Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Rex Beach

1. The Spoilers (1942)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Western

In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay

Votes: 3,253

2. The Penalty (1920)

Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.

Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney

Votes: 2,632

3. The World in His Arms (1952)

Approved | 104 min | Action, Adventure, History

In 1850 San Francisco, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn, John McIntire

Votes: 2,334 | Gross: $3.00M

4. The Silver Horde (1930)

Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance

A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Raymond Hatton

Votes: 628

5. The Spoilers (1955)

Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.

Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Rory Calhoun, Ray Danton

Votes: 529

6. Flowing Gold (1940)

Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Pat O'Brien, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 522

7. The Mating Call (1928)

Passed | 72 min | Drama

A WWI vet takes on the KKK when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.

Director: James Cruze | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Evelyn Brent, Renée Adorée, Alan Roscoe

Votes: 395

8. Son of the Gods (1930)

Passed | 93 min | Drama, Romance

A Chinese posing as an American goes to Monte Carlo where he falls in love with Alanna, who later goes berserk upon learning his true identity.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Constance Bennett, Anders Randolf, E. Alyn Warren

Votes: 263

9. The Goose Woman (1925)

80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story to get herself back in front... See full summary »

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Jack Pickford, Louise Dresser, Constance Bennett, Marc McDermott

Votes: 199

10. The Spoilers (1914)

110 min | Drama, Western

The first of many filmed adaptations of Rex Beach's adventure novel of the Alaskan gold-rush.

Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: William Farnum, Kathlyn Williams, Tom Santschi, Bessie Eyton

Votes: 104

11. The Spoilers (1930)

Passed | 86 min | Action, Drama, Western

While traveling to Nome, Alaska, Roy Glenister (Gary Cooper) meets beautiful Helen Chester (Kay Johnson), who soon becomes his sweetheart. Glenister is one of several owners of a lucrative ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson, William 'Stage' Boyd

Votes: 92

12. The Michigan Kid (1928)

64 min | Drama

The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to ... See full summary »

Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Renée Adorée, Lloyd Whitlock, Fred Esmelton

Votes: 67

13. Winds of Chance (1925)

122 min | Adventure, Drama

A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Anna Q. Nilsson, Ben Lyon, Viola Dana, Hobart Bosworth

Votes: 66

14. Michigan Kid (1947)

Approved | 69 min | Drama, Western

Jim Rowan, after his discharge from the U.S. Calvary at the end of the Sioux Wars, seeks peace and security on an Arizona cattle ranch. But his arrival coincides with an outbreak of ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Jon Hall, Victor McLaglen, Rita Johnson, Andy Devine

Votes: 60

15. A Sainted Devil (1924)

90 min | Drama

A nobleman seeks to rescue his bride, who has been kidnapped by his former lover and a bandit.

Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Helena D'Algy, Dagmar Godowsky

Votes: 34 | Gross: $0.33M

16. Padlocked (1926)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance

Edith Gilbert, the daughter of Henry Gilbert--a wealthy but bigoted and puritanical reformer--leaves home following her mother's death to seek her fortune on Broadway. Through her ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Lois Moran, Noah Beery, Louise Dresser, Helen Jerome Eddy

Votes: 33

17. The Avengers (1950)

Approved | 90 min | Adventure

The attractive Argentine Don Careless is an adventurer and an excellent swordsman. Don is in love with Maria Moreno, since he had to emerge her jewels and had thereby to kill a shark. Don ... See full summary »

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Carroll, Adele Mara, Mona Maris, Roberto Airaldi

Votes: 29

18. Young Donovan's Kid (1931)

Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama

A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.

Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Richard Dix, Marion Shilling, Jackie Cooper, Frank Sheridan

Votes: 28

19. The Past of Mary Holmes (1933)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An alcoholic former opera singer (Helen MacKellar) resents the promising career of her son (Eric Linden) and his recent engagement to an actress (Jean Arthur).

Directors: Harlan Thompson, Slavko Vorkapich | Stars: Helen MacKellar, Eric Linden, Jean Arthur, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 27

20. The Silver Horde (1920)

70 min | Adventure, Drama

A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Myrtle Stedman, Curtis Cooksey, Betty Blythe, R.D. MacLean

Votes: 27

21. The Barrier (1926)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure

Years after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous sea-captain father, Bennett shows up seeking his daughter -- and revenge.

Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Norman Kerry, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, Marceline Day

Votes: 26

22. Dangerous Days (1920)

70 min | Drama

Rudolph Klein, a German spy, tries to persuade his brother Herman, a trusted employee of the Spencer Steel Works, to blow up the munitions factory. When World War I breaks out, Spencer's ... See full summary »

Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Lawson Butt, Clarissa Selwynne, Rowland V. Lee, Ann Forrest

Votes: 25

23. Fair Lady (1922)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Margherita, an Italian girl, comes to America to avenge the murder of her fiancé by the mysterious Cardi.

Director: Kenneth S. Webb | Stars: Betty Blythe, Thurston Hall, Robert Elliott, Gladys Hulette

Votes: 24

24. The Ne'er Do Well (1915)

Passed | 100 min | Adventure

Former college football hero Kirk Anthony, to the disappointment of his father, a railroad magnate, refuses to enter the business world. Kirk prefers to coach the university team and ... See full summary »

Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Wheeler Oakman, Kathlyn Williams, Harry Lonsdale, Frank Clark

Votes: 23

25. Laughing Bill Hyde (1918)

66 min | Adventure, Comedy

The Atlanta Journal on October 4, 1918, advertised this movie with the following blurb: "Atlanta's last chance to see the best movie to date of the wild, free days of Alaska, when men ... See full synopsis »

Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Will Rogers, Anna Lehr, Clarence Oliver, Joseph Herbert

Votes: 22

26. The Iron Trail (1921)

70 min | Adventure

Honest railroad man Murray O'Neil competes with the crooked railroader Curtis Gordon to be the first to complete a trans-Alaska railroad. O'Neil must complete work on a massive bridge before the spring ice floes can destroy the project.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Wyndham Standing, Thurston Hall, Reginald Denny, Alma Tell

Votes: 22

27. The Barrier (1917)

100 min | Adventure

A barrier stands between Lt. Meade Burrell and Necia, the woman he loves. That barrier is the fact that she's a "half-breed"--half-Indian and half-white, with an Indian mother and John Gale... See full summary »

Director: Edgar Lewis | Stars: Mabel Julienne Scott, Russell Simpson, Howard Hall, Victor Sutherland

Votes: 22

28. The Brand (1919)

70 min | Adventure

A dancehall girl struggles to make a life for herself in the mining camps of Alaska, despite the obstacle of a villainous gambler.

Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Kay Laurel, Russell Simpson, Robert McKim, Robert Kunkel

Votes: 22

29. The Barrier (1937)

90 min | Adventure

Gale, a store owner, lives in an Alaskan village with his grown ward, Necia, whom he had rescued years before from her murderer father, Captain Bennett. Now Bennett, disguised as Ben Stark,... See full summary »

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Jean Parker, James Ellison, Otto Kruger

Votes: 20

30. The Crimson Gardenia (1919)

60 min | Drama, Adventure

Wastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for adventure and romance. Because the costume he is wearing includes a red gardenia, he is ... See full summary »

Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Owen Moore, Hedda Nova, Hector V. Sarno, Sydney Deane

Votes: 19

31. White Shoulders (1931)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

After years of wilderness living, multi-millionaire Gordon Kent, who has made his fortune as a mining engineer, returns to New York City for good times and "white shoulders." There he meets... See full summary »

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Mary Astor, Jack Holt, Ricardo Cortez, Sidney Toler

Votes: 16

32. The Vengeance of Durand; or, the Two Portraits (1913)

Short, Drama, Romance

Part One: Intense jealousy takes possession of Matthew Durand when his wife's foster brother, Carl, comes from Paris and she greets him affectionately. Carl has been studying art in Europe ... See full summary »

Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: L. Rogers Lytton, Edith Storey, Florence Klotz, Earle Williams

Votes: 16

33. The Spoilers (1923)

80 min | Drama, Western

In this lost adaptation of the 1903 novel, Roy Glennister and Cherry Malotte fight against crooked politicians to keep a gold mine.

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Milton Sills, Anna Q. Nilsson, Barbara Bedford, Robert Edeson

Votes: 14 | Gross: $0.31M

34. Flowing Gold (1924)

80 min | Drama

Soldier of fortune Calvin Gray finds work in a Texas oil town aiding the Briskows, a family of homesteaders who have become rich from the discovery of oil on their property. The Briskows ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Anna Q. Nilsson, Milton Sills, Alice Calhoun, Crauford Kent

Votes: 13

35. With Interest to Date (1911)

Short, Drama

Hanford, a young engineer on construction work, is ambitious to succeed in business and also to marry the daughter of his employer. A big contract comes up and he feels that if he can land ... See full summary »

