Screenplay
Año 1942. Siete semanas después del ataque japonés a Pearl Harbour, un pelotón de marines voluntarios, tras un viaje en submarino, comienzan a desarrollar su peligrosa misión: tomar una isla controlada por los japoneses.
Producer
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
Producer
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Producer
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
Story
An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption.
Producer
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.
Producer
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.
Producer
En la primera pelicula de la familia Hardy, un juez de pueblo lucha por la reelección en el trato con los problemas familiares.
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A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
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A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Producer
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
Producer
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Producer
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
Producer
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
Producer
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
Producer
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
Writer
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
Producer
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
Producer
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
Producer
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
Producer
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...
Producer
Toni viene de una pequeña ciudad de Iowa dispuesta a hacerse con el negocio de su difunto padre en Nueva York, relacionado con el mundo de las apuestas deportivas. Aunque los socios del fallecido tratan de quedarse con el negocio, Toni no está dispuesta a abandonar su meta tan fácilmente, y encuentra apoyo en un cantante y su novia.
Producer
Alguien está asesinando a los jugadores de los Cardinals de St. Louis. Ahora el pitcher del equipo es la próxima víctima (y de hecho ya ha sufrido dos atentados).
Producer
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
Producer
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
Producer
Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a detective named Murray has found her and confirmed.
Producer
Guerra de Secesión, 1862. Tras el desastre de la Segunda Batalla de Bull Run, el comandante Allen, jefe del Servicio Secreto de la Unión, pide a la actriz Gail Loveless que se convierta en uno de sus espías y se infiltre en territorio enemigo.
Writer
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
Producer
Aubrey hace creer a Amy que es un pez gordo del ferrocarril. Cuando se casan, debido a los gastos excesivos han de refugiarse en casa de los padres de Amy. Aubrey pierde el empleo, pero ayuda a un amigo a vender una patente por un buen precio, y vuelve a las andadas.
Producer
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
Producer
In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict Paul Porter, who quickly allies himself with Letty. With the police in hot pursuit and Legs monitoring his every move with Letty, Paul is running out of both time and ideas.
Associate Producer
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
Producer
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.
Associate Producer
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
Producer
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
Screenplay
Tras muchos años sin verse, tres amigas de la infancia, Maria, Vivian y Ruth, vuelven a encontrase y se ponen al día sobre los cambios de sus respectivas vidas. Vivian decide entonces invitar a sus amigas y a sus parejas a un crucero con el fin de conocerse mejor.
Producer
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Producer
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
Producer
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save his business by supplying him with goods from their own farms.
Supervising Producer
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
Screenplay
Lord Henry Kerhill, el dueño de una lujosa mansión inglesa, descubre a su esposa Lady Diana, y a su primo Jim Wynn haciéndose confidencias en el jardín, junto al pozo de los deseos.
Dialogue
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
Writer
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
Writer
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
Adaptation
Mary Turner es condenada a tres años por un delito que no cometió. En prisión hace amistad con dos reclusas. Enfurecida por su injusta situación, planea vengarse del fiscal del distrito que la puso entre rejas.
Screenplay
Stella vive en una isla de los mares del Sur, al frente de un hotel que pertenece a su alcohólica madre, y casada con un contrabandista de licores con el que nunca ha vivido. La llegada de un forastero, huido de una isla infestada de caníbales, cambiará las vidas de todos...
Writer
On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.
Director
On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.
Producer
Sam es un vaquero aventurero que se ha unido a otros hombres para iniciar una cacería por las montañas. Cuando conoce a la mexicana Lola, se enamora de ella y ambos se casan. Pero poco después, Sam siente notalgia del pasado y tendrá que decidir entre la llamada de la aventura o su querida esposa.
Writer
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is accused of murder but he escapes.
Director
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is accused of murder but he escapes.
Producer
La historia de la unidad militar organizada por el futuro presidente de los Estados Unidos, Teddy Roosevelt, y sus aventuras en Cuba durante la Guerra Hispanoamericana de 1898.
Producer
Jack Powell (Charles Rogers), un joven que vive en una pequeña ciudad de Estados Unidos en 1917, está enamorado de la sofisticada Sylvia Lewis (Jobyna Ralston) y se siente irritado por las constantes atenciones de la chica de la casa de al lado, Mary Preston (Clara Bown), Sylvia está a su vez enamorada del rico heredero David Armstrong (Richard Arlen), aunque su relación se ve interrumpida cuando los dos jóvenes se alistan en el Ejército. Tras un periodo de enfrentamiento, entran en las Fuerzas Aéreas y Jack y David conocen al cadete White (Gary Cooper), quien les sirve de inspiración para sus futuros combates aéreos. Drama bélico que ha pasado a la historia por ser el primer film que ganó el Oscar a la mejor película, el año de la creación de los premios de la Academia americana (años 1927-1928).
Adaptation
Dare Rudd and Bate Fillmore have been enemies since early childhood, primarily over the affections of Nell Worstall. Dare, assuming the name of Holt, goes west to Colorado, as does most of his Kentucky friends and enemies. The feud between Dare and Bate is renewed, and Dare learns that Nell's father is in jail on a trumped-up charge made by Bate in order to force Nell to marry him.
