Self (archive footage)
Documentary looking at the life and career of 1930s film star Leslie Howard. It features exclusive home movie footage, including footage from the Gone with the Wind set. The film includes extensive interviews with Howard's daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie" Howard, and contributions from friends and colleagues.
Self (archive footage)
A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.
Marshal Sommers
Ben Mattews decide abandonar su azarosa vida de jugador a bordo de un barco para asentarse con su novia Zoe en Galena. Pero, cuando Ben es acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido, se ve forzado a huir de la ciudad. Al cabo de muchos años, decide regresar para encontrarse con Zoe, pero, sobre todo para encontrar al culpable y limpiar su nombre.
Harry Wood
En Nueva York, durante la segunda guerra mundial, una modesta empleada (Ruth) conoce a un apuesto soldado (Art). Un amor profundo e intenso surge entre ámbos, pero Art teme que pronto deba incorporarse al frente.
Officer Bragan
Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk the man, Robert Cosick, down from his threatening perch and in the process learns the reasons for the Robert's suicide attempt.
"Gunner" Peterson
Two members of a dynamite crew--a rugged veteran and a young college drop-out--finds themselves at odds regarding safety precautions for their co-workers.
Mike Hanrohan
Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by the fact that his younger brother Denny has joined Barstow's gang. Things get worse after a bloody shootout, in which Mike apparently guns down his own brother.
Harry Mitchell
A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Martin Duncan
Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.
Sgt. Gunny Watrous
Narra el retorno de tres soldados y las dificultades que encontrarán para reintegrarse a la vida civil: Perry no puede aceptar el hecho de haber perdido las piernas en combate, William tiene problemas económicos, y Cliff no sabe qué hacer con su vida, pero cuenta con el apoyo de una joven viuda de guerra.
Inspector Wilson
An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
Tony Cochrane
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Dr. Stephen Lindstrom
Nora Goodrich, una experta química que se dedica a la investigación, está decidida a probar en sí misma la anestesia que acaba de inventar. Pero, tras inyectársela, todo empieza a irle mal: su novio la abandona, es víctima de un chantaje y una devastadora explosión le desfigura la cara.
Lt. Sam Carson
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.
Joe Gallagher
El padre O'Malley acaba de llegar a su nuevo destino como sacerdote del colegio de monjas y la parroquia de Santa María, en un barrio humilde de Nueva York. Pronto se verá enredado en los problemas del barrio y de los alumnos, lo que le lleva a formar un coro para sacar a los chicos de la calle. La vida del colegio le lleva a estrechar la relación con la hermana Benedicta, superiora del convento y directora del colegio, y a participar de las ilusiones de la congregación: que un millonario done un moderno edificio cercano como nueva sede del vetusto colegio.
Sam Boone
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
Pete Willis
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
Drew Allen
An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives.
'Breezy' Barton
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
Sergeant Benson
En 1644, el señor de Canterville condena a su hijo a ser emparedado por traicionar el honor de la familia. Desde entonces su fantasma vaga por el castillo. Trescientos años después, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), una compañía de infantería americana se aloja en el castillo y se dedica a hacer todo tipo de gamberradas al fantasma.
'Waltzy' Malone
Un ambicioso compositor de musicales, dotado de un mal de ojo hipnótico, se ve mezclado en la promoción de un boxeador.
Tom Harrigan
A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.
Jess Arno
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Police Lt. Lou Moran
Chick Larkin y Mervyn Milgrim trabajan en el mostrador de una estación de radio local. Su verdadera pasión, sin embargo, es llegar a ser escritores en el programa de misterio de la radio. Así asisten a una emisión del programa "Asesinato a medianoche" junto con uno de los escritores, Jimmy Turner y la productora, Jane Little. A poco de comenzar el espectáculo, el presidente de la cadena, el coronel JR Andrews es misteriosamente electrocutado. A resultas de ello Chick y Mervyn ven su gran oportunidad de llegar a escribir para la radio haciéndose pasar por detectives con el fin de resolver el crimen.
Tommy Fallon
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict gain parole by hiring him. It later turns out that the ex-con is only interested in trying to use the agency as a front for extortion. Songs include the Oscar nominated "When There's a Breeze on Lake Louise," "Your Face Looks Familiar," "Heavenly, Isn't He?" "Let's Forget It," "You're Bad For Me," and "A Million Miles From Manhattan."
