Movies by Max Wagner

Renegades of the West
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.

The Red Room
A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefore not wiser) Fred, freshly divorced as a kisser who still desires his ex, meets the self-confident Lucy, who feels called to explore the soul of men in her novels. She lives with her intimate friend Sibil in a Vorpommern house in the countryside. Fred decides to move from Berlin to the two women and try a ménage-à-trois. They get to know each other and themselves.

The World and the Flesh
During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.

The Lost Jungle
12 part movie serial where Clyde Beatty encounters obstacles and adventure on his way to rescue his damsel in distress.

Boss of Boomtown
Soldiers Steve and Jim are friends but when their enlistment ends, Jim reenlists while Steve doesn't. Instead he takes an assignment to find the local gold rustlers. Robbing the stage and then the bank gets Steve into the gang where he plans a job that will capture the entire gang. But just as he is about to put his plan into action Jim arrives to arrest him.

The Crime Patrol
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his...

The Oil Raider
"Wildcatter" Dave Warren and his crew are trying to bring in a new oil well. Dave gives troublemaker Simmons a good thrashing and orders him off the site. In order to complete drilling Dave borrows $50,000 from investment banker J. T. Varley and also begins a romance with Varley's daughter Alice. Varley suffers market reverses and knowing that Dave is about to strike oil hires Simmons to wreck the rig so he can foreclose and take over.

I'll Tell the World
This 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling power of ads placed in the pages of "Liberty Magazine," a MacFadden publication.

The Last of the Vargas
A cowboy avenges his father's murder, but must flee the law as a result. He attempts the rescue of a young woman from an outlaw, but becomes entangled with the outlaw's wife.

Mordach: Death in the Mountains
The notion that he embarked on a journey to the picturesque Mordach solely for the purpose of hiking finds no credence in the eyes of Frankfurt's BKA official, Cuma Ozan, following the discovery of a corpse. His local colleagues, in fact, entertain suspicions of him being the perpetrator in the case of Laura Brunner's murder.