(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Rigby Reardon es el mejor de los sabuesos. Es un tipo duro, dispuesto a investigar lo que sea. Juliet Forrest lo contrata para que investigue la misteriosa muerte de su padre, un célebre científico, filántropo y fabricante de quesos. Reardon enseguida huele algo sospechoso, y sigue un intrincado laberinto de pistas que le llevan a las “Carlotta Lists”. Contando con la ayuda de algunos colegas, intentará atrapar a los culpables.
Chief Tomache
Tres indios son asesinados. Cadauna llevaba un medallón al morir. Los medallones forman un rompecabezas cuya solución apunta a un tesoro escondido.
Chief Nantan
An Apache brave vows revenge when he feels betrayed by the U.S. Army.
The Blind One
Drama bíblico ambientado en el Antiguo Egipto que narra la historia de Moisés, favorito de la familia del faraón, que decide renunciar a su vida de privilegios para conducir a su pueblo, los hebreos esclavizados en Egipto, hacia la libertad.
Antelope
When Aaron Baring (Jim Davis) signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River Valley, his dictatorial style soon creates problems. When the settlers reach their destination, Baring unwisely declares war on the local Indians. When savvy frontier scout Jim Henry (Bill Williams) tries to promote cooperation between the natives and the newly arrived settlers, Baring responds by having Williams whipped.
Mayor Walsh
Matt Dow, un condenado que viene de cumplir seis años en prisión por un delito que no cometió, es confundido por el maquinista de un tren con un peligroso atracador.
Malek
A pirate tries to help a deposed Arabian princess reclaim her throne.
Wilbur Crane
When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him college.
Herman Taphert (uncredited)
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and disprove a fraudulent insurance claim.
Blind Baloon Vendor
Un criminal cuyas víctimas son niños es perseguido incansablemente por la policía, pero también por el mundo del hampa. Remake de la impresionante película de Fritz Lang de 1931
Old Man (uncredited)
Chris Hale, un jugador sin escrúpulos, llega a un pequeño pueblo en el que supuestamente vivió cuando era niño. Pronto consigue encandilar a los vecinos, y utiliza su encanto personal para seducir a Elaine Corelli, una rica heredera postrada en una silla de ruedas, tras un accidente. Aunque intenta enderezar su vida, Chris tendrá que resolver asuntos turbios del pasado.
Mr. Howard
This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with her uncle in frontier Canada because of her fragile health. She eventually falls in love with own of the few-if only-young, white males in the region. They marry and depart for the northern wilderness to set up house and home. The rest of the movie is about her struggles and joys of living and travelling in this rugged country.
Lesh Lakish
Adaptación del famoso relato bíblico del forzudo Sansón y la bella Dalila, ambientado en la Palestina del año 1000 A.C.
T. J. Furman
Los hermanos Mike y Tim McCall son propietarios de un gran rancho en Arizona, que utilizan las tierras circundantes para el pastoreo del ganado. Stanley Cox y LeRoy Stanton venden estas tierras a los colonos que llegan para encontrarlas totalmente secas, ya que una presa en el rancho de los McCall controla el agua. Entre los colonos están John Dawson y su hija Connie. Este último va al pueblo más cercano para tomar medidas, pero el sheriff Ball le dice que no puede hacer nada. Tim se enamora de Connie pero Mike no se deja impresionar por sus encantos. Cuando regresa de un baile del pueblo, Tim descubre a Stanton intentando dinamitar la presa, y muere en el tiroteo que se produce. Más tarde, Stanton manda a sus hombres a provocar una estampida de ganado mientras él y Cox vuelan la presa. A pesar de los esfuerzos de Mike y del sheriff Ball, el ganado es aniquilado y Mike corre hacia la presa y mata a Stanton en un tiroteo.
