Pedestrian Onlooker (uncredited)
Gary Cooper es un arquitecto vanguardista en desigual lucha con el mundo. Su deseo de demostrar tanto su talento como el valor del individuo frente a la masa se mezcla con una tórrida y compleja historia de amor en este atípico melodrama, ejemplarmente rodado por Vidor con toda la pasión y el pulso narrativo que le caracterizan. Impresionante banda sonora de Max Steiner y magníficas interpretaciones para una obra maestra del género, de interés especial para los amantes de la arquitectura -los proyectos de Cooper se parecen sospechosamente a los de Frank Lloyd Wright-.
Workman (uncredited)
Un policía canadiense (Errol Flyn) detiene a un espía nazi. Cuando el preso consigue escapar, el policía no se da por vencido y finge ser un desertor para infiltrarse entre los nazis. Thriller de espionaje con grandes dosis de acción y aventuras ambientado en la inmensidad de las blancas montañas canadienses
Cannery Worker (uncredited)
Dos años después de la invasion de Noruega por los nazis, los habitantes de un pequeño pueblo pesquero esperan la llegada de armas para iniciar la revuelta contra los alemanes. Karen Stensgard, la hija del médico del pueblo, y Gunnar Brogge, un pescador que pensaba combatir a los nazis desde Inglaterra, serán los jefes de la sublevación.
Detective (uncredited)
Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
Well Digger (uncredited)
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution.
Karl, Radio Operator
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
Reporter on Porch (uncredited)
Los miembros del Consejo Rector de la Universidad Midwestern han expulsado a tres profesores por sospechar que puedan ser comunistas. El consejero Ed Keller (Eugene Pallette) también ha amenazado con la expulsión a Tommy Turner (Henry Fonda), el profesor de literatura, que tiene previsto leer en su clase un texto que puede resultar sospechoso. Pero no es eso lo que más molesta al profesor Turner, sino el hecho de que su propia esposa, Ellen (Olivia De Havilland) también opine que no debe de leer el controvertido texto. Mientras tanto, Joe Ferguson (Jack Carson), un antiguo novio de Ellen se ha presentado a hacerles una visita durante el fin de semana, lo que ha causado cierta preocupación a Tommy...
Drunk Bounced from Midnight Club (uncredited)
Hank y Johnny trabajan como técnicos de una compañía de electricidad. Una noche, se encuentran en una reunión a la atractiva Fay, y la tensión aumenta porque ambos se disputan el favor de la chica.
Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Tod
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Man Giving Sylvia Baggage Claim Ticket
Un joven se siente especialmente atraído por la parafernalia exhibida por el Partido Nazi, siendo un ferviente admirador de las políticas expansionistas de Hitler. Sin embargo, cuando sus amigos comienzan a ser asesinados por la Gestapo, el muchacho cambia de parecer y decide ayudar a la resistencia alemana a acabar con la tiranía del Führer.
Glen, Mine Foreman (uncredited)
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
Man Getting Headlined Paper (uncredited)
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.
On-looker at Fight (uncredited)
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Stage Doorman (uncredited)
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Actor in Show (uncredited)
Gaylord escribe una obra de teatro que triunfa en Broadway. Todo le va a las mil maravillas porque además consigue casarse con la chica a la que ama y que es quien ha protagonizado la historia. El éxito sobre los escenarios se sucede con nuevas obras pero las cosas cambian cuando decide olvidarse de las comedias e intentar escribir una buena tragedia. El nuevo reto
Oil Worker (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.
Petty Official
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
Jean (uncredited)
París, 1840. Una institutriz mantiene una escandalosa relación con un noble. Cuando la mujer de él aparece muerta, ambos se convierten en los principales sospechosos.
Lone Star Townsman / New York Passerby Extra
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
Ship Officer (uncredited)
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Lumberjack in Dominic's Office (uncredited)
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Under Officer Pfalz
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
Courtroom Extra
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
Extra at Wedding Reception (uncredited)
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
Guide
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Man Leaving Dynamite Dennis Fight (uncredited)
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Nightclub Patron (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.
