James W. Horne

Directing

James W. Horne

Born — Died

1880-12-13 — 1942-06-29

Place of birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

42 titles

James Wesley Horne (December 14, 1880 – June 29, 1942) was an early American actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Way Out West poster
7.1

Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

Way Out West

1937

Way Out West poster
7.1

Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

Way Out West

1937

The Bohemian Girl poster
6.2

Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.

The Bohemian Girl

1936

College poster
6.7

A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.

College

1927

Beau Hunks poster
6.8

Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

Beau Hunks

1931

Our Wife poster
7.1

Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.

Our Wife

1931

The Iron Claw poster
7.0

The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster...and a masked fiend known as The Iron Claw.

The Iron Claw

1941

Playing at Politics poster
7.0

Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.

Playing at Politics

1931

Holt of the Secret Service poster
6.3

A murderous gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped the government's best engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Secret Service's toughest agent, Jack Holt, and a female reporter go after the gang.

Holt of the Secret Service

1941

Bonnie Scotland poster
6.6

Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.

Bonnie Scotland

1935

Bonnie Scotland poster
6.6

Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.

Bonnie Scotland

1935

The Girl from Frisco poster
NR

A series of 25 2-reel Western thrillers in which a cowgirl aids the cause of justice and humanity in the Old West, often aided by her fiancé and her rancher father. Each episode tells a complete story in itself.

The Girl from Frisco

1916

Laughing Gravy poster
7.2

Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.

Laughing Gravy

1931

One Good Turn poster
6.9

Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord tell her he's going to throw her out because she can't pay her mortgage. They don't realize that the old lady is really rehearsing for a play. Stan and Ollie decide to help the old lady by selling their car. During the auction a drunk puts a wallet in Stan's pocket. Ollie accuses Stan of robbing the old lady, but when the truth is revealed Stan takes revenge on Ollie.

One Good Turn

1931

The Midnight Man poster
9.0

Bob Gilmore, a young clubman, is called by telephone to his home, where his parents are giving him a birthday party. He overhears one of the men guests make a slurring remark about his mother's appearance, and proceeds to punish him then and there, throwing the entire gathering into an uproar. Later in the evening he assumes guilt for a check which had been in reality forged by his foster father, in order to save the mother's feelings, but obtains a written confession from the guilty man for future use if necessary. Learning that he had been adopted from a foundling asylum in infancy, Bob decides to go to New York to see if he cannot learn his real name, which he understands begins with "Mor."

The Midnight Man

1919

High C's poster
4.4

The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.

High C's

1930

Come Clean poster
7.1

The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and manage to prevent a shrewish woman from committing suicide on the way back home. The woman is ungrateful and makes threats against the them unless they look after her. They spend a chaotic evening trying to keep her hidden from their wives.

Come Clean

1931

Chickens Come Home poster
6.6

Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.

Chickens Come Home

1931

Any Old Port! poster
7.0

Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.

Any Old Port!

1932

Black Butterflies poster
7.0

An exposé of the "fake" or "wicked" Bohemian social circles, highlighting the moral consequences of their actions. The film features a "pleasure-seeking" philosophy, evidenced by the intertitle that read, "May we help ourselves to life's pleasures?"

Black Butterflies

1928

Fast Work poster
7.0

Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by an asylum escapee.

Fast Work

1930

Perils of the Royal Mounted poster
7.0

Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.

Perils of the Royal Mounted

1942

No artwork available
9.0

A detective pursues identical twin sisters with vastly different motives: arresting the criminal twin for robberies and romancing the innocent one. Constant identity swapping leads to a series of chaotic misadventures.

Thin Twins

1929

Big Business poster
6.7

Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.

Big Business

1929

The Sunshine Trail poster
10.0

When good-natured James Henry MacTavish comes into an inheritance, he travels East to claim it with the determination that he will "scatter sunshine" along the way. But MacTavish almost immediately lands himself in hot water.

The Sunshine Trail

1923

The Green Archer poster
6.6

The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.

The Green Archer

1940

The Green Archer poster
6.6

The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.

The Green Archer

1940

Stingaree poster
NR

Wealthy Irving Randolph is falsely denounced as a deliberate murderer by his greedy younger brother when Randolph, during a rifle shooting contest, accidentally kills a man with whom he has had an altercation. Fleeing to Australia, Randolph becomes known as the bandit Stingaree and is aided in his Robin Hood like adventures by his friend Howie and his sweetheart Ethel.

Stingaree

1915

Stingaree poster
NR

Wealthy Irving Randolph is falsely denounced as a deliberate murderer by his greedy younger brother when Randolph, during a rifle shooting contest, accidentally kills a man with whom he has had an altercation. Fleeing to Australia, Randolph becomes known as the bandit Stingaree and is aided in his Robin Hood like adventures by his friend Howie and his sweetheart Ethel.

Stingaree

1915

Terry and the Pirates poster
5.8

Dr. Herbert Lee, an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son Terry, Terry's pal Pat Ryan, and Normandie Drake. Jungle pirate and warlord Fang (Dick Curtis) plots to kill The Dragon Lady, Queen of the Temple of Mara, and seize the treasures of her ancestors. Both Fang and The Dragon Lady have sworn death for any foreign intruders.

Terry and the Pirates

1940

No artwork available
10.0

An expanded, Spanish-language version of the two-reel comedy Thundering Tenors (1931).

The soul of the party

1931

The Bronze Bell poster
10.0

In the 1850s, a young prince in India promises his dying father he will lead a revolt against the English colonial masters of India. However, since he is half-European himself, he can't bring himself to do it and flees to America, to live in obscurity. He finds, however, that he can't outrun his obligations

The Bronze Bell

1921

Itching Palms poster
7.0

The search is on for a bank robber's hidden stash in a house they all say is haunted.

Itching Palms

1923

Can a Woman Love Twice? poster
10.0

Mary Grant, whose husband was killed in the war, has to support herself and her young son Tom by working in a cabaret because her husband's parents disapprove of and won't help her--but they want to adopt Tom. Complications ensue.

Can a Woman Love Twice?

1923

The Spider's Web poster
6.5

Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.

The Spider's Web

1938

Hot Money poster
10.0

A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.

Hot Money

1935

Blow Your Own Horn poster
8.0

World War I veteran Jack Dunbar who, like a lot of veterans then and now, is finding it hard to land a job. When he fixes the broken down auto of the newly rich Nicholas Small, he finally runs into some luck. The blustery Small explains that the way to get ahead is to blow your own horn, and then he takes Dunbar to an estate, where he is introduced as a millionaire.

Blow Your Own Horn

1923

The Shadow poster
7.3

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.

The Shadow

1940

Thundering Tenors poster
7.0

Charley is invited to a high class party, where he feels ill at ease and has no idea how to act, yet he wants to impress his young lady.

Thundering Tenors

1931

The Vivisectionist poster
NR

When a neighbor complains about strange noises, an officer goes undercover to investigate Dr. Jardine. After her cover is blown, she infiltrates his lab and stops him from performing an illegal surgery on an escaped convict.

The Vivisectionist

1915