(archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
'Manhattan Melodrama' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Dr. Warren
Un agente federal viaja hasta un país de Sudamérica para localizar a un peligroso grupo de contrabandistas dirigidos por un acaudalado y mujeriego norteamericano. Una vez allí se sentirá irremediablemente atraído por la esposa de uno de los jefes de la organización criminal.
Dr. R.T. Knudson
En un pequeño pueblo inglés, la policía recoge a Peter (Dean Stockwell), un chaval con la cabeza afeitada que rehúsa hablar ante las preguntas de los agentes. El Dr. Evans, el psiquiatra que colabora con la policía, será con quién el chico cogerá confianza y será el elegido para escuchar su increíble historia: Peter vivía con sus abuelos, unos antiguos feriantes de circo. Un día, mientras ayudaba en el colmado donde trabajaba, se entera que una nueva guerra está a punto de estallar. Ahí es cuando se entera que sus padres murieron en un raid aéreo durante uno de los bombardeos sobre Londres. A la mañana siguiente, Peter se despertó con el cabello completamente verde. Todos los chavales se reían de él, por lo que Peter huye al bosque, lugar donde tendrá una visión: Él ha sido el elegido. Y él, el muchacho de los cabellos verdes, será el encargado de comunicar al resto del pueblo los horrores y los peligros de la guerra...
Judge Northridge
Tierna y simpática comedia al más puro estilo norteamericano, que narra cómo una encantadora jovencita está totalmente convencida de que su caballo es en realidad la reencarnación de su tío Willie.
Dana Ferris
Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Dana Ferris has been targeted for extermination by the Mob, and Willie Hunter is the hit man who's been hired to do the job.
Judge Charles Moulton (uncredited)
Basado en una historia real. En 1932, Frank Wiecek fue condenado a 99 años de prisión por un crimen que no cometió. Doce años después, su madre, que limpiando pisos ha ahorrado 5.000 dólares, centavo a centavo, publica un anuncio ofreciendo ese dinero como recompensa para quien le dé la información que permita descubrir al verdadero criminal. Un escéptico periodista inicia una investigación.
Dr. Weber
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
Sheriff Drum
Basada en la vida real de Betty MacDonald, que es encarnada por Colbert. Una mujer de ciudad accede a ayudar a su marido (MacMurray) a cumplir su sueño de tener un granja y, para ello, procurará adaptarse a las inevitables dificultades de la vida en el campo.
Pa Bailey
Es la vigilia de Navidad en Bedford falls, NY, y George Bailey está planeando suicidarse. Pero un ángel es enviado para detenerle en su intento. Él le enseñará a George las cosas maravillosas de su juventud, cómo salvó la vida de su hermano y la de otros que, gracias a haber conocido a George, son felices. Así, nuestro amigo descubrirá que... ¡La vida es realmente un tesoro maravilloso que debemos disfrutar!
Mr. Bradford
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
Dean Albert Sears
A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
Judge Kincaid
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.
Norman Hampton
Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.
Dr. Graves
Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
Prof. Slater
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Wilfred Elliott
A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters
Charles Pringle
Christopher Cross es un simple cajero infelizmente casado, pero tiene un raro talento para la pintura. En cierta ocasión, conoce a una aventurera de la que se enamora y le hace creer que es un pintor de éxito. La chica y su novio, un individuo sin escrúpulos, aprovechan la ocasión para explotar al pobre hombre, que llegará incluso a cometer un desfalco en su empresa para que ella siga creyendo que es un artista de éxito.
Mr. Jessup
Un famoso corresponsal de guerra se introduce en la habitación de una estrella de cine; un soldado se enamora de una joven taquígrafa a la caza de un hombre rico; un estafador quiere hacer negocio con un jeque millonario; un periodista busca una exclusiva; un director de orquesta pierde a su cantante principal... Nada más normal un fin de semana en el más prestigioso de los hoteles de Nueva York, el Waldorf Astoria.
