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.
(archive footage)
Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.
Tucker Ordway
Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from his ranch by having his claim to the land declared invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna, believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent misfortunes, is unaware that the local saloon owner also has designs upon the Ordway holdings.
Walt Garnet
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
Charlie Haskins
La historia de la difícil construcción de la línea de ferrocarril que unía la ciudad de Denver con el Río Grande, atravesando las escarpadas montañas de Colorado. Un hombre deberá luchar contra un grupo de codiciosos trabajadores que pretenden sabotear el tendido en su propio beneficio.
Gen. Zachary Taylor
En 1840, en la Península de Florida, el capitán Quincy Wyatt (Gary Cooper), un intrépido explorador del ejército, sigue la pista a unos contrabandistas de armas que están vendiendo rifles a los renegados indios seminolas.
Tillamar
Una nave espacial aterriza en Marte y los astronautas deben luchar contra los marcianos que pretenden apoderarse del vehículo para atacar la Tierra.
Mr. Rossiter
Adaptación de la obra teatral "Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire" escrita por J. M. Barrie, el autor de "Peter Pan". En el Nueva York de principios del siglo XX, una adolescente (Mona Freeman) se siente desolada porque cree haber descubierto una infidelidad de su madre (Joan Fontaine). Esto dará lugar a todo tipo de enredos y a una cierta crítica social sobre la hipocresía de la gente.
Henry Morgan
Falsamente acusado por el corrupto gobernador Elden de Charleston de robar un botín pirata , el joven Davey Crandall y su amigo Tom Botts compran un pasaje en el barco del bucanero local Bloodthirsty Ben. Evitan que los maten fingiendo un caso de viruela, lo que hace que el capitán y la tripulación aterrorizados abandonen el barco. Los dos se encuentran solos, y cuando un disparo de un cañón por suerte golpea un mástil en un barco británico, les confunden con piratas. Navegan a Tortuga, donde reclutan corsarios tan famosos como Henry Morgan, el Capitán Kidd, Anne Bonney y Barbanegra para asediar a Chaleston y exponer al villano Elden.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Soldados Americanos varados en las Filipinas después de la invasión Japonesa forman guerrillas para contraatacar.
Judge Adams
Basada en las aventuras de James Addison Reavis (Vincent Price), uno de los estafadores más ambiciosos e inteligentes del siglo XIX, que llegó a elaborar un plan para quedarse con el territorio de Arizona. (FILMAFFINITY)
General Wallace
Billy el Niño se meterá en líos en el condado de Lincoln (Nuevo México). Cuando el único ranchero que le trataba bien es asesinado por un secuaz rival, Billy querrá venganza, pero dejará demasiado a la vista sus ganas de matar y esta ingenuidad le hará cargar con la culpa del asesinato. A Billy no le quedará otra opción que huir a las colinas con un grupo de amigos, pero estará demasiado cerca de la mujer de la que está encaprichado.
Sheriff Cole
Kansas y Chito son dos vaqueros que buscan trabajo. Un día salvan a una bella dama, Dusty, de la paliza que le iba a dar el propietario del ‘saloon’, y ésta, agradecida, les ofrece trabajo en su rancho. Una vez allí deberán ayudar al hermano de Dusty a saldar sus deudas con el juego y esto les meterá en muchos problemas, llegando incluso, a estar acusados de asesinato.
James Lone Eagle
Corre el año 1848. Un pelotón del ejército que escolta una caravana de colonos que se dirige al sudoeste es atacado por los indios. Después de las primeras investigaciones, el coronel Pollard está convencido de que tiene que existir un espía que pasa información a los indios. Uno de los colonos acusa directamente a Halcón Rojo, un guía indio que trabaja para el ejército. Su compañero de fatigas, Davy Crockett, sobrino del famoso explorador, intentará dar con el verdadero culpable para limpiar el honor de su compañero.
Steve Taylor
A newspaper man, and former jewel thief, is accused of gem theft.
Marshal Heck Thomas
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
William Van Horne
Tom Andrews trabaja en la construcción del ferrocarril Canadian Pacific. Dirk Rourke, un poderoso comerciante, se opone a estas obras ya que cree que pueden ser perjudiciales para su negocio. Además, entre Tom y Dirk hay otra causa de discordia, la bella Cecille.
Maharaja
Jungle adventure drama about a young man and his wild animal friends attempting to thwart a government-approved hunting expedition.
