The best Allan Forrest’s drama movies

Allan Forrest

Allan Forrest

01/09/1885- 25/07/1941
Today we present the best Allan Forrest’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Allan Forrest’s movies.
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Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/01/1926
  • Character: Neil Heffner
When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to find work as a fashion designer, staying with Mrs. Kemp, a woman she meets on the northbound train. In Mrs. Kemp's house, Barbara encounters Peter Heffner, a wealthy stockbroker, and discovers from him that she has taken up residence in a whorehouse. There is a police raid, but Barbara escapes arrest and returns home. Heffner's son, Neil, goes south to inspect some family property and there meets Barbara, with whom he falls in love. They decide to be married, and she accompanies him to New York, where she meets the elder Heffner for a second time. He denounces her as a whore, but Barbara goes to Mrs. Kemp, who explains the misunderstanding to everyone's satisfaction.

Rose of the World

Rose of the World
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/11/1925
Rose of the World is a 1925 American silent melodrama directed by Harry Beaumont, which stars Patsy Ruth Miller, Allan Forrest, and Pauline Garon.

Cheated Love

Cheated Love
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/05/1921
Sonya Schnoema, a Jewish girl, comes to the United States as an immigrant and works in her father's ghetto grocery store, where she gains the affections of a young settlement worker, David Dahlman. But she loves Mischa, a young doctor who soon arrives from Odessa, and to aid him financially, she distinguishes herself in the local Yiddish theater.

Tillie

Tillie
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/01/1922
  • Character: Jack Fairchild
Tillie Getz (Minter), the eldest daughter of Jacob Getz (Beery), a brutal, driving father, lives in a Pennsylvania Mennonite village. Her Mennonite aunt leaves a will by the terms of which Tillie will inherit a small fortune if she has joined the Mennonite church by age eighteen. A plot is hatched by the lawyer (Cooper) who drew up the will and an attempt is made to force Tillie into a marriage with Absalom Puntz (Anderson), an undesirable young man, sharing her fortune being its end.

Pampered Youth

Pampered Youth
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/02/1925
  • Character: Eugene Morgan
An silent adaptation of Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons."

Long Live the King

Long Live the King
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/11/1923
  • Character: Nikky
A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?

Discord and Harmony

Discord and Harmony
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/03/1914
  • Character: The Artist
Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing at the grand opera house the members of the colony turn out en masse. Too poor for orchestra seats, they gather in the gallery around the old composer. The old composer is happy almost to tears, and when the last note has died away there is a cry for the composer. Felix attempts to utter a few words of thanks, but is smothered with flowers. At his studio his friends have prepared for his welcome, and it is upon his arrival there that be feels the happiness which comes of success. However, at the other end of the hall another different drama is being enacted. A girl sits beside her stricken mother, and as the merriment in the studio reaches its height, the soul of the mother departs from the body.

The Master Key

The Master Key
5.7/10
A movie serial from 1914

The Siren Of Seville

The Siren Of Seville

Old Clothes

Old Clothes
2.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/11/1925
  • Character: Nathan Burke
Timothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets a job in Nathan's office and falls in love with him, but his mother feels she is beneath Nathan. Nathan faces disaster unless he can corner a particular stock, with which Timothy and Max's room happens to be entirely papered. —Ed Stephan

The Ghost of Rosy Taylor

The Ghost of Rosy Taylor
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/07/1918
  • Character: Jacques Le Clerc
George Periolat plays a dual role in this film, initially as Joseph Sayles a sickly old man who has taken his daughter, Rhoda (played by Mary Miles Minter), overseas after a quarrel with his family. She yearns to return home, but he has disowned his past. After his death, Rhoda ventures to America on her own. She nearly becomes destitute for a lack of money but happens upon some questionable fortune as she takes on the chores of Rosy Taylor after inadvertently finding an envelope with money in it. Rosy had been hired as a housekeeper (thus the money), but has passed away before actually showing up for employment.

The Little Sister

The Little Sister
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/09/1914
  • Character: The Crook
The brother, a ne'er-do-well, is strongly influenced by the crook, who in turn has designs on Little Sister who works in a factory.

The Great Air Robbery

The Great Air Robbery
3.2/10
A daredevil flyer delivers the night mail despite threats from weather and robbers.

Beauty and the Rogue

Beauty and the Rogue
Humanitarian Roberta induces her father to hire former convict, Bill, as his gardener. When she leaves on vacation, Bill steals her jewelry and eventually sells a brooch to her boyfriend, Richard, who unknowingly gives it to her as a present.

The Desert Bride

The Desert Bride
4.4/10
Captain Maurice de Florimont (Allan Forrest), a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval (Betty Compson) is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali (Otto Matiesen), leader of the Arab nationalists, but they refuse to divulge any information. They are finally rescued by French troops who storm the fortress and kill Kassim.

Li Ting Lang

Li Ting Lang
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/07/1920

The Heart Specialist

The Heart Specialist
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/04/1922
  • Character: Bob Stratton
Because he believes that romance is dead, the city editor wants to can the "advice to the lovelorn" column. Rosalie Beckwith, the column's author, naturally disagrees with him. The editor suggests that she prove him wrong by seeing if she can find romance within a 40-mile radius of the city.

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