Overview
After Count John Karpathy, belovedly known as the Nabob, falls ill while entertaining the peasants of his estate, his dissolute nephew and sole heir, Count Bela, comes home from Paris to acquire his inheritance. The Nabob recovers and, after hearing Bela's plan to squander the money, resolves not to give Bela anything while he lives.
Director and cast
More films
The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
Adventure · Animation · Family · G
Mowgli has been living in the man-village with his little stepbrother Ranjan and his best friend Shanti. But the man-cub still has that jungle rhythm in his heart, and he misses his old buddies Baloo and Bagheera. When Mowgli wanders back to the wild for some swingin' fun, he soon finds the man-eating tiger Shere Khan is lurking in the...
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Director
- Steve Trenbirth
- Cast
- Haley Joel Osment, John Goodman, Mae Whitman
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908)
Action · Drama · Thriller · N/A
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies away with it.
- Runtime
- 7m
- Director
- Edwin S. Porter
- Cast
- Miss Earle, Jinnie Frazer, D.W. Griffith
The Diabolic Tenant (1909)
Comedy · Fantasy · N/A
A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
- Runtime
- 7m
- Director
- Georges Méliès
- Cast
- André Méliès
An Up-to-Date Conjurer (1899)
Comedy · N/A
A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.
- Runtime
- 1m
- Director
- Georges Méliès
Diagonal Symphony (1924)
Animation · N/A
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art...
- Runtime
- 7m
- Director
- Viking Eggeling
Underground (2007)
Action · Not Rated
In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Chee Keong Cheung
- Cast
- Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah
Bodyguard: A New Beginning (2008)
Action · Drama · Thriller · R
Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Chee Keong Cheung
- Cast
- Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Comments
Talk about the film with other members