Judge Bergen
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
Dr. Adams
En un tranquilo pueblo de los Estados Unidos, Harry Quincey, un soltero amargado por su fracaso como artista, vive con sus dos hermanas, Hester y Leite, y una sirvienta. De manera inesperada Harry anuncia que va a casarse. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mr. Wiggam, Waring Lawyer
Mientras espera en la estación la llegada del tren que la conducirá desde San Francisco a Nueva York, Nikki Collins es testigo accidental de un asesinato que se comete en un inmueble cercano. Nadie cree su versión, incluida la policía que no descubre rastro alguno cuando llega al supuesto lugar de los hechos, excepto un famoso escritor de novelas policíacas, que está dispuesto a colaborar con ella para demostrar que, efectivamente, se ha cometido un crimen y hay un peligroso asesino en libertad.
Solo
American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.
Gramp
Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.
Rufus Mariman
Universal cowboy star Rod Cameron plays Geoffrey, conductor of a high-toned symphony orchestra. Secretly harboring the desire to become a swingin' jazz trumpeter, Geoffrey takes a job at a "hot" Broadway nightclub. Here he meets and falls in love with café songstress Donna (Frances Raeburn), who has led her family to believe that she's studying for a classical-music career. Meanwhile, a comedy-relief romance develops between Geoffrey's snooty valet Chumley (Arthur Treacher) and Donna's best pal Pat (Jacqueline De Wit). For those not interested in the plot (what there is of it), Swing Out, Sister includes specialty numbers by organist Selika Pettiford and the Lou Diamond Quintet.
Garrett Garfield
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
Doc
Sal comes to the Barbary Coast from New England to find out who murdered her brother. She gets a job signing in Dude's saloon, falls in love with Dude, then wonders if he might be involved in the murder.
Seth
In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers.
Colonel Andrew J. Morgan
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
Coroner
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
Father Paul
Al descubrir que su novia Tollea ha sido secuestrada, Ramu y su amigo Kado viajan hacia una isla donde todos los extranjeros son asesinados a la llegada y sus habitantes, a menudo sacrificados al dios del volcán, adoran a la cobra. En la isla reina la malvada hermana gemela de Tollea, Naja, la Mujer Cobra, quien tiene planes para Ramu y no quiere la competencia de su benévola hermana.
Herman Brock
The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron; a conspiratorial team of spies and no-goods pursue him to Alaska, trying to steal the device.
Brig. Gen. Wade
Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
Dean Manning
El hijo de un estricto oficial de la Marina se enamora de la hija de una estrella del musical.
Judge (voice) (uncredited)
Una noche en que regresa tarde a su casa, Scout se encuentra con que su mujer ha sido asesinada. Dado que no tiene coartada, la policía lo detiene como presunto culpable. Entonces entrará en juego su secretaria, una joven secretamente enamorada de él que le ayudará a encontrar al verdadero criminal... (FILMAFFINITY)
J.P. Crane
In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with Muriel Crane (June Vincent), the boss' daughter, who is at first unaware of the fact that King is the heartthrob of millions (he's gotten the job under an assumed name).
Judge Simmons
El hijo del Conde Drácula, utilizando una identidad falsa (Alucard), viaja a una plantación del sur de los Estados Unidos invitado por Katherine, una bella joven que vive obsesionada por la muerte. Inmediatamente después de su llegada, el conde Alucard intenta seducirla.
Mr. Fairchild
El hijo de un oficial de la Marina se pone al frente de la familia, dirige el esfuerzo bélico y monta un espectáculo musical para elevar la moral de los trabajadores.
Brewster
A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.
Judge Towne
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Colonel Jason Craig
Un estudiante de la escuela militar se ve mezclado con espías japoneses que pretenden robar un producto químico secreto.
Dr. Crane
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
Jeremy Taswell
Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
J.P. Gordon
A songwriter is sued for libel, and when he gets to court he discovers that his girlfriend is the plaintiff's attorney.
Pop Turnbull
Un granjero de Vermont va a Nueva York para convertirse en cantante, tiene éxito y se casa con la novia de su vecino.
Johnson
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
Colonel Brainard
Grover y Wilbur deben encontrar un sustituto del caballo de O'Hara, muerto tras comer caramelos accidentalmente. El dúo encuentra a uno en un hipódromo y se lo llevan, ignorando que se trata de un campeón de carreras llamado "Galleta de Té".
