Ramon Novarro

Filmmaker Phillip Dye's documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced throughout the years, including The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Ben Hur, The Bible ... In the Beginning and many more titles. With iconic clips, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the likes of Charlton Heston, Peter Ustinov and Virginia Mayo, Dye's film is a celebration of the golden age of epic moviemaking.

Narra las aventuras de una "troupe" teatral que viaja por el salvaje Oeste. (FILMAFFINITY)

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

El doctor Ferguson, un famoso neurocirujano, está de vacaciones con su esposa en un país de América del Sur. Raoul Farrago, el dictador que lo gobierna, los retiene para que el médico lo opere. Los enemigos de la dictadura secuestran a la esposa de Ferguson para que éste se vea obligarlo a cometer un error. Debut de Richard Brooks como director.

Al final de la Guerra Civil, tres soldados confederados escapan de un campo de prisioneros de la Unión en Missouri. No tardaron en caer en manos de los invasores pro-confederados, que les obligan a actuar como "escoltas" para una caravana civil en la que se transporta en secreto oro de la Unión de Santa Fe, Nuevo México, a St. Louis, Missouri. Los tres hombres han de llevar los vagones hacia una trampa en Missouri, pero uno de ellos comienza a tener dudas...

Acusado de robar los 300.000 dólares que custodiaba y que correspondían a la nómina del ejército, el teniente Duke Halliday llega a Veracruz en busca de Jim Fiske, el verdadero culpable del robo. Allí conoce a Joan Graham, la novia desengañada de Fiske, a quién éste, con falsas promesas de matrimonio, le ha robado sus ahorros. Ambos emprenderán una frenética carrera por las carreteras de México, perseguidos por el capitán Blake, que anda tras Halliday.

El tirano Gerardo Machado domina Cuba desde 1925. China, una joven que ha visto cómo asesinaban a su hermano, se une al grupo clandestino al que este pertenecía. Así conoce a Tony Fenner, un americano recién llegado a Cuba para luchar contra el régimen y que planea la construcción de un túnel en La Habana para eliminar a la cúpula política de la isla.

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

A manera de un vasto fresco fidedigno, se recapitula en esta película un importante capítulo de la historia mexicana, que arranca en 1810, con una reunión los conspiradores Hidalgo, Allende, Aldama, Lazo y la Corregidora, Doña Josefa Ortíz de Domínguez, quienes deciden que lo mejor para el país, es la insurrección armada y que el mejor estandarte y representante de este movimiento es la Guadalupana. El Cura Hidalgo repasa ante Allende los antecedentes históricos de México a manera de recapitulación fidedigna, sin olvidar la fábula de cuando la Virgen del Tepeyac se le aparece a Juan Diego con las rosas del milagro. Acto seguido, se inicia la gesta independentista con la Virgen como estandarte.

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... his heirs!

In Sleepytown, cross-eyed Sam Smith and Mary Brown are about to get married. But the scoundrel, Jim Jones, wants Mary for himself. Jim uses a publicity still that Sam sent away for against him to show Sam the cad in the eyes of Mary. Disgraced and without Mary, Sam leaves town and heads for Hollywood to redeem himself. Despite not being typical leading man material, Sam is able to make a success of it in Hollywood, and wants to return to Sleepytown a new man and to get Mary back. But Jim will not give Mary up without a fight, he using any means, including lying, to turn the town, including Mary, against Sam, their newly beloved hometown son. This 1939 version was re-edited from a 1921 film with added sound.

In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have stolen one of his paintings so it can be exhibited.

In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.

In 1935, former Hollywood silent film star Ramón Novarro (of Durango, Mexico) joined the ranks of adventurous Spanish-speaking, risk-taking producers by writing, directing and producing through his R.N.S. Productions this romantic comedy set in Los Angeles. The film, shot in collaboration with members of his extensive family—brothers Antonio (assistant director) and Eduardo Samaniego (art director), sister Carmen Samaniego (actress), and uncle Ramón Guerrero (actor)—centers on the romance of the rich Rosalía (Luana Alcañiz) and the poor Alberto, a swimmer played by real life Argentinian swimmer José A. Caraballo, who, like the character in the film, had competed in the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.

