A Desperate Adventure (1924)
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Director : J.P. McGowan
Sinopsis
A Desperate Adventure is a 1924 silent film western directed by J. P. McGowan and starring Franklyn Farnum.
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.
A cowboy and a wild horse find they have some things in common: both have enemies out to get them and both must save their mates from danger.
After Wes Channing's partner, the feckless Buck Littleton, loses his half-interest in their ranch to gambler Flash Denby, Wes stands up against the sheriff's men when they try to seize the ranch-- land that has a gold mine on it. Denby tries to trick Mary Sims, granddaughter of Wes's neighbor Rufe Sims, into signing over the rights to the land. Denby's machinations are all set in order-- but Wes's right hook may prove to be a hell of a monkey wrench!
The daughter of man who owns a South Seas pearl business falls in love with a wealthy traveler. Her father dies, leaving her the business. A greedy ship captain schemes to take the business from her.
The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.
A young Texan known as "Hurricane Hal," saves Bill Adams from Mexican bandits. In gratitude, Adams gives Hal a job on his ranch
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
A miner has struck it rich and gives some ore to cowhand Jess Dean to take to his granddaughter. But Horse Williams has the miner shot and uses the ore found on Jess to accuse him of the murder. Jess escapes from the mob of townspeople who later learn that the body of the supposedly dead miner has mysteriously disappeared.
An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman's daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her.
Basado en el cuento de hadas de Charles Perrault: Cenicienta es maltratada por su madrastra y hermanastras, pero consigue ir al baile de palacio, gracias a la ayuda de su Hada Madrina.
En la República de Utopía, ante la grave crisis económica que atenaza el país, los judíos son señalados como los únicos culpables de la grave situación económica y social que afecta a los ciudadanos y se decide expulsarlos del país. Entre los expulsados está Leo Strakosch, prometido de la hija del consejero del gobierno Linder, el cual entrará de forma clandestina en la República para demostrarle a la sociedad de lo erróneo de tal situación y de sus prejuicios antisemitas.
A wicked king has taken over the Emerald City, and wants his daughter, Princess Gloria to marry the horrid courtier Googly-Goo, though she loves Pon, the Gardener's Boy. The camera follows two farmers placing a Scarecrow upon a pole in a cornfield. Pon rescues a Kansas girl named Dorothy from the evil witch Mombi, whom Princess Gloria has been taken to by King Krewl to freeze her heart so she will no longer love Pon. An Indian princess has a ceremony to bring the Scarecrow to life. Pon rescues the cold-hearted princess and they flee for help, discovering the Scarecrow, who promptly falls in love with the princess, and Button-Bright, a lost boy from America. They come to the castle of the Tin Emperor, Nick Chopper, and after oiling him, he falls in love with Gloria. After a bit of a chase aided by the Sawhorse and the Wizard, Mombi turns Pon into a Kangaroo, and a slough of Fred Woodward's animals battle it out.
Johnny (Marlon Brando) es el carismático líder de un grupo de motoristas pendencieros que llegan a un pequeño pueblo californiano. En medio del alboroto que montan él y sus colegas, Johnny se sentirá atraído por Kathy (Mary Murphy), la hija del sheriff local.
Wadjda es una chica de 10 años que vive en los suburbios de Riad, la capital de Arabia Saudita. Aunque vive en un mundo conservador, Wadjda es divertida, emprendedora y siempre llega al límite entre lo que puede hacer y lo prohibido. Tras una pelea con su amigo Abdullah, un vecino con el que no debería jugar, Wadjda ve una bonita bicicleta en venta. Quiere desesperadamente la bicicleta para poder ganar a Abdullah en una carrera. Sin embargo, la madre de Wadjda no se lo permite por temor a una sociedad que ve las bicicletas como un peligro para la dignidad de una chica.
A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd.
The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines.
Marcia Grey is wrongly convicted on trumped-up evidence of a German. After serving her term, she rebuilds her life and marries well.
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly falls for him. Trouble brews as the local cadre of racist hucksters want the valuable land Van Allen lives on, and will do anything to take it from him.
Raffles is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman." While sailing from India to England accompanied by his friend, Bunny Manners, it is rumored that the infamous cracksman is aboard ship. Raffles warns a lady passenger to keep an eye on her necklace, which is stolen soon afterward. Although a search reveals no evidence, the necklace is returned upon reaching London.