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Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.
Burgher
De vuelta al ancestral castillo 25 años después de la muerte del monstruo, el hijo del doctor Frankenstein conoce a Ygor, un pastor loco que esconde a la terrible criatura. Buscando limpiar el nombre de la familia, revive al monstruo y lo intenta rehabilitar.
Old Man Sitting next to Mary at the Banquet Table (uncredited)
Gary Cooper interpreta a un cowboy rudo e implacable pero con buenos sentimientos. Aunque no tiene nada que ver con su forma de ser, acaba enamorándose de una joven adinerada de alto copete, interpretada por Merle Oberon. Con su manera decidida de actuar, el cowboy, que tiene un temperamento bastante tradicional, está decidido a calmar la ligereza de la chica. Ella no soporta que nadie le diga lo que tiene que hacer. El cowboy piensa que este tipo de chicas son como los caballos salvajes, que para adiestrarlos hay que darles un margen de confianza, a la vez que atarles corto.
Old Man
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.
Andrew
Los Carleton son una familia que, durante años, se ha dedicado al engaño y la estafa de poca monta, pero un día su suerte cambia y tienen que huir de Montecarmelo para no ir a la cárcel. En Londres conocen a una anciana, Doña Fortuna, con quien entablan una relación de amistad. Doña Fortuna está sola en el mundo y posee una gran fortuna, parece la victima perfecta de una estafa... o no?
Tom Riggins
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
Stationmaster (uncredited)
Tres jóvenes hombres buscan al asesino que mató a su padre, un hombre al que admiraban mucho. Su viaje les lleva desde la India hasta América del Sur, Londres, Egipto, y EE.UU. Mientras avanzan en sus investigaciones, empiezan a descubrir la verdad oculta y perturbadora sobre la muerte de su padre
Stockholder - Receivership Hearing Member
Valentine Ransome (Barbara Stanwyck), una rica heredera texana, está decidida a transformar en un hombre de provecho al joven Jonathan Blair (Herbert Marshall), último descendiente de una larga disnatía dedicada al transporte marítimo y con el negocio al borde de la ruina. Lo que 'Johnny' no sospecha es el precio que deberá pagar...
Old Man (Uncredited)
En una calle de Nueva York, la miseria y la delincuencia conviven con la riqueza de los inquilinos de un lujoso bloque de apartamentos. Inevitablemente esos agudos contrastes acabarán desencadenando tensiones entre los dos mundos.
Egyptologist (uncredited)
In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police.
Ray (uncredited)
Esther Blodgett, una ambiciosa chica de pueblo con mucho talento, llega a Hollywood. En una fiesta en la que trabaja como camarera conoce a Norman Maine, un famoso actor en decadencia. Para sorpresa de Esther, Norman le ofrece un papel en una película y, tras realizar una prueba, el productor queda impresionado y decide convertirla en una estrella. Norman y Esther se casan, pero la felicidad se ve empañada por el declive de Norman y el rápido ascenso al estrellato de Esther.
Un maître de hotel conoce a una joven multimillonaria norteamericana y vive con ella una extraña aventura a bordo de un trasatlántico que va de París a Nueva York.
Giles Cory (Uncredited)
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Henry the Butler (uncredited)
Es fin de año, y Nick y Nora Charles han regresado a la costa Oeste, a San Francisco, tras pasar sus vacaciones de Navidad en Nueva York. Nada más llegar se encuentran con otro misterio: el juguetón marido de la prima de Nora ha desaparecido. Comienza así la reunión con sospechosos insólitos... Basada en una novela de Dashiell Hammett
Attorney General's Associate
En 1775, 30 colonos americanos, junto con sus esposas e hijos, se disponían a seguir al héroe americano Daniel Boone desde su colonia natal en Yadkin, Carolina del Norte, hasta el valle de Ken-tu-ki, llamada por los indios "la tierra oscura y sangrienta". Éste será un peligroso viaje en el que deberán enfrentarse al jefe blanco Simon Girt, que, con la ayuda de los indios, se dedica a robar y asesinar a los colonos de los territorios fronterizos.
Old Man in Hospital
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]).
Waiter
Crónica de la vida de un matrimonio (Warner Baxter y Mirna Loy) en la época de la Gran Depresión.
