The 20 Best of Henry MacRae
The twenty best film credits of Henry MacRae
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- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsJack PerrinRexStarlight the Horse
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsRexValerieHugh AllanA soldier returns home from World War I with a beautiful black horse that he saved on the battlefield, and names Thunderhoof. He enters the horse in a local race, hoping to earn enough money to save the family ranch of the girl he loves. However, the crooks intent on taking the ranch manage to capture a notorious wild horse and enter it in the same race, believing that it can beat Thunderhoof and thereby ensure that they're able to take the ranch.MacRae directs this popular film from Universal.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsRexJack PerrinStarlight the HorseA forest ranger comes to the aid of his fiance and her father when a crooked rancher and his gang try to force them off their land.MacRae directs this extremely popular Western from Universal.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsHoot GibsonVirginia Brown FaireCesare GravinaTwo ranchers get together to fight a common enemy and fall in love.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsEdith JohnsonHarry CareyRuth CliffordDuring a rebellion in Mexico, Nina Garcia, a diplomat's daughter, is forced to become a spy for the revolutionaries. She works as a nurse in a military hospital and steals papers for the rebels, but officials finally discover her involvement in enemy espionage. Just as soldiers arrest her, she performs an experiment on herself, hoping to prove the worth of Dr. Ralph Hamlin's serum for gangrene. Unimpressed by her bravery and unmoved by Ralph's pleas for a pardon, the government orders her shot after her recovery from the injection. Finally, United States troops arrive and save Nina from execution.After a couple successful serials for Universal, MacRae was given his first feature. It starred Ruth Clifford in her film debut, and a young Harry Carey.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsClaire McDowellFrank MayoEdward ClarkA white fur-trapper, Harvey Ogden (Frank Mayo) takes an Indian maiden, A-Che-Chee (Claire McDowell), as his bride, a union that meets with much disapproval when they return to civilization. But their child, a boy (Frankie Lee) helps bring about many adjustments to the attitudes of the civilized people.MacRae was given B-films for Universal, such as this Western.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsJack DoughertyLola ToddJohn ElliottA group steals a death ray in order to terrorise the world into peace. The inventor and his daughter try to retrieve the death ray with the aid of a government agent.A serial for Universal that MacRae directed and produced.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsHarry CliftonEileen SedgwickL.M. WellsDuring the great drought on the South African veldt, bitterness erupts between the von Haagen and Townsend families when they quarrel over a cattle spring. Nevertheless, a romance grows between Gretel von Haagan and Ned Townsend, who, to escape their families' opposition, marry and leave for the interior. Three years later, Gretel's father Carl, unable to overcome his feelings of remorse, seeks his daughter out and discovers that he is now a grandfather. He arrives in the interior just as his grandson wanders off into the jungle. After several harrowing incidents, the infant is rescued by an elephant and returned to his home where the families are joyously reconciled.MacRae directed and produced this feature for Universal.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsWilliam DesmondEileen SedgwickAlbert J. SmithMacrae directs for Universal and works as an associate producer.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsCharles Hill MailesDon BaileyM. EverettBank president, George Fuller, uses his own fortune to cover the losses, when the bank is on the verge of collapse. Unknown to Fuller, however, Monroe Simmons, his vice-president, is undermining the bank for his own purposes. Then Tom Williams, who is in love with Fuller's daughter Ethel, asks his uncle, famous detective "Whispering Smith," to investigate the case. Smith successfully uncovers Simmons' conspiracy and apprehends him and his fellow conspirators, thus saving the bank.Another feature for Universal.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeJ.P. McGowanStarsElmo LincolnGrace CunardFred StarrMacRae, along with J.P. McGowan, directed this serial from Great Western.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsMarie WalcampHarland TuckerOtto LedererA set of eight golden lotus leaves holds the secret for eternal life. A young girl is tricked out of the one she holds, and enlists the aid of an adventurer is tracking down the entire set.MacRae directed, and co-wrote along with George Hively, this serial from Universal.
- DirectorJacques JaccardHenry MacRaeStarsMarie WalcampEddie PoloJack HoltA 20 part 2-reel Western film serial.Along with Jacques Jaccard, Henry MacRae directs this serial for Universal.
