(archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Himself (archive footage)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
il Granduca di Forilarì
Aladino, después de muchos robos, decide ser honrado por el amor de la hermosa princesa Esmeralda, pero al poco se reencuentra en la cárcel con sus antiguos compañerosLiberado por el mago Magrbi, Aladino descubre la lámpara maravillosa. Contrae matrimonio con Esmeralda, pero el mal acecha...
Romeo
Nick planea matar a su mujer, pero no sabe que ella alberga las mismas intenciones.
Jonathan, the Elf Foreman
Sam Whipple, an attorney in once-upon-a-time-land, is startled to receive a visit from Santa Claus shortly before Christmas. It seems that when he was a child, Sam wrote a letter thanking Santa for the presents he'd received, and offering to return the favor someday. That day is now - a mean old soul named Phineas Prune, who holds the deed to the North Pole, is demanding back rent. Otherwise, he's going to evict Santa, Mrs. Claus and the elves and take all the Christmas toys. It's up to Sam and Santa to find a way to pay off Prune and prevent Christmas from being canceled.
Barone Miscia
A pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. After a theft they discover that the stolen suitcase they got from an apparent sweet old lady actually contains a corpse. In an attempt to discard the suitcase they mistakenly exchange it with the one of two German hitchhikers, Helga and Inga. Forced to retrieve the "corpus delicti" they are discovered by Count Mischa who blackmail them: in exchange for his silence with the police, they will help him to kill his rich wife. After killing the woman, and following a binge of marjuana mistaken for lettuce by the brothers, Baby Toto will turn into a sadist serial killer. After killing the Count and a half-dozen people, he will soon start torturing his brother.
Psychiatrist
Un psicólogo intenta demostrar con cuatro casos que el comportamiento de las mujeres puede tener consecuencias negativas para los hombres.
Mischa
Two clumsy mobsters on a mission in Paris.
Colonel & President
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
Le baron Lionel de Balconi
An FBI agent works to arrest David Griffin, a murderous drug trafficker, and protect Juliette, the beautiful widow of Griffin's late partner.
The Master of the King's Music
A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.
Papov
A French animal lover protects a dog and a mouse wanted by Soviet scientists for their space program.
Le professeur Koranoff
Pedro
Yes, Doudou (or, more respectfully, Edouard Doucin) is both heir to a big sugar refinery and its managing director but he is also an incorrigibly bashful bachelor, which just exasperates his aunt Agatha. Summoned to marry as soon as possible, Doudou is fortunate enough to meet Babette , an elegant young lady who wishes to introduce him to her parents. When he comes to visit them, he mistakes the floor out of nervousness. In fact,he finds himself at the Lautiers' not the Olivaros'. Now, chance has it that this couple of shopkeepers also have a marriageable daughter. And as Poupette is romantic, passionate and adorable, Doudou can't find the nerve to disappoint her. As a result the young man gets engaged...twice ! How the devil will he cope ?
Boris
Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-hall. A hard worker, he always wants the best for the public, at the expense of his health. He is assisted in his task by his wife Rosine and his lively secretary Mimi. Chance has it that one of the dancers he auditions for a new show is Florence, his former lover. He doesn't want her in the show but the spiteful belle has a rich influential protector who imposes her anyway. Some time later, Jacques falls victim of a heart attack.
Cyril Boran
Haute Couture mannequin in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
Charles Magne
Elisabeth is persuaded to have killed her noisy upstairs neighbor, scientist Charles Magne. To save her, Mr. Matheu, Elisabeth's father, accuses himself while Pierrot, Elisabeth's fiancé gets rid of the body in order to save father and daughter. For his part, a gangster also believes he has killed the scientist but he gets shot down by a taxidermist, who runs for life. The girl, her daddy and her boyfriend also run away. But Magne is not dead. A bum is mistaken for him and a police inspector makes everyone believe that he is the one who shot the gangster. At the end of this crazy chain of events all the protagonists are reunited at the station house and everybody dances to express their relief.
Hector, the Maitre D'
Única película como director de Samuel Taylor, autor de la obra teatral en la que se basó Sabrina, de Billy Wilder, y coguionista de Vértigo. Describe a la aristocracia europea de Montecarlo.
Igor
Una adolescente Brigitte Bardot es la no tan inocente hija de un conocido jefe criminal en esta condimentada comedia francesa, con una variedad de números musicales. Cuando es forzada a esconderse, su naturaleza indomable se convierte en una pesadilla para su guardián, un cantante de club nocturno enamorado de sus encantos.
