Driver
Legendary ballplayer and humanitarian Lou Gehrig and his relationship with his stalwart wife, Eleanor, are portrayed in this film that focuses on the Hall of Famer's life off the baseball field. Featuring unflinching looks at the Gehrigs' relationship, as well as Lou's feud with Babe Ruth. This film is for anyone interested in baseball. [imdb]
Professor
Griffin has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of quietly facing his death, he decides to have fun in the time remaining. At a college class on death, he meets Phoenix, who has terminal leukemia.
Frazier
La historia comienza en la penitenciaría del Estado de Illinois donde Ralph Drake está a punto de ser ejecutado por el asesinato de su esposa. La última voluntad de Ralph es que su hermano, Don, limpie su nombre y encuentre al verdadero asesino. Esta búsqueda le sumerge en el mundo de lo esotérico y está él solo, no hay nadie en quien pueda confiar. Pronto se dará cuenta que todo es un maquiavélico plan.
Police Chief
A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town...until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.
Deputy Coroner
Una sacerdotisa felina está detrás de un amuleto dorado, el cual tiene poderes mágicos.
Mr. Atkinson
A spy thriller involving an American who is enlisted by British intelligence to replace one of its recently murdered agents and smash a ring of blackmailers -- James Bond style -- headed by a nefarious figure known as Scorpio.
Bald Man (uncredited)
Marnie es una embustera y una ladrona compulsiva que se sirve de su trabajo como secretaria para robar. Cuando Mark Rutland la contrata, no sólo no abandona sus delictivos hábitos, sino que, además, se comporta de manera absolutamente desquiciada. A pesar de todo, Mark, cediendo a un impulso inexplicable, decide casarse con ella y averiguar las razones de su obsesivo comportamiento. Cuando un terrible accidente lleva a Marnie a una situación límite, Mark la obliga a enfrentarse a sus terrores cuyas raíces se hunden en el pasado.
Jabez Hutchinson
Cuando un hombre llega a un pueblecito de Nueva Inglaterra a reclamar el castillo de su familia, descubre que está habitado por mutantes y que, además, se halla bajo una diabólica y ancestral maldición. En otros tiempos, su abuelo se había dedicado allí a la practica de ritos satánicos.
Farmer
Harold Hill, un farsante charlatán, se detiene en una pequeña ciudad y convence a sus habitantes para formar una banda de música infantil. Cuando consigue reunir el dinero necesario para sacar adelante el proyecto... se marcha sin dejar rastro. Buscando otro pueblo al que estafar, Hill llega a River City, en Iowa, donde intentará persuadir a sus habitantes de que la única forma de salvar a la juventud es organizando una banda de muchachos. Lo que no imagina Hill es que la profesora de música del pueblo, Marian Paroo, va a trastocar por completo sus planes.
Dr. Fredricks
Two little boys use a magic potion to turn themselves into bears.
Mohammad
Young Guy Brancato and parents have to move from Elko, Nevada to Los Angeles, California, they are unable to take Guy's dog Pete. Guy is angry at his parents and even more distressed when he learns that Pete has run away from the neighbor who was tending him. But Pete has plans to travel to Los Angeles on his own.
Lewis Clark Dobbs
Un terremoto sub-oceánico libera un grupo de criaturas agusanadas que comienzan a migrar hacia las costas de California.
Suitor (uncredited)
Francia, siglo XVI. Periodo de las guerras de religión. Diana de Poitiers (Lana Turner), amante del príncipe heredero, el futuro Enrique II de Francia (1547-1559), alcanza un poder casi absoluto gracias a su extraordinaria capacidad para manipular a los hombres. Entre sus presas están el mismísimo rey Francisco I y su propio marido, el conde de Breze. Sin embargo, para conseguir sus propósitos tendrá que enfrentarse a una rival tan astuta como ella: la intrigante Catalina de Médicis.
Adam Urich
El padre de lady Mary es inocente, pero es acusado de traición y ejecutado. Es el malvado canciller, duque de Brompton, que ha encontrado una forma de hacerse rico: acusa a sus enemigos de traición, los ejecuta y expropia sus fortunas. Lady Mary viaja a Londres a entrevistarse con el duque, pero se encuentra en el camino al guapo Michael Dermott. Dermott ha encontrado el cuaderno del duque, donde están escritos todos sus demoníacos planes.
Satterlee the Prophet
El sargento de caballería Matt Trainor (Broderick Crawford) es uno de los pocos supervivientes de un ataque comanche acaudillado por Nube Negra. Trainor y los demás supervivientes deberán recorrer cien millas de desierto para llegar al fuerte más cercano. El grupo deberá afrontar no sólo los peligros del terreno, sino también el hecho de que apenas les queda agua, y los indios les acechan para hacerse con sus escasas reservas.
Piano Shopper
Cuenta la historia de un individuo felizmente casado, con trabajo y dos niños, cuya vida cambia radicalmente cuando gana un concurso radiofónico de preguntas y respuestas, convirtiéndose en una celebridad.