Screenplay
Desert Gold is a 1926 silent American Western film directed by George B. Seitz. According to silentera.com the film survives while Arne Andersen Lost Film Files has it as a lost film. Portions of the film were shot near Palm Springs, California.
Adaptation
Nophaie, un soldado que ha participado en la I Guerra Mundial, regresa a su reserva junto a otros soldados navajos. Una vez allí deberá presenciar las continuas peleas y la corrupción que ha enquistado la convivencia de su tribu en su ausencia.
Screenstory
Un ranchero decide atrapar caballos salvajes para venderlos, utilizando cepos. La tribu de los Navajos de la zona intenta persuadirle para que deje de hacerlo.
Adaptation
Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and Noah Beery Sr., who starred together in Wanderers of the Wasteland, appear together again. Madeline Hammond, the sister of ranchman Al Hammond, arrives from the East. Gene Stewart, a rough and rowdy cowboy, convinces Madeline to marry him while he is on a drunken spree. Madeline sets out to reform him, and he sets out to rid their little section of the West of a band of outlaws.
Writer
Code of the West (1925)
Writer
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
Producer
Wanderer of the Wasteland is a 1924 American color silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Jack Holt, Noah Beery, and Billie Dove.
Writer
Innocent country boy Tom Logan is taken in by the scheming Barbara Kay, a city woman who knows Tom is set to inherit his fathers farm which sits on a rich coal field. Toms father sees through her plot and disinherits him when her marries Barbara. When Barbara tires of farm life, the ensuing events lead to death and misplaced guilt.
Story
A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
Writer
Lady Vivienne is implicated in a murder as a result of refusing the romantic suit of Henry Porthen. Years later, in South Africa, she encounters the man she suspects of the murder.
Writer
Forced into a loveless marriage by her mother, Joan Coolidge, a beautiful American girl, finds her husband a brute. She runs away to Paris and studies dancing and becomes The Rage of Paris.
Writer
Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sheriff's daughter; and after adopting Pard he gets a job as a porter in the bank. Santa Fe learns that the leading banker, Coulter, is in league with a band of outlaws, and when Coulter frames Dick Farwell, Annette's fiancé, Dick is suspected of robbery and is captured by the outlaws.
Writer
Sonya Schnoema, a Jewish girl, comes to the United States as an immigrant and works in her father's ghetto grocery store, where she gains the affections of a young settlement worker, David Dahlman. But she loves Mischa, a young doctor who soon arrives from Odessa, and to aid him financially, she distinguishes herself in the local Yiddish theater.
Script
Young doctor Bradley Yates has been trying to come up with a serum to counteract blood poisoning, with no results. Exhausted, he takes a rest in the Blue Ridge Mountains and stays in a small mountain community. When a young schoolteacher comes to town a romance develops between her and Bradley, but the local gossips have spread rumors that he has seduced Talithy, a local girl, and will abandon her for the teacher. Complications ensue.
Writer
French Canadian trapper Victor Raoul returns to the trading post at St. Ignace to find a rival for the affections of Yvonne, his business partner's daughter, in the Marquis Courtière, Parisian representative of the fur company. Raoul quarrels with Fontaine over the visitor's business dealings and his attentions to Yvonne.
Screenplay
En "Outside the Law", Lon Chaney abarca dos brillantes facetas: comienza como un pacífico estudiante, Ah Wing, de la filosofía de Confucio, para luego ser Black Mike Sylva, un peligroso asesino en los suburbios de San Francisco. Wing y Sylva representan caras opuestas -- uno símbolo del bien, otro del mal -- pero ambos con la tangente en el amor hacia Moly Madden. Ella deberá elegir entre ambos, o lo que es lo mismo, entre una vida doméstica apacible o una arriesgada en el margen de la ley.
Writer
The girlfriend of the son of a rich railroad tycoon, attempts to help him escape the clutches of his well-meaning, but over-bearing mother whilst encouraging her own father not to give up on his business, by instigating a staged kidnapping and black-mailing scheme.
Writer
Ruth Hoagland grows up on the Florida Keys with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop and Ruth fall in love, but Winthrop returns to New York, and after a year, has forgotten Ruth. After finding two chests in a cave, Ruth locates her father unconscious from a fall. She goes to the mainland for help, but returns with the Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot and Dr. William Strong, to find her father dead. Strong, out of kindness, offers to marry her, but Ruth declines, sure that Winthrop will return.
Story
In the slums of New York, David Darrow runs a settlement house called "The Angel Factory" in which he tries to help those oppressed by tenement life. In the course of his work, Darrow meets Florence, an innocent young girl of the slums, and is attracted to her sweetness. Betty, Darrow's snobbish fiancée, becomes jealous and invites Florence to a reception, hoping to embarrass the girl. Florence comports herself admirably, however, and wins the respect of all present. The next day, on his way to the settlement house, Darrow is followed by gangster Tony Podessa, a jealous man from Florence's past. As Florence watches the two men confront each other, Tony is killed by a mysterious shot. The police arrive and arrest Darrow for the murder.
