George Meeker

George Meeker

Nacimiento : 1904-03-05, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Muerte : 1984-08-19

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Meeker (March 5, 1904 – August 19, 1984) was an American character movie and Broadway actor who became more of a legend off-camera than on. Meeker made several movies such as Crime, Inc. (1945) and Thief in the Dark (1928), and he played an uncredited part in All Through the Night (1941). Meeker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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George Meeker

Películas

Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
Willard
Two federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security of the country and sells them to foreign powers.
Wells Fargo Gunmaster
Roulette Croupier
Rocky Lane, Special Investigator for Wells Fargo, shows up just in time to save the stage from being robbed. Unable to find the mastermind, or even the outlaws who rob the stage, Rocky goes undercover as an outlaw.
Spoilers of the Plains
Scientist
An experimental weather satellite and a missile base are at stake when Roy discovers foreign agents around his ranch.
The Invisible Monster
"Harry Long"
Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibility chemical and plans to build a mercenary army of invisible men.
Twilight in the Sierras
Matt Brunner
Roy is a United States Marshal tracking down a counterfeiting ring and hunting down a mountain lion. Songs: "It's One Wonderful Day," "Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy," "Pancho's Rancho" and the title song.
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Eric Parsons
Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail and Ranger Steve Howard (Monte Hale) goes after him. He catches up with him in the Cherokee Strip where he has no authority. Joe is then framed for another murder and this time Steve knows he is innocent and goes after the real killer.
Sky Liner
Financier
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
Omoo-Omoo the Shark God
Dr. Godfrey Long
The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol.
Letra y Música
Producer (uncredited)
Retrato de las carreras profesionales de Richard Rodgers y Lorenz Hart, dos conocidos escritores de canciones.
The Denver Kid
Dealer Andre
When Border Patrol Lieutenant Roberts is killed, it appears that his brother Tim was the killer. To clear the Robert's name for his boss, Lieutenant Rocky Lane heads south of the border posing as an outlaw. He hopes to get in with the gang and find Tim who is using an assumed name. As always, Nugget is there to help.
Silver Trails
Will Jackson
Jimmy and Cannonball find the body of Don Muquel after he has been shot and robbed by henchmen Ramsay and Sturgis. Jimmy is accused of the crime by Jose Esteban but the latter's rich uncle, Don Esteban, clears his friend Jimmy. Jose accuses the the settlers, led by John Chambers, of confiscating the land of the native Californians, through murder and theft. Actually, surveyor Willard Jackson is making forged copies of stolen land-grant papers after his men have killed the rightful owners. Playing both ends against the middle, Ramsay urges Chambers and his daughter, Diane, to drive off the Californians.
Venus era mujer
Eddie trabaja en unos grandes almacenes cuyo dueño ha adquirido una valiosísima escultura de Venus y se propone dar una fiesta para mostrarla a sus amigos. Eddie debe reparar el mecanismo que descorre las cortinas que la cubren. Emocionado por su belleza, la besa y se produce el milagro. La estatua de mármol cobra vida y se convierte en una bellísima mujer que dice ser la mismísima diosa Venus. Eddie es acusado de la desaparicion de una obra de arte valorada en doscientos mil dólares y, naturalmente, la policía no cree su fantástica explicacion. Pero, por fortuna, Venus está con él para ayudarle.
Superman
Driller
Superman viene a la Tierra cuando era un niño y crece para convertirse en el primer superhéroe de su hogar. Su primer gran desafío es oponerse a la Dama Araña.
The Gay Ranchero
Vance Brados
Manzanita Springs ia a combination small airline and spa and Vance Brados wants it. He pays their mechanic to have the planes run out of fuel so his men can rob the gold shipments and kill the pilots. After Sheriff Roy Rogers catches the mechanic, Roy plans one more gold shipment to get proof and this time his men will be ready. But it looks like Roy's plan will fail when Brados suspects a trap and call off the raid.
Camino de Río
Sherman Mallory
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)
The Case Of The Baby-Sitter
Phil Russell, alias the Duke
The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married couple George Meeker and Rebel Randall. Actually, Meeker and Randall are jewel thieves, and their "baby" is their stolen loot. Neal eventually catches on when he realizes that this is the quietest child on earth. Running a scant 41 minutes, Case of the Baby Sitter was designed to be shown in tandem with another Screen Guild Productions "briefie," The Hat Box Mystery: the films were shot back to back, with Tom Neal and Pamela Blake starring in both.
