Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas

Nacimiento : 1894-05-26, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Muerte : 1971-08-15

Historia

Paul Lukas (originally named Pál Lukács) was a Hungarian born stage, screen, radio, and television actor, in Hollywood from 1927.

Perfil

Paul Lukas
Paul Lukas

Películas

Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
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.
The Challenge
Dr. Nagy
All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island.
La espalda contra el muro
Capo Riccione
El agente del gobierno Sol Madrid viaja a Mexico con la prostituta Stacey para que declare en el juicio contra el gánster Villanova y el señor de la droga Dietrich.
Lord Jim
Stein
Basada en la novela homónima de Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), cuenta la historia de un oficial de la marina mercante que navega en el Patna, un barco de tercera categoría que transporta peregrinos musulmanes. Durante una tormenta y con el barco a punto de hundirse, Jim y el resto de la tripulación huyen del barco abandonando a los pasajeros. Pero, para su desgracia, cuando llegan a la costa descubren que el Patna ha sido rescatado.
55 días en Pekín
Dr. Steinfeldt
China, año 1900. Las embajadas extranjeras en Pekín deben hacer frente a la sangrienta revuelta nacionalista desencadenada por los boxers, que asesinan cristianos. Dentro del recinto asediado, el embajador inglés se une a los miembros de otras delegaciones en un desesperado intento por resistir el asedio.
El ídolo de Acapulco
Maximillian Dauphin
Mickey es un extrapecista que tiene terror a las alturas después de que un compañero suyo muriera en un trágico accidente. Huyendo de todo, Mickey encuentra trabajo en un hotel de Acapulco como cantante.
Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis
Karl von Hartrott
Adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Blasco Ibáñez, publicada en 1916. Julio Madariaga, el patriarca de una acomodada familia argentina, verá como el ascenso del nazismo en Europa divide a las dos ramas de su familia. Una de ellas, de origen francés, encabezada por Julio Desnoyers (Glenn Ford), se enfrentará a la rama alemana, los Von Hartrott, cuya militancia nazi les permitirá ocupar puestos de importancia en la Werhmacht. Finalmente, el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hará que ambas familias participen en la contienda en bandos opuestos e incluso lleguen a convertirse en rivales por causa de sus ideas políticas.
Suave es la noche
Dr. Dohmler
Finales de los años 20. El doctor Richard, un prestigioso psiquiatra que trabaja en una famosa clínica mental suiza, comienza a tratar a la atractiva Nicole Warren, una joven americana de clase alta que padece graves trastornos emocionales...
Scent of Mystery
Baron Saradin
El inglés Oliver, de turismo por España, descubre una conspiración para asesinar a Sally Kennedy, una norteamericana también turista. Oliver inicia una investigación donde conocerá a extrañas personas.
Las raíces del cielo
Saint Denis
Morel es un aventurero que se traslada hasta una colonia francesa en África para luchar contra el exterminio indiscriminado de elefantes. En su misión lo apoyarán la nativa Minna, el excombatiente Forsythe y un presentador televisivo que se encargará de realizar un reportaje, pero en su cruzada encontrará también enemigos, cuyos intereses son opuestos a los suyos.
The Thief
Charles Lagarde
The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.
20.000 leguas de viaje submarino
Prof. Pierre Arronax
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Julio Verne. En 1870, debido a los relatos de marineros que aseguran haber visto un monstruo marino al sur del Pacífico, los Estados Unidos fletan un buque de guerra para destruir a la bestia que altera la tranquilidad de los mares. Pero, cuando el monstruo los ataca, de nada sirve todo su poderío bélico para evitar el desastre. Tras el hundimiento del buque, los tripulantes son rescatados por el propio "monstruo", que resulta ser un buque capaz de sumergirse en el mar, algo inédito hasta entonces.
Kim de la India
Lama
El joven Kim ha crecido en la India de finales del siglo XIX, durante la dominacion británica. Muy joven ingresa en el ejército colonial, donde trabaja como mensajero del coronel. En uno de sus muchos encargos descubre sus verdaderos orígenes y el misterio de su nacimiento. A partir de ahí empezará a luchar por la paz de forma totalmente incansable.
