Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl 1919  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Broken Blossoms
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard, Edward Peil Sr., George Beranger, Norman Selby, Wilbur Higby, Moon Kwan, George Nichols
In this D.W. Griffith silent classic, Lillian Gish plays the undernourished, abused daughter of a brutal prizefighter, Battling Burrows (Donald Crisp). When she passes out in front of a shop owned by a newly arrived Chinaman (Richard Barthelmess), he takes her in and attempts to protect her from her father. He had also loved her from afar before rescuing her. Alas, her father finds out where she is hiding.
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Cabin in the Cotton 1932  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Jordan, Bette Davis, Henry B. Walthall, Berton Churchill, Hardie Albright, Tully Marshall, Clarence Muse, Dorothy Peterson, Edmund Breese, David Landau, Russell Simpson
A rich landowner, Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess), befriends one of his sharecroppers and teaches her to read. Then he learns of evil deeds performed by BOTH sharecroppers and land owners and is forced to reckon with problems inherent in his economic class-system.
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 The Dawn Patrol 1930 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Flight Commander
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton, William Janney, James Finlayson, Clyde Cook, Edmund Breon, Frank McHugh
British World War I aviators are enthralled with the romance of their missions. However, as talk turns into reality, the danger loses its romantic quality. In Director Howard Hawks' first talkie, he presents some dramatic aerial scenes. John Monk Saunders won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Story).
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Four Hours to Kill 1935 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Helen Mack, Gertrude Michael, Dorothy Tree, Roscoe Karns, Ray Milland, Henry Travers, Paul Harvey, Noel Madison
A murderer eludes his guard and escapes into a theater where the lives of those in attendance are affected by the danger of his presence.
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Heroes for Sale 1933  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Gordon Westcott, Robert Barrat, Grant Mitchell, Charley Grapewin, Douglass Dumbrille, Ward Bond, Frank Darien, Berton Churchill, Robert McWade, G. Pat Collins, Margaret Seddon, Arthur Vinton
As the country heads for the Great Depression in 1929, Tom and Ruth Holmes (Richard Barthelmess and Loretta Young) manage to cope with Tom's morphine addiction that he got while recuperating from an injury suffered during World War I. Tom is treated and released from an asylum and finds work at a laundry. He becomes friends with Max Brinker (Robert Barrat) who has invented a washing machine, and they form a partnership. Later, the machines put Tom and his coworkers out of business, which results in a riot during which Ruth is killed. By story's end, Tom has donated his fortune from the washing machine business to Mary (Aline MacMahon) so that she can feed the hungry during the Depression, and Tom is out roaming the streets looking for a job.
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The Man Who Talked Too Much 1940 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Richard Barthelmess, William Lundigan, George Tobias, Marc Lawrence, John Litel, Henry Armetta, Alan Baxter
Great courtroom drama prevails in this film pitting two brothers–the District Attorney (George Brent) and the Defense Attorney (William Lundigan)–as adversaries working on the same case. This is a remake of "The Mouthpiece" and was again remade as "Illegal."
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Only Angels Have Wings 1939  N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Noah Beery Jr., Sig Ruman, Allyn Joslyn, Don "Red" Barry, Victor Kilian
This is the story of American pilots delivering mail in South America. They encounter danger as well as love while sharing loyalty to each other and their missions.
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The Spoilers 1942 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Romance
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay, Harry Carey, Richard Barthelmess, George Cleveland, Samuel S. Hinds, Russell Simpson, William Farnum, Marietta Canty, Jack Norton, Forrest Taylor, Ray Bennett, Art Miles
This is a good retelling of Rex Beach's novel, "The Spoilers." Roy Glennister (John Wayne) arrives in Alaska with Helen Chester (Margaret Lindsay) and is greeted by saloon owner Cherry Malotte (Marlene Dietrich) who has staked Flapjack (Russell Simpson) as a partner in Glennister's mine. Problems rise to the fore when the gold commissioner, Alexander McNamara (Randolph Scott), conspires to take over the rights to the mines in the area. A legal fight appears to be impossible, and the result is a bar-room brawl in which Glennister and McNamara fight for the rights to the mine.
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Way Down East 1920 N/R, 145 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman, Burr McIntosh, Creighton Hale, Kate Bruce, Mary Hay, Emily Fitzroy, Porter Strong, George Neville, Edgar Nelson, Norma Shearer, Vivia Ogden, Josephine Bernard, Mrs. Morgan Belmont
Poor country girl Anna Moore (Lillian Gish) leaves her home in Maine and visits Boston where she is tricked into a sham marriage to Lenox Sanderson (Lowell Sherman). After Anna becomes pregnant, Lenox leaves her, she gives birth, and the baby dies. Anna finds shelter at Squire Bartlett's (Burr McIntosh) estate and falls in love with his son David (Richard Barthelmess). When the Squire, who is a religious zealot, learns about Anna's background, he is furious and orders her out of the house and into a fierce snowstorm. David searches for Anna, finds her being swept down the river on an ice floe, saves her life, and asks her to marry him.
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| 1. Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
aka: Broken Blossoms
2. Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
3. The Dawn Patrol (1930)
aka: Flight Commander
4. The Finger Points (1931)
5. Four Hours to Kill (1935)
6. The Great Chase (1963)
7. Heroes for Sale (1933)
8. The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
9. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
10. The Spoilers (1942)
11. Way Down East (1920)
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