Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
The Umpire
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
Mike the Bartender (uncredited)
Un investigador de seguros honrado conoce a una hermosa mujer, de la que se enamora. Creyendo que sólo con dinero podrá conseguirla, trama un plan para robar un millón de dólares uniéndose a una banda...
Honest John
Skipalong Rosenbloom is the star of a heavily commercialized TV kiddie show, presided over by a smarmy announcer. He is at odds with western bad guy Butcher Baer.
Moving Man with Lamp (uncredited)
Un padre se enfrenta a uno de los momentos más naturales y temidos de su vida: la boda de su hija. Y los problemas no son sólo de índole sentimental: el abandono del hogar por parte de la chica; sino también de carácter económico: la organización de una costosa boda que lo traerá de cabeza.
Bartender
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, dos soldados provocan todo tipo de situaciones inverosimiles en un campo de entrenamiento militar.
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.
Kryl
Deborah McCoy se mete como polizón en un barco sin saber que se trata del barco pirata del capitán Baptiste. (FILMAFFINITY)
Drunk Blackrobe
Una bella princesa beduina se traslada de Europa a la cosmopolita ciudad de Bagdad. Cuando se entera de que su padre ha sido asesinado y en su lugar gobierna un autoritario pachá, intentará vengarse con la ayuda de los temibles Mantos Negros.
Henchman #1 (uncredited)
Eva Barrett, una joven diseñadora de trajes de baño conoce, de forma fortuita, al masajista de un equipo de polo. Gracias a éste, Eva entabla relaciones con el atractivo capitán del equipo.
Cheyenne Bartender
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
Crap Table Croupier (uncredited)
Una joven secretaria se enamora de su jefe, empleando los mismos trucos que utiliza él en sus negocios para hacerle caer en sus redes. No obstante, una vez casada, empieza a tener celos de la nueva secretaria que ha contratado su marido.
Joe, the bartender
Hoppy and his pals arrive in a remote town to investigate the counterfeiting of both U.S. and Mexican money; his only clues are the name "Mordigan" and a drawing of a comet. He quickly finds out that Mordigan is the town "boss"; but what or who is "the comet", and why are Mordigan and his henchmen intent on persecuting a young woman, her drunken brother, and her deathly ill sister-in-law who've also just arrived in town?
Bartender
A psychiatrist tries to help a patient who loses consciousness after he kills someone. When the doctor provides the patient with a letter that explains his problem, he inadvertently implicates himself in the crimes.
Sergeant (uncredited)
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Bouncer
Los madereros, cuyo trabajo consiste en transportar los troncos por el río, llegan a una ciudad del alto Mississippi, donde les espera un barco con su casino de juego, en el que reina la hermosa Sequin, que está enamorada de uno de los madereros. Pero también la pretende el rico industrial Beauvais, por lo que surge un conflicto entre los dos hombres.
Henchman 'Moose'
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
Policeman
The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.
Fighter
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Heinz (uncredited)
Después de catorce años en prisión, Frankie abandona la prisión para reencontrarse con su hermano Dave para reclamar su parte del club acordado 14 años atras
Street Cleaner (uncredited)
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
Pool Player
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Miner
Chester Wooley y Duke Egan son unos vendedores ambulantes que realizan una escala en Wagon Gap, Montana, mientras se dirigen a California. Durante la escala, un criminal famoso, Fred Hawkins, es asesinado, y los dos son acusados del crimen. Rápidamente son juzgados, condenados y sentenciados a morir en la horca. El jefe del comité de ciudadanos locales, Jim Simpson, recuerda una ley por la cual el vencedor en un duelo debe asumir la responsabilidad de las deudas y la familia del difunto. La ley impide la ejecución de los dos, pero ahora Chester es responsable de la viuda Hawkins y sus siete hijos...
Bartender
A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
McGowan - House Detective
Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
Stage Actor Playing King
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
Jim, Doorman
Madeleine Damien es editora de una elegante revista de Manhattan durante el día y el alma de la fiesta por la noche. La presión de su trabajo y su mala suerte con los hombres la están llevando cuesta abajo, por lo que decide buscar la ayuda de un psiquiátra, quien le recomienda romper con todo, abandonar su trabajo, cambiar de barrio y de nombre. En su nuevo hogar empieza a interesarse en la pintura y en un guapo vecino, pero éste pronto descubre su pasado cuando un antiguo pretendiente la implica en un crimen.