Garopoulos
Pascual
El Corregidor de Arcos de la Frontera está locamente enamorado de la bella y pícara molinera. Y esto dará lugar a una serie de peripecias en las que el enamorado trata por todos los medios de conseguir los favores de la molinera.
l'écrivain médiocre et alcoolique
A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a doctor's son and he don't understand why...
Grand-Duc Alexis
Con la ayuda de cuatro protectores, uan joven parisina se convierte en una famosa cantante de cabaret. Ella se casa con un príncipe ruso, pero luego tiene otros amores hasta que un pintor suicida le da una hija.
Berger
Todas las alumnas del Conservatorio de Viena están enamoradas de su apuesto profesor de canto, Éric. Separado de su esposa una temporada, toma como amante a una joven alumna. Una compañera de ésta intenta, por desesperación, suicidarse. Cuando Éric vuelve con su esposa, su ex amante se dedica en cuerpo y alma al canto, con el fin de triunfar y ser la mejor.
The Professor
Un marinero encuentra a un hombre moribundo que antes de expirar dice un nombre: Mister Arkadin. Después de una serie de pesquisas, el marinero da con él misterioso personaje: un millonario, dueño de un imperio industrial y financiero, que vive encerrado con su hija en una mansión de la Costa Azul. Una vez localizado, el propio Arkadin, que padece amnesia, pide que se haga una investigación sobre su pasado.
Comte Marcel de Sarliac
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Bernard Stork
El profesor Franco Bresci, un joven experto en lenguas orientales, es contratado por un diplomático, Bernard Stork, para que le haga de traductor, y enseguida se enamora de la secretaria, Ellen. Franco es despedido por un error de traducción y en sus imprecaciones invoca al Diablo, que se le aparece y le hace saborear la celebridad encarnándole en las figuras de un tenor y un boxeador.
Danilo Biruski
Es Ferragosto y Milán está vacía. El contable Peppino Blancanieves se encuentra todavía en la ciudad; se está preparando para hacer la petición de mano de su hija a su futuro suegro. Pero tras retener a un ladrón de bolsos en la calle, todos sus planes se pondrán patas arriba.
Ali Imagu
A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.
Alec Shaw
A convict is forced to participate in a prison break even though he only has a year left on his sentence.
Joe
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
Gregory Petrovich Rogozhin
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.
Nikita "Nikki" Starloff
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Agatha Christie. Un misterioso personaje invita a diez personas a pasar un fin de semana en una isla, pero, cuando llegan, el anfitrión no está; lo que encuentran es una cinta grabada sobre un asesinato y los posibles sospechosos.
Mikhail Mikhailovich
La única condición que se le impone a un joven para heredar ocho millones de dólares es que sea capaz de gastar uno en tan sólo dos meses. Esta disparatada situación provocada por el testamento de un loco millonario americano le dará al joven muchos quebraderos de cabeza.
Captain Sukov
El joven y apuesto teniente Alexei Chernov (William Eythe), llega a palacio para advertir a la emperatriz Catalina de Rusia (Tallulah Bankhead) de que está siendo traicionada y su vida corre peligro. Pero al ser revelado por el canciller Nikolai Illytch (Charles Coburn) que ya ese caso está resuelto, la zarina se decepciona un poco con el mensajero… aunque queda encantada y supremamente halagada al saber los sacrificios que hizo pensando tan solo en protegerla. Se iniciará así un intenso romance, en magníficos tonos de comedia, entre dos seres muy dispares que miran claramente hacia objetivos distintos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Boris
Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary's unenviable task to retrieve the incriminating undergarment from Mabel's room before his wife Geraldine (Marjorie Reynolds) gets wise.
Russell Paxton
A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.
Mischa Auer
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Nicolai Cherupin
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
Stanislaus "Charlie" Noodnick
Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by his company, as he thinks their on-air quarreling is real. Two former associates, Jules Kinsey and J.M. Snow cross him up by substituting Susan Blair, an office secretary, for Mary and Elmer thinks the show's writer Paul Stevens is John.
Pepi
Dos estrellas del vodevil están rodando una película, pero el director no está satisfecho con ella. Para contentarle, deciden contratar a un guionista joven de desbordante imaginación.
Clipper Canovan
Deciding to quit his singing act and become a tourist guide, Pete Fleming escorts wealthy Mrs. Floto and her three nieces to Hawaii for a vacation. Behind his back, Pete's three bandmates stowaway and tag along.
Stanislaus
In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety show. Wanting to launch his career, he convinces his father to allow him to create a production using the workers at the old man's clothing factory. Unfortunately, the young man is naive and an unscrupulous producer bilks his father's advance money from him.
Gregory
Unos gángters quieren hacer que un grupo de gente abandone una casa donde ellos se han escondido. Para ello intentarán asustarles hasta conseguir que se marchen.