Carruthers
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Harrison - Member of the Local Draft Board (uncredited)
World War II public education film about sexually transmitted diseases focused on syphilis.
Morgan Prentiss (President, Prentiss Steel)
Charles "Pittsburgh" Markham pasa por encima de sus amigos, sus amantes y sus ideales para conseguir el éxito financiero en la industria siderúrgica de Pittsburgh, sólo para encontrarse abandonado y solo en la cima. Cuando llega su caída, descubre que el destino le ha dado una segunda oportunidad.
Chief Kolua
Tommy Layton, un joven aventurero, convence a los chóferes de un autobús, muy necesitados de dinero, para que le lleven desde Chicago a Los Ángeles. Una vez allí tiene la intención de participar en una regata en Hawai. Los conductores , Algy y Wellington, son perseguidos por un detective contratado por la propia empresa. Layton, ya en su yate, los rescata y los contrata como miembros de su tripulación para la regata. Camino de Hawai, se enfrentan a un huracán y terminan en una isla desierta.
Dr. Brewster
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
Judge Stillman
En Alaska, durante la Fiebre del Oro, un buscador es asediado por un empresario que tiene la ley de su lado. Pronto hace su aparición una cantante de cabaret que se convierte en objetivo amoroso de ambos.
Roger Furness
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.
Mayor Daniels
Un químico de la policía (Van Heflin) utiliza técnicas forenses para resolver asesinatos en una ciudad plagada de corrupción política y bandas criminales.
Dudley Crispin
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
Sam Shaw
El mejor autor de novelas del oeste, Bronco Bob Mitchell, nunca ha puesto un pie en el oeste. Un artículo de prensa ha puesto de manifiesto este hecho a sus fans, y su imagen está sufriendo a causa de ello. Por ello decide lavar su imagen haciendo una aparición en un rodeo de caridad de Long Island. Mientras está montado en un caballo, un novillo se escapa y se lanza contra él. No sabiendo qué hacer, una vaquera, Anne Shaw, viene a su rescate y le salva la vida. Mientras tanto, Duke y Willoughby son vendedores de cacahuetes en el rodeo. No son muy buenos en su trabajo, y pronto causan estragos. En una de esas se esconden de su jefe en un vagón de ganado y de pronto se encuentran camino hacia el oeste...
Mr. Thomas Daniels
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
The CINCUS [Ch. 1]
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.
Showboat Captain (uncredited)
Dos estrellas del vodevil están rodando una película, pero el director no está satisfecho con ella. Para contentarle, deciden contratar a un guionista joven de desbordante imaginación.
Banker Sam Leavitt
Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their alibi checks out. Far from offended by his ill treatment, Duke agrees to take the job of sheriff, retaining Pancho and Andy as his deputies. The gruesome threesome then sets about to solve a series of mysterious Wells Fargo robberies
Luther Bryson
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
Wilbur Grayson
Bob Holliday, propietario de un saloon, envía a su hermano Jim al este para que le traiga a su prometida. Pero durante el camino, Jim se enamora de ella y ambos se casan antes de regresar a su hogar.
Uncle
With Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, and Eugene Pallette. This sublime film exemplifies La Cava’s gift for creating comedies that contain a profound depth of feeling. Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between Irene Dunne, a small-town girl in the big city, and Robert Montgomery, the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her. Their love affair is all the more affecting for taking place against a backdrop of heartbreak and alcoholism, all conveyed under the guise of comedy. UNFINISHED BUSINESS is truly one of the most remarkable Hollywood films of the 1940s.
Dr. Stephen Kildare
A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.
Mr. George Kahley
Tras la dolorosa pérdida de su hijo, Edna, una valiente mujer de Texas, decide crear un orfanato para ayudar a los niños más desvalidos y necesitados de ayuda; pero los ciudadanos más conservadores no verán con buenos ojos la creación de una institución de acogida para niños nacidos fuera del matrimonio. Edna luchará incansablemente para conseguir legalizar el orfanato.
