Self (archive footage)
Un documental que recorre la historia de los premios de la Academia.
(archive footage)
This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number of scenes from early silents and seldom seen films, as well as old photographs of the stars and one-sheet advertisements for lost films.
Self (archive footage)
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
Self (archive footage)
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
'Stumpy' (archive footage)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
H. P. Kingman
The Civil War is over but in the Ozarks of Arkansas people are not ready to forgive and forget. The Mondier brothers have returned from fighting for the Union and Mort Fagan is keeping things difficult for them in the community.
Benjamin Morgan
Un hombre enfermo convoca a sus cuatro hijas a su casa para Navidad y les pide que maten a su nueva esposa, quien sospecha que lo está envenenando.
Cody Guilford
Two cops, who have quit the police department to become private detectives and bounty hunters, hunt for a killer who has eluded capture for years.
Nash Crawford
La banda de la colina se reune otra vez para rehabilitar a uno de sus viejos amigos y luchar contra unos criminales que asolan la zona.
Sheriff Matt Fenley
An adventurous young gambler searches for the owner of a mysterious fortune.
Nash Crawford
Un ranger de Texas retirado y sus tres viejos camaradas, serán los encargados de imponer el orden en una ciudad sin ley gobernada por un alcalde corrupto que sólo pretende su reelección a cualquier precio. (FILMAFFINITY)
Pa Danby
De camino a Australia, un vaquero oportunista, Jason McCullough, llega a un pequeño pueblo sumido en la fiebre del oro, y decide ganar un poco de dinero extra aceptando temporalmente el puesto de sheriff. Felizmente entregado al desempeño de su nueva función, McCullough logra reclutar al mendigo local como ayudante, burlar al temido clan de los Danby (con Brennan a la cabeza) y defenderse de las atenciones de la hija del alcalde (Hackett)...
Grandpa Bower
Esta es la historia de una gran familia que sueña en convertirse en una gran banda familiar y participar en la congregación política de los demócratas. Pero ante la llegada del prometido de la hija mayor, sus vidas dan un giro y van a vivir a Dakota. Las ideas políticas son el eje central de disputas entre los ciudadanos republicanos y demócratas... ¿Podrá más el amor de Alice y Joe que las opuestas ideas políticas? ¿Qué partido político ganará las elecciones?
Self (archive footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Pop Gillis
Harry Lucas trabaja en la Casa de la Moneda de Estados Unidos. Una noche destruye accidentalmente 50.000 dólares. Las cosas pintan mal para Harry hasta que se le ocurre la idea de colarse en la imprenta e imprimir dinero de repuesto; sin embargo, consigue más de lo que esperaba cuando todo el mundo quiere ser parte del plan.
D.J. Mulrooney / Knobby
Unos niños acuden de excursión a un bosque con su abuelo. Al realizar una parada para merendar, descubren unos habitantes del bosque que hasta el momento habían pasado desapercibidos ante los seres humanos. Se trata de unos pequeños gnomos que enseguida se hacen amigos de los niños y del abuelo.
Quentin
Ésta es la historia de los sueños, pero también de las maquinaciones urdidas por los buscavidas, los famosos y los farsantes que utilizan todos los medios a su alcance para conseguir el más alto premio cinematográfico.
Alf Simes
Cam Calloway y su familia viven en una zona densamente arbolada en Nueva Inglaterra. Sueñan con construir un santuario para los gansos que vuelan sobre la zona cada año, y trazan varios planes para comprar un lago cercano. Sin embargo, el infortunio hará que sea un sueño difícil de llevar a cabo.
Jeb Hawkins
La expansión hacia el Oeste protagonizada por los colonos, la anexión de Texas y la incorporación de Arizona, Nuevo México y California tras una guerra que se salda con la victoria de los Estados Unidos suponen un avance espectacular de la frontera norteamericana hacia el Pacífico. La película consta de cuatro episodios sobre la colonización del Oeste que tienen lugar entre 1830 y 1890. Los dos primeros y el último, fueron dirigidos por Hathaway, y el tercero, por Marshall, pero incluye también un interludio, dirigido por John Ford, ambientado en la guerra de Secesión, con un diálogo entre los generales nordistas Sherman y Grant.
'Preacher' Hawker
A man has his eyes set on controlling the Big Sag territory in Montana and hopes to achieve his goal by forcing a newly-arrived family from Texas from their land. Hoping to convince the local saloonkeeper to help him, the man sends his daughter into town with instructions for his potential partner. A storm waylays the daughter during her trip to town and she is forced to stay at the home of her father's intended victims, leading to an interesting turn or two.
