(archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Businessman (uncredited)
Henry Tyroon (James Garner) ha conseguido amasar una fortuna gracias al negocio del petróleo y ahora regresa desde Texas a Nueva York con la intención de especular en la bolsa y hacerse aún más rico. La mujer que debe guiar sus pasos en el mercado bursátil es la analista Molly Thatcher (Lee Remick). Con ella compartirá algo más que sus asuntos profesionales.
Admiral Terhune
Numerosos naufragios se suceden cerca del Polo Norte. Alarmados por la cantidad de incidentes, la Armada estadounidense decide enviar al submarino nuclear Tiger Shark (dotado de armamento y una tripulación de científicos) a investigar y detener a los causantes. Pero la sorpresa es mayúscula cuando el Tiger Shark se topa en las profundidades con un platillo volador. Ahora el submarino deberá entablar un duelo a muerte en las profundidades del polo, para evitar que los extraterrestres puedan dar aviso a los de su raza y comience una invasión alienígena a la Tierra.
The Secretary of State
A missile from parts unknown enters an orbit only 5 miles above Earth's surface and, due to friction from its intense speed through our atmosphere, proceeds to incinerate everything in its immediate wake.
Mr. Wetherby
Milly (Joan Crawford) es una mujer que dejó pasar la juventud entregada al cuidado de su padre. Un día, asiste a un concierto y se enamora de Burt (Cliff Robertson), un hombre bastante más joven que ella. Pocos meses después de casarse, Milly recibe la visita de Virginia (Vera Miles), la antigua mujer de Burt.
Prof. Carl Blakely
Jungle-Jim type Johnny Weissmuller helps Professor Blakely look for a missing colleague who is now playing "god" for a bunch of natives.
When teen-ager June Kinney is arrested, Warner Anderson, the pastor of a local church she once attended, has her released in his charge. She tells the pastor she doesn't come to church because the congregation is too cold and unfriendly. Realizing that she has spoken the truth, the pastor tries to inject new life into the church and brings up the idea of widened community services before the church board. There is opposition, at first because of the cost, but they vote to give the new plan a chance.
Gen. Carson
Colonel Ed Wyatt is regarded by pilots under his command as being a ruthless disciplinarian. His co-pilot, Lt. Hobson Lee, and Jo McWethy, a war correspondent assigned to the squadron become more friendly than meets Wyatt's approval. When Wyatt's plane is forced down behind enemy lines, he orders his crew to proceed to the American lines with the vital film they have shot, while he remains behind to hold off the enemy.
Col. Brand
Cuando estalla la Guerra Civil americana (1861-1865), el sureño Jack McCall se une al ejército de la Unión. Un malentendido hace que lo tomen por un espía y lo condenen a muerte. A pesar de ello, Jack logra escapar y, desde ese momento, intentará probar su inocencia por todos los medios a su alcance. (FILMAFFINITY)
Chaplain Hall (uncredited)
El juez de paz Melvin Bush casa a varias parejas antes de que su ingreso en la magistratura sea oficial. Años después, esos matrimonios se enteran de que sus bodas no son válidas.
Merritt Crayton - Attorney (uncredited)
El joven abogado Maxwell Webster, casado y con tres niños, empieza su carrera en un pueblecito perdido de Montana. Como la vida allí no es nada sencilla, la familia no tiene más remedio que trasladarse a Los Ángeles, donde tendrán que afrontar problemas de toda índole, especialmente económicos. Por si fuera poco, Maxwell se verá involucrado en un proceso judicial.
Dr. Halsey (uncredited)
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
Col. Tappen
A trio of singers is entertaining wounded soldiers of WWII. They encourage a mutilated soldier in his love to a nurse.
Doc Hunter
Una estrella del futbol americano ve con desesperación como su hijo, que tiene grandes posibilidades, es muy torpe con el balón, y lo que más le horroriza, prefiere los libros a la pelota. para que su hijo no se convierta en un intelectual sin remedio, decide contratar a un entrenador personal para que saque el potencial que el chico lleva dentro.
Governor
At the end of the Civil War, Sam White returns home to his ranch in the Texas ranch -The Panhandle - to find it in the hands of a gang of outlaws
Col. Masters
Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
Col. Halliburton
El oficial Talbot está decidido a usar misiles teledirigidos en su submarino. La marina todavía no ha dado el visto bueno, por lo que él decide saltarse a la torera las órdenes de sus superiores y comienza a probarlos. La iniciativa no puede resultar peor pues en las pruebas mueren varios de sus hombres, lo que le acaba provocando un colapso mental.
David Thurston
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer. The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.
