The best Edward Dillon’s movies

Edward Dillon

Edward Dillon

01/01/1879- 11/07/1933
Today we present the best Edward Dillon’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 Edward Dillon’s movies.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
7.7/10
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 08/02/1929
  • Character: Dillon - Stage Manager (uncredited)
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognises that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

Enoch Arden

Enoch Arden
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/06/1911
Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it to say that this Biograph subject is an unusually faithful portrayal of that beautiful romance of Enoch Arden, Annie Lee and Philip Ray, taken in scenes of rare beauty".

While Paris Sleeps

While Paris Sleeps
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/05/1932
  • Character: Concierge's Husband
To save his daughter Manon (Helen Mack) from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard (Victor McLaglen) escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.

Lilac Time

Lilac Time
6.5/10
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.

The Lonedale Operator

The Lonedale Operator
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 23/03/1911
  • Character: The Telegrapher
A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery.

Sunshine Sue

Sunshine Sue
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/11/1910
  • Character: Tom, Sunshine's Suitor
A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.

Iron Man

Iron Man
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/04/1931
  • Character: Jeff
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.

The Making of a Man

The Making of a Man
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/10/1911
  • Character: An Usher / At Dance
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home...

The Usurer

The Usurer
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/08/1910
  • Character: Bill Collector
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.

Sob Sister

Sob Sister
7.2/10
  • Release: 25/10/1931
  • Character: Pat
Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.

Home, Sweet Home

Home, Sweet Home
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/05/1914
  • Character: The Musician
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.

The Little Tease

The Little Tease
6/10
  • Release: 12/04/1913
  • Character: In Lunchroom
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home. But that was before the man from the valley lost his way and later found it back again, bearing away the little tease to the valley. While she suffered the qualms of broken faith, her father passed through a like struggle, for he felt the precepts of the "beloved book" had failed him. He closed the door of his cabin upon the world and the light from his window, lighting the wayfarer over the mountain path, disappeared. The struggle over, it came hack in its place in time to beckon the little tease as she left the valley behind.

Fisher Folks

Fisher Folks
4.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/02/1911
  • Character: At Fair
A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.

The Miser's Heart

The Miser's Heart
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/11/1911
  • Character: Jules, an Impoverished Thief
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who lives in his building.

Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff
4.6/10
  • Release: 21/03/1912
  • Character: Party Guest

A Flash of Light

A Flash of Light
5.6/10
  • Release: 17/07/1910
  • Character: At First Party
An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist so she has her younger sister take her place.

The Fugitive

The Fugitive
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 07/11/1910
  • Character: John, Confederate son
Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the Union soldier shoots the Confederate, but he has to escape and look for refuge in the house of his enemy.

Where the Breakers Roar

Where the Breakers Roar
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/09/1908
  • Character: Policeman
Mack Sennett appears as a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

The Sculptor's Nightmare

The Sculptor's Nightmare
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/05/1908
At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken to jail. There he has a nightmare, wherein three busts are created and animated from clay (through stop-motion photography) in the likenesses of Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republicans Charles W. Fairbanks and William Howard Taft. Finally an animated bust of Roosevelt appears.

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