Writing

Martin Brown

Born June 22, 1884 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Died February 13, 1936 · aged 51

No biography available.

Known For

The Virtuous SinThe Virtuous Sin · 1930
The Virtuous Sin
★ 4.81930
MovieWarDrama
Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.
Soul-FireSoul-Fire · 1925
Soul-Fire
★ 10.01925
MovieDrama
Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in Italy, he moves to Paris, where he is forced to write popular songs for money when he stops receiving support from his father. He tires of selling out and, after an encounter with the mob, starts to travel. He begins a madcap journey from Paris to Port Said, Egypt, and to the South Seas, where he believes he has found love with Teita (Bessie Love).
The Night of the DecisionThe Night of the Decision · 1931
The Night of the Decision
★ 7.01931
MovieDramaRomance
German language version of The Virtuous Sin (1930).
Java HeadJava Head · 1934
Java Head
★ 6.81934
MovieDramaRomance
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage, he returns with a very exotic, noble Chinese wife, which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son, a "landlubber", seeks to convert to steamships, to the disgust of his father. Even worse, he is secretly dealing in contraband.
A Very Good Young ManA Very Good Young Man · 1919
A Very Good Young Man
★ 10.01919
MovieComedy
A young man's fiancée believes he should sew all his wild oats before marriage, so he sets out to do it all in one night.
The Garden of AllahThe Garden of Allah · 1927
The Garden of Allah
★ 10.01927
MovieDramaRomance
Father Adrien had taken the vows of eternal silence, prayer and, of course, celibacy, when he entered the Trappist Monastry of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algeria. One day, he chopped down a tree that blocked a part of the Monastery wall, but as it fell it knocked a young girl senseless. As Father Adrien bathes her face she regains consciousness and in a mischievous mood embraces him. The embrace was seen by another monk but the Monastic discipline imposed is as nothing compared to the torturing penances of mind and body which the contrite Father Adrien has imposed upon himself. In the end it is all too much for poor Father Adrien and he abandons his vows and escapes into the desert, resuming his secular name Androvsky. On the way to the oasis of Beni-Mora he encounters Domini Enfilden who has been brought up as a Catholic. Androvsky rescues Domini from a rioting crowd and she finds herself deeply attracted to him.
The Mad GeniusThe Mad Genius · 1931
The Mad Genius
★ 6.41931
MovieDramaHorror
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
The Secret of Madame BlancheThe Secret of Madame Blanche · 1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche
★ 4.21933
MovieDramaRomance
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

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The Garden of AllahThe Garden of Allah · 1927
The Garden of Allah
★ 10.01927
MovieDramaRomance
Father Adrien had taken the vows of eternal silence, prayer and, of course, celibacy, when he entered the Trappist Monastry of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algeria. One day, he chopped down a tree that blocked a part of the Monastery wall, but as it fell it knocked a young girl senseless. As Father Adrien bathes her face she regains consciousness and in a mischievous mood embraces him. The embrace was seen by another monk but the Monastic discipline imposed is as nothing compared to the torturing penances of mind and body which the contrite Father Adrien has imposed upon himself. In the end it is all too much for poor Father Adrien and he abandons his vows and escapes into the desert, resuming his secular name Androvsky. On the way to the oasis of Beni-Mora he encounters Domini Enfilden who has been brought up as a Catholic. Androvsky rescues Domini from a rioting crowd and she finds herself deeply attracted to him.

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The Desert ManThe Desert Man · 1917
The Desert Man
1917
MovieWestern
William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope, and the name pretty much describes its inhabitants. Jim meets and falls in love with Jennie (Margery Wilson), whose father (Walt Whitman) is gravely ill. Jim rounds up a reluctant doctor from another town to tend to the old man, but he dies anyway. The doctor, however, gains Jennie's trust and she runs off with him. Only then does he tell her he's already married. She leaves immediately, but is too proud to go home so she finds work as a dance hall girl at Tacoma Jake's saloon. Jim, meanwhile, finds gold near Broken Hope, which raises its inhabitants' attitudes considerably. But the bad element is still there, and Jim is chasing after a group of kidnappers when he enters Tacoma Jake's saloon and sees Jennie. Jim not only overcomes the bad guys, he gets the girl, too.

Story