Dr. Johnson
Abilene gunmen are bent on terrorizing the town of Blue Valley and massacring its inhabitants. They have been hired by local druggist Henry Turner, who has discovered gold beneath the town and wishes complete possession.
Warden Frank R. Bentley
Nazis dressed to look like Great Apes are looking for gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them.
Meredith
Brown
The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller who may be the man who's been going around knocking down telegraph wires.
Judge Donnell
A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big deal as actors Norris and Douglas were pretty much interchangeable anyway; Ruth Marshall is reunited with husband Richard Marshall on the pleas of their son in the divorce court of Judge Donnell; and Clair Dunning makes up with husband Bill Dunning after they meet in the bar. Most of what passes for action is a couple of car wrecks, understandable considering the amount of sauce consumed in Harry's bar.
Doctor (uncredited)
Un padre deja a su hija en manos de Sorrowful Jones mientras acude a las apuestas de caballos. Cuando regresa, se entera de que el cuidado de la niña interfiere con su estilo de vida. Sorrowful, por su parte, debe escapar de unos gangsters.
Cortlandt Official (uncredited)
Gary Cooper es un arquitecto vanguardista en desigual lucha con el mundo. Su deseo de demostrar tanto su talento como el valor del individuo frente a la masa se mezcla con una tórrida y compleja historia de amor en este atípico melodrama, ejemplarmente rodado por Vidor con toda la pasión y el pulso narrativo que le caracterizan. Impresionante banda sonora de Max Steiner y magníficas interpretaciones para una obra maestra del género, de interés especial para los amantes de la arquitectura -los proyectos de Cooper se parecen sospechosamente a los de Frank Lloyd Wright-.
Capt. Wright
Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he tries to make a getaway. Naval Intelligence officer Captain Wright and Operative Dale are assigned to investigate and determine who is behind the spy syndicate for which Rattick worked. They bring in the services of Agent Tom Norman, who bears a strong resemblance to Rattick.
Clergyman (uncredited)
Anabel Sims (Betsy Drake), una dependienta de unos grandes almacenes que desea casarse, se fija en el pediatra Madison Brown (Cary Grant), pero el médico no le presta demasiada atención. Anabel lo intenta todo, pero sin éxito, hasta que se le ocurre una nueva táctica: darle celos contándole que su jefe está intentando seducirla. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dr. Bossin
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.
Dr. Moseby
Tom Walker, ex jugador de fútbol americano, vuelve a su ciudad natal convertido en clérigo. También lo hace Carol Maynard, famosa modelo que se lleva una decepción al ver que la pensión de su tío, al que había pagado la hipoteca, está llena de parásitos que no pagan. Tom y Carol reanudan su romance, que se interrumpió cuando cada cual siguió su camino...
Ed Brawley
El agente de seguros John Forbes (Dick Powell) vive en Los Ángeles con su esposa (Jane Wyatt) y su hijo (Jimmy Hunt). Mientras tanto, un ex policía convertido en detective privado (Raymond Burr) se dedica a investigar los métodos de un estafador (Byron Barr) al que hace poco la compañía de Forbes pagó una indemnización. El detective descubre que le hizo diversos regalos a una atractiva modelo (Lizabeth Scott). (FILMAFFINITY)
Judge Jed Allerton
A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has.
District Attorney Ed Chalmers
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
Mr. Howard
The murder of nightclub hostess leads an investigator (Kane Richmond) to seedy nightspots.
Henry Seward (uncredited)
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
Dr. Keating
A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
Police Insp. Harding (uncredited)
Steve Kenet, un veterano piloto de guerra, es ingresado en un psiquiátrico después de haber confesado el asesinato de su esposa. La doctora Ann Lorrison es la encargada de esclarecer el oscuro caso.
Edward Clemmons
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
Stringer
Una empresa dedicada a los sondeos de opinión busca con ahínco su “milagro estadístico”: una pequeña ciudad cuya opinión refleje la del resto del país. Cuando las cosas se ponen feas y la empresa parece estar abocada a la bancarrota, se publican los resultados de una encuesta realizada a miles de personas en todo el país. Lo asombroso es que esos resultados coinciden con los del sondeo realizado por la empresa en el pequeño pueblo de Grandview.
Charles Lennox
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
Judge
Although Dale and Ken Bullock should be a happily married couple, their marriage is on the verge of a break-up, because Dale refuses to give up her well-paying job in order to devote more time to Ken and their two children Jimmy, age 9, and Tommy, age 6. They sue for divorce and the Judge rules that the children be placed in the custody of their father. Dale realizes what she has lost but she is too proud to say anything to Ken, whom she still loves. Ken, shopping for the perfect stay-at-home wife to take care of his children, falls for the charms of his secretary, Millie Lynch. Not quite.
