Self (archive footage)
Explore la asociación improbable y el legado perdurable de una de las parejas poderosas más prolíficas en la historia del entretenimiento. Lucille Ball y Desi Arnaz arriesgaron todo para estar juntas.
Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Nick
Chubasco es un joven rebelde que tras verse involucrado en una pelea, es arrestado. El juez le da dos opciones, o la cárcel o trabajar en un empleo honrado. El muchacho decide dejar todo atrás, a su padres Sebastián y a su novia Bunny, y embarcarse en un atunero.
D. O. Griggs
A slick conman finds a singing teenage preacher in a small town in Arkansas and brings him to Los Angeles, where he sets him up with his own show and waits for the money to come pouring in.
Dr. Erik von Steiner
Un equipo de científicos crea un portal que al abrirse conecta directamente con el futuro del planeta Tierra. Un futuro apocalíptico, dominado por extraños seres que no dudarán en atravesar el portal para gobernar el actual presente.
Judge Homer Black
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who actually shot the fatal bullet.
Col. Ed Buckley
Capt. Pat Chambers
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in his first film adventure. Originally screened in 3D.
Preston Foster - Poker-Game Player
To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1953 a popular TV personality. A regular on The Ken Murray Show, Anders had risen to fame with the Southern-fried catchphrase "Ah love the wi-i-i-ide open spaces!" Striking while the iron was hot, the entrepreneurial Murray produced this inexpensive oater, which cast Anders as Laurie Dawson, the singing daughter of a U.S. marshal (Hoot Gibson). Teaming with her dad to capture outlaw Trigger Gans (Bob Duncan), Laurie briefly disguises herself as a masked bandit. Amidst much stock footage from earlier westerns and a plethora of lame jokes and dreadful puns, The Marshal's Daughter is a treat for trivia buffs, featuring such virile actors as Preston S. Foster, Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Buddy Baer as "themselves."
Kurt Durling
El jefe de policía Frame Johnson se retira para asentarse en un rancho con la mujer a la que ama. Pero unos maleantes le persiguen.
Tim Foster
Cuatro ladrones atracan un camión blindado huyendo con más de un millón de dólares en efectivo. Joe Rolfe (Payne), un conductor de camiones de reparto de flores que está pasando por una mala racha, es acusado de estar involucrado y es interrogado duramente por la policía local. Liberado por falta de pruebas, Joe, siguiendo la pista a un balneario mexicano, decide buscar a los culpables tanto para limpiar su nombre y para vengarse.
Sheriff Henry Plummer
John Malvin , prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush, sees bandits kill a miner and his son. He eludes the outlaws by hiding near a stagecoach relay station run by "Possum" Enoch and his daughter Clair, with whom John Falls in love with. Sheriff Henry Plummer, secret head of the outlaws, learns John witnessed the killings and sends him as his deputy on a dangerous mission with a planned ambush.
Tom Denton
When they learn that their brother Matt Denton (Ross Latimer) is awaiting trial in California, charged with train robbery, deputies Tom Denton (Preston Foster) and Fred Denton (Jim Davis) leave their home in Fort Grant, Texas and head west. They arrive in Tulare just in time to rescue Matt from being hanged, but a guard is killed during their escape. Ed Larkin (Rory Mallinson) who framed Matt, falsely accuses them of a long list of crimes. They return to Fort Grant so that Tom can see his sweetheart Laura Brook (Virginia Grey). They encounter outlaw Bill Devlin (William Haade) who persuades them to hold up a train which Laura unwittingly told them would carry a large payroll. Soon the whole territory is enraged at their deeds. They return to Fort Grant to hold up the two banks that are filled with huge sums of cattle money.
Andy La Main
Una noche, el padre de George La Main, de 17 años de edad, es golpeado por un periodista deportivo. Traumatizado por este hecho, e incapaz de entenderlo, el chico busca vengar la afrenta.
Hank Mason
Hoping to strike it rich, four people--two best buddies, a blonde waitress and a cheerful oldtimer--pool their resources so they can drill for oil. A Columbia Pictures B-film from 1951.
Col. Carrington
Para construir un fuerte en territorio sioux, el ejército pide ayuda al explorador Jim Bridger, pero éste alega que es una violación del tratado firmado con los pieles rojas. A Bridger se le plantea entonces un dilema: permanecer con los de su raza o ser fiel a sus sentimientos y luchar junto a los indios de Nube Roja.
