Arthur Tavares

Películas

Song of Freedom
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John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English dockworker with a magnificent voice and a yearning to learn his roots.
Jury's Evidence
Supervising Editor
'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)
Ten Minute Alibi
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Derwent dreams up an unbreakable alibi for a murder. Once the crime is attempted, it then falls to Pember and Brace of Scotland Yard to sort things out.
Charing Cross Road
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British drama film directed by Albert de Courville.
King of the Ritz
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While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest.
Sally Bishop
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A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter
El instinto del amor
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Un cantante mujeriego se enamora de una sureña anticuada. El problema es que ella ya está comprometida.
East of Borneo
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Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.
Semilla
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Bart (John Boles) no tiene más remedio que olvidar su pasión literaria y empezar a trabajar en una editorial para mantener a su mujer y a sus cinco hijos. Allí conoce a Mildred (Genevieve Tobin), una antigua novia que convence al jefe para que le permita a Bart terminar su novela. Como, debido al alboroto familiar, no puede hacerlo en su casa,va a escribir al apartamento de Mildred. El amor resurge y deciden irse a vivir fuera del país. Diez años después, Bart regresa convertido en un gran escritor y se propone recuperar el cariño de sus hijos dándoles dinero para que vayan a la universidad.
Drácula
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El conde Drácula cambia su residencia desde los Cárpatos a occidente. Para ello se procura la ayuda del abogado Renfield que le visita para acompañarle en su mudanza como servidor. Una vez instalado, conoce a una joven, ya prometida, de quién se enamora. Comenzará a visitarla por las noches, para ir bebiendo su sangre poco a poco, y convertirla así en su esposa. Pero el malestar que sufre la joven alerta a su familia, que contacta con el doctor Van Helsing... Versión alternativa al Drácula de Tod Browning interpretado por Bela Lugosi, que se grabó simultáneamente a la versión de habla inglesa, usando de noche los mismos estudios cuando el equipo de Browning terminaba su jornada diaria de rodaje. Fue el primer y último intento de la Universal de intentar abarcar el mercado hispano.
The Wrecker
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The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
The First Born
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Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their problems are exacerbated when she fails to produce the heir he wants.
The Savage
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Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...
Men of Steel
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Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls -- wealthy socialite Claire Pitt and blue-collar worker Mary Berwick -- simultaneously fall for Bokak. It later develops that Claire and Mary are actually sisters, the first of a series of surprising plot twists leading to Bokak being accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Puppets
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Nicola Riccobini, a puppet master in New York's Italian quarter, is an energetic and domineering man in the family, in contrast to his dreamy, poetic cousin Bruno.
Too Much Money
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Millionaire Robert Broadley, in order to curb his wive's enthusiasm for spending money foolishly, inform her that he is now broke and penniless, which might have been a good plan if a friend of his, with some crooked ways, hadn't gotten involved.
Scarlet Saint
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Heroine Fidele Tridon has grown up with the knowledge that her father has promised her in marriage to Baron Kurt Badeau. When Fidele comes of age, the Baron shows up expecting to claim his young bride. In the interim, however, Fidele has fallen in love with wealthy horseman Philip Collett.
The Knockout
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A Lambert Hillyer silent romantic love triangle boxing sports lumberjack logging melodrama about a world champion boxer who must retire due to an arm injury. He becomes a lumberjack, and becomes involved with the daughter of the owner, but rivals sabotage their operation, and the boxer has to return to the ring to save the owner from bankruptcy and win the hand of the daughter.
So Big
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After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
The Perfect Flapper
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A 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
Lilies of the Field
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A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
Hungry Eyes
Scotty
Ex-convict Dale Revenal arrives at Dudley Appleton's ranch bearing a letter of introduction from John Silver, Appleton's old friend. Appleton hires Dale, who, through his winning manner, soon wins the respect of the ranch hands and the love of the ranch owner's daughter Mary Jane. Believing himself unworthy of her, Dale tells Mary Jane that he has a wife and child in Arizona, and she reluctantly agrees to marry Jack Nelda, a local rancher. Nelda realizes that Mary Jane is still in love with Dale and plots with Bessie Dupont and her brother Pinto to kill him.
The Savage
Joe Bedotte
When Marie Louise, the daughter of the town factor, returns home from school, Julio Sandoval, a reckless young half-breed ruled by his animal instincts, develops a passion for the girl, even though she is engaged to Captain McKeever of the mounted police. Meeting Marie when she is alone in the woods one day, the half-breed carries her to his cabin on the mountain top where he collapses from an attack of mountain fever brought on by overexertion.
The Eyes of the World
The Convict
Based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World was told almost exclusively via flashbacks. The basic plotline concerns a pretty violinist, the handsome artist who falls in love with her, and the double-dyed villain who hopes to seduce the girl.
Mothers of Men
Giuseppe
Dorothy Davenport as Clara Madison, a prominent lawyer, wins a judgeship over fellow Attorney Grant Williams, played by Willis L. Robards. Upon winning the prominent position as judge, Ms. Madison finds herself walking a political tight rope with enemies all around doing what they can to cause her down fall. Judge Madison convicts a murderer to death paving the way for her to be easily elected as the first female Governor. As Governor she is faced with a difficult dilemma. She has the power to pardon her husband who has been convicted of a serious crime, but to do so she’d be using her office for her own personal gain. “I must find some way to realize my ideals without sacrificing my husband. I must struggle on somehow for the sake of womanhood!”
The Spanish Jade
Don Bartolome
In a provincial Spanish town, during the mid-nineteenth century, Manuela is sold as a dancing girl to a strolling musician. In their wanderings, she meets Don Bartolome, who left his poor father Don Luis to become a highwayman. Bartolome falls in love with Manuela and takes her with him after killing the musician. When they meet Osmund Manvers, an English squire, Bartolome wants to use Manuela to rob him, but Manvers rescues Manuela from a gang of drifters and carries her into the country. Later, Manuela stabs and kills Bartolome after he threatens her. Manuela flees and Manvers searches for her. When Don Luis learns about Bartolome's death, he challenges Manvers to a duel.
Safe in Jail
Villager
Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.
A Bandit
Clarence
Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town.
On His Wedding Day
Wedding Guest
When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.
The Rube and the Baron
The Minister
Mabel is in love with John, the country boy, but her father wants her to marry a Baron. She is locked up in a room, and her father watches her. John takes a bundle of cloth and makes a big firebrand which he throws into the window, at the same time yelling, "Fire." Dad runs for his life and Mabel jumps through the window into the arms of John, who hurries her to the minister's house. The ceremony is about to take place when Dad and the Baron rush in, and Mabel is led home again.
Heinze’s Resurrection
man
Heinze is lazy, and his wife is disgusted with him. His friend, Pat, secretly admires Mrs. Heinze, and one day tells her to make Heinze help her with her work. Heinze refuses to assist her and is doused with a pail of water. Angered, he leaves the house and meets Pat, to whom he tells his troubles Pat advises him to play off dead, to see if his wife loves him.
Mabel’s Heroes
Holdup Man
A comedy short starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett