Garrett Fort

Adaptación de la obra teatral de Garrett Fort y Reginald Denham que en 1941 había dado pie a "El misterio de Fiske Manor". En esta ocasión se remozó la tradicional estructura del melodrama gótico, sustituyendo la gradación de su atmósfera por una serie de golpes de efecto que acaban resultando algo gratuitos.

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.

James Cagney interpreta a Nick Condon, un reportero americano que trabaja en el Tokyo Chronical durante los años treinta, y quien muestra abiertamente su oppsición a la clara ínea política expansionista del gobierno imperialista japonés. Nick descubrirá un plan secreto para propiciar la conquista del mundo por parte de los japoneses, trama que revelará mediante un artículo de su periódico. Las autoridades japonesas exigirán la retirada de la calle del medio impreso y acosarán a Nick para conocer hasta dónde está enterado de los planes imperialistas. Pronto descubrirá que su confidente y amigo ha sido asesinado cuando intentaba salir del país con su mujer.

A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.

Después de la invasión de las islas Filipinas por tropas japonesas, los Estados Unidos intentan recuperarlas. Trece soldados defienden con sus vidas una posición estratégica en la península de Bataan, último baluarte de la resistencia norteamericana frente a Japón.

In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a lot of mysterious happenings.

Jenny Blake (Joan Blondell) es la joven propietaria de un barco casino del Mississippi. Jack Morgan (John Wayne) es un jugador fascinado por ella hasta el punto de enamorarse. Al llegar el carnaval, Jack se las ingenia para que Jenny sea escogida la Reina anual, lo que ella aprovecha para introducirse en la alta sociedad de Memphis. Pronto surge la oportunidad de contraer matrimonio con un hombre rico y Jenny la aprovecha, pero la familia de alta sociedad no la acepta y deciden humillarla. Jack, que nunca había dejado de amar a Jenny, correrá a salvarla de un mundo que Jenny ya no desea conocer.

Paul es un joven que vive encerrado desde su niñez en una habitación de la mansión familiar. Está trastornado a causa de su encierro, provocado por su perverso padre. Cuando era niño, intentó defender a su madre y éste le atacó de tal manera que casi lo mata. Desde entonces, optó por dejarlo encerrado y hacer creer a todo el mundo que el chico había muerto. Ahora han pasado más de 20 años y el viejo acaba de morir... Un hombre mentalmente inestable, que ha estado aislado durante años, escapa y causa problemas a su hermano gemelo idéntico.

El ama de llaves de una actriz jubilada intenta compaginar su trabajo con el cuidado de sus dos hermanas enfermas.

Cuando Don Diego Vega regresa a su hogar, descubre que su padre, el alcalde del pueblo de Los Angeles, ha sido destituido por el capitán Esteban Pasquale. Ocultando su identidad bajo una máscara, se convierte en el abanderado de la justicia social; e intentará que Don Luis Quintero abandone el puesto usurpado. Obra maestra que narra las aventuras de El Zorro, el famoso espadachín. Tyrone Power tenía el difícil reto de hacer olvidar a Fairbanks, pero la acertada decisión de acentuar el lado romántico del personaje -en contraposición a su faceta atlética- ayudó a conseguir una versión a la altura de sus predecesoras.

A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.

An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Un preso condenado injustamente se escapa del penal de la Isla del Diablo. Para evitar ser descubierto, se disfraza de anciana y lleva consigo una extraña pócima que tiene el poder de reducir el tamaño y la inteligencia de los seres humanos. A continuación, se esconde en un laboratorio para planear su venganza contra los que lo enviaron a prisión.

Por vez primera cambia el sexo del vampiro en la historia del cine. La condesa Marya Zaleska, miembro de la elite londinense, no es más que la hija del famoso aristócrata transilvano; lo cual nos es revelado a mitad del (breve) metraje, aunque sus afición al esoterismo y la brujería -y, por supuesto, el título- nos hacían sospechar ya dicha filiación.

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

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)

Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un grupo de soldados británicos se encuentra perdido en medio del desierto de Mesopotamia. Su comandante, que era el único que conocía el destino de la misión, resulta asesinado por un disparo de unos bandidos.

Un delincuente (Frank Reicher) revela el escondite de un fabuloso botín de un millón de dólares. Su médico personal (Warner Oland) sueña con apoderarse de él, pero debe competir con un detective privado (Stuart Erwin) y una mentalista (Dorothy Wilson). (FILMAFFINITY)

College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.

Una bibliotecaria tímida e ingenua de Nueva York debe volverse más fuerte y más sabia después de descubrir que su nuevo esposo es un mentiroso, un tramposo y un fraude.

An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.

El doctor Henry Von Frankenstein acomete un experimento tenebroso: construir, a partir de fragmentos de cadáveres, un nuevo ser humano. Con la ayuda de su criado Fritz, se adentra durante la noche en los cementerios de la localidad para arrancar a los cadáveres las partes que necesita. Lo que ignora es que el cerebro que ha utilizado en su experimento había pertenecido a un criminal.

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.

Aburrida con la vida que lleva en una plantación de caucho en las Indias orientales, Leslie Crosbie busca en Geoffrey Hammond el amor y la diversión que no encuentra en su marido. Sin embargo, Geoffrey se enamora de una mujer china y Leslie dispara sobre él, matándole.

A soldier is wounded in action. His face is restored by a plastic surgeon to resemble someone else.

Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins' territory. Fingers' moll Connie tries to bluff Cobra into thinking the hit won't be for another week when the call comes through saying it's now.

Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.

A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.

This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom's footsteps.

Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.

Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier who bought the shop for her.

A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.

A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.

Pierre, the maitre d' at the swanky Ritz Hotel in Paris, discovers that he has a son from his former marriage, which was broken up by his wealthy wife's upper-class relatives. His son, now a young man and unaware that Pierre is is father, is in danger of becoming the victim of blackmailer Mae Morin. Pierre sets out to save him from the notorious Mae.

A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.

A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.

Directed by Frank R. Strayer. With Helene Chadwick, Harry Myers, Midget Gustav, Edith Murgatroyd.

The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who's married her for her money. After he returns from service in World War I, he finds his mother, now broke and abandoned by her gigolo husband....

A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she's traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don't share her boyfriend's attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known.

A corrupt art patron finds himself in love with the same girl as his stepson.

Rich club-man Kirk Rainsford, attends a charity bazaar at the home of Marjorie Vail, the society girl he hopes to marry. A fire breaks out among the booths and everyone is pulled to safety except little Peggy, Marjorie's kid sister. Marjorie pleads with Kirk to save the child, but he lacks the courage, and Randolph Sherman, Kirk's rival for Marjorie's affections, plays the hero part. For Kirk's public display of cowardice, he is disowned by his father and rejected by Marjorie, who soon marries Sherman. Kirk drifts to the South Seas, eventually landing in Manila, where he becomes a derelict. When Lillie, a fellow drifter, is roughly handled in a bar, Kirk goes to her assistance; she expresses appreciation for his bravery and soon effects his regeneration through her faith in him. Kirk and Lillie journey to the interior, and they obtain work on a plantation recently purchased by Randolph Sherman. During a native uprising, Sherman is killed, and Kirk saves Marjorie from certain death.

Richard Talmadge as a man who loves to live the fast life which often results in him getting in trouble. Be it throwing wild parties, losing money, getting in the boxing ring and running from gangsters. There's always something.

A scientist attempts to transplant a gorilla's brain into a man.

Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she falls in love with Armitage's handsome nephew Peter (Cullen Landis), Fanchon is in quite a quandary.