J.L. Cameron - Managing Editor (archive footage)
The stooges are would-be reporters, who are tricked into becoming stowaways by "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that Borscht has concealed some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm.
J.L. Cameron
The stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to become reporters and go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The crooks want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
Mayor Ace Brockway
This time the Durango Kid confronts an expert gambler.
Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Walter Mitty, es un escritor soñador con una madre sobreprotectora, al que le gusta imaginar que es un héroe que vive fantásticas aventuras. Su sueño se convierte en realidad cuando conoce accidentalmente a una misteriosa mujer que le entrega un pequeño libro negro. Según ella, contiene las ubicaciones de las joyas de la corona holandesa, ocultas desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pronto, Mitty se encuentra en medio de una conspiración, donde tendrá dificultades para diferenciar entre la realidad y la ficción.
Harry's Boss
Harry, who is known as a practical joker, finds himself being chased by a headhunter, and doesn't know if it's a joke or not.
Charlie (uncredited)
Es la vigilia de Navidad en Bedford falls, NY, y George Bailey está planeando suicidarse. Pero un ángel es enviado para detenerle en su intento. Él le enseñará a George las cosas maravillosas de su juventud, cómo salvó la vida de su hermano y la de otros que, gracias a haber conocido a George, son felices. Así, nuestro amigo descubrirá que... ¡La vida es realmente un tesoro maravilloso que debemos disfrutar!
Chief of Police Will Gentry (as Charles Wilson)
Hugh Beaumont stars as detective "Michael Shayne" in this 1946 B-film.
Chief Gentry (as Charles Wilson)
In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.
Police Sergeant
An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
Watchman (uncredited)
Christopher Cross es un simple cajero infelizmente casado, pero tiene un raro talento para la pintura. En cierta ocasión, conoce a una aventurera de la que se enamora y le hace creer que es un pintor de éxito. La chica y su novio, un individuo sin escrúpulos, aprovechan la ocasión para explotar al pobre hombre, que llegará incluso a cometer un desfalco en su empresa para que ella siga creyendo que es un artista de éxito.
Official Policeman (uncredited)
Duke y Chester son dos actores de tercera fila que huyendo de un apuro se embarcan rumbo a Alaska. En el mismo barco viajan dos asesinos, Sperry y McGurk, que tienen en su poder un mapa con la ubicación concreta de una mina que esconde gran cantidad de oro. La casualidad hace que el mapa vaya a parar a manos de los dos actores que aprovechan la ocasión para abandonar el barco adoptando la identidad de los asesinos.
Hi Johns
Un famoso corresponsal de guerra se introduce en la habitación de una estrella de cine; un soldado se enamora de una joven taquígrafa a la caza de un hombre rico; un estafador quiere hacer negocio con un jeque millonario; un periodista busca una exclusiva; un director de orquesta pierde a su cantante principal... Nada más normal un fin de semana en el más prestigioso de los hoteles de Nueva York, el Waldorf Astoria.
Chief of Police (uncredited)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.
Mac Ellis (Uncredited)
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
District Attorney Hyatt
Un detective privado y su secretaria investigan un crimen y se encuentran con una espía internacional.
Sam Jonas
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
Mr. Hawkins
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.
Captain Arnold
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
Gurney (uncredited)
Biografía del campeón de boxeo James J. Corbett. Conocido como 'Gentleman Jim', Corbett se convirtió en el primer campeón del mundo de los pesos pesados en 1892, cuando derrotó a John L. Sullivan, tras la entrada en vigor de las llamadas reglas de Queensberry, que exigían la utilización de unos guantes hinchados para proteger los nudillos, un cuadrilátero con unas medidas determinadas y establecían la duración del combate... En Estados Unidos obtuvo excelentes críticas.
Desk Sgt. Cullen
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
C.L. Reardon - Managing Editor (as Charles Wilson)
An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.
Police Captain
Un matón llamado Raven (Cuervo en inglés) es contratado para que cometa un asesinato. Sin embargo, pronto se da cuenta de que su vida está en peligro, ya que alguien pretende tenderle una trampa.
Detective
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
Susan Miller trabaja detrás del mostrador en unos grandes almacenes, y sueña con ropa bonita y el glamour que nunca puede aspirar a tener. Cuando un par de timadores que estafan a millonarios convence a Susan de que puede cumplir todos sus sueños, el trío se dirige a Palm Beach. Susan conoce a John, que dice que está buscando comprar un velero. Creen que él es millonario, los estafadores tratan de venderle un barco que no es suyo, y se apropian de sus ahorros. Hay una petición de boda y la trama se complica.
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
Police Sergeant
Number 10 in the Blondie series, Blondie Goes to College is predicated on the notion that Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie (Penny Singleton) enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth (Janet Blair) begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant (Larry Parks) does same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too. The student body at this particular seat of learning is comprised of quite a few familiar faces, including Lloyd Bridges, Sid Melton, and Adele Mara.
