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10000 Greatest Old Hollywood Lost Films

by jordanhores • Created 9 years ago • Modified 1 year ago
This list of great Old Hollywood movies from early 1930s to silent era currently presumed to be lost. `DesperateDesmondSeries1911
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  • John Wayne in The Oregon Trail (1936)

    1. The Oregon Trail

    193659mApproved
    U.S. Army Captain John Delmont takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father. Later he leads a wagon train to California and goes after the bad guys involved in his father's disappearance.
    DirectorScott PembrokeStarsJohn WayneAnn RutherfordJoseph W. Girard
  • Warner Oland in Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)

    2. Charlie Chan's Courage

    19341h 10mApproved
    7.0 (496)
    Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
    DirectorsEugene FordeGeorge HaddenStarsWarner OlandDrue LeytonDonald Woods
  • Jailbirds of Paradise (1934)

    3. Jailbirds of Paradise

    193418mShort
    7.6 (32)
    Prison inmates stage a musical.
    DirectorAl BoasbergStarsDorothy ApplebyMoe HowardShirley Ross
  • Racetrack (1933)

    4. Racetrack

    19331h 19mPassed
    4.6 (27)
    Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif, Jackie Curtis, and begins to look upon him as the son he never had. But when Jackie's mother appears, Joe has a hard decision to make.
    DirectorJames CruzeStarsLeo CarrilloFrank Coghlan Jr.Kay Hammond
  • Mary Astor, Joan Blondell, Ruth Donnelly, Patricia Ellis, Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Adolphe Menjou, and Dick Powell in Convention City (1933)

    5. Convention City

    19331h 9mPassed
    6.9 (108)
    At the convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City, the convention attendees are mainly concerned with drinking and sex.
    DirectorArchie MayoStarsJoan BlondellAdolphe MenjouDick Powell
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  • Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933)

    6. Charlie Chan's Greatest Case

    19331h 10m
    6.9 (437)
    When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch.
    DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsWarner OlandHeather AngelRoger Imhof
  • George Archainbaud, Samuel Bischoff, Phillips Holmes, George E. Stone, and Fay Wray in The Big Brain (1933)

    7. The Big Brain

    19331h 12mPassed
    5.3 (38)
    The story of a ruthless small time crook's rise from lowly barber shop backroom bookie to high stakes international swindler. Max Werner (Stone) goes from the gambling to crooked stocks and bond dealing,getting ever richer. Dodging the law, he flees to England where he follows through with more stock chicanery, setting up phony companies. After a newspaper exposes one of his associates, he double crosses another to take his girlfriend back to America, where a trap awaits him.
    DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsGeorge E. StonePhillips HolmesFay Wray
  • Olive Borden in Hotel Variety (1933)

    8. Hotel Variety

    19331h 5mPassed
    6.4 (21)
    The title refers to a New York City boarding house for vaudeville performers, none of whom have any steady work including a divorced dancer, Hal Skelly, who has custody of his young son, Jackie Jordan. Olive Borden, is a nightclub dancer who witnesses a murder and takes refuge in the boarding house. Skelly and Borden fall in love while the former tries to keep his ex-wife from taking custody of their son, and Borden is hoping the killer doesn't catch up to her.
    DirectorRaymond CannonStarsHal SkellyOlive BordenCharlotte Walker
  • William Collier Jr. and Joan Marsh in Speed Demon (1932)

    9. Speed Demon

    19321h 9mPassed
    5.3 (24)
    A mechanic works for his sweetheart's father, who builds racing boats. He begs for and gets the chance to race a new-design boat, but his rival gets him intoxicated before the race and he wrecks the boat. Now he has to make good and show he has the right stuff.
    DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsWilliam Collier Jr.Joan MarshWheeler Oakman
  • Ace of Spades (1931)

    10. Ace of Spades

    19317mShort
    7.9 (42)
    Card sharp Bimbo competes in a heated poker tournament to buy himself a ticket for the sunny South.
    DirectorsDave FleischerRudy Zamora
  • Sidney Blackmer, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, and Lila Lee in Woman Hungry (1931)

