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Durante la Guerra de Secesión americana (1861-1865), una mujer debe llevar un mensaje a un soldado del Sur. En su camino se cruza con un hombre al que han atacado por error y, también por error, ella cree que es el hombre al que tiene que entregar la misiva.
Director
Texas, año 1878. Jim, Lorn y Wahoo son asaltantes de diligencias. Huyendo de sus perseguidores, se separan durante algún tiempo, pero Jim y Wahoo no consiguen dar con su amigo. En un intento por encontrarle se alistan en los rangers, donde les admiten sin preguntarles por su pasado. Pero ya no son los mismos...
Director
La banda de los Barton está causando problemas al ferrocarril con sus asaltos a trenes. La empresa contrata a Smith el Silencioso, pero en la primera batalla cae herido.
Director
Lulu Belle canta en un local barato de Natchez, Mississippi, a principios de 1900, donde conoce al joven y prometedor abogado George Davis, quien renuncia a su novia y su carrera para casarse con Lulu Belle. Cuando se acaba el dinero, Lulu se va a trabajar a Nueva Orleans, a un club dirigido por el duro Mark Brady. Para deshacerse de George, finge que se ha enamorado del luchador Butch Cooper, a quien George, en un ataque de celos, lanza un puñado de tenedores a la cara. Lo envían a la cárcel y Lulu se va a Nueva York con el millonario Harry Randolph, que la convierte en la sensación de Broadway y le pide que se case con él, a lo que ella se niega cuando se entera de que George ha sido liberado de la prisión, pues es el único hombre al que realmente ha amado.
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Oliver H. Pease (Burgess Meredith) sueña con ser un gran periodista, pero tiene que conformarse con ser el redactor de la sección de mascotas perdidas de un periódico. Su mujer (Paulette Godard) le propone que se convierta por un día en El Reportero Errante con el fin de conseguir interesantes historias que le permitan alcanzar el éxito que tanto anhela. Por capricho del productor, el episodio que protagoniza Charles Laughton, fue sustituido por otro interpretado por Dorothy Lamour; el filme se tituló desde entonces "On our merry way" (Por nuestro alegre camino).
Director
Después de licenciarse, tres soldados deciden quedarse un tiempo en Oriente antes de regresar a los Estados Unidos. Los tres son pilotos y quieren empezar a disfrutar del tiempo perdido en combate.
Producer
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
Director
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
Director
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
Director
El Santo, tratando de alejarse de todo viaja a Suiza de vacaciones, pero será sólo un espejismo ya que Templar encuentra una pequeña caja de música que contiene un secreto muy valioso. El problema para Simon aún está por llegar, detrás de la caja anda una peligrosa organización de espías.
Director
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Director
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
Director
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Director
Michael Cassidy es el editor de un pequeño periódico que está a punto de ser cerrado. El nuevo propietario, Matthew Cooper, dueño de otro periódico de la ciudad, sólo lo ha comprado para deshacerse de la competencia
Dan Farrow
Conmovido al escuchar la historia de un convicto que inició su carrera delictiva siendo un niño al que nadie dio una oportunidad, el padre Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) dedice construir la Ciudad de los Muchachos, un lugar donde los jóvenes conflictivos puedan convivir, trabajar y labrarse un futuro honrado. Allí acude a la fuerza Withey Marsh (Mickey Rooney), un joven rebelde que parece un caso perdido y que está decidido a seguir los pasos de su hermano Joe (Edward Norris), líder de una banda de delincuentes.
Director
An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
Director
An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme is to place his art collection aboard a ship, insure the collection far beyond its value, and place a barrel of dynamite with a clock-piece timed to go off when the ship is at sea.
Director
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
Director
In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map. A flashback reveals that Kidd was known to be a pirate and also to have had a commission from William III at one time, which instructed him to act as a unit of the British Navy. What became of the fabulous treasure Kidd took from the ship "Kedah Merchant".
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map. A flashback reveals that Kidd was known to be a pirate and also to have had a commission from William III at one time, which instructed him to act as a unit of the British Navy. What became of the fabulous treasure Kidd took from the ship "Kedah Merchant".