Lucky Leopold (uncredited)
Veintitrés años después de anotar el tanto ganador del equipo de fútbol americano de su colegio, Harold Diddlebock, que ha estado trabajando de contable sin futuro durante años, es despedido por su estirado jefe, el magnate Wagglebury, con nada más que una pequeña pensión.
Mug in Leather Jacket (uncredited)
Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertaining prospective voters at rallies. The candidate is really a stooge for a corrupt political machine, which discovers the band's handsome and appealing singer would make a better stooge. Meanwhile, romance blossoms between the band's singers. When election day approaches, the band's singer wants out of the campaign, but the machine threatens to smear him and his pals in the band if he quits.
Harry
Mientras investiga el robo de una valiosa estatua de jade conocida como "La Dama Desaparecida", y el posterior asesinato de un comerciante de arte, el detective imperceptible Lamont Cranston, también conocido como la Sombra (Kane Richmond), es culpado del crimen. No ayuda las afirmaciones de inocencia de La Sombra cuando más cuerpos comienzan a acumularse. Menos mal que sabe exactamente quién es el culpable entre un grupo cada vez más pequeño de sospechosos.
Bouncer at The Golden Rooster (uncredited)
Dos muchachas de Boston deciden trasladarse a Nueva York. Una de ellas trabaja como cantante en el local de un viejo amigo de la familia, mientras que la otra se enamora del hijo de un importante mecenas de la ópera.
Townsman
In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave wife Haydée (Lenore Aubert) throws the cop off her husband's scent by dressing up as the masked avenger herself and proving that she too is most competent with a sword.
Process Server
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
Pedestrian Pulling Bogardus from Under Truck (uncredited)
El padre O'Malley acaba de llegar a su nuevo destino como sacerdote del colegio de monjas y la parroquia de Santa María, en un barrio humilde de Nueva York. Pronto se verá enredado en los problemas del barrio y de los alumnos, lo que le lleva a formar un coro para sacar a los chicos de la calle. La vida del colegio le lleva a estrechar la relación con la hermana Benedicta, superiora del convento y directora del colegio, y a participar de las ilusiones de la congregación: que un millonario done un moderno edificio cercano como nueva sede del vetusto colegio.
Derelict Saving Cross (uncredited)
Christopher Cross es un simple cajero infelizmente casado, pero tiene un raro talento para la pintura. En cierta ocasión, conoce a una aventurera de la que se enamora y le hace creer que es un pintor de éxito. La chica y su novio, un individuo sin escrúpulos, aprovechan la ocasión para explotar al pobre hombre, que llegará incluso a cometer un desfalco en su empresa para que ella siga creyendo que es un artista de éxito.
Plainclothesman
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
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!
Head Keeper (uncredited)
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Stony, Bartender at Paradise Club
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Steve
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her.
Soda Fountain Customer
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Suspect (uncredited)
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Grogan
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
Doorman at Dance
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
Detective Delaney
Musical turned murder mystery set at a radio station.
Mac
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
New Boss at "Florian's" (uncredited)
Esta intriga policiaca narra las aventuras de Philip Marlowe, un detective privado de Los Ángeles que resuelve todo tipo de misterios. Cuando el exconvicto Moose se pone en contacto con él sobre lo que parece un caso de lo más rutinario, una serie de pistas falsas aparecen en escena acusando al protagonista de unos crímenes que no ha cometido. Sin embargo, todas las pruebas clarifican su intervención en el terrible homicidio… ¿Conseguirá Philip resolver el enrevesado enigma?
Nick
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
Newsstand Owner
Una mujer comienza a sospechar que su nuevo marido puede ser un asesino.
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Después de ser licenciado del servicio en los Marines por padecer fiebre del heno, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) se siente demasiado avergonzado para volver a su casa. Algunos de sus compañeros lo animan a inventarse una historia según la cual habría resultado herido en combate. Lo que no se espera es que lo reciban como a un héroe de guerra.
