Himself (archive footage)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Doctor
En California, en la época de la fiebre del oro, tres pistoleros asesinan a los padres del joven Max Sand. El muchacho, cegado por el odio y la sed de venganza, emprende la búsqueda de los asesinos y se convierte en un pistolero solitario que se hace llamar Nevada Smith. Western basado en la novela "The Carpetbaggers", de Harold Robbins.
Minister
Tras muchos años de ausencia, los tres hijos mayores de Katie Elder regresan a su pueblo natal para asistir al funeral de su madre. Pronto averiguarán que su padre murió asesinado después de perder su rancho en una partida de cartas. A partir de ese momento, no descansarán hasta encontrar al asesino y recuperar sus propiedades.
Priest
This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the Martin-Marietta Corporation for exhibition in the Hall of Science at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Drunk - Madden's father
Calhoun, un viejo pistolero al que todos daban por muerto, llega a un pequeño pueblo tomado por forajidos. Ha regresado con el único objetivo de vengarse de sus agresores, y lo hará con la ayuda de Lauren, un joven impetuoso con el revólver.
Williams, Ad Council Board Member (uncredited)
Jerry Webster y Carol Templeton se dedican a la publicidad, aunque trabajan para diferentes agencias. Molesta por los métodos empleados por Jerry (alcohol y mujeres) para conseguir los contratos, Carol intenta echarlo de la profesión. Para evitarlo, Jerry camela a la chica que iba a testificar contra él, convirtiéndola en la estrella de un anuncio para televisión, de una importante marca, que acaba de conseguir.
Police Inspector McCrary
En la época de la Ley Seca (1920-1933), Dave es un contrabandista de alcohol que está a punto de cerrar un trato importante con un mafioso de Chicago. Como las manzanas de la mendiga Annie siempre le han dado suerte, envía a uno de sus hombres a buscarla para cerrar la operación. Pero Annie está completamente desesperada: su hija, a la que no ve desde hace muchos años, llega de Europa acompañada de su novio y de su suegro, unos aristócratas italianos, y Annie tendrá que convertirse en una gran dama para no defraudarla.
Vice Admiral B.J. Crawford
Una expedición rutinaria al Polo Norte se convierte repentinamente en una trepidante carrera por salvar a toda la humanidad cuando un cinturón de radiación en el espacio convierte la Tierra en un verdadero infierno. El almirante Nelson y la tripulación del submarino atómico Seaview lucharán contra saboteadores, enormes criaturas marinas y ataques de submarinos enemigos, mientras intentan prevenir una catástrofe mundial.
Mr. William Farnsworth
Tom (Cary Grant) es un viudo que vive con tres hijos pequeños en una casa flotante. Para cuidarlos contrata como niñera a Cintia (Sophia Loren), una bella italiana que oculta su verdadera identidad.
Charles Summerton
Un tejano que luchó en la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865) llega a Sundown acompañado de un amigo. Su intención es vengarse de un hombre que resulta ser el terrateniente más rico de la comarca y que está a punto de casarse. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mace Beldon
A rich Texan hires a gunman (Rory Calhoun) to bring an escaped woman (Anne Francis) back to hang.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles
En el verano de 1875, los comanches asaltan una ciudad mexicana y se llevan cautiva a Margarita Álvarez, que pasa a ser propiedad de Nube Negra. Mientras tanto, el gobierno pide a Jim Read, el jefe de los exploradores indios, que intervenga como mediador.
Morgan Wheeler
When Aaron Baring (Jim Davis) signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River Valley, his dictatorial style soon creates problems. When the settlers reach their destination, Baring unwisely declares war on the local Indians. When savvy frontier scout Jim Henry (Bill Williams) tries to promote cooperation between the natives and the newly arrived settlers, Baring responds by having Williams whipped.
George Barton
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.
Meade Moore (wigwam owner)
Una audaz y valiente mujer propietaria de un periódico en el lejano oeste, comienza una campaña contra la corrupción y la violencia de su condado. Esta actitud le acarreará todo tipo de problemas.
Pleasant Tuesday Babson
En 1820, Big Eli (Burt Lancaster) y su hijo deciden abandonar Kentucky para empezar una nueva vida en Texas. Antes de llegar a su destino, se detienen en el pueblo, donde vive el hermano mayor de Eli, y surgen entonces ciertas dificultades. A pesar de ser un gran cazador, Eli no encuentra oportunidades. Además tiene un altercado con el sheriff, que lo encierra en prisión.
