7 Movies Directed by Edmund Goulding

Queen Kelly

Queen Kelly

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1929-01-01

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (2556 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Erich von Stroheim (based on an original story by)

Marian Ainslee (titles)

Fullplot:

Prince Wolfram is the betrothed of mad Queen Regina V of Kronberg. Supreme ruler, her word is law and he is a playboy. On maneuvers as punishment for partying with other women, he sees Kelly walking the the other students of a convent. He is intrigued by her beauty and wants her. He kidnaps her that night from the convent and takes her to his room and professes his love for her. When the Queen finds them together the next morning , she whips Kelly and throws her out of the castle. Regina then puts Wolfram into prison for not wanting to marry the Queen. Kelly goes to German East Africa to visit her dying Aunt and is forced to marry the disgusting Jan. The Aunt dies after the wedding and Kelly refuses to live with Jan and becomes the head of Aunties Brothel. Her extravagances and style earn her the name 'Queen Kelly' and Prince Wolfram does not marry Queen Regina V.

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1932-09-11

Languages:

English, Russian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (12001 Reviews)

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Vicki Baum (by)

William Absalom Drake (play)

Fullplot:

Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's mistress, Flaemmchen, but she doesn't end up with either one of them in the end...

A Night at the Opera

A Night at the Opera

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1935-11-15

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (23598 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

George S. Kaufman (screen play)

Morrie Ryskind (screen play)

James Kevin McGuinness (from a story by)

Fullplot:

The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance.

White Banners

White Banners

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1938-06-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

Approved

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (296 Reviews)

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Lloyd C. Douglas (by)

Lenore J. Coffee (screenplay)

Cameron Rogers (screenplay)

Abem Finkel (screenplay)

Lloyd C. Douglas (from: the Cosmopolitan Magazine story by)

Fullplot:

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.

Dark Victory

Dark Victory

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1939-04-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (6959 Reviews)

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Casey Robinson (screen play)

George Emerson Brewer Jr. (from the play by)

Bertram Bloch (from the play by)

Fullplot:

Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. After surgery she falls in love with Steele. The doctor tells her secretary that the tumor will come back and eventually kill her. Learning this, Judith becomes manic and depressive. Her horse trainer Michael, who loves her, tells her to get as much out of life as she can. She marries Steele who intends to find a cure for her illness. As he goes off to a conference in New York failing eyesight indicates to Judith that she is dying.

The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1946-12-01

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

145 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (3608 Reviews)

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Cast:

Writer:

Lamar Trotti (screen play)

W. Somerset Maugham (from the novel by)

Fullplot:

Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929, is invited to live in Paris with her rich, social climbing, Uncle Elliot. During a sojurn there, Larry, having attained his goal, is reunited with Isabel. While slumming one night Larry, Isabel and company are shocked to discover Sophie, a friend from Chicago. Having lost her husband and child in a tragic accident, Sophie is living the low-life with the help of drugs and an abusive brute. Larry tries to rehabilitate her, but his efforts are sabotaged by Isabel who tries in vain to reignite Larry's interest in herself.

Mister 880

Mister 880

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1950-09-29

Languages:

English, French, German, Dutch

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (765 Reviews)

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Genres:

ComedyCrime

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Riskin (screenplay)

St. Clair McKelway (article)

Fullplot:

The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.

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