Jack Shaw (uncredited)
Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed name, O'BRIEN goes to work at a shipyard, intending to keep both eyes open for potential saboteurs. To maintain the cover, O'BRIEN is given a "wife" (Carole Landis) and two children. When O'BRIEN's brother Chester Morris shows up, he can't comprehend the charade and nearly spills the beans to the Nazi spies O'BRIEN hopes to trap. Based on the short story The Saboteurs by John and Ward Hawkins, Secret Command offers a graying but still feisty Pat O'Brien doing what he does best.
Ship Builder
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
Workman (uncredited)
Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
Salos
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
Bullfrog
A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast. Hanging out in Hollywood's famed Trocadero restaurant and night-spot, he gets his story when "Troc" owner and band-leader Eddie LeBaron, relates to him the sage of the famed screenland nitery. And hears plenty of music furnished by four of the top name-bands in the land, including that of Bob Chester, who formed his own swing band in 1935 after being top saxophonist with the bands of Ben Pollack and Ben Bernie. Singer Ida James and the Chester band led off with "Shoo Shoo Baby" in their screen debut.
Wenzel (uncredited)
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.
Waddy Kerns
El Sheriff Bat Masterson limpia con dureza Dodge City. Solo permite el prostíbulo de la bella Dora, de la que está enamorado. Los problemas surgen cuando a la ciudad llega el pistolero King Kennedy quien pide a Dora que convenza al Sheriff para que le ayude en su carrera de periodista
Boats
Película sobre la relación entre un veterano capitán y su tercer oficial. Una serie de misteriosas muertes provocan que el joven crea que su superior está obsesionado con mostrar su autoridad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bartender
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Subway Conductor (Uncredited)
Mary (Kim Hunter), una joven provinciana, decide ir a Nueva York para buscar a su hermana Jacqueline (Jean Brooks), que ha desaparecido. Con la ayuda de su ex marido (Tom Conway) y de un prestigioso psiquiatra, Mary descubre horrorizada que la desaparición de su hermana está relacionada con una secta satánica. (FILMAFFINITY)
Convict
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
Man in Carnival Crowd
Eddie Johnson va a Coney Island para encontrarse con Joe Rocco. Eddie está decidido a obtener una participación en el nuevo local de Joe, en el que actúa Kate Farley. Eddie convence a un amigo para convertir su local en un "harén turco" con bailarinas. Su idea es un éxito y aleja a los clientes de Joe. Eddie envía a sus matones a destruir el local
Sam the Bartender
Cuando deciden comprar la mitad de un rancho, Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) y sus compañeros, California y Johnny, se verán en líos cuando alguien quiere monopolizar el agua y además presiente que, en aquella tierra, hay petróleo de por medio.
Truck Driver
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Air Raid Warden on street
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Bouncer at Rick's (uncredited)
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Casablanca era una ciudad a la que llegaban huyendo del nazismo gentes de todas partes: llegar era fácil, pero salir era casi imposible, especialmente si el nombre del fugitivo figuraba en las listas de la Gestapo. En esta ocasión el principal objetivo de la policía secreta alemana es el líder checo y héroe de la resistencia Victor Laszlo, cuya única esperanza es Rick Blaine, propietario del 'Rick’s Café' y antiguo amante de su mujer, Ilsa. Cuando Ilsa se ofrece a quedarse a cambio de un visado para sacar a Laszlo del país, Rick deberá elegir entre su propia felicidad o el idealismo que rigió su vida en el pasado.
Captain
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
Prisoner
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Fifth Member Ale and Quail Club
Inexplicablemente, un novio y una novia no pueden asistir a su propia boda porque se lo impiden sus dobles, que son los que se casan. Seis años más tarde, el administrador del piso de Park Avenue de Tom y Gerry Jeffers enseña la casa, aunque todavía viven en ella, a otros posibles inquilinos, ya que ellos se han retrasado en el pago del alquiler. Gerry se siente frustrada porque su marido, un arquitecto que intenta sacar adelante sus proyectos, no permite que ella utilice su belleza para conseguir que alguien se los financie. Entonces, Gerry conoce accidentalmente a John D. Hackensacker III, uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo.
