Rex Ingram

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Rex Ingram

Born January 15, 1892 · Dublin, Ireland

Died July 21, 1950 · aged 58

Rex Ingram started his film career as a set designer and painter. His directorial debut was The Great Problem (1916). A true master of the medium, Ingram despised the business haggling required in the Hollywood system. He was also unhappy with the level of writing he found in American writers. This led him to work with such foreign writers as Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, which resulted in the first majo…

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The Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseThe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse · 1921
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
★ 6.61921
MovieWarRomance
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
Snatched from a Burning DeathSnatched from a Burning Death · 1915
Snatched from a Burning Death
★ 8.01915
MovieDramaDocumentary
LeGrande, an old trapper, refuses to vacate his favorite hunting grounds when ordered to do so by Sampson and other settlers, and his life is only saved through the intervention of his daughter, Joan. The rascals soon learn to fear the girl's keen wit and daring, and Sampson, already pledged to marry Sanchezza, a Mexican girl, falls in love with Joan.
Humdrum BrownHumdrum Brown · 1918
Humdrum Brown
1918
MovieComedyDrama
Love and double-crosses at the bank.
ScaramoucheScaramouche · 1923
Scaramouche
★ 7.21923
MovieHistoryRomance
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
The Three PassionsThe Three Passions · 1928
The Three Passions
★ 6.01928
MovieDrama
A Lord's son aids a seaman's mission but returns to save his sick father's shipyard from strikers.
The Moonshine Maid and the ManThe Moonshine Maid and the Man · 1914
The Moonshine Maid and the Man
1914
MovieDrama
Dave wants to marry Nancy, and is determined to win a reward of $1000 for the arrest of some moonshiners. During a fight, Dave is mortally wounded. As he is dying, he learns that Nancy's father is the owner of the still, and Nancy is the "man" he suspected of being a moonshiner.
The Flower of DoomThe Flower of Doom · 1917
The Flower of Doom
1917
MovieDrama
The Flower of Doom is a 1917 silent drama film written and directed by Rex Ingram and starring Wedgwood Nowell, Yvette Mitchell, and Nicholas Dunaew. A reporter has to rescue a singer kidnapped in Chinatown.
His Robe of HonorHis Robe of Honor · 1918
His Robe of Honor
1918
MovieCrimeDrama
Julian Randolph, a disreputable lawyer, gains an ad interim appointment to the Supreme bench as a reward for fixing a jury that acquits the brother of the political boss of a charge of murder. He was promised the nomination for the full term at the next election, but gains it only through threat of exposure of a bigamous marriage contracted by the boss. Then comes love for a noble woman and the question whether he shall take defeat with honor or gain seeming honor at the cost of his manhood. It is a momentous problem, but he makes a decision that proves him worthy of the robes of honor.

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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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