Mr. Eckert
Durante el año 1900, Dina es una muchacha adolescente con inquietudes demasiado modernas para la época que le ha tocado vivir. Aficionada al budismo, anda en busca de la "luz" y además es una ferviente defensora del derecho al voto de las mujeres. La actitud rebelde de la chica tiene muy preocupados al novio y al padre de Dina, que unirán esfuerzos para intentar suavizar las ideas extremistas de la chica, tarea nada sencilla, puesto que Dina es una muchacha de convicciones fuertes.
Carter Larkin
Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Dana Ferris has been targeted for extermination by the Mob, and Willie Hunter is the hit man who's been hired to do the job.
Detective
George McAllister (John Carroll), the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, and lives in constant jealousy, hatred and resentment of his half-brother Barry (Robert Paige), who has been supporting him. George gets his girl friend, Carlotta Duval (Vera Ralston), a job as Barry's nurse with the plan of eventually marrying him. She does, but instead of going ahead with the original plan or getting rid of Barry, inheriting his money and marrying George, she finds that she is really in love with Barry.
Narrator / Col. Jones
Jean Preston is determined to find her fiancée, Greg Jones, who went on a safari and didn’t come back when expected. She travels to Akbar, India with Greg’s father, Colonel Jones, Wayne Monroe and the Professor. She asks about Jones at the front desk of the hotel where she stays.
Moga
Charlatán y fanfarrón, Simbad cuenta a sus incrédulos amigos sus hazañas. La última, su octavo viaje fantástico, tiene que ver con una isla secreta en la que Alejandro Magno de Macedonia ocultó su tesoro. Tras conseguir capitanear un barco cuya tripulación falleció envenenada, Simbad se dispone a dar con el paradero de la isla. La bella Shirleen, que a raíz del medallón que cuelga del cuello de Simbad le toma por un príncipe, tendrá una importacia capital en su aventura. Pero también el malvado Emir, cuya ambición no conoce límites: quiere a Shirleen, quiere el tesoro y quiere dominar todos los reinos del continente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mr. Latimer
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
Jake the Rake (uncredited)
Una vez terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Swede Lunn, un soldado veterano y boxeador en declive, encuentra dificultades para reincorporarse a la vida civil. Un día conoce a la novia de un gángster, la irresistible y misteriosa Kitty Collins.
Police Lieutenant Mayrin
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Doctor Gaffron
A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for WWIII. His search for Meteorium 245, the only practical defence against the atomic bomb, leads him to mythical Pendrang. Obstructing his sinister plan to rule the world are Rod Stanton, United Peace Foundation investigator, Tal Shan , Pendrang native, and Marjorie Elmore, daughter of scientist Dr. Elmore, unwilling assistant to Sir Eric.
Pete Fanning
Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali arrive and immediately get into trouble with Fanning and his men. When Alkali is shot, Happy catches the outlaws but the Judge not only releases them, he discharges the Sheriff and tries to arrest Happy for rustling. Happy escapes and he and the Sheriff then set out to prove who the real rustlers are.
Gen. Jonathan Wainwright ('Skinny') (uncredited)
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Después de la caída de Filipinas en manos de los japoneses, el Coronel norteamericano Joseph Madden se queda para organizar la lucha de los guerrilleros contra los invasores. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mr. Arnold
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Dan Wilson
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.
Arnold Pembroke
Historia de una compañía de vodevil compuesta por la famila Monahan durante las dos primeras décadas del siglo XX.
Major Harvey
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
Inspector 'Toby' Tobin
Un antiguo prisionero de la Guerra Civil Española, John McKittrick, llega a Nueva York con la intención de investigar la muerte de su amigo Louie Lepetino, pues sospecha que no ha sido un suicidio.
Mr. Bambridge / Capt. Haigas
Un agente del FBI es despedido de su puesto. En realidad, es una maniobra para que pueda infiltrarse como falso traidor en una red de espías nazis.
Charlie Craig
El Mayor Chick Davis demuestra ante el ejército de los EEUU la superioridad de los bombarderos de precisión a gran altitud y lo destinan a enseñar sus conocimientos en una escuela para bombarderos. Al estallar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los métodos utilizados por el Mayor Davis y sus alumnos serán ratificados durante un ataque en Tokio.
