Max Hoffman Jr.
Nacimiento : 1902-12-13, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Muerte : 1945-03-31
Sergeant
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
Kearney
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
Gang Leader Louis Padroni
A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the Windy City gang leader (Max Hoffman Jr.) against whom he is scheduled to testify.
Hymie
Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.
Sergeant Reading Telegraph Copy (uncredited)
George Custer (Errol Flynn) llega a la Academia de West Point lleno de arrogancia y vanidad. Su carácter indisciplinado le ocasionará numerosos problemas con sus superiores. A pesar de todo, y debido a la acuciante necesidad de oficiales para la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), es enviado al frente. Terminada la guerra, se casa con Beth (Olivia de Havilland), pero pronto le asignan un nuevo destino: la guerra contra los indios. Al frente del Séptimo de Caballería, el Teniente Coronel Custer se enfrentará a los indios de Caballo Loco. La campaña termina con la famosa batalla de Little Big Horn (Montana, 1876).
Motorcop (uncredited)
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Policeman
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Detective Driving Car (uncredited)
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Charlie, the Third Cab Driver (uncredited)
El testimonio de un periodista sirve para llevar a un joven a la silla eléctrica. El reportero, torturado por las dudas acerca de su culpabilidad, cae en una telaraña de falsas pruebas que le señalan, ahora a él, como presunto autor de un nuevo crimen...
Police Officer (uncredited)
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Policeman #2 (uncredited)
El gángster Little John Sarto viaja por Europa en busca de estilo, sin embargo nunca podrá poseer ese toque que anhela. Cuando regresa a América sin un dólar encuentra a su banda liderada por Jack Buck y a su novia convertida en una nueva rica.
Union Sergeant (uncredited)
El oficial de la Unión Kerry Bradford se escapa de una prisión confederada y corre a interceptar un cargamento de 5 millones de dólares en oro con destino a las arcas confederadas. Un simpatizante de la Confederación y un bandido mejicano, cada uno de ellos con sus propios intereses, se le cruzarán en el camino.
Driver
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt (George Raft) sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda (Joan Bennett), testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma (Lloyd Nolan), who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan (Walter Pidgeon), who knows nothing about her past.
Warden's Clerk (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Chauffeur Showing Off Car (uncredited)
Cliff Taylor es un exconvicto que intenta llevar una vida normal, pero desde que salió de la cárcel en libertad condicional, su pasado criminal le impide encontrar y mantener un cualquier trabajo. Sin embargo, lo peor es que Tim, su hermano menor, siguiendo sus pasos, se une a la banda de Charles Martin
Sergeant in the Trench (uncredited)
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Fitts
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Guard George Shelden (uncredited)
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Doctor (uncredited)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Reporter (uncredited)
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
Lon King - Packers Player
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
Gate Guard (uncredited)
Aunque inocente, el reportero Frank Ross es declarado culpable de asesinato y es enviado a la cárcel. Mientras sus amigos del periódico tratan de averiguar quien lo engañó, Frank se va endureciendo por la vida en prisión y su optimismo se convierte en amargura.
Gladstone Coach (uncredited)
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
Soldier at Renz's Arrest (uncredited)
Un agente del FBI (Robinson) investiga una amplia red de espionaje nazi que opera en Estados Unidos. Sus contactos llegarán hasta Suramérica y Europa. Se trata de una de las pocas películas del género antinazi rodadas antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, época en la que los Estados Unidos y, por consiguiente, Hollywood seguían una política aislacionista.
Slicker - Henchman
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
Drilling Officer
Dos hermanos pilotos de aviación se disputan la misma mujer.
Motorcycle Officer Sam Moore
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
Second Policeman (uncredited)
Una médico está bajo el punto de mira de la policía tras la muerte de su marido, un médico que conseguía dinero fácil atendiendo a criminales sin denunciarlos. Tendrá que probar su inocencia o perderá su licencia para ejercer la medicina.
1st Protection Racket Thug
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Joe Bailey
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
Hardy
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
Sergeant Connors
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
Harry Selkirk
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.
Bill Drake
El jugador estrella del equipo de hockey de los Indians muere en un supuesto accidente. Su hermano se infiltra en el equipo para descubrir la verdad, y de paso se enamora de la hija del entrenador...
Butch
Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor. But Karan believes that Tal, using the name Smith J. Brown, could not be a killer. Unknown to her, her step brother, Hub, is part of the gang.
(uncredited)
Nick Donati, un mánager de boxeo, descubre en un hotel a Ward, un botones que logra noquear a un peso pesado que estaba molestando a Louise, la novia de Nick. Nick le ofrece al chico entrenarlo para hacer de él un boxeador profesional. Ward acepta y se hace llamar 'Kid Galahad'. Las cosas se complicarán porque un tipo sin escrúpulos se interpondrá en los planes de Nick. Además, Louise empieza a sentirse atraída por Ward, pero éste se enamora de Marie, la hermana de Nick.
Macon Navigation officer (uncredited)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Jed, the Apache Kid
Gene and Frog, out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to be dead bandits, which soon gets them in big trouble.
3rd Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
El mafioso Johnny Vanning dirige un ostentoso club nocturno de Nueva York en el que explota a sus chicas y las tiene atemorizadas. Mary incita a un juerguista a ganar más dinero del que tiene y, cuando no puede pagar, le matan. El fiscal del distrito, David Graham, convencido de que el caso está ganado, lleva a Vanning a juicio.
Kit
Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from an exclusive jewelry store. Soon, a private-detective, who has a dupe gem matching the stolen one, the police, and two gangster buddies of the jeweler are all racing each other to get the diamond back from Phyllis. The country-girl provides them all with a wild chase.
Torchy Myers
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
Old Lace is a 1931 Musical short.