Zolotov
Claire Ledoux es una seductora mujer que, después de huir de su propia boda, reaparece en Nueva Orleans como un ser misterioso y fascinante que provoca la admiración de todos los hombres que le son presentados. Pronto ella debe escoger entre un rico solterón, Charles Giraud, y el rudo marinero Robert Latour.
Boris Kabikoff
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
Bolo
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
Sasha
La cantante de cabaret Bijou, expulsada de varias islas del Océano Indico por suscitar peleas, recala en Boni Komba para trabajar en el Café Seven Sinners. Tiene mucho éxito entre los marineros americanos, especialmente con el Teniente Dan Brent. Cuando Dan le propone matrimonio, su carrera y su vida correrán peligro
Gustav
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Grisha
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.
Gomez
Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter. Inevitably, Bret and Margie quarrel and break up, only to be reunited by their efforts to snag "banana king" Gomez (Mischa Auer) for a lucrative radio contract. The old 1920s tune "Margie" is heard throughout the proceedings, frequently fitted out with ludicrous new lyrics ("Bananas! We're Always Thikin' of Bananas!" etc.) by a zany songwriting team (Eddie Quillan and Wally Vernon).
Felix Lobo Smith
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.
Andre
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
Boris
Tom Destry, hijo de un legendario pacificador de la frontera, es un joven pacífico que rechaza todo tipo de violencia, por lo que es objeto de toda clase de burlas cuando recorre a caballo la ciudad de Bottleneck, el feudo personal de Kent. Las burlas aumentan cuando Destry nombra sheriff al borracho Wash Dimsdale. Esta actitud cambia cuando resulta que Destry, a pesar de odiar las armas, es un buen tirador. Mientras tanto, Frenchy, la cantante del saloon y novia de Kent, que se siente ofendida ante la indiferencia que Destry muestra hacia ella, jura poner en ridículo al nuevo sheriff.
Boris Bebenko
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko. Theatre manager Allen Rand threatens to fire Jimmy for neglecting his work, but Jimmy's girlfriend Diana squares things by going to dinner with Rand over Jimmy's objections. Sandy catches measles and the quarantine causes Jimmy and Boris to miss a big audition.
Nicky
Por extrañas circunstancias, un hombre se ve convertido en padre de un niño de diez meses y se involucra en la vida turbulenta de su familia.
Leo Kronk
Una pareja ha logrado un gran éxito en Broadway con su musical Sweethearts. Tras seis años en cartelera, los dos se ven tentados por una exquisita oferta para trabajar en el cine, lo que cambiará sus vidas.
Dr. Trenkle
A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
Bibenko
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself.
Boris Kolenkhov
Alice Sycamore, la única persona con un poco de cordura en una familia llena de lunáticos, se enamora de su jefe, Tony Kirby, que pertenece a una familia muy rica y muy cursi. La diferencia entre el estilo de vida y la mentalidad de ambas familias se agudizan cuando los padres de él van a cenar a casa de ella, y la cena termina con la llegada de la policía y la detención de todos los presentes, acusados de anarquistas.
Mike, Head Waiter
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
Count Sandor
In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two get involved with a female physician in whose house the criminal is concealed (the doctor doesn't know this). Soon the detective and the doctor are involved.
Mischa
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
Michael
Una joven cantante muy generosa intenta ayudar a alcanzar el éxito a la orquesta los "Cien Hombres", un grupo de músicos ya retirados que viven en una casa de huéspedes. Sin embargo, la persona que más le preocupa es su padre (Adolphe Menjou), el más desafortunado del grupo. En realidad, a la orquesta lo que le falta es un líder con carisma. Entra entonces en escena el legendario director de orquesta Leopold Stowkowski, quien, después de mostrarse reacio a escuchar a la chica, queda cautivado al escuchar la Rapsodia Húngara nº 2 de Liszt interpretada por los cien andrajosos músicos en las escaleras de un edificio
Baron Rene de Montigny
Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk of San Francisco. Linda Gray is a mouse-like secretary to the elder Barnes who has fallen in love with Jimmy, but he favors actress Constance "Connie" Marlowe. Mr. Barnes dies and leaves everything to Linda but he has urged his partner, Alexander Duncan, to plan things so that Jimmy and Linda will get married. Coached by Duncan, Linda accepts the inheritance and announces that she is departing for New York on a wild spending spree. He tells Jimmy that the will can be broken but only after many months and he suggests that Jimmy follow Linda and curb her spending or there won't be any money left. In New York, Linda hires Jimmy as her private secretary. Connie also arrives in New York, as does the ingenious Baron Rene de Montigny with the intention of marrying the wealthy Miss Gray.