Kenneth Craige
Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired to occasional leading roles. In Boss of Big Town, veteran supporting player John Litel is top-billed as crusading city market official Michael Lynn. When a criminal gang muscles in on the local food distribution markets, Lynn vows to throw the rascals out. First, however, he pretends to join the villains as a paid government stooge, the better to find out the identity of the "Mister Big" behind the distribution racket. The exposure of the "mystery villain" will come as a shock to fans of the 1927 Cecil B. DeMille epic The King of Kings--but not to dyed-in-the-wool movie buffs.
Edward Judson
A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian Wilcox), intrepid reporter Bob Martin (Robert Lowery) uncovers a connection between that case and another one he's been working on. An inmate (Lawrence Creighton) holds the key to the crime, but there's one problem: He's deaf and mute. Meanwhile, the murderers (Jan Wiley and Charlie Hall) appear to be working for a very powerful person.
Chairman - Board of Directors in Hell (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
Rolfe
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
McWhirter (Uncredited)
Pinks es un hombre humilde, todo corazón, que vive única y exclusivamente para complacer a la mujer de la que está locamente enamorado. Sin embargo, ella está tan acostumbrada al lujo que es incapaz de agradecer los desesperados esfuerzos que él hace por ella.
Morgan
Morgan and his gang are smuggling furs across the border. Both the Mounties on the Canadian side and Tex Martin on the American side are after them. When Morgan sets up Tex to be found with furs, Mountie Bill arrests him. But he lets him go hoping he will lead him to the gang and eventually the two join forces.
George Potter
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Jim Grosso
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
Henri Franck
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
General Valdane
On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.
Nick Taggart
A lawman infiltrates a gang of racketeers.
Bob Roycroft
A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and spoiled leading lady proves difficult to tame.
Carter Dangerfield
Unos rangers de Texas de la decada de 1930 son llamados al rancho de White Sage. Ellos se las arreglan para introducir a uno de sus agentes en la banda, haciéndoles pensar que él es Pecos Kid quien está en fuga.
Nicholas Tower
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
Pan
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
Pierre Brugnon
Marianne de Beaumaniour está de camino a Nueva Orleans desde París para inspeccionar la plantación que heredó de su tío. En el barco viajan también algunos esclavos para ser vendidos. Charles, Duque de Villiers, un enemigo político del rey, también está a bordo haciéndose pasar por esclavo. El jefe de la plantación de Marianne compra a Charles y éste pronto la seduce con su encanto. Marianne descubre rápidamente la verdadera identidad de Charles y le deja en libertad, antes de que los oficiales franceses le encuentren. Marianne decide volver a París con el Capitán de Policía, a bordo del barco “Luna Llena”, pero deben hacer escala en la Martinica. Después de la Martinica, el barco es asaltado por los piratas. Marianne queda conmocionada al ver que Charles es el líder de los piratas. Esa noche, una dura tormenta les azota, y todo se hunde. Ahora Charles es el líder y la diversión acaba de comenzar….
John Marlin
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Slade Wiley
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Eric Bartell
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Mariano Escobedo
La lucha de Juárez contra Maximiliano I de Habsburgo, emperador de México por voluntad del emperador Napoleón III.
Dr. Dolan
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Ringo
La banda de McCord (Bogart) roba el dinero que lleva la diligencia para pagar a los indios por la compra de sus tierras, pero el proscrito Jim Kincaid (Cagney), alias "el chico de Oklahoma", roba a su vez a McCord el dinero. Más tarde, McCord se hace con el control de los salones de juego en la nueva ciudad. Cuando el padre de Kincaid decide presentarse a la elecciones para la alcaldía de la nueva ciudad, McCord incita a multitud para lincharlo, ya que sabe que si gana su negocio se vendría abajo.
Duke Page
Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
Lt. Col. Stuart
The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.
