Fire Chief (uncredited)
Después de años de investigación, el ayudante del fiscal del distrito Martin Ferguson ha logrado construir una acusación sólida contra un escurridizo gangster cuyo principal lugarteniente está a punto de testificar.
Bartender with McGuire (uncredited)
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Detective (uncredited)
A Joyce Willecombe le inspiran desconfianza dos hombres que viajan con ella en el tren; llama entonces a Calhoun (Holden), el jefe de policía de la Estación Unión. Aunque éste, al principio, se muestra escéptico, todo parece indicar que los sospechosos están implicados en un caso de secuestro, razón por la cual Calhoun pide ayuda al inspector de policía Donnelly, pero los secuestradores son muy escurridizos.
Bailiff (uncredited)
Tras atracar una gasolinera, dos criminales, heridos en el tiroteo, son atendidos por el doctor Brooks, el único médico negro del hospital de la ciudad. Cuando uno de ellos muere, el otro acusa al médico de haberlo matado y provoca una revuelta racista para vengarse de él
Secretary (uncredited)
La meticulosa planificación de un atraco a una joyería por parte de una banda de delincuentes le sirve a Huston para ofrecer un poderoso relato lleno de intensidad, amén de un realista e insuperable estudio de personajes y sus motivaciones. Sin lugar a dudas, una de los mejores películas del cine negro de todos los tiempos, con el gran Hayden y una seductora y sexy Marilyn Monroe.
Second Garage Watchman [Ch. 7 bit]
Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibility chemical and plans to build a mercenary army of invisible men.
Cop (uncredited)
Estados Unidos, principios del siglo XX. Andrew y Veronica se conocen a raíz de un accidente que desencadena entre ellos un odio que aumenta cuando obligan a Andrew a contratar a Veronica como vendedora en la tienda de música de Oberkugen. Lo que ambos ignoran es que mientras discuten y pelean constantemente durante el día, mantienen una relación inocente, romántica y completamente anónima durante la noche, a través del correo.
A principios del siglo XX, oleadas de emigrantes procedentes de Europa llegaban a la populosa ciudad de Nueva York. Todos albergaban la esperanza de hacer realidad sus sueños de prosperidad. Muchos procedían de Italia, como la familia de Gino Monetti, un barbero ambicioso y autoritario, que emigró con su paciente mujer y sus cuatro hijos, todos muy distintos tanto psicológica como físicamente. Con los años, Monetti amasó una enorme fortuna; el sueño americano, en efecto, se había cumplido, pero los conflictos familiares se hicieron cada vez más graves.
Committee Man
Joseph Foster (Thomas Mitchell) es un honrado fiscal de distrito que anda tras un gangster local. Un día, un misterioso hombre llamado Nick Beal (Ray Milland) le hace una oferta para atraparlo. Foster acepta y ese pacto tendrá consecuencias...
Bailiff
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
Appraiser (uncredited)
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.
Tony es una gran estrella del teatro. Britta, su pareja en los escenarios, lo fue también en la vida real aunque llevan divorciados más de dos años. En cuanto empiezan los ensayos de "Otelo", Tony vuelve a transformarse una vez más hasta perder su personalidad y adquirir la del celoso moro veneciano.
Whiteman
Two newspaper reporters become involved with another killing while investigating a murder, which leads to the involvement of the girl reporter's father.
Announcer (Uncredited)
Basada en la vida real de Betty MacDonald, que es encarnada por Colbert. Una mujer de ciudad accede a ayudar a su marido (MacMurray) a cumplir su sueño de tener un granja y, para ello, procurará adaptarse a las inevitables dificultades de la vida en el campo.
Executive (uncredited)
Un vagabundo neoyorquino se muda a una mansión y, por el camino, se va reuniendo con sus amigos a los que lleva a vivir con él.
Mr. Hochie / Bartender in Old West Fantasy Sequence
Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses.