Stumpy
El sheriff Chance (John Wayne) encarcela por asesinato al hermano de un poderoso terrateniente cuyos hombres intentarán liberarlo. Para impedirlo, Chance cuenta con la colaboración de dos ayudantes: un alcohólico (Dean Martin) y un viejo tullido (Walter Brennan), a los que se une un joven y hábil pistolero llamado Colorado (Ricky Nelson). Todos quedarán encerrados en la cárcel de la oficina del sheriff, roedados, incrementándose la tensión en el pueblo a la espera de que llegue la autoridad estatal para llevarse al detenido.
Dr. Charles Grayson
A retired surgeon starts giving away money to religious causes and his family tries to file suit, claiming that he's incompetent.
John Dinwitty
Cuando el avión de Pete, un adinerado y joven piloto yanqui, se estrella en un pantano, cerca de la casa de Tammy, una joven sureña, ella lo rescata y lo cuida. Pero, una vez recuperado, Pete se marcha con su prometida.
Uncle George Williams
Following his release from prison, an ex-con heads straight for a cache of gold buried somewhere in a small village.
Karp
Segunda Guerra Mundial. En el verano de 1941, los alemanes invaden las poblaciones fronterizas de la Rusia comunista. Un grupo de jóvenes abandonan uno de estos pueblos, llamado Estrella del Norte, y emprenden un viaje que estará lleno de dificultades. NOTA: Ataque blindado (NTA, 1957). Versión reeditada de The North Star (1943). Guerra. Protagonizada por Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding, Jane Withers, Farley Granger, Erich von Stroheim y Dean Jagger. Dirigida por Lewis Milestone.
Jake
Hacia 1870, el ferrocarril llega por fin a Flat Rock, un pueblo de Kansas. El sheriff (Robert Ryan), un hombre honrado y valiente, tendrá que enfrentarse por segunda vez a John Barrett, un individuo ambicioso y sin escrúpulos que vive rodeado de tahúres y pistoleros.
Uncle Jesse Jackson
An old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.
Jeffrey Storys
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.
Ned Otis
A lovesick girl and her grandfather groom their filly for the Kentucky Derby.
Doc Lacy
El dueño de una tienda (Fred MacMurray), por un golpe de suerte, mata al jefe de una banda de peligrosos ladrones y se convierte en un héroe para sus conciudadanos, pero, ante la perspectiva de que regresen para vengarse, se verá abandonado de todos.
Saul
Six people who have emigrated to Israel from different countries are all on a bus traveling through the Negev Desert. They find themselves stranded overnight in the bus. To pass the time, each begins to tell the story behind their emigration to Israel.
Doc T.R. Velie Jr.
En 1945, un hombre con un solo brazo llega al desolado pueblo de Black Rock. Es John MacReedy (Spencer Tracy) y busca a Joe Komaco, un granjero japonés cuyo hijo le salvó la vida en la guerra. El comportamiento de los vecinos es extrañamente hostil y grosero, y las preguntas de MacReedy sobre Komaco no reciben respuesta. Es evidente que ocultan algo, lo que despierta la curiosidad del forastero, que no está dispuesto a irse antes de averiguar el terrible secreto que esconde Black Rock.
Simon Bhumer
Cuatro bandidos intentan robar una caja fuerte, pero se encuentran con que no hay dinero. El líder de la banda decide trasladarse a su pueblo, Cholla, y robar el banco. (FILMAFFINITY)
Sam Brannon
Crown City, una ciudad de Colorado que vivió un enorme boom por sus minas abundantes en oro, está a punto de convertirse en una ciudad fantasma. La única mina que queda está al otro lado del río, en territorio indio. Después de que su madre haya sido asesinada por uno de los salvajes indios, Gary Brannon (Audie Murphy) emprende una expedición al otro lado del río en busca de venganza y con la esperanza de encontrar la ansiada mina. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ben Tatum
En 1896, Jeff, un solitario aventurero de oscuro pasado, se dedica al lucrativo negocio de surtir de carne de vacuno los asentamientos de buscadores de oro del Yukon, en Alaska.
C.P.O 'Chief' O'Malley
The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. When they get older both are accepted into the Coast Guard Academy, but the hero's son winds up being thrown out, bringing disgrace to his adopted family.
Jim Harper
Un hombre, condenado por un delito que no ha cometido, se ve obligado a vivir en un paraje inhóspito y completamente aislado de la civilización.
