Herbert Brenon Movies

A lost film. Hiram Flint, a young gambler and horseman, loves Madge, the daughter of James Spotwood but she repulses him. He buys a mortgage on the...

Madame Vervier, a sophisticated woman, sends her daughter Alix to live with Owen Bradley's parents in London.

A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life.

Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future...

The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love...

Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the...

A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.

This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. This version, made by the Fox Studios, stars famous...

Assuming that he has killed the husband of the woman he also loves, Judson Clark flees through a blizzard to a lonely cabin, where he nearly dies....

Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together -- he is England's Colonial Secretary and...

Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.

The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder.

Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.

Lummox is a 1930 American Pre-Code sound film directed by Herbert Brenon, released through United Artists, and based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst....

A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.

This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no other name actors in the cast. Based on the...

Gibbs is a laborer at the docks who, through his hard work and good judgment, becomes a millionaire on Wall Street. He becomes acquainted with the...

When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sensational way to make his first big scoop: Sally...

A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.