Mr. Wilson (segment "Walking Distance")
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
Tenant (uncredited)
Joe Clay, jefe de relaciones públicas de una empresa de San Francisco, conoce durante una fiesta a la bella Kirsten Arnesen. La muchacha se muestra cautelosa al principio, debido a la afición de Joe a la bebida, pero después sucumbe ante su simpatía y se casa con él.
Doc Blaine
A former gunslinger comes to the aid of ranchers battling a murderous land baron.
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Norman Maine, un famoso actor adicto al alcohol, descubre a Esther, una joven con un gran talento para la canción y decide impulsar su carrera cinematográfica. Ella consigue la fama y, a los pocos meses, la pareja contrae matrimonio. Pero, a medida que el éxito de Esther aumenta, decae el de Norman, y esta situación lo empuja a la autodestrucción.
Sawyer (uncredited)
Johnny (Marlon Brando) es el carismático líder de un grupo de motoristas pendencieros que llegan a un pequeño pueblo californiano. En medio del alboroto que montan él y sus colegas, Johnny se sentirá atraído por Kathy (Mary Murphy), la hija del sheriff local.
Doorman
Rick Livingston, un rico neoyorquino, es arrestado por exceso de velocidad al cruzar la pequeña población de Duck Creek. Este hecho va a provocar un gran revuelo en la vida del tranquilo lugar. Rick no tarda en conocer a Cindy, hija del juez local. Pero surgen problemas cuando un periódico de Nueva York publica las fotos de Rick y Cindy, y una antigua amiga del joven llega hasta la localidad para reconquistarlo a él y a su dinero. (Filmaffinit)
Man Outside the Club (uncredited)
Un tiránico y manipulador productor de cine que ha caído en desgracia pide ayuda a un director, a una actriz y a un guionista a los que ayudó a triunfar, pero que tienen sobradas razones para detestarlo. Los tres le reprochan su falta de escrúpulos para alcanzar el éxito sin reparar en las personas a las que traicionaba o engañaba.
Conductor (Uncredited)
A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Una pareja -Evelyn Keyes y Charles Korvin- que contrabandea diamantes de Cuba a Nueva York, trae también un misterioso cargamento: viruela. La mujer, insospechadamente enferma, debe sortear el seguimiento de un agente del tesoro, así que se oculta en el hotel de su hermana -Lola Albright-. Cuando cae enferma, acude a un doctor -William Bishop-, quien piensa que sufre de un resfriado. Pero cuando una niña que también estaba en la oficina, muere repentinamente de viruela, la verdadera situación surge a la luz. La alerta cunde entre las fuerzas del orden, que tratan de atrapar a la persona que puede estar diseminando la infección sobre la gran ciudad.
Bank Guard (uncredited)
Cuando descubre el cuerpo sin vida del amante de su hija, Lucia Harper decide esconderlo porque sospecha que la autora del crimen es su propia hija.
Politician (Uncredited)
Willi Stark (Broderick Crawford), un hombre honrado y valiente, sufre una transformación el día que decide entrar en política y descubre que todo es juego sucio. Tras ser elegido gobernador, olvidando sus principios, lo primero que hace es apoderarse de la prensa y la radio. Convertido en un ser corrupto hará cuanto esté en su mano para permanecer en el poder.
Sergeant (uncredited)
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
Committee Man
Joseph Foster (Thomas Mitchell) es un honrado fiscal de distrito que anda tras un gangster local. Un día, un misterioso hombre llamado Nick Beal (Ray Milland) le hace una oferta para atraparlo. Foster acepta y ese pacto tendrá consecuencias...
En 1865, una vez terminada la guerra de Secesión, Owen Devereaux (Glenn Ford) un sádico coronel del ejército de la Unión, regresa a su tierra, en Colorado. Allí es recibido como un héroe, junto a su colega y amigo el capitán Del Stewart (William Holden). El coronel Deveraux ha dejado tras de sí un reguero de violencia y de muertes innecesarias. El capitán Stewart teme que el conflicto lo haya trastornado. Caroline Emmet (Ellen Drew), la mujer de la que ambos están enamorados, accede a casarse con Deveraux.
Priest (Uncredited)
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
Police Sergeant (Uncredited)
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Police Detective in Alley (Uncredited)
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
Postman
A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.
Jim Bowers
Leon hires a lookalike to take his place at home every night while he goes out partying.
