Richard Barthelmess Movies

Shore Leave

78/100

While anchored down on a small New England port, on shore leave, Bilge Smith, a sailor, meets Connie Martin, the village dressmaker. Upon leaving, Bilge promises to return to Connie.

The Idol Dancer

59/100

This D.W Griffith silent classic features a new music score by writer composer, Jim Roberge.

The Bright Shawl

71/100

Charles Abbott is a wealthy adventurer in Cuba of the 1850s. He is in love with Narcissa but goes after La Clavel to obtain information on the Spanish. He becomes implicated in the death of... See full summary »

Spy of Napoleon

64/100

Exiled French patriot helps to find the men who want to betray emperor Napoleon III by selling military secrets to the German government.

Ranson's Folly

68/100

U. S. Cavalry Lieutenant Ranson belittles the exploits of a bandit known as "The Red Rider," and boasts to his fellow officers that he could hold up a stagecoach with a pair of scissors. ... See full summary »

Fury

75/100

The Fighting Blade

59/100

In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hire, stands ready to defend his ... See full summary »

Rich Man, Poor Man

82/100

Scarlet Seas

62/100

A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea...

Bab's Burglar

When headstrong young Bab Archibald comes home from school for a vacation, her father--trying to teach his spendthrift daughter the value of money--makes a deal with her: he will deposit ... See full summary »

The Amateur Gentleman

Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair ... See full summary »

I'll Get Him Yet

A young woman is in love, but the man of her affections wants only her and no part of her vast wealth.

Experience

The Hope Chest

The White Black Sheep

Sonny

This apparently lost silent film features Richard Barthlemess in dual roles as Sonny Crosby and Joe Marden, serving in World War I. Sonny Crosby, the son of a wealthy family, and Joe Marden... See full summary »

Twenty-One

The Valentine Girl

Marion ( Marguerite Clark ) a young girl is given up by her guardian to be raised by her father who has a criminal past...

Boots

Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, addicted to melodramatic stories of love and adventure. When she discovers a Bolshevik plot... See full summary »

Wheel of Chance

A Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that overthrew the Czar. One of their twin sons, Schulke, disappears and is believed dead before they ... See full summary »

Peppy Polly

Polly has herself arrested and committed to a reformatory in order to investigate conditions at the institution, after the committee charged with the investigation whitewashes the facts.

A Modern Hero

65/100

Pierre is a young and handsome circus rider whose mother has long tolerated his amorous adventures but...

Massacre

71/100

Joe Thunderhorse, a Sioux Indian who has become the wealthy star of a Wild West show, returns home to his reservation after years away and finds that his father is dying and his people are being abused by corrupt white officials.

Four Hours to Kill!

74/100

A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the...

The Seventh Day

75/100

A group of New York society folk on a yachting excursion are forced to put into a New England fishing village for repairs...