Marine Capt. R.S. Handler
A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis.
Doctor in Elevator (uncredited)
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
Judge William B. Collins
In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.
Rev. Eckles (uncredited)
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
Warden Lund
Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
Lowell Cornell
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
Dr. Sterling
An eight-year-old girl is an unwilling and disturbed witness of parental quarrels in her home, and when the parents finally secure a divorce, the judge decrees that the young girl live with her mother for eight months and her father the other four months. The divided life affects her both mentally and physically.
Ship's Doctor
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
Mr. Dibbs - Museum Curator (uncredited)
Los dos cómicos encarnan a sendos espíritus que fueron tachados por error de traidores. Como es lógico no pueden descansar en paz, así que deciden volver para probar su inocencia.
Fielding
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
Walter Winslow
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
Dr. Lawson
Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes drastic measures to make sure his wife dies.
Dr. Connell (Uncredited)
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
Dr. Blair
En este thriller, el psiquiatra Dr. Cross (Vincent Price) mata a su esposa y espera salirse con la suya, hasta que descubre que el asesinato fue observado por una vecina de al lado, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw). Mientras Janet intenta convencer a su esposo (Frank Latimore) de la vil hazaña del médico, Cross aparece para advertirle que Janet necesita urgentemente un asesoramiento profundo.
Dr. Judson
Un cowboy ayuda a los granjeros de trigo de Dakota contra los saqueadores de terrenos. Contará con la ayuda de la hija de un magnate ferroviario.
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
Deacon Sam
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
Darles F. Peters (uncredited)
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.
Dr. Melnik
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
RCMP Superintendant MacDonald
In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this minor Universal serial. They played Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers investigating the murder of a miner. The story, of course, was less important than speed and action, which directors Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins delivered in typical slap-dash Universal style. Starlet Daun Kennedy did not make much of an impression as the imperiled leading lady, and former star Robert Armstrong (of King Kong fame) was wasted in a subordinate role. Rondo Hatton, a non-actor whose grotesque appearance (caused by acromegaly, the so-called "Elephant Man" disease) was tastelessly exploited by Universal in the '40s, appeared as one of the outlaws.
Col. Blaine
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un piloto americano se somete a una operación de cirugía plástica para lograr infiltrarse en territorio japonés y poder llevar adelante su investigación
Doctor
After struggling to become a success, Betty Miller and her all-girl orchestra finally hit pay dirt when crooner Herbie Fenton comes on board. Problems arise when Betty and her girls try to find backers to invest in Herbie and they sell 125 percent of him.
John Smalley
After the death of shipping magnate William Reardon, his young partner, Steve Walker, becomes executor and manager of his shipyards, in accordance with his will. Reardon's spoiled niece, society girl Pamela Herrick, will inherit her uncle's entire estate on condition that she hold a job at the shipyards for a year on her own merit. Steve is to be the sole judge of her actions and decide whether she will receive her inheritance.
Warden
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Williams
A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting experiments with patients with paralyzed nerves is convinced he can cure her.
Arthur Stanton
In this western, brave Red Ryder and his sidekick save a murdered judge's son from going to jail by proving that someone else killed his father.
General
In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room, board, and musical entertainment.
J. L. Carson
In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include "My Heart Isn't in It" (Jack Lawrence), "It's Love, Love, Love" (Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer), "When They Ask about You" (Sammy Stept), "Jumpin' at the Jubilee" (Ben Carter, Mayes Marshall), "Taking Care of You" (Lou Brown, Harry Akst), "Where Am I Without You?" (Don Raye, Gene De Paul), "Two Hearts in the Dark" (Dave Franklin), "Somewhere This Side of Heaven," "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel."
Chief of Radio Intelligence Division
1940. Sixteen year old Phillip is one of a number of amateur radio operators across the US, doing it purely as a fun hobby. He is informed by Bill Beck of the Radio and Intelligence Division (RID) of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that amateur international radio communication is now banned due to spying a result of the war in Europe. Beck, on behalf of the RID, asks Phillip, however, to continue to monitor the airwaves for suspicious activity.
Col. Robbins
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
Consul
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Carol's Lawyer
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
Grant
Grover y Wilbur deben encontrar un sustituto del caballo de O'Hara, muerto tras comer caramelos accidentalmente. El dúo encuentra a uno en un hipódromo y se lo llevan, ignorando que se trata de un campeón de carreras llamado "Galleta de Té".
