9 Movies Starring Wallace Beery

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1920-11-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

73 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (773 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

James Fenimore Cooper (novel)

Robert Dillon (scenario)

Fullplot:

As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.

Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1922-10-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

143 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (1460 Reviews)

Director:

Allan Dwan

Cast:

Writer:

Douglas Fairbanks (story)

Fullplot:

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, and Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swash buckling feats and cliffhanging perils!

Three Ages

Three Ages

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1923-09-24

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

63 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (2628 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Clyde Bruckman (story)

Joseph A. Mitchell (story)

Jean C. Havez (story)

Fullplot:

In his first independently produced feature film Buster tells of love and romance through three historical ages: the Stone Age, the Roman Age, and the Modern Age.

The Lost World

The Lost World

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1925-06-22

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (3154 Reviews)

Director:

Harry O. Hoyt

Cast:

Writer:

Arthur Conan Doyle (based upon the novel by)

Marion Fairfax (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a diary given to him by fellow explorer Maple White's daughter, Paula. Malone's paper funds an expedition to rescue Maple White, who has been marooned at the top of a high plateau. Joined by renowned hunter John Roxton, and others, the group goes to South America, where they do indeed find a plateau inhabited by pre-historic creatures, one of which they even manage to bring back to London with them.

The Big House

The Big House

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1930-06-14

Languages:

English, Russian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

87 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1161 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Frances Marion (story)

Joseph Farnham (additional dialogue)

Martin Flavin (additional dialogue)

Fullplot:

After a manslaughter conviction from drunk driving, nice but foolish Kent is sent to a prison over-crowded and unable to properly deal with it's inmates. There he meets veteran criminals like Morgan and his hardened pal Butch. And the system punishes them all, turning them against each other and bringing out the worst.

The Champ

The Champ

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1931-11-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

86 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (1926 Reviews)

Director:

King Vidor

Cast:

Writer:

Frances Marion (story)

Leonard Praskins (dialogue continuity)

Wanda Tuchock (additional dialogue)

Fullplot:

Dink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy "Champ" Purcell, despite his frequent binges, his frequent gambling and their squalid living conditions. And there's nothing Andy wouldn't do for Dink. When Andy wins a race horse gambling, he gives it to Dink and they race it at a Tijuana track. There, Dink meets Linda Carleton, a race horse owner herself, and they have an immediate rapport. But Linda's rich husband sees Andy and realizes Dink is Linda's son, who she gave up when she and Andy divorced. Andy is bribed $200 to allow Dink to visit with Linda, but refuses to allow Dink to spend six months with the Carletons. When Andy loses the horse gambling and winds up in jail after a drunken tirade, he realizes Dink's place is with his mother. Dink tearfully goes but sneaks out and returns at his first opportunity, filling a depressed Andy with a desire to make good. So Andy goes into training after his managers arrange a boxing match with the Mexican champion.

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1932-09-11

Languages:

English, Russian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (12001 Reviews)

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Vicki Baum (by)

William Absalom Drake (play)

Fullplot:

Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's mistress, Flaemmchen, but she doesn't end up with either one of them in the end...

Viva Villa!

Viva Villa!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1934-04-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

115 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (781 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Ben Hecht (screen play)

Edgecumb Pinchon (suggested by the book by)

O.B. Stade (suggested by the book by)

Fullplot:

In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death. In 1910, he befriends American reporter Johnny Sykes. Then a meeting with visionary Francisco Madero transforms Villa from an avenging bandit to a revolutionary general. To the tune of 'La Cucaracha,' his armies sweep Mexico. After victory, Villa's bandit-like disregard for human life forces Madero to exile him. But Madero's fall brings Villa back to raise the people against a new tyrant...

China Seas

China Seas

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1935-08-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

87 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

(1518 Reviews)

Director:

Tay Garnett

Cast:

Writer:

Jules Furthman (screen play)

James Kevin McGuinness (screen play)

Crosbie Garstin (from the book by)

Fullplot:

Dynamic Alan Gaskell captains a ship bound from Hong Kong to Singapore. Gaskell tries to turn over a new leaf from his hard-drinking lifestyle after becoming attached to a refined high class English lady, Sybil Barclay. His former girlfriend Dolly is extremely jealous of the budding relationship and tries hard to get the Captain back. He is apparently unimpressed with her loud, obnoxious, and uncivilized manners, even though she is extremely beautiful. After a temporary take over of the ship by gold-seeking Asian pirates, Captain Gaskell must deal with the fact that Dolly and her drinking pal, Jamesey MacArdle, are implicated in the crime.

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