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Theodore Reed

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Biography

Theodore Reed was an American film director and producer active during the early to mid-20th century. He directed and produced a variety of films, including Double or Nothing (1937) and What a Life (1939). Reed also served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1933 to 1934, playing a significant role in the development of the American film industry during its formative years.

Known For

City Lights
8.3

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

City Lights

1931
Tropic Holiday
6.2

A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.

Tropic Holiday

1938
The Thief of Bagdad
7.3

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

The Thief of Bagdad

1924
The Black Pirate
6.7

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a beautiful young woman of royal blood aboard.

The Black Pirate

1926
Double or Nothing
6.7

A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.

Double or Nothing

1937
The Gaucho
6.3

A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich with gold from the grateful worshipers. Ruiz, an evil and sadistic general, captures the city, confiscates the gold, and closes the shrine. But the Gaucho, the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws, comes to the rescue.

The Gaucho

1927
Those Were the Days!
8.0

At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.

Those Were the Days!

1940
Her First Beau
6.5

15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.

Her First Beau

1941
Life with Henry
6.5

Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.

Life with Henry

1941
Lady Be Careful
5.5

Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.

Lady Be Careful

1936
Cleopatra
8.0

An early retelling of Cleopatra’s story.

Cleopatra

1928
Arizona
N/A

A lost film. An Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not love her, so she contrives to marry his commanding officer, who is also his best friend.

Arizona

1918
What a Life
10.0

Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.

What a Life

1939
The Nut
6.2

Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to help children from poor neighbourhoods.

The Nut

1921
Song of My Heart
7.0

The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.

Song of My Heart

1948
I'm from Missouri
7.0

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is accompanied by his ritzy wife Julie who has high society aspirations and hopes to have her younger sister Lola Pike marry a British diplomat. Complicating matters is a business rival, Porgie Rowe, who is trying to sell tractors to the government and keeps knocking Sweeney's prize Missouri mules.

I'm from Missouri

1939
Say! Young Fellow
N/A

A lost film. "The Young Fellow"(Fairbanks), has recently been hired as a cub newspaper reporter for the New York Herald. His editor tasks him with unearthing "the facts concerning a scheme to defraud a group of minor stockholders in the town of Melford. Unless certain papers in the possession of an old bachelor(Neill) are delivered to a board meeting, the villainous financier(Campeau) will win complete control of a local company, and the stockholders will lose their investments. The Young Fellow enlists the help of his spinster landlady(Chapman) and the old bachelor's beautiful secretary(Daw) to thwart the evil millionaire.

Say! Young Fellow

1918
When the Clouds Roll By
6.8

Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands of a sadistic psychiatrist. Through various means of control, the mad scientist drives Daniel to think he's losing his mind, but ultimately introduces him to the lovely Lucette.

When the Clouds Roll By

1919
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
7.0

A lost film. Teddy Drake is a pleasure-seeking aristocrat who ends up expelled from his exclusive Fifth Avenue club for playing practical jokes and other rambunctious antics. He decides to reform his selfish ways and boards a train heading heading for the Southwest.

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

1919