Emmett Devery
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.
Wilford Howell
Sitting Bull (Toro Sentado), jefe de los Sioux, pone en pie de guerra a su tribu como respuesta a las constantes provocaciones de su irreconciliable enemigo el general Custer. El resultado final es la tristemente famosa batalla de Little Big Horn. Después de haber tratado de evitar la matanza, el Mayor Parrish, amigo de los Sioux, es juzgado y acusado de colaborar con el enemigo.
Judge Davidson
A young boy witnesses his father murdered by bandits and grows into adulthood vowing revenge.
Matt Towner
Belle Star es una joven de dudosa reputación que se relaciona con un pequeño grupo de forajidos, los hermanos Dalton. Precisamente la banda está pasando por un momento de dificultades económicas, por lo que planean atracar un banco.
Dr. Dubuque
Un culto y cínico aristócrata quiere vengar el asesinato de su hermano en la Francia del siglo XVIII. Para ello se disfraza de actor.
Sam Bentley
Joe Kovak is a test pilot for military-aircraft designer Sam Bentley, who thinks of Joe as a son. A competing plane company is seeking the same Army contract as Bentley, and offers a $500 bonus to their publicity woman Marge Stevens if she can entice Joe into quitting Bentley to join their company. When Joe takes repeated unnecessary risks in the air, Bentley fires him and Joe goes to work for the competitor. He almost loses his life when the inferior plane he is testing fails to function at a high altitude, a fault that the designer had anticipated but had let get by because of his greed in getting the contract.
Dr. Lane
Una nave espacial aterriza en Marte y los astronautas deben luchar contra los marcianos que pretenden apoderarse del vehículo para atacar la Tierra.
Shuster
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
John Hewitt
An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.
John Erickson (uncredited)
A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
John B. Jones
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
Uncle George
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
Pomeroy Sr.
Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los Angeles to claim a multimillion-dollar inheritance. To fend off fortune hunters, she disguises herself as a meek little old lady.
Mr. Watkins
Sally Elliott busca trabajo y es contratada por una compañía para vender cosméticos a domicilio, pero sus intentos para conseguir ventas puerta a puerta son desastrosos. El asunto se complicará además cuando uno de sus clientes es asesinado y ella se convierte en la principal sospechosa. Sally, con la ayuda de su novio Humphrey buscarán al verdadero culpable mientras les persigue la policía.
Police Chief Sam Tolgate
Un psicópata, que se ha fugado de la cárcel donde cumplía cadena perpetua, trata de subsistir reanudando sus actividades delictivas. Para ello corromperá a personajes de las altas esferas…
John Gall
En el lejano oeste, dos hermanos, James y Tom, viven enfrentados por estar situados cada uno a un bando de la ley. Todo se complica cuando el hijo de James se ve amenazado por el forajido de su tío Tom
John Chandler
Deborah Chandler, una rica heredera se enamora de Clark, un encantador joven. Acaba casándose con él, pero entonces se da cuenta de que no es la persona que ella creía. Clark intenta matar a Deborah para quedarse con sus posesiones.
Filme basado en la novela "Fugitive From Terror" de James Webb.
Hugh Mitchell
A lost dog tries to find his way back to his beloved master in the final film of the Rusty series.
Capt. Billings
A female police detective (Marsha Hunt) enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods racket.
Colonel Logan
Linda Marlow llega a un pueblo del Oeste, donde se hace pasar por cantante de ópera y causa una contienda entre dos hermanos.
Colonel Pascal
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.
Ralph Judson
A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to stop it from having a television station built on it.
Hugh Mitchell
Rusty, portrayed by a very busy canine thespian named Flame, does exactly what the film's title says he does. But before this prophecy can be fulfilled, the story spends a great deal of time with young Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson), who briefly turns to juvenile delinquency when he's denied an expected inheritance
Lon Lansdell
The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western adventure. From the vanished man's sister, the heroes learn that her brother disappeared soon after striking a major gold vein in his mine. In the end Cisco accosts the villain, saves the kidnapped miner and reunites him with his dog.
Hugh Mitchell
Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her handicap. But with Rusty's help, the girl gains a new lease on life and agrees to adopt a seeing-eye dog.
An arrogant college football player turns professional, taking his bad attitude with him.
