Francis Sayles Movies

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning,...

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang...

Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers...

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as...

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates...

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.