Victor Halperin
Nacimiento : 1895-08-24, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Muerte : 1983-05-17
Director
A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.
Director
Centra su argumento en la lucha del alcaide de una prisión por intentar avanzar en la aplicación de normas que consigan mitigar la dureza de la vida en sus instalaciones. En su ámbito de dirección se dan cita una serie de personajes, entre los que destaca la presencia del atormentado verdugo, un joven médico y un sacerdote. A todos ellos les une su secreta admiración hacia la enfermera Joan Wright (Beverly Roberts), hacia quien desean acercarse, quizá por representar un único asidero dentro del entorno sórdido en que desarrollan su labor. Pero los sentimientos de la joven. Finalmente se inclinarán hacia la figura de joven recluso Johnny Martin (Robert Wilcox).
Director
A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship.
Story
Believing they can make a ton of money, a gang of opportunists uses the country's racial and ethnic tensions to start a Ku Klux Klan-type organization.
Director
Believing they can make a ton of money, a gang of opportunists uses the country's racial and ethnic tensions to start a Ku Klux Klan-type organization.
Director
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond). He nurses the colt back to health, and in two years has one of the fastest horses in the country.
Writer
The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. Evil Count Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending Mazovia's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, Armand (Dean Jagger), one of the members of the expedition, has his own agenda.
Director
The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. Evil Count Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending Mazovia's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, Armand (Dean Jagger), one of the members of the expedition, has his own agenda.
Director
1936 was a different world in Newfoundland - the bigotry and the unexpected ending will give you plenty to talk about and think about in this forgotten masterpiece of human drama.
Story
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Producer
Un doctor investiga sobre hechos sobrenaturales y la ejecución de una mujer acusada de asesinato le dará ocasión de probar sus teorías. Pero se produce una inesperada desviación de su propósito cuando el espíritu de la difunta va a parar al cuerpo de una mujer inocente.
Director
Un doctor investiga sobre hechos sobrenaturales y la ejecución de una mujer acusada de asesinato le dará ocasión de probar sus teorías. Pero se produce una inesperada desviación de su propósito cuando el espíritu de la difunta va a parar al cuerpo de una mujer inocente.
Director
Una pareja de enamorados viaja a Haití invitada por un misterioso hombre que sólo pretende conseguir a la chica. Para alcanzar su objetivo no duda en pedir ayuda a un siniestro personaje, llamado Legendre, que convierte a las personas en zombis.
Writer
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.
Director
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.
Producer
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
Scenario Writer
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
Director
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
Producer
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, Joan Morant, joven consentida de la alta sociedad, se va a Francia con la esperanza de reunirse con Reggie, el hombre adinerado de quien está enamorada. El oficial al mando del regimiento de Reggie, el teniente Tom Pike, que era el dueño del taller de coches de la ciudad de origen de Joan, se siente contrariado ante la presencia de ella e intenta demostrarle que su clase social no significa nada en tiempos de guerra. Cuando Reggie es llamado al frente, se emborracha y Joan acude en su lugar...
Director
In Borrowed Plumes is a silent comedy
Writer
Elaine Kent weds Kenneth Billings, a young man who has a taste for wild living. She attempts to reform him and his exasperated father disinherits him. Now that he is without money, Kenneth starts a dye business and he proceeds to throw himself into it with the same amount of effort he once spent on the high life. As a result, he overworks until he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Director
Elaine Kent weds Kenneth Billings, a young man who has a taste for wild living. She attempts to reform him and his exasperated father disinherits him. Now that he is without money, Kenneth starts a dye business and he proceeds to throw himself into it with the same amount of effort he once spent on the high life. As a result, he overworks until he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy hotel, saving all the profits to pay the legal fees for her father who has been unjustly jailed. Mr. Day's rival has embroiled him in a crooked stock deal and made him appear to be the guilty party. Meanwhile, Bonnie is in the midst of a romantic dilemma; her Aunt Pearl wants her to wed Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie much prefers helpful young lawyer Art Binger.