Grandpa Firth Crockett
A young widower named Sam Crockett returns from Kansas City to his small hometown in rural Texas, bringing with him his feisty grandfather and two young sons, Steve and Yoyo. He tries to make a go of the old family homestead but faces financial problems and pressures from his well-to-do neighbor, Rod Marshall. He also begins an on-again-off-again romance with Rod's sister-in-law, even though she's engaged to wed the town's doctor. Events come to head when Sam's grandfather suffers a stroke.
Maj. Gen. Wolfe
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.
'Doc' Butcher
Jeff Clanton, un ex oficial de la Unión, persuade a un grupo de guerrilleros pro-Confederación para deponer las armas y llevar una vida honrada; mientras tanto, un hombre de Pinkerton quiere cobrar las recompensas por las cabezas de los guerrilleros. Para ese fin, encierra a Jeff por asesinato, pero Jeff conseguirá escapar y se convertirá en uno más de los guerrilleros a los que había querido volver al buen camino.
Timothy 'Pop' Keith
Un sheriff escolta a un hombre acusado de un crimen y a su hija al pueblo donde debe ser juzgado, Al mismo tiempo, tendrá que evitar que sea linchado.
Sheriff Bill Howard
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
Cap MacKellar
Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for the two of them. At the saloon-hotel run by Adelaide, Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on the Captain McKellar cattle drive to Montana is his man. He takes the job of trail-herd boss to find the killer. McKellar preaches to Jones that he should forget revenge and let the law of retribution take care of the killer. Shadrach's hard driving of the men and his hunt for the killer makes him bitterly hated, and his retribution quest ends in a manner he did not anticipated.
Rimrock
Durante un viaje, un actor es confundido con un ladrón de bancos.
Terence Sweeny
El dueño de una línea de diligencias contrata a un pistolero para sabotear el camino de una locomotora que representa una amenaza para su negocio. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dr. Jonathan Mark
Un ladrón de diligencias es designado como nuevo ayudante del 'sheriff' después de salvarle la vida. Rhiannon se debate entre su nuevo trabajo y la perspectiva de robar el próximo cargamento de oro.
Pete Richard
Film bélico que narra el desarrollo de la aviación norteamericana durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Jonathan L. Scott (Gary Cooper) es un piloto que aprendió en la Gran Guerra (1914-1918) las tácticas del combate aéreo. Terminada la contienda, sus novedosos proyectos para mejorar la aviación fueron siempre rechazados; pero el inesperado ataque japonés a Pearl Harbor cambiará la situación.
Pop Courteen
Un mariscal se infiltra para detener a una banda de cuatreros, pero terminará siendo descubierto.
Mr. Matthews
Un irritable y anticuado granjero, Walter Brennan, trata de criar a sus cuatro hijos sin la ayuda de una madre. Con su terquedad ha arruinado ya una granja y va en camino de arruinar otra, dando la espalda a cualquier ayuda externa y rehuyendo del uso de métodos modernos. No teniendo bastantes problemas, intenta también romper el romance de su hija mayor y su sueño de unirse a una cooperativa local para la crianza de cabritos.
Kris Barden
Jim Garry, un jinete solitario, tiene un encuentro fortuito con John Lufton y sus hombres. Lufton recela de él, creyendo que es uno de los pistoleros que está reclutando Tate Riling, un desalmado especulador que codicia el ganado de Lufton. Garry y Riling son viejos colegas y efectivamente Riling pretende contratar a Garry para llevar a cabo sus planes. Riling, además, se ha encargado de manipular a Carol, una de las hijas de Lufton; la otra, en cambio, la aguerrida Amy, se enamora de Garry, quien no tardará en enfrentarse con su antiguo amigo.
'Groot' Nadine
Terminada la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865) y después de haber sobrevivido a una matanza de los indios, el ganadero Tom Dunson (John Wayne) y su hijo adoptivo Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift) proyectan trasladar diez mil cabezas de ganado desde Texas hasta Missouri. Nadie hasta entonces había intentado una operación de tal envergadura.
Tony Maule
El padre de "Snug" Dominy (Lon McCallister) ha vuelto a casarse con una mujer llamada Judith (Anne Revere) y ahora el muchacho vive amargado porque a ella la odia y con su hijo "Stretch" -mayor que él-, no ha conseguido llevarse ni un solo momento. Cuando su padre se marcha con ganas de tener nuevas aventuras en el mar, la suerte sonríe a "Snug" al proporcionarle la ocasión de hacerse con dos mulas que va a domar y a preparar para el trabajo, con la gran ayuda de su veterano amigo Tony (Walter Brennan)... y de paso, el amor también tendrá su lugar cuando esté más cerca de la linda Rad McGill (June Haver).