- DirectorWilfred LucasHenry MacRaeStarsCleo MadisonGeorge LarkinEdward SlomanA crippled old man and his daughter plot to kill a young man they mistakenly believe was responsible for the man's injury. Matters get complicated when his other daughter, who is a twin, falls in love with the intended victim.A 15-part serial directed by Henry MacRae and Wilfred Lucas for Universal. It was shot in Big Bear Valley.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsJack DoughertyFrances TeagueJack MowerAnother serial from MacRae for Universal.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsWilliam DesmondMary McAllisterAlbert J. SmithGideon Trask and his henchmen at the saloon in Arkansas City covet the mineral survey of the Louisiana Territory made for Napoleon before the sale of the Territory to the United States. This is in possession of the Heath Brothers, who seek to use it in staking their land when the Oklahoma territory, last of the Louisiana tract to be released by the Government, is opened to Homesteaders.MacRae came back to his long time home to direct this Isadore Bernstein scripted feature for Universal.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsEva NovakWilliam FairbanksPhilo McCulloughGrace Danton's father loses his best driver and is in danger of losing money he needs to erase debts. Grace's sweetheart, Jack Grant, agrees to drive in the race if Danton does not prosecute his brother, who has stolen money from Danton. Jack is abducted by his brother, but he escapes in time to win the race and the hand of Grace.MacRae's first film for Columbia.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsMarie WalcampWellington A. PlayterRex De RosselliJohn Simpson, a well-to-do lumberman is constructing a large dam, situated in a canyon above a valley which is thickly populated with settlers. Simpson has in charge of his construction work a foreman named Hardy who urges Simpson to secure the services of an expert engineer. Acting on Hardy's advice the engineer is engaged. When he arrives on the scene and proves to be Carl Lindsay, the nephew of a very dear friend of Simpson's, he is doubly welcome. When Hardy meets Lindsay he recognizes in him the son of a lumberman for whom he used to work, who thrashed and discharged him for whipping a small boy. Ill feeling is rekindled on being introduced to Carl and he determines to avenge the wrong done him and endeavors to ruin Carl. His opportunity for this revenge arrives when he learns that Marie, Simpson's daughter, and Lindsay are growing to admire each other. Later, when Simpson is called away to Chicago, leaving Lindsay in complete charge. Hardy determines to act. Marie has promised Lindsay that she will marry him when the dam is finished. Hardy, learning this, determines that the dam shall be built with a weak mixture of concrete and lays his plans accordingly. Being in charge of the construction work and the hiring of the men. he employs three ex-foremen who will do his bidding, and while Lindsay is exercising all his energy to erect the dam in a satisfactory manner and each day growing more deeply in love with Marie, Hardy is working hard with his associates to see that the dam is built in such a way that it will not stand the pressure of water they anticipate turning into it. When the great dam is completed, Lindsay looks on his work with pride, little dreaming that at the same time at another part of the dam, Hardy is looking with great satisfaction at the water which is beginning to seep through the poorly constructed wall of concrete. A few hours later, Lindsay meets Marie. He tells her of the completed dam and reminds her of her promise. In her confusion, she calls to her dog who has run to the wall of the dam and is drinking the treacherous water seeping through. Lindsay's attention is attracted to the dog and he makes the discovery that the wall is crumbling. He orders Marie to get the men from the mill and tries to prop up the crumbling concrete. Marie gets the men, among whom is Hardy and his associates in crime, and they all rush to the wall in an apparent effort to stop up the weakened places, but the wall gives way carrying Lindsay, Hardy and the others in its wake. Marie succeeds in rescuing Lindsay from the wreckage, but Hardy and the others are carried off in the onrush. Lindsay and Marie secure horses and ride madly to the village in the valley below the dam, where they arrive in time to warn the settlers, who climb to higher ground and look back on their homes being carried off in the mad rush of the deluge. Marie and Lindsay ride on with the maelstrom and see Hardy and the other men clinging to wreckage in a struggle to save themselves. Hardy loses his grip and is about to succumb, when Lindsay makes a mad dash into the raging torrent and succeeds in rescuing his enemy. In the meantime Simpson has returned from his business trip to learn of the great disaster. Lindsay and Marie bring Hardy to her father's home, where Simpson begins to reprimand Lindsay for constructing such a dam, when Hardy, realizing that Lindsay saved his life, exonerates Lindsay by telling Simpson that he alone was responsible and why he purposely ordered a weak mixture of concrete in an effort to avenge on Lindsay a great wrong Lindsay's father had once done to him. Simpson forgives Lindsay, who looks to Marie for a fulfillment of her promise.For Universal, MacRae writes and directs.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsAlma RubensFrank MayoEugenie BessererMildred Gower (Alma Rubens), in order to sane her extravagant mother,Mrs. Elton Gower (Eugenie Besserer), from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, the young society girl is forced to accept the proposal Lemuel Sidall (William Welsh), a wealthy man she loathes.MacRae directs for Columbia.
- DirectorFrancis FordHarry HarveyHenry MacRaeStarsBen F. WilsonNeva GerberDuke WorneMacRae, Harry Harvey, and Francis Ford all direct his drama from Universal.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsTom MixDiane SinclairNoah Beery Jr.Winters is after the Brand ranch, and his man Brett who is foreman there is rustling the Brand stock. But Tom is on to their game and breaks up their attempt to buy the ranch. When they plan to rustle their horses, Tom must not only rescue Danny Brand, who is their prisoner, but stop the rustlers.