Edmund Elton

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Hall
CAST:  Robert Montgomery  •  Claude Rains  •  Evelyn Keyes  •  James Gleason

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Hall
CAST:  Robert Montgomery  •  Claude Rains  •  Evelyn Keyes  •  James Gleason

Remember the Night (1940)

When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mitchell Leisen
CAST:  Barbara Stanwyck  •  Fred MacMurray  •  Beulah Bondi  •  Elizabeth Patterson

When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mitchell Leisen
CAST:  Barbara Stanwyck  •  Fred MacMurray  •  Beulah Bondi  •  Elizabeth Patterson

The Return of Frank James (1940)

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fritz Lang
CAST:  Henry Fonda  •  Gene Tierney  •  Jackie Cooper  •  Henry Hull

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fritz Lang
CAST:  Henry Fonda  •  Gene Tierney  •  Jackie Cooper  •  Henry Hull

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Cromwell
CAST:  Raymond Massey  •  Gene Lockhart  •  Ruth Gordon  •  Mary Howard

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Cromwell
CAST:  Raymond Massey  •  Gene Lockhart  •  Ruth Gordon  •  Mary Howard

Brigham Young (1940)

Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Hathaway
CAST:  Tyrone Power  •  Linda Darnell  •  Dean Jagger  •  Brian Donlevy

Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Hathaway
CAST:  Tyrone Power  •  Linda Darnell  •  Dean Jagger  •  Brian Donlevy

Back in the Saddle (1941)

Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lew Landers
CAST:  Gene Autry  •  Smiley Burnette  •  Mary Lee  •  Julie Bishop

Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lew Landers
CAST:  Gene Autry  •  Smiley Burnette  •  Mary Lee  •  Julie Bishop

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Irving Cummings
CAST:  Don Ameche  •  Loretta Young  •  Henry Fonda  •  Charles Coburn

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Irving Cummings
CAST:  Don Ameche  •  Loretta Young  •  Henry Fonda  •  Charles Coburn

How've You Bean? (1933)

Roscoe gets into a lot of wacky troubles, some involving a misplaced box of Mexican Jumping Beans.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred J. Goulding
CAST:  Roscoe Arbuckle  •  Mildred Van Dorn  •  Fritz Hubert  •  Jean Hubert

Roscoe gets into a lot of wacky troubles, some involving a misplaced box of Mexican Jumping Beans.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred J. Goulding
CAST:  Roscoe Arbuckle  •  Mildred Van Dorn  •  Fritz Hubert  •  Jean Hubert

Should a Girl Marry? (1939)

A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lambert Hillyer
CAST:  Anne Nagel  •  Warren Hull  •  Mayo Methot  •  Weldon Heyburn

A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lambert Hillyer
CAST:  Anne Nagel  •  Warren Hull  •  Mayo Methot  •  Weldon Heyburn

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1919)

The intrepid reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille becomes involved in the investigation of a hideous crime committed in a room painted yellow, whose door was locked from the inside…  (more)

DIRECTION:  Émile Chautard
CAST:  William Walcott  •  Edmund Elton  •  George Cowl  •  Ethel Grey Terry

The intrepid reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille becomes involved in the investigation of a hideous crime committed in a room painted yellow, whose door was locked from the inside…  (more)

DIRECTION:  Émile Chautard
CAST:  William Walcott  •  Edmund Elton  •  George Cowl  •  Ethel Grey Terry

Romeo and Juliet (1916)

Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families, and how the sins of the fathers bring disaster to their children.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis X. Bushman  •  John W. Noble
CAST:  Francis X. Bushman  •  Beverly Bayne  •  Horace Vinton  •  John Davidson

Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families, and how the sins of the fathers bring disaster to their children.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis X. Bushman  •  John W. Noble
CAST:  Francis X. Bushman  •  Beverly Bayne  •  Horace Vinton  •  John Davidson

In the Diplomatic Service (1916)

Foreign powers keep getting their hands on U.S. military secrets, so the head of the American diplomatic corps calls in his nephew Dick Stansbury to help. Stansbury knows that Doctor Montell is at the bottom of this, so he poses as an inventor of an innovative ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis X. Bushman
CAST:  Francis X. Bushman  •  Beverly Bayne  •  Helen Dunbar  •  Henri Bergman

Foreign powers keep getting their hands on U.S. military secrets, so the head of the American diplomatic corps calls in his nephew Dick Stansbury to help. Stansbury knows that Doctor Montell is at the bottom of this, so he poses as an inventor of an innovative ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis X. Bushman
CAST:  Francis X. Bushman  •  Beverly Bayne  •  Helen Dunbar  •  Henri Bergman