In 1935, former Hollywood silent film star Ramón Novarro (of Durango, Mexico) joined the ranks of adventurous Spanish-speaking, risk-taking producers by writing, directing and producing through his R.N.S. Productions this romantic comedy set in Los Angeles. The film, shot in collaboration with members of his extensive family—brothers Antonio (assistant director) and Eduardo Samaniego (art director), sister Carmen Samaniego (actress), and uncle Ramón Guerrero (actor)—centers on the romance of the rich Rosalía (Luana Alcañiz) and the poor Alberto, a swimmer played by real life Argentinian swimmer José A. Caraballo, who, like the character in the film, had competed in the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.

In 1935, former Hollywood silent film star Ramón Novarro (of Durango, Mexico) joined the ranks of adventurous Spanish-speaking, risk-taking producers by writing, directing and producing through his R.N.S. Productions this romantic comedy set in Los Angeles. The film, shot in collaboration with members of his extensive family—brothers Antonio (assistant director) and Eduardo Samaniego (art director), sister Carmen Samaniego (actress), and uncle Ramón Guerrero (actor)—centers on the romance of the rich Rosalía (Luana Alcañiz) and the poor Alberto, a swimmer played by real life Argentinian swimmer José A. Caraballo, who, like the character in the film, had competed in the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.

Muchacho Sonriente ha sido criado a la manera tradicional de los navajos y no tiene contacto con la civilización; en agudo contraste Muchacha Esbelta, educada en la ciudad, no es bien vista por los navajos por el tipo de vida que lleva, impropia de una navajo... de ahí que traten de impedir que ambos se casen.

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

Melodrama con guión de Anita Loos. La acción tiene lugar en Egipto, donde una mujer americana se enamora de un rico mercader local. El choque de culturas resultará inevitable: ella es una mujer sofisticada y él un hombre de rudos modales.

Curiosa película que se centra en las relaciones entre una tradicional familia china que vive en el Chinatown de San Francisco en 1911. Sus vidas se van a ver condicionadas por lo que está sucediendo en China, donde el nuevo emperador ha instaurado unas leyes muy restrictivas en cuanto al casamiento de las jóvenes se refiere. Ellas no pueden escoger al hombre que aman, sino casarse con los nobles de la comarca.

El hijo de unos inmigrantes italianos consigue una beca y va a estudiar a Yale. Durante cuatro años aprenderá sobre fútbol, amor y prejuicios clasistas.

Año 1917. Mata Hari es una seductora bailarina que vive en París y que ejerce de espía para los alemanes.

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.

An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.

A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak to several actors, primarily Buster Keaton, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford and Heinrich George. Then they meet Adolphe Menjou, who rehearses a long scene in German. A final scene shows stars arriving at a film premiere, including Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Wallace Beery.

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent.

Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school in the rural town of Santiago. At Santiago, his father's old friend is to be his guardian. When Ricardo arrives at Santiago he joins a fraternity, and continues his carefree lifestyle while serenading and courting his guardian's daughter, Carmina.

A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.

Henry, el hijo pagano de un padre blanco y madre nativa, ha heredado la tierra y una tienda, pero él prefiere la vida sencilla. Cuando se enamora de una chica nativa, su tutor, que está tratando de educarla como un 'buen' cristiano, pero que también la desea, conspira para mantenerlos separados.

Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.

Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.

An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conquests, meets a young American lady on the train, and follows her to Biarritz.

While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their return, convinces the townspeople that Joel abandoned his brother. Joel, determined to not only find Mark but to see justice done, returns the ship to Singapore.