Police Captain Hart
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
Newspaper Editor
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitchell) y Olaf Johnson (John Qualen) son dos pescadores a los que el gángster Harold Goff (John Garfield) extorsiona, exigiéndoles dinero a cambio de la protección de su barco. Temerosos de ir a la policía, deciden encargarse personalmente del asunto, tras descubrir que Goff se ha enamorado de la hermosa hija de Jonah (Ida Lupino).
Detective (as Charles Wilson)
Un director de cine quiere que estrella se lleve un bebé en un viaje en tren, con el fin de conseguir publicidad. Ya en el tren, la actriz se encuentra con un joven médico al que conoció en el colegio, y del que sigue enamorada. Pero la presencia del bebé causará todo tipo de problemas y malentendidos...
Bruce Lane
A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash.
Charlie Dawson
Cuando un magnate compra un periódico y despide a casi todo el personal, una intrépida periodista decide publicar en su último artículo una falsa e incendiaria carta que lleva la firma de Juan Nadie. En ella se anuncia el suicidio de uno de los empleados despedidos. El éxito del artículo es tal que el periódico decide crear un Juan Nadie y, con este fin, contrata a un vagabundo que acaba convirtiéndose en un personaje extraordinariamente popular.
Chief O'Brien
Janos Szabo, un oscuro inmigrante húngaro usa una máscara porque su rostro ha quedado desfigurado por terribles quemaduras. En tal circunstancia, le resulta imposible conseguir un trabajo. Solo y desamparado, poco a poco se irá hundiendo en el mundo del hampa, del cual únicamente lo podrá sacar el amor que siente por una joven ciega.
Owen
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
George Martin (uncredited)
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Gambler (uncredited)
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Bill - Man Behind MacPherson at Fight (uncredited)
Nueva York. Un camionero (James Cagney) decide hacerse boxeador para ayudar a su hermano que se dedica a la música (Arthur Kennedy), pero a un gángster sin escrúpulos no le gustará la idea.
Sergeant
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Mike Williams (uncredited)
Joe y Paul Fabrini son dos hermanos que tratan de abrirse camino por su cuenta como camioneros. Tras unos duros comienzos, las cosas comienzan a ir bien, pero la ambición de Joe y la aparición de una mujer obsesionada con él hará que todo se complique.
R.J. Reynolds, Sunday Editor (uncredited)
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
Vincent Brady, Commissioner of Police
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Sergeant
Mary and Joe Phillips' (Nan Grey and Tom Brown) attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
Warden
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
Arresting Officer (uncredited)
Cliff Taylor es un exconvicto que intenta llevar una vida normal, pero desde que salió de la cárcel en libertad condicional, su pasado criminal le impide encontrar y mantener un cualquier trabajo. Sin embargo, lo peor es que Tim, su hermano menor, siguiendo sus pasos, se une a la banda de Charles Martin
Det. Kincaid
Una actriz teatral es asesinada, por lo que un reportero da de inmediato la primicia en su periódico; sin embargo, al día siguiente aparece aquella con vida para desmentirlo todo. El extraño hecho despierta la curiosidad del citado periodista que, junto con un joven médico, se pone a investigar, descubriendo que uno de los implicados es el reputado Dr. Flegg, cuyo asistente es el extraño y frío Doctor X...
Policeman (uncredited)
Estados Unidos, Ley Seca, años 20. Relato sobre los diferentes caminos que siguen tres veteranos que se conocen durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Cuando regresan a América tras luchar por su país, tropiezan con el problema del desempleo y con grandes difícultades económicas. Uno de ellos (Lynn) seguirá con decisión el buen camino; otro (Cagney), amargado por la falta de futuro, no encuentra más salida que el contrabando ilegal de licor; el tercero (Bogart) se convierte en un implacable gángster.
Capt. Kilrane
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Managing Editor
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
Albert
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
Coach Hap Farrell
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
Police Chief
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Mike Cavanaugh
En Nueva York durante los años 20, una cantante lucha por apartar a su novio de los problemas...
Spencer Bogart
A prize-winning stallion breeds off-guard with a mare owned by his rival. The colt is trained to race from birth, eventually running in the Kentucky Derby against another horse owned by its sire.
Chase
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
Lonigan
Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in order to retrieve the iron lung Bobby needs. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Lonigan searches for reporter Slim Torrence, because Slim is friends with Tom Niles, the customs officer on the verge of cracking a whiskey smuggling case. Lonigan is about to send another reporter to cover the story when Della Parrish, the publisher's daughter, assures him that she can locate Slim. With the help of Slim's young photographer, Willie Sing, Della finds Slim in a waterfront dive, and Willie and Slim sneak aboard the Pacific Queen to find Niles. Niles hints that McCormick is the head of the smuggling ring and promises Slim an exclusive when he breaks the story the next day.