Irate Man at Burned Mill (uncredited)
Leopold Dilg huye de la cárcel donde cumplía condena por incendio, y se esconde en casa de Nora, una amiga de la infancia. Pero resulta que ésta ha alquilado la casa durante el verano a Michael Lighcap, candidato al Tribunal Supremo. Dilg, que se hace pasar por el jardinero, y Nora logran convencer al magistrado de que Dilg es inocente. Entonces los tres intentan atrapar a los verdaderos delincuentes; pero, al mismo tiempo, los dos descubren que se han enamorado de Nora.
Truck Driver (Uncredited)
Pinks es un hombre humilde, todo corazón, que vive única y exclusivamente para complacer a la mujer de la que está locamente enamorado. Sin embargo, ella está tan acostumbrada al lujo que es incapaz de agradecer los desesperados esfuerzos que él hace por ella.
Larkin
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.
Tough Waiter at Kelly's
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.
Liverlip
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
Policeman
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
Horse Dealer (uncredited)
Jenny Blake (Joan Blondell) es la joven propietaria de un barco casino del Mississippi. Jack Morgan (John Wayne) es un jugador fascinado por ella hasta el punto de enamorarse. Al llegar el carnaval, Jack se las ingenia para que Jenny sea escogida la Reina anual, lo que ella aprovecha para introducirse en la alta sociedad de Memphis. Pronto surge la oportunidad de contraer matrimonio con un hombre rico y Jenny la aprovecha, pero la familia de alta sociedad no la acepta y deciden humillarla. Jack, que nunca había dejado de amar a Jenny, correrá a salvarla de un mundo que Jenny ya no desea conocer.
'Bonzo'
Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a dance club, incognito, where the band plays, and soon is the band's singer.
Detective in Café
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
Dance Hall Bouncer (uncredited)
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
Dumb Guy
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Large Juror (uncredited)
Jimmy McDonald, empleado de la Compañía Cafetera Baxter, se niega a casarse con su novia, Betty Casey, hasta que no haya prosperado. Para ver cumplido su sueño, Jimmy, al que le encanta participar en concursos, envía un lema al concurso de la Compañía Cafetera Maxford. Tres de sus amigos deciden gastarle una broma y le mandan un telegrama diciéndole que ha ganado los 25.000 dólares del primer premio. Jimmy, Betty y toda la oficina empiezan a celebrarlo. El señor Baxter piensa que las ideas de Jimmy deben ser buenas y le asciende al departamento de publicidad. Pero aparece el señor Maxford y denuncia a Jimmy... (FILMAFFINITY)
Kohler
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
Townsman
Dos vaqueros van en ayuda de una ciudad que se encuentra bajo el control de un cacique malvado.
Palais Royale Manager (uncredited)
Judy O'Brien forma parte de un grupo de baile y aspira a dedicarse al ballet clásico. Bubbles, compañera suya deja el grupo para centrarse en la comedia. Cuando el grupo se deshace, Bubbles le ofrece a Judy un ingrato trabajo: ser la telonera de su espectáculo.
Benny Felgman
Estados Unidos, años 30. Durante la Gran Depresión, un vagabundo es reclutado por un partido político de su ciudad para colaborar en un fraude electoral.
Uncle Dinwiddie
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
Bartender
El Dr. Braun, cirujano vienés, y su hija Leni llegan a un pequeño pueblo de Dakota del Norte como refugiados escapando de Hitler. Cuando los vientos del Dust Bowl amenazan el pueblo, John Phillips lidera a sus habitantes en su viaje a Oregon en busca de pastos más verdes. Philips se enamora de Leni, pero ella ya está comprometida con el hombre que los ayudó en su huida del Tercer Reich. Leni tendrá que optar por uno de los dos.
Moving Man
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
Roundhouse
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
Georges, a guard (uncredited)
Verne, un hombre encarcelado en la Isla del Diablo, intenta fugarse e involucra en la fuga a Julie, una chica de saloon, que lo delata a las autoridades. Pero Verne vuelve a intentarlo junto con otros presos, y en su huida se encuentra a Julie.
Royal Forester
Mytyl es una niña egoísta y no aprecia los esfuerzos que su encantadora familia hace por ella. Pero un duende la transporta, junto a su hermano, en un viaje fantástico con el fin de hallar “el pájaro que significa la felicidad".