Berlin Express
Dr. Bernhardt
Recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de personas de diversas nacionalidades (un americano, un inglés, un francés, una misteriosa mujer que habla diferentes idiomas, un par de alemanes, ...) viaja de París a Berlín, vía Frankfurt. En el tren, fuertemente vigilado, también ocupa compartimento el doctor Bernhardt, un pacifista cuya misión es unificar Alemania. Un mensaje en clave accidentalmente hallado en una paloma mensajera ha puesto en alerta a militares y servicios secretos. Antes de llegar a Frankfurt, Bernhardt es asesinado, lo que supone el inicio de una complicada trama de espionaje que pondrá en peligro a todos los pasajeros, ahora unidos para desenmascarar al culpable o culpables del homicidio.
Whispering City
Albert Frédéric
After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
Temptation
Sir Meyer Isaacson
After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.
Muerte al amanecer
Gus Hoffman
Un marinero que debe coger un autocar para volver con su compañía se ve implicado en el asesinato de una mujer que disfruta chantajeando a varias personas. Una muchacha y un taxista se unirán para demostrar la inocencia del joven en unas horas.
Noche en el alma
Nicholas 'Nick' Bederaux
El doctor Hunt Bailey conoce a una extraña mujer durante un viaje en tren. Bailey, a pesar del halo de misterio que rodea a Alida Bederaux, queda prendado por su belleza y a través de un amigo logra entrar en su círculo privado. Alida es la esposa de Nick Bederaux, un conocido filántropo que al conocer la profesión de Bailey, le pedirá que demuestre que su mujer está loca. Pero cuando Bailey empieza a profundizar en el entramado pasado de los Bederaux, con varias muertes relacionadas con la familia, comienza a dudar sobre quien está realmente loco. (FILMAFFINITY)
Domicilio desconocido
Martin Schulz
Un empresario artístico regresa a su Alemania natal para una visita y allí quedará sorprendido por la propaganda nazi.
Tres días de gloria
Inspector Marcel Bonet
Picard, un condenado a muerte, se fuga de la cárcel, pero es capturado de nuevo. Mientras tanto, una vía férrea vital para los intereses alemanes es saboteada. Los nazis, como represalia, toman 100 rehenes franceses y amenazan con ejecutarlos si los aliados no entregan al saboteador. Picard se ofrecerá para hacerse pasar por el saboteador con el fin de liberar a los rehenes y, al mismo tiempo, salvar su vida.
Alarma en el Rhin
Kurt Müller
Tras pasar 18 años en Europa, el matrimonio formado por Sara y Kurt Muller y sus tres hijos regresa a casa de la madre de Sara en Washington.
Hostages
Reinhardt
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.
Don't Be a Sucker!
German Professor
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
They Dare Not Love
Baron von Helsing
Durante la huida que emprende un grupo de personas tras la invasión de las tropas alemanas, el príncipe austriaco Kurt von Rotenberg se enamora de Marta Keller. Al ser descubiertos por los nazis en Checoslovaquia, Von Rotenberg decide entregarse a cambio de que liberen a cuatro detenidos, entre ellos el novio de Marta. (FILMAFFINITY)
El monstruo y la joven
W. S. Bruhl
Un muchacho va al patíbulo por un crimen que no cometió. Los verdaderos culpables se ocupan de la hermana del difunto y la sumergen en la prostitución. Un científico reclama el cuerpo del difunto para realizar unos experimentos y logra trasplantar su cerebro al cuerpo de un gorila el cual recuerda todo su pasado humano y comienza una venganza contra los villanos.
El castillo maldito
Parada
Después de que la intrépida trabajadora Mary Carter se convierta en la nueva dueña de una mansión, presuntamente encantada, ubicada en Black Island, cerca de la costa cubana, un extraño le advierte de que se mantenga alejada del castillo. Sin desanimarse, Mary zarpa hacia Cuba con un polizón en su baúl, Larry Lawrence, un locutor de radio que ayuda a Mary a llegar al fondo de la magia vudú, los zombis y los fantasmas que parecen maldecir la propiedad fantasmal.
A Window in London
Louie Zoltini
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.
The Chinese Bungalow
Yuan Sing
All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan Sing (Paul Lukas), British singer Sadie Merivale (Kay Walsh) begins a dangerous affair with nearby plantation owner Harold Marquess (Wallace Douglas). But when Sing discovers his wife’s betrayal, he plots to regain his honor by slowly torturing her lover to death.
Extraño cargamento
Hessler
Verne, un hombre encarcelado en la Isla del Diablo, intenta fugarse e involucra en la fuga a Julie, una chica de saloon, que lo delata a las autoridades. Pero Verne vuelve a intentarlo junto con otros presos, y en su huida se encuentra a Julie.