Coach Burke
Un político que se presenta a gobernador ayuda a una universidad a conseguir la victoria de su equipo de fútbol americano.
Commissioner
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
Inspector
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Inspector Jim C. Gregg
A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.
Reardon
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Becker
A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.
Captain Halstead
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
Covered Wagon Cafe Manager
Las manicuras Sally, Irene y Mary ansían triunfar en Broadway. Cuando Mary hereda un viejo transbordador, lo convierten en un club de éxito.
Mortimer Gray
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Inspector Simpson
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
Tom Burke
Cuando un estudiante indio adinerado dota a la universidad para que puedan mantener al entrenador de fútbol, se rumorea que el indio ha jugado profesionalmente y no puede estar en el equipo.
Horse Auctioneer (uncredited)
Steve Raleight (Robert Taylor) quiere producir un "show" en Broadway y, aunque ya tiene al promotor, Herman Whipple, y a la estrella, la joven Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell), no le dejan realizar su sueño. Caroline Whipple (Binnie Barnes) quiere utilizar para el espectáculo a una estrella conocida, y no a una cualquiera. Por otro lado, Sally compra un caballo con la intención de participar en una carrera para obtener fondos con los que promocionar el show...
Fletcher
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
Sam Garvin
Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
Hamilton Burger
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
Police Capt. Wallace (uncredited)
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
Police Chief
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Policeman Chiding School Bus Driver (uncredited)
El oficial O'Malley detiene a John Phillips por una infracción de tráfico, perdiendo así la posibilidad de conseguir un buen trabajo. Dado que Phillips tiene una esposa y una hija lisiada, decide cometer un robo desesperado...
Clark
Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors. She even likes his pigeon, who travels everywhere with him.
Police Inspector (uncredited)
Un delincuente de poca monta (Henry Fonda), condenado ya tres veces, es acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido. Aunque consigue escapar de la cárcel, la fatalidad le impide seguir el camino recto, a pesar de contar con el apoyo de una mujer que le ama.
Editor Herbert Claxton
Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper reporter and his female rival determine that it is genuine but subsequently learn it has been stolen by a gang of art thieves who plan to kill the spinster to prevent her from later identifying it.
Detective
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.
Colonel McCollum (as Charles Wilson)
Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and 'Slim" Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, during their investigation, run across a hooded organization that is terrorizing an American city. They also meet Don Foster, who is loud in his condemnation of the terrorists, and his sister, Nancy, who fears for her brother's life.
Murphy
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
Tex Reardon
Un jinete trata de superar la fama de su padre, que una vez tuvo una carrera.
Diamond Jim Brady
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
Warden
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.
City Editor
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and put behind bars.
F.B.I. Chief
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
H.J. Russell
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
Detective Pollock
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Pitkins
Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for five-hundred dollars, and selling half of it to a detective for two-hundred dollars, Bob Harvey sets off with his new partner to find the buried treasure of San Capello---with very strange consequences.
Chief Inspector Fitzgerald
A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.
County Hospital Guard (uncredited)
Un ingenuo joven de provincias (Gary Cooper) va a Nueva York para hacerse cargo de una herencia de veinte millones de dólares. Allí se enamora de una chica encantadora (Jean Arthur), sin saber que es la periodista que lo ridiculiza en sus artículos.
Prosecuting Attorney (Uncredited)
Danny Barr (Cary Grant) es un oficial de policía que está investigando el robo de unas joyas y el asesinato de un bebé. Su novia Eva Fallon (Joan Bennett), que es manicura, consigue un trabajo como reportera para ayudar a Danny a encontrar a los ladrones de joyas.
George the Boat Captain (uncredited)
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Hardie
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Mike - a Racketeer
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.
Editor of The Daily Star
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Clifford
Cuando Hudson y Norris entran a una casa de campo para resguardarse de la lluvia, resulta ser un escondite de secuestradores.
G-Man at dancehall
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
Decker - Theatre Manager (uncredited)
Una actriz de cierta edad reconoce al fin la verdad cuando la sustituyen por una corista.
Police Officer Ricker
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
Jim McFee aka Mac
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
First Detective
1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.
Chief of Police
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
District Attorney Edward J. Farr
Cuando Paul Madvig, un político de éxito que lucha contra sus rivales para apoderarse de la ciudad, se ve implicado en un asesinato, Ed Beaumont, su amigo y mano derecha, debe decidir de qué lado está.
Police Captain Jennings
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Commander Brown (Uncredited)
La Secretaria de la Armada informa al capitán Winslow de que va a recibir un nuevo mecanismo de control que revolucionará la guerra en el mar. Pero el mecanismo no tarda en desaparecer...
Newspaper editor
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
City Editor
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.