Butcher (uncredited)
París, Francia, 1482. El juez Frollo, al servicio del benévolo rey Luis XI, se enamora de Esmeralda, una joven gitana. El jorobado Quasimodo, protegido de Frollo y campanero de Notre Dame, vive en paz entre las campanas, en las alturas de la inmensa catedral, hasta que el retorcido magistrado lo involucra en sus maliciosos planes, desesperado por liberarse del supuesto hechizo de Esmeralda, que él cree que es obra del diablo.
Cab Driver (uncredited)
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
Soldier Collecting Signatures (uncredited)
La lucha de Juárez contra Maximiliano I de Habsburgo, emperador de México por voluntad del emperador Napoleón III.
Riley
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.
Nick Salado
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
Milt
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Bartender
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
Lemonade Stand Man
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Man on Roller Coaster
Jim es un piloto de pruebas. Tanto su mujer Ann como su mejor amigo Gunner intentan que vuele con prudencia, pero la vida de esta clase de pilotos es cualquier cosa menos segura.
Beef Dooley
Al estallar la Guerra de Secesión americana (1861-1865), Jim Fisk (Edward Arnold) es un popular vendedor ambulante. Su sagacidad y la de sus dos ganchos es legendaria. Cuando empieza la contienda, se dedican al contrabando del algodón: lo compran en el Sur y lo venden en el Norte. Una vez terminada la guerra, se han hecho ricos y, no conformes con dominar la vida económica de Boston, se preparan para emprender la conquista de Nueva York. Para ello, Jim y su socio Nick (Cary Grant) deciden invertir en Bolsa.
Buster
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
Joe Guzzola
A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.
Romeo Casanova
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.
Bartender
El capitán Lovett ordenó a su primer oficial Thompson deshacerse de su tripulación, que se dedica al tráfico de esclavos, y contratar a marineros respetables, pero cuando se trae a su nueva novia Nancy a bordo, se encuentra con el mismo tipo de situación, incluido el comercio de esclavos.
Cart Driver (Uncredited)
Narra la historia de un correo del zar de Rusia que debe entregar una carta al duque, en la que le previene del traidor Iván Ogaref que quiere asesinarlo y entregar su ciudad a los Khanes mongoles. En su apresurado camino se encuentra con Nadia, una joven que va a la misma ciudad, Irkuskt, para ver a su padre. Los mongoles capturan a Miguel Strogoff, que logra escapar curiosamente y entrega la carta al duque, evitando la invasión mongola.
News Photographer
Una cantante australiana de ópera se casa con un rico norteamericano para poder residir legalmente en los Estados Unidos.
McNulty (uncredited)
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
Al
A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.
Seeley - a Gambler
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Hotel Manager
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
Harry Wilson
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Chips
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Homer
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
Dave Shane
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
Snug
Teseo, duque de Atenas, se va a casar con Hipólita, Reina de las Amazonas. Demetrio está comprometido con Hermia, pero Hermia ama a Lisandro. Helena ama a Demetrio. Oberon y Titania, del reino de las hadas, tienen una pequeña disputa sobre si el niño que Titania está criando se unirá al bando de Titania o al de Oberon, por lo que Oberon intentará alejarlo de ella usando algo de magia. Pero no están solos en ese bosque. Lisandro y Hermina tienen una cita, Helena y Demetrio también están allí, así como algunos actores, que están practicando una obra de teatro para la próxima boda de Teseo e Hipólita. Debido a algunos malentendidos, todo se vuelve un poco confuso...
Beef
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
Gangster Chief
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigeous beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
Big Doorman (uncredited)
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Jo-Jo
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
The Umpire
Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both rivals against the other and, because she is a baseball fan, both Elmer and Jim try to show each other up in the big local baseball game.
Elmer Diltz
A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a professional wrestler.
Detective
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
Wong Loo - War Lord
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Steward (uncredited)
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
Palermo - the Chief
A gangster is smitten with the two girls in the next apartment. With the help of his violinist friend he gets acquainted with the girls by posing as a musician.
Slim
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Detective Sgt. Charlie Lorrimer
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.