Captain Fury
François Dupré
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
Confesiones de un espía nazi
Dr. Kassell
Un agente del FBI (Robinson) investiga una amplia red de espionaje nazi que opera en Estados Unidos. Sus contactos llegarán hasta Suramérica y Europa. Se trata de una de las pocas películas del género antinazi rodadas antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, época en la que los Estados Unidos y, por consiguiente, Hollywood seguían una política aislacionista.
Alarma en el expreso
Dr. Hartz
En un país centroeuropeo, el tren Transcontinental Express sufre un gran retraso a causa del mal tiempo. Los pasajeros pernoctan en un pequeño hotel, donde Iris Henderson entabla conversación con una vieja institutriz inglesa, la señora Froy. Poco después de reanudar el viaje, Iris se da cuenta de la desaparición de la anciana, pero los demás pasajeros afirman que su amiga no existe y que ella ha sufrido una alucinación.
Dinner at the Ritz
Baron Philip de Beaufort
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
The Mutiny Of The Elsinore
Jack Pethurst
The story of a surly crew, an honest God-fearing captain, a hardboiled-but-loyal Scotch mate, a scoundrelly second-mate, and then a mutiny, the fight and the final voyage to a safe harbor. But not before the Captain has been murdered, his pretty daughter in peril, her rescue by the single passenger on board, and a member of the crew thrown overboard by another crew member.
Brief Ecstasy
Prof. Paul Bernardy
A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
Espionage
Anton Kronsky
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Breakdowns of 1936
Himself
Time marches on.
Jóvenes enamoradas
John Barta
Tres jovencitas –Loretta Young, Janet Gaynor y Constance Bennett– deciden arreglar sus vidas para siempre buscando maridos ricos. El enredo está servido cuando la primera de ellas seduce a un aristócrata (Tyrone Power), con la mala fortuna de que ya está comprometido. Así que, desesperada, decide suicidarse con veneno, pero la dosis – ciertamente menor– es bebida por error por su amiga Gaynor, que es atendida por un atractivo doctor (Don Ameche), del que se enamora. Al tiempo que Bennett hace caer en sus redes amorosas a un hombre de negocios de mediana edad (Wilfrid Lawson).
Desengaño
Arnold Iselin
Samuel Dodsworth es un magnate de la industria del automóvil, el típico hombre de negocios que empezando desde abajo ha llegado a la cima del éxito. Él y su esposa deciden pasar una segunda luna de miel en Europa, pero durante el viaje descubre que ella le es infiel, y su mundo empieza a tambalearse. En tal circunstancia, conoce a una mujer que le devuelve la fe en el amor y lo convence de que vale la pena vivir. Gracias a ella, pondrá todos los medios a su alcance para salvar su matrimonio, pero quizá sea demasiado tarde.
Su vida privada
Stephan Norman
Stella Parish es una actriz londinense que, de repente, en la cima de su éxito, abandona su profesión. Un periodista será el encargado de seguir la pista de este hecho, descubriendo que detrás de todo el asunto se oculta un tormentoso pasado de Stella, que tiene que ver con una hija secreta y una condena carcelaria por asesinato.
Por la dama y el honor
Athos
El joven y valeroso D’Artagnan llega a París y busca a su padrino, el capitán de Treville, jefe del cuerpo de los mosqueteros del rey Luis XIII (1610-1643), en el que quiere ingresar. Allí conoce a Aramis, Porthos y Athos, tres prodigiosos espadachines, a los que, no obstante, D’Artagnan no duda en retar a un duelo. Pero, para ganarse el respeto de los mosqueteros, el joven tendrá que enfrentarse a los malvados sicarios del cardenal Richelieu, enemigo mortal de la Corona. Defendiendo la causa de la reina Ana de Austria, esposa de Luis XIII, se enamora de Constance, la hermosa dama de compañía de la Reina. Esta fue la primera versión sonora sobre la novela de Dumas. Con un dinámico guión de Dudley Nichols, la trama sigue fielmente la novela original, destacando las peleas a espada y la aparición de Margot Grahame como Milady De Winter.
La edad indiscreta
Robert Lenhart
Un editor de libros vive con su mujer y su hijo pequeño, pero ella decide divorciarse y abandona a su familia por un millonario. Algún tiempo después, la ambiciosa mujer intentará conseguir, con la ayuda de su suegra, la custodia del niño.