Murph
Una niña (Natalie Wood) vive en el bosque con su abuelo en estado casi salvaje. Cuando éste muere, se dirige al pueblo y encuentra por el camino a un perro abandonado que ha caído de un avión. El médico del pueblo los acoge en su casa. Debido a su vestimenta y a su espontaneidad, la niña será objeto de las burlas de los demás niños y chocará con la hipocresía de una sociedad convencional.
Pop Gruber
Un estafador se enamora de una rica viuda a la que pretendía desplumar.
Old Man Clanton
A Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda), antiguo sheriff de Dodge City, le ofrecen el puesto de comisario de la ciudad de Tombstone, pero lo rechaza porque le interesa más el negocio ganadero al que se dedica con sus hermanos. Sin embargo, cuando uno de ellos muere asesinado, acepta el puesto vacante y nombra ayudantes a sus hermanos. Contará también con la amistad y la colaboración de un jugador y pistolero llamado Doc Holliday (Victor Mature).
Jesse Rogers
In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial exposition.
Eben Folger
Mientras pasan el verano en casa de su primo, las hermanas gemelas Kate (Bette Davis) y Patricia (Bette Davis) se enamoran de Bill Emerson (Glenn Ford). Bill se enamora de Patricia y se casa con ella, pero Kate no puede olvidar a Bill.
Capt. Bounce of the Riverbird
Un cowboy ayuda a los granjeros de trigo de Dakota contra los saqueadores de terrenos. Contará con la ayuda de la hija de un magnate ferroviario.
Eddie
Segunda Guerra Mundial. Harry Morgan y su compañero Eddie son dos marineros que están en la isla de Martinica, esperando inútilmente que algún barco los contrate. Al final, se verán obligados a trabajar para la Resistencia.
Featherhead
Mientras huye en un barco del hombre con el que debe casarse, una bella princesa (Virginia Mayo) es secuestrada por un grupo de piratas al mando del temible y sanguinario capitán Hook (Victor McLaglen). Sorprendentemente, será otro pirata (Bob Hope) el que logre rescatarla.
J. F. 'Thunder' Bolt
Un muchacho con una inclinación a problemas es enviado a vivir con su tía y su tío en Indiana. A pesar de que en un primer momento no está feliz con el acuerdo, su amor por los caballos y su afecto por una joven potranca que planea correr le hacen la vida soportable. Él también encuentra el amor con Char, quien comparte su amor por los caballos.
Karp
Segunda Guerra Mundial. En el verano de 1941, los alemanes invaden las poblaciones fronterizas de la Rusia comunista, siendo Estrella del Norte una de ellas. Mientras un grupo de jóvenes procedentes de este lugar parten en un viaje que se les complicará por el camino.
George, Mailman
Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the USA.
Prof. Stephen Novotny
El 27 de mayo de 1942 murió víctima de un atentado Reinhard Heydrich, jefe del gobierno nazi de Praga. El doctor Franz Svoboda, miembro de la Resistencia y autor material del atentado, se esconde en casa del profesor Novotny.
Cornelius Burden
Una chica de pueblo cambia de identidad para triunfar en Nueva York, y su novio resulta sospechoso de su "desaparición".
Chief Yeoman Henry Johnson
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
Sam Blake
Biopic de Lou Gehrig, un legendario jugador profesional de béisbol norteamericano, al que, después de jugar durante muchos años sin perderse ni un solo partido, le diagnosticaron de repente una misteriosa enfermedad
Grandpa
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
Tom Keefer
La historia de un cazador (Andrews) que encuentra a un fugitivo (Brennan) y su hija (Baxter) viviendo en un pantano en Georgia. Él se enamora de la chica y trata de convencer al fugitivo para que vuelva al pueblo.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blooper out-takes from Torrid Zone, Four Mothers, The Wagons Roll at Night, The Sea Wolf, No Time for Comedy, The Bride Came C.O.D., and Affectionately Yours, among other Warner Brother productions of 1940 and 1941.
Pastor Rosier Pile
Alvin C. York es un joven y trabajador campesino que vive en una de las numerosas granjas de los montes de Cumberland, en el estado de Tennessee. Sólo tiene un defecto: la bebida. Alvin está enamorado de una muchacha, cuya familia de clase alta impide el matrimonio. Basada en hechos reales.
Captain Jonathan Thorne
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
The Colonel
Cuando un magnate compra un periódico y despide a casi todo el personal, una intrépida periodista decide publicar en su último artículo una falsa e incendiaria carta que lleva la firma de Juan Nadie. En ella se anuncia el suicidio de uno de los empleados despedidos. El éxito del artículo es tal que el periódico decide crear un Juan Nadie y, con este fin, contrata a un vagabundo que acaba convirtiéndose en un personaje extraordinariamente popular.
