Joe, Carnival Employee (uncredited)
Biopic sobre la estrella de Broadway de los años 20 Jeanne Eagels (1894-1929). Aunque Eagels aspira a ser una gran actriz, acepta un trabajo como bailarina en un pequeño local neoyorquino. Cuando llega a "La Gran Manzana", recibe clases de la estricta Madame Neilson, logrando así debutar en Broadway en 1922.
Barfly (uncredited)
Sombrío y duro retrato de un adicto a la heroína y de las repercusiones de su drogadicción en su ambiente familiar. Anthony Franciosa fue candidato al Óscar al mejor actor principal.
Soldier in Drill Line (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joe is drafted into the army of Starvania, and falls in love with Olga, a beautiful Starvanian WAC, but Joe's sergeant also has his eyes on Olga. But Joe wins her hand when he captures two spies in the Colonel's office.
Studio Guard
Harry y Willie son timados por un hombre llamado Gorman.Deciden seguir su rastro hasta Hollywood, donde, sin ellos saberlo, ha tomado la identidad de un director de cine extranjero. Los muchachos terminan como dobles de acrobacias en la película que Gorman está filmando, mientras él intenta acabar con la pareja antes de que se den cuenta de quién es realmente.
Benefit Comedy Team Member (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.
Subway Passenger
Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark), un ratero de poca monta, atraca a una mujer llamada Candy (Jean Peters) y se apodera de un valioso microfilm que contiene secretos de estado. Pero Candy estaba bajo la vigilancia de agentes del gobierno, por lo que Skip se convertirá en sospechoso. Thelma Ritter fue nominada al Oscar a la mejor actriz secundaria.
Soldier in Drill Line (uncredited)
Joe and his sergeant fall for the same girl.
Un misterioso forajido llamado "Sidewinder", es el líder fantasma de una tribu de indios Utah renegados, que tiene aterrorizado a todo el territorio de Arizona en 1870. (FILMAFFINITY)
Townsman
Transcurre el año 1870, el territorio de Arizona es escenario de cruentas luchas entre blancos e indios apaches, capitaneados por Cochise, que defienden palmo a palmo su territorio. A la vista de esta situación, un joven llamado Tom Jeffords decide entrevistarse con Cochise para proponerle un tratado de paz. El jefe indio se siente impresionado por la iniciativa del joven, por lo que decide recibirle en su campamento. Fruto de esta entrevista es la autorización, por parte de Cochise, de que el correo pueda pasar por sus territorios. Pero Tom, al irse del campamento, quedó prendado de una joven india llamada Somseeahray.
Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
Jimmie Ringo, un legendario pistolero, se siente tan viejo y cansado que está decidido a retirarse y llevar una vida más tranquila como granjero. Sin embargo, sus propósitos tropiezan con la incomprensión y la intolerancia de la sociedad. Aunque ya no será perseguido por la ley, la región está llena de jóvenes pistoleros que desean demostrar que son más rápidos que él para ocupar su lugar y heredar su fama.
Pete
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
Bettor on Broadway Bill (archive footage) (uncredited)
Un entrenador de hípica que pasa por una mala racha pone toda su confianza en su caballo para la próxima competición. No obstante, éste se escapa de su cuadra. Los problemas se complican cuando el sheriff del condado reclama a Dan su caballo al no haber hecho frente al pago de unas facturas. A medida que se acerca la hora del Derby, cuando tenía previsto competir su caballo "Broadway Bill", los nervios atenazan a Dan Brooks, quien una vez que ha recuperado a su caballo se encuentra con un nuevo imprevisto.
Groom (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.
Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Un maduro boxeador en decadencia, para demostrarse a sí mismo que todavía no está acabado, decide seguir boxeando, a pesar de la desaprobación de su mujer. Incluso su propio mánager, convencido de su derrota, apuesta contra él. Obtuvo excelentes críticas por las escenas de boxeo y por la vibrante interpretación de Robert Ryan.
Expressman (uncredited)
A crate containing a live gorilla is delivered to a mountain cabin Hugh has rented.
