Self (archive footage)
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
Shimkey (uncredited)
En la época de la Ley Seca (1920-1933), Dave es un contrabandista de alcohol que está a punto de cerrar un trato importante con un mafioso de Chicago. Como las manzanas de la mendiga Annie siempre le han dado suerte, envía a uno de sus hombres a buscarla para cerrar la operación. Pero Annie está completamente desesperada: su hija, a la que no ve desde hace muchos años, llega de Europa acompañada de su novio y de su suegro, unos aristócratas italianos, y Annie tendrá que convertirse en una gran dama para no defraudarla.
Proprietor (uncredited)
Once amigos, compañeros de armas en la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), planean robar, en una sola noche, cinco de los mayores casinos de Las Vegas. En el año 2001 Steven Soderbergh hizo un remake con un gran reparto: George Clooney, Brad Pitt y Julia Roberts.
New York Bar Gibson Girl Fan (uncredited)
Milford Farsnworth (Bob Hope) es un agente de seguros novato que vende una póliza a T. J. James, descubriendo luego que se trata del famoso Jesse James (Wendell Corey). La beneficiaria de la póliza es la novia de Jesse, Cora Lee Collins (Rhonda Fleming), una famosa bailarina de salón, más conocida como La Duquesa. Milford es enviado al oeste para retirar la póliza y dejar libre de responsabilidad a su compañía. Se une a la banda de James con el objetivo de protegerle, pero Milford empieza a imitar al famoso fuera de la ley. Esto hace pensar a Jesse que si Milford adopta su personalidad, él podrá matarle, quedarse con el seguro de 100.000 dólares y huir con la Duquesa a California.
Toothpick Charlie
Época de la Ley Seca (1920-1933). Joe y Jerry son dos músicos del montón que se ven obligados a huir después de ser testigos de un ajuste de cuentas entre dos bandas rivales. Como no encuentran trabajo y la mafia los persigue, deciden vestirse de mujeres y tocar en una orquesta femenina. Joe para conquistar a Sugar Kane, la cantante del grupo, finge ser un magnate impotente; mientras tanto, Jerry es cortejado por un millonario que quiere casarse con él.
Slim (uncredited)
Dave Hirsh, un escritor sin éxito y veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), después de muchos años regresa a su ciudad natal acompañado de una prostituta. Allí entabla relación con un jugador profesional alcohólico y con una chica de provincias.
Waiter
Mezcla de comedia, historia y fantasía que narra principalmente un ficticio juicio celestial que se lleva a cabo contra la humanidad en el que se enfrentan como defensor el Espíritu del Hombre (Ronald Colman) y como fiscal el mismísimo Diablo (Vincent Price). El juez celestial es Sir Cedric Hardwicke y, a lo largo del filme, se relatan diversos hechos históricos de la Historia pero en tonos de farsa. Por ejemplo: Peter Lorre es Nerón, Groucho Marx es Peter Minuit, quien compró la isla de Manhattan a los indios por una ganga, Harpo Marx es Isaac Newton y Dennis Hopper es nada menos que Napoleón Bonaparte.
Pino
Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.
A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.
Barfly Dan
A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.
Mr. Trosk
Jungle natives are treated by a physician who goes against the wishes of a witch doctor to provide burn healing methods caused by radioactive rocks discovered when the elephants were felling trees.
Sibilant Sam (uncredited)
Edad Antigua, Mongolia. El señor de la guerra Temujin debe luchar contra un clan rival que ha asesinado a su padre. Pero el guerrero vive dominado por otras preocupaciones: su vida familiar se puede ver amenazada por su deseo de conquistar el corazón de una prisionera tártara, la pelirroja Bortai, que fue capturada en un acto de pillaje. También debe hacer frente a varias intrigas palaciegas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Roos (uncredited)
Solly Caspar es un gánster que se ocupa tranquilamente de sus negocios porque tanto el alcalde como el jefe de policía se han dejado sobornar por él. En vísperas de unas elecciones, Caspar asesina a un periodista que lo hostigaba continuamente desde las páginas de su diario. Mientras tanto, el candidato a alcalde, que es un político reformista, hace una durísima campaña contra el crimen organizado. Entonces Caspar, temiendo perder el control de las actividades locales, ordena que lo investiguen con el fin de encontrar en su pasado algo que lo descalifique.
