Vernon Dent Movies

After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new...

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a...

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and...

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)...

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House"...

A Hollywood satire in slapstick.

Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in...

When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the...

Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Vera Reynolds, Harrison Ford, John Patrick, Sally Rand.

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.