Fourth of July Dignitary on Dais (uncredited)
Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and Steve out of trouble.
Second Bartender (uncredited)
Tony es una gran estrella del teatro. Britta, su pareja en los escenarios, lo fue también en la vida real aunque llevan divorciados más de dos años. En cuanto empiezan los ensayos de "Otelo", Tony vuelve a transformarse una vez más hasta perder su personalidad y adquirir la del celoso moro veneciano.
Train Conductor (uncredited)
The stooges are scammed out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. The only Stooges SHORT where Moe, Curly and Shemp appear together.
Studio Cop
Una joven deja su trabajo como dependienta de una tienda de Nueva York y emprende una nueva vida dentro de una compañía teatral que recorre el país. Pero su verdadero éxito llega con el cine mudo, donde alcanzará la fama y adoración del público con su interpretación de la heroína en "Los peligros de Paulina".
Streetcar Passenger
Chris Hunter (Ann Sheridan) mata a un intruso que merodeaba por su casa, pero le oculta a su marido y también a su abogado que el hombre era un escultor que fue su amante mientras su marido estaba en la guerra. Para complicar más las cosas, la viuda del escultor conserva una estatua, para la cual Chris Hunter había posado desnuda.
Bartender (uncredited)
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.
Garage Mechanic (uncredited)
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest with the wrong woman, while his bride-to-be is waiting, none too happy, at the church.
Townsman at Meeting (uncredited)
In this Academy Award Best Short Subject winner, 11 year old Davy discovers that a chained gentle dog, Buck, is badly wounded around the neck because of the thick, tight collar he is made to constantly wear by his unfeeling owner. When Buck comes through the fence and becomes stuck, Davy removes the collar. Even though the boy tells him to stay in his owner's yard, the dog follows him home.
Man Watching Parade (uncredited)
Smoky era un hermoso caballo salvaje antes de ser capturado y domado con todo cariño con la idea de hacerlo participar en importantes carreras. Cuando roban al animal, su dueño se lanza en su búsqueda, pero lo encuentra en unas condiciones tan lastimosas que lo hacen poco apto para la competición.
Mug (uncredited)
Después de servir en el ejército durante la I Guerra Mundial, el reportero Terry O'Neill vuelve a casa. Descubre que es más difícil encontrar empleo de lo que había pensado.
Bartender (uncredited)
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
Referee (uncredited)
Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." He hears it enough here, from various and outlandish sources, to eventually win his championship match.
Accident Witness (uncredited)
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
Man Going Hunting (uncredited)
Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.
Devil
The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have to catch 100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks overhear and think the boys are the $100,000 sweepstakes winners. When the crooks give chase, the stooges hide in a sporting goods store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real person. The boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but the cemetery owner arrives from a costume party with his partners, all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare the devil out of the stooges.
Waiter (uncredited)
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Native in Café (uncredited)
Dos torpes magos ayudan a un príncipe del Medio Oriente a recuperar su legítimo trono de su tío despótico.
Elvis - Groundskeeper (uncredited)
After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up with the money or go to jail. Knowing nothing about plumbing, they answer Mr. Skunkem's ad for plumber's assistants, and are sent to the Dinwitty estate to recover a diamond ring from a drain pipe. In due course they destroy the bathroom, and switch the gas and water lines, disrupting Mrs. Dinwitty's bridge party, Vanillia's dinner preparation, and the gardener's lawn watering.
Man Whose Hat Gets Sat On (uncredited)
This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
Inquest Juror (uncredited)
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
Egg Customer (uncredited)
The Stooges, not faring well with their diner, enter Curly in a milking contest at the County Fair. But when they take him to a pasture to practice, Curly doesnt know a cow from a bull!
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.
Man on Street (uncredited)
Un escritor de seriales radiofónicos anda desesperadamente falto de ideas. Hasta que se muda a un apartamento contiguo a la casa de una encantadora familia que le sirve de inspiración. El tipo pone en marcha un programa de gran éxito, pero se siente culpable de su enfoque de chanza, más cuando se enamora de la hija mayor del clan.
Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
Keystone Kop
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Workman
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
Fireman
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
Team Trainer (uncredited)
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Soldier
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
Martin Eden quiere ser escritor pero para ganarse el pan opta por embarcarse como marino en un barco mercante. Una dura tormenta azota al navío que acaba naufragando. Martin consigue salvarse y decide poner por escrito la horrible experiencia que acaba de vivir. Algo que le traerá problemas con muchas personas.
Juror
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.
Minor Role (uncredited)
Un cadete de West Point se enamora de una chica que canta en la banda de su hermano. Deciden casarse, aunque ello signifique que ha de dejar la academia, pero cuando el hermano de su novia escribe una balada patriótica, comprenderá que el deber es más importante que el matrimonio...
Pedestrian newspaper buyer (uncredited)
Cuando la bella Vicky Lynn (Carole Landis) es encontrada asesinada, la policía detiene al empresario Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) para interrogarlo. Frankie había llevado a Vicky de ser mesera a ser aceptada socialmente y había organizado toda su carrera hasta que recibió una oferta de Hollywood, justo antes de su muerte. Sólo la hermana de Vicky, Jill Lynn (Betty Grable) tiene las suficientes pruebas para dirigir las sospechas, que apuntaban todas a Frankie, hacia otro lado. Pero el detective dueño del caso, Ed Cornell (Laird Cregar), parece especialmente interesado en él.
Dental Patient
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.
Reporter (uncredited)
Joe Pendleton (Robert Montgomery) es un boxeador que iba a luchar por el campeonato mundial antes de morir en un accidente de avión. Por desgracia para Joe, él no estaba destinado a morir en el accidente, pero sube al cielo antes de tiempo por culpa de un ángel demasiado eficiente (Edward Everett Horton). Ahora es cosa del jefe del ángel, Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), encontrar un nuevo cuerpo para Joe y darle otra oportunidad de luchar por el título. Mientras le buscan un nuevo hogar, Joe conoce a una joven idealista (Evelyn Keyes) de la que se enamora locamente, y lo que le da una razón para vivir, aparte de para poder pelear por el título. Adaptación de la obra "El cielo puede esperar", que en 1978 también fue adaptada por Warren Beatty.
Miggs
A lawman infiltrates a gang of racketeers.
Lottery Winner
John Reynolds debe ir a Nueva Orleans para investigar un juego de apuestas que está siendo un fraude. Allí conocerá a Julie, la hija del General Mirbeau, que está implicado en esta lotería fraudulenta, y ambos se enamorarán. Sin embargo, la historia sufre un giro cuando Mirbeau es asesinado. Entretenido film con el vaquero John Wayne metido de lleno en la justicia y enamorándose de quien no debe. John Reynolds, viaja a Nueva Orleans para acabar con una lotería amañada. En el proceso, se enamorará de Julie Mirbeau, que resulta ser la hija del General Mirbeau, quien maneja la lotería.
Reporter (uncredited)
Danny y Hank son dos estudiantes de trompeta que han estado siete años estudiando y tocando juntos en la banda de la universidad. Los dos compiten en el trabajo y en el amor para conseguir los favores de su mánager, la bella Ellen Miller.
Bartender
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
Detective in Refrigerator
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
Bachelor, Sadies Hawkins Day Race
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Man at Ticket Window (uncredited)
Texas, 1880, años agitados tras la Guerra Civil estadounidense. El famoso juez Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), caprichoso y de singular moralidad, cabecilla de los ganaderos, y autodenominado "la única ley al oeste de Pecos", acusa falsamente a un forastero llamado Cole Harden (Gary Cooper) de robar un caballo. Condenado a la horca tras el juicio, Cole Harden ideará un plan para librarse de la muerte: el juez siente una tremenda admiración por una famosa actriz a la que el sentenciado a muerte dice conocer.
Man Waiting for Job (uncredited)
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Ed the Plumber
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.
