Joseph H. August

Un pintor arruinado y abatido por haber perdido la inspiración conoce, un frío día de invierno, a una chiquilla en Central Park vestida de un modo anticuado. A partir de ese momento se suceden otros encuentros, con la particularidad de que en breves intervalos de tiempo la chica se va convirtiendo en una bellísima joven, de la cual el pintor se enamora. Pero Jennie esconde un secreto.

Durante la campaña del Pacífico, una heroica compañía americana lucha contra el avance de las fuerzas japonesas en Filipinas, perdiendo cada vez más terreno. Dos oficiales de lanchas torpederas, en contra de la opinión de sus superiores, intentarán frenar el avance del enemigo utilizando las viejas embarcaciones contra los barcos nipones.

Cortometraje documental (ganador del Oscar en 1943) que muestra imágenes reales del ataque japonés a Midway sucedido en junio de 1942. La batalla finalizó con la victoria a favor de la marina estadounidense, que destruyó 28 barcos de guerra, 300 aviones nipones y cuatro portaaviones del ejército japonés.

Jabez Stone es un laborioso granjero que intenta ganarse la vida honestamente. Sin embargo, una racha de mala suerte le impulsa a cometer lo inimaginable: hacer un trato con el mismísimo Demonio. A cambio de siete años de buena fortuna, Stone promete su alma al "Señor Scratch". Cuando el atribulado granjero se da cuenta de su error, busca la ayuda de un hombre que puede salvarle. El legendario orador y político Daniel Webster.

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.

París, Francia, 1482. El juez Frollo, al servicio del benévolo rey Luis XI, se enamora de Esmeralda, una joven gitana. El jorobado Quasimodo, protegido de Frollo y campanero de Notre Dame, vive en paz entre las campanas, en las alturas de la inmensa catedral, hasta que el retorcido magistrado lo involucra en sus maliciosos planes, desesperado por liberarse del supuesto hechizo de Esmeralda, que él cree que es obra del diablo.

British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans

Biografía de Sam Houston, líder de la revolución de Texas que fue nombrado presidente de este territorio que se negaba a pertenecer a la Unión.

Cutter, MacChesney y Ballantine, tres sargentos del ejército británico unidos por una estrecha amistad, son enviados a una zona montañosa de la India para averiguar las causas de la extraña interrupción de las comunicaciones telegráficas. Los tres vivirán, en compañía de Gunga Din, su porteador de agua, diversas aventuras que les enfrentarán a los temibles tags, una secta de adoradores de la diosa Kali. Descubrirán, además, un templo escondido, serán apresados y torturados y salvarán al ejército de caer en una trampa mortal.

A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.

Las mafias campan a sus anchas en la ciudad de Nueva York, por lo que los ciudadanos deciden unirse y pedir ayuda a Simon Templar, 'El Santo', para que expulse al crimen organizado de toda Manhattan. Una vez en Nueva York, Simon intentará desmantelar la banda de gángsters de Big Fellow.

A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.

Se espera que Lady Alyce Marshmorton se case pronto, y los criados del Castillo Tottney hacen apuestas sobre quién será el elegido. Después de haber citado a un hombre en Londres, Alyce es castigada a quedarse en el castillo para evitar su comportamiento escandaloso. Pero en Londres también conoció a Jerry Halliday, quien acaba viniendo al castillo.

Un cantante que aspira a convertirse en compositor es acusado de un crimen y debe demostrar su inocencia. Por otro lado, los delincuentes responsables le amenazan para que no vuelva a cantar. Mientras medita sobre su futuro, Nino Maretti se enamora de la bella Jean.

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.

Narra la historia de un correo del zar de Rusia que debe entregar una carta al duque, en la que le previene del traidor Iván Ogaref que quiere asesinarlo y entregar su ciudad a los Khanes mongoles. En su apresurado camino se encuentra con Nadia, una joven que va a la misma ciudad, Irkuskt, para ver a su padre. Los mongoles capturan a Miguel Strogoff, que logra escapar curiosamente y entrega la carta al duque, evitando la invasión mongola.

Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.

Una joven esposa irlandesa intenta vivir tranquilamente alejada del caos político. Pero su marido, miembro del IRA planea un golpe contra la oficina de correos de Dublín. Relata la historia de un matrimonio absolutamente implicado en la lucha por la independencia de Irlanda durante la fallida insurrección de Pascua de 1916.

María Estuardo abandona Francia y regresa a Escocia, dispuesta a ocupar el trono del que es heredera. Pero los conflictos se acumulan: la nobleza le es hostil, comenzando por su medio hermano el conde de Moray, y su apego al catolicismo choca con la fe que predica John Knox, fundador de la Iglesia presbiteriana en Escocia. Por otro lado, su prima Isabel Tudor, hija ilegítima de Enrique VIII, teme que reclame la corona inglesa. Su único aliado es el conde Bothwell, comandante de las tropas escocesas, de quien se enamora.

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

Descubiertos sus negocios sucios, Henry Scarlett se ve obligado a abandonar Marsella y huir a Inglaterra. Su hija, Sylvia, le acompaña disfrazada de hombre y bajo el nombre falso de Silvestre Scarlett. En el barco en que viajan, Henry conoce a un tipo dudoso, Jimmy Monkley, a quien le confiesa imprudentemente que lleva una cierta cantidad de dinero escondido. En la aduana, Jimmy le delata, una hábil táctica para que no se fijen en él, que también practica el contrabando. Más tarde, en un compartimento del tren, los tres coinciden de nuevo, se reconcilian y deciden asociarse para ganar dinero fácil en Londres con timos y estafas.

Irlanda 1922. Traición entre amigos para un conocido filme de Ford. Rodada en apenas 3 semanas. En el agitado Dublín de los años veinte, Gypo Nolan, un tipo sin oficio ni beneficio, expulsado del Ejército de Liberación Irlandés y con tendencia a empinar el codo, sueña con viajar a Estados Unidos en compañía de su novia, Katie, que se gana la vida como prostituta. Animado por la recompensa que ofrecen las autoridades, Gypo delata el paradero del activista Frankie McPhillip, un viejo amigo y compañero.

Arthur Ferguson Jones es un hombre corriente, que lleva una vida muy sencilla. Nunca llega tarde al trabajo y nunca le sucede nada interesante. Un día, todo cambia: se queda dormido y es despedido para dar ejemplo, es confundido con Mannion, un despiadado criminal asesino, y es arrestado. El parecido es tan sorprendente que la policía le da un pase especial para evitar un error similar. El verdadero Mannion ve la oportunidad de robar el pase y moverse libremente, llevando la situación al caos.

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.

A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.

Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) es un dramaturgo y director teatral de Broadway que goza de gran prestigio, pero que tiene un carácter insoportable. En uno de los castings conoce a una joven actriz llamada Mildred (Carole Lombard), a la que escoge como protagonista de su obra. La rebautiza con el nombre de Lily Garland, que resulta mucho más comercial y llamativo. El estreno es un éxito de crítica y público, y la actriz se convierte en una estrella de Hollywood.

The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

Melodrama ambientado en Estados Unidos en la época de la Gran Depresión.

Slowly dying of an unspecified illness, wealthy invalid Charles Sellon wants his aide Neil Hamilton to end his suffering. Hamilton won't do it, but villainous lawyer Alan Dinehart, in line to inherit Sellon's millions, is not so charitable. Dinehart kills Sellon, then makes it look as though Hamilton murdered the old guy for his money.

Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".

Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice.

Un noble inglés asume la culpabilidad y va a juicio después de que su hijo estrangule a su amante.

Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and New York City police.

Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and New York City police.

Con la intención de estudiar el comportamiento humano, un escritor de la alta sociedad acoge en su casa a una joven huérfana a la que ha encontrado compareciendo en un juzgado nocturno por no haber pagado la cuenta del restaurante. Su familia no será comprensiva, sobre todo cuando empiecen a surgir complicaciones afectivas inesperadas con el escritor y su hermano.