Medical Examiner
Moe Finkelstein es un policía judío de Brooklyn asignado para proteger el cónsul nazi Karl Baumer en Nueva York, antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Baumer no es sólo un violento antisemita, pero es también un sinvergüenza, que desvía fondos del consulado alemán para un uso propio. Su perfidia es conocida por su mujer Sophie, que se casó con Baumer sólo para salvar a su familia de los campos de concentración, y por el asistente de Baumer, el Barón de Alvenstor. Por lo tanto, cuando Baumer es encontrado muerto, Sophie y el Barón son los primeros sospechosos del crimen.
Mr. Bedford
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.
Lt. General
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enemy-held islands.
Col. Thompson (uncredited)
Guadalcanal sigue a un entregado pelotón de marines a través de los horrores de la guerra en el sur del pacífico. Soldados que no sólo luchan contra el enemigo, sino también contra la enfermedad, un terreno peligroso y un clima implacable.
Harrison K. Woods
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
Bit role
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
George Arnold, Insurance Man
Una niña prodigio dotada de una voz maravillosa huye de su represora tía y convence a una pareja rural de que la adopte.
Maj. Henry Barton
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
Sersen
A comienzos del siglo XIX, el Congreso aprobó la financiación de la célebre Academia Militar de West Point. Sin embargo, hubo quienes se opusieron a la creación de esta institución, porque temían que diera lugar a una expansión ilegítima del poder del Gobierno Federal.
Chaplain
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
Minister at Wedding
Justo antes de embarcarse en su luna de miel, el soldado Kay Kyser recibe la orden de presentarse en el cuartel general para una peligrosa misión: actuar como espía en un club nocturno donde parece ser se ha localizado a un grupo de nazis. Su esposa Terry no parece conformarse con la soledad, así que parte en busca de su nuevo marido. Esto, unido a la torpeza de Kyser y la intervención de una rubia agente secreta dará lugar a todo tipo de situaciones cómicas.
Mr. Tuttle (uncredited)
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
Laird Burnett (Uncredited)
"El Halcón" y una periodista tratan de resolver una serie de asesinatos que coinciden con la salida de la cárcel de un ex-luchador. La historia se inspira en la novela de Raymond Chandler "Farewell, My Lovely" ("Adiós Muñeca"). Esta es la tercera vez que George Sanders interpretó el personaje del Halcón.
Mr. Thomas
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
Club Member (Uncredited)
A young newlywed couple learns to make their new marriage work; trying to impress family, stay on budget, and remain as diplomatic towards each other as possible.
Lawyer Harrison
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
American Navy Captain
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
Judge
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
Joe Smith es el típico americano medio. Trabaja para una fábrica de aviones donde se está construyendo un nuevo bombardero. Este proyecto provoca que Joe sea secuestrado por agentes enemigos. Pero Joe Smith resulta ser todo un héroe americano, pues no sólo no dice nada de lo que sabe, sino que posteriormente ayuda a la policía en su investigación para detener a los secuestradores.
Mr. Wallis (uncredited)
En esta ocasión Gay se dedica a Helen Reed (Wendy Barrie), una mujer valiente que conoció en la 1ª entrega en The Gay Falcon (El intrépido Halcón). Gay y Helen se supone que deben partir de la ciudad para encontrarse con su familia, pero surge un nuevo caso en el que se entrelazan un asesinato y una fórmula para fabricar diamantes falsos. No hace falta deciros, que los planes de Helen con Gay se verán frustrados, ya que nuestro héroe no puede resistirse a resolver el crimen.
The Pastor
As the elderly man visiting his wife's grave remembers how a renewed faith in Christianity help a shady businessman, a juvenile delinquent a young couple and a shiftless man find the way to righteousness.
Army Officer
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Graham
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Sam Rankin
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
Capt. McCook (uncredited)
George Custer (Errol Flynn) llega a la Academia de West Point lleno de arrogancia y vanidad. Su carácter indisciplinado le ocasionará numerosos problemas con sus superiores. A pesar de todo, y debido a la acuciante necesidad de oficiales para la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), es enviado al frente. Terminada la guerra, se casa con Beth (Olivia de Havilland), pero pronto le asignan un nuevo destino: la guerra contra los indios. Al frente del Séptimo de Caballería, el Teniente Coronel Custer se enfrentará a los indios de Caballo Loco. La campaña termina con la famosa batalla de Little Big Horn (Montana, 1876).
Adm. Curtiss
Chris Waring es un investigador del gobierno que trata de reunir las pruebas necesarias para condenar a un magnate naviero.
General Duncan (uncredited)
Alvin C. York es un joven y trabajador campesino que vive en una de las numerosas granjas de los montes de Cumberland, en el estado de Tennessee. Sólo tiene un defecto: la bebida. Alvin está enamorado de una muchacha, cuya familia de clase alta impide el matrimonio. Basada en hechos reales.
