The best Lloyd Hughes’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Lloyd Hughes’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 Lloyd Hughes.
The Lost World
7/10
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Sailors' Wives
4.6/10
Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a sightless bride. When Hughes catches up with her and demands an explanation, Astor pretends to have fallen out of love with him and further convinces him that she has turned into a shameless hussy.
Hell Bound
6.5/10
Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.
Numbered Woman
5.5/10
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves.
The Sea Hawk
7.1/10
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
The Drums of Jeopardy
5.5/10
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
Forever After
6.2/10
A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with. The BFI holds multiple prints and negatives, including a complete transfer to acetate safety film made in 1979.
Hello Sister
6.8/10
Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
Pals First
Beau Revel
5/10
"Beau" Revel, "An Ince-Vance Special Paramount Picture," was introduced with the subtitle, "This is the story of a man who played at love, forgetting in his vain selfishness, the rules of Duty, even Decency—conceitedly 'wasting his manhood in a game unworthy of man.'" That is a precise definition of Lewis Stone as the title character, first shown having his nails trimmed, his shoes shined, and receiving a shave. His latest fancy is Alice (Kathleen Kirkham), a woman whose husband's drunkenness has given Beau an opening.
Harmony Lane
5.8/10
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
Moby Dick
5.6/10
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
Acquitted
A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
Night Cargo
5.9/10
While in Singapore, a man and a pretty young girl find themselves mixed up in blackmail and murder.
The Huntress
A 1923 film directed by John Francis Dillon and Lynn Reynolds.
Valencia
"Felipe, a sailor falls madly in love with Valencia, a Spanish dancing girl, who is sought after by Don Fernando, the governor. When Felipe deserts his ship, the Don throws him in prison, but Valencia obtains his release and shares his disgrace and exile." Moving Picture World, 8 Jan 1927, p. 144. MGM holds a copy according to the American Silent Feature Film Survival Database.
American Beauty
7/10
American Beauty (1927)
Scars of Jealousy
Scars of Jealousy is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lloyd Hughes and Frank Keenan. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and distributed through Associated First National, later First National.
Where East Is East
6.6/10
A Chinese wife returns to the American family she left and moves in on her daughter's (Lupe Velez) beau (Lloyd Hughes).
Old Wives for New
6.2/10
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife in favor of Juliet Raeburn but, when Juliet's name is involved in murder, he marries Viola and takes her to Paris.