Leadville Sheriff
Las aventuras de Tom Horn durante los días de la fiebre del oro. Cuando se escapa de la cárcel después de un atraco frustrado, roba a una compañía minera, en la cual trabaja Julie. La banda se oculta en un pueblo fantasma, desde el cual asaltan un tren. Tom y Julie se enamoran y planean una nueva vida en San Francisco, pero la banda se opone.
Jacques d'Arc, Joan's Father
Juana de Arco, la Doncella de Orleáns (1412-1431), una joven profundamente religiosa, vivió durante la Guerra de los Cien Años, en la que se enfrentaban Francia e Inglaterra. Completamente convencida de que Dios le había encomendado la misión de expulsar a los ingleses y de salvar a Francia, va a ver al Delfín, el futuro Carlos VII, y consigue que le proporcione tropas para levantar el sitio de Orleáns. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ed Simpson
Acusado de asesinato, Nick Buckley debe encontrar al único hombre que le puede ayudar, mientras una jauría de perros sigue su rastro.
Lt. Quint
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
Johnson
El éxito de uno de los tríos cómicos más populares de los Estados Unidos en los años cuarenta, se debió sobre todo a la vis cómica de Hope, al talento musical de Crosby y al glamour de Dorothy Lamour. Hicieron varias películas muy populares cuyo título empezaba siempre por "Road to... ("Camino de..."). Este delirante "Camino de Río" es una de las mejores muestras. (FILMAFFINIT)
Dr. Sharp (as Robert H. Barrat)
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
Judge Seth White
El coronel Jim Brewton (Spencer Tracy) es un hombre que dirige sus prósperas propiedades de Nuevo México con mano de hierro. En cambio, su matrimonio con Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn), apenas iniciado, resulta un completo fracaso.
Mr. Payne
Biografía de Dolly Payne (Ginger Rogers), la esposa de James Madison, el cuarto Presidente de los Estados Unidos. A Dolly la cortejan dos líderes políticos: Madison (Burgess Meredith) y Aaron Burr (David Niven). Ella coquetea con los dos, llegando incluso a enfrentarlos, no sólo por motivos sentimentales, sino porque desea contribuir a la construcción del país. Tras ejercer su influencia sobre Burr, ayudará a Thomas Jefferson a llegar a la presidencia de Estados Unidos (1801-1809). Cuando Madison (1809-1817) gana las elecciones presidenciales se convierte en la Primera Dama.
Hendrick Van Boyden (as Robert H. Barrat)
Eight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then must evade a murderer in their midst.
Maj. Putnam
Los dos cómicos encarnan a sendos espíritus que fueron tachados por error de traidores. Como es lógico no pueden descansar en paz, así que deciden volver para probar su inocencia.
Rand Curtis
A young outlaw gets involved with a gang of crooks. When he tells them he is breaking away, they threaten to pin a false murder charge on him. But he is rescued and reformed by his sister, and an undercover agent for the express company.
Clyde Travers (as Robert H. Barrat)
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
Christian Sanders
A number of swamp land men have died by strangulation and the inhabitants believe that an innocent man they hanged is seeking revenge on all of the male descendants of those responsible for his death. Maria, granddaughter of the innocent ferryman, decides to operate the ferry service. Chris Sanders, a son of one of the men who did the hanging, and Maria fall in love. The "strangler" seizes Chris and Maria offers her life if Chris is spared.
Colonel Johnson
Clay Hardin decide dejar su refugio en México y volver a San Antonio para investigar los frecuentes robos de ganado que se producen en Texas. El recién llegado sospecha que el jefe de la banda de ladrones es el dueño de un saloon, en el que trabaja una joven cantante de la que se enamora.
Anson Stowe (as Robert H. Barrat)
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.
The General
Durante la campaña del Pacífico, una heroica compañía americana lucha contra el avance de las fuerzas japonesas en Filipinas, perdiendo cada vez más terreno. Dos oficiales de lanchas torpederas, en contra de la opinión de sus superiores, intentarán frenar el avance del enemigo utilizando las viejas embarcaciones contra los barcos nipones.
Sperry
Duke y Chester son dos actores de tercera fila que huyendo de un apuro se embarcan rumbo a Alaska. En el mismo barco viajan dos asesinos, Sperry y McGurk, que tienen en su poder un mapa con la ubicación concreta de una mina que esconde gran cantidad de oro. La casualidad hace que el mapa vaya a parar a manos de los dos actores que aprovechan la ocasión para abandonar el barco adoptando la identidad de los asesinos.