El conductor de camiones Bugs Raymond organiza a las asociaciones de camioneros y se hace con dinero a cambio de protección. Una vez enriquecido, decide casarse con la dama de la alta sociedad Dorothy Stone. Ella le rechaza, en favor de otro hombre, así que él planea secuestrarla el día de su boda.

Dos prisioneros se escapan de la cárcel para ayudar a una pareja que, tras cumplir su condena, se instaló en una pequeña localidad para que nadie conociera su oscuro pasado. Ahora la pareja ve amenazada su felicidad por un deshonesto vendedor que quiere implicar al hombre en sus fraudulentas actividades.

On Your Back is a 1930 American drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and written by Howard J. Green. The film stars Irene Rich, Raymond Hackett, H. B. Warner, Wheeler Oakman, Marion Shilling and Ilka Chase.

Based on a novel by William R. Lipman

Al colisionar durante una tormenta con un barco, el submarino de la armada americana S13 se hunde en los mares de China, y los catorce hombres que componen la tripulación quedan atrapados en su interior, sin esperanzas de sobrevivir...

El capitán Donald King, de la armada británica, parte hacia la India en el mismo momento en que estalla la primera guerra mundial, dejando convencidos a sus camaradas de que es un cobarde. En realidad, forma parte de una misión secreta que tiene como fin rescatar a soldados británicos que han sido tomados prisioneros en dicho lugar.

Strong Boy es un reputado cargador de equipajes, por lo que pronto será ascendido de puesto. Está enamorado de Joy, una bella chica, que a pesar de su buen hacer en el trabajo no consigue alcanzar el puesto que ella desea.

"Napoleon's Barber" es la versión cinematográfica hablada del notable drama de Arthur Caesar, que George Bernard Shaw calificó como la mejor obra de un acto en inglés. (Prin Ad- The Angola Record, ((Angola, NY)) 21 de febrero de 1929)

Nancy Woods, secretary to a divorce lawyer, is tantalized by the idea of collecting alimony payments, she marries Stockney Webb with the intention of fleecing him after the honeymoon. Realizing that he has been fooled, Webb determines to teach Nancy, whom he truly loves, a lesson in humility and wifely behavior by taking her to his cabin in the wilderness.

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.

Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.

Esta película es la historia de un niño y una niña de un pueblo pequeño. El héroe, Denny Bolton, golpea al matón de la ciudad solo para encontrarse con él más tarde en el ring de boxeo en la ciudad de Nueva York. La ambición lo ha llevado a Broadway, pero la búsqueda del amor lo devuelve a la calle principal de su ciudad natal.

Lightin' Bill Jones y su mujer son dueños de un modesto hotel en la frontera que separa Nevada de California. Bill es un viejo bebedor aficionado a contar historias. Un par de estafadores tratan de robar su tierra a los Jones. La decidida intervención de la hija de ellos y de su novio impedirá que lo consigan.

Venus, the Goddess of Love (Celeste Lee) sends Cupid to Earth to look for romance.

Dan O'Hara, known as "Big Dan," returns from the war, and finding that his wife has left him, turns his home into a boys' camp and begins to train boxers. He meets Dora Allen, rescues her from an unwanted suitor, and gives her shelter in the camp. For a time, their relationship, which has become serious, is complicated by the intrusion of another suitor and by a woman who informs Dora that O'Hara is already married. The wife dies, however, and O'Hara wins Dora.

Bill is a gambler, whose friend Scipio goes in search of his wife Jessie. Jessie, fed up with her life of poverty, has run off with the wealthy and villainous James. She has left behind her two children on James' promise that she can send for them later. Scipio leaves the tots with Bill when he goes on his search..

A Western involving William S Hart as an outlaw who comes to the aid of a preacher in a small town through his infatuation with the preacher's wife. Rarely screened but considered one of his best; the version at the Library of Congress is missing one of the middle reels.

Ben Trego muere defendiendo a sus hijos gemelos del ataque de los indios. Separados, los dos chicos crecen de forma muy diferente, uno como Paul Marsden, el otro como un vaquero llamado "Brand, el callado". Paul se convierte en gobernador de Utah mientras Brand se asocia con George Barton en un rancho. El dueño del rancho adyacente planea quitarse de enmedio a ambos para controlar los derechos de agua. Cuando el gobernador Marsden va a la zona a investigar, Brand ve el parecido entre ambos...