Prince Muratov
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
Dimitri Ryeff
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
Rinaldo Lopez
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Hamlet
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Enrico Mussetti
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
Butch
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
Count Arisztid
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
Ticket Taker at Door
Con la esperanza de montar un espectáculo musical, unos estudiantes universitarios de baile y canto van a parar a un ruinoso hotel, donde servirán de conejillos de Indias de un experimento eugenésico.
Radical
A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
Carlo
Una alocada chica de la alta sociedad, su hermana y sus ricos amigos se divierten con un extravagante juego de caza que consiste en recoger todo tipo de desechos. En un lugar del East River, zona azotada por la Gran Depresión, encuentran a Godfrey, un ingenioso y mordaz vagabundo. Este curioso personaje acompaña a las hermanas a una fiesta, donde pronuncia un discurso sobre el carácter inhumano del juego. Después acepta trabajar como mayordomo en la casa familiar. En realidad, Godfrey esconde un secreto sobre su pasado.
Morevitch
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
German Spy
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Stage Actor
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
Victor Demetrius
The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.
Chi
An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.
Diego
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
Lefty Berger
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Darcy's Pianist
Una aspirante a cantante y un joven compositor se enamoran y se casan: pero, mientras que ella alcanza el éxito, él sigue siendo un desconocido. Así las cosas, ella decide renunciar a su prometedora carrera por amor a su marido.
Zan
After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
Tanaga
A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a God-Horse, to the U.S. to be trained as a polo pony. He escapes, meets Rinty and with the help of Frank Bradley is returned to Sujan. The natives have been persuaded to turn against their God-Horse, however he is rescued just in time before he is burned as a sacrifice.
Monk
Ricardo Corazón de León marcha a las Cruzadas para eludir su boda con la princesa Alicia de Francia, y por el camino contrae matrimonio con Berengaria para proporcionar comida a sus hombres. Todo se complica cuando Berengaria es raptada por Saladino.
Kamchukan Consul (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...
Suraj Ud Dowlah
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Captured Afridi (uncredited)
Ambientada en la frontera del noroeste de la India en tiempos de la dominación británica, narra las luchas del 41º regimiento de Bengala contra las tribus de Mohammed Khan.
Dmitri
A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove his innocence.
Mr. Rabinowitz (uncredited)
Un pintor de retratos se reúne con un antiguo amor, cuando las inminentes memorias de ésta amenazan su carrera política.
Servant (uncredited)
At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. Seems as if there is a second will and changes have been made in who will receive what. Philo is the ace detective, and he brings everyone from the nightclub to see him solve the case.
Sikh Cop
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Hassan
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
Ameel Roberts
Cinta de espías ambientada en el Berlín de 1915. Los servicios secretos alemanes sospechan que entre sus aliados turcos hay un hombre que trabaja para los ingleses. La investigación del caso se la encomiendan a una espía, que averigua que la célebre Mata Hari no es de fiar y que descubre a un agente británico...
Smith
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
Military Attaché (uncredited)
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
Dr. Wagner
Jerry Beall, a young newspaper reporter, intrigued by the charm and beauty of Barbara Hammond, a girl accused of murdering a female radio-star, sets out to prove her innocence in the face of a damaging array of circumstantial evidence, abetted by the lack of truth in many of Barbara's statements. But Barbara winds up in a romantic clinch instead of the electric chair, after a series of sequences that reveal the fallacy of jumping to conclusions.
Sadik
Dos fogoneros que trabajan en el mismo barco rivalizan por los favores de una cantante de cabaret.
Walksky
In this comedy, a Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.
Village Priest
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Agent Lehan
When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of the Austrian army. Meanwhile, Ritter is assigned to detect the identity of a spy.
High Priest
Tarzán lucha contra unas tribus de infieles y contra docenas de fieras salvajes en pos de ayudar a una chica y a su padre, que han sido capturados por los adoradores de Zar, el dios de los dedos de esmeralda.
Manu--High Priest
A pilot and his dog crash-land on an island run by a psycho who owns a motel--and most of the locals.
Volkov
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.
Piano Accompanist
Vicki Meredith, una estudiante estadounidense de ballet en París, se enamora de Randall Williams, estudiante de arquitectura, y mantienen una relación hasta que ella se entera de que Randall ha olvidado mencionar que tiene una esposa en los EE.UU.
Gavrilo Princip (uncredited)
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.
Klein
Hay una bomba oculta en un transatlántico, pero nadie a bordo conoce su existencia.
