Oscar Apfel Movies

A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a...

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was...

A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to...

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...

The Man from Bitter Roots is a 1916 Americant silent drama film directed by Oscar Apfel.

Scotty, an unwilling Navy war hero is cast into the limelight. He wants to get married and be an engineer, but is forced to fulfil the expectations...

Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row...

People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a...

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into...

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...

Jealous of the attention his wife Virginia receives at a seaside resort and desiring to know how far her flirtation with Henry Harding has gone,...

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act...

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His...

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall...

During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of...