Hector Titus
Con la ayuda de su ama de llaves, el viudo profesor Oliver Wendell se ocupa de la educación de sus tres hijas. Dana, una de ellas, tiene la impresión de que su novio se interesa más por su coche que por ella, por lo que pone sus ojos en un compañero de negocios de su padre, el atractivo Richard Calvert, comprendiendo que ha llegado el momento de dar el paso de niña a mujer y tomar una decisión definitiva...
Judge Roy Bean
Texas, 1880, años agitados tras la Guerra Civil estadounidense. El famoso juez Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), caprichoso y de singular moralidad, cabecilla de los ganaderos, y autodenominado "la única ley al oeste de Pecos", acusa falsamente a un forastero llamado Cole Harden (Gary Cooper) de robar un caballo. Condenado a la horca tras el juicio, Cole Harden ideará un plan para librarse de la muerte: el juez siente una tremenda admiración por una famosa actriz a la que el sentenciado a muerte dice conocer.
William P. Stewart
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
'Hunk' Marriner
Un joven que aspira a convertirse en pintor acaba alistándose en un regimiento del ejército. El mayor Rogers, al mando de la unidad, trata de encontrar un paso que cruce desde el continente americano al noroeste.
Jim
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Professor Lawson
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
Jeff Slocum
Henry M. Stanley acepta una inusual propuesta del director del periódico para el que trabaja. Se trata de localizar al misionero escocés David Livingstone, desaparecido en plena selva africana. Cuando por fin le localiza, descubre que éste ha contraído una grave enfermedad, y que se siente cómodo viviendo entre los nativos.
Ezra Peavey (edited from 'The Buccaneer')
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
Walter
Vernon Castle, que se gana la vida como actor cómico de segunda fila, conoce en una playa a Irene, quien ve en él grandes aptitudes como bailarín. Ambos se enamoran y poco después se casan. Irene convence a Vernon para formar juntos una pareja de baile. Un malentendido les lleva a París, donde en realidad sólo le querían a él para interpretar un grotesco número cómico de vaudeville. La suerte, sin embargo, les sonríe de inmediato: una empresaria pone sus ojos en ellos y les hace debutar en el Café de París. Vernon e Irene triunfan por todo lo alto en el mundo de la moda. Pero estalla la guerra y Vernon siente la necesidad de alistarse.
Peter Goodwin
Peter Goodwin es el patriarca de una familia que odia a los Dillon desde que ambos clanes se enfrentaron en la Guerra Civil; pero surge un pequeño problema cuando su sobrina Sally (Loretta Young) se enamora de Jack, el hijo de los Dillon (Richard Greene). Además, para echar más leña al fuego en este romance imposible, Jack ayuda a Sally a formarse como jinete y participar en el derby de Kentucky.
Sugar
Gary Cooper interpreta a un cowboy rudo e implacable pero con buenos sentimientos. Aunque no tiene nada que ver con su forma de ser, acaba enamorándose de una joven adinerada de alto copete, interpretada por Merle Oberon. Con su manera decidida de actuar, el cowboy, que tiene un temperamento bastante tradicional, está decidido a calmar la ligereza de la chica. Ella no soporta que nadie le diga lo que tiene que hacer. El cowboy piensa que este tipo de chicas son como los caballos salvajes, que para adiestrarlos hay que darles un margen de confianza, a la vez que atarles corto.
Chuckawalla
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.
Ossian Popham
Dos hermanas rebeldes, es un estupendo clasico basado en una novela de Kate Douglas Wiggin de nacionalidad estadounidense, bajo la dirección de Rowland V. Lee. En 1963, Disney Productions hizo una versión de la historia de Wiggin llamada Summer Magic, protagonizada por Hayley Mills y Burl Ives y dirigida por James Neilson.
Muff Potter
Película basada en la novela novela homónima de Mark Twain.Ambientada en un pueblecito a las orillas del río Mississippi, narra las aventuras de dos chicos: Tom (Tommy Kelly) y su inseparable amigo "Huck" (Jackie Moran).
Ezra Peavey
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Gramp 'Hercules' Flynn
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
Cappy Ricks
Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can't stand, and his future mother-in-law has taken over everything and is set to merge his business with that of a rival company. Worst of all, though, is that she--in the interests of "progress"--has completely automated his beloved ship, "Electra"!. He sets out to put an end to all this foolishness and comes up with what he thinks is a foolproof plan.
Uncle Hugo
In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a mentor turns her into a successful Broadway entertainer. She returns to her former college to get sweet revenge.
