Nora Cecil Movies

A village schoolteacher, unaware that Eben, the village carpenter, is in love with her, marries a surveyor and has a son, David. Eben, distraught at...

His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty,...

A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious...

In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly...

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot....

A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.

Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.

A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do...

A cowboy is framed for his father's murder. His investigation leads him into the middle of a bitter feud between two families, and he winds up...

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.

A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B....

In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss...

Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned...

Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts...

The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and...

At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.

Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred...

The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.