Thomas Morse
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
Senator
Tras la dolorosa pérdida de su hijo, Edna, una valiente mujer de Texas, decide crear un orfanato para ayudar a los niños más desvalidos y necesitados de ayuda; pero los ciudadanos más conservadores no verán con buenos ojos la creación de una institución de acogida para niños nacidos fuera del matrimonio. Edna luchará incansablemente para conseguir legalizar el orfanato.
Board Member (uncredited)
Joe Pendleton (Robert Montgomery) es un boxeador que iba a luchar por el campeonato mundial antes de morir en un accidente de avión. Por desgracia para Joe, él no estaba destinado a morir en el accidente, pero sube al cielo antes de tiempo por culpa de un ángel demasiado eficiente (Edward Everett Horton). Ahora es cosa del jefe del ángel, Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), encontrar un nuevo cuerpo para Joe y darle otra oportunidad de luchar por el título. Mientras le buscan un nuevo hogar, Joe conoce a una joven idealista (Evelyn Keyes) de la que se enamora locamente, y lo que le da una razón para vivir, aparte de para poder pelear por el título. Adaptación de la obra "El cielo puede esperar", que en 1978 también fue adaptada por Warren Beatty.
Head of Draft Board
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
Doctor (uncredited)
Un forastero se establece en un pueblo de las montañas de Ozark. Su presencia resulta beneficiosa para la vida de sus vecinos, personas rudas y llenas de odio. Pero el recién llegado no logrará vencer la desconfianza de un joven que vive obsesionado con la idea de matar a su padre, al que considera culpable de la muerte de su madre y de todas sus desgracias.
District Attorney
Una joven marcada por el pasado delictivo de su padre se autoinculpará de un homicidio perpetrado por su novio. El paso por la cárcel le transformará en una persona fría y cerebral y le convertirá en toda una reina del hampa.
Doctor at Susan's Apartment (uncredited)
Steve y Susan Ireland van a cumplir su cuarto aniversario de boda, pero su relación es bastante problemática. Cuando Susan descubre a Steve con su antigua novia, piensa que tienen una aventura y decide pedir el divorcio. Pero Steve ama a su mujer y está dispuesto a todo con tal de recuperarla...
Broker
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
Arthur the butler
La Hermosa Rae Smith y el atractivo Walter Saxel se encuentran, se enamoran y comienzan los preparativos para casarse. Lamentablemente, sus proyectos de matrimonio son saboteados cuando un galán celoso hace a Rae suspender la ceremonia. Los dos se encuentran años más tarde en Nueva York, sólo que ahora Walter está casado. Descartando perderlo de nuevo, Rae acepta ser su amante.
Capt. Johnson (uncredited)
Bud y Lou se alistan en el ejército para poder escaparse de la cárcel; lo que ignoran es que en el cuartel se encontraran con un instructor de armas tomar.
Fred Dice
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
Officer Reading Names of Graduates (uncredited)
Como castigo por una pelea con sus compañeros días antes de graduarse en West Point, Jeb Stuart, George Armstrong Custer y cuatro amigos más, son destinados al Segundo de Caballería, estacionado en Fort Leavenworth. Durante su estancia allí, deberán participar en la captura y ejecución del abolicionista, John Brown, tras la Batalla de Harper Ferry.
Henry DeMille
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Henry, Gambling Man (uncredited)
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Dr. McNulty
El Dr. Bernard Adrian es un científico amable que busca curar la polio de una mujer joven. Necesita líquido cefalorraquídeo humano para completar la fórmula de su suero experimental. Mientras tanto, un simio de circo vicioso ha escapado de su jaula y está aterrorizando a la gente del pueblo. ¿Puede haber una conexión?
District Attorney Thomas (uncredited)
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
Caleb Kent
La verdadera historia del famoso líder mormón Brigham Young y su batalla para el transporte de su pueblo a través de las montañas Rocosas a establecerse en Salt Lake City. La trama se centra en dos personajes, Jonathan Kent y Zina Webb y las dificultades que tienen que enfrentar en el camino.
Doctor
Nueva York. Un camionero (James Cagney) decide hacerse boxeador para ayudar a su hermano que se dedica a la música (Arthur Kennedy), pero a un gángster sin escrúpulos no le gustará la idea.
First-Nighter (uncredited)
Gaylord escribe una obra de teatro que triunfa en Broadway. Todo le va a las mil maravillas porque además consigue casarse con la chica a la que ama y que es quien ha protagonizado la historia. El éxito sobre los escenarios se sucede con nuevas obras pero las cosas cambian cuando decide olvidarse de las comedias e intentar escribir una buena tragedia. El nuevo reto
Lawyer
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Hudson (uncredited)
Un publicista le pide a su secretaria que se case con ella, por pura conveniencia, para poder cerrar un negocio que tiene entre manos. El pacto conlleva el divorcio inmediato, una vez cerrado el asunto. El problema viene cuando ella rehúsa cumplir con su parte, quiere seguir casada con su 'maridito'.