Doughboy
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Day Gate Guard (uncredited)
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Extra as Stagehand
Un joven bailarín abandona el vodevil para convertirse en compositor, y acaba uniéndose a una compañía de ballet rusa.
Man in O'Grady Crowd
Cuando Barry Corvall descubre que su novia es una posible agente enemiga renuncia a la diplomacia secreta para desbaratar un anillo de espionaje que está planificando la destrucción de la capacidad industrial estadounidense. FY
Driver of Moving Cart / Policeman at Bowling Alley (uncredited)
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
Landlord (uncredited)
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Extra on Dance Floor
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
Nightclub Waiter
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
Extra at Bar (uncredited)
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
First Townsman
Nancy Drew clears her Uncle Matt of murder charges when she exposes the real murderers. She and Ted find themselves in many dangerous positions such as trying to fly an airplane after the pilot parachuted out and being face-to-face with the murderer.
Policeman (uncredited)
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Store Customer (uncredited)
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Man in Montage Stuffing Mailboxes (uncredited)
Un agente del FBI (Robinson) investiga una amplia red de espionaje nazi que opera en Estados Unidos. Sus contactos llegarán hasta Suramérica y Europa. Se trata de una de las pocas películas del género antinazi rodadas antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, época en la que los Estados Unidos y, por consiguiente, Hollywood seguían una política aislacionista.
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) es una rica heredera de Long Island que descubre que tiene un tumor cerebral y es operada por un experto neurocirujano, el Doctor Frederick Steele (George Brent). A pesar de que la operación resulta todo un éxito, el tumor resulta ser maligno. A partir de entonces, Judith decide disfrutar de la vida.
Airport Policeman / Mob Scene Extra (uncredited)
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Would-Be Settler (uncredited)
La banda de McCord (Bogart) roba el dinero que lleva la diligencia para pagar a los indios por la compra de sus tierras, pero el proscrito Jim Kincaid (Cagney), alias "el chico de Oklahoma", roba a su vez a McCord el dinero. Más tarde, McCord se hace con el control de los salones de juego en la nueva ciudad. Cuando el padre de Kincaid decide presentarse a la elecciones para la alcaldía de la nueva ciudad, McCord incita a multitud para lincharlo, ya que sabe que si gana su negocio se vendría abajo.
Waiter
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.
Newspaper Office Worker / Beldenburg Hotel Passerby (uncredited)
Mientras participa en un concurso del periódico local en el que se les pide a los escolares que envíen una noticia, la hija del abogado local Carson Drew, Nancy, intercepta una asignación de historia real. Ella "cubre" la investigación de la muerte de una mujer que fue envenenada. Nancy no cree que la joven acusada del crimen sea culpable y acorrala a su vecino Ted para que busque una evidencia vital y tropieza con la identidad del verdadero asesino.
Deputy Shooting Bill (uncredited)
Una médico está bajo el punto de mira de la policía tras la muerte de su marido, un médico que conseguía dinero fácil atendiendo a criminales sin denunciarlos. Tendrá que probar su inocencia o perderá su licencia para ejercer la medicina.
Gendarme on Train
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
Post Customer (uncredited)
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
Policeman
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Graham - Waiter (uncredited)
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
Immigrant
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Truck Driver Giving Penrod a Lift (uncredited)
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
Alarm Company Clerk (uncredited)
El eminente doctor Clitterhouse (Edward G. Robinson) llega más lejos que todos sus colegas en su afán por desentrañar el misterio que hace que un hombre se convierta en un delincuente. Propulsor de un particular método y, convencido de que él es el mejor sujeto de experimentación, decide llevar a cabo una extraña prueba que le permita concluir si el hombre cae en el delito por necesidad o por la sublimación de los sentidos.
Truck Driver (uncredited)
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Mr. Perry - Man at Bank (uncredited)
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
Fireman
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
Referee for Robeck Fight
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Locksmith (uncredited)
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Man with Sprinkler Hose (uncredited)
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.
Trumpet Player
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
Spectator at Dance
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
Austrian Policeman at Jail
Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?