Robert must avenge his son who was killed in a workplace accident.

El duro forajido 'Sierra' Bill se enamora de la violinista viajera Nelly Gray. Sierra la obliga a casarse con él. Tienen un hijo, pero la vida familiar se ve interrumpida por el jugador Ringe, quien no solo persuade a Nelly para que deje a su marido, sino que arruina a Sierra en la mesa de juego. Con pensamientos de venganza, Sierra enojada escapa de la cárcel y va tras Ringe.

Former crook 'Square' Kelly serves in the First World War. When he returns from the war, one of his comrades-in-arms convinces him to join the police force. But Kelly finds himself confronting the very criminals who made up his old gang.

Railroad station agent Dan Kurrie is fired from his job by his rival in love, Joseph Garber. Believed false by the girl he loves, Margaret , Kurrie must prove himself by unmasking a gang of bandits preying on the trains.

Buckskin Hamilton conduce una caravana de carromatos en el desierto, velando por los pioneros que escolta, pero con la esperanza de resolver el asesinato de su hermano. Sabe que uno de los viajeros es el culpable de su muerte

Cowhand Lem Beason wins a shooting contest at a Western rodeo, and as a result is hired by railroad president Gregory Collins to return to Chicago with Collins to take charge of security for Collins' vaults. Lem is reluctant to go, but Collins' pretty niece Rose changes his mind. In Chicago, Lem finds a great deal of criminal activity, but none of it can get the best of him.

A silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama about a man who gets out of prison after ten years and discovers that his wife has divorced him and married the man who sent him to prison. Worse yet, she fears he will want to exact revenge, so she sets up her new husband to frame her first husband, so he will be sent back to prison!

Drunk and disorderly cowpoke Robert Sands is banished from an Arizona frontier town and hops on a freight train heading for New York. Arriving in Manhattan, the rough-and-tumble cowboy obtains a position as "physical guardian" to a spoiled member of the social register.

In this 1918 film, newly restored by MoMA, Hart is a ship's captain in the Pacific Northwest who abandons his post to pursue a woman who does not love him (MacDonald) across the Klondike, eventually rescuing her from the grip of a white slaver.

Outlaw Hawk Parsons, notoriously successful in his pursuits, has been caught by the local sherif of a New Mexico town in the 1850s. The overly prideful sherif and his lawmen are outsmarted and Parsons escapes. In the desert, he falls in with a reverend, his wife, and their group of missionaries, who hope to establish a church. After coming under attack by a tribe of Native Americans, Parsons strikes a deal: in exchange for the safe keeping of the missionaries, he takes the reverend's wife for himself. Ultimately a parable of Christian values, the film's narrative establishes and overcomes obstacles that test the virtue of men in the American West.

Rawden, a lumberjack in the North woods, fights with crooked dance hall owner 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard over the affections of Babette DuFresne. Hilgard is killed. When Hilgard's mother and younger brother arrive in the remote logging town, Rawden attempts to ease their suffering by creating the fiction that Hilgard had been a well-loved man who died naturally. But when young Eric Hilgard learns the truth of his brother's death, he comes gunning for Rawden.

A hard-working prospector enters the town of Bakeoven to stake his claim, only to have his rights stolen and his face on "Wanted" posters. He plans reprisal.

Gambler "On-the Level" Leigh (William S. Hart) is forced to leave his high rolling lifestyle to move his ailing sister Alice (Mildred Harris) to the healing climate the mountains. Financial strain compels him to resume his favored vocation. Unfortunately for Level, the dance hall girl Coralie (Alma Rubens) doesn't take rejection well and convinces the dealer to clean him out with a "cold deck". A desperate robbery ensues, leading to Level wanted for murder!