Sir Frederick (Uncredited)
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
Reporter
Dos reporteros de periódicos rivales se alían para acabar con una banda de contrabandistas que introduce emigrantes ilegales en Estados Unidos con la intención de extorsionarlos.
Villager (uncredited)
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
Pigeon Receiver
El joven y valeroso D’Artagnan llega a París y busca a su padrino, el capitán de Treville, jefe del cuerpo de los mosqueteros del rey Luis XIII (1610-1643), en el que quiere ingresar. Allí conoce a Aramis, Porthos y Athos, tres prodigiosos espadachines, a los que, no obstante, D’Artagnan no duda en retar a un duelo. Pero, para ganarse el respeto de los mosqueteros, el joven tendrá que enfrentarse a los malvados sicarios del cardenal Richelieu, enemigo mortal de la Corona. Defendiendo la causa de la reina Ana de Austria, esposa de Luis XIII, se enamora de Constance, la hermosa dama de compañía de la Reina.
Esta fue la primera versión sonora sobre la novela de Dumas. Con un dinámico guión de Dudley Nichols, la trama sigue fielmente la novela original, destacando las peleas a espada y la aparición de Margot Grahame como Milady De Winter.
Elderly Dancer in Music is Magic Number (uncredited)
Una actriz de cierta edad reconoce al fin la verdad cuando la sustituyen por una corista.
Don Salvador de Aragon
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
Nervous Thackeray Club Waiter (uncredited)
Jerry Travers, un astro de la comedia musical americana, llega a Londres y se instala en la habitación del productor de su obra, Horace Hardwick. El azar le hace conocer a la bella modelo Dale Tremont, que se aloja en la habitación de abajo. Ella le toma, erróneamente, por Hardwick y, al enterarse que está casado (en realidad, y aunque no lo sabe, con una amiga suya, Madge), le rechaza y viaja con su jefe, el modisto Alberto Beddini, a Venecia, donde, por despecho, se casará con él.
Robert, the Butler
A visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang.
Agitator
Versión cinematográfica de la obra de Lord Edward George Bulwer-Lytton sobre el conspirador cardenal Richelieu, al servicio del rey de Francia y siempre dispuesto a sacar adelante sus proyectos sin importarle las consecuencias. Sus manipulaciones tienen lugar en la corte, y lo mismo busca obstáculos para el amor entre dos jóvenes que lucha denonadamente contra el hermano del monarca.
Wiff' Wiffens (Uncredited)
Dyll abandona en el altar a su novia Mary, pues ha descubierto que sigue enamorado de Connie, una chica que conoció hace años.
Old Man in Club
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
Hotel Manager
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
Barrister (Uncredited)
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
Judge
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
Rich Man
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
Janitor
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Stoner, the Bennet Butler
Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
Puppeteer
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Old Farmer with Barn (uncredited)
Adaptación de una novela de H.G. Wells sobre un hombre que posee la facultad de hacerse invisible.
Pop - the Stage Doorman
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.
Fred's Father
Una estrella del vodevil anima a su hija a convertirse en una estrella del baile. Egoísmo, engaños y chantaje separan a madre e hija, pero al final se reconcilian.
Town Crier (uncredited)
A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
Amos Gray
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her.
Mr. Pierrepont
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
The Man from Manchester (Uncredited)
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
Augus
He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Ray Harris and Harlan Thompson. The film stars Stuart Erwin, Susan Fleming, Alison Skipworth, Gordon Westcott, Grant Mitchell and Sidney Toler. The film was released on November 4, 1932, by Paramount Pictures
Mr. Johnson
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.
Judge
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Mrs. Walker's Dancing Partner (uncredited)
Un millonario que está a punto de morir decide repartir su fortuna entre desconocidos cuyos nombres saca de la guía telefónica. Los afortunados emplean el dinero de diferentes formas: el oficinista plantará cara a su jefe, la prostituta intentará cambiar su vida, etc. Un filme compuesto por episodios en el que la Paramount empleó a sus mejores directores, James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar Mendes, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter y Norman Taurog y a sus estrellas más relevantes como Charles Laugthon, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Jack Oakie o W. C. Fields. El mejor episodio es precisamente el dirigido por Lubitsch sobre la reacción de un oficinista al saberse repentinamente millonario, que interpreta Charles Laughton.
Williams
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
Grandpa Zachary Thayer
Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the spell of the town vamp Jill Fenwick.