Second 7-11 Club Waiter
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Dice-Game Player
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
Stagehand
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
Bailiff (uncredited)
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Furniture Department Man (uncredited)
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Ticket Buyer for the Wedding
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
George (uncredited)
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
(uncredited)
Nick Donati, un mánager de boxeo, descubre en un hotel a Ward, un botones que logra noquear a un peso pesado que estaba molestando a Louise, la novia de Nick. Nick le ofrece al chico entrenarlo para hacer de él un boxeador profesional. Ward acepta y se hace llamar 'Kid Galahad'. Las cosas se complicarán porque un tipo sin escrúpulos se interpondrá en los planes de Nick. Además, Louise empieza a sentirse atraída por Ward, pero éste se enamora de Marie, la hermana de Nick.
Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Green Hill Waiter
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
Train Conductor
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
Counter Clerk
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Policeman at Robbery (uncredited)
El oficial O'Malley detiene a John Phillips por una infracción de tráfico, perdiendo así la posibilidad de conseguir un buen trabajo. Dado que Phillips tiene una esposa y una hija lisiada, decide cometer un robo desesperado...
Trooper Sergeant (uncredited)
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Police Driver
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Pan American Union Waiter (uncredited)
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
Guard in Kitchen
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Waiter (uncredited)
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
German Ordered to Retreat
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Stagehand (uncredited)
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
Party Guest
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
Cowboy #1 in Saloon
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
Townsman
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Detective George (uncredited)
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Bystander at Shooting (uncredited)
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
Man Leaving Betting Window (Uncredited)
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Kolchak (uncredited)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Worried McCarger Employee
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
Extra at Football Game
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Un abogado abandona su profesión para convertirse en agente del gobierno con la intención de descubrir al asesino de su mejor amigo. Las primeras investigaciones le conducen hasta un gángster que fue compañero suyo de la infancia. Mientras resuelve el caso, en escena aparece la hija de su jefe, de la que se enamora locamente.
Detective (uncredited)
A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.
Man Restraining Johnny in Courtroom Fight
Johnny Ramirez (Paul Muni), un abogado formado en la escuela nocturna y excluido de la práctica legal, acepta un empleo como matón en el casino de Charlie Roark (Eugene Pallete), situado en las afueras. Allí se hace indispensable que, al poco tiempo, se convierte en socio del mismo. Marie (Bette Davis), la atractiva pero inestable esposa de Roark, muestra un romántico interés por Johnny, pero éste esquiva sus insinuaciones y centra su atención en Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), una mujer de la alta sociedad que, aficionada a los barrios bajos, frecuenta los antros de las afueras de la ciudad.
Russian Policeman (uncredited)
El servicio de inteligencia Británico le encarga a Stephen Locke (Leslie Howard) que persuada a la Unión Soviética para que no firme con Alemania un acuerdo de paz que sería muy perjudicial para los intereses de Inglaterra. Durante su misión, Locke se enamora de Elena (Kay Francis), la secretaria del líder ruso, que corresponde a sus sentimientos, pero que no está dispuesta a traicionar la causa bolchevique.
German Sergeant at POW Camp (Uncredited)
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.
Ammunition Factory Clerk (uncredited)
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), Diana Boyce-Smith está atrapada en un triángulo amoroso con Claude, un funcionario británico, y con Bogard, un piloto de combate estadounidense.
Ship's Diner (uncredited)
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
French Bartender (uncredited)
Dan Hardesty, un hombre sobre quien pesa una acusación de asesinato, viaja en un barco escoltado por un policía, haciendo una travesía desde Hong Kong a la prisión norteamericana de San Quintín. Durante el viaje conoce a Joan, una muchacha gravemente enferma del corazón, de la que se enamora. Dan intenta fugarse, pero regresa al ver que Joan está sufriendo un ataque. Es entonces cuando planean fugarse a México. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Helen es una cantante de cabaret que decide abandonar su profesión para contraer matrimonio con Edward Faraday, un abnegado científico entregado a su trabajo y cuya situación económica no es muy boyante. Durante un viaje a Alemania, Edward contrae una grave enfermedad, debido a sus investigaciones, y se ve obligado a seguir un costoso tratamiento. Para sufragar los gastos, Helen vuelve a su antiguo trabajo. Así conoce a Nick Towsend, un playboy que la enamora y con el que inicia una nueva vida. Cuando Edward regresa y descubre la infidelidad de su mujer, decide quitarle a Helen el hijo que tuvo con ella.