The setting is the Old West town of Paradise, Nevada, where a young woman, Mercedes Murphy (played by Louise Glaum), co-owns and operates a combination saloon and dance hall called the Red Hen with her business partner, Slick Barney (played by Jack Richardson). Her little half-sister, Olive "Live" Sumner (played by Mildred Harris), who is crippled, lives with her and she makes every effort to protect the child. A tough, but good-hearted businesswoman, Mercedes shows a tender side at home with Live. Her partner, Slick, and a cowboy called the Heller (played by John Gilbert), who has a heart of gold, are both interested in Live.

William S. Hart was the great solitary Western hero of silent film who rode his horse off to new adventures once his job was done. In WOLF LOWRY, he meets a young settler played by Margery Wilson, herself a director in the early 1920s whose films are all considered lost.

William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope, and the name pretty much describes its inhabitants. Jim meets and falls in love with Jennie (Margery Wilson), whose father (Walt Whitman) is gravely ill. Jim rounds up a reluctant doctor from another town to tend to the old man, but he dies anyway. The doctor, however, gains Jennie's trust and she runs off with him. Only then does he tell her he's already married. She leaves immediately, but is too proud to go home so she finds work as a dance hall girl at Tacoma Jake's saloon. Jim, meanwhile, finds gold near Broken Hope, which raises its inhabitants' attitudes considerably. But the bad element is still there, and Jim is chasing after a group of kidnappers when he enters Tacoma Jake's saloon and sees Jennie. Jim not only overcomes the bad guys, he gets the girl, too.

Cliff Hudspeth, the leader of a band of outlaws in Arizona, has won his place by the killing of notorious gun-bullies. At their headquarters, in the Gila Mountains, in consultation with "Ace High," his lieutenant, he plans depredations on the neighboring settlements. Although Hudspeth is powerful, their rule is disputed by El Salvador, a half-breed, and his following of desperadoes. Desert Pass is the scene of many conflicts between the contending bands. Rumors of the arrival of miners with gold causes El Salvador to send "Cactus" Fuller, his henchman, to levy tribute by a hold-up, which is successful. Flushed with triumph, he boasts in the "Golden Fleece" saloon of the ignominies to which he would treat Cliff Hudspeth if he ever met him.

A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.

A Spanish boy is shipwrecked and cast ashore in Mexico in the sixteenth century. He is raised as a god by the Tehuan tribe, who have never before seen a white man, and is named Chiapa. Then at manhood he rules the Tehuans. Chiapa loves the priestess Tecolote but she is kidnapped by the Aztec warrior Mexitli, so he follows in the hopes of rescuing her.

Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in the following fracas. In the spirit world, Christ commends the captain, and returns to earth in the commander's body to promote His message of peace.

Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rage, he kidnaps the woman most responsible and makes her his slave in a desert hideaway.

Family relationships of a New Mexico family are just one part of this silent cowboy western about a war veteran who finds a goldmine. He wants to earn enough money to take care of his young son, but crooked officials swindle him out of the mine, and then his son is killed. He swears vengeance and joins up with Mexican bandit, "Pancho Zapilla", who intends to destroy his whole town.

When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, saloon owner Silk Miller and his cohorts sense danger to their evil ways. They hire gunman Blaze Tracy to run the minister out of town. But Blaze finds something in Faith Henley that turns him around, and soon Silk Miller and his compadres have Blaze to deal with.

When Ashley Hampdon becomes the target of a scheme to ruin him by his daughter's suitor, Hampdon sends for his old friend Bob White. Bob discovers that the suitor, Gregg Lewiston, cannot hope to win Lina Hampdon while her father's wealth remains intact. Lewiston hopes that if her family becomes destitute, she will turn to him. But Bob White is there to upset the scheme.

Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist in the Confederate army. He is terrified by the war and deserts during a battle. The film focuses on the son's struggle to overcome his cowardice.

Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier community.

An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York.

After the bandit Jim Stokes robs the stage he is wounded fleeing. Recuperating at a ranch, he falls in love with and marries the daughter. Now wishing to go straight he tries to return the money but is recognized and captured. When the Sheriff then loses the recovered money at a crooked roulette table, he and Stokes strike a bargain.