Capt. Sanders
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
Dr. Harry Lindsay
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
Executive Officer
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
Major Marlowe
David Cook and twin brother Tom are poles apart in disposition and traits. When their father dies, Tom goes to New Mexico to live with his Uncle Hardtack while David remains behind to care for their mother. The grown Tom becomes an outlaw while brother David becomes a government lawman. David is charged with apprehending Tom...
Arthur Kingsley
Steve Burton es un implacable reportero que está metido hasta las cejas en una espeluznante historia. El periodista dedica cada uno de sus esfuerzos a sacar a la luz un oscuro negocio de venta de bebés. Se trata de un tinglado que, de manera ilegal, convence a mujeres embarazadas para que den en adopción a sus hijos, que, posteriormente, ellos venden a otras parejas.
Desk Sergeant
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Dr. Riddell
Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.
Mr. Melville (uncredited)
Un obrero de la construcción se hace cargo de la hija de un compañero, muerto en accidente laboral. Va con la chica a Nueva York para localizar a su tío. Cuando le encuentra, descubre que el hombre ha invertido los ahorros de toda su vida en un restaurante que es una ruina. Toma la decisión de ayudar a la chica y a su tío en convertir el local en un éxito.
Missing Persons Detective
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Prison Warden
Un corredor de bolsa de Wall Street es encarcelado por desfalco. Su hijo, recién licenciado en la universidad, intenta conseguir trabajo para pagar la fianza. Sin embargo, debido a la reputación de su padre, es rechazado en todas partes. Dadas las circunstancias, acaba entrando en una banda mafiosa y llega a ser la mano derecha de un poderoso gángster.
Inspection Officer
Tom Joad regresa a su hogar tras cumplir condena en prisión, pero la ilusión de volver a ver a los suyos se transforma en frustración al ver cómo los expulsan de sus tierras. Para escapar al hambre y a la pobreza, la familia no tiene más remedio que emprender un larguísimo viaje lleno de penalidades con la esperanza de encontrar una oportunidad en California, la tierra prometida.
Medical Officer
Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
Aide to Stephen Douglas (uncredited)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
John W. Riggs
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
James Sawyer
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
District Attorney
El editor de un periódico y su sirviente coreano combaten el crimen como vigilantes, mientras aparentan ser un gangster enmascarado y su cómplice. Primera entrega del serial de la Universal Pictures basado en el personaje radiofónico. Le seguiría "The Green Hornet Strikes Again!" (1940)
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Cliff Taylor es un exconvicto que intenta llevar una vida normal, pero desde que salió de la cárcel en libertad condicional, su pasado criminal le impide encontrar y mantener un cualquier trabajo. Sin embargo, lo peor es que Tim, su hermano menor, siguiendo sus pasos, se une a la banda de Charles Martin
Army Medical Examiner
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
American Consul
A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution.
Manager
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
Simmy Sanger
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
Bill Conway
A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.
Disbarment Lawyer
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
Capt. Evans Dover
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Tom Malcolm (uncredited)
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
C.A.A. Official
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
Douglas Haynes
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
Mr. Henley
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
Instructor
Cuando Barry Corvall descubre que su novia es una posible agente enemiga renuncia a la diplomacia secreta para desbaratar un anillo de espionaje que está planificando la destrucción de la capacidad industrial estadounidense. FY
Col. C.B. Vincent
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
Lawyer
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
Editor Patterson (uncredited)
Aunque inocente, el reportero Frank Ross es declarado culpable de asesinato y es enviado a la cárcel. Mientras sus amigos del periódico tratan de averiguar quien lo engañó, Frank se va endureciendo por la vida en prisión y su optimismo se convierte en amargura.
Airlines Official (uncredited)
Twelve people are aboard Coast Air Line's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.
Plaintiff's Attorney (uncredited)
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Alfred Huxley
A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals.
Customs Official (uncredited)
Un agente del FBI (Robinson) investiga una amplia red de espionaje nazi que opera en Estados Unidos. Sus contactos llegarán hasta Suramérica y Europa. Se trata de una de las pocas películas del género antinazi rodadas antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, época en la que los Estados Unidos y, por consiguiente, Hollywood seguían una política aislacionista.
Jerome (uncredited)
En 1862, durante la Guerra de Secesión, dos empresas rivales comienzan a construir la primera línea de ferrocarril transcontinental que enlace el Atlántico con el Pacífico. Al tiempo narra los amores entre la hija de uno de los ingenieros, Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck), el agente del gobierno encargado de la seguridad Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) y el principal saboteador Dick Allen (Robert Preston).