Apache Rose
Reed Calhoun
Roy is an oil prospector. His efforts to get drilling rights on an old Spanish land grant are countered by gamblers from an off-shore gambling boat determined to control the land (and oil) themselves.
Home in Oklahoma
Steve McClory
In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him and Lousiania's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.E. "Pappy" O'Daniel possibly the only state governors to write songs used in a western), Flying U ranch owner Sam Talbot is killed by a fall from a horse. St. Louis reporter Connie Edwards comes to check a rumor that he might have been murdered. She goes to Roy Rogers, editor of the local newspaper, and he takes her to the reading of Talbot's will. The ranch is left to Talbot's 12-year-old ward, Duke Lowery, much to the dismay of Talbot's niece, Jan Holloway. After some attempts on Duke's life, Roy finally proves that Jan, Steve McClory and coroner Jim Judnick had Talbot killed and are conspiring to do the same for Duke, making Jan the last heir.
Her Sister's Secret
Guy
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. He asks her to marry him but she decides to wait until his next leave. He is sent overseas and she does not receive his letter and feels abandoned, but she does find out she is pregnant. She gives the child to her married sister and does not see her child again for three years. She returns to her sister's home to reclaim the child, and the soldier, who has been searching for her, also turns up. The sister is not interested in giving up the child. Written by Les Adams
El Diablo y yo
Mr. Bentley (uncredited)
El gangster E. Kagle ha sido asesinado por su socio y amigo S. Williams. Kagle acaba en el infierno, donde "Nick" le ofrece la oportunidad de vengarse, a cambio de su ayuda con un problema que tiene. Nick lo dispone todo para que Kagle ocupe el cuerpo del honrado juez Parker. En el transcurso de los acontecimientos, Kagle se ve involucrado con Bárbara Foster, la novia del juez, de la que se enamora, hecho que le hará replantearse todo lo que ha sido su vida.
Below the Deadline
Jeffrey Hilton
A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner, persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.
Chick Carter, Detective
Nick Pollo
Detective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot)finds himself on his most exciting case when Sherry Martin (Julie Gibson), a singer at the Century Club, reports the robbery of the famous Blue Diamond, owned by Joe Carney (Charles King), the owner of the nightclub.
Just Before Dawn
Walter Foster (uncredited)
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
Murder Is My Business
Carl Meldrum
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
Black Market Babies
Anthony Marsden
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
Northwest Trail
Whitey Yeager
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.
Come Out Fighting
Silk Henley
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his sissy son.
The Crime Doctor's Warning
Mrs. Lake's Attorney #1 (uncredited)
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
The Red Dragon
Edmond Slade
Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Dollar Davis
After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no longer race, he takes up a collection so Ma Brown, who owns the horses won't have her stable foreclosed on. However, one of the gamblers involved in the frame falls for Ma Brwn's daughter, and decides to come clean and confess to the police about the frame. The other gamblers hear about it and set out to shut him up and discredit Muggs and Ma Brown once and for all.
Blonde Ransom
Forbes
Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyfriend and owner of a Broadway nightclub Duke Randall needs $63,000 in a hurry, Vicki fakes her own kidnapping to raise the ransom money from her uncle. Things get sticky when the phony abduction turns real.
Crime, Inc.
Barry North
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
A Guy, a Gal and a Pal
Granville Breckenridge
A young woman devises a clever scheme to secure a train reservation by pretending to be married to a stranger.
Docks of New York
Mallet
The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.
Brenda Starr, Reporter
Frank Smith (uncredited)
Reporter Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury) and her photographer Chuck Allen (Syd Saylor) get involved in a search for the loot from a payroll robbery. Cliffhanging action and adventure and a fair amount of comic relief follow them at every turn.
The Big Show-Off
Wally Porter
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
Dead Man's Eyes
Nick Phillips
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous assistant / model. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.
I Accuse My Parents
Charles Blake
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.
Marriage Is a Private Affair
Jonesy (uncredited)
Una chica rica y mimada no está dispuesta a que el matrimonio se entrometa en su afición a perseguir a los hombres.
Seven Doors to Death
Charles Eaton
An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft/double murder.
The Port of 40 Thieves
Frederick St. Clair
A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong.