Burly Star Turkish Bath Attendant (uncredited)
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Waterfront Diner Wanting Salt (uncredited)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Denman
A compulsive gambler, thought to have been killed in an automobile crash, reappears when his wife remarries.
T.A. ''Tuffy'' Kraft
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler. When the scum bag is shot and killed, the little goodie good is the prime suspect. Can her old beau come to the rescue and save her from the death penalty? Hell, its the least he can do, or is he a scum bag too!
Colonel on Military Court
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
Smith
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Butch
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.
Luke
Aventuras y desventuras de unos barberos de una reserva india que deben viajar a Ginebra para una Conferencia de Paz
Chuck Bailey
Soldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
The Colonel
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
Restaurant Patron
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Spider Kane
Lady Lou es una mujer a finales del siglo XIX que se ha hecho a sí misma. Un día conoce a un apuesto joven, pero aunque enamorada, no está dispuesta a dejarse intimidar y decide llevar la voz cantante.
Canadian Airport Contact (uncredited)
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
Waiting Client (uncredited)
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
Gregory Howard
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.
Sergeant Illya (Uncredited)
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
Blucher
A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
Basso
Un cantante de la radio, Bing Hornsby, no se toma muy en serio su profesión, y una relación amorosa con Mona provoca su despido. Cuando da la impresión de que Hornsby concede excesiva atención a su novia Anita, el director de la emisora la compra, devuelve el trabajo a Hornsby y se marcha de luna de miel con Anita
Honolulu Bartender (uncredited)
Dan Hardesty, un hombre sobre quien pesa una acusación de asesinato, viaja en un barco escoltado por un policía, haciendo una travesía desde Hong Kong a la prisión norteamericana de San Quintín. Durante el viaje conoce a Joan, una muchacha gravemente enferma del corazón, de la que se enamora. Dan intenta fugarse, pero regresa al ver que Joan está sufriendo un ataque. Es entonces cuando planean fugarse a México. (FILMAFFINITY)
Helen es una cantante de cabaret que decide abandonar su profesión para contraer matrimonio con Edward Faraday, un abnegado científico entregado a su trabajo y cuya situación económica no es muy boyante. Durante un viaje a Alemania, Edward contrae una grave enfermedad, debido a sus investigaciones, y se ve obligado a seguir un costoso tratamiento. Para sufragar los gastos, Helen vuelve a su antiguo trabajo. Así conoce a Nick Towsend, un playboy que la enamora y con el que inicia una nueva vida. Cuando Edward regresa y descubre la infidelidad de su mujer, decide quitarle a Helen el hijo que tuvo con ella.
Greek Restaurant Owner (uncredited)
Helen es una cantante de cabaret que decide abandonar su profesión para contraer matrimonio con Edward Faraday, un abnegado científico entregado a su trabajo y cuya situación económica no es muy boyante. Durante un viaje a Alemania, Edward contrae una grave enfermedad, debido a sus investigaciones, y se ve obligado a seguir un costoso tratamiento. Para sufragar los gastos, Helen vuelve a su antiguo trabajo. Así conoce a Nick Towsend, un playboy que la enamora y con el que inicia una nueva vida. Cuando Edward regresa y descubre la infidelidad de su mujer, decide quitarle a Helen el hijo que tuvo con ella.
Little Erny
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
Baker
La acción tiene lugar en París, cuando un preso llamado Jacques Costard (Victor McLaglen) escapa de la cárcel con el objetivo de salvar a su hija Manon(Helen Mack) de una banda de delincuentes que la ha raptado para servir en redes de prostitución. Algo que no será fácil porque no sabe adónde han llevado a la muchacha.Además, para enredar las cosas, ella cree que su padre murió como un héroe en la Primera Guerra Mundial.
Cook
Un capitán de barco se pierde en aguas peligrosas cuando descubre que su mujer le engaña.
Tony Catello
The Lady cop Florence Vinton goes undercover to get the goods on rival gangsters Eddie Swan and Larry Marsh. Just at the point in which Florence looks like she's going to be rubbed out, Swan and Marsh shoot each other down.
Tony the Waiter
El guión narra la historia de Nancy Courtney, una mujer con dinero que no sabe cuidar las cosas buenas que le ha dado la vida.
