Herman J. Mankiewicz Movies

  • 1937
    The Emperor's Candlesticks

    The Emperor's Candlesticks

    The Emperor's Candlesticks

    4.71937HD

    Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

    The Emperor's Candlesticks
  • 1933
    Duck Soup

    Duck Soup

    Duck Soup

    7.3091933HD

    Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

    Duck Soup
  • 1930
    Laughter

    Laughter

    Laughter

    4.7141930HD

    Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions...

    Laughter
  • 1929
    The Dummy

    The Dummy

    The Dummy

    01929HD

    The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the...

    The Dummy
  • 1927
    Fashions for Women

    Fashions for Women

    Fashions for Women

    21927HD

    Celeste de Givray is renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all Paris. Her press agent DuPont concocts an...

    Fashions for Women
  • 1928
    His Tiger Lady

    His Tiger Lady

    His Tiger Lady

    01928HD

    A variety extra falls in love with a beautiful duchess, and tries to impress her by posing as a rajah. He tells her the truth before anything...

    His Tiger Lady
  • 1926
    The Road to Mandalay

    The Road to Mandalay

    The Road to Mandalay

    6.11926HD

    Joe, a former sea captain whose wife died during the birth of their child at sea, is now a pockmarked, disreputable divekeeper in Singapore where he...

    The Road to Mandalay
  • 1929
    The Love Doctor

    The Love Doctor

    The Love Doctor

    01929HD

    Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her...

    The Love Doctor
  • 1941
    The Wild Man of Borneo

    The Wild Man of Borneo

    The Wild Man of Borneo

    6.51941HD

    A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.

    The Wild Man of Borneo
  • 1937
    My Dear Miss Aldrich

    My Dear Miss Aldrich

    My Dear Miss Aldrich

    6.11937HD

    A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

    My Dear Miss Aldrich
  • 1927
    The Gay Defender

    The Gay Defender

    The Gay Defender

    01927HD

    Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt...

    The Gay Defender
  • 1945
    The Spanish Main

    The Spanish Main

    The Spanish Main

    6.31945HD

    Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of...

    The Spanish Main
  • 1928
    Moran of the Marines

    Moran of the Marines

    Moran of the Marines

    01928HD

    After getting into a fight with a drunkard, Mike Moran spends 10 days on the rock pile and is disinherited by his wealthy uncle; out of luck and...

    Moran of the Marines
  • 1936
    San Francisco

    San Francisco

    San Francisco

    6.51936HD

    A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in...

    San Francisco
  • 1927
    Serenade

    Serenade

    Serenade

    01927HD

    Serenade
  • 1929
    Thunderbolt

    Thunderbolt

    Thunderbolt

    5.61929HD

    A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and...

    Thunderbolt
  • 1936
    Love in Exile

    Love in Exile

    Love in Exile

    01936HD

    When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In reality, he is stepping...

    Love in Exile
  • 1928
    Take Me Home

    Take Me Home

    Take Me Home

    01928HD

    Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the...

    Take Me Home
  • 1931
    The Front Page

    The Front Page

    The Front Page

    6.4811931HD

    Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity...

    The Front Page
  • 1928
    What a Night!

    What a Night!

    What a Night!

    01928HD

    The daughter of an industrialist, Dorothy Winston, arranges to work on a newspaper in which her father places a substantial amount of advertising,...

    What a Night!