Briggs Hannon - aka Terry Jordan
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
Ellery Queen
Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
Mr. Timothy Rooney
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
Ellery Queen
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
Ellery Queen
Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to the estate and finds one daughter already there and the second one expected. When she arrives, it is Ellery's secretary Nikki Porter posing as the daughter as Ellery had her intercept the real heiress after learning of a plot to swindle Rogers. The blackmailing seamen are killed at a waterfront café after getting the blackmail money, Rogers is suspected and Inspector Queen arrives to arrest him, but he is also found dead.
James Montgomery 'Jim' Wilson
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
Lee Davis
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
Craig Morrison
Un piloto de acrobacias decide unirse a las fuerzas aéreas, pero no consigue acostumbrarse a la fuerte disciplina militar. Sus dos asistentes de acrobacias que han decidido acompañarlo tampoco logran aclimatarse...
Jerry 'Mac' MacDonald
Cuando la bella Vicky Lynn (Carole Landis) es encontrada asesinada, la policía detiene al empresario Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) para interrogarlo. Frankie había llevado a Vicky de ser mesera a ser aceptada socialmente y había organizado toda su carrera hasta que recibió una oferta de Hollywood, justo antes de su muerte. Sólo la hermana de Vicky, Jill Lynn (Betty Grable) tiene las suficientes pruebas para dirigir las sospechas, que apuntaban todas a Frankie, hacia otro lado. Pero el detective dueño del caso, Ed Cornell (Laird Cregar), parece especialmente interesado en él.
'Trip' Hammer
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
Himself
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.
Sam Peters
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
Joe
Un italiano que cultiva viñas en California, mantiene correspondencia con una camarera a la que nunca ha visto y cuya situación es bastante precaria. Cuando le propone que se case con él, en lugar de una foto suya, le manda una de su capataz, que es un hombre muy atractivo.
Duffy
Un joven que intenta reconstruir las caballerizas de la familia se enamora de la hija de un duro rival.
Joel Clare
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
Dane Wharton
When the studios reject her because she"s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own.
Stripes Thornton
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
Walter Gifford
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Joe Turp
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.
Ed O'Malley
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Thane Pardway
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
Arthur McHugh
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Ace Boreman
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Bill Foster
Hale y Jimmy Seymour son una pareja que trabaja en en pequeños clubes nocturnos con la esperanza de tener éxito. Una noche, Larry Bryant (un productor de Broadway) ve a Mary y se enamora de su belleza y su voz. Larry Bryant le pide que haga una audición para el Sr. Collier y que Jimmy la acompañe. Después de escuchar a Mary, Collier quiere que Mary esté en su show. Jimmy anima a una Mary reacia a seguir el camino sin él.
Ed Towers
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
Police Sergeant Cassidy
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Marcus 'Mark' Farrell
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
Johnny Martin
Un joven boxeador se ve atrapado entre un mafioso y un mal padre cuando empieza a salir con la hija del jefe, aunque ella no sabe cómo su padre se gana la vida.
Mike O'Mara
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
Dr. Jack Murray
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
Fred Edwards
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
George Regan
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney.
George Hayes
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
Dwight Stanford
Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends them a monthly allowance. Conrad Norris, Dwight's cousin, disapproves of Dwight and Penny, and resents his uncle's generosity. The uncle is the victim of a hit-and-run accident and, there being no will, Conrad, as next of kin, inherits. Switch, the uncle's lawyer, tells Dwight he is shutout with no hope of appeal. Dwight starts writing mystery novels about a fictional detective named Steven Knight, which become instant hits and the money pours in.
Steve Browning
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
Jack Furness
Drama triangular que tiene lugar en la base militar de Pearl Harbor. Un piloto de la armada tiene que acudir allí el mismo día de su boda, por lo que su mujer decide acompañarle. En Hawai, ella encuentra a un antiguo pretendiente ahora convertido en todo un potentado dueño de un gran yate. El marido, celoso por el comportamiento de su esposa, acaba estrellando violentamente su avión en la cubierta del barco del presunto amante. (FILMAFFINITY)
Steve Rowan
Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.