District Attorney
El agente de seguros John Forbes (Dick Powell) vive en Los Ángeles con su esposa (Jane Wyatt) y su hijo (Jimmy Hunt). Mientras tanto, un ex policía convertido en detective privado (Raymond Burr) se dedica a investigar los métodos de un estafador (Byron Barr) al que hace poco la compañía de Forbes pagó una indemnización. El detective descubre que le hizo diversos regalos a una atractiva modelo (Lizabeth Scott). (FILMAFFINITY)
Dispatcher (uncredited)
Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) es un veterano de guerra que viaja a Cayo Largo, en Florida, para visitar al padre (Lionel Barrymore) y a la viuda (Lauren Bacall) de un compañero muerto en combate. Pero su estancia se complica, ya que en su hotel se aloja también una banda de gángsters que, aprovechando una fuerte tormenta, los toman como rehenes.
Horton
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
Clark
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
Hugh Mitchell
Faithful dog Rusty helps his master's father win a mayoral race.
Webb Wargate
El juez Timberlane se casa con la chica equivocada. Ella se dedica cada vez más al amigo del juez Brad Criley. Durante una pelea, el juez le dice a Virginia que se quede con Brad, pero cuando enferma se la lleva a casa.
Joe Bland, FBI Agent
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
Reverend Wainwright
Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. To his dismay, Donlevy discovers that he has a guardian angel (Robert Cummings), who shows up in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot. The angel has been sent from Above to save Donlevy's soul, and to that end encourages the one-time villain to squire a minister's daughter (Jorja Curtwright) rather than his usual dance-hall girls. Donlevy is also given tips on winning against his enemies without resorting to gunplay. The gambler finally redeems himself with Heaven by rescuing the angel from a lynch mob (how can you lynch an angel?) Heaven Only Knows deserves an "E" for Effort for bringing a fresh twist to the venerable western genre.
Alex Tremholt
Dos chicos, compartiendo un apartamento, conocen chicas gemelas. Una de ellas es una belleza, y la otra es una experta en malas noticias. La linda es asesinada y su novio es el principal sospechoso.
Tom Clancy
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
K.T. Keller
El primer fllm en tratar el tema de la bomba atómica. Rodado dos años después del bombardeo a Hiroshima, explica el Proyecto Manhattan con el que se creó el arma de destrucción masiva.
Un sorprendente docudrama de Taurog protagonizado por la bomba atómica: su invención, su desarrollo y los estragos que ya ha causado a la Humanidad. Nos encontramos en 1946, científicos y militares de Estados Unidos, Canadá y Gran Bretaña, se han reunido para celebrar una ceremonia.
Hank Armitage
Two men (Don Castle, John Litel) and a woman (June Lang) form a triangle confined by a lighthouse.
Arthur Tyler
Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.
Medical Director
Biografía sobre la enfermera Elisabeth Kenny, que consiguió notoriedad por sus revolucionarios tratamientos para la parálisis infantil tras su experiencia en los campos australianos con pacientes con polio.
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
Hugh Mitchell
A young Czechoslovak orphan, Loddy Bicek, befriended by an American army sergeant, is brought into the United States as a stowaway by the soldier. He is apprehended, but escapes and makes his way to the sergeant's home town. There, he is befriended by young Danny Mitchell and his dog, Rusty, a K-9 veteran of World War II. A third boy reports Loddy to the authorities, and when Loddy tries to run away, he falls into a deep ravine.
Dean Fowler
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
Archon
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.
Lt. Roberts
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. The trouble stems when the model he has used in all his work is found floating dead in the Seine.
Stephen Elliott
An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree.
Charlie Bell
Clay Hardin decide dejar su refugio en México y volver a San Antonio para investigar los frecuentes robos de ganado que se producen en Texas. El recién llegado sospecha que el jefe de la banda de ladrones es el dueño de un saloon, en el que trabaja una joven cantante de la que se enamora.
Ed Henderson
Pastoral fantasy about a hermit who prefers the serene company of the woods and its denizens to the world outside.
Sergeant Means
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.
Mitchael J. 'Mike' Bohannon
The notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be seized by a greedy land company. Before they can help, the man is killed by a company assassin. The brothers do manage to rescue his widow and head for the hills. There, they decide to revert back to outlaw life. Meanwhile, a newspaper publisher's daughter falls for one of the brothers.