Postman
El auténtico protagonista de esta película es el destructor bélico norteamericano John Paul Jones, barco que sirvió en la I Guerra Mundial. La película repasa cada etapa de su vida y para ello se sirve de varios miembros de su tripulación. Uno de ellos es Steve, que ayudó a construirlo y ha aprovechado la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) para volver a filas; el otro es el capitán del destructor.
Cop
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
Cop
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.
Irish-American in Montage (uncredited)
El empresario Joseph E. Davies es nombrado por el presidente Roosevelt embajador de los Estados Unidos en la Unión Soviética para que averigüe cuáles son las intenciones de este país respecto a la inminente Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). El embajador se llevará algunas sorpresas en una nación que pocos conocen realmente.
Guard Killed in Library
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
Cop
Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.
Detective (uncredited)
Biografía del campeón de boxeo James J. Corbett. Conocido como 'Gentleman Jim', Corbett se convirtió en el primer campeón del mundo de los pesos pesados en 1892, cuando derrotó a John L. Sullivan, tras la entrada en vigor de las llamadas reglas de Queensberry, que exigían la utilización de unos guantes hinchados para proteger los nudillos, un cuadrilátero con unas medidas determinadas y establecían la duración del combate... En Estados Unidos obtuvo excelentes críticas.
Jonathan Taylor
Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas (clap!clap!clap!clap!) was the first Johnny Mack Brown western of the 1942-43 season. The plot concerns a group of insurrectionists who intend to keep Texas separate from the rest of the USA.
Politician (uncredited)
Durante la campaña para la reelección, el político corrupto Paul Madvig decide limpiar su pasado, rechazando el apoyo del gángster Nick Varna y asociándose con el respetable político reformista Ralph Henry. Cuando el hijo de Ralph, Taylor Henry, un jugador y el amante de la hermana de Pablo Opal, es asesinado, el brazo derecho de Paul, Ed Beaumont, encuentra su cuerpo en la calle. Nick utiliza la situación financiera de The Observer para forzar al editor Clyde Matthews a utilizar el periódico para sembrar la sospecha de que Paul Madvig podría haber matado a Taylor
Coroner
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
Conductor (uncredited)
Un matón llamado Raven (Cuervo en inglés) es contratado para que cometa un asesinato. Sin embargo, pronto se da cuenta de que su vida está en peligro, ya que alguien pretende tenderle una trampa.
Officer Murphy (uncredited)
Hannah Hoyt, una anciana centenaria, asiste a la inauguración de una estatua en homenaje a su marido, un pionero con el que, en 1848, vivió en las montañas, donde buscando oro corrieron toda clase de peligros.
Police Chemist Crandall
Police detectives battle the League of Murdered Men, a gang of resurrected dead criminals.
Petie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
Police Sergeant
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Construction Worker (uncredited)
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Party Guest
Candy Johnson es un estafador y timador de lengua viperina. Candy Johnson prospera hasta ser el jefe mafioso de Yellow Creek, pero el padre alcohólico de su esposa tratará de poner las cosas en su sitio.
Mr. Dugan Sr.
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and go on the radio, celebrate a birthday, get involved with gangsters...and reunite a wealthy recluse with her baby granddaughter and estranged daughter-in-law.
Officer #1
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
Mr. Howard
The Wolverine Kid kills a man and it looks like Steve Howard did it. But Steve's father recognizes the bullet as coming from the gun owned by the Kid.
Dan Burke
Dan Burke is after a mail contract and Stevens through his henchman Keno is out to stop him. When Burke's son Larry brings the payroll he is murdered and the Three Mesquiteers blamed. Young Tim Burke breaks them out of jail and they start the timed mail run to obtain the contract. But Keno and his men plan to stop them by using dynamite to make a road block.
Policeman
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Editor Gunnigan
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Cop (uncredited)
Divertida comedia, de la que W. C. Fields tuvo el control casi absoluto. Aparte de ser el protagonista, el actor firmó el guión con el curioso seudónimo de Mahatma Kane Jeeves. En realidad la trama es completamente disparatada, casi mera excusa para acumular gags sobre el personaje de Egbert Sousé, una especie de 'alter ego' de Fields, o al menos de la imagen que tenía de él el gran público. El actor da vida a un borrachín, que por casualidad detiene a un atracador de bancos. A partir de ahí nace una fulgurante carrera de detective, prácticamente a su pesar, pues él incluso intenta participar en una estafa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
La joven irlandesa Nellie se enamora de Jerry, un guapo muchacho, pero sus padres se oponen a la relación. Ambos deciden casarse y mudarse a Nueva York.
