Frank Lloyd — Director (9)
The Lady from Cheyenne (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Lady from Cheyenne
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Loretta Young / Robert Preston
other title: Una mujer de carácter / Une femme à poigne
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
The Right of Way (1930) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Right of Way
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Conrad Nagel / Loretta Young
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
Son of the Gods (1930) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Son of the Gods
other title: 神明之子 / El hijo de los dioses
The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
A Tale of Two Cities (1917) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Tale of Two Cities
director: Frank Lloyd actor: William Farnum / Jewel Carmen
other title: Un drame d'amour sous la Révolution / 두 도시 이야기
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.
The Last Command (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Last Command
other title: Die Barrikaden von San Antone / Quand le clairon sonnera
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
If I Were King (1938) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
If I Were King
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Ronald Colman / Basil Rathbone
other title: 我若为王 / 一夜春梦
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
The Last Bomb (1945) [Movie] Douban
The Last Bomb
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Reed Hadley / Curtis LeMay
other title: 最后的轰炸 / 最后的炸弹
1945年,太平洋战争进入白热化阶段,同盟国和轴心国双方已到了你死我亡的关键时期。美军凭借新型的B-29轰炸机对日本展开全面的军事行动,日军位于太平洋上的军事基地接连遭到打击,沿途的原始小岛如关岛、塞班岛一个个成为美军供给和装备的军事据点。美军名将柯蒂斯·李梅(Curtis LeMay)被任命为第21轰炸机部队的司令,他总结以往轰炸的经验,自年初开始有针对性地强化装备,海陆空三军战斗力都得到极大提升。前期部署完毕,通往日本上空的航线被彻底打通。大批B-29陆续飞临日本,著名的“东京大轰炸”与“原爆”由此上演……
本片为1945年二战期间拍摄的纪录片。
The Sea Hawk (1924) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Sea Hawk
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Milton Sills / 伊妮德·贝内特 Enid Bennett
other title: 海鹰 / 海鷹
The Sea Hawk is a 1924 American silent film about an English noble sold into slavery who escapes and turns himself into a pirate king. Directed by Frank Lloyd, the screen adaptation was written by J. G. Hawks based upon the Rafael Sabatini novel of the same name.
At the instigation of his half brother Lionel (Lloyd Hughes), Oliver Tressilian (Milton Sills), a wealthy baronet, is shanghaied and blamed for the death of Peter Godolphin (Wallace MacDonald), brother of Oliver's fiancée, whom Lionel actually has slain. At sea Oliver is captured by Spaniards and made a galley slave, but when he escapes to the Moors he becomes Sakr-el-Bahr, the scourge of Christendom. Learning of Rosamund's (Enid Bennett) impending marriage to his half brother, he kidnaps both of them, but to avoid the risk of giving her to Asad-ed-Din (Frank Currier), the Basha of Algiers, he surrenders to a British ship. Rosamund intercedes to save his life, and following the death of Lionel they are married.