Wedding Spectator (uncredited)
Un escritor alcohólico se dispone a estrenar su primera obra en Broadway, pero le conlleva tanto trabajo que le crea problemas matrimoniales...
Sir Pitt's Butler Parker
Una joven ambiciosa y carente de escrúpulos asciende en la escala social desde institutriz a lo más alto de la sociedad británica.
Dietenhofer
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
Littleton
Un embajador de Estados Unidos llega a un pequeño país que está siendo sacudido por intrigas políticas y disturbios civiles. Tiene la misión de hacerse amigo del niño que va a ser el rey del país, para garantizar que viva lo suficiente como para recibir la corona y que esté preparado para asumir el papel.
Tom Allison
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
Elderly Party Guest (uncredited)
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
Old Man at Graduation Dance (uncredited)
Una universitaria utiliza su cerebro y sus piernas para conquistar el mundo de los negocios.
Mr. Bradkin
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
Commander
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.
Elderly Fashion Show Spectator
Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.
King's Aide
Jeannette Vaubernier, una compradora compulsiva que se encuentra de camino para entregar un sombrero, sueña con una vida llena de lujos y fama. Ensimismada en sus pensamientos, llega a una pequeña balsa de agua, donde se desnuda y se mete en el agua. Cosse de Brissac, un apuesto soldado de la Guardia Real, acude en su ayuda pensando que está en un apuro. Tras el encuentro, se enamoran perdidamente.
Rheumatic Old Man
Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with her sister.
Williams
Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to save the man she loves, Rupert Endon (Ian Keith), from being unjustly arrested as a thief. Rupert, unaware of the reason his sweetheart married his rival, goes to the Far East where he grows rich after discovering a diamond mine. He breaks Eve's husband by underselling him and then returns to England to exact his revenge on the woman he thinks did him wrong.
The Astrologer
Trata de la corte del rey medieval Luis XI de Francia y del famoso poeta francés François Villon, que es nombrado rey por un día pero que es condenado a muerte por sus poemas satíricos contra la monarquia.
Edgar, the old beau
Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.
Edward Madison
"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.
Admiral
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
Colonel
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
Colonel Long (as Thomas Ricketts)
A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-speeding campaign, she uses an assumed name. She is paroled into the custody of an assistant district attorney, who doesn't know who she really is.
Charles Smith
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.
Wicks
When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.
Joseph
Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis and women. However, Elizabeth seeks a wild time and ends up leaving France with her father's drinking buddy, Freddie, and Willoughby goes back to his dry martinis.
Makepeace Witter
After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
Percival's Butler
Mary Vilner vive con su padre, anciano y enfermo, en una modestísima casa en la granja de Doomsday, propiedad del millonario Percival Fream. Este propone a Mary ser su esposa. Pero Mary, que ve en esta propuesta una manera de tener acceso a la comodidad material para ella y para su padre, está muy dudosa. En secreto, ama a Arnold Furze, un agricultor que trabaja en Doomsday.
Quintus Newtoon
A silent film from the end of the silent era.
Judge Elmer Elderberry Egbert Belmore
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt Bedelia (Ethel Wales), whisks her away. On a mission to "find the girl," Tommy looks for her everywhere. He unknowingly befriends her brother Charlie, who invites him to spend the evening in Smith's palatial home. The next morn Aunt Bedelia finds Tommy with his head wrapped in a towel and assumes him to be the Hindu prince that Charlie promised to bring to her society party. Introduced to all as a Prince from Calcutta, Tommy is forced to see the charade through. But the local con-man Charlie had previously arranged to appear at the party as the Prince shows up as well. At least Tommy is able to reconnect with Barbara, that is until the police show up with orders to arrest all fake fakirs.
Old Man in Wax Museum
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
Professor Meekham
Cynthia Botts is the headmistress of a girls' school who has left a fortune on the condition that no scandal could ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of Sandy McTavish, a romantic sailor and Charlotte Ralston is just around the corner.
The Secretary
Un hombre no quiere casarse con la mujer que ama pues teme que el matrimonio acabe en divorcio, al igual que le pasó a sus padres.
Butler
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
Bride's Father
A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.
Laughing Spectator (uncredited)
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
Marquis of Hurlshire
A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the girl is Jewish, her new "husband" lets her know that the marriage is strictly a business matter and that he could never have romantic feelings for one of "her kind".