Joe MacKinley
Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp. For a long time, he has been courting a pretty young thing, and now that she believes him wealthy, she decides to finally accept his proposal. When she finds out that the company has many financial woes and that living in the woods takes guts and courage, she turns into a nagging shrew, constantly urging him to sell-out to a major corporation. Meanwhile his treacherous foreman, an agent of the bigger company, uses sabotage to change the stubborn camp owner's mind.
Tom Eggers
Durante los más oscuros días de la Gran Depresión, Danny, un joven impetuoso (Lon McCallister), decide abandonar su hogar para establecerse en el pueblo natal de su madre, en el lejano estado de Utah, donde conocerá de primera mano, lo dura que puede ser la vida en el campo.
John Kelley
Esta no es la historia de Jesse James, sino la caída en desgracia de su asesino, el tristemente famoso Bob Ford, que traicionó a su amigo para conseguir el indulto del gobierno y casarse con su novia Cynthy. En lugar de ello, se vió condenado al ostracismo y al desprecio incluso por parte de la mujer amada.
Scotty Mason
Two men, one woman and one horse get into trouble.
Johnny Saxon
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
Frank Ivey
En una comarca ganadera del Medio Oeste americano se reproduce la eterna guerra entre vaqueros y ovejeros. Worl, un ovejero que pretende asentarse en el lugar, se ve obligado a abandonar sus tierras. El problema es que está ligado sentimentalmente a Connie, la hija del ranchero que lo ha expulsado. Con el apoyo del ayudante de Worl, Connie se enfrentará a su padre.
Dave Taggert
The deep unbreakable bond between a wild stallion and the boy he rescues is chronicled in this children's adventure.
Army Surgeon (uncredited)
Cortometraje que se cree dirigido por John Ford. Producido por el gobierno de EE. UU. específicamente para los veteranos que regresaron de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, mostrándoles cuáles son sus responsabilidades como ciudadanos ahora que están regresando a la vida civil.
Bart Madden
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.
Col. Jose Artiego
Maria Montez plays a Spanish dancer named Rita, who is determined to bring Nazi collaborator Colonel Jose Artiego (Preston Foster) to justice. Artiego is at presently working incognito, as military governor of the North African city of Tangier. Maria finds an unexpected ally in the form of Artiego's discarded mistress Dolores (Louise Allbritton).
Sam Crane
In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.
Judge Sam Purvis
Un espumoso musical sobre las desventuras románticas de las muchachas de Harvey, camareras empleadas de la cadena de restaurantes Old West Harvey Restaurant.
Himself (uncredited)
A pesar de que en el título aparece la palabra Hollywood, esta comedia no gira en torno al mundo del cine, sino al de la música. Abbott y Costello vuelven a interpretar a dos perdedores que sueñan con convertirse en importantes agentes musicales. Quieren cumplir su sueño, así que empiezan con pequeños clientes con carreras alejadas del estrellato. Por el momento son unos don nadie, habrá que ver si la pareja de cómicos consigue convertirlos en los reyes de la música.
Jeff Turner
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story.
Jim Brennan
Pittsburgh, siglo XIX. Mary Rafferty (Greer Garson), una bella joven que proviene de una familia proletaria, entra a trabajar en casa de la rica familia Scott, que es la propietaria de la fábrica siderúrgica donde trabajan los hombres de su familia. Allí, Mary enseguida atrae la atención del apuesto Paul Scott (Gregory Peck).
Rob McLaughlin
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.
Roger Touhy
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.
Steve Carramond
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
Rob McLaughlin
Ken McLaughlin (Roddy McDowall) is a precocious 10-year-old who lives with his family on a remote Wyoming ranch. When Ken returns home from school with failing grades, his father, Rob (Preston Foster), blames the boy's lack of personal responsibility. At the suggestion of his wife, Nell (Rita Johnson), Rob allows Ken to choose a single colt from the herd to raise as his own. Much to his father's dismay, Ken chooses a fiery mustang filly -- but the two soon become fast friends.
Father Donnelly
Guadalcanal sigue a un entregado pelotón de marines a través de los horrores de la guerra en el sur del pacífico. Soldados que no sólo luchan contra el enemigo, sino también contra la enfermedad, un terreno peligroso y un clima implacable.
Paxton Bryce
Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.
Steve Britt
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
Michael Steele
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.