Thibaut d'Aussigny
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Louis Rankin
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
Dr. Jones
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
Tommy Gaunt
Triángulo amoroso que surge cuando planea sobre el matrimonio constituido por Walter Pidgeon y Rosalind Russell la sombra del divorcio, y aparece en escena otra mujer, Myrna Loy.
Cameron Lloyd
When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cattle.
General George A. Custer
Wild Bill Hickok busca la ayuda de su amigo Buffalo Bill Cody (llamado así por haber matado a más de 4.000 bisontes) para tratar de detener el levantamiento de las tribus indias en el salvaje Oeste y capturar al renegado que les vende las armas. Calamity Jane, enamorada de Bill Hickok se unirá a ellos... Wild Bill intentará detener una sublevación india incitada por traficantes de armas blancos.
Dawson
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation. During a fierce sea-storm, Raglan rescues the passengers of a floundering ship, which includes the owner of the island, his daughter and her fiancée. The owner threatens to charge Ragland with poaching on private property, and then a gang of seal-skin thieves make an entrance.
Baltimore Evans
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
Stapp
Una historia romántica sobre diferencia de clases que tiene lugar cuando un rico aristócrata llamado Richard Winfield se enamora de una sirvienta. La familia queda horrorizada de que la chica pueda entrar a formar parte de ella, así que hará todo lo posible por impedirlo.
Gen. Juan Bautista Alvarado
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Bill Holt
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
Boss Benton
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Graham Scott
Un gaucho se traslada a Buenos Aires con el propósito de recuperar su caballo robado.
Major Patterson
Un joven y pacifista cantante pierde a su novia al rechazar un duelo para defender su honor. Luego se enrola en un barco donde actuará bajo las órdenes de un capitán, tan pendenciero como de buen corazón.
Albert Dufresne
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
Prescott Ames
A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing.
Thomas Hall Sr.
A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
Ace Carter
La película trata sobre la elección de una cantante entre el amor de dos hombres. Lo que ella desconoce es que uno de ellos es una persona sin escrúpulos.
Gordon Douglas
Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie star in the world. But in doing so, he forgets that women want to be attended to for themselves, not as objects of fame.
Frank Wilson
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
Barney Gaige
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
Prince Abdul Hamidshan
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
Weber
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak, he vows revenge on his wife.
Paulino
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she loves.
Walter Douglas
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Jerry Van Trevor/Jerry Werrenden
The film begins with a guy waking up from a bump on the head. The people around him try in vain to convince him that five years have passed and that he's a rich guy. However, none of this makes sense to the character played by Miljan AND none of it makes any sense to the audience...none. After this plot is quickly abandoned, the film begins to get better. It seems that a wife and her business partner are trying to use Miljan as a double for her estranged and missing husband.
William Bennett
Ed Carson, contrabandista, es enviado a prisión. Su vieja pandilla se dedica ahora a los secuestros.
Marco
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
Regan
Un hombre joven llamado Richard Bruce (Robert Armstrong) hace su primer viaje a través del Atlántico a Londres. En la capital británica, de manera accidental y envuelto en niebla y bruma, se ve implicado con unos delincuentes. Richard Bruce encuentra la guarida de los secuestradores que se dedicaban a extorsionar a una joven y, a base de sangre fría, jugando sus tarjetas cerca de su chaleco, logra hacerles creer que lo que tiene entre manos son unos papeles secretos que ansía poseer esta banda de criminales.
John Calhoun
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Butch Lorado
A pesar de no conocerla Elmer Butts (Buster Keaton) ama a Hortensia (Phyllis Barry), y sueña con ganar un millón de dólares para comprarla un Rolls Royce y casarse con ella. Con la ley seca a punto de terminar, el amigo de Elmer tiene una idea que los hará ricos, abriendo una fábrica justo antes del fin de la prohibición. Su ineptitud les lleva a crear una cerveza sin alcohol, lo cual les deja fuera del negocio, pero resulta que es una cerveza muy barata de fabricar, por lo que un contrabandista comprende que puede aumentar sus beneficios asociándose con Elmer y su amigo. Pero no cuentan con la presencia de otro competidor, otro contrabandista cuya novia es el amor secreto de Elmer, Hortensia.