Store Proprietor
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
Man with Seal (uncredited)
Dos hermanas entran a trabajar en un musical, una como bailarina y la otra vendiendo cigarrillos. El productor, novio de la bailarina, pronto se da cuenta de que está enamorado de la otra hermana.
Pinball Addict
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
Baseball Spectator with Toupee
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Junk Man
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
Watchman (uncredited)
El editor de un periódico y su sirviente coreano combaten el crimen como vigilantes, mientras aparentan ser un gangster enmascarado y su cómplice. Primera entrega del serial de la Universal Pictures basado en el personaje radiofónico. Le seguiría "The Green Hornet Strikes Again!" (1940)
Patient in Waiting Room
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
Keystone Cop
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
First Taxicab Driver
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
Porter
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Union Soldier
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
Drunk
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.
Policeman
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
Tramp Comic (uncredited)
Michael Cassidy es el editor de un pequeño periódico que está a punto de ser cerrado. El nuevo propietario, Matthew Cooper, dueño de otro periódico de la ciudad, sólo lo ha comprado para deshacerse de la competencia
Joe, the Cook (uncredited)
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
Thompson
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
Drunk
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Rancher (uncredited)
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
Lunch Counter Proprietor (uncredited)
Los hermanos Beebe tienen poco en común, el jove Mike solo quiere ser un niño; el responsable Dave quiere trabajar y casarse con Martha; pero Joe piensa que su único camino al éxito es dedicarse a las apuestas y al contrabando. Parece que lo único que puede unirles es su número como cantantes, el cual Mike y Dave odian.
Billboard Painter
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.
Band Member
Un huérfano es adoptado provisionalmente por el gerente de un hotel poblado por gente de negocios. Al dueño del hotel no le gustan los artistas y quiere que la niña regrese al orfanato.
Small Furniture Mover
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.
Snack Vendor
Las manicuras Sally, Irene y Mary ansían triunfar en Broadway. Cuando Mary hereda un viejo transbordador, lo convierten en un club de éxito.
Shabby Man
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Game Player (uncredited)
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
Un escritor acepta realizar una obra para una actriz con el objetivo de enamorar a la hermana de ésta.
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Stella, una chica de familia humilde, se casa con el adinerado Steve. Al poco tiempo, tienen una hija y todo parece ir bien, pero las grandes diferencias de educación harán mella en su matrimonio y finalmente se separan. Pasados unos años, Stella renuncia a su hija en favor de Steve para que la niña se críe en un mejor ambiente.
Juror at Ruth's Trial
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
Bit Role
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
Hot Clam Harry Foster (uncredited)
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Rancher at Auction
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
Man with Magic Lantern
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
Automobile Driver
Comedia musical en la cual un cowboy (Bing Crosby) regresa a su tierra después de algunos años, enamorándose de una rica ranchera (Frances Farmer).
Officer (uncredited)
The stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.
Assembly Line Worker Next to Big Bill (uncredited)
Extenuado por el frenético ritmo de la cadena de montaje, un obrero metalúrgico acaba perdiendo la razón. Después de recuperarse en un hospital, sale y es encarcelado por participar en una manifestación en la que se encontraba por casualidad. En la cárcel, también sin pretenderlo, ayuda a controlar un motín, gracias a lo cual queda en libertad. Una vez fuera, reemprende la lucha por la supervivencia en compañía de una joven huérfana a la que conoce en la calle.
Pete (uncredited)
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Cop
Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
Card Player (uncredited)
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Una actriz de cierta edad reconoce al fin la verdad cuando la sustituyen por una corista.
Waiter
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Jailbird
Mientras que el sobrino del doctor John Pearly debe juntarse con su tío para navegar sobre el Mississipi en un viejo barco a vapor, es arrestado por el crimen de un hombre que le impedía marcharse con Fleety Belle, con la que tenía la intención de casarse. El joven hombre es condenado al ahorcamiento. El doctor intentará todo para salvar a su sobrino...
