Mae Marsh Movies

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated...

A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a...

Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.

A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.

To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.

The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.

A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of the classic movie and recreates its dialogues to...

Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and...

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them....

An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they believe she has hidden.

A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.

A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous...

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.

Percy and Harold are rivals and both take the object of their affections for an outing.

New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.

Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her...

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the...