Butler
Biografía de Dolly Payne (Ginger Rogers), la esposa de James Madison, el cuarto Presidente de los Estados Unidos. A Dolly la cortejan dos líderes políticos: Madison (Burgess Meredith) y Aaron Burr (David Niven). Ella coquetea con los dos, llegando incluso a enfrentarlos, no sólo por motivos sentimentales, sino porque desea contribuir a la construcción del país. Tras ejercer su influencia sobre Burr, ayudará a Thomas Jefferson a llegar a la presidencia de Estados Unidos (1801-1809). Cuando Madison (1809-1817) gana las elecciones presidenciales se convierte en la Primera Dama.
Bailiff (uncredited)
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), el padre de Alicia Huberman, un espía nazi, es condenado por traición contra los Estados Unidos. Después del juicio, Alicia da una fiesta en la que aparece un apuesto desconocido llamado Devlin. Se trata de un agente de los servicios de Inteligencia que reclama su colaboración para atrapar a Alexander Sebastian, el cerebro de los nazis en Brasil. Al principio se muestra reacia, pero finalmente accede, sobre todo, porque se ha enamorado del atractivo agente americano. Una vez en Brasil, Alicia se gana la simpatía de Sebastian y se va a vivir a su casa. Pero su implicación en el asunto acaba poniendo en peligro su vida.
Doctor (uncredited)
Durante la Gran Depresión, Frank Chambers, un hombre sin rumbo, comienza a trabajar en un bar de carretera, regentado por un hombre mayor y por Cora, su joven, bella e infeliz esposa.
Bartender (uncredited)
Después de servir en el ejército durante la I Guerra Mundial, el reportero Terry O'Neill vuelve a casa. Descubre que es más difícil encontrar empleo de lo que había pensado.
Employee (uncredited)
Christopher Cross es un simple cajero infelizmente casado, pero tiene un raro talento para la pintura. En cierta ocasión, conoce a una aventurera de la que se enamora y le hace creer que es un pintor de éxito. La chica y su novio, un individuo sin escrúpulos, aprovechan la ocasión para explotar al pobre hombre, que llegará incluso a cometer un desfalco en su empresa para que ella siga creyendo que es un artista de éxito.
Roomer
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Laughing Man (uncredited)
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.
Fisherman (Uncredited)
Susan Darell (Joan Fontaine) a lo largo de su vida recuerda cómo fue amada por cuatro hombres que la veían de maneras diferentes.
Juror (uncredited)
En pleno Valle de San Fernando, en California, Isabel, está tratando de reinventarse a si misma. Una bruja ingenua y buena persona, está dispuesta a desactivar sus poderes y llevar una vida normal.
Butcher
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.
Police Sgt. (uncredited)
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
Grocer Frank Victor (uncredited)
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
Businessman (uncredited)
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, un fabricante de coches intenta construir aviones en Washington. Por suerte, o no, encuentra una secretaria que sabe desenvolverse en el laberinto político de la capital... y algunas cosas más.
Police Officer (Uncredited)
Mary (Kim Hunter), una joven provinciana, decide ir a Nueva York para buscar a su hermana Jacqueline (Jean Brooks), que ha desaparecido. Con la ayuda de su ex marido (Tom Conway) y de un prestigioso psiquiatra, Mary descubre horrorizada que la desaparición de su hermana está relacionada con una secta satánica. (FILMAFFINITY)
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Mientras transporta mercancías para sus aliados rusos una nave de mercante americana capitaneada por Raymond Massey es torpedeada. El valor de Massey y su primer oficial Humphrey Bogart sirve como una inspiración a los sobrevivientes que llevan su diminuto bote salvavidas a América donde son recibidos como héroes. A la tripulación se le asigna un nuevo Liberty Ship. A pesar de los miedos de ser torpedeados de nuevo, Massey, Bogart, y los otros hombres llevan su carga con éxito a Rusia a pesar de ser atacados por varios aviones alemanes en el proceso.
Heckler (uncredited)
El empresario Joseph E. Davies es nombrado por el presidente Roosevelt embajador de los Estados Unidos en la Unión Soviética para que averigüe cuáles son las intenciones de este país respecto a la inminente Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). El embajador se llevará algunas sorpresas en una nación que pocos conocen realmente.
Personnel Manager
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Miner
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Conductor (uncredited)
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.
