Various Roles (archive footage)
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Archive Footage
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
Self
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Little John
El hijo de Robin Hood, convertido en noble, tiene que continuar la tradición que empezó su difunto padre, cuando el rey Juan sube brutalmente los impuestos.
Sheriff Harris
Un vendedor de pistolas que representa al señor Colt es injustamente acusado de actividades ilegales después de que un forajido le robe sus armas.
Jed Isbell
Un veterano de guerra civil llamado Josiah Grey (Joel McCrea) llega a una pequeña ciudad del sur de los Estados Unidos para ejercer su ministerio como pastor religioso. Grey tiene una familia y muchos amigos, pero pronto encuentra la fricción con algunos de sus feligreses. En seguida se crea una disputa entre su ministerio y el del joven doctor del lugar, que busca el tratamiento científico para curar a sus pacientes. La aparición del Ku-Klux Klan y una epidemia de fiebres tifoideas soliviantarán los ánimos de la población... (FILMAFFINITY)
Kovatch
Siendo Napoleón emperador de Francia, a un estafador de poca monta lo confunden con el temible Inspector General, un enviado oficial de Bonaparte para controlar y acabar con la corrupción generalizada en los vastos territorios del imperio.
Sam Washburn
La historia de Kip, un comediante que triunfa en televisión, contada en un largo flash-back desde que era un joven con gracia, pero a quien nadie conocía. En su trayectoria surge la tentación de robar chistes, aplastar a quien haga falta, y dejar de pasar de largo el amor. ¿Logrará nuestro hombre sobreponerse a todo esto?
Film inspirado en un número de una revista musical, cuenta la típica historia del hombre al que los oropeles de la fama le hacen desviarse del buen camino, al menos por un tiempo. Milton Berle, él mismo un actor cómico que puede entender bien a su personaje, tuvo por una vez un papel protagonista.
J.B. Grennell
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
Sheriff Knudson
Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
Jake Evarts
Película Western dirigida por Ray Enright en 1949. Con la llegada de la Guerra Civil Americana, tres socios de un rancho ven como éste se destruye. Necesitados de dinero, se incorporarán a las tropas confederadas, cada uno por sus particulares motivaciones.
Terrance O'Leary
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
Leporello
Don Juan de Mañara, un caballero español, después de provocar un escándalo amoroso que da al traste con un matrimonio de conveniencia impuesto por la reina, regresa a la corte de España. Una vez en su patria, encuentra acomodo como maestro de esgrima en el Real Colegio de Guardias Nobles, lo que le rehabilita a los ojos de todos, borrando del recuerdo su borrascoso pasado. Pero, debido a su carácter pendenciero, se verá de nuevo envuelto en situaciones comprometidas.
Dugan
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
John Donovan
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
Fred Durkin
Un jugador se propone capturar al bandido responsable de varios atracos a diligencias. Raoul Walsh dirige este western de 1947 con las estrellas Dennis Morgan y Jane Wyman.
Jake Dingle
Jeb Rand (Robert Mitchum) es un hombre atormentado por los recuerdos de su infancia. Adoptado a los cuatro años por Medora Callum (Judith Anderson), tras el asesinato de toda su familia, Jeb crece sin problemas en su nuevo hogar. Sin embargo, sus traumas infantiles vuelven una y otra vez a través de sus sueños. Y sus pesadillas se hacen realidad cuando reaparece el hombre que, después de acabar con su familia, no ha dejado de buscarlo durante años para acabar también con él.
Herman Brinker
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
John Braden
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies' man, and Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music over the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead, they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.
Riley
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
Leon Dowling
Biopic sobre el famoso compositor de los años veinte Cole Porter, una vida llena de momentos dramáticos y memorables, desde su graduación en la Universidad de Yale hasta que alcanzó el éxito mundial.
Dr. Lilley
A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley.
Dr. Orville Tedder
Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.
Big Mike Harrigan
Biografía de Robert L. Scott, afamado piloto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que se enfrentó a muerte con su mortífero enemigo, el aviador japonés conocido como Tokyo Joe.
Herman Plottke
Martin Richter, alemán que trabaja para los aliados, consigue escapar por los pelos de la Gestapo. Se refugia en un hotel, en espera de que la II Guerra Mundial llegue a su fin.