Sam Markette
Frankie Machina, un malhechor adicto al juego y la heroína, interpretado soberbiamente por Frank Sinatra, tras pasar una buena temporada en la cárcel, regresa a su casa en Chicago junto a su mujer, Eleanor Parker, con el firme propósito de dejar atrás su pasado criminal y rehabilitarse de sus adicciones. Pero no le resultará fácil, ya que le estarán esperando sus viejas e indeseables amistades, quienes tratarán por todos los medios, de que regrese a sus antiguos hábitos.
Society Max
Adaptación de un musical de Broadway basado en un cuento de Damon Runyon, gran maestro de la literatura picaresca americana. Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), organizador de las partidas más selectas de dados de Nueva York, apuesta mil dólares con uno de los jugadores (Marlon Brando) a que no es capaz de enamorar a una joven puritana que pertenece al Ejército de Salvación (Jean Simmons).
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Solly, Convict Chef, segment "The Chef"
Duffy, el alcaide de San Quintín, ha de enfrentarse a varias crisis consecuticas que amenazan con conducir a los reclusos a un motín.
Executive Reception Guest
Lo que al principio debía ser una rutinaria elección para ocupar un puesto vacante como director general de una importante firma neoyorquina, se convierte en un auténtico reto para tres candidatos: Jerry Talbot, Billa Baxter y Sydney Burns.
Louie Mott
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
Brown - Medic
A tough sergeant helps a raw recruit find courage under fire during the Korean War.
Gracchus (uncredited)
Siglo I d.C. En la Roma de Tiberio, el joven y noble Marcelo Galio encuentra en una subasta de esclavos a la bella Diana, enamorada de él desde que eran niños, y ahora pupila del emperador. Marcelo se enfrenta en una violenta puja con Calígula, hijo y sucesor de Tiberio, y consigue quitarle al esclavo griego Demetrio. Enterado el emperador de la disputa, castiga a Marcelo enviándolo a Palestina en calidad de tribuno. Cuando llega, Poncio Pilato acaba de condenar a Cristo a morir en la cruz.
Willie, Police Desk Clerk
Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark), un ratero de poca monta, atraca a una mujer llamada Candy (Jean Peters) y se apodera de un valioso microfilm que contiene secretos de estado. Pero Candy estaba bajo la vigilancia de agentes del gobierno, por lo que Skip se convertirá en sospechoso. Thelma Ritter fue nominada al Oscar a la mejor actriz secundaria.
Ropes McGonigle
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
Skeezer
Benny Linn y Tim Dunnevan son dos marineros que se embarcan constantemente en numerosos negocios para ganar dinero de forma fácil. Esta vez Benny y Tim utilizan una pequeña herencia para comprar dos caballos, uno para correr en el hipódromo y el otro para revenderlo a un precio más alto. Pero ambos caballos deben competir uno con el otro en una carrera crucial que puede significar o el triunfo o la ruina absoluta de los marineros.
Film Cutter
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Pablo
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
The Runt
Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.
Waiter (uncredited)
Daisy Kenyon es una creativa de una agencia de publicidad atrapada en un triangulo amoroso con dos hombres, uno que ama sin esperanzas y otro al que no puede amar. Envuelta en una aventura amorosa con un abogado casado Dan O'Mara, que no tiene intención de dejar a su esposa, conoce al sargento Peter Lapham - un buen hombre y un gran caballero, el cual se enamora de ella. Aun teniendo sentimientos por Dan, Daisy es consciente de que Peter puede proporcionarle la vida segura que desea y acepta casarse con él. Pero cuando Dan se divorcia de su mujer, Daisy se ve atrapada entre sus obligaciones y sus deseos.