'Oats'
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
Newt Holley
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.
Swan Bostrom
En las grandes regiones de bosques del Norte de los Estados Unidos, un padre y un hijo se enfrentan por el poder, la riqueza y el amor. Ambos se disputan el control de un negocio maderero y el amor de la misma mujer.
Bugs Meyers
Durante un viaje, Joe Wilson llega a un lugar desconocido, donde es encarcelado por un delito que no ha cometido. Los vecinos, amotinados, provocan el incendio de la cárcel y dan por muerto al forastero. Sin embargo, Wilson consigue sobrevivir y, entonces, intentará vengarse haciendo que sus potenciales asesinos corran el mismo peligro del que él escapó milagrosamente. "Fury" es el primer film americano del gran director alemán Fritz Lang.
Lem
John, un novelista neoyorkino, conoce a Sarah, una afamada actriz. Su amor es tan fuerte que se casan sin conocer uno demasiado del otro. Durante su Luna de Miel, empiezan a darse cuenta de la popularidad que despiertan cada uno frente a los demás, y varios enredos se les presentarán inoportunamente.
Taxi Driver
Karen y Marta, compañeras de la universidad y ya graduadas, convierten una granja que ha heredado Karen de su abuela en un colegio para chicas. Pero una día las dos profeoras y el doctor Joe Cardin, el médico que las animó a construir la escuela, se ven envueltos en un escándalo cuando una alumna perversa se dedica a difamarlos.
Samuel 'Gus' Barton
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
Station Agent
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
Grandpa
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
Old Atrocity
En 1849, el descubrimiento de oro en California desencadena una intensa oleada migratoria. Miles de aventureros atraviesan las Montañas Rocosas hasta llegar a las costas del Pacífico, atraídos sobre todo por la ciudad de San Francisco.
Peddler
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Wedding Witness (uncredited)
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Stone Cutter (uncredited)
The day after his Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln meets a wounded Confederate soldier in a hospital. The blinded rebel, not knowing his visitor's identity, regales him with memorized lines from the speech.
'Legs' Garnett
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
Joseph
A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.
Paul - Railroad Telegrapher (uncredited)
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Peasant (uncredited)
Después de la huida del monstruo creado por el doctor Frankenstein, el siniestro Dr. Praetorius propone al científico la creación de una compañera para el monstruo.
Soldier at Kelly's Wreckage
Un sargento del ejército anima a su hijo en convertirse en aviador de la escuela de West Point.
Bill Jenkins
Un escritor achaca su crisis de creatividad al ambiente en el que se mueve, la alta sociedad. Por esta razón decide transladarse junto con su esposa a su pueblo natal en Nueva Inglaterra. Su mujer decide regresar, poco después, a Nueva York, y él se enamora de una granjera, a la que convierte en heroína de su novela. Sin embargo, sus padres le obligan a contraer matrimonio, contra su voluntad, con otro hombre
Father (uncredited)
Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out.
Abner
Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge Sheriff. He also hopes to find the notorious leader of an outlaw gang and to also help Kane prove his innocence.
Stuttering Cook
A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters.
Lem
In this episode of the "Mr. Average Man" series, Edgar Kennedy lays bricks.
Reporter on Ship (uncredited)
Un pintor de retratos se reúne con un antiguo amor, cuando las inminentes memorias de ésta amenazan su carrera política.
Zeke - Stage Driver
Cowboy Tim Hamlin arrives in a town plagued by a gang of cattle rustlers.
Auto mechanic
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
Prisoner on Ship
Una de las varias adaptaciones que se han hecho del texto homónimo de Dickens sobre la historia del huérfano Pip y un misterioso bienhechor que le satisfará económicamente para hacer de él un caballero. (FILMAFFINITY)
Proprietor of Java Joe's
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
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).
Clifford (uncredited)
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
Switchman (uncredited)
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.
Roscoe (uncredited)
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
Radio Announcer
Un estafador se hace pasar por un predicador.
Train Conductor
The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
Otto - Bicycle Repair Man
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
Chauffeur (uncredited)
Una mujer alegre y desenvuelta se casa con un rígido lord inglés, viéndose luego envuelta en un escándalo con otro hombre.
Elmer Spicer
A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can help her get out of town.
Hick (uncredited)
Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she has lots of backstage gossip to choose from
Dr. Johnson the Coroner (uncredited)
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
Drunk Customer (uncredited)
Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.
Stuttering Boarder
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Niagara Falls Boatman (Uncredited)
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
2nd Bus Driver (uncredited)
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.