Policeman (uncredited)
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
Laborer (uncredited)
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Minor Role
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
Policeman (uncredited)
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Bartender
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Captain Taylor
Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton) and Rico Rinaldo (Duncan Renaldo) hatch a plan: Stony poses as an outlaw dubbed The Laredo Kid to lure the bad guys into Texas. But the plan might fall apart when the real Laredo Kid arrives on the scene in this action-packed Western.
Patrolman
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Lem Pritchard
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
Prison Guard
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt (George Raft) sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda (Joan Bennett), testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma (Lloyd Nolan), who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan (Walter Pidgeon), who knows nothing about her past.
Guard (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Express Man (uncredited)
El Santo va trás la pista de un sofisticado ladrón de joyas que trafica diamantes dentro de una momia que viaja del El Cairo a Philadelphia, con la aparición de un cadaver en el jardín de la casa de un amigo suyo, Simon Templar decide hacerse pasar por el asesino ya que cuenta con un gran parecido fisico, de esta manera intentará resolver el caso.
Jury Member (uncredited)
Justo antes de Navidad, la joven Lee Leander (Barbara Stanwyck) es arrestada por el robo de una joya y es procesada
por el fiscal John Sargent (Fred McMurray) pero el juicio se pospone hasta después de Navidad.
Sargent acaba sintiendo pena por ella y decide llevarsela con él a casa de su madre. Después de pasar unos dias
juntos, ámbos se enamoran, pero les surge un nuevo problema, como solventar el asunto de la justicia.
Laboratory Technician
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.
Fire Captain
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Jailhouse Lieutenant with Capt. Johnson (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
Bullock
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
Jailer (uncredited)
Estados Unidos, Ley Seca, años 20. Relato sobre los diferentes caminos que siguen tres veteranos que se conocen durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Cuando regresan a América tras luchar por su país, tropiezan con el problema del desempleo y con grandes difícultades económicas. Uno de ellos (Lynn) seguirá con decisión el buen camino; otro (Cagney), amargado por la falta de futuro, no encuentra más salida que el contrabando ilegal de licor; el tercero (Bogart) se convierte en un implacable gángster.
Policeman
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Second Convict Custodian on Train (uncredited)
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Neighbor
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.
Bailiff (uncredited)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Bar Patron
En la bulliciosa ciudad minera de Tombstone, Ben Carter, el dueño de un saloon, intenta deshacerse de un competidor que ha traído hermosas chicas de Chicago, contratando a un pistolero. En vista de que el sheriff se niega a enfrentarse con él, decide hacerlo Wyatt Earp, un antiguo explorador del Ejército, que acaba aceptando el puesto de sheriff y empieza a limpiar la ciudad de maleantes. Mientras tanto, mantiene una peculiar relación de amistad/rivalidad con Doc Holliday, un jugador tísico.
Police Guard (uncredited)
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
Sheehan
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war picture at Three Points airport, with Tailspin Tommy Tompkins as a stunt pilot in the film. Tommy is incensed by the complete disregard for human life shown by the film's director, Sheehan, and quits. Sheehan gets a replacement pilot named Earl Martin, who is known as a reckless pilot who will try an aerial stunt for a thrill. He hand Tommy get into a fight when Martin takes Betty Lou Barnes for a ride in a plane that is practically falling apart.
Mike Mulvaney (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.
RCMP Sergeant
A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
Cleveland Official (uncredited)
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Intelligence Service Man
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
Conductor (uncredited)
Kansas, 1866. Wade Hatton intenta imponer el orden y la justicia en Dodge City, una próspera ciudad a la que llega el ferrocarril, pero que está dominada por un cacique y su banda de pistoleros. En su empeño le ayuda Abby Irving, la sobrina del médico local.
Yerkes
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on himself when Malone dies under cloudy circumstances.
Captain (uncredited)
Dos hombres inocentes son acusados injustamente de asesinato y condenados a muerte. La novia de uno de ellos convence a un detective de policía de su inocencia, y juntos tratan de encontrar al verdadero asesino antes de la fecha de ejecución de los hombres.
Police Sergeant
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Guard Cooper
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
AMI Chief
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
Cop (uncredited)
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
Policeman in Car
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Townsman
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
Policeman (Uncredited)
Un cantante que aspira a convertirse en compositor es acusado de un crimen y debe demostrar su inocencia. Por otro lado, los delincuentes responsables le amenazan para que no vuelva a cantar. Mientras medita sobre su futuro, Nino Maretti se enamora de la bella Jean.