Song of Nevada
Chris Calahan
When John Barrabbee's plane makes an emergency landing, he wanders off and joins Roy's cattle drive. Later he learns he was killed when his plane resumed its flight and crashed. He also learns his daughter is going to sell his ranch and marry a man he dislikes. So he gives Roy a job on the ranch and sends him off to see if he can prevent both of these events while he remains in hiding. Written by Maurice VanAuken Western girl moves east and influenced badly by her snobby fiance. She returns to sell her deceased father's ranch. The father isn't really dead, though; he's hoping that his friend Roy can restore the girl's western values. Songs include "New Moon Over Nevada," "A Cowboy has to Yodel in the Morning," and "The Harum Scarum Baron of the Harmonium." Written by Ed Stephan
Take It Big
John Hankinson
Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
Silent Partner
R.S. Treavor, Desk Clerk
A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.
Rumbo a Oriente
Meeker, Ashley's Aide
Comedia musical sobre un hipocondríaco que tiene que trabajar como ascensorista en un hospital.
El hijo de Drácula
Party Guest (uncredited)
El hijo del Conde Drácula, utilizando una identidad falsa (Alucard), viaja a una plantación del sur de los Estados Unidos invitado por Katherine, una bella joven que vive obsesionada por la muerte. Inmediatamente después de su llegada, el conde Alucard intenta seducirla.
Incidente en Ox-Bow
Mr. Swanson (uncredited)
El asesinato de un ranchero rompe la aparente tranquilidad de un pueblo del oeste americano. Ausente el sheriff, los hombres del pueblo deciden formar una partida para encontrar a los culpables.
Casablanca
Rick's Friend (uncredited)
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Casablanca era una ciudad a la que llegaban huyendo del nazismo gentes de todas partes: llegar era fácil, pero salir era casi imposible, especialmente si el nombre del fugitivo figuraba en las listas de la Gestapo. En esta ocasión el principal objetivo de la policía secreta alemana es el líder checo y héroe de la resistencia Victor Laszlo, cuya única esperanza es Rick Blaine, propietario del 'Rick’s Café' y antiguo amante de su mujer, Ilsa. Cuando Ilsa se ofrece a quedarse a cambio de un visado para sacar a Laszlo del país, Rick deberá elegir entre su propia felicidad o el idealismo que rigió su vida en el pasado.
You Can't Escape Forever
Cummings - Greer's Lawyer (uncredited)
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
Secret Enemies
Rudolph Dietz
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
Spy Ship
Paul
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
Larceny, Inc.
Mr. Jackson
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
Murder in the Big House
'Scoop' Conner
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
El macho
Reporter on Porch (uncredited)
Los miembros del Consejo Rector de la Universidad Midwestern han expulsado a tres profesores por sospechar que puedan ser comunistas. El consejero Ed Keller (Eugene Pallette) también ha amenazado con la expulsión a Tommy Turner (Henry Fonda), el profesor de literatura, que tiene previsto leer en su clase un texto que puede resultar sospechoso. Pero no es eso lo que más molesta al profesor Turner, sino el hecho de que su propia esposa, Ellen (Olivia De Havilland) también opine que no debe de leer el controvertido texto. Mientras tanto, Joe Ferguson (Jack Carson), un antiguo novio de Ellen se ha presentado a hacerles una visita durante el fin de semana, lo que ha causado cierta preocupación a Tommy...
A través de la noche
Reporter
Gloves Donahue, un jugador de Broadway y truhán simpático, quiere encontrar al asesino del señor Miller, un anciano panadero. Donahue reconoce a Leda Hamilton, cantante de un club nocturno propiedad de Marty Callahan, a la que vio salir de la panadería. Joe Denning, el socio de Marty es asesinado, Leda desaparece de forma misteriosa. Donahue, a quien la policía considera sospechoso junto a Marty del asesinato de Joe Denning, sigue la pista de Leda hasta encontrarla, ésta le confiesa que se ve obligada a colaborar con agentes nazis para proteger a su padre prisionero en Alemania.
You're in the Army Now
Captain Austin
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
Marry the Boss's Daughter
Snavely
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
Mi marido está loco
Lawyer DeWest
Steve y Susan Ireland van a cumplir su cuarto aniversario de boda, pero su relación es bastante problemática. Cuando Susan descubre a Steve con su antigua novia, piensa que tienen una aventura y decide pedir el divorcio. Pero Steve ama a su mujer y está dispuesto a todo con tal de recuperarla...
