Movies & TV Shows/Series by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation at a glance

50 movies found (page 1/2):

Wings(1927)

PG-13

| 2h 21min | Drama, Action, War, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 108 votes)

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them, pines away.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast - With Gary Cooper, Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles Rogers, Richard Tucker, Henry B. Walthall, ...

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Nevada(1927)

| 1h 8min | Western

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A once notorious gunfighter takes a respectable job on a ranch. "Nevada" is charged with protecting the ranch owner's pretty daughter, arousing the enmity of ranch foreman Clan Dillon, who is in love with the girl. The villainous foreman leaks a rumor of his rival's dark past to the sheriff, and the former outlaw is soon on the run again.

Directed by John Waters - With Gary Cooper, Thelma Todd, William Powell, Guy Oliver, Ernie Adams

The Wedding March(1928)

1h 53min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.

Directed by Erich von Stroheim - With Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, George Fawcett, George Nichols, ZaSu Pitts, Maude George, ...

Forgotten Faces(1928)

| 1h 20min | Drama

A petty thief (Clive Brook) just robs the very rich at speakeasies, and gets away with it because the rich don't want the bad publicity, finally is caught and sent to Sing Sing. After good behavior, he gets an emergency permission for a return home, so that he may save his daughter from the hands of her disreputable mother (Baclanova). However, he must first promise not to kill his wife while he is out of prison.

Directed by Victor Schertzinger - With Clive Brook, Mary Brian, Olga Baclanova, William Powell

The First Kiss(1928)

1h 1min | Drama

The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash.".

Directed by Rowland V. Lee - With Fay Wray, Gary Cooper, Lane Chandler, Leslie Fenton, Paul Fix

The Woman on Trial(1927)

1h | Drama

A story of a woman who committed a murder.

Directed by Mauritz Stiller - With Pola Negri, Einar Hanson, Arnold Kent, Valentina Zimina

Moran of the Marines(1928)

1h 10min | Romance / Love

Adventures of a marine in China.

Directed by Frank R. Strayer - With Richard Dix, E. H. Calvert, Joyzelle Joyner, Jean Harlow

The Water Hole(1928)

| 1h 10min | Western

Judith Endicott, the daughter of a wealthy eastern banker, vamps Philip Randolph, an Arizonan, when he comes east to talk business with her father. Philip proposes and discovers that Judith has only been kidding him along. He returns angrily to Arizona, and the elder Endicott, accompanied by his daughter, follows him west. With her father's permission, Richard "kidnaps" Judith and takes her to a deserted Indian cliff dwelling, where she must cook and care for him. Bert Durland, Judith's fiancé, follows after her, and his Indian guide steals all of the horses. Judith and Bert and Philip start back to civilization across the desert, and Bert goes berserk from the heat. They are rescued by cowboys, and Judith returns east, "kidnaping" Philip and taking him with her.

Directed by F. Richard Jones - With Jack Holt, Nancy Carroll, John Boles, C. Montague Shaw, Jack Perrin

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes(1928)

1h 15min | Comedy

Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.

Directed by Malcolm St. Clair - With Ruth Taylor, Alice White, Ford Sterling, Holmes Herbert

Rough House Rosie(1927)

1h 6min | Comedy

A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.

Directed by Frank R. Strayer - With Clara Bow, Reed Howes, Arthur Housman, Doris Hill, Henry Kolker

Under the Tonto Rim(1928)

50min | Western

Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who after a poker game was shot by a gambler "who shuffles with one hand." The real murderer, Sam Spralls, has convinced Watson that he killed Denmeade and threatens to expose him unless Watson assigns him all the gold claims. Spralls assembles a band of killers to jump the claims when Watson complies. Eventually, Denmeade learns the identity of the killer when he sees Spralls shuffle a deck of cards. He forms a vigilante party and rids the community of Spralls and his gang.

Directed by Herman C. Raymaker

Loves of an Actress(1928)

1h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love

Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval....

Directed by Rowland V. Lee - With Pola Negri, Nils Asther, Mary McAllister, Richard Tucker, Paul Lukas, Nigel De Brulier, ...

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Figures Don't Lie(1927)

1h | Comedy, Romance / Love

Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the title by donning a fetching one-piece bathing suit. The main story concerns wise-guy insurance salesman Richard Arlen, who through a combination of hard work and sheer gall lands a job as sales manager. But he can't land heroine Ralston, who has remained cool to his charms ever since he tried to make a play for her on the street.

Directed by A. Edward Sutherland - With Esther Ralston

Three Sinners(1928)

1h 8min | Drama

A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.