Sheriff Hank
When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets robbed. When the Sheriff jails Cherokee who was not in on the robbery, the Kid gets caught effecting Cherokee's escape and finds himself in jail again.
Henchman
The first in RKO Pathe's series of "Traveling Salesman Comedies" has Louis John Bartels traveling to Mexico to sell his line of underwear. He garners the attention of a fair senorita which does not set well with the chief of a gang of bandits, and Bartels is soon seeking the USA/Mexico borderline.
Some college students attend a nightclub, "The Pirate's Den", that the Dean of the college has declared off-limits to students. They start to wreck it in their playful mood when another student arrives disguised as the Dean, and they all vacate the premises. The student tells the proprietor that if he will returns the I.O.U.s signed by a student, he will see to it that the students visit his place every night. He, of course, is the student who signed the tab. But the real Dean then shows up.
Cafe Owner
Won by a Neck is a 1930 Comedy short.
Cop
A young man trying to win the attentions of a pretty lady gets lumbered with another woman's baby, beginning a cascade of misunderstandings, close shaves with trams and a humorous policeman…
Cramsey
In search of her fugitive brother, who wounded a man who was later murdered, Johanna Hearne encounters pirates, a Chinaman with a harem and criminals as slaves, and love on a desert island for ship captain Dan Meloy.
A young woman decides to vamp her friend's husbands visiting Scottish uncle, but her scheme to trick him into marrying him backfires when her own husband catches on.
The Commander
Billy Dooley is sent on a mission inside a submarine.
Father
Young lovers pursued by her father -- and then a series of sight gags based on the mayhem of their auto ride.
The Drill Sergeant
19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
Lupino Lane as part of the Mounties catching crooks.
Two reel comedy starring Al St. John
The Sheriff
A well-dressed hobo gets a job as "utility man" with a theater company, and winds up starring in the show.
Al St John loves Lena, but he also loves to sleep. Will he get out of bed soon enough to take Lena from his dull rival, so he can have an argument with the girl where he cries "LISTEN, LENA"? Or will he roll back over, and later get busted by a mean cop for sleepwalking in his bed clothes?
Second Unit
A pesar de querer alistarse, durante la Guerra de Secesión Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) es destinado a la retaguardia. Todo cambia cuando un comando enemigo le roba las dos cosas que más ama: Anabelle Lee y "La General", una locomotora.
Captain Anderson
A pesar de querer alistarse, durante la Guerra de Secesión Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) es destinado a la retaguardia. Todo cambia cuando un comando enemigo le roba las dos cosas que más ama: Anabelle Lee y "La General", una locomotora.
A Lupino Lane comedy short.
Cop
Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best, gag-filled 20s comedy style.
The Foreman
Johnny Arthur has been ordered to spend a year out west to toughen him up, so he and butler George Davis head out. The cowboys at the ranch don't like him, so Johnny and they play practical jokes on each other. However, when Virginia Vance is kidnapped, it turns out to be real desperadoes.
The Colonel
Reggie Hemingway is a rich broker who continually bullies his valet. World War I breaks out and the valet enlists immediately. Reggie goes to the army later and arrives at the training camp to find that his valet is now a tough sergeant in charge of the recruits.
The Policeman (uncredited)
A young man faces perilous adventures when he is evicted from his apartment.
Johnny is a hypochondriac and he spends all of his time fussing over his health instead of paying attention to his lovely wife. The wife and the family doctor pretend he is going to die -- and behave in a heartless fashion that gets him to lose his temper and get out of his sickbed forever.
(uncredited)
A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.
The Gardener
Johnny tries hard to impress his girl, but she seems to be much more interested in movie stars.