Roger Quinn
Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.
Inspector Dawes
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
General Lee
Una bailarina hace su debut en el Tivoli, como invitada del Duque de Prusia Von Bismark. Cuando llega la revolución de 1865, Mariana, que actúa bajo el nombre artístico de Salomé, debe huir del país.
Swearengen Jones
La única condición que se le impone a un joven para heredar ocho millones de dólares es que sea capaz de gastar uno en tan sólo dos meses. Esta disparatada situación provocada por el testamento de un loco millonario americano le dará al joven muchos quebraderos de cabeza.
Dr. Mason
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
Frank Baldrich
A singer, her girlfriends and a mystery writer stay in the house where her father was killed.
Father Jim Donnelly
A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.
Mr. Samuel J. Aldrich
Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysitting service.
Mr. Aldrich
High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.
Sam Aldrich
Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.
Judge Edmonds
Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jackie Cooper), who enlists in the Navy and is sent to San Diego for training. She accepts an invitation to go on a ride to San Diego with her friends Herb (Neyle Morrow), Opal (Evelyn Eaton)and Jerry (Jimmy Zahner) but doesn't know the car has been stolen.
Sam Aldrich
Henry Aldrich and his high-school pals investigate a local haunted house.
Dr. Harrison
Un grupo de enfermeras del Ejército de los Estados Unidos se dirige a Hawaii en diciembre de 1941. El ataque a Pearl Harbor cambiará su destino y sus vidas. Enviadas a Bataan, Filipinas, las enfermeras estarán bajo el mando de la teniente Janet Davidson, que tendrá que enfrentarse con enfermeras novatas que esperaban una agradable estancia en Hawaii, pero tendrán que convertirse rápidamente en veteranas si quieren salvar las vidas de numerosos heridos y con suministros cada vez más escasos.
James Xavier 'Jim' Taggart
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
Mr. Aldrich
Teenager Henry Aldrich decides to take matters into his own hands when his high school principal forbids the student band from playing swing music.
Emilio Caspari, the mystery man
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
Sam Aldrich
Teenager Henry Aldrich becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The sixth entry in the "Henry Aldrich" series of eleven films.
Dr. Blaine
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
Peter Rolf
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
Michael Lynn
Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired to occasional leading roles. In Boss of Big Town, veteran supporting player John Litel is top-billed as crusading city market official Michael Lynn. When a criminal gang muscles in on the local food distribution markets, Lynn vows to throw the rascals out. First, however, he pretends to join the villains as a paid government stooge, the better to find out the identity of the "Mister Big" behind the distribution racket. The exposure of the "mystery villain" will come as a shock to fans of the 1927 Cecil B. DeMille epic The King of Kings--but not to dyed-in-the-wool movie buffs.
Sam Aldrich
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
John Gardiner
El nieto del Hombre Invisible y su novia, que trabajan para los servicios secretos británicos, tienen una fórmula que les permite volverse invisibles y la usan para espiar a los nazis. Así es como consiguen desbaratar sus planes para atacar a los Estados Unidos.
Colonel Colbert Scott
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.
Patrick Henry (archive footage) (uncredited)
The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americans always working for freedom.
Subprefect Santiago Castillo
This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship stolen ammunition.
Sam Aldrich
After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the replacement cash the boat's owner demands. The catch: Henry only has two days to come up with the funds, or the boat's angry owner will turn him over to the police.
Norman Hadley
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
Henri Beauvais
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
Jim Hadley aka Francis Carvel
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
Matty
Un químico de la policía (Van Heflin) utiliza técnicas forenses para resolver asesinatos en una ciudad plagada de corrupción política y bandas criminales.
Charles Anthony
A young intern is drafted and placed in the Army Medical Corps as a buck private and is none too happy about it. Injured, he is placed in the hospital where a Major comes by and explains how army doctors make important advances in medical science. The private is inspired and promises to make a good soldier. He is even more inspired when a nurse becomes his superior officer.
Spencer Merlin
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
Mike Rofano / Fred Morton
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
Gen. Phil Sheridan
George Custer (Errol Flynn) llega a la Academia de West Point lleno de arrogancia y vanidad. Su carácter indisciplinado le ocasionará numerosos problemas con sus superiores. A pesar de todo, y debido a la acuciante necesidad de oficiales para la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), es enviado al frente. Terminada la guerra, se casa con Beth (Olivia de Havilland), pero pronto le asignan un nuevo destino: la guerra contra los indios. Al frente del Séptimo de Caballería, el Teniente Coronel Custer se enfrentará a los indios de Caballo Loco. La campaña termina con la famosa batalla de Little Big Horn (Montana, 1876).