Stars: Frederic Sumner, Mabel Trunnelle

36. The Auction Block (1917)

Passed | Drama, Romance

A wealthy businessman proudly watches as his son begins his own business, a shoe store. However, things start to take a turn for the worst when the father's estranged wife inserts herself ... See full summary »

Director: Laurence Trimble | Stars: Rubye De Remer, Florence Deshon, Dorothy Wheeler, Florence Johns

37. The Cup of Fury (1920)

Drama

In Germany, young Marie Louise's foster parents commit suicide rather than face charges of treason. Marie emigrates to the US, but when she gets there she is met with contempt and suspicion... See full summary »

Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Helene Chadwick, Rockliffe Fellowes, Frank Leigh, Clarissa Selwynne

38. Big Brother (1923)

70 min | Crime, Drama

When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge properly. The court takes custody of Midge, ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Tom Moore, Edith Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Joe King

39. The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923)

80 min | Comedy, Drama

Disgusted with his spendthrift son, Kirk Anthony's father has Kirk shanghaied and taken to Panama, where he (Kirk) attracts the attention of Mrs. Edith Cortlandt; falls in love with ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, Gertrude Astor, John Miltern

Gross: $0.18M

40. The Recoil (1924)

70 min | Drama, Romance

Gordon Kent, wealthy, is trying to paint the continent red. He meets Norma Selbee and marries her the next day. She runs away with Marchmont, and Kent condemns them to live together always.... See full summary »

Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Mahlon Hamilton, Betty Blythe, Clive Brook, Fred Paul

41. Partners of the Night (1920)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A tricky woman criminal, in league with an international crook, falls in love with the honest detective tracking them.

Director: Paul Scardon | Stars: Pinna Nesbit, William B. Davidson, William Ingersoll, Emmett Corrigan

42. The North Wind's Malice (1920)

Drama

When Lois Folsom's continual complaints about her husband Roger's sloppiness finally drive him out of the house, Lois seeks solace in the company of their friend, Henry Carter. Roger's ... See full summary »

Directors: Paul Bern, Carl Harbaugh | Stars: Tom Santschi, Jane Thomas, Joe King, Henry West

43. The Girl from Outside (1919)

70 min | Drama

A young woman, a tenderfoot in the Alaskan mining country, falls in with the Curly Kid and his gang, unaware of their criminal activities. The gang members come to love her and she in turn leads them toward a better life.

Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Clara Horton, Cullen Landis, Sidney Ainsworth, Hallam Cooley

44. Too Fat to Fight (1918)

60 min | Comedy

A fat man tries to enlist in the Army, but is told he is too large for service. So he joins the YMCA and ultimately proves his heroic mettle anyway.

Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Frank McIntyre, Florence Dixon, Henrietta Floyd, Countess De Martimprey

45. Earthbound (1920)

80 min | Crime, Drama

Jim Rittenshaw is happily married to Daisy, or so he thinks. Richard Desborough, Jim's friend from his college days, becomes enamored of Daisy, who leads him on. Desborough lives by the ... See full summary »

Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Wyndham Standing, Naomi Childers, Billie Cotton, Mahlon Hamilton

46. Out of the Storm (1920)

50 min | Crime, Drama

Impressed with Margaret Hill's singing ability, Al Levering takes her from the notorious dive in which she is performing and pays for her musical education. Just as she is about to join an ... See full summary »

Director: William Parke | Stars: Barbara Castleton, John Bowers, Sidney Ainsworth, Doris Pawn

47. Pirate Haunts (1915)

Documentary

Scenes from an expedition headed by Dr. Edward A. Salisbury to Central and South America.

Director: Edward A. Salisbury | Star: Rex Beach

48. Heart of the Sunset (1918)

Western

Alaire Austin runs a cattle ranch along the Texas-Mexican border with her corrupt husband Ed. After Texas ranger Dave Law saves her from dying of thirst in the desert, the two fall in love.... See full summary »

Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Anna Q. Nilsson, Herbert Heyes, Robert Taber, E.L. Fernandez

49. Going Some (1920)

50 min | Comedy, Sport

Upon observing the adoration that track star Culver Covington receives, his friend, J. Wallingford Speed, decides to impress Helen Blake by also posing as a sprinter. Meanwhile, when ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Cullen Landis, Helen Ferguson, Lillian Hall, Lillian Langdon

50. The Barrier That Was Burned (1912)

Short, Drama

Jennie Slocum, with her father, is a new arrival in Ore City. On account of her beauty and natural graces, she is the most popular girl in those parts. Bill Lawrence, the toughest fellow in... See full summary »

Stars: Robert Gaillard, Edith Storey, Harry T. Morey