Evelyn Brent – MRQE

The Showdown

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman.

Interference

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Paramount’s first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio’s “technical wizard” did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.

Home on the Range

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling ‘salted’ gold mines to gullible newcomers. But the cold Far North gets too hot for them and they move to greener pastures in the western United States. Business is good until a young cattleman, Tom Hatfield, falls for their trap. But Georgia falls in love with him and this causes problems for her partners.

Underworld

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed’s girlfriend.

Framed

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.

Fast Company

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an interest in Elmer, who in turn takes an interest in Evelyn Corey, an attractive actress.

The Dragnet

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Josef von Sternberg from an original screen story and starring George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent.

Slightly Scarlet

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel-thief Malatroff blackmails Lucy into helping him steal the valuable necklace owned by the young wife of phlegmatic American businessman Sylvester Corbett.

The Last Command

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Broadway

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.