The Athletic Instructor
The Dude and his younger brother, The Rival are at it once again.
Nominally about attempts to steal a gold mine, the movie starts out with the air of a realistic comedy, then immediately descends into a series of perfectly timed gags which made me goggle at their improbability -- not the sort of thing you normally think of in a slapstick comedy. Very quickly the unerring ability of ropes to loop themselves around tree roots, stopping Al from plummeting to his death or an explosion to drop him on a bull came to make me goggle again.
A Traffic Officer
Silent comedy about a poor country bumpkin who goes to Hollywood to make good.
First Crook
The Tourist is a 1925 Comedy short.
Doublecrosser
The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits the water, using it to save the life of Rose Ryan, the daughter of a steamship magnate.
The Husband
American silent comedy film
Peter Vermicelli
Stationed in a Latin American country, sailor Stan is lonely and wants company. He tries to get his Chief to bring him along to a dinner the Chief has been invited to, but the Chief wants nothing to do with Stan.
Midnight Mike
A train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays. The engineer is prepared for most of them, but the real challenges come when the train is ambushed by Indians.
Nightclub manager
It's 3:00 AM at the Firewater Club, and Stanley has had more than enough to drink. When he tries to take over leading the orchestra, the manager - a former boxer - lets him know that he needs to restrain himself. But it's not long before Stanley causes another disruption anyway, and when he then tries to dance with the manager's wife, the manager's patience finally runs out.
(uncredited)
Al wants to elope with his girlfriend, but her dog Pete disrupts the plan.
This is an unusual farce comedy combining all the fast action, speed and thrills of the slapstick with the surprises of the farce. Main actor and director Al St. John was the nephew of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and considered as a wonderful pantomimist and an acrobat. The film was actually directed anonymously by his uncle. Being part of a series called "Tuxedo Comedies", Lovemania was set up by producers like Jack White and Joseph Schenck so that Arbuckle could work behind the scenes, since he couldn't appear on screen due to his 1921 scandal.
Pawnshop Owner
A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.
The daughter of a local store fancies a man, but her father wants her to end up with a boxing champion.
Selim
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
Brutal Bill
Arrow comedy with Bobby Dunn. In this one he tries to get married and then attempt suicide.
The landlord
Stan is Jimmy Smith, a salesman who is trying hard to pitch his Napoleon book to an uninterested customer as they stand in front of some iron gates. When an elderly gentleman approaches the two men he uses sign language to communicate to the 'customer' and they leave together. This is when Stan sees the sign for the Deaf & Dumb Institute that his subject was standing in front of. An elderly lady then walks out of the gates and Stan uses sign language in an attempt to talk to her. Of course, she is not deaf or dumb and gives him some verbal abuse for assuming so.
Sloan
George Kirby steals a mining claim from Tom Curtis and forces him to become an outlaw. Years later, Curtis comes to the rescue when Anne Kirby is kidnapped by real outlaws, but when he finds out she is married to his enemy, he decides to hold her captive.
Ruis
silent cowboy western starring Dustin Farnum as a rancher whose partner is killed by rustlers. He takes in his partner's young son, and begins to sell his ranch, but the boy finds oil on the land.
Pete
Played mostly for laughs, this silent Western featured the"The Mediator," a drifter who manages to restore peace both within a family and between miners and their powerful employer.
If you can't buy it... make your own! A Fox silent short subject comedy.
A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.
The misadventures of a dog catcher
Woodrow Butts
A young man goes into the woods to hunt rabbits, and winds up getting mixed up with a dog, a lion and a beautiful woman.
Roscoe Arbuckle plays a Douglas Fairbanks fan who becomes a rotund version of his hero. As "The Sheriff", he must rescue abducted schoolteacher Betty Compson.
The Kaiser
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle confronts the Kaiser in his headquarters, and tells him that he will be be defeated by "scraps of paper," i.e. War Bonds.
(uncredited)
En un intento de mejorar la eficiencia, el chef de un restaurante de lujo en la costa y su asistente causan estragos en el establecimiento. Además a estas complicaciones se añade la llegada de un ladrón.
The Hotel Guest
There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune left her, whereupon Beery, the proprietor, Trask and Murray, two entertainers, all race to her home with the idea of marrying her.
The Chef - Their Mutual Friend
Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise scrambles up her powder puff and her biscuits. The cook orders her to lighten them up. She blows them up like balloons, but they come out like rubber balls and so she is bounced out of that job. In her next position as housekeeper to a rich family, she throws a party for her friends when the family goes on vacation and they turn the house topsy-turvy.
The Bartender
A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself.
Roscoe, su esposa y su suegra dirigen un balneario. Buster interpreta a un jardinero que apaga un incendio iniciado por Roscoe, luego un mensajero que pelea con el cocinero St. John, luego con un policía.
E.R. Ketchum - Fancy Dog Dealer
The dog catcher of the title is arrow-narrow Slim , and his "love" is pert Peggy. Alas, his rival is handsome bow-wow fancier E.R. Ketchum, whose luck with women borders on the fantastic.
The Lawyer / The Ship Captain
A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
Villa
Here's a rare 1917 Triangle Keystone, co-starring Slim Summerville, with whom Bobby Dunn would co-star again with later, both with Fox Sunshine comedies in 1920 and a series for Universal in 1924. Glen Cavender also features...
The Pullman Waiter
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.
Director
Slapstick comedy about a poor and unlucky life of a inventor.
Poppa - the Angry Father
Many different people go swimming at a pool at Coney Island.
The Proprietor
Sam Bernard in the kitchen cooking up something for his loved one.
I. Landem - Realtor
Fatty y Mabel viven plácidamente en su casita frente al mar, en una playa de lo más tranquila. Pero un buen día su casa es asaltada por unos bandidos mientras ellos no están. Cuando llegan a su casa, sus camas y demás enseres están flotando en el mar...
A shrewd inventor / Ship Captain
A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
The Cook
Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short.
Photographer
Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench where a photographer mistakes him for a seated woman's sweetheart. The tintype of the two of them falls into the hands of the woman's husband, whose jealous rage frightens our hero. He abruptly leaves town, telling wifey he'll be away on business. Wifey doesn't need her house while he's away, so, unknown to hubby, she moves in with mom and rents the house to the couple from the park. When our hero returns home sooner than expected, the renter has another attack of jealousy.
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Four bad men have kidnapped Fatty's girlfriend and plan to kill her. Fatty's dog knows where she is, but Fatty doesn't and he was crying. However the dog came back to get Fatty, and they and the Keystone Cops went to rescue her.
Mabel's Father
Mabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of impromptu suitors.
Plainclothesman in Park
Mabel, in the park with her mother, sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them.
Police Dispatcher
Three men in love with the same woman contend with each other and with her father, until one of them takes her on an airplane in an attempt to elope with her.
Judge (uncredited)
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
Waiter
Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets.
House Detective
Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He is given shelter by a neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy, leading to suspicions that they are romantically involved.
Bald Astronomer
A 1915 short film directed by Walter Wright.
Organ Grinder (uncredited)
When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that gangsters are after her, she becomes increasingly anxious.
Mustached Saloon Customer (uncredited)
Fatty es un vagabundo inofensivo. Cuando entra en el bar de Ambrose Schnitz con la idea de almorzar gratis y de beber algo de aguardiente sin pagar, el señor Schnitz lo echa. Alguien ha estado volando por los aires las tabernas de las personas que tratan mal a las personas sin recursos, por lo que los clientes de Schnitz le juegan una mala pasada, dejándole una nota anónima en la que le dicen que el lugar va a explotar a las 3 de la tarde. Schnitz cree que Fatty es el culpable, por lo que cuando lo ve aparecer cuando faltan pocos minutos para las tres, provisto de un queso de bola, cree que está armado con una bomba y huye despavorido del local, en busca de la policía. Fatty no sabe qué ha pasado, pero ahora tiene la barra entera para él..