Sam Aldrich
Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
Tim Gordon
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
Bob Dugan
Why did the Governor want to resign?
John Wade
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Mr. West
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced by a young lawyer, the brother of the accused
William Emory
A young boy seeks love and understanding from his cold, demanding father.
Martin
Como castigo por una pelea con sus compañeros días antes de graduarse en West Point, Jeb Stuart, George Armstrong Custer y cuatro amigos más, son destinados al Segundo de Caballería, estacionado en Fort Leavenworth. Durante su estancia allí, deberán participar en la captura y ejecución del abolicionista, John Brown, tras la Batalla de Harper Ferry.
Colonel Myers
Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at the Officer's Academy in Annapolis if he passes the entrance exam. He soon finds out that his younger brother, Jimmy Lansing, just recently made sergeant as well, will also be taking the exam with him. The Lansing brothers are hard working and patriotic military men and both deserve to be accepted into the Academy, but they learn there is only one spot available. As entrance into Annapolis is dependent both on their exam results and their record, they are encouraged by the base colonel to enter into a friendly rivalry for the three weeks on the base prior to the exam. They also enter into a friendly rivalry for the affections of Penelope Hayworth, the admiral's daughter.
Charles Bryant
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Dr. Mark Stone
Director Noel Smith's comic 1940 morality tale, about a carpet sweeper manufacturer who sacrifices his family's happiness for his business, stars Grant Mitchell, Nana Bryant, Jan Clayton, George Reeves, Lee Patrick, John Litel, Billy Dawson, Richard Clayton, Frank Ferguson, Vera Lewis, Pierre Watkin, Frank Wilcox, John Ridgely and Frank Orth.
Committee Chairman
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Jerremy Helm
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Harry McNamara
Joe y Paul Fabrini son dos hermanos que tratan de abrirse camino por su cuenta como camioneros. Tras unos duros comienzos, las cosas comienzan a ir bien, pero la ambición de Joe y la aparición de una mujer obsesionada con él hará que todo se complique.
District Attorney Dickson
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.
U.S. District Attorney Homer Sears
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
Saxby
Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.
Reverend Thomas Storm
Johnny Adams llega a una brutal prisión tras hacerse detener con la intención de matar al hombre que asesinó a golpes a su padre.
Dr. Barclay
Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.
Quigley
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
Mr. Roberts
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
Marshall
El oficial de la Unión Kerry Bradford se escapa de una prisión confederada y corre a interceptar un cargamento de 5 millones de dólares en oro con destino a las arcas confederadas. Un simpatizante de la Confederación y un bandido mejicano, cada uno de ellos con sus propios intereses, se le cruzarán en el camino.
Prison Chaplain
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Captain Mangan
Un chico de Brooklyn se alista al ejército, en el regimiento "Fighting 69th", para luchar contra los alemanes en la I Guerra Mundial. Su actitud de prepotencia e insubordinación en los entrenamientos le pone en contra de todos excepto del padre Francis Duffy, también soldado -y personaje que existión en la vida real-, que intenta ayudarle en todo momento. Ya en la guerra, a la hora de luchar, el joven comprobará que ésta es más horrible de lo que pensaba... (FILMAFFINITY)
Dr. Brett
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
Dr. Flegg
Una actriz teatral es asesinada, por lo que un reportero da de inmediato la primicia en su periódico; sin embargo, al día siguiente aparece aquella con vida para desmentirlo todo. El extraño hecho despierta la curiosidad del citado periodista que, junto con un joven médico, se pone a investigar, descubriendo que uno de los implicados es el reputado Dr. Flegg, cuyo asistente es el extraño y frío Doctor X...
Col. Michael Riker
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Rudolph Spain
Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.
Prosecutor
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Carson Drew
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Patrick Henry
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
Patrick Henry (voice) (uncredited)
Porky se resiste a aprender el Juramento de la Bandera hasta que el Tío Sam se le aparece en sueños y le da una lección de la historia estadounidense.
Carson Drew
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.
