Broker
Mediante flashback, un Edison de 82 años narra su vida desde su llegada a Nueva York con 22 años, cuando ya empezó a hacer sus pinitos en el mundo de la invención.
Maffeo Polo (uncredited)
Relato que narra los viajes del aventurero Marco Polo, que viajó hasta Asia desde Italia descubriendo numerosas culturas. En Pekín conocerá la pólvora y se enamorará de la hija del emperador Kublai Khan.
Ralph
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Uncle Carl
Kay, una aburrida chica de la alta sociedad neoyorquina hace un viaje a Grecia donde conoce a Terry, un arqueólogo. Kay flirtea con Terry y él acaba enamorándose de Kay. La joven se vuelve a Nueva York, seguida de cerca por Terry, que tiene la intención de proponerle matrimonio. Cuando llega a la gran ciudad se da cuenta de que el estilo de vida de Kay no es para él, y decide irse, pero la abuela de la chica le convence para que se quede. A pocos días de la boda, la pareja se pelea...
Mr. M.B. Kent
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
Winfield Lake
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Senator Reilly
Narra las andanzas de tres agentes federales antimafia: Mal, Van y Tex. Después de frustrar el secuestro de una chica de la alta sociedad, ex novia de Van, Mal se enamora de ella, aunque no está de acuerdo con que la chica exculpe a su chófer. Todo desemboca, finalmente, en la persecución de una banda de atracadores de bancos en Ohio.
Mr. Wilmot
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
Henry King Patterson
El editor Jim Branch se enamora de una mujer de la alta sociedad, Sharon Norwood. La utilizará para conseguir información de sus allegados ricos y famosos, con el objetivo de resolver un asesinato.
Wyatt Furness
A polo player's wife becomes the mystery woman in a Long Island horsy-set murder trial.
Killaine
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Colonel Gilroy
Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel leader called The Torch promotes insurrection. There Traylor encounters again Captain Benton, the man responsible for his disgrace and his rival for the love of a girl.
Mr. Havens
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
Charlie Turner
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
Dr. Brent
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
Hale
Henry is lured by old pal Hale into a night on the town despite fears that his wife will discover their hijinks.
Herbert Ransome
The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into obtaining enough money to support the welfare of the girl,Rose Wentworth (Sally Blane), and his two cronies. He sends for the girl's former sweetheart, who turns out to be a crook.
Maj. Stephen Winthrop
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
Colonel Gordon Lewis
The film begins with a guy waking up from a bump on the head. The people around him try in vain to convince him that five years have passed and that he's a rich guy. However, none of this makes sense to the character played by Miljan AND none of it makes any sense to the audience...none. After this plot is quickly abandoned, the film begins to get better. It seems that a wife and her business partner are trying to use Miljan as a double for her estranged and missing husband.
Vinton (uncredited)
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.
J.K. Manning
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
Norman Bryan
The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.
Dr. Tillinghast
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.
J.E.Burton - the Attorney
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
Harlan Bledsoe
Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
Santor Putnam
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
Anthony 'Tony' Grattan
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
Monroe
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
Mr. Jackson
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
David Witman
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
Cyrus Randall (Uncredited)
Nasa (Clara Bow) es una mestiza con sangre blanca e india. Rebelde e indomable, no respetará las tradiciones de su padre y huirá con un hombre que no la conviene, quedando embarazada. Como si de una maldición se tratase, la vida de Nasa irá degradándose irremediablemente hacia el vicio, el alcohol y la prostitución.
Rev. Allen
Retrato desolador de la injusticia y el sufrimiento humanos causados por el sistema penal de los Estados Unidos vigente tras la I Guerra Mundial.
Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Tras muchos años sin verse, tres amigas de la infancia, Maria, Vivian y Ruth, vuelven a encontrase y se ponen al día sobre los cambios de sus respectivas vidas. Vivian decide entonces invitar a sus amigas y a sus parejas a un crucero con el fin de conocerse mejor.
John Belde
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Bill Woodman (uncredited)
El conde Zaroff es un loco millonario que vive en una isla solitaria y se dedica a cazar a los náufragos como si fueran animales.
Blake
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
Dr. Cramm
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Mr. Gordon Mitchell
Una mujer de la alta sociedad ha de testificar en un hijo por asesinato cuyo fiscal es su pretendiente.
Bruce Hardy
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
George Diamond
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Tony Carleton
Billy Flynn es un excampeón de boxeo que trabaja como domador de caballos. Gana lo justo para criar a su hijo TJ, que está bajo su custodia desde que su mujer Annie los dejó. Para intentar ofrecerle un mejor futuro, Billy prepara su vuelta al cuadrilátero.