Police Officer (uncredited)
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Detective
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
Patrick Callahan
Cuenta la historia de amor entre dos personajes enfrentados por razones políticas. Sucede en la Irlanda de los años 20, cuando el fuego de la revolución se lleva por delante todo cuanto le sale al paso. Sólo el amor puede salvarse de las llamas.
Joe - Lansing's Assistant (uncredited)
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
Pat O'Malley - Pago Pago Patron
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Patrolman (uncredited)
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
G-Man
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
Ship's Mate
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Boyle, Policeman with Kerrigan (uncredited)
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
Purser (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.
Ship's Officer
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Immigration Officer Tom Wilson
Una inmigrante consigue triunfar en el mundo del espectáculo, tras haber llegado huérfana a Estados Unidos.
Police Officer Jordan
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Mining Engineer
Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws eying the mine try to frame the hero for the death.
Capt. Grayson [Ch. 1]
Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for the love of Frances Schiller, but team up to hunt down "The Tiger Shark," a mad, scientific wizard who is holding Sergeant William Schiller, Frances' brother, a prisoner on a wild, jungle island in the Pacific.
Seated Pub Sailor
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.
Roark (uncredited)
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
Federal Agent (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.
First Drunk
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
Police Officer
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
Detective (uncredited)
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
John Craig
An accomplished aviator sets out to locate treasure hidden by one of his ancestors. He encounters interference from various adversaries.
Tim Sullivan
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.
Officer Ryan
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
Detective Brady (uncredited)
Un delincuente (Frank Reicher) revela el escondite de un fabuloso botín de un millón de dólares. Su médico personal (Warner Oland) sueña con apoderarse de él, pero debe competir con un detective privado (Stuart Erwin) y una mentalista (Dorothy Wilson). (FILMAFFINITY)
Det. Bob Larkin
The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what's considered the toughest job in the Police Department--the Riot Squad.
Detective Agency Official
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.
Prison Interne
Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
Pat Patrick
After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find the Sheriff Tate Hurley who was his chief accuser. The hatred between the two men was not extinguished, and they first compete in a wrestling match.
Plainclothesman (Uncredited)
Tras una pelea con su socio, un frustrado escultor londinense contempla atónito cómo éste incendia el museo con el fin de cobrar el seguro y poder pagar las deudas. El artista queda inconsciente en medio del fuego, pero sobrevive, aunque con las manos quemadas. Años más tarde reabre el museo en Nueva York.
Pilot (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.
Lafe Armstrong
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Camp O'Neil escapes and assumes a different identity becoming foreman on Molly McCall's ranch.
Policeman Pat O'Hoolihan
Jenny está embarazada de un joven que muere en el terremoto de San Francisco de 1906 y, después de dar a luz, decide poner a su hijo bajo la custodia de un matrimonio rico. Años después, gracias a la protección de un político corrupto, se convierte en la principal 'madame' de San Francisco, además de participar en diversas actividades ilegales. Su hijo, ya adulto, se propone acabar con la corrupción y los negocios sucios, sin sospechar que su propia madre está implicada en ellos.
Sergeant Detective W. J. Bender
A man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.
Fireman (Uncredited)
Nasa (Clara Bow) es una mestiza con sangre blanca e india. Rebelde e indomable, no respetará las tradiciones de su padre y huirá con un hombre que no la conviene, quedando embarazada. Como si de una maldición se tratase, la vida de Nasa irá degradándose irremediablemente hacia el vicio, el alcohol y la prostitución.
Daley
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
Burke
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter, his trial is national news but the jury acquits him. But the court of public opinion is still against him, and the medical board is meeting to decide whether or not to take his medical license away from him. Before they do, Cromwell, an amateur pilot, decides to join his friend, WWI Ace Donald Evans, on a flight to Alaska looking for a shorter route to Japan by following the Aleutian Islands. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued by a fur trapper named Tom Ross. He takes Cromwell to Armstrong's Trading Post, where is is nursed back to health by Klondike, a girl who works for Armstrong, and was engaged to marry Armstrong's son Jim. The latter is suffering from the same disease that Cromwell's last patient had...
Van Avery - City Editor
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to make a go of it.