Father Dolan
Un delincuente de poca monta (Henry Fonda), condenado ya tres veces, es acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido. Aunque consigue escapar de la cárcel, la fatalidad le impide seguir el camino recto, a pesar de contar con el apoyo de una mujer que le ama.
Hal Cunningham
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
Speed Robertson
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft.
Perry Travis
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
Bruce Corrigan
A tough Irishman tries to help a logging company owner on Vancouver Island who is being sabotaged by a nearby competitor.
Peter Cornish
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.
Lt. Red Furness
A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the resistance of the lad's surviving relatives, who worry that growing in the Navy will be hard on the boy, the officer loves and takes good care of the boy. At least he does until the child is abducted by a gangster who has mistaken him for his long-lost boy. Fortunately for the young fellow, the officer rallies the entire Navy and comes to the rescue.
Speed McFarland
Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) es un tímido lechero que, sin saber muy bien como, noquea a un campeón de boxeo en una pelea. El manager del boxeador decide construir la reputación del lechero en una serie fija de combates y más tarde hacer que el campeón le gane y reconquiste así su título.
Henry Wadsworth 'Hank' Dawson
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Self
Collection of Warner's stars blundering through missed takes.
Dan Wheeler
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
Cliff Stanley
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Numbers
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Van Gaard
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
Slim Johnson, Company Policeman
Una mina de carbón donde trabajan inmigrantes es el centro de una amarga disputa laboral entre los trabajadores y sus propietarios.
Pat O'Connor
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Duke Regan
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Himself (uncredited)
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
Bob Medill
El servicio de inteligencia Británico le encarga a Stephen Locke (Leslie Howard) que persuada a la Unión Soviética para que no firme con Alemania un acuerdo de paz que sería muy perjudicial para los intereses de Inglaterra. Durante su misión, Locke se enamora de Elena (Kay Francis), la secretaria del líder ruso, que corresponde a sus sentimientos, pero que no está dispuesta a traicionar la causa bolchevique.
Georgie
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
Stewart Corder
Cuatro pasajeros de un crucero de placer en que se declaró peste bubónica, escapan a la costa malaya, donde se ven obligados a hacerse guiar por Montague (Leo Carrillo). La maestra de escuela Judy Jones (Claudette Colbert) se ve más preocupada por tener que dormir cerca de sus dos compañeros de expedición, el periodista Stewart Corder (William Gargan) y un tímido bioquímico (Herbert Marshall) que por los tenebrosos peligros de la jungla. La dama de sociedad Fifi Mardick (Mary Boland) completa el cuarteto, que se termina extraviando tras tres días de marcha. Las peleas internas, las inclemencias del tiempo y la aparición de una tribu de nativos que exigen el pago de un tributo para permitirles el paso, ponen tenso pero simpático condimento a semejante desventura.
Red Branahan
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men es una película inteligente y perceptiva sobre las relaciones de clase que deja suficientes preguntas para que el final sea absolutamente perfecto o absolutamente devastador, dependiendo de tu punto de vista.
Brazilian Pilot
Cuenta la historia de un grupo de esforzados pilotos del servicio de correos a las órdenes de Riviere.
Bill Allen
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Steve Brennan
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Stephen Benbow
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
Gene Pardway
Daniel es un hombre que se ha hecho a sí mismo. A partir de la nada construyó uno de los almacenes más grandes e importantes de Chicago. Sin embargo, cuando llega el momento de que sus hijos lo releven, no le resultará nada fácil compaginar sus intereses con los de sus vástagos.
Bob Hughes
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
Regan
Un editor de éxito se da cuenta que al seleccionar a la que iba a ser su mujer se confundió. Ya antes de su matrimonio sostenía una relación sentimental con una mujer muy independiente, sin embargo, en el momento de casarse se decidió por otra más usual, y se arrepiente de su resolución.
Johnny Baker
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Sergeant Tim O'Hara
Debido a una extraña epidemia, los pasajeros de un barco son obligados a desembarcar en una isla. Entre ellos se encuentran una prostituta y un misionero que la acosa.
Fitzpatrick
A scheming socialite meets her match in the out-of-touch wildlife explorer she ventures to ensnare.
A Gangster
Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.