Isaac Cohen
Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.
The Runt
Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
Max
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate...
The Runt
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
Toy Hawker (uncredited)
Imposibilitados para tener hijos, Julie (una actriz), y su marido, Bill (productor de Broadway), adoptan una niña huérfana. Pero Julie muere al poco tiempo y Bill debe ocuparse de la niña, con quien no le resulta nada fácil entenderse.
Cab Driver
En este thriller, el psiquiatra Dr. Cross (Vincent Price) mata a su esposa y espera salirse con la suya, hasta que descubre que el asesinato fue observado por una vecina de al lado, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw). Mientras Janet intenta convencer a su esposo (Frank Latimore) de la vil hazaña del médico, Cross aparece para advertirle que Janet necesita urgentemente un asesoramiento profundo.
The Runt
Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
Stage Manager
Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.
Joe Wells
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
The Runt
Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
Mink
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
The Runt
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
The Runt
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Pete
A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.
"Ice Box" Hamilton
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Squirrel
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.
The Runt
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
The Runt
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
The Runt
Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.
Suki Yaki
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
Kingoro
Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.
The Runt
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
Mousey Scarlatti
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Euchre
Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, making life difficult for Dunne inasmuch as he's in love with Longstreth's niece Barbara.
The Runt
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
Euchre
Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.
Lefty
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...
Indian
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
Dinky
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.
Johnny Pelang
En 1885, tres aventureros de la frontera (el maestro Riel, el traficante de whisky Corbeau y el trampero Duroc) fomentan en Canadá una rebelión contra la Corona. Sólo la Policía Montada permanece leal. El policía Ronnie Logan está enamorado de la hija de Corbeau, pero tiene que rivalizar con un ránger de Texas que busca a Corbeau por asesinato
Petey
A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
Abe Gabbert
Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.
Siggy
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
Sid
Durante un viaje en barco, Georgi Gragore, una bella modelo que acaba de sufrir un desengaño amoroso, está a punto de arrojarse por la borda, pero se lo impide Karl Decker, un médico con el que acaba casándose. A pesar de ello, Georgi sigue obsesionada por el hombre que la llevó a tomar tan fatal determinación; perfectamente consciente de ello, su marido le propone que decida libremente si quiere seguir con él o si prefiere volver al pasado.
Sammy Kayn
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
Benny
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Toad
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
Danny Welch
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.
Seaman Irving Goldfarb
Durante la I Guerra Mundial, y tras cometer una negligencia, un oficial naval es destinado a un viejo submarino. Ansioso por redimirse ante sus superiores, pondrá todo su empeño en convertir a la desastrosa y conflictiva tripulación en un perfecto equipo de combate.
Pasty
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit.
Jerry Connors
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
Gyp Hatton
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Kirk
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Pete, a Reporter
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.
'Tough Tony' Burke
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Mac (as George Stone)
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
Chuck
Don't Get Me Wrong is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell and starring Max Miller and George E. Stone. It was made at Teddington Studios with sets designed by Peter Proud. Unlike several of Miller's Teddington films which are now lost, this still survives. Miller plays a fairground performer who meets a professor who claims to have invented a cheap substitute for petrol. They team up and persuade a millionaire to finance them to develop and market the product, while unsavoury elements are keen to steal the formula and try all means to get their hands on it, involving slapstick chases and double-crosses. It then turns out that the miracle fluid is diluted coconut oil, and the genius professor is an escaped lunatic. The millionaire finds himself taking the brunt of the disappointment.
Himself
Time marches on.
Nick Torga
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
Steve
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
Loafer
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
Boots
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Sancho
Anthony Adverse, un niño huérfano que crece en un convento, se enamora de la hija del cocinero. Pero el muchacho se verá envuelto en un sinfín de aventuras que lo llevarán de Cuba a África y después a París. Allí encontrará a su amada convertida en una estrella de la ópera; él, por su parte, llegará a descubrir los secretos que oculta su pasado.