Tom Dickson ha sido durante 25 años el leal y honrado presidente de un banco. Ante la caída de la bolsa, la junta directiva le arrebata el poder y exige la devolución de los préstamos. Un empleado del banco sin escrúpulos y un presunto robo de cinco millones de dólares ponen su carrera y su matrimonio al borde del desastre. (FILMAFFINITY)
McCarey
More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge of the company's development of a new speedboat - unaware that gangsters and saboteurs want to thwart them and won't stop at murder. Filled with gymnastic action-packed fights, Speed Madness is "a knockout for fans who cheer the hero and hiss the villain.
Dr. Strong
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
Paul Whipple
A policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and, in addition to stopping the mobsters in their tracks, wins a few races and the love of the daughter of the racetrack owner.
Bob
Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.
Ames
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
Sheriff A. W. Brown
A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
Deputy Ed Myers
Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim McCoy, Texas Cyclone) escapes from prison with his cellmate, Red Larkin (Matthew Betz, The Wedding March), a dangerous killer. Disguised as the town's lawman, Tim sets off for Silver City to take back money that's rightfully his and hopefully clear his name. But Red has plans of his own and wants the money for himself. Newly remastered.
Reporter
When a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub owner, for the crime.
District Attorney
A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion.
Jim Morgan
The three Morgan brothers, Glenn, Jim and Buddy are all air mail pilots. The plane flown by Jim is shot down by Hugh Jeffries for the money it carries. Another flight is made by Buddy followed by Jeffries intending to shoot him down also...
Man
The police use a gangster's son to get to him.
This is the German-language version of 1930's "The Way of All Men", shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a German-speaking cast.
Frank Williams
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.
Charles Newton
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
D.J. McCarthy
Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress Olga Baclanova (Freaks) on the eve of the big fight.
Detective Sgt. Tommy Glennon
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
Dick Hale
At a three-ring circus, 'Spangles' Delancy, a beautiful bareback horse rider, falls in love with a wanted man, Dick Radley, who uses the circus as a hideout. The show's owner Big Bill Bowman also falls in love with Spangles-- But only one man can have her.
Joe Brown
Silent family drama.
Grand Duke Sergius of Russia
Patrick O'Malley
Fernanda nace huérfana a la sombra de un árbol durante el terremoto de San Francisco y los Borel de España deciden adoptarla "sin haber merecido semejante castigo". En Barcelona, Fernanda crecerá como una mujer muy hermosa, vanidosa y fascinada con el agua, siendo entonces pretendida por don Diego a quien ella no da mayores esperanzas. Pero enamorado de ella, cuando la chica amenaza con irse de nuevo a San Francisco, don Diego decide seguirla… y está dispuesto a ofrecerle tantas bañeras como ninguna mujer ha tenido jamás.
Tom Benham
A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Viola Brothers Shore.
Hugh Edwards
This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove and Bob Hill find an infant in the cabin belonging to Sonora Jack, a notorious bandit. The girl, Marta, grows to womanhood.
Roy Beardsley
To relieve the burden placed on their mother, Alice Sturgis (Wanda Hawley) marries and has several children, while her independent sister, Jeanette (Mae Busch), goes to work as a stenographer. Eventually, she is forced to marry a persistent salesman to avoid a scandal. Becoming disillusioned with married life, Jeanette leaves the salesman, but after 3 years' separation she realizes her need for a family and returns to him.
Bill Pendleton
On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned girl who is secretly in love with him…
George Brady
Sheer beauty is only way to describe these gorgeous creatures!
Fermoy MacDonough
Las aventuras de una joven dependienta que aprende que tener dinero no es la clave de la felicidad.
Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
Robert Browne
A drama of the India Seas that has Hollingsworth Chance, a young American, tangled in court intrigue to, is put to the supreme test to save the girl he loves, Princess Geneva
Bucky O'Harra
Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vancouver.
Howard Metcliffe
David Butler and Fritzi Brunette star in this melodrama about an agricultural student whose wife longs for life in the city.
Steve
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he will make her love him. The Virginian's best friend, Steve, falls in with bad guys led by Trampas. The Virginian catches them cattle rustling. As foreman, he must give the order to hang his friend. Trampas gets away and shoots the Virginian in the back. Molly nurses him to health, and falls in love with him. They plan to marry, but on their wedding day Trampas returns, looking for trouble.
Lawrence Mayne
The title is also the moniker of a renowned safe-cracker, Slippy McGee, who has always managed to evade capture until his latest job, when he is wounded. He escapes aboard a freight train, bound for parts unknown, and finds himself in the town of Appleborro. There, he is discovered and cared for by Father De Rance and Mary Virginia. His leg is amputated, and during his recovery in Appleborro, the town's influence causes him to reform.