Directed by Rowland V. Lee - With Pola Negri, Warner Baxter, Paul Lukas, Tullio Carminati, Olga Baclanova, Delmer Daves, ...

The Gay Defender(1927)

1h 10min | Drama, Western, Romance / Love

Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt politicians out of Spanish California.

Directed by Gregory La Cava - With Richard Dix

Abie's Irish Rose(1928)

2h 9min | Drama, Comedy

When a Catholic and a Jew wed they find themselves disowned by both of their families.

Directed by Victor Fleming - With Charles Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Jean Hersholt, J. Farrell MacDonald

One Woman to Another(1927)

50min | Comedy

One Woman to Another (1927)

Directed by Frank Tuttle - With Florence Vidor

The Sunset Legion(1928)

1h 10min | Western

The citizens and near-by ranchers of a western town are being besieged by a gang of rustlers and robbers, and a plea is made to the governor to send a troop of rangers. Shortly, thereafter a dude-costumed cowboy shows up but he only asks a lot of dumb questions and does a lot of stick-whittling as he wanders the streets and hangs out in the saloon with the regular barflies. The citizens mark him down as being 'tetched in the head.' Also, shortly after the whittler arrives, a mysterious black-masked rider begins to make life a bit tougher on them than it had been.

Directed by Lloyd Ingraham - With Edna Murphy, Fred Thomson, Harry Woods

She's a Sheik(1927)

1h | Romance / Love, Adventure, Drama

The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.

Directed by Clarence G. Badger - With Bebe Daniels

Easy Come, Easy Go(1928)

1h | Romance / Love, Comedy, Crime

Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets slip a few (fortuitously unheard) profanities. Fired from his job, Parker enters into an amusing series of misadventures with veteran bank robber Jim Bailey (Charles Sellon).

Directed by Frank Tuttle - With Richard Dix

The Vanishing Pioneer(1928)

| 1h | Western

A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through the encroachments of nearby townspeople.

Directed by John Waters - With Jack Holt

Manhattan Cocktail(1928)

| 1h 12min | Drama

Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with her campus chums Fred (Richard Arlen) and Bob (Danny O'Shea), likewise aspiring thespians, Babes heads to Broadway with stars in her eyes. The winsome threesome are quickly disillusioned by the heartless machinations of nasty producer Renov (Paul Lukas) and his harridan wife (Lilyan Tashman). Before the plot proper gets under way, the audience is regaled with a cute "mythological" prologue, featuring the same three leading actors. Manhattan Cocktail was a silent picture, except for two brief musical numbers showcasing Nancy Carroll.

Directed by Dorothy Arzner - With Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Lilyan Tashman, Paul Lukas, Danny O'Shea

Shanghai Bound(1927)

1h | Adventure

Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all white men.

Directed by Luther Reed - With Richard Dix

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness(1927)

| 1h 9min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama

3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.

Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

His Private Life(1928)

| 50min | Comedy, Romance / Love

Story of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American tourist. He does everything he can to seduce her, but he will only find romance when he does so on her terms!

Directed by Frank Tuttle - With Adolphe Menjou

The Rough Riders(1927)

2h 17min | War, Action, Drama

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.

Directed by Victor Fleming - With Charles Farrell, George Bancroft, Mary Astor, Charles Emmett Mack, Noah Beery, Sr., Fred Kohler, ...

Time to Love(1927)

50min | Romance / Love, Drama, Comedy

Alfred Sava-Goiu, who, after being dumped by his sweetheart, philosophically decides to end it all by jumping into the Seine. Instead, he lands in a passing boat owned by the Countess Elvire. Falling in love with his savior, Alfred returns the compliment by rescuing the Countess from a precipitous waterfall.

Directed by Frank Tuttle

The World At Her Feet(1927)

In a reversal of the usual situation, it is the wife, not the husband, who is the neglectful one. As hubby sits at home twiddling his thumbs, Jane starts her own prosperous business, becoming so absorbed that she has no time for anything else. Not unexpectedly, her husband begins keeping time with a gorgeous blonde, whereupon Jane wins back her mate by simultaneously inaugurating an affair with the blonde's husband.

Directed by Luther Reed - With Florence Vidor, Richard Tucker, David Torrence

Love and Learn(1928)

1h | Comedy

In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' reputation. At the risk of her own good name, Nancy decides to turn the tables on the crooked politicos by framing Cowles' opponent in a compromising situation. Things don't go quite as planned.

Directed by Frank Tuttle - With Esther Ralston

Get Your Man(1927)

1h | Drama, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.

Directed by Dorothy Arzner - With Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn, Harvey Clark, Frances Raymond, ...

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