Mr. Grant
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
John Wilson
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
John Graham
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
Doctor
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
First Doctor
Dos hermanos pilotos de aviación se disputan la misma mujer.
Detective Mendall
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Whittingham P. Talbot
En 1840, un rico empresario del ferrocarril contrata a un hombre para investigar una ruta por la que cree se están transportando esclavos.
San Francisco Port Doctor (uncredited)
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
Steve Riley
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
Judge Davis
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
Jules Peabody
An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.
Doctor (uncredited)
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
Thompson
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
Blackmere
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
Frank Baldrich
Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The one chance he has is to spend the night in the "blue room" of a haunted mansion where a number of people are gathered for a party. When one of the guests disappears from his room, "Scoop" decides to get to the bottom of things.
Inspector
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Judge #2
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Ernie-Lawyer
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
Manager Radio Station
Roger Grant, un reputado violinista, forma una banda denominada Alexander's Ragtime Band, con la cantante Stella Kirby. El compositor Charli Dwyer se enamora de Stella y la recomienda a un productor de Broadway. Éste ofrece un contrato a Stella, que se convierte en una estrella.
Commissioner Benton
New York City fireman Bill O'Connell is assigned to the Arson Sqaud with the job of apprehending the for-profit gang of arsonists who are spreading terror and loss of property, including human life.
Parker
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
Judge Hammond
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
Hoyt Wells
De vacaciones con su familia en la isla Catalina, Andy Hardy se enamora de una sofisticada belleza. El juez Hardy advierte a su hijo que ella es demasiado lista para él.
Jim Watson
After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel). When his businessman father-in-law Arnold (Frederick Burton) loses his fortune, Duke returns to the ring to raise money for him. Susan is furious that Duke is breaking his promise never to box again, and the stakes get even higher when a crooked promoter orders him to take a dive ... or else.
The Warden
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
Harker
Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by Milburn Stone and William Harrigan, investigates a seemingly respectable charitable organization. In fact, the enterprise is a front for a crime ring, headed by Ma Barker clone Zeffie Tilbury (Trivia note: Ms. Tilbury was totally blind, and had to learn her "blocking" by rote).
Judge
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Maxwell
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Ned Madison
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 hundred thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.
Andrew Baldwin
A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for his next investigation, he is murdered in the midst of a crowd. The police have many suspects and hardly any clues, so two reporters decide to investigate for themselves.
Victor Stockton
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
J.H. Scott, FBI
A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.
Hoyt Wells
En la primera pelicula de la familia Hardy, un juez de pueblo lucha por la reelección en el trato con los problemas familiares.
Dr. MacIntyre
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy theories of "progressive" education, Prudence and Agatha stick to the reliable "Three R's," often teaching to the tune of a hickory stick. Though ridiculed for their so-called outmoded methods, the heroines manage to turn out quite a few prize students, earning the undying gratitude of the local citizenry.
Governor
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Attorney Tyler
Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance.
District Attorney
In a meeting with the leaders of his vice syndicate, gangster boss James "Lucky" Lombardo complains that his profits are down. He demands that his henchmen get new, younger and prettier girls for his bordellos.
Hamilton
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
Ferris - Postal Inspector (uncredited)
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
Medical Examiner
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Mr. Canfield
A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our hero is blamed. He convinces the local Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival high priest Porotu.
William Meredith, Sr.
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. He is sent to Mongolia to find out why a mysterious villain known only as 'The Dragon' is trying to prevent the newly formed International Airways from setting up an airport there. Ace meets Peggy Trainor (Jean Rogers) who is searching for her archaeologist father who has disappeared. Together they search for answers to the puzzles.
Dr. Coleman
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
Adams the Washington Chronicle Editor (uncredited)
Cuando Loy, una diva social, calumnia al periodista Tracy, éste decide contraatacar implicando en el asunto a su prometida y al desafortunado Powell, un famosísimo pescador deportivo. El plan de Tracy incluye un matrimonio improvisado, una falsa seducción, la pesca de la trucha, puñetazos, promesas rotas...
Blake (Socialite) (uncredited)
Una alocada chica de la alta sociedad, su hermana y sus ricos amigos se divierten con un extravagante juego de caza que consiste en recoger todo tipo de desechos. En un lugar del East River, zona azotada por la Gran Depresión, encuentran a Godfrey, un ingenioso y mordaz vagabundo. Este curioso personaje acompaña a las hermanas a una fiesta, donde pronuncia un discurso sobre el carácter inhumano del juego. Después acepta trabajar como mayordomo en la casa familiar. En realidad, Godfrey esconde un secreto sobre su pasado.