The Singing Hill
John R. Ramsey
If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land.
El último refugio
Pfiffer
Roy Earle sale de prisión antes de cumplir condena gracias a su buena conducta y a la fianza depositada por Big Mac, jefe de la banda a la que perteneció. Poco después, un miembro de la banda le comunica que Big Mac, que prepara un nuevo golpe, le espera en California. Roy, pese a su intención de cambiar de vida, decide acudir a la cita. En su viaje a través del país, entabla amistad con una humilde familia de granjeros, cuya nieta, Vilma, conquista su corazón.
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Harry Grange
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Free, Blonde and 21
Drunk
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
Swanee River
Henry Foster
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Escape to Paradise
Harry Wilson
An American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble.
All Women Have Secrets
Doc
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
Lo que el viento se llevó
Poker-Playing Captain (uncredited)
Georgia, 1861. En la elegante mansión sureña de Tara, vive Scarlett O'Hara, la joven más bella, caprichosa y egoísta de la región. Ella suspira por el amor de Ashley, pero él está prometido con su prima, la dulce y bondadosa Melanie. Corren todavía tiempos felices en Tara, pero por poco tiempo, porque la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865) está a punto de estallar. En la última fiesta, celebrada antes del comienzo de las hostilidades entre el norte y el sur, Scarlett conoce al simpático, cínico y apuesto Rhett Butler, un vividor arrogante y aventurero, que sólo piensa en sí mismo y que no tiene ninguna intención de participar en el conflicto. Lo que él desea es hacerse rico y conquistar el corazón de la hermosa Scarlett.
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Hartley
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
A Child Is Born
Mr. Harry Laverne (uncredited)
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
Los violentos años veinte
Masters
Estados Unidos, Ley Seca, años 20. Relato sobre los diferentes caminos que siguen tres veteranos que se conocen durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Cuando regresan a América tras luchar por su país, tropiezan con el problema del desempleo y con grandes difícultades económicas. Uno de ellos (Lynn) seguirá con decisión el buen camino; otro (Cagney), amargado por la falta de futuro, no encuentra más salida que el contrabando ilegal de licor; el tercero (Bogart) se convierte en un implacable gángster.
Everything's on Ice
Harrison Gregg
Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money.
Stunt Pilot
Earl Martin
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war picture at Three Points airport, with Tailspin Tommy Tompkins as a stunt pilot in the film. Tommy is incensed by the complete disregard for human life shown by the film's director, Sheehan, and quits. Sheehan gets a replacement pilot named Earl Martin, who is known as a reckless pilot who will try an aerial stunt for a thrill. He hand Tommy get into a fight when Martin takes Betty Lou Barnes for a ride in a plane that is practically falling apart.
Undercover Doctor
Dapper Dan Barr
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
En este mundo traidor
Ned Brown (uncredited)
El cliente de un detective es acusado de asesinato. El tipo acabará siendo condenado a la pena capital, y el detective a un año de prisión por ocultarle. Pero cuando le trasladan a la cárcel logra fugarse. Tratará de averiguar la verdad, aunque para ello tenga que actuar como un peligroso facineroso, reteniendo a una poetisa consigo. En realidad está más que claro que no es nada peligroso, pero por suerte para él la policía no demuestra demasiada pericia a la hora de capturarle.
The Kid From Texas
Henry Smith Harrington
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
The Lady and the Mob
George Watson
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
Rough Riders' Round-up
George Lanning
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
Wings of the Navy
Steve Connors
Dos hermanos pilotos de aviación se disputan la misma mujer.
The Long Shot
Dell Baker
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.
Slander House
Dr. Herbert Stallings
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
Maria Antonieta
Robespierre
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.
Smashing the Rackets
District Attorney Aide
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...
Danger on the Air
Tuttle
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
La venganza de Tarzán
Nevin Potter
La joven Eleanor y sus padres van de caza mayor acompañados por el novio de ella, adentrándose en la peligrosa jungla africana. Ben Bey, un despótico jefe de la zona, quiere añadirla a su harén de 100 mujeres, pero Tarzán, que se ha enamorado de Eleanor, intentará mantenerla alejada de los problemas ante la cobardía de su novio.
The Westland Case
Richard Bolston
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
La quimera de Hollywood
Orchestra Leader (Uncredited)
Un cantante que aspira a convertirse en compositor es acusado de un crimen y debe demostrar su inocencia. Por otro lado, los delincuentes responsables le amenazan para que no vuelva a cantar. Mientras medita sobre su futuro, Nino Maretti se enamora de la bella Jean.
Escape by Night
Fred Peters
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
On Again-Off Again
Tony Toler
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs (Wheeler) and Claude Augustus Horton (Woolsey), who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
Un hospital en las nubes
Howard Dennis
El doctor Jim Stanton (John Beal) es un prestigioso cirujano traumatizado por las muertes de un accidente de avión que él pilotaba. Expulsado de su hospital por el escándalo, Jim se marcha a California con la esperanza de empezar una nueva vida bajo una nueva identidad. Conoce entonces a Doris (Joan Fontaine), una enfermera que se las ingenia para que Jim maneje durante una urgencia el avión-ambulancia en el que ella trabaja, logrando así demostrarse a si mismo su valía.
Cena de medianoche
Mr. Norton
Un maître de hotel conoce a una joven multimillonaria norteamericana y vive con ella una extraña aventura a bordo de un trasatlántico que va de París a Nueva York.
Beware Of Ladies
Frederick White
An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about.
Career Woman
Mr. Smith
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
Cásate conmigo... si puedes
Gordon Blaker
Charlie Mason y Rusty Fleming, una feliz pareja de periodistas de Chicago, deciden formalizar su relación casándose. Pero pronto llegarán los problemas incluyendo incendios, persecuciones policiales y secuestros.
Walking on Air
Tom Quinlan
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
Gentle Julia
Crum
A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.
Una chica de provincias
Dr. Bill Underwood (uncredited)
Kay, una humilde muchacha provinciana, conoce una noche a Bob Dakin, un joven millonario que ha bebido más de la cuenta y que, en ese estado, le propone matrimonio. A la mañana siguiente, una vez sobrio, se da cuenta del error que ha cometido e intenta salir del atolladero, pero no será tan fácil.
El secreto de vivir
Henneberry (uncredited)
Un ingenuo joven de provincias (Gary Cooper) va a Nueva York para hacerse cargo de una herencia de veinte millones de dólares. Allí se enamora de una chica encantadora (Jean Arthur), sin saber que es la periodista que lo ridiculiza en sus artículos.
The Country Doctor
Dr. Wilson
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Neighborhood House
Adolph, Theatre Manager
Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the picture. When little Darla is selected to choose the winning ticket, she draws her father's number. The crowd reacts angrily, thinking that the drawing is a fraud, forcing the child to choose another number. This one turns out to be her own ticket, after which a third drawing yields her mother's ticket. While pandemonium erupts in the audience, some gangsters arrive and raid the theater. A chase follows, resulting in the eventual capture of the crooks.
Tango
Foster Carver, Tony's Brother
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
Búsquenme una novia
Parker (uncredited)
Jim Buchanan es un ejecutivo de capa caída cuya novia no le ama; pero un día conoce en un parque a Joan, una cocinera desempleada que está buscando un cocinero. Ambos deciden hacerse pasar por marido y mujer para un trabajo que requiere una pareja.
Remember Last Night?
Vic Huling
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.
The Rainmakers
Orville Parker
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
Murder by Television
Police Chief Nelson
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
Welcome Home
Edward Adams
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
Oil for the Lamps of China
Bill Kendall
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
Noche nupcial
Gilly (uncredited)
Un escritor achaca su crisis de creatividad al ambiente en el que se mueve, la alta sociedad. Por esta razón decide transladarse junto con su esposa a su pueblo natal en Nueva Inglaterra. Su mujer decide regresar, poco después, a Nueva York, y él se enamora de una granjera, a la que convierte en heroína de su novela. Sin embargo, sus padres le obligan a contraer matrimonio, contra su voluntad, con otro hombre
Murder on a Honeymoon
Tom Kelsey, alias Roswell T. Forrest
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
Estrictamente confidencial
Henry Early
El señor Higgins tiene cuatro hijas y tres yernos. Cada uno de ellos gestiona una de sus empresas. Dan Brooks odia dirigir la compañía de fabricación de papel. Él prefiere dedicar su atención a su caballo de carreras "Broadway Bill". Alice, la hija preferida de Higgins, animará a Dan cuando la esposa de éste se niegue a apoyarlo en las carreras. Higgins obliga a Dan a vender su caballo y a asumir sus obligaciones en la fábrica. A pesar de ello, Dan sigue obsesionado por las carreras, y Alice se enamora de él.
