David Manners

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.

Pamela es una mujer inglesa de finales del siglo XIX que posee una ideas muy avanzadas por su época. Entre otras cosas, no piensa casarse, sino que desea desarrollarse como persona. Después de muchas dificultades para encontrar trabajo, finalmente encuentra un puesto en la típica revista de mujeres sobre la cocina y los trabajos del hogar. Cuando el editor se enferma, Pamela empieza a tratar temas como la igualdad, la atención a la infancia, los cuidados médicos, y la búsqueda de empleo. Pronto se ve convertida en líder de un movimiento por estos temas, y además se deberá enfrentar a la difícil tarea de criar a un hijo sola, un escándolo para la sociedad... (FILMAFFINITY)

Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his native Virginia while Kenneth remains on duty as a Northern officer. Kenneth's uncle, John Ericsson, designs a new kind of ship, an ironclad he calls the Monitor. Eventually the war pits Kenneth, on board the Monitor, against his friend Raymond, serving aboard the South's own ironclad, the Merrimac (as it is called here). A naval battle ensues, one that will go down in history.

Jack Wycoff is a successful young author whose double is the notorious gangster Cy King. Mistakenly arrested, Wyckoff finds himself handcuffed to an attractive lady. Wycoff escapes custody and flees across the country with the law in hot pursuit, refusing to establish either his true identity or his innocence until the lady unwillingly trapped at his side agrees to marry him.

A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.

Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.

A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.

A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector Charles Irwin to find out who did it among all the suspects who were in the house.

An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.

Una pareja en viaje de luna de miel, viajan en tren por las tierras de Budapest con destino a Wiesegrad, para después dirigirse a Gombos. Debido a un error de la ferroviaria, deben de aceptar hospedar en su vagón privado a un huésped, el doctor Vitus Werdegast, psiquiatra. Aunque a regañadientes, y para evitar que el intruso se quede en el pasillo toda la noche, aceptan. Una vez juntos, el doctor Vitus les dice que va a Wiesegrad a ver a un viejo amigo, pero por la expresión de su rostro no parece tener muy buenas intenciones. Durante el transcurso del viaje, la joven pareja se queda dormida, momento que aprovecha el doctor para acariciar la cabeza de la desposada. Pero el marido lo ha observado todo.

In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she then searches for the child she gave up.

The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.

The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.

The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.

Un hombre está convencido de que el emperador romano Valerio es un hombre encorvado como el cacique local. Por esta razón, sueña con que ha regresado a los tiempos del antiguo imperio romano.

Mientras interpreta la escena final de "El beso de la muerte", el protagonista muere asesinado. Los sospechosos son muchos, pues ha flirteado, actuado o contraido matrimonio con casi todas las mujeres del estudio. Cuando la protagonista es detenida, un guionista del estudio empieza a investigar el asesinato para demostrar su inocencia. (FILMAFFINIT)

An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big-city and left fending for herself.

Hillary Fairfield, víctima de los bombardeos de la Primera Guerra Mundial y afectado por una crisis nerviosa, escapa del manicomio donde lleva casi quince años encerrado y vuelve a casa el día de Navidad. Ese mismo día, su esposa, de la cual se ha divorciado sin saberlo, piensa casarse con un hombre de buena posición.

Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.

Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save his business by supplying him with goods from their own farms.

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

Una chica rica de la alta sociedad neoyorkina con fama de aburrida se da cuenta de que se es mucho más popular entre los hombres cuando se pretende ser una chica "mala". De viaje en París conoce a Guy, un joven americano arruinado que le ayudará a inventarse esa "mala" fama para llamar la atención de la sociedad en la que se mueve y en particular la de su amado Donnie.

A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.

Un grupo de arqueólogos británicos invaden la tumba de un cadáver momificado que resulta ser un sumo sacerdote del antiguo Egipto. La momia, que revivirá accidentalmente 3.700 años después de su muerte, intentará raptar a una joven de ascendencia egipcia que se parece a la princesa que amó en vida y que fue el motivo de su ejecución.

A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.

Cinco pilotos, veteranos de la Primera Guerra Mundial, se muestran temorosos a afrontar su devenir diario tras el término del conflicto. Todos los horrores que han vivido les hacen adoptar un nihilista estilo de vida y esconderse en la ciudad de París bebiendo sin parar.

Tras la expulsión de su padre de la iglesia donde predicó muchos años, Florence Fallon se vuelve una amargada y pierde la fe. Consciente de su facilidad de palabra, se alía con un estafador y se dedica a realizar milagros falsos pero muy lucrativos. Pero quizá el amor y la confianza de un ciego la ayuden a recuperar su fe en Dios y en el prójimo.

A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.

El conde Drácula abandona los Cárpatos y se traslada a Londres, llevándose como sirviente a un contable. Una vez instalado, se enamora de una joven que ya está prometida. Empieza a a visitarla por las noches y va bebiendo su sangre poco a poco para convertirla así en su esposa. Pero el malestar que sufre la joven alerta a su familia, que busca la ayuda del doctor Van Helsing.

A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.

Una cantante de cabaret que vive por todo lo alto no se da cuenta que su último novio es pobre.

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.

Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.

A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she loves.

A novelist has to chose between his wealthy patron and a penniless romantic.

In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.