Sanford
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Rancher at Citizen's Meeting
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Civic Leader (uncredited)
Jenny Blake (Joan Blondell) es la joven propietaria de un barco casino del Mississippi. Jack Morgan (John Wayne) es un jugador fascinado por ella hasta el punto de enamorarse. Al llegar el carnaval, Jack se las ingenia para que Jenny sea escogida la Reina anual, lo que ella aprovecha para introducirse en la alta sociedad de Memphis. Pronto surge la oportunidad de contraer matrimonio con un hombre rico y Jenny la aprovecha, pero la familia de alta sociedad no la acepta y deciden humillarla. Jack, que nunca había dejado de amar a Jenny, correrá a salvarla de un mundo que Jenny ya no desea conocer.
Bailiff
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Officer Riley
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Townsman
Candy Johnson es un estafador y timador de lengua viperina. Candy Johnson prospera hasta ser el jefe mafioso de Yellow Creek, pero el padre alcohólico de su esposa tratará de poner las cosas en su sitio.
Jim
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Butler (Uncredited)
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Detective Boyd (uncredited)
La joven irlandesa Nellie se enamora de Jerry, un guapo muchacho, pero sus padres se oponen a la relación. Ambos deciden casarse y mudarse a Nueva York.
Detective (uncredited)
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
Train Conductor
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
Depositor (uncredited)
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Ranger Leader (uncredited)
Larry Wilson, un hombre de negocios, se recupera de un episodio de amnesia y descubre que en realidad es un estafador; pero, además, vuelve a enamorarse de su esposa de la que estaba a punto de divorciarse.
Policeman
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
Streetcorner Santa
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
Officer
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Dr. Virchow
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
Policeman (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Elevator Operator
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Sheriff (uncredited)
Años 30. Adaptación de la novela de John Steinbeck “De ratones y hombres” sobre la América de la Gran Depresión. Los protagonistas son dos amigos en paro, uno de ellos un retrasado mental, que son contratados para trabajar en un rancho.
Policeman (uncredited)
A Nick y a Nora Charles, un matrimonio muy excéntrico, les apasiona ejercer de detectives aficionados. Un día, la familia Charles, después de pasar un fin de semana fuera, regresa a su casa en compañía de un industrial de Long Island que sospecha que alguien quiere matarle, e inmediatamente su temor se hace realidad. Lo peor es que Nick está entre los sospechosos, pero Nora tiene sus propias ideas sobre el caso y se escabulle dentro de un club para buscar pistas.
Shoe Salesman (uncredited)
Jefferson Smith, un joven ingenuo e idealista, que parece fácilmente manipulable, es nombrado senador. Ignora que en Washington tendrá que vérselas con políticos y empresarios sin escrúpulos que le harán perder la fe. Sin embargo, gracias a su secretaria, una joven que conoce muy bien los entresijos de la política, protagoniza en el Senado una espectacular y maratoniana intervención en la que, además de defender apasionadamente la democracia, pone en evidencia una importante trama de corrupción.
Hotel Manager
A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.
Police Dispatcher
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
Policeman Against Kissing (uncredited)
Una noche una joven heredera (Myrna Loy) conoce a un vagabundo (Robert Taylor) en un banco del parque. Y durante esa noche de diversión y borrachera se casa con él.
Police Captain
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
Bit Role
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
Policeman
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.
Police Captain Taylor (Uncredited)
En este 2º lanzamiento, Simon Templer, el Santo, y el inspector Henry Fernack, son llamados por el departamento de policía de San Francisco para ayudar a descubrir al cerebro que está detrás de una serie de inteligentes y misteriosos asesinatos.
Prison Warden (uncredited)
The "new roadways" of the title refer to various projects, carried out in the USA's research laboratories, that benefit mankind. These include solar energy projects, making glass that can be rolled up like a carpet, and diet experiments with mice that might lead to a cure for color blindness.
Elmer Hawkins, Prosecutor
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
Pete - Court Officer (uncredited)
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
Guard
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Minor Role
Historia sobre el desarrollo de las comunicaciones terrestres en los EE.UU. durante su rápida expansión en el siglo XIX. La película se centra en la vida de Ramsey McCay, empleado de la recién creada asociación entre Henry Wells y William Fargo, y de cómo gracias a su especial dedicación, la Wells-Fargo llega a convertirse en una gran empresa de correos y transporte de mercancías hacia el Oeste, presente en los mayores acontecimientos de la época.
