, the devious Fagin.
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Rulers of the Sea 1939 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Margaret Lockwood, Will Fyffe, George Bancroft, Montagu Love, David Torrence, Alan Ladd, Mary Gordon, Vaughan Glaser, Lester Matthews
In this historical drama, John Shaw (Will Fyffe) and David Gillespie (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) search for financial support to produce a steam engine for use on transatlantic voyages that will cut the time at sea in half.
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A Tale of Two Cities 1917 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: William Farnum, Jewel Carmen, Willard Louis, Harry De Vere, Josef Swickard, Herschel Mayall, Charles Clary, Rosita Marstini, Ralph Lewis, William Clifford
In this early film version of Charles Dickens' story of love and death during the era around the French Revolution, William Farnum takes on the roles of aristocrat Charles Darnay and his savior Sydney Carton. Sydney has fallen in love with Lucie Manette (Jewel Carmen), but she marries Charles. Later, after Charles is captured and sentenced to the guillotine, Sydney selflessly plots to take Charles' place and allow him to return to Lucie.
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Wells Fargo 1937 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan, Henry O'Neill, Mary Nash, Ralph Morgan, Johnny Mack Brown, Porter Hall, Robert Cummings, Jack Clark, Clarence Kolb
As the expansion of the country accelerated in the West in the mid-1800s, the need for better communications and flow of goods was evident, and the Wells Fargo company grew to meet those needs. This saga of these times, was presented in periodic episodes. The film was originally 115 minutes long, but most current prints are edited versions.
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| Oscars: Best Director for The Divine Lady (1929), Best Director for Cavalcade (1933) |
1. Against the Law (1997)
2. Berkeley Square (1933)
3. Blood on the Sun (1945)
4. Cavalcade (1933)
5. The Divine Lady (1929)
6. The Howards of Virginia (1940)
7. If I Were King (1938)
8. The Last Command (1955)
9. Madame X (1920)
10. Maid of Salem (1937)
11. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
12. Oliver Twist (1922)
13. Rulers of the Sea (1939)
14. A Tale of Two Cities (1917)
15. Wells Fargo (1937)
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