Matt Cole
Kansas, 1866. Wade Hatton intenta imponer el orden y la justicia en Dodge City, una próspera ciudad a la que llega el ferrocarril, pero que está dominada por un cacique y su banda de pistoleros. En su empeño le ayuda Abby Irving, la sobrina del médico local.
Robert Strickland
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
Attorney Carey
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
Chief Agent Tom Saxby
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.
Carson Drew
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.
Commander Clark
Dos hermanos pilotos de aviación se disputan la misma mujer.
Bill Appleton
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
Carson Drew
Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady. Ted has to disguise himself as a nurse while Nancy becomes a "widow" in order to locate the lady they are rescuing.
Stan Dowling
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Hendricks
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
Mr. Monroe, Prosecuting Attorney
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.
John C. Rudlin
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
Nelson "Nails" Morgan
A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.
Father Neil Connor
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Jean La Cour
Pocos años antes de la guerra de secesión, la bella, impulsiva y temperamental sureña Julie Marsden (Bette Davis) hace una entrada memorable en el Gran Baile de Debutantes del Olympus. En una época en la que se esperaba que las mujeres solteras vistieran de blanco prístino, ella insiste tercamente en llevar un inadecuado, pecaminoso e incendiario vestido rojo. Su propósito es despertar los celos de su prometido, el banquero Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda), pero sólo consigue destruir sus oportunidades con él. Preston se va al Norte y finalmente decide casarse con otra, sin su conocimiento. Tres años después, Preston vuelve, y una determinada y arrepentida Julie se disculpa humildemente ante Preston, pidiéndole que la ame como ella le ama. Preston la rechaza.
Jim Blake
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
Mr. Post, banker
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Ralph Ferris
Terminado el periodo de la fiebre del oro en California, empezó la rivalidad entre granjeros y mineros en el valle de Sacramento. El Coronel Chris Ferris (Claude Rains), un rico agricultor, se opone firmemente a la minería hidráulica, un nuevo método desarrollado en los años 70, durante la fiebre del oro, porque está inundando las tierras de cultivo más prósperas de la región. A pesar de la postura de Ferris, Jared Whitney (George Brent), un ingeniero de minas del Este, no sólo se hace amigo del hijo del coronel (Tim Holt), sino que además se enamora de Serena (Olivia de Havilland), la bella hija De Ferris.
Inspector Lane (archive footage) (uncredited)
This was one of the annual "blooper" reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke fun at the flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Inspector Lane
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Lt. Philip Nolan
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
'Gat' Brady
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Charpentier
Biografía del famoso escritor francés Emile Zola, que incide especialmente en su participación en el famoso "Caso Dreyfuss", que puso en jaque al ejército francés.
Dr. Eugene Forde
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
Wyatt Ranstead
Un granjero, Slim, se une a un grupo de trabajadores que están trabajando en una línea de alta tensión. Red le enseña todo lo que necesita saber, y pronto se hacen amigos. Cuando son despedidos por proteger a su jefe, en un caso de accidente laboral en la que un compañero cae de la torre por estar bebido, se marchan a Chicago donde gastarán su dinero y harán una visita a la novia de Red, Cally. Todo se complicará cuando Cally se enamore de Slim...
Gordon
El mafioso Johnny Vanning dirige un ostentoso club nocturno de Nueva York en el que explota a sus chicas y las tiene atemorizadas. Mary incita a un juerguista a ganar más dinero del que tiene y, cuando no puede pagar, le matan. El fiscal del distrito, David Graham, convencido de que el caso está ganado, lleva a Vanning a juicio.
Victor Shanley
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Tommy Smith
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
Mike Phelan
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
Robert 'Bob' Daniels
Story of mother's antagonism to her son's wife. From the novel "Wild Beauty" by Matsel Farnham.
Dave (as John B. Litel)
A Mexico/United States border patrol officer is aided by his police dog, Rinty.
At a small hotel, Judith Barrett and Norman Peck are eloping; John Litel and Addie MacPhail are quarreling because of his constant jealousy; and Eva Thacher and Al Thompson are tracking down their eloping daughter. It's a constant barrage of slamming doors and such trapping of the stage farce.
Wayne
The wife and secretary of a mine operator attempt to conceal their romantic affair.
(as John B. Litel)
This Vitaphone one-reel short, written by the author of "Show-Off", George Kelly
The doctor prescribes fresh air for a man with a bad cold. His wife is determined to comply with the doctor's orders even if it kills him.
