Herbert Brenon Movies

An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

Song and Dance Man was based on the play of the same name by George M. Cohan. Tom Moore plays vaudevillian Happy Farrell, who gives up show biz to...

The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position,...

When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.

Hester Prynne has left Holland in advance of her husband, Roger, to join the colonists in Salem, Maxx. Roger follows her to the new world but upon...

Elizabeth West, a young woman who is both a thief and a con artist and allied with a gang of crooks, is freed when a jury does not convict her on a...

A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.

Assuming that he has killed the husband of the woman he also loves, Judson Clark flees through a blizzard to a lonely cabin, where he nearly dies....

To a rooming house which has fallen on hard times comes The Stranger, an unknown but gentle man who is given the back room on the third floor. His...

A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.

Lummox is a 1930 American Pre-Code sound film directed by Herbert Brenon, released through United Artists, and based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst....

Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.

An unfaithful husband and his daughter go on nightly club outings, leaving the mother at home. The mother rebels against her lonesome life and...

The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a...

A depiction of German airships attacking Great Britain.

Two professors who hire a sailor to lead them on a treasure hunt, and they soon find themselves in a dangerous situation involving pirates. The...

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.

Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through...

A silent film about the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, whose life intertwines with a young woman, Anna Damby, and Countess Koefeld. Kean,...

A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.