The best James Neill’s drama movies

James Neill

James Neill

29/09/1860- 16/03/1931
We present our ranking of the best James Neill’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about James Neill.
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The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/11/1923
  • Character: Aaron - Brother of Moses: Prologue
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.

The King of Kings

The King of Kings
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 19/04/1927
  • Character: James - Brother of John
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.

The Cheat

The Cheat
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/12/1915
  • Character: Jones
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

Joan the Woman

Joan the Woman
6.4/10
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.

Any Woman

Any Woman
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/05/1925
  • Character: William Linden
When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has lost all his money. She must get a job to help support the family, and goes to work as a secretary in the brokerage firm of Phillips and Rand. Both partners find themselves attracted to her, but each has a different approach: Phillipls takes the rough, aggressive route and Rand does the opposite, complimenting and flattering her at every opportunity. However, she falls in love with Tom Galloway, a young inventor who has come up with a new type of soft drink, "Here's How". in which Ellen attempts to interest the brokers. Phillips, however, doesn't take rejection lightly and schemes to break up Ellen and Galloway using his unwitting partner.

Maria Rosa

Maria Rosa
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/05/1916
  • Character: The Priest
Ramon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fisherman Pedro, so Andreas goes to jail for ten years. Maria will wait for him, but Ramon convinces her Andreas dies in prison so she agrees to marry him. On their wedding day Ramon is paroled. Maria then stabs Ramon.

The Little American

The Little American
6.3/10
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

Richelieu

Richelieu
Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews. A lost film.

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
8.6/10
Directed by Wallace Worsley.

The World's Applause

The World's Applause
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/01/1923
  • Character: Valet to Elliott
Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted artist Robert Townsend (Menjou). Robert is married to Elsa (Williams), the sister of John Elliott (Stone), the producer responsible for Corinne's rise to fame. The young woman's head is turned by the praise she receives and, despite John's warning against Robert, she permits the latter to paint her portrait and pay her a good deal of attention. John himself loves Corinne and believes that wisdom will come to her with time.

The Ragamuffin

The Ragamuffin
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/01/1916
  • Character: A Broker
In planning to break into the house of the wealthy Bob Van Dyke, Jenny's stepfather decides that his stepdaughter should do most of the dirty work, and Jenny, not wanting to disappoint him, grudgingly agrees. As soon as she enters the house, Bob catches her, but then goes back to his bedroom after making her give her word not to take anything. Jenny breaks her promise...

Her Kingdom of Dreams

Her Kingdom of Dreams
A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.

We Can't Have Everything

We Can't Have Everything
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/07/1918
  • Character: Detective
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.

The Thrill Chaser

The Thrill Chaser
5.5/10
In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills and is engaged to go to Arabia, where he becomes involved in warring and falls in love with a beautiful princess.

The Woman

The Woman
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/08/1915
William C. DeMille adapted his screenplay for The Woman on the stage play by DeMille's father Henry and David Belasco. The story is set in Washington D.C., courtesy of the Lasky Studio's scenic department. Lois Meredith plays the title character, a woman of questionable morals currently involved with young politician James Neill. Political boss Theodore Roberts hopes to ruin Neill by making public the young man's romantic entanglements.

Discord and Harmony

Discord and Harmony
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/03/1914
  • Character: The Symphony Conductor
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.

Forbidden Paths

Forbidden Paths
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/07/1917

The Dream Girl

The Dream Girl
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/07/1916
  • Character: Benjamin Merton
The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports "English" Hal in scheme to blackmail a wealthy girl. Meg is put on probation to Benjamin Merton, father of the girl to be blackmailed. When she discovers her father's plan she reveals all, risking expulsion from her new home and the company of its very attractive son Tom.

The Lash

The Lash
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1916
  • Character: John Du Val
A silent drama film directed by James Young

The Widow's Might

The Widow's Might
Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. When the novelty has worn off he decided there is monotony as well. Then he falls in love with a girl on a calendar, and life takes on a new interest, particularly after he discovers who the girl is. The fact that her uncle swindled him on the ranch does not matter. He figures he can take care of the uncle, and he does, but not until he has been forced to masquerade as a woman, and have half the men at a fashionable resort fall in love with him.

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