Lew Morton
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
Self
El "Hollywwod Canteen" era un club que la Warner Bros creó durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) para que los soldados que estaban de permiso pudieran divertirse con el espectáculo y codearse con los actores de moda. Dos soldados pasan tres noches en el club: uno de ellos sueña con besar a Joan Leslie, su amor imposible durante la guerra del Pacífico. John Garfield favorece el encuentro.
rof. Matthew Q. Reardon
Teenage Janie (Joyce Reynolds) falls in love with a private (Robert Hutton) from an Army base opposed by her editor father (Edward Arnold).
Walter Whirtle
A Walter y a Vivian les cuesta conservar la servidumbre. Walter contrata a un detective privado y a su prometida para que trabajen con él, con la excusa de que espías nazis la han tomado con él, por ser fabricante de municiones. Cuando aparezcan los verdaderos espías, empezarán los líos de verdad...
Steve Gillis
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
'Cookie' Wainwright
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), a un submarino americano le encargan una misión tan secreta como peligrosa: aventurarse en aguas japonesas y llegar hasta la mismísima bahía de Tokyo.
Self
Musical en el que las estrellas de la Warner cantan una serie de canciones para animar a los soldados americanos que estaban combatiendo en la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945).
Sergeant McGee
Durante la I Guerra Mundial, el bailarín de Broadway Jerry Jones (George Murphy) es convocado para ingresar en el ejército. Otros amigos se enlistan también, y pronto, en el Campo Upton de New York, Jerry organiza a un grupo que montará el espectáculo “Yip! Yip! Yaphank!”. Varias décadas después, algunos de los sobrevivientes del grupo, con Jerry a la cabeza, aunarán esfuerzos para montar, durante la II Guerra Mundial, otra revista que se llamará esta vez “This is the Army”.
Boats O'Hara
Mientras transporta mercancías para sus aliados rusos una nave de mercante americana capitaneada por Raymond Massey es torpedeada. El valor de Massey y su primer oficial Humphrey Bogart sirve como una inspiración a los sobrevivientes que llevan su diminuto bote salvavidas a América donde son recibidos como héroes. A la tripulación se le asigna un nuevo Liberty Ship. A pesar de los miedos de ser torpedeados de nuevo, Massey, Bogart, y los otros hombres llevan su carga con éxito a Rusia a pesar de ser atacados por varios aviones alemanes en el proceso.
Pat Corbett
Biografía del campeón de boxeo James J. Corbett. Conocido como 'Gentleman Jim', Corbett se convirtió en el primer campeón del mundo de los pesos pesados en 1892, cuando derrotó a John L. Sullivan, tras la entrada en vigor de las llamadas reglas de Queensberry, que exigían la utilización de unos guantes hinchados para proteger los nudillos, un cuadrilátero con unas medidas determinadas y establecían la duración del combate... En Estados Unidos obtuvo excelentes críticas.
Kirk Edwards
Un equipo de bombarderos de la R.A.F., obligados a aterrizar en Alemania después de una victoriosa incursión, intentan regresar a Inglaterra atravesando el corazón de Berlín. Pero la Gestapo los persigue implacablemente por los campos de prisioneros, los trenes- hospital y las fábricas de municiones. Los cinco fugitivos, en su intento de alcanzar la frontera holandesa y recuperar la libertad, dejan a su paso un rastro de muerte y destrucción.
Yippee 'Yip'
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.
Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)
James Cagney es un piloto que se enrola en la fuerza aérea canadiense durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945).
Norton
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
Jumbo Wells
Hank y Johnny trabajan como técnicos de una compañía de electricidad. Una noche, se encuentran en una reunión a la atractiva Fay, y la tensión aumenta porque ambos se disputan el favor de la chica.
Robert Barnes
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
Errol Flynn es un superficial caballero de la alta sociedad. Su carácter frívolo poco hace sospechar a los que le rodean que tiene una doble vida. Compagina su faceta más exclusiva con una labor como escritor de novelas de misterio y colaborador de la policía.
Old Man Grimes
Biff Grimes está desesperadamente enamorada de Virginia, pero su mejor amigo, Hugo, se casa con ella y manipula a Biff para que participe en sus negocios, un tanto nefastos. Hugo parece haber robado los sueños de Biff y Biff tiene que lidiar con la idea de que tener lo que quiere y querer lo que otro tiene pueden ser cosas muy diferentes.
'Skipper' Martin
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Tex Bell
Como castigo por una pelea con sus compañeros días antes de graduarse en West Point, Jeb Stuart, George Armstrong Custer y cuatro amigos más, son destinados al Segundo de Caballería, estacionado en Fort Leavenworth. Durante su estancia allí, deberán participar en la captura y ejecución del abolicionista, John Brown, tras la Batalla de Harper Ferry.
Capt. Bullwinkle
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
Carl Pitt
Clásico del género de piratas en el que un pletórico Errol Flynn interpreta a un bucanero inglés del siglo XVI al que la reina Isabel I concede patente de corso para abordar la flota española y atacar y saquear sus ciudades en el Nuevo Mundo. Las autoridades españolas elaboran un plan para acabar con el temido pirata. El maestro Curtiz deja su sello con una perfecta narración y espectaculares batallas navales.
Ed Carlsen
Joe y Paul Fabrini son dos hermanos que tratan de abrirse camino por su cuenta como camioneros. Tras unos duros comienzos, las cosas comienzan a ir bien, pero la ambición de Joe y la aparición de una mujer obsesionada con él hará que todo se complique.
Olaf Swenson
El oficial de la Unión Kerry Bradford se escapa de una prisión confederada y corre a interceptar un cargamento de 5 millones de dólares en oro con destino a las arcas confederadas. Un simpatizante de la Confederación y un bandido mejicano, cada uno de ellos con sus propios intereses, se le cruzarán en el camino.
Gallagher
Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when he's asked to retire on his 25th anniversary with the force. He's even more unprepared for the romance that develops between his favorite daughter, Maureen, and the Scottish cop who takes over his beat.
Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
Big Mike Wynn
Un chico de Brooklyn se alista al ejército, en el regimiento "Fighting 69th", para luchar contra los alemanes en la I Guerra Mundial. Su actitud de prepotencia e insubordinación en los entrenamientos le pone en contra de todos excepto del padre Francis Duffy, también soldado -y personaje que existión en la vida real-, que intenta ayudarle en todo momento. Ya en la guerra, a la hora de luchar, el joven comprobará que ésta es más horrible de lo que pensaba... (FILMAFFINITY)
Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
The Prince of Tyrone
Londres, 1596. El conde de Essex, Robert Devreaux (Errol Flynn) llega victorioso con sus tropas después de derrotar a los españoles en Cádiz. No obstante, el recibimiento que le dispensa la reina Isabel I (Bette Davis) no será agradable debido a los altos costes de la batalla. Las relaciones entre la soberana y el conde irán de la tensión al afecto, según traten asuntos políticos o sentimentales, respectivamente.
Mezcla de biografía histórica y drama romántico que narra las relaciones de amor y odio entre la ya madura Isabel I Tudor, reina de Inglaterra e Irlanda (1558-1603) y Robert Devereux, el elegante Conde de Essex.
Sergei Alexandrovitch
Un joven bailarín abandona el vodevil para convertirse en compositor, y acaba uniéndose a una compañía de ballet rusa.
Michael 'Mike' Leonard
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Porthos
Adaptación de la famosa novela de Alexandre Dumas que sigue unas pautas muy similares a la versión rodada diez años antes por Allan Dwan.
Rusty Hart
Kansas, 1866. Wade Hatton intenta imponer el orden y la justicia en Dodge City, una próspera ciudad a la que llega el ferrocarril, pero que está dominada por un cacique y su banda de pistoleros. En su empeño le ayuda Abby Irving, la sobrina del médico local.
Gallagher
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
J.J. Slattery
Con la ayuda de un amigo (Freddie Bartholomew), una chica (Judy Garland) hace todo lo posible para evitar que su madre viuda se case con una persona que no le conviene.
Sam Johnson
Tres hijas de un modesto farmaceutico tienen que pasar por juicios y tribulaciones, debido a sus problemáticos matrimonios entre 1904 y 1908.
'Ox' Smith
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
Little John
Robin de Locksey regresa a Inglaterra tras combatir contra los infieles en las Cruzadas, pero Juan sin Tierra, el hermano del Rey Ricardo I, ha usurpado el trono y gobierna como un tirano, por lo que el noble sajón decide refugiarse en el bosque de Sherwood y luchar contra él para devolverle la corona a Ricardo.
Furnoy
Tres jóvenes hombres buscan al asesino que mató a su padre, un hombre al que admiraban mucho. Su viaje les lleva desde la India hasta América del Sur, Londres, Egipto, y EE.UU. Mientras avanzan en sus investigaciones, empiezan a descubrir la verdad oculta y perturbadora sobre la muerte de su padre
Kaidu
Relato que narra los viajes del aventurero Marco Polo, que viajó hasta Asia desde Italia descubriendo numerosas culturas. En Pekín conocerá la pólvora y se enamorará de la hija del emperador Kublai Khan.
Grandpere
Después de un importante robo de joyas, Pepe le Moko, un hábil ladrón francés, se oculta en las callejuelas de la kashbah argelina huyendo de la policía. El policía Slimane espera pacientemente el momento en el que Pepe caiga en la tentación de abandonar su refugio para poder arrestarlo. Mientras tanto, el tiempo pasa y en el distrito argelino Pepe se enamora de una bella y turbadora joven.
Detective Flugelman
Un cantante que aspira a convertirse en compositor es acusado de un crimen y debe demostrar su inocencia. Por otro lado, los delincuentes responsables le amenazan para que no vuelva a cantar. Mientras medita sobre su futuro, Nino Maretti se enamora de la bella Jean.
Baron
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
Ed Munn
Stella, una chica de familia humilde, se casa con el adinerado Steve. Al poco tiempo, tienen una hija y todo parece ir bien, pero las grandes diferencias de educación harán mella en su matrimonio y finalmente se separan. Pasados unos años, Stella renuncia a su hija en favor de Steve para que la niña se críe en un mejor ambiente.
Walt Brennan
Pennsylvania, 1859. Sally Waterson y su padre han dejado la ciudad con su espectáculo de medicina de viaje, pero cuando su carro se prende fuego, se encuentran varados. Son acogidos por la señora Cortlandt y su nieto, Peter, que está tratando de establecer un gasoducto que suministrara petróleo por todo el estado. Sally y Peter pronto se enamoraran.
Captain of the Guard
Inglaterra, siglo XIX. Tom, un niño pobre, y el príncipe Edward Tudor nacieron el mismo día, teniendo ambos un parecido asombroso. Un día Tom se cuela en los jardines del palacio y conoce al príncipe, decidiendo ambos intercambiase sus roles. Se cambian entonces las ropas, pero los guardias les descubren y expulsan al verdadero príncipe de Palacio. Nadie les cree cuando intentan contar la verdad...
Himself
Warner Brothers bloopers of 1937.
Bjorn Skalka
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
Joe Grogan
Los magos del humor, Laurel y Hardy, interpretan a dos marineros encargados de entregar un valioso paquete en el puerto donde, por casualidad, viven sus hermanos gemelos, felizmente casados. Los gemelos y sus dos novias se intercambian, por error, con sus hermanos. Uno de los más divertidos trabajos de los míticos Laurel y Hardy, conocidos en España como El gordo y el flaco. En esta ocasión interpretan dos papeles cada uno, lo que fue posible gracias a los magistrales trucos fotográficos del cámara Rudolph Maté, uno de los grandes directores de fotografía de la historia del cine
John Alexander Hardigan
Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
John Borchard
Louis Friedlander-directed film
Jim Alison
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
Dr. Ivan Krug
El teniente Andrew Rowan (autor del libro en el que se basa el film y encarnado por Wallace Beery) debe entregar urgentemente un mensaje del presidente norteamericano William McKinley al líder revolucionario Calixto García. Para ello, dicho emisario contará con la ayuda de Raphaelita Maderos, hija de un acaudalado cubano. Basada en un caso real ocurrido durante la guerra de Cuba entre Estados Unidos y España en 1898.
Inspector Florio
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Charles L. Kellar
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
Burbix
Quan Marcus es un gladiador que goza del favor de Poncio Pilatos. Al regresar de un viaje de Jerusalén encuentra a su hijo adoptivo, Flavio, gravemente enfermo y lo lleva ante Jesús. El niño consigue sobrevivir milagrosamente y la vida de padre e hijo cambia.
Crusades Actor
Semi-documentary of a typical "extra girl" on a C.B.DeMille film.
Blondel
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.
Maurice Schlapkohl
Historia de una chica huérfana que siembra el bien y la confusión y que al final se transforma en una comedia sobre los estragos que la inocencia causa en el cinismo masculino.
Click Dade
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Rob Daw
Los feligreses de una pequeña parroquia escocesa tratarán de impedir por todos los medios, las relaciones entre su clérigo y una bella joven de raza gitana. (FILMAFFINITY)
Charlie McKelvey
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
El señor Higgins tiene cuatro hijas y tres yernos. Cada uno de ellos gestiona una de sus empresas. Dan Brooks odia dirigir la compañía de fabricación de papel. Él prefiere dedicar su atención a su caballo de carreras "Broadway Bill". Alice, la hija preferida de Higgins, animará a Dan cuando la esposa de éste se niegue a apoyarlo en las carreras. Higgins obliga a Dan a vender su caballo y a asumir sus obligaciones en la fábrica. A pesar de ello, Dan sigue obsesionado por las carreras, y Alice se enamora de él.
Martin the Furniture Man
La viuda Beatrice Pullman (Claudette Colbert) empieza a obtener beneficios gracias a las recetas de repostería de su sirvienta negra Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers). Mientras tanto, la hija de Beatrice (Rochelle Hudson) se enamora de su padrastro. Por su parte, la hija de la sirvienta (Fredi Washington) se empeña en hacerse pasar por blanca
Henry
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
Joe Gargery
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)
Bartholomew Hockings
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Emil Miller
Philip, un estudiante de medicina, se enamora perdidamente de una camarera llamada Mildred. Ella, que le hace creer que también lo ama, ejerce sobre el joven un influjo tan poderoso que, a pesar de las humillaciones y desprecios a que lo somete, vuelve con ella una y otra vez. Esta situación de inestabilidad lo lleva a fracasar en los estudios, pero entonces empieza a comprender cuáles son las verdaderas intenciones de Mildred.
Holgar Jachman
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
Chief O'Malley
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Von Luden
Four "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines. Also on the boat with the four "mail-order" brides (Americans Mame Smith, Flo Lane, and Gwen from England and Lena from Europe) is Mary Lee, a frightened and innocent girl, who has come to see the mine's brutal supervisor, Von Luden, about a job.
Danker
Peter Warren, es un periodista desempleado que se topa con Ellie, la hija de un millonario que huyó del barco de Alexander Andrews, su padre, porque no acepta al hombre con el que ella se quiere casar. Peter ve la oportunidad de conseguir una buena historia, pero varios hechos acaban por crear un vínculo entre ellos.
Cook
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un grupo de soldados británicos se encuentra perdido en medio del desierto de Mesopotamia. Su comandante, que era el único que conocía el destino de la misión, resulta asesinado por un disparo de unos bandidos.
Sam
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Lundstrom
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
Max Stager
A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, various people turn up claiming to be the rightful heir to her fortune.
Borglund
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Mr Simpson
A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.
Klass Pool
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Capt. Greg Winters
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Submarine U-67."
Hubert
La joven Madelon Claudet es una prostituta que ha de pasar diez años en la cárcel por un delito que no ha cometido. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jeb Mondstrum
Una mujer joven huye de una vida insoportable en casa y de un matrimonio concertado con un hombre al que desprecia. Buscará la felicidad con un guapo ingeniero.
Biezel
Melodrama judicial que se desarrolla nada menos que en la ciudad de Praga –en realidad en los estudios de la Paramount–, donde Rudek Berken es un duro fiscal que cierra un café en el que se practica la prostitución, y envia a prisión a la mujer que la regenta. Sin embargo, Rudek no puede evitar sentirse atraído por la hija de la madame, por la que llega incluso a cometer un asesinato accidental al protegerla de las garras de uno de sus viciosos pretendientes.
Stevens
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their cheap flat. Meanwhile, Boris, a bookshop keeper, dreams of a prosperous future from the book he is writing. Their boarder, Dave, a partner in a gambling establishment, makes a play for Mahyna; she is tempted to leave with him when Eddie, a former admirer, arrives on the scene, and the two get into constant arguments over her.
Walter
A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.
Adam Pike
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
Flash
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
Captain Erickson
SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
Hanson
Tale of a pair of dam workers who, despite their strong friendship, duke it out on a regular basis. But when the dam threatens to burst, the battling buddies work side by side to rescue the deluge-threatened townsfolk.
Mather
Pete Smith, a lift bridge operator in a harbor, feels lonely in his cabin, his only visitor being a policeman on patrol, Sgt. Coughlin. One night, after hearing shots, Smith gives shelter to a wounded man, whom he hides from Coughlin. Before leaving, the man, Marcas, promises to return the favor and the coat he borrows from him. Later, Smith enters the police, and his chief, Mather, suspects he is protecting Marcas, who is actually a gangster. Marcas sends a girl, Mary Monks, to deliver a luxurious coat with a fur collar to Smith. Pete and Mary get along well, and for his sake, she betrays Marcas, who is eventually shot to death by the cops, after having stopped his mob from killing Smith. Mary goes away alone into the night, and when Mather finds out that Pete is protecting her, he drops away the evidence of her presence on the spot.
Jansen
La película nos presenta una sucesión de enredos que comienzan cuando la atrevida Kay se niega a contraer matrimonio con un lord inglés. Desobedeciendo los designios de su padre, su fuerte y decidido carácter le hace cambiar de nombre y encontrar trabajo de doncella.
Slim Strede
Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured in an accident and temporarily crippled, he rejects her. Swede tries every desperate measure to get Blondy to fight back, to try to walk, even masquerading as stealing Sally away from him.
Caesar
Jacqueline Logan stars as Paula, a beautiful and fearless circus leopard trainer. Working hand-in-glove with the police, Paula joins a circus where several murders have occurred. Among the suspects is gorilla trainer Caesar (Alan Hale Sr.). (NY Times)
Singapore Jack
Captain Slocum of the Hesperus arrives on shore in a New England village to find that the girl he loves has been tricked into marrying John Hazzard in his absence. Heartbroken and bitter, the captain, with his daughter, Gale, and second mate, Singapore Jack, returns to sea. He rescues from a burning vessel John Hazzard, Jr., son of his rival, and though he tries to keep the boy from Gale, a romance develops. ...
'Happy' Dan Morgan
Barbara Fiske, a beautiful girl of social standing, is about to be married to Lloyd Van Courtland. On the eve of their marriage, she foolishly pays a visit to a colorful steamship captain aboard his ship.
Director
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, their used car is worth more than they ever could have imagined.
Director
A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived devices and bringing in other candidates more to her liking.
Director
Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens.
Director
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle the threat. Standing Rock's son, Braveheart, is sent to college to study law so that he can protect their rights, but others in the tribe, led by the hot-tempered Ki-Yote, want to provoke a more violent confrontation.
Director
A beautiful con artist marries Hayes Hallan, the owner of a pearl-rich island. No sooner has the couple said "I do" than Beatrice's partners in crime show up, claiming to be the bride's parents.
Tom King
In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to rescue his sweetheart from a terrible marriage.
Duke Mareno
The story of a great Italian Duchess and of the baffling mystic, L Enigma
Prince Rohenhauer
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first he thinks it's just a coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished, who would be in her late 50s or early 60s by now. Soon, however, he begins to believe that maybe it's not such a coincidence after all.
King Karl
A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?
Colonel Moreau
Acusado injustamente del asesinato del coronel John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) debe encontrar al verdadedo criminal y limpiar su nombre antes de poder declararse a su amada Adele (Olmstead).
Alan Hale
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Prince Stefan de Bernie
An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world.
Miles Bjornstam
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
Sam Woodhull
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?
Ferrago
Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina suspected of being the headquarters of the dope ring.
Little John
Ricardo Corazón de León (Wallace Beery), rey amado y respetado por su pueblo, decide ir a las Cruzadas al frente de su ejército, dejando temporalmente a su hermano, el príncipe Juan (Sam De Grasse), como regente del trono. En ausencia de Ricardo, el príncipe y traicionero Juan gobierna despiadadamente con mano de hierro, convirtiendo Inglaterra en un lugar donde impera la crueldad y la violencia. A está tiranía hará frente el Conde de Huntington (Douglas Fairbanks), un valiente guerrero que, informado de la situación del país, pondrá en peligro su vida y honor para oponerse al traidor. Por ello, se verá fuera de la ley, teniendo que ejercer como el forajido Robin Hood, campeón de los débiles y oprimidos, que defenderá al pueblo frente al cruel príncipe Juan y tendrá que ocultarse en el bosque de Sherwood.
Sabos
A silent romantic adventure melodrama (from the play and novel by Richard Harding) about a womanizer who follows a beautiful Hispanic woman to her home country and his adventures there. He ends up helping her father become dictator of the entire country, and is rewarded with marriage to her and he is named Minister of Finance!
Benson
A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
Torvald Helmer
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed ...
Ben Wadley
Ek is a disembodied spirit, required to wait his turn in the boring cosmos until he is allowed to inhabit an earthly body. Impatient, he sneaks off to earth to find a body and, after several failed attempts, finds Professor Ezra Botts, a timid old pedant and researcher of psychic phenomena. Life fairly well kicks Professor Botts around as it does all timid souls, and he gets little love or respect. But during an experimental trance, he is able to leave his body behind and at that moment, Ek sees his chance and slips in, taking over the professor's body. The "new" professor is energetic, charismatic, and dynamic, and from the limbo in which he floats, the real professor fears that Ek is going to wear out the tired old body before he, Botts, can return to it. And just how is he supposed to get back into his body, anyway?
Gustave Seimann
When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something about him is different. But with Europe racing toward war and England infiltrated by saboteurs, will the truth emerge before it is too late?
Rufus B. Coulter
Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sheriff's daughter; and after adopting Pard he gets a job as a porter in the bank. Santa Fe learns that the leading banker, Coulter, is in league with a band of outlaws, and when Coulter frames Dick Farwell, Annette's fiancé, Dick is suspected of robbery and is captured by the outlaws.
George Masson
Jean, a wealthy young Canadian back from a trip to Europe, meets and falls for Carmen, a pretty young Spanish girl. They marry and have a daughter, but soon afterward Jean discovers his wife is having an affair. She takes her daughter and leaves him, and Jean's luck gets even worse--he loses his business in a fire and his thieving father-in-law steals what little money he has left.
Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man.
Mark Grant
Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign.
Karl von Hartrott
En vísperas de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), las dos ramas de una acomodada familia argentina se dividen en dos bandos: los Desnoyers, oriundos de Francia, y los von Hartrott, de origen alemán. Julio Desnoyers, un joven irresponsable y bohemio, tiene un romance con Marguerite, una mujer casada. Cuando estalla la guerra, el esposo de Margueritte se va al frente. Poco despues, una serie de circunstancias hacen que Julio cambie radicalmente y decida trabajar para la Resistencia.
'Lucky' Travers
Wealthy Richard Covington, although aging and lonely, distresses his children, Waverly and Beatrice, by marrying a heartless seductress named Fay Hope. Because Fay's extravagant spending threatens to ruin Richard, Beatrice confronts her, which prompts Richard, who is hopelessly in love with the beautiful vampire, to order his daughter from the house.
Count Rudolph Frizel
Austrian diplomats, seeking papers in the possession of the United States diplomat, work through the infatuation of his son, Harry, for an Italian widow. In his desperate financial straits, he is induced to turn traitor to his trust, but the woman, truly loving him, saves him from the consequences of his crime, at the cost of her own love and life.
Dr. Henry Grey
Ethel Barrymore plays the wife of an abusive country squire. So nasty is her husband that he all but forces her to seek solace in the arms of her former sweetheart (played by Alan Hale in his leading-man period). Their clandestine relationship finally comes out in the open when the nasty husband is killed by his irate tenants.
Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the President's beautiful daughter, Juana. Valdez returns to Paragonia, but is deposed by Generals Sanchez and Garcia and locked in San Mateo Prison. The Americano arrives...
Captain Arthur Boyce
The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
John Huntington
Driven from Russia by the persecution of the police, who had caused the death of his wife, was Ivan Pavloff, a Nihilist, accompanied by his two infant twin daughters Olga and Nina, en route to America in search of freedom.
Cowboy
Mildred Manning wants to experience the Wild West firsthand with her beau, Sir Charles Beverly. While Charles is gambling, Mildred is saved from two drunken cowboys by Del Burton. Del falls in love with Mildred and follows her back east.
Halsey Brent
This picture tells of Leila Austen, a wealthy girl, who leaves Halsey Brent, a young suitor, to marry Tom Carter, a mining engineer.
Hugh Fernely
Ronald, heir to Lord Earle in Earlescourt, England, secretly loves Dora Thorne, a desirable but working-class woman. When Lord Earle hears of the relationship, he brings Valentine Charteris to the estate to distract his lovesick son. True to his love, however, Ronald refuses Valentine and marries Dora. After emigrating to Italy, Ronald earns a modest living as a painter, and Dora gives birth to twins. When Ronald receives a generous commission to paint a portrait, he asks Dora to pose for him, but overly preoccupied with the children, she refuses. Wounded by the rejection, Ronald calls on Valentine Charteris and quickly becomes infatuated with her, forcing Dora to return to Earlescourt with the twins.
Sir Francis Levinson
An adaptation of the stage warhorse East Lynne featuring a young, curly-haired Alan Hale as the villain.
Madison - The Americano
Isabella De Ortega rides over to the mission for her music lesson. While she is there, pirates attack the mission and loot its treasures. The monks hide her in the tower, but she is discovered by the ruffian crew and in grave peril until the Americano, leader of the pirate band, rescues her at his own risk.
Frank Mansfield
Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the gypsies and, along with her mother Zenda, known as "The Woman in Black," she vows revenge. Meanwhile, Crane blackmails Stella Everett's father into forcing her to marry him, even though she loves Frank Mansfield, Crane's rival for a congressional seat. Frank wins, but Stella still faces the prospect of marriage to Crane until Zenda comes to her with a plan. On their wedding day, after the vows are recited, when Crane lifts the veil from his wife's face, he is shocked to discover, that his new bride is Mary. Now Stella and Frank are free to marry, and Zenda has gained her revenge.
Sam Freeborn
An innocent man, serving a sentence of five years in prison through the perjured testimony of the real criminal, Steve Carson, foreman of a shipyard, strikes up a warm friendship with his cellmate, Harold Norwood, a defaulting paying teller. No less strange than their friendship is the befriending of Steve's wife, Annie, by Julia Seymour, prima donna, who is Norwood's wife. As a reward of good behavior, the men are released on Christmas morning. Annie is bewildered by the receipt of a bank book which shows that large deposits of gold have been made in her name and that of her sister, Mary, by their uncle, George Hosford, who, dying in Alaska, has entrusted the book to Joe Hawes, a fellow prospector.
An early short film in which the young widow is protected by the employer of her recently deceased husband.
John Tressider
Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger, prettier and flightier of the two. While "doing the town," Miriam is lured into the apartment of a pair of letches named Crooke and Craven, who ply her with drugged liquor, then have their way with her. Holding Bessie's libertine friend, Rachel, responsible for all this, she heads to Rachel's flat and tries to strangle the life out of the woman. She also sees to it that Crooke and Craven are thrown out of their lodgings for their wanton behavior
Ralph Thorne
STRONGHEART (1914) is a rare Native American Indian drama that was produced by the Biograph Company in New York City. Based on a famous play of the time, the film features an all-star cast: Henry B. Walthall (later of BIRTH OF A NATION), Blanche Sweet, Antonio Moreno, Lionel Barrymore, and Alan Hale (father of "Gilligan's Island" skipper). Originally five reels, the film was reissued at three reels in 1916.
Brother Owner
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her job, a young girl almost falls into the hands of white slavers.