Thin Man Visiting Mahoney
Lin, un hombre malherido y perseguido por la policía encuentra acogida en casa de un sacerdote al que le cuenta su historia: cuando trabajaba en México, en un campo petrolífero, entregó a la policía a un hombre sospechoso de haber robado el dinero de las nóminas. Ese hombre murió después en extrañas circunstancias, y Lin, abrumado por un sentimiento de culpa, fue a trabajar al rancho de su viuda.
Crossman's Butler
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Willie Rolf (uncredited)
Cody Jarrett y su banda asaltan un tren que transporta 300.000 dólares, asesinan a los conductores y huyen con el dinero. Poco después, los agentes federales inician la persecución, convencidos de que él es el autor del asalto. Cody se entrega a la policía y es condenado a sólo dos años de prisión, ya que ha preparado una coartada perfecta. Sin embargo, los agentes del tesoro están convencidos de que fue el cerebro del asalto y le tienden una trampa.
Elias Dunkenscold
Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia White. Lavinia blames Garrett for sending her father Ivory White to jail for robbing 100,000 dollars. White, who has stashed the loot away someplace, is about to be released and plans to return the money to the express office for the sake of his children, Lavinia and Chad. Nasty Jim Judd forces Lavinia to help him rob the coach carrying Ivory and the money, counting on the fact that White will keep quiet for his daughter's sake.
Joe Atkins
En 1908, en la pequeña localidad de Jericho (Kansas), Dave Connors, el fiscal del condado que está casado con una mujer alcohólica, se siente atraído por Julia, una compañera de profesión. Al mismo tiempo es acosado por Algeria, la mujer de su amigo Tucker.
Mr. Grail
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected with the conviction and execution of an evidently innocent man.
Miller
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.
'You Know Who'
Un senador local, que nunca ha salido de su terruño y no molesta demasiado a su partido, a pesar de ser más bien chapucero y lleno de extrañas y estrambóticas ideas socio-políticas, decide, con ayuda de su joven y ambicioso agente de prensa, dar a entender públicamente que "querer, querer, no quiere la Presidencia del País, pero que si el Pueblo se lo pide....". Esto causa estupor en su partido pues sería un desastre que se presente, pero todo se complica cuando se sabe que durante muchos años ha ido escribiendo un diario, donde aparecen escritas cosas que más valiera no salieran a la luz.
Superior Court Judge (uncredited)
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Al (uncredited)
Mary Hagen vive en un pequeño pueblo de Ohio y asiste a Jordon Junior College. Durante años, ha habido susurros, rumores y chismes sobre quiénes son sus verdaderos padres. Cuando Tom Bates regresa a la ciudad, se hace cargo de la casa y practica que el juez Merrivale lo dejó cuando murió. Como Tom ha estado fuera varios años, esto lleva a más chismes y Mary cree que él es su padre. El popular y rico Ken ama a Mary, pero su familia y amigos le recuerdan constantemente que ella "no es uno de nosotros". Julia, una maestra de la escuela, anima a Mary, pero Mary no puede interrumpir nada de lo que hace o es acusada de hacer. Tom conoce la respuesta a su verdadera identidad y guarda silencio.
Jeffers, the Butler
A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.
Dr. A. Tomic
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
Butler
Walter Mitty, es un escritor soñador con una madre sobreprotectora, al que le gusta imaginar que es un héroe que vive fantásticas aventuras. Su sueño se convierte en realidad cuando conoce accidentalmente a una misteriosa mujer que le entrega un pequeño libro negro. Según ella, contiene las ubicaciones de las joyas de la corona holandesa, ocultas desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pronto, Mitty se encuentra en medio de una conspiración, donde tendrá dificultades para diferenciar entre la realidad y la ficción.
Prof. Gately Crawford
The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.
Mr. Fennabeck
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
Dr. Huntley G. Harlow / Hackett
Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The husband is murdered and, shortly afterwards, the wife is also killed. Larry shuffles through a long list of suspects before revealing the killer...
Hotel Clerk
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately, the woman dislikes his brothers and constantly worries that he will be killed during a flight. Her fears are not unfounded and much tragedy ensues as the story unfolds.
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Cine negro de bajo presupuesto y limitado metraje. Narra la historia de tres amigos pilotos que, sin miedo a la muerte, recorren Asia en sus aeroplanos. Cuando uno de ellos muere en Calcuta, sus amigos empiezan a investigar y se las tienen que ver con una peligrosa banda de ladrones de joyas.
Higby
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
Charlie Kane
An elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of various citizens in a small town. Released in 1946.
Jefferson (uncredited)
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
Professor Schnackenberger
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.
Johnson
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
Medcraft - Mortician (uncredited)
Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde), un joven escritor, conoce en un tren a Ellen (Gene Tierney), una bellísima mujer con la que se casa pocos días después. La vida parece sonreírles, pero Ellen es tan posesiva, sus celos son tan enfermizos que no está dispuesta a compartir a Richard con nadie; tanto amigos como familiares representan para ella una amenaza de la que intentará librarse.