Street Cleaner (uncredited)
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
Confederate Sentry
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
Second Complaining Husband (uncredited)
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Squared Circle Waiter
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
Bettor on Broadway Bill (uncredited)
El señor Higgins tiene cuatro hijas y tres yernos. Cada uno de ellos gestiona una de sus empresas. Dan Brooks odia dirigir la compañía de fabricación de papel. Él prefiere dedicar su atención a su caballo de carreras "Broadway Bill". Alice, la hija preferida de Higgins, animará a Dan cuando la esposa de éste se niegue a apoyarlo en las carreras. Higgins obliga a Dan a vender su caballo y a asumir sus obligaciones en la fábrica. A pesar de ello, Dan sigue obsesionado por las carreras, y Alice se enamora de él.
Health Lecture Heckler
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
Prisoner
While the warden is away, his daughter attempts to turn prison into 'Paradise" Considered a Lost Film.
Man Dropping Coin in Hat
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
Elmer - Henchman
Una banda de ladrones se hace con el control del suministro de agua en una zona casi desértica, pidiendo a los ganaderos un alto precio por ella. El agente del Gobierno, Saunders, es enviado al lugar para resolver la situación. Junto a los rancheros de la zona, Saunders trabajará para que el río se vuelva a abrir y acabar con la tiranía de la banda de James Kincaid.
Pug (uncredited)
Principios del siglo XX. Narra una historia ambientada en el siglo XIX en Bowery, un popular barrio de Nueva York habitado por gángsteres, matones y prostitutas.
Speakeasy Waiter (uncredited)
Lilly Powers es una camarera de una horrible ciudad industrial que trabaja en la cantina de su padre, donde aprende las malas artes de los clientes masculinos. Cuando este muere, se traslada a Nueva York con su criada, donde aprovechará su experiencia y su capacidad de engatusar a los hombres para ir escalando posiciones. En la gran manzana conoce a Jimmy McCoy, un botones de oficina que la ayuda a conseguir un trabajo en la Gotham Trust Company. A partir de entonces seduce y rechaza a varios hombres.
Bartender (Uncredited)
Tras ser deportado de Francia donde fue capturado con la tenencia de secretos de Estado, el detective privado Donald Free (William Powell), se encuentra sin empleo y tras buscar infructuosamente donde ubicarse, termina asociado a Dan J. Hogan quien montará una gran agencia asociado con el dueño de un casino. Todo andará bien hasta que Hogan se presta para enredar a una muchacha (Margaret Lindsay) a quien el casino adeuda una gruesa suma y no quiere pagarle. En Free surgirán los escrúpulos cuando conoce a la hermosa chica.
Diner Counterman (uncredited)
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Mr. Smith - Man Exiting Room 410 (uncredited)
Una mujer es chantajeada por su primer marido, ella planea un viaje al extranjero para librarse de él.
Undetermined Secondary Role
El jefe de un grupo de vagabundos del Central Park mejora su aspecto, del que no reniega, por el amor que siente por una joven que ha perdido la memoria. Cuando ella la recupera, él se convierte, de nuevo, en vagabundo.
Self (uncredited)
A promotional film featuring movie stars at play.
Windy
While the original title, "Trailing the Killer" isn't a misnomer, it was a bit misleading since the "trailer" is a dog named Caesar Caesar the Dog) and the killer is a mountain lion, aka as a cougar or puma the narrator was quick to point out. But the makers also pointed out that Caesar "is the most intelligent dog actor since Rin-Tin-Tin" which probably lured a few Rin-Tin-Tin fans with a show-me attitude. Caesar prowls around the woods of the Northwest, dispatches a rattlesnake, visits his she-wolf mate and their pups, pauses to watch the dainty habits of a raccoon personally washing every morsel of food before eating it---and that raccoon had enough food to use up several minutes of running time---and then saves sheepherder Pierre (Francis McDonald)) from getting et up by one mean mountain lion. Rin-Tin-Tin he ain't, but then who was? Commonwealth...
House Detective
Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest.