    11. Woman Hungry

    19311h 5mPassed
    Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl. The three other men involved in the fight, Geoffrey Bland, Joao and Kempen, force their way into Judith's room and throw dice to see which one will win her. She begs Bland to save her, so he pays one man off and beats up the other one. Taking Judith away with him, he marries her against her will. Judith helps him build a new home in the mountains but refuses to live with him. Bland has fallen in love with her and reluctantly agrees to her terms. Ore is found on Bland's land, and while he is away arranging financing for a mine, Judith goes into town to sell some mats she has woven. She runs into her brother, his wife and Cranford there. Returning home, she pretends in front of her friends that everything is fine in her marriage. Later, however, she tries to buy her freedom from Bland with nuggets she purchased from Joao. Since she is pregnant, Bland agrees to send her back East with her brother. After the birth of the baby, Judith's mental state is so strange that her mother sends for Bland. She refuses to see him and tells her mother the story of her marriage. After hearing it, her brother threatens Bland, but Judith realizes that she has grown to love Bland and returns with him to Arizona.
    DirectorClarence G. BadgerStarsSidney BlackmerLila LeeRaymond Hatton
  • John Darrow and Rochelle Hudson in Fanny Foley Herself (1931)

    12. Fanny Foley Herself

    19311h 15m
    6.9 (21)
    DirectorMelville W. BrownStarsEdna May OliverHobart BosworthFlorence Roberts
  • Doris Kenyon and Lewis Stone in The Bargain (1931)

    13. The Bargain

    19311h 8m
    5.9 (52)
    DirectorRobert MiltonStarsLewis StoneEvalyn KnappCharles Butterworth
  • Yola d'Avril, Thomas E. Jackson, Marian Nixon, Paul Page, and Clara Kimball Young in Women Go on Forever (1931)

    14. Women Go on Forever

    19311h 4mPassed
    Daisy Bowman runs a boarding house in New York City and becomes romantically involved with new boarder Jake. Among the other boarders are shopgirl Betty and her taxi-driver fiance Eddie. Eddie is framed for murder by a gangster and sent to prison. He keeps the fact of his arrest secret from Betty, who believes he has left her. Jake makes a play for Betty, which makes Daisy jealous. Jake and Daisy quarrel and he is about to strangle her when her young blind son shoots and kills him. Pete, another gangster, gets Betty drunk. He wants to spend the night with her and, when Daisy tries to prevent him, he threatens to tell the police who really killed Jake. Meanwhile, Eddie has been released from jail, and when he returns to find Betty drunk with Pete, he is disgusted. Jake's brother, thinking that Eddie murdered Jake, tries to shoot him, but Daisy tells him that Pete killed his brother. The brother kills Pete, then dies shortly afterward of a wound inflicted by Pete. With her son in the clear, Daisy helps Eddie and Betty reunite.
    DirectorWalter LangStarsClara Kimball YoungMarian NixonPaul Page
  • Leon Janney, Irene Rich, and Lewis Stone in Father's Son (1931)

    15. Father's Son

    19311h 16mPassed
    6.5 (16)
    Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions. Finally Bill can take no more of his father's excessive punishments and runs away. Complications ensue.
    DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsLeon JanneyLewis StoneIrene Rich
  • Sally Blane, Jeanette MacDonald, Victor McLaglen, and Roland Young in Annabelle's Affairs (1931)

    16. Annabelle's Affairs

    19311h 16mApproved
    6.7 (40)
    After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks in a mining enterprise by her husband and told not to part with them. Annabelle, an extravagant spender, is forced to give the stocks to her husband's millionaire rival. Hearing that her husband is returning home, Annabelle poses as a cook at her husband's rival's home. Her husband arrives but is unrecognizable to Annabelle. He's now working as a captain for his rival. Annabelle finds herself falling for this mysterious captain.
    DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsVictor McLaglenJeanette MacDonaldRoland Young
  • Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)

    17. Charlie Chan Carries On

    19311h 16m
    6.7 (557)
    Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu, and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking.
    DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsWarner OlandJohn GarrickMarguerite Churchill
  • Mary Astor in White Shoulders (1931)

