The Jones family, about to prove claim to prime Montana land, is raided by renegade Indians in league with villainous neighbor McCord, who gets most of the stolen cattle. Two survivors are helped by college-educated chief's son Colorados. Now Sierra Nevada Jones must fight for her land against l...
The Human Comedy is a 1943 American drama film directed by Clarence Brown and adapted by Howard Estabrook. It is often thought to be based on the William Saroyan novel of the same name, but Saroyan actually wrote the screenplay first, was fired from the movie project, and quickly wrote the novel ...
David Copperfield is a 1935 American film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer based upon the Charles Dickens novel The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger. A number of characters and incidents from the novel were omitted - notably David's time at S...
A Bill of Divorcement describes a day in the lives of a middle-aged British woman named Margaret "Meg" Fairfield (Burke); her daughter Sydney (Hepburn); Sydney's fiancé Kit Humphreys (Manners); Meg's fiancé Gray Meredith (Cavanagh); and Meg's husband Hilary (Barrymore), who escapes after spending...
Young and ambitious Yancy Cravat (Richard Dix) moves his wife Sabra (Irene Dunne) and their family from Wichita, Kansas to Oklahoma territory, which the U.S. government has just opened up for settlement. Cravat is a hard-driving lawyer and newspaper editor who quickly becomes a leading citizen of...
Roy (James Hall) and Monte Rutledge (Ben Lyon) are very different British brothers. Strait-laced Roy loves and idealizes the apparently demure Helen (Jean Harlow). Monte, on the other hand, is a womanizer. Their German friend and fellow Oxford student Karl (John Darrow) is aghast at the idea of h...
Giving Becky a Chance is a 1917 American drama silent film directed by Howard Estabrook, and written by Lois Zellner and Edith Kennedy. The film stars Vivian Martin, Jack Holt, Jack Richardson, Pietro Sosso and Alice Knowland.