Bald Policeman (uncredited)
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Sheriff Jones
A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they order him to follow up on the story and stay off the phone so the reporter (whom he secretly has a crush on) can use it.
Letter Carrier (uncredited)
Un anciano matrimonio reúne a sus dos hijos para comunicarles que están arruinados y los van a desahuciar en un plazo muy breve. Sus vidas tomarán un nuevo rumbo.
Court Bailiff
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Deputy
Con la esperanza de montar un espectáculo musical, unos estudiantes universitarios de baile y canto van a parar a un ruinoso hotel, donde servirán de conejillos de Indias de un experimento eugenésico.
Councilman
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
Court Attendant
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
Police Official (uncredited)
Con la pandilla de Al Kruger a la cabeza, los gángsters de Nueva York prosperan gracias a una administración débil que ha enviado al duro policía Johnny Blake (Edward G. Robinson) a un barrio de las afueras. Los cerebros de la banda son un triunvirato de banqueros cuyas influencias políticas, financieras y sociales permiten la existencia de los gángsters. Cuando Bryan, un editor que hace campaña contra ellos, aparece asesinado, un gran jurado designa al capitán Dan McLaren para que acabe con los malhechores. McLaren expulsa, aparentemente, a Blake del cuerpo de policía y éste, enfadado, se une a la banda como mano derecha de Kruger. Nick Fenner (Humphrey Bogart), el ayudante y asesino de Bryan, sospecha de Blake y desconfía de la presencia del ex policía en la banda.
Director
Short tourist film set on a tropical island where a sailor falls in love with a native girl.
Director
During a feud between remote families, a dog saves the day.
Director
Larry 'Hutch' Hutchdale, gentleman thief, is keeping an eye on the newly-arrived Princess Orloff of Russia...and not just because of her curvaceous figure. The woman's jewel necklace is worth a fortune. But her secretary, Natalie Kingston, is secretly a famed cat burglar, and wants the necklace for herself. The two thieves outwit each other at every turn, all the while realizing they're a perfect match. But the star-crossed lovers have a surprise on their hands when they realize the jewels are a fake, and the princess an imposter! Hidden Aces was Charles Hutchison's seventh and final appearance as 'Hutch' Hutchdale, the character he originated in 1921's Hurricane Hutch.
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Director
Veteran action hero William Russell starred opposite his offscreen wife Helen Ferguson in this typical Fox oater about a miner who finds himself up against a master swindler (George Webb).
Director
Silent horse racing car racing romantic melodrama about a Southern Colonel, who raises race horses, and whose daughter is a race car driver. A man comes from the North to buy a race horse, but is robbed by a robber who proceeds to pose as him and kidnaps the girl. The man rescues her and they end up getting married.
Director
John Douglas divorces his wife, taking custody of their son Kenneth and leaving her with their little daughter Kathleen. Mrs. Douglas dies in poverty, and Kathleen falls in with crook Jack Baggot and his wife, who teach her how to pick pockets.
Fred Jackson - the Seducer
Tony Gazeco, one of the workers in the factory, is an anarchist and agitator. Being of excitable nature he is looked upon by the other men as a leader and during the lunch hour makes impassionate speeches. Will and May Mason passing in an auto are witnesses to one of the tirades and going to the office of Fred Jackson, the owner, tell him of the probable strike...
Captain Howard
Carmelita, jealous of Captain Herbert, who loves Mildred, obtains the assistance of Salvada, a Mexican enemy of Herbert's and personates Mildred, to make the captain jealous...
Mr. Gray
A melodrama about a boy who initially wants nothing to do with his stepmother.
Paul - 2nd Nephew
Aunt Jane's nieces and nephews bicker over an anticipated legacy.
The Hotel Clerk
When a bored wife seeks a Reno divorce, she regains the attentions of her inattentive husband.
The First Suitor
A scheming suitor ends up losing his girl to a rival even after he receives an inheritance.
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