Uncle Jim Collinshaw
In this western, a young cowboy rides out to avenge his father's killer. Eventually, he finds the scoundrel, but by this time opts not to kill him for the cowboy has fallen in love with the outlaw's niece. Later, the killer ends up killed and the hero is blamed for the crime.
Billy Muldoon
Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion. But the famed boxer is no match for the two women with holds on him, love struck actress Kathy Harkness and the real love of his life, beautiful but unyielding Anne Livingstone.
Grissly Morgan Palmor
An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
Heinrich Walburg
Playwright Joseph Goebbels (Paul Andor) turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend (Claudia Drake) to another man (Donald Woods).
Horace E. Bixby, Riverboat Captain
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
Bill Swain
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died.
Ernst
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
Capt. Kranz
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
Mayor Jim Connison
In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
Crowder, Small Rancher
Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.
Col. Elliott
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
Frayne as (Robert H. Barrat)
A would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but falls in love with his daughter instead.
Judge Frank Dyer
Lassiter discovers the judge who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of bad guys posing as vigilantes. This 1941 Fox production stars a young George Kennedy as Lassiter.
Col. Burke
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
Don Enrique de los Santos O'Shea
Un magnate tejano del petróleo no consigue apoderarse de unos yacimientos en Argentina y pide a su representante que compre un famoso caballo de carreras en Buenos Aires al precio que sea. El amo del caballo tiene una hija muy atractiva.
'Red' Baxter
Los hermanos Marx se dirigen al Oeste a hacer fortuna. Allí adquieren una propiedad de una mina sin valor pero cuyo terreno es muy codiciado por una compañía de ferrocarriles... Otra divertidísima comedia de los hermanos Marx con inolvidables gags entre los que destaca la delirante escena inicial del timo mutuo en la estación.
Chester Russell
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved conditions, the criminals continue to pull off a few shady shenanigans as an innocent man who is sent there soon discovers.
Capt. Dorman
Al morir su padre, una muchacha ayudará a un joven a tomar el mando del barco que luchará contra los británicos en la guerra de 1812
Humphrey Towne
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.
Parson Summers
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
Mr. John Stanton
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.
Jim Harbison
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.
Duncan
James Smith es un cazador de indios famoso en todo el territorio de Pennsylvania. Un día, merodeando por la frontera, descubre que los traficantes ingleses suministran armas a los indios, camuflándolas en los convoyes militares. Smith se propondrá entonces tomarse la justicia por su mano. Él y sus hombres, disfrazado de indios, interceptarán uno tras otro todos los convoyes.
Sheriff Bill Cummings
A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the desert and attacked by Apaches.
Tio / Edwards
American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, swims ashore to avoid arrest. A woman he meets at the dock hides him in her apartment, where he learns Carlson was her brother, and they both work in a sabotage ring. Nedra is a singer at Tio's Cafe, and she approaches Tio for help when both the saboteurs and the secret police try to capture Steve.
Dr. Rodney Blair
When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy business. But with a corrupt association bent on driving up milk prices, it's up to newly elected Sheriff Gene to clean up the mess. Country music icon Patsy Montana sings "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart," while radio crooners the Texas Rangers perform alongside Autry.
Andrew Naab
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.
David Crockett
Biografía de Sam Houston, líder de la revolución de Texas que fue nombrado presidente de este territorio que se negaba a pertenecer a la Unión.
Duke Ring
En 1862, durante la Guerra de Secesión, dos empresas rivales comienzan a construir la primera línea de ferrocarril transcontinental que enlace el Atlántico con el Pacífico. Al tiempo narra los amores entre la hija de uno de los ingenieros, Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck), el agente del gobierno encargado de la seguridad Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) y el principal saboteador Dick Allen (Robert Preston).
Sheriff McNally
In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.
Captain Johnson
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
Igor Sargoza
A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
William Decker
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.
Citizen-Officer (uncredited)
Siglo XVIII. La princesa de Austria María Antonieta (Shearer) se casa con el delfín de Francia, Luis XVI (Morley), un hombre tan retraído que su relación con la joven es puramente formal. Antonieta se dejará fascinar por las fiestas de París y derrochará el dinero a manos llenas, aunque esta situación no durará mucho. Un drama de época que obtuvo 4 nominaciones a los Oscar: Actriz principal (Norma Shearer), actor secundario (Robert Morley), banda sonora y dirección artística.
Isaiah Middlebrack
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.
Ramrod Locke
In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.
