Charles Sellon Movies

A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lon Chaney

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Temple

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warren William

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ronald Colman

A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bebe Daniels

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bette Davis

A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Farnum

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warren William

A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Quillan

Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clara Bow

A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rudy Vallee

A loud-mouthed lout alienates everyone except his patient wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hal Skelly

Real life rodeo champion Hoot Gibson plays Dan Molloy, an expert rider who wins the big one, the Calgary Stampede. When the father of his new...

Genre: Western

Cast: Hoot Gibson

Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rex Lease

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edna May Oliver

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Spencer Tracy

A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billie Dove

A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of cattle thieves while romancing a pretty young girl.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Frank Fay

Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard Arlen

Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phillips Holmes

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still...

Genre: Western

Cast: William Boyd

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard Dix

When Rin-Tin-Tin's master is found murdered, Rinty is accused of the crime.

Genre: Family

Cast: Rin-Tin-Tin

Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leon Janney

A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Armstrong

Simeon Van Horne is poisoned by Stewart, his lawyer, who hopes to get a part of the estate to be divided between young Peter Van Horne and Dolores,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Anna Q. Nilsson

A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clara Bow

Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce...

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Cast: Jack Oakie

Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marjorie Rambeau

Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milton Sills

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Blondell

More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge...

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Talmadge

Slowly dying of an unspecified illness, wealthy invalid Charles Sellon wants his aide Neil Hamilton to end his suffering. Hamilton won't do it, but...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mae Clarke

John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the...

Genre: Action

Cast: John Wayne

Andy Barden, Edna Jordan, and Dan Murdock are the three claimants to the valuable mine of the late Abner Ferrige. Edna takes possession but Murdock...

Genre: Western

Cast: Hoot Gibson

The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Muni

Rich lout marries for freedom.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Billie Dove

In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that...

Genre: Action

Cast: George Bancroft

Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nancy Carroll

A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nancy Carroll

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Arnold

The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ed Wynn

Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Astor

A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice White

A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her...

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Cast: Loretta Young

An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Morrison

The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Coogan

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bette Davis

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bebe Daniels

At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thomas Meighan

Beautiful Felicity Arden, is forced by a storm to take refuge in Mad Marrat's dwelling on the South Sea Isle.

Genre: Action

Cast: Billie Dove

In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Philbin

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Bow

Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store...

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Cast: Richard Dix

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Blondell

Directed by James Tinling. With Jack Mulhall, Sally Starr, Elliott Nugent, Margaret Livingston.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Mulhall

A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Glenn Hunter

A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eddie Quillan

Happiness Ahead is a persumed lost 1928 silent film drama directed by William A. Seiter and starring Colleen Moore and then husband and wife Edmund...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Colleen Moore

In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charles Sellon).

Genre: Western

Cast: Jack Holt

Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Hughes

Buck is a hard working lumberjack, but likes to have fun. Buck's father is the foreman and wants Buck to take over when he retires. Buck is in love...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: William Boyd

A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for...

Genre: Western

Cast: Hoot Gibson

Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.

Genre: Western

Cast: Bessie Love

A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: H.B. Warner

When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Paul Lukas

Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

The film deals with the Texas Oil Industry. A silent film, it was famously remade in 1940 with sound.

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Cast: Anna Q. Nilsson

A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Francis Lederer