Secret Emissary #2 (uncredited)
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Car Owner (uncredited)
Mary Evans es una camarera cuya amistad con Max Carey, un director de cine alcohólico, le permite relacionarse con peces gordos. De esta manera llama la atención del millonario Lonny Borden, un productor de Hollywood cansado de la vida de la costa este y de ser un segundón de Max. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jailbird
Hanley shoots a man and then frames Bill Roberts. Being the Judge he then holds court planning to hang Bill but Bill's friends effect his escape. Andy tries to lead Hanley astray by misleading him as to Bill's location. But Bill changes plans and Hanley catches up with him and this leads to the showdown.
Drunk (uncredited)
Los males del alcohol antes y durante la prohibición se hacen evidentes cuando vemos sus efectos en la familia Chilcote.
Dopey
Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
Hunter with Rifle at Duel (uncredited)
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
Fireman
A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she's the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.
Al - Room Service Waiter
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
Prizefight Second (uncredited)
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
Sneezing Man at Radio Station (uncredited)
Primera adaptación al cine sonoro de la célebre novela de Mark Twain, en la que un americano es transportado a la corte del Rey Arturo, donde le toman por un mago debido a la sapiencia que aporta del futuro.
(uncredited)
Oscarizada superproducción de la época que narra las aflicciones y tribulaciones de una familia en el viejo Oeste a lo largo de cuatro décadas, desde su llegada a Oklahoma en 1889 hasta el surgimiento de sus aspiraciones políticas en los años 20. Amores, luchas, triunfos y separaciones, además de la famosa y verídica carrera de diligencias son los ingredientes de uno de los mayores éxitos de la RKO.
Ted's Checkers Opponent (uncredited)
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
Joseph Hammacher (uncredited)
Mítica película antibélica que plasma los sentimientos, sensaciones y desilusiones de un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes que son enviados al frente en la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Es una adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor alemán Erich María Remarque. Su estreno provocó enfrentamientos entre nazis y comunistas.
Mickey and the kids befriend a couple of tramps. But when the tramps are accused of stealing, Mickey and Hambone find themselves trying to expose who they think is the real crook: a doctor in a spooky house.
Gus
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. But also appear actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway and of course the German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.
Heinie
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
Drunk at Parth (uncredited)
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
Jerry McSwiggin
Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix sister.
Blackface Comic
In this comedy-western, based on the life of Henry Irving Dodge, our cowboy hero keeps his tongue firmly planted in his cheek as he goes up against a town run by such women as newly elected sheriff, Carrie Patience. Hoping to restore some masculinity to the sheriff's office, Gibson stages a series of fake hold-ups but is soon upstaged by a real crook
Snowshoe
Tom Mix plays a cowboy coming to the aid of a rancher who's on the verge of foreclosure. Falling in love with Sally Blane, the rancher's pretty daughter, our hero vows to win an important cross-country race.
Her Patient
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.
Clown (uncredited)
Último film mudo de Chaplin. El vagabundo Charlot viaja con un circo ambulante y se enamora de una mujer jinete que está enamorada de un musculoso trapecista. Mientras tanto, le suceden mil y una peripecias.
Eggs (as Charlie Conklin)
Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
Old Black Joe
Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations to his bride-to-be and her mother they all take the train, including Irene and her lawyer, who will try to prevent him from committing bigamy, as the divorce won't be effective until midnight.
Hi-Lo
John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there is oil to be found on the reservation, evil Will Newton gains entry to the area by posing as a trail guide for Elias Manton, an archeologist, and his daughter Mary.
Captain
The handsome Dr. John Waller specializes in the ailments of women, or more specifically, wealthy widows.
A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
Eddie McSwiggen
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.
Janitor
Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating comedy, full of laughs and a nonchalant charm.
Bill Grimes
Tom Mix plays an Eastern dandy who finds himself banished to a Western ranch in this silent Western
Tony
A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.
Mose (as Charles Conklin)
The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.
Juan de Dios O'Rourke, an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang of cattle rustlers, who have been driving large herds north-to-south from Texas into Mexico, and smuggling illegal, no-passport Chinese aliens south-to-north from Mexico into Texas, operating from a rambling mansion on the Texas side of the border, aided by his sweetheart, a rancher's daughter, Phoebe Joyce.
The Stranger's Friend
Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighborhood on New York's East Side known as "Hogan's Alley." Lefty defeats Battling Savage for the championship, breaking his left hand and leaving his opponent close to death.
Alkali Bill
A fire in the mountains drive a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfbreed (Rin Tin Tin). When the pack is discovered hunting a herd of cows, a posse gives chase. Lobo leaves his pack to lead the posse away. He is injured and found by a local prospector, Dave Weston (Charles Farrell). The prospector nurses Lobo back to health and the two become close friends. Meanwhile, Weston has made a Borax find in the area. His girl friend May Barstowe (June Marlowe), daughter of a wealthy rancher, is pleased. However the local chemist, Borax Horton (Pat Hartigan), actually a claim jumper, plans to steal the claim.
Scarlet Fever Sanders
Una comedia criminal sobre siete ladrones que roban la misma casa en la misma noche.
Coachman
The first time Al Jones sees Elizabeth Lowden, he becomes so distracted that he runs his car into a steamroller. The second time he sees her, Elizabeth's car frightens his horse, causing him to fall. ....
Deputy Sheriff
Slasher falls off the train that is carrying him. He is found, broken in spirit, by Donald Cass. The dog is regenerated by Donald's love.
Prospector (uncredited)
Aventuras de un solitario buscador de oro en Alaska, donde se topa con varios personajes rudos, y se enamora de la hermosa Georgia, a la que trata de conquistar.
Laundry Deliveryman
The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short.
Lumberjack
Paul Andrews returns from the World War with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe. Instead of getting a warm welcome, he finds his sweetheart, Caroline Blair, missing.
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.
Yegg Darby
Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell, falls in love with Jane, to the old man's disapproval. Anstell tries to undermine Jane's work by hiring reporter Tom Barnett to write an unfavorable story about the mission.
The Automobile Salesman
The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and operating the car all at the same time.
Guest with Pea Shooter
A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
Prussian Guard Drill Leader
Por detrás de las líneas enemigas, el Capitán Bob White se disfraza de mujer para engañar a los miembros del Alto Mando alemán, incluido el propio Kaiser. (filmaffinit) Con Mack Sennett como supervisor y buena parte de su troupe en el reparto (Ford Sterling, Mal St. Clair, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin, etcétera), no cabía esperar otro resultado como el que se nos ofrece: una brillante mascarada bélica que algunos podrían considerar como un "ajuste de cuentas" de los americanos contra los germanos, pero que a nosotros nos parece que ni siquiera el guionista se planteó presentarla como tal. Se nota que su objetivo principal era pasárselo bomba y, recíprocamente, nos lo hace pasar a nosotros.
“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Becky. ” - Synopsis from Motion Picture News
Comedy Bit (uncredited)
This comedy starts with the rescue by a cowboy's dog of a baby that is floating down a gorge toward a cataract in a tiny crib. The cowboy takes the foundling to his cabin. Then the cowboy finds himself not only beset with the troubles of feeding an infant, but also is the object of a spinster who, by claiming the baby, hopes to compromise the cowboy
The Bailiff
short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
His Merry Mix-Up is a comedy short
Pythias
The emperor issues a counterblast against liquor and the "wets" try to kill him. Damon saves Pythias from the headsman's axe and the lives of both are spared.
Pete the Prowler
A 1916 Joker Comedy starring Lillian Peacock
The Hero
Gale Henry, at that time famous as big-nosed, lugubrious-faced purveyor of silent screen slapstick. Here as a prominent villager too interested writing a play to be bothered with lovers. When a wandering director arrives in town, learns of her play and agrees to produce it for her, with the author in the leading role, she is delighted. But the play proves a frost.
Bellboy
Silent comedy featuring the Chaplin-esque Heinie Conklin. The ill-fated Virginia Rappe appears as a hotel guest.