Andy Beeler
Un forastero se establece en un pueblo de las montañas de Ozark. Su presencia resulta beneficiosa para la vida de sus vecinos, personas rudas y llenas de odio. Pero el recién llegado no logrará vencer la desconfianza de un joven que vive obsesionado con la idea de matar a su padre, al que considera culpable de la muerte de su madre y de todas sus desgracias.
Horace Grover, 'the Brain'
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
Se. Henry Owen
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
Governor Howard
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Dr. John Lawrence
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
Felix Darren
La Hermosa Rae Smith y el atractivo Walter Saxel se encuentran, se enamoran y comienzan los preparativos para casarse. Lamentablemente, sus proyectos de matrimonio son saboteados cuando un galán celoso hace a Rae suspender la ceremonia. Los dos se encuentran años más tarde en Nueva York, sólo que ahora Walter está casado. Descartando perderlo de nuevo, Rae acepta ser su amante.
Maj. Gen. Emerson
Bud y Lou se alistan en el ejército para poder escaparse de la cárcel; lo que ignoran es que en el cuartel se encontraran con un instructor de armas tomar.
Dr. Perkins
La película narra los peligros y el tratamiento de las enfermedades venéreas. Tony Medroni está entusiasmado con el inminente nacimiento de un hijo, pero cuando el niño nace muerto, Tony debe enfrentar el hecho de que su propia historia sexual ha causado la muerte del niño. Un médico le explica el problema a Tony y discute otros casos con un amigo.
George Preston
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
Governor
La cantante de cabaret Bijou, expulsada de varias islas del Océano Indico por suscitar peleas, recala en Boni Komba para trabajar en el Café Seven Sinners. Tiene mucho éxito entre los marineros americanos, especialmente con el Teniente Dan Brent. Cuando Dan le propone matrimonio, su carrera y su vida correrán peligro
George P. Morgan
In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately despise each other and only pretend to like each other to please their parents. On the nights they are to go out, they sneak out with their respective true loves. It all works well until the unwilling couple find themselves falling in love for real. songs include: "I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now", and "Got Romance".
Von Zimmel
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Dr. Stephen Kildare
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Angeen
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Captain Per Vallgren
In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
Dr. Stephen Kildare
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
Sidney Simpson
Una aspirante a actriz, que pretende participar en una película importante, descubre que su madre también esta tratando de conseguir el papel. Por si esto fuera poco, las dos se enamoran del mismo hombre.
Dale
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
Court Aldrich
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
Judge Slade
Tom Destry, hijo de un legendario pacificador de la frontera, es un joven pacífico que rechaza todo tipo de violencia, por lo que es objeto de toda clase de burlas cuando recorre a caballo la ciudad de Bottleneck, el feudo personal de Kent. Las burlas aumentan cuando Destry nombra sheriff al borracho Wash Dimsdale. Esta actitud cambia cuando resulta que Destry, a pesar de odiar las armas, es un buen tirador. Mientras tanto, Frenchy, la cantante del saloon y novia de Kent, que se siente ofendida ante la indiferencia que Destry muestra hacia ella, jura poner en ridículo al nuevo sheriff.
Dr. Stephen Kildare
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
Commissioner Cromwell
Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.
Mr. Parker
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
"Dutch" Bronson
When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
Lamartine
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
Lane
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.
J.P. Waterford
An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
Dr. McKay
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
Clem Bartholomew
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman.
Edward P. Nash
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Dr. Stephen Kildare
Un médico cura a un gangster y se enamora de su hermana.
Mr. Gilder
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
Howard Price Dutton
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
Judge Corrigan
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
Judge
A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
Capt. Kenny
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Dr. Stephen Kildare
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
Coach McGann
Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he can never admit to himself that his blocking-back teammate Larry Royal is equally responsible for Bob's success. To teach his pal a lesson, Larry feigns an injury and pulls out of the Big Game, forcing Bob to have a go at it alone.
Alan Lemke
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
Paul Sycamore
Alice Sycamore, la única persona con un poco de cordura en una familia llena de lunáticos, se enamora de su jefe, Tony Kirby, que pertenece a una familia muy rica y muy cursi. La diferencia entre el estilo de vida y la mentalidad de ambas familias se agudizan cuando los padres de él van a cenar a casa de ella, y la cena termina con la llegada de la policía y la detención de todos los presentes, acusados de anarquistas.