Mr. Thieson (uncredited)
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Wild Man
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
Swami Yomurda
A phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker out of his money. A reporter investigating the swami discovers the plot, determines to expose it.
Kassim
A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend.
Arab leader (uncredited)
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
Butler Pouring Drinks at Party (uncredited)
El joven hijo del Zar Nicolás II es querido por los suyos y por el pueblo. Ahora bien, está aquejado de hemofilia. El sacerdote Rasputin, quien le salva de una grave herida ante la sorpresa de los impotentes médicos, se ganará la confianza de la Zarina.
Abu Eyd
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
Agitator in Restaurant (Uncredited)
Nasa (Clara Bow) es una mestiza con sangre blanca e india. Rebelde e indomable, no respetará las tradiciones de su padre y huirá con un hombre que no la conviene, quedando embarazada. Como si de una maldición se tratase, la vida de Nasa irá degradándose irremediablemente hacia el vicio, el alcohol y la prostitución.
Sergei (Uncredited)
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
Chapman
When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian, he learns her mother married ranch foreman Nick Grindel shortly before her death, and left everything to him in her will. Nick has proposed marriage to his stepdaughter, and she fears violence if her hot-blooded brother Dick finds out. When a body is found at the Bow Knot, Tim barely rescues Dick from a necktie party and is deputized to investigate when Dick confesses to a crime he didn't commit.
Skeets
A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation. She soon finds herself involved with a newspaperman looking for a story, a drunken playboy and a con artist and his girlfriend out to fleece the playboy.
Russian Policeman (uncredited)
Una belleza rusa con pasaporte falso intenta huir de la policía, y busca la ayuda del hombre que conoció en Escocia durante un verano.
Herman Bauer
Director Richard Thorpe's 1932 film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
Montcalm
Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas, he fights battles against nefarious white soldiers as well as the vicious Indian Magua and his cohorts.
Dummy Black
A cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make good on his boast.
Louvre Tour Guide (uncredited)
Arsène Lupin (John Barrymore), un ladrón que se hace pasar por el Duque de Charmerace, vive en París y su único objetivo es desplumar a los ricos. Después del robo perpetrado en la mansión del millonario Gourney-Martin (Tully Marshall), el detective Guerchard (Lionel Barrymore) sospecha que el culpable es el famoso Lupin. En una fiesta, en la que coinciden Guerchard y Lupin, éste decide actuar: un corte abrupto de la electricidad y el robo de varios invitados, que sólo se dan cuenta cuando vuelve la luz. Gourney-Martin invita a su residencia campestre a Charmerace y a Sonia (Karen Morley), que, en realidad es una ladronzuela que trata de rehabilitarse colaborando con Guerchard.
Swami
During a séance at an elderly millionaire's house, the millionaire is murdered. The detectives investigating the crime discover that everyone who was at the séance had a motive for killing the man.
Henry
Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.
Hanns Krug
Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. Now it's her turn, as her deranged and relentless uncle targets her for death with the help of his wife and son, plus a very unhappy ape.
Mischa
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Firing Squad Victim (uncredited)
Año 1917. Mata Hari es una seductora bailarina que vive en París y que ejerce de espía para los alemanes.
Elsie's Boyfriend
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her sister June, more streetwise, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
Melchior
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Prince Nicolai Poliakoff
En un hotel en medio del Sahara, un anciano y su hija intentan ocultar la ubicación de un tesoro escondido a un grupo de ladrones y delincuentes que se alojan en el hotel y que están decididos a conseguirlo. Un día llega al hotel un ladrón de refinados modales, con su propio plan para conseguir el botín, pero surgen complicaciones cuando comienza a enamorarse de la hija.
Rigo
A young couple pose as criminals in order to get the goods on their crooked bosses.
Hassan's Aide
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
Man in Cafe
1931 picture starring Kay Johnson.
Peter
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
Prince Dakka
Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to Africa.
Duke Charles
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
Romeo
Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler.
B-36
Un ciudadano sufre un accidente y queda dormido durante medio siglo, despertando en los años 80. En tal época se enamorará de una bella chica y viajará a Marte...
Frenchie
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
Amahdi
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
Thug (Murder Will Out) (uncredited)
Una serie de números musicales interpretados por estrellas bajo contrato de la Paramount, haciendo cosas que nunca habían hecho en sus películas habituales.
Albert Brecker (uncredited)
A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.
Hood
In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in town as the new police commissioner.
Grant's Secretary
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.
Man Dancing at The Boiler (uncredited)
Un flapper con una dudosa reputación disfruta de una noche vivaz de baile y sin saber muy bien cómo se encuentra vinculada románticamente a su jefe.
Albert
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed.