Deathridge the Undetaker
Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer called Splitface (Mike Mazurki).
Man with Beard (uncredited)
Gene Kelly y Frank Sinatra son dos marineros de personalidades opuestas: uno (Sinatra) es tímido y un tanto ingenuo, mientras que el otro (Kelly) es un hombre de mundo. Ambos vivirán mil peripecias en la ciudad de Los Ángeles
Hardy Sympathizer (uncredited)
Pete Marshall es un encuestador que se verá envuelto en la búsqueda de 70.000$ escondidos de un atraco a un banco sucedido muchos años antes. Su investigación le conducirá hasta un pueblo rural donde se topará con la familia Fleagle. Bert y Mert, que se dedican a espantar fisgones con sus rifles.
Crystal Gazer
Dos torpes magos ayudan a un príncipe del Medio Oriente a recuperar su legítimo trono de su tío despótico.
Adamson
A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies.
Hank
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
announcer
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
John Channing
Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
Coroner (uncredited)
Chick Larkin y Mervyn Milgrim trabajan en el mostrador de una estación de radio local. Su verdadera pasión, sin embargo, es llegar a ser escritores en el programa de misterio de la radio. Así asisten a una emisión del programa "Asesinato a medianoche" junto con uno de los escritores, Jimmy Turner y la productora, Jane Little. A poco de comenzar el espectáculo, el presidente de la cadena, el coronel JR Andrews es misteriosamente electrocutado. A resultas de ello Chick y Mervyn ven su gran oportunidad de llegar a escribir para la radio haciéndose pasar por detectives con el fin de resolver el crimen.
Doctor Pluma
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
Dr. Walter Bascomb
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.
Jarvis J. Banhoff (uncredited)
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Sanderson
A would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but falls in love with his daughter instead.
Foreman
Hannah Hoyt, una anciana centenaria, asiste a la inauguración de una estatua en homenaje a su marido, un pionero con el que, en 1848, vivió en las montañas, donde buscando oro corrieron toda clase de peligros.
Mortician
Karen Bentley, una agente especial inglesa, tiene que formar equipo con el estrambótico Larry Haines, para frustrar los planes de unos espías alemanes.
Mr. Lockspur
A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
Purchase Agent Sam Savage
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.
Announcer
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
Arthur Fletcher
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...
Butler
Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to the estate and finds one daughter already there and the second one expected. When she arrives, it is Ellery's secretary Nikki Porter posing as the daughter as Ellery had her intercept the real heiress after learning of a plot to swindle Rogers. The blackmailing seamen are killed at a waterfront café after getting the blackmail money, Rogers is suspected and Inspector Queen arrives to arrest him, but he is also found dead.
George Lawrin
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
Mr. Sartoris
FBI agent Bob Grayson works in collaboration with Max, a British agent posing as a fugitive German aviator. Meanwhile, fearless girl reporter Dallas Dayle is assigned by her editor to track down the enemy aviator and get an exclusive story. When she catches up with Grayson and Max, Dallas is under the impression that Grayson is a rival reporter and Max is the genuine fugitive.
Harry Hoskins (uncredited)
Unos gángters quieren hacer que un grupo de gente abandone una casa donde ellos se han escondido. Para ello intentarán asustarles hasta conseguir que se marchen.
Max Allaron
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
Olson
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
Gene LaFarge
Un mapa del tesoro en cuatro partes, el fantasma de un pirata ahorcado, un loro parlante y un barco lleno de pistas falsas complican la búsqueda de Charlie de un asesino a bordo de un barco atracado.
Douglass
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
Eddie
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
John Cartigan
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
Arcade Photographer
Margot (Myrna Loy), la editora de una glamurosa revista femenina, para evitar el continuo asedio de sus colegas masculinos y la cólera de sus celosas esposas, decide ponerse un anillo de oro en el tercer dedo de la mano izquierda, haciendo ver que está casada. Todo se complica cuando el artista Jeff Thompson (Melvyn Douglas), harto de sus continuos fracasos con Margot, decide fingir ante todo el mundo ser su marido, que se creía desaparecido hace mucho tiempo.
Brock
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
Parkersville Crazy Man
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Aldrich's Assistant (uncredited)
Dos amigos que pretenden hacerse ricos con el negocio del petróleo en los campos de Oklahoma, comienzan a tener problemas cuando se enamoran de la misma mujer.
Expectant Father (uncredited)
Cuando se casa, un hombre contraviene la política de su empresa.
'Acid' Graham
Mediante flashback, un Edison de 82 años narra su vida desde su llegada a Nueva York con 22 años, cuando ya empezó a hacer sus pinitos en el mundo de la invención.
Florist (uncredited)
El juez Hardy intenta localizar a un pariente de una pareja de edad avanzada, con el fin de impedir que pierdan su hogar. Para ello, recaba la ayuda de su hijo Andy.
Coroner (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.
Minister at Station (uncredited)
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