John
Un marine estadounidense atormentado por la culpa regresa a Cuba para localizar a su hijo ilegítimo.
Mike Kelly
Una mujer joven huye de una vida insoportable en casa y de un matrimonio concertado con un hombre al que desprecia. Buscará la felicidad con un guapo ingeniero.
Charles Harper
Wallungford es un estafador, especialista en engañar a tontainas. Cuenta con dos cómplices. Su nuevo objetivo es una fábrica de cerámica de un pequeño pueblo. Cuando ha recibido dinero de diversos inversores, se enamora de Dorothy y decide regenerarse.
Phillip Montrose
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.
Lyman Patterson
Una mujer le exige a su esposo que olvide a su antigua amante, quien ha regresado y se entromete ahora en su felicidad.
Stapleton
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
Mellenger
El romance de un joven abogado se resiente cuando es nombrado tutor de una belleza en los Mares del Sur.
Andrew
Lisbeth es una mujer moderna que piensa que el matrimonio está pasado de moda. Ella tiene dos hombres en su vida, Steve, que quiere casarse con ella y Alan, que quiere que viaje con él. A pesar de todas las advertencias de sus amigos y familiares, Lisbeth va a México con Alan, donde ella es feliz hasta que descubre que él tiene una esposa en París...
Mr. Stanlaw
John Paul Bart plancha pantalones en una tintorería, pero sueña con llegar muy alto. Una noche toma prestada ropa de caballero y se cuela en una fiesta de la alta sociedad. Conoce a un millonario, y pronto asciende hasta la cumbre de la empresa...
Martin Kent
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
Selby
Cuando la desgracia golpea duramente a la familia Jordan, de la clase alta de Chicago, Bonnie Jordan, una chica deslumbrante e ingeniosa, encuentra trabajo como aspirante a reportera; sin embargo, Rodney, su ingenuo hermano menor, toma un otro camino y se relaciona con gente poco recomendable.
Major LeBaudy
Un estadounidense se alista en la Legión Extranjera Francesa, con el fin de rescatar a un amigo de la infancia.
District Attorney Demarest
Mary Turner es condenada a tres años por un delito que no cometió. En prisión hace amistad con dos reclusas. Enfurecida por su injusta situación, planea vengarse del fiscal del distrito que la puso entre rejas.
Writer
After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the organization.
Judge Samuel Filson
Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with the Fullerton's handsome young son. But he leaves her with child, and when she attempts to gain recognition for her child, the Fullerton family treats her as a blackmailer. But a surprise awaits them all.
Franklin Graham
When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)
Mark
Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the well-being of Tom Blake, the honest son of crooked political boss Jim Blake.
Beverly Greenway
Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
Tom Buchanan
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
Dr. McCoy
Tin Gods is a lost 1926 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play Tin Gods by William Anthony McGuire. Allan Dwan directed and Thomas Meighan starred.
Leon Krum
A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
James Morgan
A manicurist in the beauty shop of a large metropolitan hotel, is engaged to Antonio Luca an electrician. However she a meets James Morgan a wealthy guest who wants to go out with her, but she declines so he sends her ten dollars for theater tickets.
Rufus Kayne
Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a wealthy financier, and his wife and three daughters muddle through their New York high society life.
Theatre Play
Two inmates and a cleaning girl at a home for struggling artists achieve success and fame when they pool their talents and produce a smash hit Broadway musical. Edgar ( Monte Blue ), the playwright, is in love with April ( Madge Kennedy ), the ex- leading lady, but she doesn't discover that she loves him until it's almost too late.
Nelson Drake / J. Barrington Drake
Twins Nelson and J. Barrington Drake return home for the celebration of their parents' 50th wedding anniversary. Barrington is a wealthy oilman, but Nelson is a pastor in a small rural church, who is struggling to increase his ever-shrinking flock, Barrington tells him that his problem could be solved with the right type of salesmanship, and proceeds to map out a plan to do just that. However, a case of mistaken identity--and a scheme by two of the church's deacons to take over all of the church property--throws a wrench into his plans.
Story
Twins Nelson and J. Barrington Drake return home for the celebration of their parents' 50th wedding anniversary. Barrington is a wealthy oilman, but Nelson is a pastor in a small rural church, who is struggling to increase his ever-shrinking flock, Barrington tells him that his problem could be solved with the right type of salesmanship, and proceeds to map out a plan to do just that. However, a case of mistaken identity--and a scheme by two of the church's deacons to take over all of the church property--throws a wrench into his plans.
Jimmy Baxter
Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions company, notices a pretty girl smiling at him in the station. Since her train soon leaves, all Jimmy learns about her is information on her luggage: her initials and destination, the Central American republic Santo Dinero.
A Matinee Idol
A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.
