W.S. Van Dyke Movies

Perry Blair starts off as a sparring partner for a fighter, but when he knocks the guy down, manager Charles Dunham immediately sees his potential....

Capt. Robert Kelly holds off the foreign mob single-handed and makes good his escape during the Boxer rebellion.

This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of...

A soldier falls in love with a beautiful settler who has refused his order to leave American Indian land.

Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he...

Mollie Andrews is a little New England school teacher who goes out to Rawhide, Montana, to "teach the west" its manners. She is of romantic nature,...

A young woman tries to find out the reason behind why all of her female ancestors have been killed before they reach their 21st birthday.

A girl, Anita Wayne, finds herself an heiress of her mother's estate, but learns that her father lives in Alaska. Determined to find her father she...

A man tries to woo a woman, rescue an orphanage, and bet on the right horse.

Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. When he falls in love with...

A college graduate returns West after ten years in the East to her home in Sulfur Springs. Virginia's mother, the owner of a rooming house has turned...

Little six-year-old Sadie O'Malley, a child of the tenement district, has a vision of heaven awakened within her by the teaching of a settlement...

The Land of Long Shadows is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Jack Gardner, Ruth King and Carl Stockdale. It...

Some of the most sanguinary feuds in America have been fought out, not in the mountains of the south, but on the deserts of the great west, where...

Young mother Mary Gordoon is too poor to take care of her infant daughter, Ann, and leaves the child at an orphanage. Ann grows up with a crippled...

Returning from college, Wils McCann discovers that the long-standing feud between his family and their neighbors is actually the fault of the nasty...

In 1871, a Chicago undercover detective gets a job as a porter in a disreputable saloon to get information on a stolen painting, which he believes...

A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.

An Indian chief of the Arapahoe escapes the reservation where he has been living and takes along some of his warriors. The cavalry is sent out for...