Clarence Brown — Director (20)
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The Goose Woman (1925)
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Clarence Brown actor: Jack Pickford / Louise Dresser …
other title: La mujer de los gansos
A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story in order to get herself back in front of the public again. However, the story she comes up with results in her son being arrested for the murder.
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Letty Lynton (1932)
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Clarence Brown actor: Joan Crawford / Robert Montgomery …
other title: Ritorno
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.'s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
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Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
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Clarence Brown actor: Wallace Beery / Lionel Barrymore …
other title: Impétueuse Jeunesse / Ayer como hoy
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father. A tender, coming-of-age story, with a wonderful look at a long-gone, but fondly remembered, small town America.
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To Please a Lady (1950)
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Clarence Brown actor: Clark Gable / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Indianapolis / Tod im Nacken …
Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain and boo him mercilessly. Independent, beautiful reporter Regina Forbes tries to interview him but is put off by his gruff chauvinism, and when Brannon's daredevil tactics cause the death of a fellow driver, he finds himself a pariah in the sport thanks to her articles. When she finds him earning money as a barnstorming daredevil driver hoping for a comeback, they begin to become mutually attracted.
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The Trail of '98 (1928)
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Clarence Brown actor: Dolores del Río / Ralph Forbes …
other title: La senda del 98 / La Piste de 98 …
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
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Edison, the Man (1940)
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Clarence Brown actor: Spencer Tracy / Charles Coburn …
other title: Il romanzo di una vita / Edison, o Mago da Luz …
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Possessed (1931)
Possessed
Clarence Brown actor: Joan Crawford / Clark Gable …
other title: L'amante / Alles für dein Glück …
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he will give her everything except a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
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A Free Soul (1931)
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Clarence Brown actor: Norma Shearer / Leslie Howard …
other title: Io amo / Der Mut zum Glück …
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
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Anna Christie (1930)
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Clarence Brown actor: Greta Garbo / Charles Bickford …
Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.
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The Rains Came (1939)
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Clarence Brown actor: Myrna Loy / Tyrone Power …
other title: La grande pioggia / Nacht über Indien …
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
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Intruder in the Dust (1949)
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Clarence Brown actor: David Brian / Claude Jarman Jr. …
other title: Nella polvere del profondo Sud / Griff in den Staub …
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
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Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Flesh and the Devil
Clarence Brown actor: John Gilbert / Greta Garbo …
other title: La carne e il diavolo / Es war …
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
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The Eagle (1925)
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Clarence Brown actor: Rudolph Valentino / Vilma Banky …
other title: Aquila nera / A Águia Negra …
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.