Harrington (archive footage) (uncredited)
This was one of the annual "blooper" reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke fun at the flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Prison Yard Capt. Grady
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
Captain Brown
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Hank Summers
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
Major Walsin-Esterhazy
Biografía del famoso escritor francés Emile Zola, que incide especialmente en su participación en el famoso "Caso Dreyfuss", que puso en jaque al ejército francés.
J.D. Harrington
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
The Reverend (uncredited)
En 1842, dos miembros de la tripulación de un barco que transporta esclavos intentan salvar sus vidas tras verse atrapados por un motín y un tremendo huracán que azota la embarcación.
Prosecuting Attorney
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Martin Crane
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
Jeff Harkins
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
Brown (uncredited)
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Jefferson Russett
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.
Count Igor Volonoff
En 1853, mientras los imperios británico y ruso compiten por ganar y mantener su lugar en el espantoso Gran Juego de intrigas y alianzas políticas cuyo mayor premio es el dominio de la India y de los territorios fronterizos, el comandante Geoffrey Vickers debe soportar varias traiciones y desgracias antes de poder lograr su venganza en los altos de Balaclava, el 25 de octubre de 1854, el día más glorioso de la guerra de Crimea.
Abraham Lincoln
A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
Morton
María Estuardo abandona Francia y regresa a Escocia, dispuesta a ocupar el trono del que es heredera. Pero los conflictos se acumulan: la nobleza le es hostil, comenzando por su medio hermano el conde de Moray, y su apego al catolicismo choca con la fe que predica John Knox, fundador de la Iglesia presbiteriana en Escocia. Por otro lado, su prima Isabel Tudor, hija ilegítima de Enrique VIII, teme que reclame la corona inglesa. Su único aliado es el conde Bothwell, comandante de las tropas escocesas, de quien se enamora.
Chingachgook
Una de las primeras adaptaciones del clásico de Fenimore Cooper. La acción transcurre durante la guerra franco-india (1754-1763). Relata la masacre, perpetrada por los hurones y consentida por los franceses, de soldados angloamericanos prisioneros, sus mujeres y criados. Además los hurones secuestran a las dos hijas del comandante inglés, a cuyo rescate acudirá último mohicano.
Pierre
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Buck Falin
En un valle perdido entre las montañas, viven los Tolliver y los Falin, dos familias enemistadas que mantienen durante generaciones una guerra abierta e incesante. Se trata de un odio atávico, heredado, sin que ninguna de las partes conozca ni remotamente el oscuro motivo que originó la sangrienta confrontación.
MacKenzie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Werther
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
Nels Valborg
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
Wolverstone
Inglaterra, siglo XVII. Bajo el reinado de Jacobo I, primer monarca de la dinastía de los Estuardo, son constantes los enfrentamientos entre la Corona y el Parlamento. El doctor Peter Blood, un hombre entregado por entero a sus pacientes, vive al margen de los problemas políticos. Pero su actitud cambia cuando, injustamente acusado de traición, es enviado como esclavo a las Indias Occidentales. Dotado de una gran habilidad y astucia, consigue escapar y se convierte en el temible pirata Capitán Blood.
Buck Cantrell
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
Dr. Ginder
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Chief of Internal Revenue Service
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
Robins
Un reportero de un periódico, especializado en casos de asesinato, se verá envuelto en una trama parecida a las que cuenta.
Stanislaus Janauschek
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Drury Stevenson
Las insidiosas habladurías típicas de un pueblo pequeño hacen muy desgraciados a un joven y a la mujer casada de la que está enamorado.
Inspector Von Brinkner
A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.
Adolphe Federie
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
Commandant
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
Padre
Johnny Ramirez (Paul Muni), un abogado formado en la escuela nocturna y excluido de la práctica legal, acepta un empleo como matón en el casino de Charlie Roark (Eugene Pallete), situado en las afueras. Allí se hace indispensable que, al poco tiempo, se convierte en socio del mismo. Marie (Bette Davis), la atractiva pero inestable esposa de Roark, muestra un romántico interés por Johnny, pero éste esquiva sus insinuaciones y centra su atención en Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), una mujer de la alta sociedad que, aficionada a los barrios bajos, frecuenta los antros de las afueras de la ciudad.
Baron Otto Von Kampf
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
Farmer Benson
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
Halasz, the Apartment House Manager
Prohibited from seeing her actor sweetheart Herman Brandt by her tyrannical parents, sweet young Vienesse lass Mariette defies authority by regularly visiting Brandt's downstairs apartment. The lovers' signal is a song called "The Firebird," which Brandt sings whenever he wants Mariette to visit him. When the actor is murdered, poor Mariette and her parents are prime suspects. But the truth is a bit more complicated than that, involving as it does a haughty aristocrat, a powerful diplomat and a most unusual "candid camera" device.