Sylvia's Attorney
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
Mr. William Duncan Sr.
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
David Marrow
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
Judge Henry Harrison
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
General Ross
Jim es un piloto de pruebas. Tanto su mujer Ann como su mejor amigo Gunner intentan que vuele con prudencia, pero la vida de esta clase de pilotos es cualquier cosa menos segura.
Jeff Hazzard
In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.
Police Commissioner David Theron
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June Johnson.
Brandon Williams
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Oh, Oh, Oklahoma Actor (uncredited)
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Major Goddard
In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two get involved with a female physician in whose house the criminal is concealed (the doctor doesn't know this). Soon the detective and the doctor are involved.
Richard Gates Sr.
Tres jóvenes que ingresan por distintos motivos en la Academia Naval comparten su afición por el fútbol americano, lo que ayuda a cimentar su amistad.
Rodding Carter
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
Henry Sims
Un grupo de chicas, unidas por el mismo deseo de triunfar en el teatro, conviven en una residencia regentada por antiguas actrices, las cuales muestran su entusiasmo y envidia al mismo tiempo ante el futuro que espera a sus pupilas. Algunas logran alcanzar el éxito, pero otras no tendrán más remedio que olvidar sus sueños y volver al pueblo del que partieron un día.
Jonathan Clark
Un millonario moribundo da instrucciones a su abogado de soltar cuatro carteras en las calles de Nueva York. Cuatro personas honestas las encuentran y se las devuelven al abogado. Bajo los términos del testamento, a cada uno de ellos se les da 1 millón de dólares, los cuales deberán duplicar en los 30 siguientes días para reclamar todo su patrimonio.
Defense Attorney
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
Admiral Furness
Drama triangular que tiene lugar en la base militar de Pearl Harbor. Un piloto de la armada tiene que acudir allí el mismo día de su boda, por lo que su mujer decide acompañarle. En Hawai, ella encuentra a un antiguo pretendiente ahora convertido en todo un potentado dueño de un gran yate. El marido, celoso por el comportamiento de su esposa, acaba estrellando violentamente su avión en la cubierta del barco del presunto amante. (FILMAFFINITY)
Steven Ranger
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
Henry Borden
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Judge
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.
Warden
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
Uncle Joel Fenno
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
Artemus Todd
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
Hastings
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
Eli Decker
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Doctor Claybourne
Tras conocerse en un casino, una modelo y un brillante científico iniciarán un romance al que no le faltarán múltiples y agitados enredos. Melodrama de pasiones varias, que significó el comienzo del romance entre sus protagonistas, Barbara Stanwyck y Robert Taylor, que acabarían casándose en 1939.
Robert Halloway
Comedia musical en la cual un cowboy (Bing Crosby) regresa a su tierra después de algunos años, enamorándose de una rica ranchera (Frances Farmer).
Commander Mosely
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
Guili Ruffano
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
Sheriff
En un valle perdido entre las montañas, viven los Tolliver y los Falin, dos familias enemistadas que mantienen durante generaciones una guerra abierta e incesante. Se trata de un odio atávico, heredado, sin que ninguna de las partes conozca ni remotamente el oscuro motivo que originó la sangrienta confrontación.
Senator Andrews
A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent.
The DVD for this film bears the title "The Lure of Hollywood". Marian Nixon plays a girl who doesn't want to settle for second best. She is offered chance to be a model and jumps at it. Her boyfriend is upset--he just wants to marry her and settle down to a life of domestic bliss. But she has stars in her eyes--and soon learns to use publicity to create a new movie star persona. Throughout all this, the sappy boyfriend is always waiting nearby--hoping that she'll come to her senses and give up this new life.
Dr. Aaron Sylvester
Una estrella de cine padece una crisis nerviosa. Mientras se recupera, se enamora de un hombre
indiferente a su condición de diva, y que sólo parece interesado en la fotografía y la pesca.
impática comedia que empareja a Ginger Rogers con George Brent. Ella da vida a una artista de cine que ha sufrido un colapso, por lo que decide huir de los focos, y pasar una temporada tranquila bien lejos, en las montañas. Allí se encontrará con el personaje de George Brent, y claro, no pueden tener caracteres más contrapuestos.