Charlie Shaw
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.
Willard
Un alemán de mente llana y modales toscos está perdidamente enamorado de una joven, a su vez fascinada por un hombre poco recomendable.
Holland
La matriarca de una familia de banqueros lidera a su clan durante una crisis económica.
Pancho
Eddie se despierta, tras una noche de borrachera, en la cama con una chica de un colegio para señoritas. Más tarde, se ve implicado en el robo de un banco, con lo que decide escapar a México, con la ayuda de su amigo Ricardo. La policía le sigue los pasos y, por ello, se hace pasar por un torero español.
District Attorney Harris
A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.
Crawford
Un juez y su amante son investigados bajo sospechas de corrupción.
Greg Grannard
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
Major Doleshal
Los males del alcohol antes y durante la prohibición se hacen evidentes cuando vemos sus efectos en la familia Chilcote.
Ted Russell
WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn’t happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill Grimes is bounced from his job, setting in motion this movie’s turn from comedic to darkly tragic. William Haines, two years removed from being Tinseltown’s top male star, plays Grimes in a melodrama noted for its glimpses of live radio production and for a Depression-era ethos that includes peroxide cuties eager to land a job, a sugar daddy or both.
Prefect of Police
Arsène Lupin (John Barrymore), un ladrón que se hace pasar por el Duque de Charmerace, vive en París y su único objetivo es desplumar a los ricos. Después del robo perpetrado en la mansión del millonario Gourney-Martin (Tully Marshall), el detective Guerchard (Lionel Barrymore) sospecha que el culpable es el famoso Lupin. En una fiesta, en la que coinciden Guerchard y Lupin, éste decide actuar: un corte abrupto de la electricidad y el robo de varios invitados, que sólo se dan cuenta cuando vuelve la luz. Gourney-Martin invita a su residencia campestre a Charmerace y a Sonia (Karen Morley), que, en realidad es una ladronzuela que trata de rehabilitarse colaborando con Guerchard.
District Attorney
El jefe de policía, Jim Fitzpatrick, está luchando contra el gángster Sam Belmonte. Le pide a su deshonesto hermano Ed que le eche un ojo a Daisy, que estaba relacionada con Belmonte.
Lt. Cmdr. Jack Griffin
Historia de la rivalidad entre dos aviadores, tanto estando de servicio como no.
District Attorney
Después de décadas de criar a los hijos sin madre de Smith, la ama de llaves Emma Thatcher se enfrenta al resentimiento cuando se casa con su padre.
Norman
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.
John Driscoll
Marian Martin es una humilde muchacha de pueblo que llega a la gran ciudad para conseguir trabajo y, con suerte, un marido con una buena posición social y económica. Mark Whitney es un joven y entusiasta abogado que tiene, además, un prometedor futuro en la política. Marian y Mark se hacen amantes, pero no pueden casarse porque eso afectaría negativamente a la candidatura de Mark a gobernador. Entonces ella, para evitar el escándalo, asume una falsa identidad para poder continuar con el romance.
Wayne Burlingham
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.
Juggat
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
Paul H. Lewis
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
Joe Colimo
El contrabandista y propietario de un club nocturno, Johnny Franks, recluta a un joven hombre llamado Louis Scorpio para unirse a su banda, que está liderada por el deshonesto abogado Richard Newton. Scorpio finalmente se hace cargo de la administración de Franks, vence a una banda rival, se vuelve rico y domina la ciudad por varios años, hasta que un grupo secreto de seis empresarios enmascarados lo procesan y lo envían a la silla eléctrica con la ayuda de su rival, el periodista Carl Luckner y Hank Rogers. La camarera Anne Courtland se debate entre su amor por el honesto periodista Rogers y su dependencia financiera de su generoso jefe, Scorpio.