Police Lt. Steve Abbott
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Tom Gaynor
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
Roy Bonnell
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
Steve Duncan
With Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, and Eugene Pallette. This sublime film exemplifies La Cava’s gift for creating comedies that contain a profound depth of feeling. Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between Irene Dunne, a small-town girl in the big city, and Robert Montgomery, the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her. Their love affair is all the more affecting for taking place against a backdrop of heartbreak and alcoholism, all conveyed under the guise of comedy. UNFINISHED BUSINESS is truly one of the most remarkable Hollywood films of the 1940s.
Greg Lane
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
Sergeant Jim Brett
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
Bill Gordon
Los capataces de un campamento de leñadores en Birmania compiten por el afecto de una hermosa cantante norteamericana, que se ha quedado varada en Rangún.
Dan Walters
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Bill Collins
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
Capt. Bill Starrett
El esfuerzo del ejército para capturar al jefe de Apache, Gerónimo, que lidera una banda de guerreros en un alboroto de asaltos y asesinatos, se ve obstaculizado por una disputa entre dos oficiales, que son padre e hijo.
Jim Howell
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
Steve Drum
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
Steve Mitchell
When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting desert warfare.
Sully
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
'Chipper' Morgan
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s. It seems to be completely forgotten today, except by major film buffs.
Bill Crane
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
Lt. (j.g.) John C. Drake
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.
Jack Stacey
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Capt. Dike Conger
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
Det. Bill Crane
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Robert Crane
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June Johnson.
Bruce Keene
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
Stephen Wayne
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
Bill Crane - Private Detective
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
James Ellsworth 'Jimmy' Hughes
The film begins with a knuckle-head playboy (Preston Foster) working on a road crew dressed in a tux in order to win a bet. Apparently, this guy will take on any bet or act on a whim. This becomes very apparent when he disrupts a food giveaway hosted by the mayor's daughter and as a result of this, he announces he's running for mayor--though he seems very much apolitical and has no interest in the job. Later, when he once again meets up with the mayor's daughter (Joan Fontaine) they supposedly fall in love--although there seemed to be little chemistry between them and it made very little sense for Fontaine to suddenly love a guy she so quickly hated at the beginning of the film. Plus, she really had plenty of reason to dislike the guy.
John Oakhurst
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Michael 'Mike' O'Shea
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
Steven Mathews
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Jack Clitheroe
Una joven esposa irlandesa intenta vivir tranquilamente alejada del caos político. Pero su marido, miembro del IRA planea un golpe contra la oficina de correos de Dublín. Relata la historia de un matrimonio absolutamente implicado en la lucha por la independencia de Irlanda durante la fallida insurrección de Pascua de 1916.
Scott Miller
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
Tip O'Neil
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
Det. Sgt. Pete 'Mac' McCaffrey
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Toby Walker
Annie Oakley, una modesta pueblerina, es aficionada a cazar codornices, que luego vende en el pueblo. Un día tiene la ocasión de medir su puntería con el rifle desafiando en una apuesta a Toby Walker, el tirador más diestro del Oeste, que acaba de ser fichado para el espectáculo itinerante del célebre Búfalo Bill. Aunque Annie pierde voluntariamente la apuesta, sus habilidades llaman la atención del manager de Búfalo Bill, que también contrata a la chica. Empiezan las circenses exhibiciones y la rivalidad entre Annie y Toby, que en realidad no será tal, pues ambos se han enamorado. (FILMAFFINITY)
Marcus
Quan Marcus es un gladiador que goza del favor de Poncio Pilatos. Al regresar de un viaje de Jerusalén encuentra a su hijo adoptivo, Flavio, gravemente enfermo y lo lleva ante Jesús. El niño consigue sobrevivir milagrosamente y la vida de padre e hijo cambia.
Tex Randolph
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
Preston Foster
Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.
Dan Gallagher
Irlanda 1922. Traición entre amigos para un conocido filme de Ford. Rodada en apenas 3 semanas. En el agitado Dublín de los años veinte, Gypo Nolan, un tipo sin oficio ni beneficio, expulsado del Ejército de Liberación Irlandés y con tendencia a empinar el codo, sueña con viajar a Estados Unidos en compañía de su novia, Katie, que se gana la vida como prostituta. Animado por la recompensa que ofrecen las autoridades, Gypo delata el paradero del activista Frankie McPhillip, un viejo amigo y compañero.