Taft
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
District Attorney
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.
Trooper Captain Ryan
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
Anthony Wilson
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
Managing Editor
Al coger el mismo tren todas las mañanas, Marilyn y el periodista Peter Dawes han entablado una buena y larga amistad. Cuando la chica decide dar calabazas a un acaudalado caballero británico, Peter lo convierte en noticia, poniendo de relieve la integridad moral de su amiga que no se ha dejado seducir por la fortuna del pretendiente. Así, Marilyn se convierte en una celebridad que, desde entonces, eso conocida como "La chica del No". En cualquier caso, llega un momento en que tendrá que decidir a quién ama realmente.
Captain Dodge (uncredited)
Un cantante rico y famoso se disfraza de camarero con el fin de estar cerca de la mujer a la que ama, una princesa europea.
Lackey
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
Benson
"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Davis, head of a ring of jewel thieves. His suspicions are confirmed when Mary warns him that Davis is outside - waiting for him. Kelly sets a trap and, in the ensuing battle, one of the gangsters is killed. Davis is interested in rubbing out Kelly as Kelly and Baker are the only two witnesses against Smitty, a Davis henchman. Baker is in the hospital and the plan is bring Smitty there for identification. Kelly accidentally slips the secret to Mary, who in turn innocently informs Packey. A trap is laid.
Mr. Harris - the Trucking Company Boss
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
Warden
A gangster's girlfriend on the run from the police, who suspect her of helping her boyfriend commit a robbery, holes up in a waterfront bar. She stows away on a fishing boat headed out to sea, and winds up falling in love with and marrying one of the fishermen, but doesn't tell him about her past. However, a year after they're married and have a child, her ex-boyfriend gets out of jail and comes looking for her.
Attorney
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
Furniture Buyer (uncredited)
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
Det. Hennessey
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
Joel Walker
Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson.
Sheldon
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Graham
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
Detective Sergeant O'Hagen
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Inspector Quillan
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
Joe Gordon
Peter Warren, es un periodista desempleado que se topa con Ellie, la hija de un millonario que huyó del barco de Alexander Andrews, su padre, porque no acepta al hombre con el que ella se quiere casar. Peter ve la oportunidad de conseguir una buena historia, pero varios hechos acaban por crear un vínculo entre ellos.
Burke (Uncredited)
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
Detective (Uncredited)
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Chief of Police
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Mr. Timberg
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Charles Hauser
Gore, un antiguo entrenador de éxito, pero de cáracter despiadado y cínico, dejará de lado incluso a su mujer en su afán por convertir al Calvert College en una potencia del fútbol.
Private Detective Falihee (Uncredited)
Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton) administra una empresa de automóviles y mantiene una buena relación con sus empleados, en especial con los hombres, con los que suele tener fugaces relaciones sexuales. Un día, llega a su empresa el ingeniero Jim Thorne, un hombre independiente por el que se siente atraída.
Detective Hennessy (uncredited)
Archer Coe es hallado muerto en su inaccesible dormitorio. Todo parece indicar que se trata de un suicidio, pero el inspector Philo, que piensa que ha sido un asesinato, considera que el principal sospechoso es el hermano de Archer.
Red Moran, City Desk Editor
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
Walter Rising
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Thompson, Assistant District Attorney
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.
Wilson (uncredited)
A Patsy Gargan, un antiguo criminal, sus corruptos compinches políticos le pagan sus servicios nombrándolo inspector de un reformatorio. Al principio no muestra ningún interés por la escuela, pero la simpatía que siente por los niños que son víctimas de abusos y maltrato por parte del despiadado director y sus matones, lo empuja a aceptar el trabajo.
Club Bartender (Uncredited)
Tras ser deportado de Francia donde fue capturado con la tenencia de secretos de Estado, el detective privado Donald Free (William Powell), se encuentra sin empleo y tras buscar infructuosamente donde ubicarse, termina asociado a Dan J. Hogan quien montará una gran agencia asociado con el dueño de un casino. Todo andará bien hasta que Hogan se presta para enredar a una muchacha (Margaret Lindsay) a quien el casino adeuda una gruesa suma y no quiere pagarle. En Free surgirán los escrúpulos cuando conoce a la hermosa chica.
Jailer (uncredited)
James Cagney interpreta a un agente de prensa que se convierte en promotor de un maratón de baile.
Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any truth to the rumor that college football star Babe Booth is secretly married. To get her story, she goes to the stadium where Booth is playing and gets involved in the game, with unexpected results.
Detective
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.
Doctor (uncredited)
Eddie Cantor does a Vaudeville doctor routine.
Motorcycle Cop
Eddie Cantor tries to fix a speeding ticket.
Nelson
A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
Jack
Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.
Director
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put on his own show in a theater and show his father that he can be a success, but things don't work out quite as well as he planned.