Florio
Jack vive a lo grande y desea casarse con Marjorie. De pronto, se entera de que su padre no murió, sino que está agonizando. Le alejó de su vida veinte años antes para mantenerle al margen de las bandas, pero ahora quiere dividir el negocio entre Jack y su otro hijo. Parte del negocio consiste en pasar bebida de contrabando desde Canadá.
Jim Curango
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
Henry Coutant, the Sculptor
Yvonne es una bella modelo que adora frecuentar los ambientes de la vida bohemia parisina, pues le encanta codearse con los artistas. Antes no se había avergonzado nunca de su pasado, pero ahora intentará borrarlo por amor.
Inspector Burke
Mary Turner es condenada a tres años por un delito que no cometió. En prisión hace amistad con dos reclusas. Enfurecida por su injusta situación, planea vengarse del fiscal del distrito que la puso entre rejas.
French Medical Officer (uncredited)
Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.
Doctor Kruger
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Martin W. Sanderson
Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Gerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Gerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Gerry's attempts to warn them.
Prosecuting Attorney
A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
Self (Guest Appearance)
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
Juan
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
Armada - the Torero
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school in the rural town of Santiago. At Santiago, his father's old friend is to be his guardian. When Ricardo arrives at Santiago he joins a fraternity, and continues his carefree lifestyle while serenading and courting his guardian's daughter, Carmina.
Frank Buelow
La cantante (Alice White) de un club nocturno de Nueva York es descubierta por un productor de cine y es llevada a Hollywood para convertirla en la siguiente gran estrella cinematográfica.
Bedroom Scene
Anita gana un concurso de belleza local, cuyo premio es un viaje a Hollywood para convertirse en estrella de cine, por lo que viaja a dicha ciudad en compañía de su madre y de Elmer, este en calidad de agente de la joven. Además ambos se aman, pero Elmer no tiene cabida en los planes de la madre. En el viaje conocen a una estrella de cine que presenta a Anita a los directivos de la MGM. Mientras Elmer también trabaja para convertir a Anita en estrella. El estrellato llega, ¿pero a quién?
(uncredited)
Dulcy Parker jamás consigue decir la palabra adecuada en el momento oportuno, todo y que sus intenciones siempre son buenas, por eso sus seres queridos intentarán demostrar que a pesar de todo no es tan tonta como puede parecer en la gran fiesta que su prometido Gordon ha celebrado para anunciar su compromiso con Dulcy.
Chris
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.
Lucien DeGrignon
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
Bennock
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
Lee Renny
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and plans to drive the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.
Major Mallory
One dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. When Scotland Yard gets Monty to gather the other nine surviving officers at his home, one of them is murdered, and no one else has entered the house. Now, they must determine who the murderer is.
Vivid tale of love in Tin Pan Alley.
Frank Martin
John Miljan (uncredited)
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
Bill - Alice's Husband
A husband and wife arguing about which sex gossips more. Just then a friend they both know comes to visit but he isn't aware that they are now married. Soon this friend is gossiping to each of them about the other and sure enough problems start.
Dapper Don Wilkes
An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him.
Captain Fontaine
French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.
Steve Wallace
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her feet and takes her away from it all.
Grant - Lawyer
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
Gil Martin
Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American.
Dr. Milo
An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
Monsieur Renard
Directed by Richard Wallace.
Joe Roberts
Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his friend's money, and almost wrecks their romance.
James Crawford
Rin-Tin-Tin's first sound feature, in which he plays an abused dog recused by a young girl in the far north.
Alfred Katman
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
Officer
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is considered to be a lost film.
Murray
Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.
Preston
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
Gregory Kent
Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit.
Philip Caldwell
Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as a slave to silver. Lavishing the greater part of her fortune on her daughter, Janet, Bernice determines to give her the advantages she herself lacked. Despite her mother's disapproval, Janet scorns the affection of Larry Martin, a life-long friend, after meeting Philip Caldwell, a wealthy sophisticate. Worried over Janet's growing attachment to Philip, Bernice determines to win Caldwell from her daughter, and in a confrontation involving the girl and Richards, now a millionaire, Janet is disillusioned in her mother and Caldwell. Learning of her mother's sacrifice, Janet forgives her and finds happiness with Larry.