Mr. Sweeney
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
Weeper
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Shorty
Comedia musical en la cual un cowboy (Bing Crosby) regresa a su tierra después de algunos años, enamorándose de una rica ranchera (Frances Farmer).
Wires Kagel
Con la pandilla de Al Kruger a la cabeza, los gángsters de Nueva York prosperan gracias a una administración débil que ha enviado al duro policía Johnny Blake (Edward G. Robinson) a un barrio de las afueras. Los cerebros de la banda son un triunvirato de banqueros cuyas influencias políticas, financieras y sociales permiten la existencia de los gángsters. Cuando Bryan, un editor que hace campaña contra ellos, aparece asesinado, un gran jurado designa al capitán Dan McLaren para que acabe con los malhechores. McLaren expulsa, aparentemente, a Blake del cuerpo de policía y éste, enfadado, se une a la banda como mano derecha de Kruger. Nick Fenner (Humphrey Bogart), el ayudante y asesino de Bryan, sospecha de Blake y desconfía de la presencia del ex policía en la banda.
Man Aiding Ann (uncredited)
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Silk
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
E. Prendergast Biddle
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Solomon "Solly" Green
En plena fiebre del oro en San Francisco, un hombre llamado Bat Morgan acaba con la vida de un criminal que atemorizaba a toda la región. Gracias a su acción comienza a ganar importantes cuotas de poder dentro, aunque lo que verdaderamente le interesa es el amor por la joven Jean.
Small Change
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
Larkey
A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they actually do generate him huge amounts of money. Soon a local banker and others who scoffed at his ideas see the amount of money he's making and try to cheat him out of his system.
Butch
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Bennie South Street
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.
A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
Benny
Cuando el romance entre un cantante radiofónico y una empleada de la emisora se va al garete, ella se va de fin de semana con su jefe, mientras el cantante seduce a otra. Reunidos todos en un ascensor, el cable se rompe y el ascensor queda colgado entre dos pisos...
Armand
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.
Louie
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.
Ken Tatum
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.
Soapy McCoy
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Emilio Chavito
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
Abe Ruskin
Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone
Sammy Kohn
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
Hymie
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Joey
Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.
Tim Murtoch
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.
Spats
A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.
Max Werner
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money. Disgruntled investor Fay Wray is the one who finally blows the whistle on the prevaricating hair-snipper.
Sam Shapiro
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.
Sammie "Kid" Jacobs
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Gus
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
Andy Lee
Julian Marsh, un exitoso productor de Broadway, a pesar de su delicada salud, produce un nuevo espectáculo, financiado por un hombre rico que está enamorado de la actriz principal, Dorothy Brock , aunque ella no le corresponde. Cuando la víspera del estreno Dorothy se lesiona, es sustituida por una chica del coro.
Murphy
A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up for a fight.
Kringen
Una serie de crímenes en el pueblo de Klineschloss, todos ellos con masivas pérdidas de sangre y mordeduras en la garganta, unido a una plaga de murciélagos, hace pensar a las autoridades del pueblo que se encuentran ante la amenaza de un vampiro.
Based on a novel by Émile Gaboriau.
The Cat
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Joe Berg, Cell 1
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
Rutchkin
During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.
George E. Stone
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Le Duc
Un capitán de barco se pierde en aguas peligrosas cuando descubre que su mujer le engaña.
Skeets
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Johnnie the Sheik
Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.
Dr. Blackstone
Un mago dotado de grandes poderes actúa en un teatro, cuando las luces se apagan, suena un disparo, y encuentran a un espectador muerto en el suelo. La policía impide que nadie abandone el teatro, y el mago utilizará sus facultades para descubrir al culpable.