Nick Garvey
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
Anthony Durand
Dos americanos, Tommy Baldwin y Joe Dugan, tienen que custodiar un fabuloso diamante en Shanghai pero rápidamente se lo roban. Saben que huyen en un barco de Shanghai a los Estados Unidos, y ellos también se embarcan n la intención de recuperar la joya. Sus esfuerzos les llevan a descubrir varios cadáveres pero también que a bordo hay una rubia, Jane Dunn, que es en realidad es un agente encubierto de la Agencia de Aduanas de EE.UU. Tommy y Jane, descubrirán el misterio y encontrarán el amor. (FILMAFFINITY)
Barry Wilding
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
Carl Briggs
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
Steve Sherman
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Stuart Eldredge
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Dan Oliver
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is implicated in a murder.
Captain Wong Bo
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
Monk
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Su Quong
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Joe Harris (uncredited)
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Tim Winthrop
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
Dr. Kane
When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.
General Saki Tenoki
María Galante, una joven e ingenua telefonista francesa, es raptada por un capitán que la desembarca en Yucatán, dejándola abandonada a su suerte. Con grandes dificultades, María llega a la zona del Canal de panamá, donde encuentra trabajo como cantante en un café.
Frank Riker
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
Hugh Halliburton
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
Russell Storm
an aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile the writer attempts to become a Greenwich Village Bohemian type. She and her new friends are all starving for their art until a kindly gent offers them financial assistant. They refuse on principle. Tragedy pays a call when the writer learns that her boyfriend has been untrue.
Duke
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
Jules' Radio Operator / Co-Pilot
Cuenta la historia de un grupo de esforzados pilotos del servicio de correos a las órdenes de Riviere.
Capt. B.E. Droste
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste. English version of F.P.1 antwortet nicht with Conrad Veidt replacing Hans Albers as the jaded pilot Ellissen.
Tony Dressel
El peligro que conlleva volar en condiciones meteorológicas adversas precipita la salida de un par de pilotos de la compañía de servicio postal aéreo estadounidense. Para cubrir las dos bajas, Mike Miller decide contratar a Duke Talbot, aún a sabiendas de su forma temeraria de volar. Por su parte, Mike se ve forzado a cubrir la otra vacante. La toma de esta decisión no puede ser menos oportuna, ya que al asumir su nuevo cargo, Mike sufre un aparatoso accidente aéreo en una zona montañosa. La única solución para rescatar con vida a Mike pasa por la habilidad de Duke a la hora de desafiar el riesgo que corre, trasladándose al punto donde ha tenido lugar el siniestro de la avioneta pilotada por su jefe y compañero.
Webb
Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil rigger Walt (Charles Bickford), who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken (Paul Lukas) but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis (Ralph Forbes), and Ken urges her to return to Walt.
Nick 'Nicky' Grant
Tras ser abandonada por el hombre que la ilusionó con un futuro respetable, Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) cae en las garras de Nicky Grant (Leslie Fenton), un truhán al que se apega para poder sostener a la pequeña hija de un padre cuyo nombre nunca confesará. Entre tanto, Jimmy Cook (Richard Cromwell), un decente botones que la ama sinceramente, es leal y constante con ella, pero, Molly se convertirá en personaje de primera plana y el reportero Scotty Cornell (Lee Tracy), irrumpirá en su vida.
Perrin
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglers", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Harry En Hai
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
Joe Palmero
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
Gerald 'Gerry' Willis
Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on a dare. He drinks the concoction down in one swallow and also manages to outsmart Dot's boss and his rum-running hooligans. You see, Dingo is a bootlegger himself. He literally sweeps the lady off her feet and they set up housekeeping in a tropical hotel full of colorful characters, some of whom are in the bootlegging business too.
Walter Grayson
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.
Charlie
Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for past kindnesses, steals a diamond necklace from the home safe of the district attorney. When the district attorney threatens to accuse the police of inefficiency in crime fighting, Garvey, who is campaigning for the office of police commissioner, promises to catch the thief in twenty-four hours.
Samuel 'Nails' Nathan
Relato del auge y caída de Tom (James Cagney), un criminal de poca monta que asciende rápidamente gracias a la Ley Seca. Con la colaboración de su mejor amigo y cómplice (Edward Woods) Tom, seducido por el poder y el dinero, se involucra en turbios negocios.
