The best Phillips Smalley’s movies

Phillips Smalley

Phillips Smalley

07/08/1875- 02/05/1939
Today we present the best Phillips Smalley’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 Phillips Smalley’s movies.
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Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow
8.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/05/1937
  • Character: Business Man (uncredited)
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?

Midnight Mary

Midnight Mary
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 30/06/1933
  • Character: Defense Attorney (uncredited)
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
8.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/11/1927
  • Character: Head Waiter (uncredited)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Double Door

Double Door
6.8/10
Based on a 1933 stage production billed as “The Play That Made Broadway Gasp,” it features an over-the-top performance by Mary Morris (repeating her stage role) as a domineering money-bags whose suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother (Kent Taylor) brings a new bride (Venable) home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

Chained

Chained
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 31/08/1934
  • Character: S.S. Official (uncredited)
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.

Liliom

Liliom
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/10/1930
  • Character: Dr. Reich
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.

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
5.8/10
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

The Greeks Had a Word for Them
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/02/1932
  • Character: Justin Emery
Sophisticated comedy: a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a different personality type, from sensitive, to kind-hearted, to difficult and untrustworthy. Set in the age of jazz, the twenties come roaring back with immorality and in-fighting.

Daybreak

Daybreak
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/05/1931
  • Character: Gambler
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

Disgraced!

Disgraced!
6.9/10
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.

Start Cheering

Start Cheering
6/10
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

Desirable

Desirable
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/09/1934
  • Character: Sugar Daddy in Theatre
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

The Thirteenth Guest

The Thirteenth Guest
5.7/10
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.

Stage Mother

Stage Mother
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/09/1933
  • Character: Music Store Manager
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.

Murders in the Zoo

Murders in the Zoo
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeHorror
  • Release: 31/03/1933
  • Character: Banquet Guest (Uncredited)
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.

Money Talks

Money Talks
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/05/1926
  • Character: J.B. Perkins
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury yacht and is wooed by the captain, Sam comes aboard as a woman and tries to seduce the captain (in fact, a liquor smuggler), away from his wife.

Idle Wives

Idle Wives
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/09/1916
  • Character: John Wall
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.

The Country Doctor

The Country Doctor
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/03/1936
  • Character: Man on Dais (uncredited)
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

Slightly Married

Slightly Married
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/10/1932
  • Character: Mr. Walter Martin
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for vagrancy. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.

A Feather in Her Hat

A Feather in Her Hat
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/10/1935
  • Character: Man (uncredited)
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.

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