Against the Law
Bert Andrews
Steve Wayne, a daring young ambulance driver for a large hospital in Los Angeles, is a rival with his friend, Doctor Bill Barie (the house surgeon in the Emergency Ward), for the attentions of nurse Martha Gray. Despite their rivalry, Steve still endeavors to free his friend from the grip of a merciless racketeer and a gambling gang. But Steve fails in his efforts and then sets out to avenge his friend and smash-up the gang.
La venus de oro
Donald
Dorothy Hunter (Miriam Hopkins), una joven millonaria, se hace pasar por su secretaria Sylvia (Fay Wray), antes de embarcarse en un romance con Tony Travers (Joel McCrea). La razón es que Dorothy aspira a que la quieran por sí misma y no por su dinero
The Dragon Murder Case
Monty Montague
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.
Paris Interlude
Rex
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
I Believed in You
Saracen Jones
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.
Melody in Spring
Wesley Prebble
It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour," and John learns that the sponsor is Jane's father, Warren Blodgett, an avid souvenir and antiques collector. John gets himself in bad with Blodgett when he accidentally ruins a deal in which Blodgett was attempting to acquire a bedpost for his collection. To break up the romance, Blodgett and his wife take Jane to Switzerland, where Blodgett has his heart set on obtaining a jealously-guarded cowbell.
De Eva para acá
Philip Baxter
Un chico de campo, guapo y rico, educado por dos carabinas que odian a las mujeres, viaja a Nueva York y se enamora al instante. Después de estar casado un tiempo, opina que a su mujer sólo le interesa el dinero y la abandona. Un accidente le abrirá los ojos...
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Armand Beauchamp
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
Dark Hazard
Pres Barrow
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.
¿Qué hay, Nellie?
Sheldon
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).
King for a Night
John Williams
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Parece que fue ayer
Dave Reynolds
Película inspirada en la novela de Stefan Zweig “Carta de una desconocida”. La protagonista es una mujer que es seducida en dos ocasiones por el mismo hombre, sin que éste la reconozca la segunda vez.
Una oportunidad en el cielo
Sid Larrick
Una joven piensa que, en su novio, ha encontrado al marido perfecto, hasta que éste cae rendido ante una joven adinerada, la típica niña mimada, y deshace el compromiso para casarse con la niña rica.
Double Harness
Dennis Moore
After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
Su última pelea
Charles Magee
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.
Song of the Eagle
August Hoffmann
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
Night of Terror
Prof. Arthur Hornsby
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
Honrarás a tu padre
Bert Pardway
Daniel es un hombre que se ha hecho a sí mismo. A partir de la nada construyó uno de los almacenes más grandes e importantes de Chicago. Sin embargo, cuando llega el momento de que sus hijos lo releven, no le resultará nada fácil compaginar sus intereses con los de sus vástagos.
The Match King
Erickson (uncredited)
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Tess of the Storm Country
Dan Taylor
When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.
Afraid to Talk
Lenny Collins
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Vanity Street
Val French
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
Grata compañía
Cromwell Church
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
La usurpadora
Kurt Shendler
Ray Smith es una joven extrovertida y liberal que rechaza continuamente el matrimonio. Sin embargo, cuando conoce al apuesto Walter se enamora al instante de él a pesar de que está comprometido con otra mujer.
The First Year
Dick Loring
Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.
The Famous Ferguson Case
Jigger Bolton
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.
The Misleading Lady
Bob Tracy
A scheming socialite meets her match in the out-of-touch wildlife explorer she ventures to ensnare.
Fireman, Save My Child
Stevens
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?
A Fool's Advice
Harry Bayliss
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Emma
Bill
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.
El instinto del amor
Henry Greene
Un cantante mujeriego se enamora de una sureña anticuada. El problema es que ella ya está comprometida.
Cuatro hijos
Andreas - Her Son
Tres hijos de una viuda de Baviera luchan en la Primera Guerra Mundial en el bando alemán, mientras que un cuarto lucha por los Estados Unidos, enemigo de Alemania... En 1940 el director Archie Mayo adaptaría nuevamente esta historia de I.A.R. Wylie, en esa ocasión ambientada en la II Guerra Mundial.