Host (uncredited)
Primer film sonoro. La Warner Bros. Pictures, que por entonces pasaba problemas financieros, fue el primer estudio en sacar un filme sonoro, que alternaba la voz y canciones de Al Jolson con subtítulos. Por supuesto, e independientemente de la calidad artística del filme, se convirtió en un gran éxito de taquilla.
Mark
Cynthia Botts is the headmistress of a girls' school who has left a fortune on the condition that no scandal could ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of Sandy McTavish, a romantic sailor and Charlotte Ralston is just around the corner.
Bert Colton
Silent crime drama Directed by William James Craft.
Lieutenant Kellogg
The beautiful and cultured Lady Diana Whitney marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army. When he is transferred to the Sahara, life at his remote post becomes one trial after another for Diana. Then Larry Trent, a young lieutenant, arrives to provide a pleasant reminder of days past, but Maxwell, in a jealous rage over their innocent companionship, sends Trent to a distant village.
Maurice
Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.
Victor Smith
Film was released in 1927
Paul de Vigny
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
Michael Donovan
Michael Donovan, a heavy loser at a gambling casino, confronts its owner with evidence of cheating and finds himself accused of murder, on circumstantial evidence, of the owner's murder.
Ed, the barber
Quarantined Rivals is a 1927 silent Comedy
Nicholas
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women and spectacular settings.
Henri
Marcia, a pretty young girl, goes to work as a model for a lecherous dress-shop owner. She resists his advances, despite his giving her expensive gifts. One day Mrs. Reilly, a prominent society woman and a customer of the shop, invites Marcia to a party she's throwing. Marcia winds up impersonating a famous writer in order to impress a "duke" for Mrs. Reilly, who doesn't know the "duke" isn't really a duke. Complications ensue.
Viscount John Devenham
Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair lady himself. Barnaby becomes friend with Viscount Devehon, buys a horse from him and enters it in the big steeplechase. Sir Mortimer takes steps to rid society of the presence of this non-gentleman.
André Le Févier
A wealthy Parisian surgeon finds himself serving time in a brutal penal colony.
J.A. Smith
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.
Drummond
Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family estate. When "Slim Jim"'s gang finds out about this, they conspire to cheat her out of her inheritance by passing off one of the gangster's girlfriends as the real daughter. Unbeknownst to the gang, however, their leader isn't dead and finds out what they're up to. Complications ensue.
Lieberkind
In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast life of crime. Before long, his fate intersects with that of Mary, a devout orphan, prompting a romance and a reevaluation.
Lawrence Sanbury
When she goes to tell her husband Hubert that she is expecting a child, Caroline Knollys finds him in the arms of another woman. Caroline leaves him and, not telling him of her pregnancy, runs off to Europe where she has her child and becomes the toast of European society. Then she returns to settle with her husband once and for all.
Valentin (uncredited)
En los sótanos de la Ópera de París vive oculto el misterioso Eric, el hombre de voz de ángel y rostro desfigurado de demonio, que acecha entre pared y pared a la hermosa soprano Christine Daeé, a la que desea catapultar hasta la cima de la fama; pero cuando se entera de que la cantante está prometida al apuesto vizconde Raoul, se vuelve loco de celos.
Jim Downing
When Silent Sanderson's brother kills himself over the rejection of a woman, Silent blames Judith Benson and leaves the family homestead to begin a new life in Alaska. He is later reunited with Judith Benson, only to discover that his brother didn't commit suicide at all but was murdered by the woman's jealous husband.
Samuel Curtis
Silent Drama
Frank Gorman
Milt Kimberlin is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively and engaging Clara Bow), doesn't care -- she turns down the fancy jewelry offered by oily Frank Gorman for a wedding ring from Kimberlin. Even though his finances never improve, Rosalie sticks by her husband only to sicken and die in a garret. Kimberlin's luck changes almost overnight and he becomes incredibly wealthy.