William A. Seiter dirige la cinta, y aunque no se trata de un musical, hay espacio para que la Rogers se marque un solo de danza, y para que baile una canción que se escucha en la radio.
Husband
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
John Carter, Assistant Secretary of War
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Dr. McClintick
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.
Mr. Pritchard
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
Captain
El propietario de una emisora de radio es secuestrado por una admiradora, una condesa insaciable.
Dr. Bryant
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
John Vincey
Un grupo de exploradores inician una expedición a una lejana ciudad en busca de la legendaria “Llama de la vida”, una misteriosa fuerza que dotará de inmortalidad a quien la posea.
Judge Thatcher
La joven Jean sufre un terrible accidente automovilístico, que la tiene al borde de la muerte. Para salvarla, se propone avisar al doctor Vollin, el mejor neurólogo del momento, pese a haberse retirado hace años para dedicarse a la investigación. En un principio se niega, pero la insistencia del padre de la joven surte efecto. El doctor salva a la joven, pero a medida que toma contacto con ella durante su recuperación, se enamora de ella. Pero ella ya está prometida, como su padre se encarga de recordar al doctor. Pero él no se dará por vencido, y está dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa por conseguir a Jean.
Mr. Cummings
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found murdered. When an attempt on the life of a third one is made. Seth Dunlap, an instructor at the school, decides to turn detective and find the killer. Assisted by his sister, who is in love with the third student, Dunlap begins to follow the the small trail of clues left by the killer.
Dr. Arnold
At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr. Charles Monet, who has a low regard for women physicians. Jane and Charles clash on patient treatment, and Jane learns that Charles has a sister, Claire, with a mysterious past.
Charles Green
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
Secretary of War
Un sargento del ejército anima a su hijo en convertirse en aviador de la escuela de West Point.
Henry L. Parker
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.
Mr. Granby
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Henry B. Harrison
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
Judge at First Trial
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.
Matthew Martin
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
J.T. Allen
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foster solves a series of puzzling robberies..
Colonel Lambeth
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
Burroughs
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
Judge (uncredited)
Naomi mata a su marido maltratador para proteger a su familia, y construye una nueva vida para criar a sus cuatro hijos.
Jim Sloane
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
Dr. Spear
Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries to save for an operation. From her doll shop window she watches children and talks to Jimmie (James Dunn) the ice cream man. She wants to know Jimmie better, but is terrified of rejection.
Dr. Owen (uncredited)
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
John Walters (uncredited)
Un abogado acepta defender al amante de su esposa, acusado de asesinato, con la condición de que ella no testifique y vuelva a su lado al acabar el juicio. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dean Adams
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Warden (Uncredited)
Eddie Ellison es un ex convicto que pasó un tiempo en la prisión de Sing-Sing. Kay se casa con él tan pronto como cumple su hora. Cinco años después, Eddie y su ex compañero convicto Larry, ambos se han ido, y Eddie y Kay tienen una hermosa niña llamada Shirley. Sin embargo, Welch ha mantenido una estrecha vigilancia sobre ellos durante años. Él cree en "una vez un criminal, siempre un criminal". Luego, cuando las perlas de la esposa del empleador de Eddie se pierden, resulta que Eddie y Larry pasaron un tiempo en prisión y fueron despedidos. Welch sospecha que Eddie y Larry tienen algo que ver con el robo de las perlas. ¿Probará Welch que Eddie y Larry tuvieron algo que ver con el robo o prevalecerá la verdad?
Warden of Sing Sing (uncredited)
Dos niños que han perdido a sus familias en un accidente son adoptados por el mismo padre. Sin embargo, el destino los llevará por caminos muy distintos y hará que se enamoren de la misma mujer.
Dr. Gordon
Un joven médico (Clark Gable), que vive absolutamente entregado a sus pacientes, tiene una novia que no logra entender que ponga a los enfermos por encima de cualquier clase de diversión. Las desavenencias entre ambos llegan al límite cuando él conoce a una bella enfermera que comparte su pasión por la medicina.
