Oscar Apfel Movies

The Man on the Box is a 1914 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Oscar Apfel and co-directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It was based on the 1904...

When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy...

When a gangster's speakeasy is raided by the police, one of the people picked up is the gangster's pretty young girlfriend. A kind-hearted cop takes...

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.

The first movie adaptation of the famous novel where a young man has to spend a fortune on 60 days to inherit an even larger sum of money. Considered...

Small town girl goes to city to become actress after meeting hoofer. They get work in a cabaret, but show backer makes life unpleasant for girl. When...

A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20...

Graehme, Ned Stewart's father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to avenge his father, but got captured and sent to the...

Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.

Thomas Brainerd, Sr., as a prospector, is a dutiful and loving husband and father, but when he strikes gold he becomes obsessed with business and all...

John Masters leaves his lumber mining camp when he is summoned East by his dying father, a political boss who wishes to turn over the position he has...

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also...

A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a...

Jim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after rescuing her from a runaway horse. Her brother, Ted,...