Harry Crocker

El maestro ladrón Gerard Dennis (David Brian) se escapa de la granja de una prisión canadiense y se dirige a Buffalo con Peggy Arthur (Perdita Chandler), quien le proporciona el dinero necesario para los papeles falsificados. Dennis, Peggy y un camarero corrupto en un hotel de Buffalo hacen un robo en el que casi atrapan a Dennis, pero él escapa y descubre que sus cómplices lo han abandonado. Más tarde, enfrentándolos, es brutalmente golpeado y llevado a un hospital donde conoce a la enfermera Martha Rollins (Marjorie Reynolds), quien se enamora de él. Van a New Rochelle donde es herido intentando otro robo ...

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

Basada en hechos reales, esta obra maestra del genio Chaplin cuenta la historia de Henri Verdoux, un hombre de doble vida. Por un lado es un respetable hombre casado padre de un hijo, pero por otro es un seductor que, bajo otra identidad, se dedica a casarse con viudas ricas a las que posteriormente asesina para quedarse con su fortuna.

Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion. But the famed boxer is no match for the two women with holds on him, love struck actress Kathy Harkness and the real love of his life, beautiful but unyielding Anne Livingstone.

Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero.

A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.

Biografía del campeón de boxeo James J. Corbett. Conocido como 'Gentleman Jim', Corbett se convirtió en el primer campeón del mundo de los pesos pesados en 1892, cuando derrotó a John L. Sullivan, tras la entrada en vigor de las llamadas reglas de Queensberry, que exigían la utilización de unos guantes hinchados para proteger los nudillos, un cuadrilátero con unas medidas determinadas y establecían la duración del combate... En Estados Unidos obtuvo excelentes críticas.

In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.

Un pobre vagabundo (Charles Chaplin) pasa mil y un avatares para conseguir dinero y ayudar a una pobre chica ciega (Virginia Cherill) de la que se ha enamorado.

Un pobre vagabundo (Charles Chaplin) pasa mil y un avatares para conseguir dinero y ayudar a una pobre chica ciega (Virginia Cherill) de la que se ha enamorado.

Un pobre vagabundo (Charles Chaplin) pasa mil y un avatares para conseguir dinero y ayudar a una pobre chica ciega (Virginia Cherill) de la que se ha enamorado.

This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!

Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies) sueña con ser una actriz dramática y su padre se dispone a llevarla a Hollywood para que le hagan un casting, donde piensa demostrarle a todos que su hija es una verdadera actriz. Ayudada por Billy Boone (William Haines), la chica conseguirá la dichosa prueba... pero algunas cosas van a cambiar en lo que han sido sus pretensiones, mientras entre ellos nace algo que es mucho más que una simple amistad. (FILMAFFINITY)

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.

Becky (1927) film

Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy preparing their meals and keeping the house, while the old men bask in the attention she gives them. However, this happy home is broken up when Sally wealthy aunt appears on the scene and takes Sally back to her luxurious penthouse in order to give her the advantages of money and social position. But Sally's heart is back across the river with her plumber sweetheart, Jimmie Adams.

Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins's company she sets her cap for the general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple. Eventually Tillie announces that she is going to "catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm."

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.