Harry Baldwin
With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.
Philip Logan
Steve Cline returns to the U.S. after earning his fortune in South America. He reads in the paper that his brother Tom was arrested for safecracking. Tom escapes and runs to the home of Sadie McCall, whose father Reever heads a forgery ring. Steve rushes to meet his brother, but Tom is killed in a police raid. Reever gets away and Steve falls for Sadie, but Steve takes the blame for the murder and faces death by hanging. Reported by some to be Gary Cooper's first film as an extra. However this is not confirmed in any way.
Rush Thompson
Living in Cuba with her parents and grandmother, Inez Hastings, does not care for Lavendera, her persistent suitor. Contrary to her father's wishes, she attends a cockfight and makes the acquaintance of Rush Thompson, a United States revenue officer assigned to track down Cuban bootleggers. Their romance awakens the jealousy of Lavendera, who attempts to kill Rush.
Jennie Blake, a schoolteacher from the city, comes between Paul Whalen and Jim Payne, fishing partners in the seaport town of Rocky Point, and is unable to decide which one she loves until Jim loses his temper and is beaten in a fight by Paul.
Lt. Brant
Former U.S. Army Capt. Bob Hampton joins a party of settlers and saves the life of a girl known as "The Kid" from a siege.
Jack North
Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.
T. Caraway Dodge
While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic attaché. At the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Pierre is sent to Japan as attaché to the Australian ambassador. When Yuki's father discovers his daughter's romance with a foreigner, he becomes enraged and betroths her to Prince Hagane for political reasons.
Kirk Connelly
Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.
Chester Framm
Floss Brannon, expelled from college for mischievous conduct, marries Chester Framm, a struggling young student who aspires to be an orator. When Chester's salary as an insurance clerk proves insufficient for the couple's needs, Claire invents a complexion cream called "Angel Bloom." Deciding to combine Chester's oratory prowess with the promotion of Angel Bloom, Floss rents an elephant, coats it with the cream and plans to have Chester pitch the product from the back of the animal.
Richard MacTavish (as Patrick O'Malley)
Promised in marriage to wealthy Lot Gordon , Scottish lassie Madelon MacTavish prefers Lot's poor relation Burr Gordon. The wisdom of her choice is proven later on, when a vengeful Lot tries to rape the girl.
Kern Thodes (early chapters)
On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.
Clancy
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers. The war interrupts their romantic idyll, as everyone goes overseas to Belgium and France. Nanette becomes a Red Cross nurse and is terrorized by the evil Prussian Lt. von Eberhard.
Jimmie O'Grady
A German spy who is married to Lillian, the sister of Rosie O'Grady.
Jimmy
When her husband Pete is shot over a craps game, Molly McGill goes to work as a scrubwoman to support her two children.
Hugh Graham
Giovanni Pallazzi, a former member of the Black Hand, an Italian criminal organization, comes to America with his blind daughter Lucia and prospers. Hearing of his success, his former associates demand that he aid in their support
Cpl. John Emerson
The Law of the North is a silent 1917 Adventure film.
Sybil Vane
Roger Sterritt
Viola Dana plays Eleanor, a minister's daughter who comes to New York to visit her older sister, a successful businesswoman. Eleanor manages to get a job as a nurse in a major metropolitan hospital. One night, she is called upon to look after a drunken tourist, who turns out to be her hometown sweetheart Roger (Pat O'Malley).
Eileen Donaghue loves Myles Murphy, a match which is approved by Mrs Donaghue. Colonel Reid of the British Army employs an informer, Fagin, who has designs on Eileen, but Myles gives him a beating for his presumption. As a result, Fagin tells Reid that Myles is plotting against the Crown.
Pat McQuade
Policeman Patrick McQuade, of the traffic squad, has a sweetheart. Patrick has a rival in Policeman Flynn, who does not stop at anything to depreciate Patrick in Nora's eyes.
The Voice of the Violin: A Drama (1915) is a half-hour tragic romance of Marjorie (Helen Fulton) & Jack (Pat O'Malley). Marjorie's at the piano. Jack's shaving & giving some affection to the terrier when he hears Marjorie's music. Herbert McClean Sr (Robert Brower) is Jack's father & Marjorie's legal guardian; he is likewise moved by her playing.
