James Cruze — Director (15)
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Two-Fisted (1935)
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James Cruze actor: Lee Tracy / Roscoe Karns …
other title: Two Fisted / 二つの拳
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
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The Duke Steps Out (1929)
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James Cruze actor: William Haines / Joan Crawford …
other title: 大學生情史 / La Tournée du grand duc
Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of servants. Susie likes him but, to get rid of her, his manager tells her Duke already has a New York chorus girl. As the students listen to a radio broadcast of his victorious fight from San Francisco, she learns that the student Duke is the boxer Duke and that there is no chorus girl.
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The Enemy Sex (1924)
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James Cruze actor: Betty Compson / Percy Marmont …
other title: 性の敵
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, she meets four new men. She's smart enough to steer clear of two of them -- corrupt society leader Albert Sasson and powerful newspaper publisher Harrigan Blood. Instead she becomes passionately involved with Judge Massingale. The man who really steals her heart, however, is Garry Lindaberry, who seems to be a hopeless drunk.
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The Fighting Coward (1924)
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James Cruze actor: Ernest Torrence / Mary Astor …
other title: Le Capitaine Blake
Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men kill over issues of honor.
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The Valley of the Giants (1919)
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James Cruze actor: Wallace Reid / Grace Darmond …
other title: La Vallée Des Géants / 巨人谷 …
Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the sawmill. A romance between the engineer and the rival's niece complicates the situations.
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Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919)
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James Cruze actor: Wallace Reid / Lila Lee …
American law clerks Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne and Rodney Blake are nearly broke in Monte Carlo when Hawthorne breaks the bank. While driving through the impoverished kingdom of Bovinia, Hawthorne falls in love with a woman he meets when he retrieves his blown-off cap. Deciding to stay, Hawthorne is persuaded to finance a revolution until he learns that the woman he loves is Princess Irma and that she is in danger of being assassinated.
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The Wrong Road (1937)
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James Cruze actor: Richard Cromwell / Helen Mack …
other title: 走错路
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
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The Pony Express (1925)
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James Cruze actor: Betty Compson / Ricardo Cortez …
other title: Los jinetes del correo / 駅馬車
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife Betty Compson along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.
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Terror Island (1920)
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James Cruze actor: Harry Houdini / Jack Brammall …
other title: L'Île de la terreur
Inventor Harry Harper travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl, Beverly West. Naturally, others are after the loot, and Beverly's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns to them with a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. The climax consists of Harper saving Beverly from a safe which has been lowered into the sea.
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Racetrack (1933)
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James Cruze actor: 里奥·卡利罗 / 凯·哈蒙德 Kay Hammond …
other title: 赌场慈父
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif, Jackie Curtis, and begins to look upon him as the son he never had. But when Jackie's mother appears, Joe has a hard decision to make.
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I Cover the Waterfront (1933)
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詹姆斯·克鲁兹 James Cruze actor: Lily / 本·莱昂 …
other title: 水乡鹣鲽 / A la sombra de los muelles …
Reporter Joe Miller is sure that fisherman Eli Kirk smuggles illegal Chinese immigrants into the country, but can't obtain enough evidence to satisfy his editor. Chance plays into his hands in the lovely form of Kirk's daughter, Julie, whom he catches swimming in the nude and pumps for information. But she's fiercely loyal to her dad, and may be too attractive for Joe's own good. Racy pre-Code sexual situations.
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The Covered Wagon (1923)
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詹姆斯·克鲁兹 actor: J·沃伦·克里根 / 洛伊斯·威尔逊 …
other title: 篷车队 / 蓬车队 …
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and indian attack. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?