Deacon Ezra Boody
Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of, but, so far, her aunts haven't approved of any man she knows. Ann tries to get a bashful hotel clerk to marry her in name only, and then get a divorce, but he refuses to because he is in love with her. Her cousin then brings in another clerk and Ann now has two men on her hands. Ann now wants to marry the first clerk, having discovered she also loves him, but the aunts object. She then hires two gigolos to charm her aunts into a compromising situation.
Mistaken identity and female impersonation take place when indigents Billy Winthrop (George K. Arthur) and Ethel Winthrop (Dorothy Reviere) rent a fashionable apartment for a few days in order to impress rich uncle Hiram (Tom Ricketts.) Complications and misunderstanding arise.
Jean (as Thomas Ricketts)
Stubbins
Despite the fact that he has a beautiful wife who loves him and a good home, gold-digger Lillian Loring discovers that Ralph Hedman is a pushover for her winsome wiles and ways. Ralph's wife, Alice, becomes suspicious when she sees them together at lunch one day. He asks for a divorce but Alice says she wants to keep the marriage going for at least a year, for appearances sake, and says she will agree to a divorce then if he still wants it. Alive stays home alone for three months while Ralph is living it up as a full member of the Jazz Age. He gets sick and Alice invites Lillian to come over and help get him well. Lillian decides that lots of saxophone playing and wild dancing is the best cure. Alice takes all she can stand, leaves a note for Ralph and departs the premises. Ralph also takes his own departure, after leaving a note for Alice. Lillian keeps on partying. Alice and Ralph, driving their respective cars into an intersection, have a collision.
Henry Curlew
In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
Maurice Penelli
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform as the Madame Adele of old, and both become the darlings of Paris, one again and the other newly-crowned.
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex-husband tries to blackmail her. Mamie is saved from suicide by Eric, who's in a compromising position when he brings her home.
Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and clumsy, but also quite fascinating. She takes him into her employ insisting he does everything she asks.
Mr. Brewster
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
Andrew J. Casson (as Thomas Ricketts)
Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas.
The Rounder (as Thomas Ricketts)
Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts with him and is fired. Because she is mad at her fiancé, William Norworth, Mary takes off in Kent's car and she doesn't come home until the early hours. Her father is furious and slaps her, so she leaves home. Kent offers to let her stay in his apartment, while he sleeps at the club.
Valet
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.
Mr. Peck
Nadie creía que Rufus Billop sobreviviría como recién nacido. Luego vivió su infancia y adolescencia rodeado de médicos y medicinas, preocupado por su frágil salud y convirtiéndose en un hipocondríaco consumado. Cuando tres comerciantes consideran que su caso es una buena inversión a cambio de una futura fortuna, un médico sabio le prescribe una vista encantadora para contemplar desde su cama de enfermo y todo empieza a cambiar. (filmaffinit)
The Old Man
Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy, Donald Dillingham causes even greater disapproval by marrying chorus girl Ardell Kendall. Learning that famous sculptor Gustaf Borgstrom wishes to use Ardell as model, the Dillinghams suddenly welcome Donald and Ardell to their estate. Donald surrenders to both the jazzy pleasures and the attentions of Maybelle Wescott, but Ardell remains aloof and in order to pay off Maybelle threatens Mr. Dillingham with exposure of his infatuation with a chorus girl.
Jerry Hammond
Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
Archibald Crumm
Circe, The Enchantress
Charles Dinwiddie
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first he thinks it's just a coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished, who would be in her late 50s or early 60s by now. Soon, however, he begins to believe that maybe it's not such a coincidence after all.
John Standish Lane
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
Lush (as Thomas Ricketts)
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when the two Russian thieves Anna Valeska and her partner Borolsky, arrive at the mansion one dark night.
General Hastings
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law.
Vidame de Pameir (as Thomas Ricketts)
A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
Anton Huber
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
Rev. Dr. Romney
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as Shattered Idols. Jean Hurst, the widow of a British Army officer in India, hates her crippled son David because she thinks he is a coward and a weakling. She sends him away to England for his education. When he returns to India, he falls in love with native girl Sarasvati, who he saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
Jules Fanchette
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow safecracker. Out of "professional courtesy" he informs Lawson of what he has done. Instead of calling the police, Lawson--who believes in the philosophy of "honor among thieves"--makes a deal with Charlie: to show Charlie that it's actually more profitable to be a legitimate businessman then a crook, he'll give Charlie some money if Charlie will use it to establish a legitimate business in the small town of Plumfield, and at the end of a year they will divide up whatever profits Charlie is able to make honestly. Charlie agrees, but soon discovers that things aren't going to be quite as easy as he thought.