City Editor
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
Chief Postal Inspector
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Lansing
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
Duffield
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.
Earl Bigbee
Louis Friedlander-directed film
D. A. Allen Harrison
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
Judge Gibson
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Prof. Howard (uncredited)
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
J.A. Hanson (uncredited)
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
Defense Attorney Alan Adams
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
Ship's Officer
Una inmigrante consigue triunfar en el mundo del espectáculo, tras haber llegado huérfana a Estados Unidos.
District Attorney Cope
A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson investigator to solve a string of major losses.
Commander Gibbs (uncredited)
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
Andrews (uncredited)
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
Doctor
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
Army Officer
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Program Director
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Gambler Who Bet $30,000 (Uncredited)
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Joe Davis
Cuando la reportera Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) se desmaya al presenciar la ejecución de una mujer que asesinó a su amante, su novio Curt Devlin (Goerge Brent), que trabaja en el periódico rival, trata de convencerla de que el periodismo es cosa de hombres y de que su lugar está en la tranquilidad del hogar. Pero Ellen no se deja persuadir; le asegura que una mujer puede hacer tan buenos reportajes como un hombre y, además, está dispuesta a demostrárselo.
Simpson - Prison Board Member (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Detective
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
J.C. Scoville
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Baby Judge
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
O'Neill
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
Vincent's Counsel (uncredited)
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
Radio Announcer (Voice)
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
Dr. Harvey (uncredited)
Dorothy Hunter (Miriam Hopkins), una joven millonaria, se hace pasar por su secretaria Sylvia (Fay Wray), antes de embarcarse en un romance con Tony Travers (Joel McCrea). La razón es que Dorothy aspira a que la quieran por sí misma y no por su dinero
George E. Martin
Una joven mujer se debate entre un pretendiente rico que solo quiere su cuerpo y un joven honesto que quiere lo mejor para ella.
Duffy
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Radio Announcer (Uncredited)
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Joe, a Gangster
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
Barton
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited)
Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop.
Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
Joe Chase - Record Editor (uncredited)
El ex-convicto Danny Kean decide alejarse de su anterior vida de gánster y se convierte en el fotógrafo de un periódico. Pero se enamora de Patricia, la hija del policía que lo arrestó...
Hartland Company Salesman (uncredited)
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
Hans Strauss
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
Older Man (uncredited)
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
Jones - Attorney (uncredited)
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Tras muchos años sin verse, tres amigas de la infancia, Maria, Vivian y Ruth, vuelven a encontrase y se ponen al día sobre los cambios de sus respectivas vidas. Vivian decide entonces invitar a sus amigas y a sus parejas a un crucero con el fin de conocerse mejor.
Joe (uncredited)
Tragicomedia que parte del convencional argumento del paleto de Indiana que hereda una gran fortuna y parte hacia la ciudad de Nueva York. Allí, y con los malos consejos de su primo, descubrirá la buena vida, las mujeres, las juergas con alcohol y, cómo no, los problemas cuando tras una descontrolada borrachera una muchacha aparece asesinada. Versión cinematográfica sobre la obra teatral de Ward Morehouse.
Willard Keefe, Daily World Night Editor (Uncredited)
Seis personas han sido asesinadas en la calle Mott muy cerca de la Morgue donde funciona la peculiar academia de medicina del Doctor Xavier. Todos los crímenes han sido cometidos, en noches de luna llena, por una suerte de caníbal que asesina con un bisturí y luego desolla a sus víctimas. Con la venia de la policía, el doctor Xavier procurará averiguar si el asesino está entre sus colaboradores, mientras un periodista husmea cuanto puede y trata de enamorar a la hija del científico.
Prison Clerk (Uncredited)
Tras la ejecución de un inocente, un joven fiscal deja su cargo y se hace abogado defensor. Se hace rico y poderoso defendiendo mafiosos, pero pronto verá el error de esta decisión.
Churchill
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
Matt Stanton
The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgraced politician. Reduced to working as a switchboard operator, Wanda is privy to the many secrets and indiscretions of the clients of a big-city hotel. She also finds romance in the form of handsome Tom Blake (Richard Arlen). The huge cast of characters comes in handy for the film's multitude of subplots, none of which ever get their wires crossed. Peggy Shannon acquits herself nicely in her first major role, but by the end of the decade her career was in decline.
Mason
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
George Van Horne
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
Eddie
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
King (defense attorney)
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the prosecuting and the defense attorneys put forward sharply different versions of the character of Manning and his wife, Viola, and of the events leading up to the murder. The jury returns a verdict of guilty, but a young girl then comes forward and confesses that she killed Winfield for having wronged her.