Vince M. Falcone
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a lovely society lady? And with a young daughter as a bonus Mister Falcone could show off among the creme de la creme. Of course when times got rough he felt free to desert his wife and little girl. Fortunately Taps, a lawyer working for the underworld, will console them both.
Murray Carter
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
Howdy Hardy
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
Como Murphy
Dos fogoneros que trabajan en el mismo barco rivalizan por los favores de una cantante de cabaret.
George
Melodrama que entronca con el estilo de cine negro que su director, Mervyn LeRoy, había adoptado en otras cintas como "Soy un fugitivo" (1932). Su argumento proviene de una obra teatral escrita por Leon Abrams y George Abbott, que se estrenó en Broadway en 1933. Considerada un antecedente de otra producción Warner, "El bosque petrificado" (1936), su acción transcurre en una perdida estación de servicio en California. Allí, durante 24 horas, una serie de personajes van a cruzar sus caminos con el nexo en común de Olga, la dueña del local. Ella se va a relacionar con una pareja de criminales, uno de ellos un antiguo amante.
Jason Everett
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
Nifty Miller
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
Tom baylor
Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of a troupe of cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
Insp. O'Brien
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
Jan Novak
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
Tim Butler
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.
Walker
Elmer, el mejor bateador de un pequeño pueblo, es contratado por un club de Chicago. Cuando su novia va a verle, le sorprende besando a otra chica. Después, Elmer se mete en líos con unos estafadores, y ella va a rescatarle...
Himself
As part of a publicity campaign for the film 42nd Street (1933), Warner Bros. Pictures, with the assistance of the General Electric Corporation, assembled a 7-car gold- and silver-plated train they called "The 42nd. Street Special". With numerous Warner Bros. contract stars as passengers, the train made a tour across the USA. It was scheduled to make stops in more than 100 cities, ending in Washington, D.C. for the March 1933 inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This short film records the send-off for this trip from Los Angeles' Santa Fe Station. Using a microphone set up on the rear platform of the last car, several people addressed the crowd attending the event. Those making remarks include performers, studio executives, and the mayor of Los Angeles.
David 'Dave' Slade
La atractiva Nan Taylor integrante de una banda que roba un banco, va a la cárcel gracias al evangelista David Slade... que la ama.
Tim - Office Worker (uncredited)
Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances.
Ed Dover
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
Pete
Retrato desolador de la injusticia y el sufrimiento humanos causados por el sistema penal de los Estados Unidos vigente tras la I Guerra Mundial.
Steve Kelly
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
Dr. Brett
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
John 'Killer' Mears, Cell 4
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.
Dr. Wells
Seis personas han sido asesinadas en la calle Mott muy cerca de la Morgue donde funciona la peculiar academia de medicina del Doctor Xavier. Todos los crímenes han sido cometidos, en noches de luna llena, por una suerte de caníbal que asesina con un bisturí y luego desolla a sus víctimas. Con la venia de la policía, el doctor Xavier procurará averiguar si el asesino está entre sus colaboradores, mientras un periodista husmea cuanto puede y trata de enamorar a la hija del científico.
Bud Clark
Cuando está a punto de ser ejecutado, un condenado revive los hechos que lo condujeron a morir en la silla eléctrica.
Crewman
Sam Whalan es un severo capitán de barco que contrata a Sally, una chica pobre sin hogar, para que cuide de un bebé abandonado que va también en el barco, camino de Nueva York. Sally oculta su pasado y es, a ojos de los demás, la hija de un misionero.
Two-Gun Terry
Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.
Blake
Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting a more proper choice for her daughter. On a yachting cruise arranged by Mrs. Trumbull, Jack is not invited. Meanwhile, Mary suspects Rex of picking up contraband beyond the 12-mile limit and refuses his proposal of marriage, while Betty, her impish sister, drives Skippy to distraction in the galley, where he has installed an automatic kitchen that does most of his work. Jack smuggles himself aboard but is forcibly ejected at port by a coast guard, and Mrs. Trumbull discourages his attempt to elope with Mary; but on a subsequent cruise, he hides himself in a lifeboat with two aides. When the captain stops to take on a cargo of rum, Jack and his aides take over the vessel, and a battle ensues. The yacht is wrecked on an island, and Jack proves his heroism, while Rex reveals his true colors and is identified as a fugitive bootlegger.
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.
