Mae Clarke

Documentary on the life and career of James Cagney

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Jeff Gerber, a racist insurance agent and fitness freak, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself, when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him.

Millie (Julie Andrews) es una inocente chica que se traslada del campo a la ciudad en busca de marido. Pronto se convierte en la secretaria del rico y famoso Trevor Graydon, traba amistad con la dulce señorita Dorothy, se enfrenta a la tiranía de la señora Meers y se complica la vida con Jimmy, un joven vendedor de periódicos.

De camino a una pequeña granja de Texas, Meredith (Henry Fonda), Mary (Joanne Woodward) y su hijo de diez años, se quedan a descansar en un hotel de Laredo. Jugadores de todo el mundo, incluyendo al multimillonario Henry Drummond (Jason Robards, Jr.), se reúnen allí para participar en la partida de póker más importante del Oeste. Meredith, aficionado al juego, a pesar de las recomendaciones de su esposa, cae en la tentación y pierde todos los ahorros familiares. De repente, sufre un ataque cardíaco y, entonces, Mary se ve obligada a terminar la mano con el resto de los hombres. ¡Están en juego 20.000 dólares!

Meg Wheeler llega a Manhattan en busca de empleo y de un buen marido. Encuentra trabajo en una empresa, de cuyo joven ejecutivo, Ross Taford, tiene que huir al tratarse de un empedernido acosador de jovencitas.

Jim Burton, chronic alcoholic, is cared for by Ellen, his incredibly patient, sexy, hard-working wife. A doctor's warning that Jim could become mentally ill strikes enough fear into him that he really wants to cure himself...but can't. One night, he meets William Tobin, a fellow drunk, and finds that he helps himself by trying to help Tobin. Thus is born, amid setbacks, a group resembling Alcoholics Anonymous.

A recent war veteran accepts a job in public relations, but he becomes increasingly unhappy with his career choice. Originally filmed for TV but released theatrically.

In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.

Jane Hurley (Debbie Reynolds) anuncia a sus padres (Bette Davis y Ernest Borgnine) su próxima boda con Ralph (Rod Taylor) y su deseo de que a la ceremonia asistan sólo los más íntimos. Sin embargo, y a pesar de los escasos recursos económicos de la familia, la señora Hurley intentará por todos los medios darle a su hija la boda que se merece. (FILMAFFINITY)

Hasta las llanuras del medio oeste de los Estados Unidos llega un tipo ambicioso y sin escrúpulos. Ha hecho un largo viaje con el objetivo de recuperar unas tierras que, según él, pertenecieron a sus antepasados antes que a los indios. Para conseguir recuperarlas sólo tienen que lograr que los colonos, los soldados y los indígenas se enfrenten entre sí... (FILMAFFINITY)

Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.

A boy on the wrong path finds a trusted mentor and group of friends to guide back on his way.

Fresh from "business college" a young man learns a little about relationships and a lot about "S & H Green Stamps."

Remake del film "High Sierra" de Raoul Walsh. Un hombre que acaba de salir de la cárcel planea un gran golpe que le permitiría retirarse para siempre del mundo de la delincuencia. Sin embargo, no había contado con ciertas circunstancias que dificultarán su proyecto.

Wyatt Earp, antiguo cazador de búfalos y aventurero, llega a Wichita (Kansas), un pueblo ganadero en el que impera la ley del más fuerte. Su habilidad con el revólver le convierte en el candidato perfecto para el puesto de sheriff, pero rechaza el empleo. Sin embargo, las circunstancias hacen que se sienta moralmente obligado a imponer la ley y el orden en la caótica ciudad. (FILMAFFINITY)

Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum), un estudiante de medicina ambicioso y sin recursos, se casa con Kristina Hedvigson para poder costearse los estudios. Ella lo ama, pero él sólo ama su trabajo. Emocionalmente es una persona cerrada, incapaz de abrirse a los demás, ni siquiera a su mejor amigo (Frank Sinatra) o a su alcohólico padre (Lon Chaney Jr.).

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

Bob Merrick, un joven multimillonario, egoísta y engreído, sufre un accidente mientras conduce una lancha motora. En el hospital le aplican provisionalmente el pulmón artificial del doctor Phillips, pero desgraciadamente éste sufre un ataque repentino y muere. Su viuda Helen descubre entonces que está completamente arruinada, a pesar de que los honorarios que percibía su marido eran muy elevados. La razón es que él, sin que ella lo supiera, repartía el dinero, de manera anónima y altruista, entre los necesitados. A partir de ese momento, una serie de extrañas circunstancias mantendrán unidos a Helen y Bob, a pesar de tener caracteres muy distintos.

El protagonismo de la cinta recae en la ya veterana (aunque solo tenía 39 años) Loretta Young, que encarna a Christine, la mujer de un mafioso que va a parar a prisión por proteger a su marido. En la cárcel encuentra la ayuda de un médico psiquiatra y consigue aprender el oficio de enfermera. Así que cuando sale en libertad logra trabajo en un hospital y, además, se enamora de un joven médico. Pero su pasado le perseguirá inexorablemente.