Jealous Husband (uncredited)
Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
Tobacco Counter Clerk (uncredited)
Cuando Mabel pilla a su marido coqueteando con su criada se origina un grave conflicto. Como parte de la reconciliación, la pareja decide ir a dar un paseo por el parque. Cerca de allí, otra pareja acaba de tener una disputa doméstica similar, y ellos también van al parque juntos. Sin embargo, en el parque, a ambos hombres les resulta difícil evitar meterse en más problemas.
Cop (uncredited)
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
A Passing Turk (uncredited)
Charlot y su esposa están paseando por el parque, encuentran a Ambrose y su esposa y Charlot comienza a cortejar a esta última desencadenando el conflicto.
First Pianist in Restaurant / Cop / Guest in First Restaurant / Uncle's Rescuer / Society Guest (uncredited)
Charlot es un timador de ciudad que induce a Tillie a robar los ahorros de su padre y huya con él. Una vez ha llegado a la ciudad, Charlot se apropia del dinero y vuelve junto a Mabel, su primer amor y pareja del delito. Esta considerado como el primer largometraje del genero de comedia de la historia.
Cook / Park Police Officer (uncredited)
Charlot y su amigo Ambrose se encuentran en el restaurante, y accidentalmente cada uno se lleva el abrigo del otro
Spectator at Entrance / Cop (uncredited)
Mabel y su novio van al autodromo y Charlot toma su lugar para ingresar sin pagar en tanto el novio y un amigo de Charlot son expulsados por un policía.
Scenario Writer
Director
Luke Connor - Gambler
El héroe, un conserje encarnado por Chaplin, es despedido del trabajo por haber tirado accidentalmente por la ventana un balde de agua sobre el Presidente del Banco. En tanto uno de los gerentes está siendo amenazado por su corredor de apuestas debido a sus deudas impagas, por lo que decide robar a la compañía. Es sorprendido en el momento de robar el tesoro del Banco por una secretaria, que oprime el timbre de alarma. Charlot va en su ayuda pero es confundido con un ladrón hasta que la secretaria indica quién es el verdadero delincuente. Charlot recibirá una justa recompensa y un apretón de manos por evitar el robo.
Drinker / Cripple (uncredited)
Un joven le ofrece a Charlot, que estaba arruinado, un dólar por sacar a pasear a su tío inválido en su silla de ruedas mientras él visita a una amiga. Charlot pone la silla cerca de la de un pordiosero a quien sustrae el cartel de "inválido" y la taza poniéndolos cerca del tío lo que hace que empiece a producirle dinero con el cual Charlot se compra un trago. Al volver comienza a coquetear con una joven y después de empujar al tío en su silla y pelear con el mendigo y dos policías (uno de los cuales detiene al tío) se marcha con la joven.
Other Director (uncredited)
La impostura permite a Chaplin contrastar en las películas al impostor con el personaje de modos vulgares que había ido creando. Este impostor de maneras elegantes y dignas que parece ir suplantando -afortunadamente- al anterior personaje por un nuevo Charlot.
Customer (uncredited)
Mabel trata de vender salchichas en el autódromo, pero no está haciendo muy buena tarea. Deja un momento la caja con las salchichas y Charlot la encuentra y las reparte a los hambrientos espectadores. Mabel busca la caja y cuando se da cuenta de lo sucedido llama a la policía y sobreviene el caos.
Society Singer (uncredited)
Un par de vagabundos deciden fingir una pelea de exhibición de boxeo para un promotor. En tanto Pug, un tipo de buen corazón pero alborotador, enfrenta un grupo de atrevidos que molesta a su novia. Impresionados por sus habilidades deciden hacerlo pasar por Cyclone Flynn, el campeón, y hacerlo participar de un encuentro de boxeo.
(uncredited)
A comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as no copy is known to exist.
Bearded Doctor (uncredited)
Chaplin interpreta el papel de un rico caballero de clase alta, cuyo romance con una joven peligra cuando ella lo ve abrazar una criada.
Drummer in Band / Guest in Cone Hat (uncredited)
La joven bonita provoca una rivalidad amorosa que desemboca en los habituales corridas, choques, etc...
"Big Boy" goes on a fun rampage in this Jack White production
