Stephan Pasternacki

Movies

The Mad Doctor
Additional Music
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Silver on the Sage
Original Music Composer
Hoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown rustlers. Brennan/Talbot are twin brothers (one a casino owner, the other a rancher) and Hoppy believes they provide alibis for each other while one is out committing crimes. Hoppy gets a job in the casino to learn more but is exposed when a gambling gunslinger notices him.
Goin' to Town
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Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.
The World and the Flesh
Original Music Composer
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.
Dancers in the Dark
Music
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
Strangers in Love
Original Music Composer
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.
The Sea God
Original Music Composer
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.