Directing

Ernst Laemmle

Born — Died

1900-09-25 — 1950-05-01

Place of birth

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Known for

No artwork available
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When young drifter Sandy Loom finds prospector Jim Perkins dying, he promises to take care of his daughter Myra. Assited by Professor Hawley and "Stills" Manners, he works her father's gold claim. Simeon Coe, a land shark and claim jumper, asks the judge to appoint him the girl's guardian, swearing it was Jim's last request, and though the judge refuses, Coe orders Sandy and his pals off the claim, backed by the sheriff.

Hands Off

1927

Der Teufelsreporter poster
7.0

Thirteen wealthy American daughters visiting Europe are secretly abducted in Berlin by a dubious guide and governess. Stenographer Eddie, who missed their arrival, discovers a plea for help from one girl and pursues the kidnappers across the countryside. After capture and escape, he ultimately tracks them down, rescues the young women, wins their gratitude, and secures his dream job as a reporter.

Der Teufelsreporter

1929

Phyllis of the Follies poster
7.0

As a favor to her old chorus pal Mrs. Dexter, Broadway dancer Phyllis Sherwood agrees to play a joke on a client of Mrs. Dexter's lawyer husband. The client, a roving rogue named Clyde Thompson, has a habit of romancing married women and has already made up his mind to make Mrs. Dexter -- whom he's never met -- his next conquest. Phyllis poses as Mrs. D. to throw Clyde off the track, leading to an unending supply of humorous complications.

Phyllis of the Follies

1928

No artwork available
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An old-time Alaskan miner dies and leaves his fortune and holdings to his daughter in the states. She comes north and is befriended by two old friends of her father. And she needs all the befriending they can provide as a true-blue villain has designs on her holdings and attributes.

The Grip of the Yukon

1928

Bashful Whirlwind poster
10.0

Bob Evans is the bashful foreman of the Denton ranch. He reads books and dreams of being a hero. He gets his chance when Gladys overhears Walling planning to smuggle stolen diamonds across the border. Finding Gladys' note, he sets out after Walling.

Bashful Whirlwind

1925

Prowlers of the Night poster
8.0

Sheriff Jack Norton is badly wounded in a gun battle with bandits and is helped by Anita Parsons, the daughter, as he later learns, of the bandit leader. Torn between his love for the girl and his devotion to duty, Jack decides the latter is too strong to resist.

Prowlers of the Night

1926

Behind the camera

No artwork available
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When young drifter Sandy Loom finds prospector Jim Perkins dying, he promises to take care of his daughter Myra. Assited by Professor Hawley and "Stills" Manners, he works her father's gold claim. Simeon Coe, a land shark and claim jumper, asks the judge to appoint him the girl's guardian, swearing it was Jim's last request, and though the judge refuses, Coe orders Sandy and his pals off the claim, backed by the sheriff.

Hands Off

1927

Der Teufelsreporter poster
7.0

Thirteen wealthy American daughters visiting Europe are secretly abducted in Berlin by a dubious guide and governess. Stenographer Eddie, who missed their arrival, discovers a plea for help from one girl and pursues the kidnappers across the countryside. After capture and escape, he ultimately tracks them down, rescues the young women, wins their gratitude, and secures his dream job as a reporter.

Der Teufelsreporter

1929

Phyllis of the Follies poster
7.0

As a favor to her old chorus pal Mrs. Dexter, Broadway dancer Phyllis Sherwood agrees to play a joke on a client of Mrs. Dexter's lawyer husband. The client, a roving rogue named Clyde Thompson, has a habit of romancing married women and has already made up his mind to make Mrs. Dexter -- whom he's never met -- his next conquest. Phyllis poses as Mrs. D. to throw Clyde off the track, leading to an unending supply of humorous complications.

Phyllis of the Follies

1928

No artwork available
NR

An old-time Alaskan miner dies and leaves his fortune and holdings to his daughter in the states. She comes north and is befriended by two old friends of her father. And she needs all the befriending they can provide as a true-blue villain has designs on her holdings and attributes.

The Grip of the Yukon

1928

Bashful Whirlwind poster
10.0

Bob Evans is the bashful foreman of the Denton ranch. He reads books and dreams of being a hero. He gets his chance when Gladys overhears Walling planning to smuggle stolen diamonds across the border. Finding Gladys' note, he sets out after Walling.

Bashful Whirlwind

1925

Prowlers of the Night poster
8.0

Sheriff Jack Norton is badly wounded in a gun battle with bandits and is helped by Anita Parsons, the daughter, as he later learns, of the bandit leader. Torn between his love for the girl and his devotion to duty, Jack decides the latter is too strong to resist.

Prowlers of the Night

1926

The Sunset Trail poster
10.0

On a passenger train passing through the desert, Louise offers to pay the fares of Happy Hobo and Collie. The boy Collie accepts, but Happy continues on foot and finds on a dying man a map to a gold mine and a photograph of his daughter, who is none other than Louise.

The Sunset Trail

1924

A One Man Game poster
8.0

The efforts of crooked rancher Stephen Laban to force his local bank into an unsecured loan are foiled by Fred Hunter and Jake Robbins, and Laban vows vengeance on the pair; but he is temporarily thwarted by the arrival from the East of society girl Millicent Delacey. Knowing her weakness for social prestige, Hunter arranges to masquerade as the Duke of Black Butte, a visiting nobleman on a hunting expedition; Millicent and her social-climbing mother completely succumb to the duke's charm.

A One Man Game

1927

What Men Want poster
3.3

A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.

What Men Want

1930

Four Square Steve poster
8.0

Four Square Steve is a roaming cowboy who saves Milly from the rude advances of a dyed-in-the-wool villain. She gets Steve a job on her father's ranch. The bad man returns and kidnaps Milly to a deserted shack where he tries to force her into marrying him. Steve has found the note she left and he is rides to the rescue.

Four Square Steve

1926

No artwork available
10.0

The scene is laid in a western town and opens with its leading citizen and bank president giving a dance to his debutante daughter, recently returned from finishing school in the big metropolis. A newcomer to the village is treasurer of the bank, and is making a play for the girl.

The Lone Round-Up

1924

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter

1929

No artwork available
7.0

John Nisheto, a Native American, saves Senator's son Jack Burr during World War I. Upon returning to the United States, John begins a relationship with Jack's sister, Agnes, despite Jack's initial objections due to John's ethnicity and his ignorance of John's heroic act.

Red Clay

1925

The Broncho Buster poster
8.0

Maj. John Furth, a Southern race-horse owner, borrows money to enter his prize racehorse Blue Bird in a race back east, hoping to win enough money to replenish the family fortune. A crooked horse trainer, planted by the man who loaned Furth the money and who wants to marry his daughter Barbara, claims that Blue Bird is a "man killer" and must be shot. Charlie, a neighboring miner who also loves Barbara, doesn't believe it and takes Blue Bird to his mine. Complications ensue.

The Broncho Buster

1927

No artwork available
7.0

Ed Cobb is in love with very cute Barbara Worth but she won’t marry him until he lowers his temper and stops fighting. When his rascally cousin forces Ed’s horse off the road, Ed falls and, unconscious for a while, develops amnesia and nearly marries a love-starved widow woman.

The Man Tamer

1927