Ziggie Feinstein
El editor de un importante periódico quiere aumentar sus ventas y para ello decide sacar a la luz un caso de asesinato de hace 20 años. La autora fue Nancy Voorhees, que disparó contra su amante. Pero ahora, años después, ella es una feliz madre de familia que no quiere remover su pasado.
Shorty (as Georgie Stone)
While trying to nab a gang of diamond smugglers, the police are notified by Scotland Yard that the gang's leader, a beautiful Englishwoman who was on her way to the States to take control of the gang, has been caught. Because the American gangsters don't know what their English boss looks like, the police persuade a female impersonator to pretend to be her and infiltrate the gang.
Gangster
Cortometraje promocional lleno de estrellas de la época destinado a recaudar fondos para el sanatorio de tuberculosis National Variety Artists, producido en asociación con una compañía de cigarrillos. La trama sigue la investigación del robo de la joyería de Norma Shearer. Laurel & Hardy aparecen brevemente (como lo hace el resto del elenco) como dos detectives.
Earl Williams
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).
Sol Levy
Oscarizada superproducción de la época que narra las aflicciones y tribulaciones de una familia en el viejo Oeste a lo largo de cuatro décadas, desde su llegada a Oklahoma en 1889 hasta el surgimiento de sus aspiraciones políticas en los años 20. Amores, luchas, triunfos y separaciones, además de la famosa y verídica carrera de diligencias son los ingredientes de uno de los mayores éxitos de la RKO.
Otero
La película narra la trayectoria criminal de un hombre. Rico comenzó su vida ejecutando pequeños robos y terminó su existencia como jefe de la banda de mafiosos más importante de la ciudad. Película clave del nacimiento del cine negro americano, pues a partir de esta libre adaptación de la historia de Al Capone el género basado en el relato de gánsteres vería un gran auge en Hollywood.
Steve
The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
Pedro
Un vaquero llega a un pueblo y acaba intentando ayudar a un ranchero y acabar con una banda de ladrones de ganado, mientras flirtea con una hermosa muchacha.
Danny
A songwriter leaves his chorus girl sweetheart to join the US Army in WWI. In France he falls in love with French singer Madelon. He is crippled in action. Back in the States, his girl friend there leaves him. But Madelon can't forget him and comes to the USA to work there as singer. Per chance she meets the songwriter, and he is cured. Singing one of his love songs, he knows that he has found the right girl.
Carlos
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.
A Sewer Rat
The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.
Blackie
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
Tony Caponi
A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.
Joe Scarsi
Cine negro. Estuvo nominada al Óscar a la mejor película, en la primera edición de los premios de la Academia. El protagonista es el capitán McQuigg (Thomas Meighan), un honrado policía irlandés de Chicago.
Slinky
Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery.
Assistant Director
A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.
Crook
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
Flash Hoxy
Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...
Sparrow
Rose Shannon, una bailarina de Kelly's, en el distrito Tenderloin de la ciudad de Nueva York, adora de lejos a Chuck White, un joven miembro de la banda que utiliza el lugar como su lugar de reunión. A Chuck sólo le interesa como un juguete más en su colección. Rose se implica sin saberlo en un crimen del que ella no sabe nada. La policía la detiene y la pandilla envía Chuck a desembarazarse de ella por si sabe algo que pueda implicar a la banda.
Limey
Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, and Sam Hardy.
Sewer Rat
Chico (Charles Farrell) es un joven que trabaja en la limpieza de las alcantarillas de Paris. Diane es una chica muy desgraciada que es víctima de los abusos de su atrabiliaria hermana mayor. Un día, mientras ésta la golpea, Chico la rescata y se la lleva a vivir con él a su buhardilla, en el séptimo piso de un edificio de Montmartre.
Director
Dried fruits and less-perishable varieties of citrus had been sent east for decades, but Sunshine Gatherers promotes the canning of delicate fruits like apricots and peaches that had previously been consumed out of season in the Northeast only after the expensive luxury of shipment in refrigerated trains. Now California’s sunshine would be packaged for the nation year-round.