The Casino Murder Case
Philo Vance
When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.
Father Brown, Detective
Flambeau
After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Later Flambeau sends notes to both Leopold Fischer, who unknown to him is Evelyn's uncle, and Father Brown, in which he vows he will steal from them the ten diamonds that comprise the "Flying Star." Flambeau intends to give these diamonds to Evelyn. Father Brown, whose gold cross contains some of the Flying Star diamonds, is determined to meet Flambeau before he is arrested, to reform and redeem his soul.
Gift of Gab
The Corpse
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Un amor prohibido
Rupert von Marwitz
Historia de un triángulo amoroso en la Holanda neutral de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Cuando un oficial británico vuelve a ver a su antigua novia, que está casada con un militar alemán, su viejo amor se reaviva. Ella, por su parte, tratará de mantenerse fiel a su marido, que ha sido herido en la guerra.
I Give My Love
Paul Vadja
After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...
Affairs of a Gentleman
Victor Gresham
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
Fascinación
Victor Banki
Linda, una corista que aspira a triunfar, se enamora de Victor, un compositor de éxito. Ambos se casan y tienen un hijo, pero ella pronto empieza a sentirse atraída por el joven y atractivo bailarín Lorenzo Valenti.
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Rumowski
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
By Candlelight
Josef
A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.
Mujercitas
Prof. Bhaer
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.
Captured!
Colonel Carl Ehrlich
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.
Sing, Sinner, Sing
Phil Carida
A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.
Secret of the Blue Room
Captain Walter Brink
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
The Kiss Before the Mirror
Walter Bernsdorf
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
Grand Slam
Peter Stanislavsky
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Tentación
Antonie 'Tony' de Sola
Melodrama dirigido por el especialista George Cukor, sobre una mujer que tras perder a su hijo adoptivo, huye a Europa donde se enamora de un hombre casado.
A Passport to Hell
Lt. Kurt Kurtoff
Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.
Los de abajo
Albert
A partir de una historia escrita por él mismo, John Gilbert interpreta a Karl, un chófer despreocupadamente amoral, cuya avaricia y lujuria amenazan con alterar el orden establecido en las propiedades del barón para el que entra a trabajar. Confiando en su atractivo, intentará seducir a la baronesa, la doncella y la cocinera. (FA)
Thunder Below
Ken
Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil rigger Walt (Charles Bickford), who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken (Paul Lukas) but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis (Ralph Forbes), and Ken urges her to return to Walt.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Dr. Nicholas Faber
A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.
No One Man
Dr. Karl Bemis
When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to.
El instinto del amor
Tino Caraffa, aka "Gus" Diruvo
Un cantante mujeriego se enamora de una sureña anticuada. El problema es que ella ya está comprometida.
Working Girls
Dr. Joseph Von Schrader
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her sister June, more streetwise, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
The Beloved Bachelor
Michael Morda
Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes jealous of Julie Stressman, an old friend of Michael's and one of his models, Michael reluctantly asks Julie not to visit him at his studio. They agree to meet only at the construction site where he is working on a sculpture for which Julie is modeling. When Elinor also shows up at the site, Julie leaves so as to avoid a confrontation, but she is killed by some falling materials. Julie's dying request is that Michael adopt her daughter Mitzi, whose father died years earlier. In order to prevent Mitzi from being taken to an orphanage, Michael lies and says he is her father. Elinor hears this, and without asking questions, leaves him and marries another man the same night.
The Vice Squad
Stephen Lucarno
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
Las calles de la ciudad
Big Fellow Maskal
Estados Unidos, Ley Seca (1920-1933). El padrastro de una bonita chica pertenece a una banda de traficantes de alcohol. Ella está enamorada de un atractivo joven que trabaja en una caseta de feria de tiro al blanco y desea casarse con él, pero como no tienen dinero, se le ocurre la idea de introducir a su novio en los negocios de su padrastro, sin saber que se trata de una banda criminal. A causa de una jugarreta de su padrastro, la chica acabará en la cárcel. Y, mientras, el novio ingresa en la banda.
Unfaithful
Colin Graham
In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.
The Right to Love
Eric
A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.
Anybody's Woman
Gustave Saxon
A lawyer, left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
Grumpy
Berci
Bullivant es un gruñón abogado que ya está jubilado. Cuando el novio de su hija es acusado de robar un valiosísimo diamante, Bullivant decide defenderle. Primera película de George Cukor, basada en una obra de Horace Hodges.
