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Maurice Félix Thomas (1876 – 1961), known as Maurice Tourneur, was a French film director and screenwriter. His son, Jacques (1904–1977), would follow his father into the film industry, establishing his own reputation as a director of American films in the 1940s and 1950s.
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13 September 1915
Richard Duvall is a young American detective in the employ of the French Secret Police. While in Paris he meets Grace Ellicot, also an American, with whom he falls in love.
29 November 1925
A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter or a racehorse in which he holds interests can save his fortunes.
22 July 1923
Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange for his freedom.
30 March 1928
First adaptation of Joseph Kessel World War I novel, in which an aviator falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the wife of one of his flying comrades.
14 January 1923
Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery.
25 August 1927
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
05 October 1929
On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants.
25 March 1917
The story of the training of a racehorse, the Whip, of the amnesiac nobleman who loves the horse, and of the villains who attempt to keep it from racing.
01 September 1917
Vincento Perez, the governor of the Portuguese colony of Exile, is an unscrupulous and brutal man who is hated by the natives.
24 October 1920
A murderer and a thief, imprisoned together, find their lives changed forever when the thief's drawing of Christ's crucifixion on the cell wall comes to life.
27 May 1923
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress.
01 December 1933
A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.
17 September 1929
A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the cook, he hides her away from the rowdy and dangerous crew.
04 December 1935
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay.
27 March 1916
Nine rooms of a house are shown, with action occurring in each room simultaneously
27 March 1931
A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child.
03 December 1936
A tramp learns that even honesty won't help him overcome his struggles to prosper. After a man tells him that he needs to smile in order to succeed, he turns his attitude around and he becomes successful.
05 September 1920
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man's son.
07 November 1938
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character.
10 May 1941
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir.
01 January 1914
A man does not know what fear is. His good friend dares him to spend one night in a scary place. A house of wax will get the job done.
03 October 1948
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines.
09 September 1917
Arriving with her husband in Arabia, Katherine Wyvrne is ready for romantic times in the exotic Middle East, but her aristocratic husband prefers to be out hunting "Barbara sheep" than fulfilling his wife's desires.
07 December 1919
Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.
18 September 1932
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
15 April 1932
The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up.
01 July 1914
The cub journalist comes to the aid of a recently remarried woman, whose late criminal husband turns out to be still alive.
27 October 1918
A series of stories reflecting the changing position of women in the world, including the familiar tales of Adam and Eve, Messalina and Claudius, Abelard and Heloise, Cyrene and the Fisherman, as well as that of a young girl and an officer in the American Civil War.
12 September 1930
Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences.
15 July 1915
This breezy comedy is about a cub newspaper reporter who goes to investigate a family feud, which has erupted into violence again—a parody of the real Hatfield-McCoy feud.
09 January 1914
Tells the tragic story of a young trapeze artist (Polaire) abandoned and found by a clown when she was a baby.
01 October 1922
In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
26 February 1917
A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home.
22 February 1915
After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.
09 January 1931
Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who encourages her aspirations at performing, a married fisherman, and that man's unmarried younger brother.
14 July 1913
Hortense Fauvel, the wife of a village postmaster, takes Aimée, a young shepherdess, under her wing.
15 May 1926
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
10 February 2024
Franco-American film pioneer Maurice Tourneur is a forgotten name in cinema history. This film traces the incredible journey of this crucial innovator from Paris to Hollywood.
11 May 1924
When a girl tries to drown herself in the Seine, she is rescued by dancer Gonzalo Montrez. She then becomes a famous dancer known as the White Moth.
11 November 1917
A resourceful young girl struggles to free herself from slum life.
19 September 1915
The hypnotic Svengali controls the singing voice of a young starlet, but he cannot control her heart.
05 June 1938
The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.
02 January 1920
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
19 June 1921
Three women, each living in a separate social sphere, work out their destinies in New York.
05 March 1917
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy.
04 March 1936
An aristocratic woman is coerced by her impoverished family into marrying a wealthy business tycoon.
22 September 1943
Noël Bienvenu, owner of a career, is a widower and lives with his parents. His son Bastien, whom he despises, was sentenced to six months in prison for theft.
12 August 1917
In order to save her mother from disgrace, Margaret marries Richard Harding even though she really loves Geoffrey Morton.
26 December 1913
A visitor to an insane asylum realises that the inmates have taken control.
16 January 1942
Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III.
29 June 1919
Lord Angus Cameron's marriage to a woman of his titled Scottish class is thwarted by his secret marriage years before to Marion Hume, the housekeeper of the castle.
01 January 1918
When Tourneur adapted the allegorical plays The Blue Bird by Belgian symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck and Prunella by British playwrights Harley Granville Barker and Lawrence Housman in 1918, they had been successfully staged for many years, opening in Moscow and on Broadway and everywhere.
24 October 1913
The Twins, regular bad men of the regiment, have been condemned to the military prison, and it goes much against the grain of the kind-hearted Captain Hurluret to see these poor fellows confined to their cells.
09 June 1918
Differing considerably from Henrik Ibsen's classic play, the basic story of a woman who forges her father's name and comes to grief therefore is retained.
31 March 1918
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune.
21 March 1943
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically.
21 November 1920
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua.