Baron le Duc
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
Young 'Vulture'
Para conseguir la herencia de su riquísimo abuelo, Cynthia Crothers (Kay Johnson) debe de estar casada el día de su vigésimo tercer cumpleaños. Desgraciadamente, el hombre al que ama, Roger Towne (Conrad Nagel), ya está casado. Entonces adopta una solución provisional: casarse con Hagon Derk, un minero condenado a muerte (Charles Bickford), en tanto que ofrece dinero a la mujer de Towne (Julia Faye) para que acepte el divorcio...
Buffo
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
Eddie Evans
In Woman Trap, Hal Skelly is hard-bitten police sergeant Dan Malone, whose mission in life is to rid his community of gangsters. The revelation that Dan's own brother Ray (Chester Morris) is the secret head of all local criminal activities does not weaken Dan's resolve in the least. The barely relevant title is a reference to "heroine" Kitty Evans (Evelyn Brent), the wife of a minor gang functionary. Screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz, presumably on a dare, makes a brief appearance as a crime reporter.
Richard Parrish
Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each should be allowed perfect freedom in personal contacts. Complications arise when these ideals are put into practice.
'Scar' Edwards
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Carlo Vesper
Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress Olga Baclanova (Freaks) on the eve of the big fight.
Peter Allerton
The commissioner of an African outpost lives with a woman who drives the white men to their deaths with her seductive ways. The commissioner learns that his brother will be his next assistant, and the woman begins working her wiles on him....
Andrew 'Andy' Corbin
Haver, a newspaper reporter persuades a judge to release the suspected killer of a wealthy racetrack owner.
Carol Talbot
The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."
Shakespeare
A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Josef von Sternberg from an original screen story and starring George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent.
Kilgore Shelton
Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman.
Jim Mortlake
John Griffith Wray silent South America romantic melodrama starring Dolores Del Rio, Walter Pidgeon, Anders Randolf, Lesle Fenton, and Noble Johnson.
Lt. Moore
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), una compañía de marines estadounidenses se encuentra destacada en Francia bajo el mando del Capitán Flagg. Como los refuerzos que les llegan están formados por muchachos sin experiencia, Flagg solicita al alto mando un sargento mayor que se encargue de adiestrarlos antes de entrar en combate. Llega, entonces, el Sargento Quirt, un viejo rival de Flagg.
James Callahan
In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace. Graham, a detective, gives chase to a desolate island in the South Pacific where a rum-running gangster, Murdock, holds him captive. Callahan becomes infatuated with a native girl, Leona, and Sylvia turns to Graham for protection against the offensive Murdock. A volcano eruption causes problems for all.
Neil Ross
Encontrándose en grandes dificultadas económicas, un viejo noble irlandés se ve obligado a vender parte de su cuadra a un americano que se lleva también a su mejor jinete. Durante una carrera el jinete sufre un accidente, y allí se reune con él su antiguo patrón, llevando asimismo a su hija y una yegua. Para resolver los problemas de la cuadra, inscriben a la yegua en una carrera importante (la montará la muchacha) y ganan el primer premio. Así pueden retornar los cuatro a Irlanda.
Douglas Keith
Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs with a fast young set. An auto breakdown after a party places her in a compromising situation, and she grudgingly marries a wealthy suitor of her father's choice. When her husband's cruelty results in the death of her child, she leaves him and meets Ramon, an architect with whom she becomes infatuated. The return of his former mistress causes her to seek refuge with her cousin Judith, where she falls in love with Douglas, Judith's sweetheart. As Sandy refuses to return to Ramon, he shoots her and then kills himself. Douglas, taking the blame for her sake, is tried for murder, but Sandy rises from her sickbed and confesses in court; she succumbs after restoring Judith to Douglas.
David Hale
May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.
Joe Barlow
Doris Matthews, a beautiful, innocent young girl, forsakes her sweetheart, Joel Barlowe, in favor of Victor Brant, a wealthy roué. On the night before they are to elope, an old sailor gives Brant a strange potion to drink and then unfolds before his eyes "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Deeply touched by this story about the consequences of the wanton destruction of innocent beauty, Brant leaves without Doris. After some time, he returns and finds to his pained satisfaction that Doris, having overcome her infatuation for him, has again turned her tender attentions toward Joel.
Richard Hare
This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been filmed several times when it came to the screen once again in 1925. Director Emmett J. Flynn had an all-star cast and kept close to the original story.
Dick Ritchie
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
Sam Martin
Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and when he returns home, he wants to build a school so that others can learn, too.