Soda Jerk
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Bicycle Owner (uncredited)
Adaptación de una novela de H.G. Wells sobre un hombre que posee la facultad de hacerse invisible.
Auditioning Man Who Does Animal Sounds (Uncredited)
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
Backstage Detective [extra]
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
Reporter
Los altibajos de un equipo de fútbol americano universitario.
Farmhand at Wedding (uncredited)
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
Stuttering Thief
A pair of sailors are on shore leave - skirt chasing and raising hell. They're targeted and pursued by a gang looking for a sailor with a winning lottery ticket. Mayhem ensues.
Stuttering Waiter
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.
Man Chuckling at Train Station
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned man--and who also has some inside knowledge of the circumstances of the man's case. Also aboard is the prisoner's wife, who doesn't believe her husband is a killer and desperately wants to talk to him about it but he refuses to speak to her.
The Radio Repairman
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
'Skid' (uncredited)
An adventure serial presented in 12 chapters. Inventor Thomas Edmunds uses a super plane, 'The Phantom,' to protect his new anti-gravity invention, the Contragrav, from theft.
Ticket Taker
Un circo al borde de la quiebra decide salvarse montando un número con leones y tigres por primera vez.
Drunk #2
A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.
Walt (uncredited)
Winters is after the Brand ranch, and his man Brett who is foreman there is rustling the Brand stock. But Tom is on to their game and breaks up their attempt to buy the ranch. When they plan to rustle their horses, Tom must not only rescue Danny Brand, who is their prisoner, but stop the rustlers.
Joe, Garage Attendant (Uncredited)
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
Counterman at Jewel Diner (uncredited)
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
Stuttering Waiter
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Cashier Summers
The Sheriff shoots the robber of the Bank and recovers the money bag only to find it empty. Ranger Tim Barlow arrives and takes over the investigation.
Mechanic (uncredited)
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
Protester Sign Carrier (uncredited)
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Man in Junkyard
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
Lighting Technician (uncredited)
La historia de un estudio de Hollywood durante la transición del silente al sonoro.
News Commentator at Game (uncredited)
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
Officer Dugan
Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner believes that they are real policemen and they get back the patrol car. Out on the beat, the duo chase women rather than criminals, just like real cops.
Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Shortly after Moody Pierson saves Sheriff Tim's life, Moody is arrested for murder. Tim doesn't believe he did it and lets him get away. Kicked out as Sheriff, Tim goes after the real kiler and this leads him to the town controlled by Red Slavins.
Joe
More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge of the company's development of a new speedboat - unaware that gangsters and saboteurs want to thwart them and won't stop at murder. Filled with gymnastic action-packed fights, Speed Madness is "a knockout for fans who cheer the hero and hiss the villain.
Bendix the Deputy Sheriff
Tim Clark es un ranchero que pide prestado dinero a Bob Russell, sin saber que éste le está robando su ganado. Cuando tiene que hacer frente a la deuda, Tim no puede devolver el dinero y se ve obligado a dar a Bob su rancho. Clark se convierte en un buscador de plata y cuando consigue ganar mucho dinero, vuelve para ajustar cuentas con Bob y a recuperar su rancho.
Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
Newspaperman
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
Holly
A pilot and a gold mine owner go up against the evil Black Hawk, who has invented a plane that can take off and land without using a runway.
Cigar Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
Lanky Smith (uncredited)
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.
Sheriff Lew Collins
Cuando Texas Grant llega a la ciudad la gente cree que el finado Jim Rawlings ha regresado. Tras un enfrentamiento con Utah Becker, Grant se entera de que Helen Rawlings está a punto de perder su hacienda y decide hacerse pasar por Rawlings para ayudarla.
Sailor (uncredited)
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
Musician (uncredited)
En un pueblo del Pacífico, Seth, un pescador viudo, se casa con Ruth, una jovencita que podría ser su hija. Poco a poco, la chica comienza a sentirse atraída por Matt, el hijo de Seth.
Scratch-As-Catch-Can is a 1932 American short comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Comedy).
Hector
Bill Grant is a small-time gambler who spends more time embellishing his accomplishments than actually doing anything. He has a small run of good luck when he wins a racehorse during a poker game. This enables him to enjoy the lifestyle he has been bragging about for so long. While in high society, he falls for Norma, whose father is big in racing circles.
Walt
A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.
Driver
Based on Dowling's 1925 stage vehicle of the same name, the story is set in motion when the king of the mythical European nation of Bulgravia visits an American health resort. Hero Tim Dugan appoints himself the king's unofficial protector, saving him from the larcenous designs of crooked gambler Arnold Bookstein.
