The best James A. Marcus’s movies

James A. Marcus

James A. Marcus

21/01/1867- 15/10/1937
Today we present the best James A. Marcus’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 James A. Marcus’s movies.
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Scaramouche

Scaramouche
7.1/10
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.

The Texan

The Texan
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/05/1930
  • Character: Sheriff John Brown
The Texan is a 1930 American Western film directed by John Cromwell and starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray. Based on the short story "The Double-Dyed Deceiver" by O. Henry, the film is about a daring bandit called the Llano Kid who shoots a young gambler in self-defense and is forced to hide from the law.

Captain Salvation

Captain Salvation
6.8/10
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.

Beau Brummel

Beau Brummel
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/03/1924
  • Character: Snodgrass the Innkeeper
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.

Liliom

Liliom
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/10/1930
  • Character: Linzman
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.

The Eagle

The Eagle
6.6/10
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.

Adorable

Adorable
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/05/1933
  • Character: Cook General
Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.

Duck Soup

Duck Soup
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/03/1927
  • Character: Colonel Buckshot (uncredited)
Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.

Maid of Salem

Maid of Salem
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/02/1937
  • Character: Sea Captain (Uncredited)
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.

Sadie Thompson

Sadie Thompson
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/01/1928
  • Character: Joe Horn
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 18/10/1930
  • Character: William P. Donovan
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.

The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse
7.2/10
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/09/1921
  • Character: Hobbs
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.

Strawberry Roan

Strawberry Roan
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/10/1933
  • Character: Big Jim Edwards
Ken Maynard stars as a roving cowboy who tells the tale of taming the stallion that inspired the titular poem.

Evangeline

Evangeline
6.8/10
  • Release: 24/08/1929
  • Character: Basil
A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.

Red Morning

Red Morning
5.9/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 14/12/1934
  • Character: The Hotel Keeper
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.

The Lily

The Lily
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/10/1926
  • Character: Emile Plock (as James Marcus)

The Trail Beyond

The Trail Beyond
5.3/10
Rod Drew hunts for a missing girl and finds himself in a fight over a goldmine as well.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/01/1927
  • Character: A Sea Captain
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.

The Regeneration

The Regeneration
6.8/10
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.

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