Michael Curtiz — Director (26)
River's End (1930) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
River's End
other title: Sur la piste glacée
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung and Keith takes his place.
Cab No. 13 (1926) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Fiaker Nr. 13
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Lili Damita / Jack Trevor
other title: Fiaker Nr. 13 / Le Fiacre n° 13
The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
The Perfect Specimen (1937) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Perfect Specimen
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Errol Flynn / Joan Blondell
other title: Un homme a disparu / El perfecto ejemplar
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
Avalanche (1923) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die Lawine
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Lilly Marischka / Mary Kid
other title: Die Lawine / La avalancha
At the urging of his dying aunt, a young man of limited means forgoes marriage into comfortable society. He becomes husband to an unwed mother and father to a child. Their meager existence is threatened, however, when the woman he left at the altar reenters his life.