Uncle James (as Thomas Ricketts)
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and her wealthy aunts and uncle refuse to give her any money. Katherine is desperate enough that she is considering marrying the wealthy Montee Buck (Hiers), although she is in love with the westerner Tom Jaffrey (Fillmore), who says he is poor. Finally, Katherine decides to sell the famous Van Riper pearls, pay off her debts, and marry Tom. However, upon examination the jewelry turns out to be paste, with her father having sold the genuine pearls several years earlier before his death. Montee is assured by the aunts that Katherine will marry him and tells this to Tom. Tom is about to leave town when Uncle James (Ricketts) steps in and pays off Katherine's debts, leaving the niece free to marry Tom.
Tim Westmore
Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-brother Frankie Lee until a handsome stranger (Jack Conway) rescues them.
Potter
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the star. Carlo Sonino, also a member of the company, falls in love with Ethel and warns her against becoming infatuated with the amorous singer.
Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endears herself to all, especially Victor Baron, the invalid son who has written the play. He begs her to stay on to help him write another play, despite the reluctance of his mother.
Butler
Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out his sweetheart, Mabel Darrow, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, as soon as Henry gets the money, his tailor demands that he pay off his debt. Also, youngsters set the car on fire before he can give to the winner, Joseph Plant, whose wife Evelyn was formerly Henry's sweetheart.
Major Archie Phipps
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
Priest
After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself so that her lover will go off to battle. When he makes a purchase from Tomotada, an image maker, he meets his pretty daughter O-Riu, and they recreate the events of the legend.
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Director
"Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the abuse of moral law. It is a stirring plea for a pure life before marriage, in order to make impossible the transmission of hereditary traits to future generations. This film is presumed lost.
Director
The Thomas family are the owners of a large horse ranch, on the borders of New Mexico. A neighboring band of Apaches, under the famous Geronimo, had for several years been at peace, consequently the Thomas ranch was in a flourishing condition. Tom, the foreman, and Jerry, one of his trusted lieutenants, are rivals for the hand of Jess, the ranch owner's daughter.
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Will Barton is really sick and about to. He is afraid of leaving his daughter Netta alone in the world.
Director
A silent short Western comedy film directed by Thomas Ricketts.
Writer
Daniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well. In the dead of the night, a burglar enters the Lyttell home. His silent footsteps reach the ear of the sick man. Clara, too, hears mysterious noises. She pacifies Daniel and tells him to rest and sleep. Softly she steals out of the room to investigate and soon discovers the burglar. Quickly rushes to the telephone, but finds that the wires have been cut. For a moment she hesitates and fears, fears for her husband. Goes to his bedside and rejoices to find him asleep. Hastily dons a wrap and envelops her head in a black veil, leaves the room and busies herself rummaging in the drawers of a desk. The burglar comes upon her but is unable to intimidate the brave little woman. Clara tells him she, too, is a thief; only she came to steal very important letters. When the man attempts to go into the bedroom for his "haul," she commands him to stay where he is.
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Daniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well. In the dead of the night, a burglar enters the Lyttell home. His silent footsteps reach the ear of the sick man. Clara, too, hears mysterious noises. She pacifies Daniel and tells him to rest and sleep. Softly she steals out of the room to investigate and soon discovers the burglar. Quickly rushes to the telephone, but finds that the wires have been cut. For a moment she hesitates and fears, fears for her husband. Goes to his bedside and rejoices to find him asleep. Hastily dons a wrap and envelops her head in a black veil, leaves the room and busies herself rummaging in the drawers of a desk. The burglar comes upon her but is unable to intimidate the brave little woman. Clara tells him she, too, is a thief; only she came to steal very important letters. When the man attempts to go into the bedroom for his "haul," she commands him to stay where he is.
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The Marines are sent to rescue an American engineer in Nicaragua.
Ebenezer Scrooge
Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scrooge to donate enter. However, Scrooge dismisses them. On the night of Christmas Eve, his long-dead partner Jacob Marley comes as a ghost, warning him of a horrible fate if he does not change his ways.
