John S. Robertson Movies

A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

Genre: Horror

Cast: John Barrymore

The Misleading Widow is a 1919 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke as Betty Taradine. It was based on the 1917 stage play Billeted by F....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billie Burke

Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley Temple

Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mary Pickford

A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lars Hanson

Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gilbert

Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mitzi Green

A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greta Garbo

The eldest daughter of a poor preacher, Penelope Penn leaves her country home to seek her fortune in the big city.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Constance Binney

An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.

Genre: Romance

Cast: May Robson

The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Otto Kruger

A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Dix

A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Arnold

"Bilge" Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seamstress in a small harbor who has never had a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Charming melodrama by the Vitagraph Company about the friendship between a boy (Bobby Connelly) and the grumpy Captain Barnacle(William Shea). This...

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Cast: Jimmy Aubrey

Prudence, a young society woman and aviatrix, is forbidden to continue flying by her fiancé Hewitt and her father. In defiance, she stages her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billie Burke

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Boyd

During World War I, the beautiful and patriotic Leslie Selden is courted by two ardent admirers: Jack Wynn, a young man not yet taken by the draft,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Corinne Griffith

During World War I, the beautiful and patriotic Leslie Selden is courted by two ardent admirers: Jack Wynn, a young man not yet taken by the draft,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Corinne Griffith

Barnabetta Dreary's grim life of slaving for her Pennsylvania Dutch father Barnaby and her two brothers, is surprisingly changed when Barnaby marries...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Constance Binney

Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joseph Schildkraut

In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement's...

Genre: War

Cast: Laura La Plante

When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his freedom.

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Powell

The beautiful Serafina is captured by Balthasar's pirates on an island near Cuba, but the redoubtable José Armando arrives from Spain to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramon Novarro

Although loved by a respectable doctor, a society-girl is fascinated by a prince and follows him to Rome. When he reveals himself in his true...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Brady

Several young couples have gathered at a vacation home in the mountains. The group of friends go climbing, but Phyllis Ashbrook and John Manning...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billie Burke

A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

Duncan, the son of a village postmaster, is in love with Sylvia, daughter of a rich and snobbish family. He enrolls at West Point but ends up having...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Barton

Little Miss Hoover is a 1918 American silent romantic drama film directed by John S. Robertson and stars Marguerite Clark. The film is based on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marguerite Clark

Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Nolan

Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return. Grizel is ostracized by the other children of the town....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gareth Hughes

A young husband is left at home looking after a new baby when his wife leaves him to return to her career as a dancer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Exotic Russian actress Lisa Parsinova tires of her glamorous life on the New York stage and returns, under her actual identity as Lizzie Parsons, to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsie Ferguson

Madge Kennedy plays a young bride whose husband walks out after a quarrel. Hoping to make him come crawling back, Kennedy pretends to have given...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madge Kennedy

Directed by John S. Robertson. With Evelyn Brent, Robert Ames, Ivan Linow, Josephine Dunn.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Evelyn Brent

Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Nolan

Twenty-One is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson and starring Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill and Joe King.

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Cast: Richard Barthelmess

While traveling to meet her sweetheart, Richard Carr, in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Bonaluria, Peggy Dare's train compartment door is thrust...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peggy Hyland