Minor Role (uncredited)
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
Spumoni Bodyguard (uncredited)
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
Milkman (uncredited)
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
Desk Sergeant ('Springtime') / Soldier ('All Noisy on the Eastern Front') / Waiter ('Oh! Forevermore!') / Front End of Horse / Quartet Member ('Nellie')
Una revista que gira en torno al director de orquesta Paul Whiteman, además de demostrar en su número de clausura que la música popular europea se halla en las raíces de la música popular norteamericana, es decir, el jazz.
Side Show Barker
Three sailors go searching for a girl who swindled one of them out of half his pay.
Skinny Rawlins
Its time for the big race and its the Rambling Kid riding Dynamite versus Wilson's horse Thunderbolt. When Gyp informs Wilson that Lightning is faster, Wilson has Gyp drug the Kid's coffee just before the race.
Clown (uncredited)
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
Paul Revere
The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Since all the other inmates/attendees think they are historical figures such as Robin Hood, the Duke of Wellington, Paul Revere, William Tell, Salome, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes and others, it takes a while for Judd to separate the wheat from the chaff and prove he is not deranged. His quest becomes more urgent when he falls in love with a nurse named Josephine, who does not think she is Napoleon's "Josephine" but is convinced Judd thinks he is Napoleaon.
Marine Pilot
Un aviador de la Marina y su profesor de la escuela de vuelo se enamoran de la misma hermosa enfermera.
Road House Thug (uncredited)
When a young man acts foolish, he's either insane, in debt or in love, and there's not much difference! Real estate agent Charles Blaydon is in love and in order to get the father of his sweetheart Kay Weaver to purchase a nearby property he is must fill the vacant house next door. So he does something foolish when he offers a few months rent free to the first group of prospective buyer he finds. However in his eagerness he doesn't suspect that this peculiar group isn't a family looking for a home but actually a gang of robbers on the lam!
Pat O'Shea
A lawman goes undercover to help his brother, a rancher, fight off horse thieves working for his greedy neighbor, who wants his ranch.
Ranch Foreman
After "Dirty Neck" Jack Purvin sees a newspaper photograph of Eastern socialite Helen Van Smythe, soon to arrive at the nearby dude ranch, he hightails it to San Francisco in order to learn how to become a gentleman. Returning to the ranch, the new but not necessarily improved Jack shreds his dandified image in order to save Helen from a lecherous but decidedly fake count and her mother from a jewel thief.
Minor Role (uncredited)
The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to turn up at his casino, in trouble and doesn't want his girl to find about it.
Bob Warner sells some cattle to two men who later drug him and rob him of the sale money. He takes a job with a medicine show as a barker, offering a reward to any spectator to last three rounds in fighting him. While in the ring, he notices in the audience the two men who stole his money. He knocks out his contestant, pursues the crooks, and recovers the money.
Henchman (uncredited)
Prequel to The Ace of Scotland Yard. This serial is presumed lost.
Buffalo is banished to the wilderness after playing a nasty practical joke on his rancher father. During his exile, Billy meets and falls in love with pretty Patricia Farris, who sadly rejects him when he tries to steal a kiss.
Below Deck Yacht Crewman
Llega un nuevo pastor a la ciudad, un hombre joven y con las ideas muy claras acerca de su apostolado. Muy pronto se da cuenta de que el lugar está repleto de "trabajo" para él. Reina la despreocupación y la lujuria y como muestra conoce a una disoluta joven de la mejor sociedad quien, atraída e intrigada por él, tratará de hacerle difícil su tarea redentoria.
Billy Martin
A young society scion is hi-jacked by a couple of bandits who force him to drive them West.
Lunch Counterman (uncredited)
At a three-ring circus, 'Spangles' Delancy, a beautiful bareback horse rider, falls in love with a wanted man, Dick Radley, who uses the circus as a hideout. The show's owner Big Bill Bowman also falls in love with Spangles-- But only one man can have her.
Racing Spectator in Grandstand at Rodeo (uncredited)
Real life rodeo champion Hoot Gibson plays Dan Molloy, an expert rider who wins the big one, the Calgary Stampede. When the father of his new French-Canadian girlfriend turns up dead, Molloy is the only suspect!
Minor Role (uncredited)
A ship carrying a touring circus troupe sinks at sea, and Lorraine, a young girl, is washed up on a deserted island. Her only companion is a gorilla from the circus, Bimi, who raises her as its own. Several years later Lorraine's wealthy grandfather, who has hired a psychic to help find her, is led by the psychic to Lorraine's island, and she and Bimi are taken back to "civiliation" in San Francisco, but things don't work out exactly as planned.