    18. White Shoulders

    19311h 20mPassed
    6.0 (20)
    After years of wilderness living, multi-millionaire Gordon Kent, who has made his fortune as a mining engineer, returns to New York City for good times and "white shoulders." There he meets penniless showgirl Norma Selbee and, intoxicated by her beauty, proposes marriage the same night. Confident that she will fall in love with him in time, Norma accepts Gordon's impetuous proposal, and the couple marries. While on her European honeymoon, however, Norma grows weary of Gordon's displays of generosity and adoration and secretly curses him for not trying to win her love. Then, in France, Norma runs into Lawrence Marchmont, an old friend, who uses his skills as a womanizer to seduce the newlywed. Driven to hysterics by Gordon's uncontrolled affection, Norma denounces her husband for never trying to romance her and locks herself in her bedroom. Although Gordon breaks down the door and enters Norma's room, she leaves for Paris with Marchmont the next day. Heartbroken and angry, Gordon follows the couple to Paris and swears to them that if they ever separate he will send both of them to jail. Gordon then reveals that he has discovered that Norma's first husband, Jim Selbee, never officially divorced her and that Marchmont, whose real name is Tommy Pierce, is a wanted embezzler and swindler. To keep his vow, Gordon hires private detectives to shadow the couple after they return to New York. There Norma soon sees that Gordon was correct about Marchmont when she is forced to resume her showgirl career to support him and his drinking habit. Although Norma grows to hate Marchmont, Gordon forces his rival to remain with her, even after he tries to flee with her jewels. Eventually Norma is confronted by Selbee and, to protect Gordon from his blackmail, agrees to return to her first marriage. While Norma discusses the matter with Gordon, Selbee shows up at the Kent estate and finds a drunken Marchmont there. Together Selbee and Marchmont plot to steal Norma's jewels, but as Selbee is opening Gordon's safe, Marchmont shoots and kills him. After Marchmont is apprehended by the police, Gordon finds Norma and begs her to forgive him. Although Norma at first refuses to reconcile with her husband, her roommate tells Gordon that, in spite of her words, Norma truly loves him. Thus discovered, Norma finally admits her love and reunites with her husband.
    DirectorMelville W. BrownStarsMary AstorJack HoltRicardo Cortez
  • Juliette Compton, Rose Hobart, and Ben Lyon in Compromised (1931)

    19. Compromised

    19311h 5m
    6.2 (22)
    Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.
    DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsRose HobartBen LyonFlorence Britton
  • Billie Dove and Charles Starrett in The Age for Love (1931)

    20. The Age for Love

    19311h 21mPassed
    6.5 (43)
    A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.
    DirectorFrank LloydStarsBillie DoveCharles StarrettLois Wilson
  • Shanghaied Love (1931)

    21. Shanghaied Love

    19311h 15mPassed
    7.0 (22)
    Captain Angus Swope (Noab Beery), known as The Black Yankee, skipper of the Golden Bough, treats his crew shamefully and he treats women no better, as evidenced by his handling of a woman he has abducted, together with her baby daughter, Mary (Sally Blaine), from seaman Newman (Willard Robertson). When the woman dies as a result of his cruelty, he brings up Mary as his own daughter.
    DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsRichard CromwellSally BlaneNoah Beery
  • Honor of the Family (1931)

    22. Honor of the Family

    19311h 6mPassed
    6.1 (23)
    Honor of the Family is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film released by First National Pictures (a subsidiary of Warner Bros.), starring Bebe Daniels and Warren William. It was based on the play by Emil Fabre, from the Honoré de Balzac novel, La Rabouilleuse. This was the talkie debut for Warren William who would become one of the major stars for Warner Brothers over the next five years. It also marked Dita Parlo's first English-speaking role.
    DirectorLloyd BaconStarsBebe DanielsWarren WilliamAlan Mowbray
  • Jack Mulhall in In the Next Room (1930)

    23. In the Next Room

    19301h 9m
    DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsJane WintonCrauford KentEdward Earle
  • The Big Fight (1930)

    24. The Big Fight

    19301h 5mPassed
    5.4 (39)
    Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other boxing films in which the Champ gets involved in a frame-up and is asked to take a dive.
    DirectorWalter LangStarsLola LaneRalph InceGuinn 'Big Boy' Williams
  • 25. Terry of the 'Times'

    19303h 20mPassed
    Terry Macy (Reed Howes), the son of a newspaper's founder, is assigned to investigate a mysterious warning signed '30' (newspaper term for 'The End)that has been sent to a local politician. Terry is captured at a clandestine meeting of the 'Mystic Medicants", an outlaw band, where he overhears the plans of a plot to kill his uncle, Robert Macy, publisher of the newspaper. Terry must also, according to his father's will, get married within a short period of time is he is to inherit the newspaper.
    DirectorRobert F. HillStarsReed HowesLotus ThompsonSheldon Lewis

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