McPherson
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Jim
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
Rudolph Stamm
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
Sam Blake
Hasta la fecha Bill se ha dedicado a redactar textos de anuncios, pero su esposa Nan, que confía mucho en su valía, le anima a que ponga en marcha su propia agencia de publicidad. Las cosas no son tan sencillas, pero conseguirá un cliente para el que hace un anuncio de gran éxito; lo malo es que quien le ha ayudado es una antigua novia, Patricia, que disputará con Nan por el amor de Bill.
Alexis Romanoff
Un hombre tímido y apocado finge ser un sofisticado hombre de mundo cuando recibe la visita de un antiguo compañero de la universidad.
Commander Denny
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
Angie
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
Pudge Walker
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Thorne
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.
Police Commissioner Clark
Un magnate del ferrocarril es chantajeado por el novio y manager de la chica con la que comete adulterio.
Dr. Snitzer
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
Hugo Von Ferring
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Mike Lee
Barbara Stanwyck es una jugadora profesional llamada Lady Lee, que está obsesionada con el recuerdo de su padre, también un jugador profesional que se suicidó al no poder hacer frente a sus deudas. La vida de Lee se complica cuando se enamora de un hombre y debe salir indemne de peliagudos asuntos como el chantaje y el asesinato.
Tex Willis
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
Brownell
En esta ocasión, Paul Muni –especializado en papeles de gángster– intentó un cambio de registro al encarnar al editor de un periódico que, firmando con el pseudónimo de Nellie, comienza a investigar por su cuenta el asesinato de un banquero. Sus pesquisas le llevarán hasta los bajos fondos, donde conoce a algunos mafiosos y a la rubia de rigor (Glenda Farrell).
Dawson
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.
Anderzian
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Archer Coe
Archer Coe es hallado muerto en su inaccesible dormitorio. Todo parece indicar que se trata de un suicidio, pero el inspector Philo, que piensa que ha sido un asesinato, considera que el principal sospechoso es el hermano de Archer.
Judge R.H. White
En plena Gran Depresión, dos adolescentes huyen de su casa para no ser una carga para sus familias que se han quedado sin trabajo. El camino será más difícil de lo esperado.
Phineas D. Lane aka Charles Lane
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
The Commandant
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.
Maj. Bertram
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
Paul, Butler
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
Nick Powers
Lilly Powers es una camarera de una horrible ciudad industrial que trabaja en la cantina de su padre, donde aprende las malas artes de los clientes masculinos. Cuando este muere, se traslada a Nueva York con su criada, donde aprovechará su experiencia y su capacidad de engatusar a los hombres para ir escalando posiciones. En la gran manzana conoce a Jimmy McCoy, un botones de oficina que la ayuda a conseguir un trabajo en la Gotham Trust Company. A partir de entonces seduce y rechaza a varios hombres.
Fred Smith
A Patsy Gargan, un antiguo criminal, sus corruptos compinches políticos le pagan sus servicios nombrándolo inspector de un reformatorio. Al principio no muestra ningún interés por la escuela, pero la simpatía que siente por los niños que son víctimas de abusos y maltrato por parte del despiadado director y sus matones, lo empuja a aceptar el trabajo.
Max Brinker
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
Andrew Simmons
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
Sheriff
El boxeador Jimmy Dolan mata accidentalmente a un hombre en una fiesta y huye. Se esconde en un centro para chicos inválidos, donde empezará a perder su cinismo, bajo la influencia de los niños y de Peggy y Mrs Moore, quienes dirigen el centro. Cuando un detective lo reconoce, deberá decidir si escapar o reconocer su culpabilidad delante de los niños.
Mr. Calhoun, Attorney
As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
Fritz 'Heinie'
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Grover, Graphic News Owner
El ex-convicto Danny Kean decide alejarse de su anterior vida de gánster y se convierte en el fotógrafo de un periódico. Pero se enamora de Patricia, la hija del policía que lo arrestó...
Joe Nolan
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
Detective
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
Hugh Brook
Just before his sudden death, a businessman accuses his son-in-law of embezzlement. His daughter is convinced of her fiancée's innocence and tries to clear his name and unmask the real villain and is aided by secret messages…from her dead father. Or are they?
Alan Gardner
French Secret Service agent and boxer Henri D'Alour uncovers a plot to con the government out of millions of francs in its purchase of machinery.