Gereb's Father
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Ballard
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
Dr. Murray Reid
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
New York Film Executive
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Auto race champ Tim Dawson and his brother Billy are fired by boss Turnberg when they won't throw an important race to his son Carl. Pop Reeves, a competitor, finds that Turnberg had bribed his top man, Rogan, to lose, and fires him, and hires the Dawsons. His daughter Ann falls for Tim, yet it's Billy that wants her and proposes to her. She says no and declares herself to Tim. At the next big race, Rogan tries to cause Billy to smash, but he does instead, then accuses Tim of being responsible before dying. A police detective decides that Tim had done it so his brother could win, and leaves him one option, his brother must lose the upcoming Indy 500 or he'll know Tim's guilty.
McAllister
Durante una convención de una empresa de neumáticos, se suceden toda clase de desmanes sexuales y alcohólicos.
Thomas J. Worthing
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
Admiral Farnsworth
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Mr. March
Cuatro jóvenes hermanas realizan un aprendizaje, a veces doloroso, a veces fascinante, de la vida y del amor. Van creciendo y abandonando, una a una, el hogar familiar para casarse y crear sus propias familias. Sólo se queda Jo, que quiere ser escritora. A pesar de la sensación que tiene de que ya ha terminado su tiempo de felicidad, sigue escribiendo y consigue publicar su primera obra.
Dickens
The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion before the actual killer is bought to justice with the aid of a very substantial "ghost."
O'Farrell
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
The American Ambassador
A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
Mayor (uncredited)
Una anciana (May Robson) mantiene correspondencia con su hija, que vive en España, y le hace creer que es una gran dama de la alta sociedad que vive en un lujoso hotel. En realidad, es una alcohólica que vive de la venta ambulante de manzanas. Cuando su hija le anuncia que irá a verla para presentarle a su novio y a su suegro, miembros de una aristocrática familia, la desesperación se apodera de ella.
Stuyvesant (uncredited)
Un abogado (Warner Baxter) evita la condena de un conocido mafioso. Tras negarse a dejar de defender a criminales es rechazado por su bufete de abogados y también por su novia. Sin embargo, ella reclamará su ayuda cuando su nuevo prometido sea acusado de asesinato.
Dr. Babcock
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
Mayor
Un grupo de jóvenes obliga bajo sus personales métodos a confesar su crimen a un gángster.
Chief Forecaster
Un eclipse solar provoca una ola gigante que arrasa con Nueva York y con las principales ciudades del mundo.
Father Doran
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
Mr. Beaumont
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Banquet Guest (Uncredited)
Un zoólogo, millonario, deportista y celoso hasta la locura utiliza los animales del zoológico para eliminar a los pseudo pretendientes y no tanto de su esposa. La primera víctima aparece con los labios sellados para que «no bese nunca más a otra mujer casada».
Dr. H.L. Eastman
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Philip Ames
A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t happened yet – although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the “mystery”.
Woodrow Wilson
A Songwriter falls asleep while writing a song about the NRA. He dreams that Washington, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt appear in his room asking him why he wants to write such a song and they're reassuring him that FDR is the right way. When he starts singing his new song, he finds himself alone, but he knows that the FDR will lead the USA back on the road to prosperity.
Lawyer (uncredited)
Un millonario que está a punto de morir decide repartir su fortuna entre desconocidos cuyos nombres saca de la guía telefónica. Los afortunados emplean el dinero de diferentes formas: el oficinista plantará cara a su jefe, la prostituta intentará cambiar su vida, etc. Un filme compuesto por episodios en el que la Paramount empleó a sus mejores directores, James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar Mendes, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter y Norman Taurog y a sus estrellas más relevantes como Charles Laugthon, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Jack Oakie o W. C. Fields. El mejor episodio es precisamente el dirigido por Lubitsch sobre la reacción de un oficinista al saberse repentinamente millonario, que interpreta Charles Laughton.
Charles - Marquis of Jerningham (uncredited)
Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair lady himself. Barnaby becomes friend with Viscount Devehon, buys a horse from him and enters it in the big steeplechase. Sir Mortimer takes steps to rid society of the presence of this non-gentleman.
