The best Lois Wilson’s drama movies

Lois Wilson

Lois Wilson

28/06/1894- 03/03/1988
Today we present the best Lois Wilson’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 Lois Wilson’s movies.
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Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes
7.2/10
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.

Life Returns

Life Returns
3.9/10
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.

The Expert

The Expert
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/03/1932
  • Character: Nettie Minick
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.

New York

New York
4.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/01/1927
New York is a 1927 American drama silent film directed by Luther Reed and written by Barbara Chambers, Becky Gardiner and Forrest Halsey. The film stars Ricardo Cortez, Lois Wilson, Estelle Taylor, William Powell, Norman Trevor and Richard "Skeets" Gallagher. The film was released on January 30, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.

Deluge

Deluge
6.4/10
A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.

Female

Female
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/11/1933
  • Character: Harriet Brown
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.

Laughing at Trouble

Laughing at Trouble
6.7/10
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/11/1926
  • Character: Daisy Buchanan
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.

Bad Little Angel

Bad Little Angel
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/10/1939
  • Character: Mrs. Ellen Creighton
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

Rugged Water

Rugged Water
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/08/1925
  • Character: Norma Bartlett
After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.

Bella Donna

Bella Donna
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 31/03/1923
  • Character: Patricia
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.

Seed

Seed
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/05/1931
  • Character: Peggy Carter
Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is manager of the company's Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her after he divorces Peggy. Initially successful, Bart must turn to writing trash to keep Mildred in money. When he sees how well his four sons and daughter Margaret have grown without his help, he asks Peggy to let them all come live with him and Mildred. Peggy agrees, but the arrival of his beloved children puts Mildred's future in jeopardy. Written by Ed Stephan

No Greater Glory

No Greater Glory
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/03/1934
  • Character: Mother
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

Conquest

Conquest
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/12/1928
  • Character: Diane Holden
Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One of the pilots is injured and the other leaves him to die, so he can have the girl all to himself. However, the injured pilot survives and when he recovers he vows vengeance on the man who left him to die--especially after he finds out that he married the girl they were both after.

Treason

Treason
The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous position. The spy is intercepted and killed by Pettrus Baariot, the telegraph operator, who then succeeds in sending a message that saves the Stratiria forces from defeat. For his heroism, Pettrus is promised a promotion, but after his recovery from his severe wounds, he is humiliated through the treachery of Danick Rysson, a government official who desires to marry Floria Natarre, Pettrus' beloved. Bitter, Pettrus listens to the overtures of one of the enemy and steals the new telegraph code.

The Man Who Fights Alone

The Man Who Fights Alone
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/09/1924
  • Character: Marion
John Marble ( William Farnum ), a construction engineer is stricken by paralysis and begins to envision the growth of love between his wife Marion ( Lois Wilson ) and his best friend, Bob Alten ( Edward Everett Horton ). Bent on suicide, however, the shock of seeing his wife and child endangered on a broken bridge shakes him to recover from his illness and discover that his suspicions were all imaginary. -Written by Pamela Short, from IMDB.com

The Gamblers

The Gamblers
4.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/06/1929
  • Character: Catherine Darwin
Jason Robards Sr. (Carvel Emerson) and George Fawcett (Emerson Jr.) play a father-and-son team of cons, who gamble their firm’s assets. Emerson Jr. is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Attorney handling the case is his former sweetheart, Catherine Darwin's husband. This situation gives the DA an opportunity to prosecute his romantic rival.

Broadway Nights

Broadway Nights
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/05/1927
  • Character: Fanny Franchette
Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producers catch the act and offer Fannie a job on their latest show; however, they have no place for Johnny, so Fannie turns down the offer. (Film considered lost.)

What's Your Hurry?

What's Your Hurry?

Kid Gloves

Kid Gloves
4.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/03/1929
  • Character: Ruth
When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment, and The Kid helps to care for her. John Stone, Ruth's fiance and a bootlegger with a respectable front, finds them together and blackmails The Kid into marrying the girl.

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