Karl Heinrich, sobrino del rey de un pequeño país y príncipe heredero, se traslada a estudiar a Heidelberg acompañado por su tutor, el doctor Jüttner. Allí se enamora de Kathi, la sobrina del dueño de la posada en la que se alojan. Karl Heinrich es feliz, pero el rey muere y debe regresar para ocupar el trono.

The beautiful Serafina is captured by Balthasar's pirates on an island near Cuba, but the redoubtable José Armando arrives from Spain to effect her rescue.

En los años del Imperio Romano del reinado de Augusto y su sucesor Tiberio, Judá Ben-Hur, hijo de una familia noble de Jerusalén, y Mesala, tribuno romano que dirige los ejércitos de ocupación, se han convertido en enemigos irreconciliables. Acusado de atentar contra la vida del nuevo gobernador romano, Mesala le encarcela junto a su familia. Cuando se llevan a Ben-Hur a galeras, un joven llamado Jesús de Nazaret se apiada de él y le da de beber.

Produced under the supervision of the U.S. Navy. James Randall, an upperclassman at the Naval Academy, falls in love with Patricia Lawrence, the sister of a plebe. She is engaged to Basil Courtney, a wealthy reprobate who arranges with Rita to discredit James.

"The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Ben Ali, for the fairest daughter of the tribe" (Variety, 7 Oct 1925, p44).

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.

Jamil, a soldier in the Bedouin defense forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, deserts his regiment but later returns to save children of a missionary’s orphanage who are at risk of being enslaved or killed by the Turks.

A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.

A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.

South Seas romantic drama. This is a lost Silent film, that no negative of or print materials from are known to exist.

Leon de Severac is fed up with his daughter Jacqueline, who is constantly seducing men. Hoping to discourage her from her flirtatious behavior, he tells her the story of Zareda, an attractive fortune teller who is having an affair with Ivan de Maupin.

La acción transcurre en el imaginario estado centroeuropeo de Ruritania. Un turista inglés, Rodolfo Rassendyll, acude para pescar en la vigília de la coronación real. Pero el aspirante a rey ha sido secuestrado por su medio hermano, Guillermo, que quiere acceder al trono. Como Rodolfo es físicamente un sosias del rey, es coronado en su lugar. Además se enamora de la princesa Flavia, que es la prometida del rey.

An English naval officer and a Corsican youth have a duel, and the Corsican is killed. The young man's sister, Marina Paoli, swears vengeance on the killer. Mr. Barnes of New York, who happened to see the duel, finds the name Gerard Anstruther engraved on the pistols.....

Victoria marries David, the man of her dreams. After a number of years and two children, the marriage turns out not to be what she had expected. Then she discovers her faith, and everything turns out for the best. In several scenes Victoria has visions of love and marriage throughout history: she appears in the Stone Age, with a tribe of Amazonians, in the Middle Ages and in the Roman era.

En vísperas de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), las dos ramas de una acomodada familia argentina se dividen en dos bandos: los Desnoyers, oriundos de Francia, y los von Hartrott, de origen alemán. Julio Desnoyers, un joven irresponsable y bohemio, tiene un romance con Marguerite, una mujer casada. Cuando estalla la guerra, el esposo de Margueritte se va al frente. Poco despues, una serie de circunstancias hacen que Julio cambie radicalmente y decida trabajar para la Resistencia.

Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.

Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. He is recaptured when her lover Guatemoco finds Alvarado hiding in her chambers. Tecza next leads Cortez into the city, thus causing the destruction of her nation and securing the love of Alvarado.

The Highlanders and Lowlanders are sworn enemies until Lieutenant Kemper, the son of Brigadier Kemper, the leader of the militaristic Lowlanders, is held hostage by the Highlanders until his father's army has retreated to its own boundaries. Much to his surprise, the lieutenant is treated with kindness and consideration by his captors, especially by Boyadi and his beautiful daughter Nathalia, whom he learns to love. Thus, instead of obeying his father's command to escape at an appointed time when the Lowlanders plan to violate their pledge and storm the fortress, he keeps his promise to his captors and remains a prisoner.

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.