The Devil's Holiday
Dr. Reynolds
Un buscador de fortunas se casa con una joven por su dinero, pero descubre que ella realmente lo ama y quiere mantenerlo a pesar de la desaprobación de su familia.
The Benson Murder Case
Adolph Mohler
A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.
Young Eagles
Von Baden
Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by his return to the front. In an air battle, Robert brings down and captures the Grey Eagle, Baden, and takes him to American Intelligence in Paris. Mary, ostensibly a spy for the Germans, drugs Robert, who awakens to find that his uniform has been stolen by Baden. Later, in an exciting air conflict, Baden is wounded but shoots down Robert's plane. The German rescues him, however, and takes him to an Allied hospital, assuring him of Mary's love; his faith in her is restored when he learns that she is actually a spy for U. S. Intelligence.
Slightly Scarlet
Malatroff
Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel-thief Malatroff blackmails Lucy into helping him steal the valuable necklace owned by the young wife of phlegmatic American businessman Sylvester Corbett.
Behind the Make-Up
Boris
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.
Half Way to Heaven
Nick Pogli
Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.
The Wolf of Wall Street
David Tyler
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.
The Shopworn Angel
Bailey
Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
Manhattan Cocktail
Boris Renov
Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with her campus chums Fred (Richard Arlen) and Bob (Danny O'Shea), likewise aspiring thespians, Babes heads to Broadway with stars in her eyes. The winsome threesome are quickly disillusioned by the heartless machinations of nasty producer Renov (Paul Lukas) and his harridan wife (Lilyan Tashman). Before the plot proper gets under way, the audience is regaled with a cute "mythological" prologue, featuring the same three leading actors. Manhattan Cocktail was a silent picture, except for two brief musical numbers showcasing Nancy Carroll.
The Woman from Moscow
The General's Son Vladimir
A silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.
Night Watch
Night Watch is a 1928 American drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Paul Lukas, and Donald Reed. It was an adaptation of the dramatic 1921 play In the Night Watch, written by Michael Morton. The film is set almost entirely on a French warship at the beginning of the First World War.
Loves of an Actress
Dr. Durande
Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval....
Hot News
James Clayton
Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best cameraman, to quit in protest of the hiring of a woman. The Mercury hires Scoop, and there begins a heated rivalry between him and Pat. Pat gets a few lucky breaks and manages to get a beat on Scoop during her brief career. After she exposes the theft of a jewel from the turban of a visiting maharajah, she and Scoop are kidnapped by Clayton, the thief, and taken aboard his yacht. Rescued, she and Scoop find love and happiness.
Three Sinners
Count Dietrich Wallentin
A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.
Two Lovers
Don Ramon de Linea
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the guise of "Leatherface," a swashbuckling masked avenger, Van Ryke performs his derring-do on behalf of the Prince of Orange (Nigel de Brulier). Naturally, Van Ruke considers beautiful Spanish aristocrat Donna Leonora de Vargas (Vilma Banky) to be a bitter enemy, and the feeling is mutual. To no one's surprise, however, Van Ryke and Donna Leonara eventually fall in love (hence the title). The pulse-pounding climax finds Van Ryke riding hell-for-leather through a rainstorm to warn the Flemish troops about the Spaniards' plans to burn the city of Ghent to the ground. Two Lovers was based on Madame Orczy's novel Leatherface, and adapted for the screen by Alice Duer Miller.
The Half of a Boy
Gáthy Lõrinc (as Lukács Pál)
In English known informally as "The Half of a Boy" and "Stepmother". Based on the novel by Kálmán Mikszáth. After his wife's death Gáthy Lörinc (in Serbian version: Mr. Wickfield) remarries and in secret he takes his son born from this second marriage to the same foster parents who take care his first son born from his first marriage and left without mother. Five years later, when both boys return home, his wife does not know which is her own child, and which is the child of the previous wife, so the husband's desire is fulfilled, his orphaned son doesn't have step-mother, because his wife loves both boys equally, as her sweet children.
Egy dollár
Samson und Delila
Ettore Ricco, the Tenor
Adaptación del famoso relato bíblico del forzudo Sansón y la bella Dalila, ambientado en la Palestina del año 1000 A.C..
Az összeesküvök
Soldiers of the Emperor
Silent film drama
Sphynx
Gordon-Philips György herceg (as Lukács Pál)
Directed by Béla Balogh.
Operation Undersea
Self
Walt Disney cuenta la historia de la exploración del mar.