Mockery (1927)

Mockery (1927)While scavenging for food among dead bodies during the Russian Revolution, a slow witted peasant named Sergei (Lon Chaney) is hired by a desperate woman to guide her out of the carnage. In exchange for promises of friendship and a secure future, he endures torture to save her. The woman turns out to be a countess, the friendship and secure future become a degrading job in her kitchen and Sergei, inflamed by proletarian ideals, embraces violence. In a

Comedy sails merrily along on a sea of bathtub gin with two Prohibition-era romps

Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale

Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) is lonely and uninterested in the suitors her mother

still breathtaking 42 years after her film debut

Based on the play by Robert Morley and Noel Langley

winner of 1955's Best Actor Oscar® for Marty (like The Catered Affair originally written for TV by Paddy Chayefsky)

Robert Vaughn

Matthew Lillard ("Scooby-Doo

When a storm plunges the house into darkness

It features a clever nurse (Aline MacMahon) summoned to a mansion when an elderly man (Walter Walker) has a stroke after reading a telegram from his disinherited son (Robert H

"Will You Remember

the former pro football star plays Stone with the same hard-hitting directness