An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.

Finalizada la Guerra de la Secesión (1861-1865), dos hermanos vuelven al rancho de su padre. El más joven regresa dispuesto a reanudar su trabajo como vaquero al lado de su padre (Rock Hudson); en cambio, el mayor (Robert Ryan) se ha convertido en un hombre sin escrúpulos, cruel y ambicioso, que aspira a enriquecerse utilizando todos los medios a su alcance. Los hermanos siguen, pues, caminos muy distintos, pero el destino hará que, finalmente, tengan que enfrentarse.

Tres señoritas se inscriben en una especie de entrenamiento en una base naval. Sin embargo, su mayor problema no son las largas marchas o varias semanas en un barco pequeño, sino su vida amorosa.

Antes de conocer a la aspirante a actriz Cathy Seldon, el ídolo del cine mudo Don Lockwood pensaba que lo tenía todo; fama, fortuna y éxito. Pero, tras conocerla, se da cuenta de que ella es lo que realmente faltaba en su vida. Con el nacimiento del cine sonoro, Don quiere filmar los musicales con Kathy, pero entre ambos se interpone la reina del cine mudo Lina Lamont.

Dos personas avispadas del mundo del marketing resucitan algunas viejas películas protagonizadas por el vaquero Smoky Callaway y las pasan en la televisión. Las películas son un gran éxito y la estrella está muy solicitada. Desafortunadamente, nadie le puede localizar. Cuando una persona que se parece a él envía una foto suya, el equipo de marketing lo contrata para hacerse pasar por Callaway. Las cosas se complican cuando el verdadero Callaway finalmente aparece.

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

El abogado James Curtayne (Spencer Tracy), que está superando su adicción al alcohol y que se ha retirado del ejercicio de la abogacía, decide volver para defender a John O'Hara (Arthur Shields) de una acusación de asesinato.

Feature version of the 1949 serial, KING OF THE ROCKETMEN: Young member of scientific group uses new rocket-powered flying suit to thwart shadowy saboteur known only as "Dr. Vulcan".

Biografía del famoso tenor italiano Enrico Caruso, que pasó de ser un cantante callejero a obtener un enorme prestigio internacional en el mundo de la ópera.

Fred Astaire y Jane Powell son dos hermanos bailarines que acuden a Londres para actuar en la ceremonia que unirá en matrimonio a la princesa inglesa Elizabeth con Philip. Intentarán, además, encontrar el amor de sus vidas mientras la realeza celebra los fastos de la boda.

A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption.

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

Douglas Morrisen, joven millonario, está convencido de que Ellen, su secretaria, le ama, pero él es un solteror recalcitrante y no le hace caso. Christine duncan, primera figura de un ballet acuático, decide acabar con la incómoda situación en que se encuentra su amiga. Enterada de que Douglas se va de vacaciones al Valle del sol, le sigue con objeto de conquistarlo para Ellen. En el tren consigue conocerle, pero el asunto se complica cuando éste empieza a mostrarse entusiasmado con Christine, quien también ha conocido a Dick Layn, director de una orquesta que actuará en el hotel. Dick también se siente atraído por Christine.

A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.

Basada en una obra de Broadway, cuenta la historia de la risueña Annie Oakley. Ella es una pistolera y acróbata profesional del circo temático de Buffalo Bill, donde su mayor desafío no será dar en el blanco, sino ganar el corazón de un guapo colega. (FILMAFFINITY)

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.

Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King goes from one hair raising rescue to the next in order to keep the newly invented Decimator out of the clutches of Vulcan and his minions.

A police detective (Robert Armstrong) and his wife (Mae Clarke) adopt the wayward son (Gary Gray) of a slain gangster.

Kate Diamond owns the Roaring Falls Trading Post from where she directs her gang's gun-smuggling to the Indians. After she short-changes smuggler Stacey, his men attempt to steal the hidden guns, and attack her foreman Nebraska, but he is saved by Jimmy and "Cannonball" on their way to file a homestead claim at Canyon City. Jimmy renews a long acquaintance with Sheriff Harris and his daughter Jessica. The sheriff is wounded by half-breed Danny when he finds a rifle hidden in the latter's wagon, but Jimmy captures the outlaw, a go-between for Kate and the Indians.Wounded and in bed, Sheriff Harris ask Jimmy not to tell Jessica that she is only adopted and that Nebraska is really her father, although he believes her to be dead.

Terry O'Rourke, an American operating a small airline in Canada, is having a tough time making a go of it; he has to cope with unfavorable weather conditions, a rocky terrain, and a large Americam company determined to buy him out at their low price. In addition, one of his primary employees is working against him. One of his airplanes is transporting a cargo of gold and the pilot arranges for the gold to be stolen. He planned to parachute to safety, letting the airplane be looted when it crashed, but a co-worker cuts his parachute cord and he is killed. O'Rourke, with the air of one of his best pilots, Kay Cameron, sets out to track down the culprits.

Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America.

Una farsa con cierto estilo según la novela de Rosamund Marshall, que bebe directamente de la idea de Pigmalión. Esta vez se traslada la acción al Londres del siglo XVIII, donde unos conspiradores transforman a una chica de la calle (Paulette Goddard, tan divertida y natural como de costumbre) en una gran dama. Traman un plan consistente en casar a la muchacha con un noble de la Corte para sacarle todo el dinero posible.

Johnny Cabot es un ídolo de la canción que se enrola en la Marina pensando en vivir nuevas y emocionantes aventuras en alta mar. Sin embargo, se verá enredado por dos hermanas gemelas teniendo que pasar por cómicas situaciones.

Emily Blair es una acaudalada joven que sufre sordera. El doctor Vance, un hombrede origen muy humilde, está desarrollando un suero para curarla, pero no funciona.

During World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese. The rescue mission takes on even more importance with the arrival of a Japanese general, which signals a major offensive taking place in the area.

Jim Gordon manda una unidad de los famosos Tigres Voladores, el grupo de voluntarios americanos que combatió a los japoneses en China, antes de que los Estados Unidos entraran en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Gordon debe enviar a su grupo de pilotos contra un enemigo muy superior, mientras lidia con las dispares personalidades de sus componentes.

If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.

A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.

Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls.

A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story in Morocco that guns are being smuggled illegally.

The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates throughout the film's short running time). To throw Jimmy off the track, Jo pretends to be a schoolteacher, but by the time the ruse has been revealed, the two leading characters have fallen in love.

Johnny Cave es nombrado inspector de pesos y medidas después de que el antiguo inspector fuese hospitalizado debido a un presunto intento de asesinato. Pronto descubre que hay muchas irregularidades y que están engañando a los compradores. Las medidas agresivas que toma al respecto le hacen objetivo de la mafia.

Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.

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.

The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.

Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.

Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.

Dos reporteros planean casarse, pero la novia se queda esperando en el altar porque su novio se ha infiltrado para exponer la actividad de las pandillas.

Un actor de teatro de reconocido prestigio ve como su hermana, también actriz, cambia totalmente de personalidad cuando se reencuentra ésta con su marido, al que creía muerto.

A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.

A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

Nana (Anna Sten) es una joven que sueña con triunfar en el mundo del espectáculo. Por ese motivo trabaja sin descanso en París. Un día tiene un golpe de fortuna, y un admirador suyo se decide a crear una revista musical donde Nana sea la única estrella. Esto le lanza a la fama, y pronto se ve rodeada de numerosos fans, que están ansiosos por conocerla en persona. Entre sus admiradores están el veterano Gran Duque Alexis, y un joven galán con quien no tarda en iniciar un romance. Pero el hermano mayor de su amante también anda enamorado de Nana, y los celos se cruzan en su camino. El Gran Duque se entera de la relación de Nana con el joven teniente, y destina a éste a un peligroso emplazamiento en Argelia. Nana, desesperada y presionada por el Gran Duque, abandona el espectáculo y se refugia en los brazos del hermano mayor de su antiguo amante. Un tiempo después, éste regresa de Argelia para luchar contra los prusianos.

An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.

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.

Slowly dying of an unspecified illness, wealthy invalid Charles Sellon wants his aide Neil Hamilton to end his suffering. Hamilton won't do it, but villainous lawyer Alan Dinehart, in line to inherit Sellon's millions, is not so charitable. Dinehart kills Sellon, then makes it look as though Hamilton murdered the old guy for his money.

While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.

Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.

A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.

Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.

A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.

A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.

Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.

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.

In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.

A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.

Relato del auge y caída de Tom (James Cagney), un criminal de poca monta que asciende rápidamente gracias a la Ley Seca. Con la colaboración de su mejor amigo y cómplice (Edward Woods) Tom, seducido por el poder y el dinero, se involucra en turbios negocios.

Hildy es un periodista que está a punto de dejar su empleo para irse a Nueva York. Para impedir que se vaya su mejor reportero, el director del periódico le encarga el reportaje de su vida: el caso de un condenado a muerte que ha huido de prisión. Primera adaptación cinematográfica de la obra de teatro de Ben Hecht y Charles MacArthur "The Front Page". La segunda adaptación ("Luna Nueva", 1940) la dirigió Howard Hawks. La tercera ("Primera Plana", 1974) fue obra de Billy Wilder. A Ted Kotcheff corresponde la cuarta versión ("Interferencias", 1988).

Railroad engineer Chuck Long finds the showgirl he's about to marry was the subject of scandal and swears off women. He joins a coast guard unit stationed at a lighthouse, and one day must rescue a drowning girl that turns out to be his old fiancée.

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.

The relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister.

In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies.