Bender
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
Steve Owens
Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer called Splitface (Mike Mazurki).
Henry Childs
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
Cyrus P. Adams
An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives.
Fred Garrett (uncredited)
En la Inglaterra victoriana, una bella mujer (Ingrid Bergman) se casa con un famoso pianista (Charles Boyer). La felicidad desaparece cuando en la casa, donde años atrás se cometió un asesinato, la mujer empieza a oír extraños e inexplicables ruidos; mientras tanto, su marido la atormenta hasta hacerla creer que se está volviendo loca.
Capt. Lester
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Mayor Adams
Candy Johnson es un estafador y timador de lengua viperina. Candy Johnson prospera hasta ser el jefe mafioso de Yellow Creek, pero el padre alcohólico de su esposa tratará de poner las cosas en su sitio.
Alumni Committee Man
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
Reynolds
Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. Scattergood decides to loan Elly the money but things are not as David has been telling his Mother...
Sheriff Collins
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.
Zachary
Ellery Queen (Ralph Bellamy) investiga la enigmática muerte de un millonario que administraba un centro de vacaciones.
Captain Andrews
Dos 'rangers' de Texas acuden en ayuda de un colega ahora establecido en California.
De esta manera matarán dos pájaros de un tiro, ya que persiguen a un forajido que huye hacia California. Allí se encontrarán con una banda de malhechores que roban grandes propiedades.
Frederick - Aide-de-Camp (uncredited)
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Mr. Phil Belenson
Larry Wilson, un hombre de negocios, se recupera de un episodio de amnesia y descubre que en realidad es un estafador; pero, además, vuelve a enamorarse de su esposa de la que estaba a punto de divorciarse.
Mr. Wadsworth
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.
Gambler (uncredited)
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Ben
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
David Perez
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
Dunlap
Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.
Sen. Smith
En 1862, durante la Guerra de Secesión, dos empresas rivales comienzan a construir la primera línea de ferrocarril transcontinental que enlace el Atlántico con el Pacífico. Al tiempo narra los amores entre la hija de uno de los ingenieros, Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck), el agente del gobierno encargado de la seguridad Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) y el principal saboteador Dick Allen (Robert Preston).
Mr. Park (uncredited)
Hale y Jimmy Seymour son una pareja que trabaja en en pequeños clubes nocturnos con la esperanza de tener éxito. Una noche, Larry Bryant (un productor de Broadway) ve a Mary y se enamora de su belleza y su voz. Larry Bryant le pide que haga una audición para el Sr. Collier y que Jimmy la acompañe. Después de escuchar a Mary, Collier quiere que Mary esté en su show. Jimmy anima a una Mary reacia a seguir el camino sin él.
Brandon Edwards
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
Joe Draper
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
'Big Bill' Anderson
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
J. B. Morganson
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.
Charles Wharton, as an adult
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
Crime Boss Big Matty (uncredited)
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can become a major clue.
Morton
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
George Long
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves.
Mr. Wood
Nace el amor entre un hombre y una mujer cuando ambos piensan que el otro es rico.
Inspector Layman
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Carey MacGregor
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, this arouses hostility amongst Bailey's friends, relatives and associates, some of whom have murder on their minds.
Tod Barsto
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.
Honorable Charles Zaraka
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
Dr. Kenmore
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
Mr. Emmett Fawcett
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
Fred Garrett
Durante un viaje, Joe Wilson llega a un lugar desconocido, donde es encarcelado por un delito que no ha cometido. Los vecinos, amotinados, provocan el incendio de la cárcel y dan por muerto al forastero. Sin embargo, Wilson consigue sobrevivir y, entonces, intentará vengarse haciendo que sus potenciales asesinos corran el mismo peligro del que él escapó milagrosamente. "Fury" es el primer film americano del gran director alemán Fritz Lang.
Gilbert Fender
Dos reporteros de periódicos rivales se alían para acabar con una banda de contrabandistas que introduce emigrantes ilegales en Estados Unidos con la intención de extorsionarlos.
Hacendado Wanting to Fight
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
Morton, Escaped Con
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
General Fremont
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Heegan (uncredited)
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Managing editor
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
Big Jim Bradley
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
H. Van Cleve
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
Rand Leavitt
Gold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of cowboys who find a gold mine in "Thunder Mountain", but have no money to develop it. One of the cowboys rescues a girl on a stagecoach and her grateful father agrees to finance them. Along the way, she pretends to fall in love with one of the cowboys. Thinking he is about to be very rich, he sets out, but upon arrival, he finds that a bad man has stolen the claim and started a town. There, everyone turns on him, including the girl, but luckily, another pretty girl, a barmaid (who is secretly in love with him), sticks by him, and he ends up in a climactic shootout on the mountain where the gold is stashed.
Captain Morgan
Un charlatán de feria arma un barco de recreo y juego, provocando una catástrofe en la travesía inaugural, al permitir un exceso de carga.
Clarkey
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
Dr. Mendez (uncredited)
España, 1890. Durante las fiestas de Carnaval, Antonio Galván, un joven oficial, conoce a Concha Pérez, una misteriosa mujer que trabaja en una fábrica de tabacos y que rápidamente cae en sus redes. A su vez, Concha seduce y ridiculiza a Don Pascual, un oficial de la Guardia Civil que intentará convencer a Galván de que Concha es una mujer muy peligrosa. Otro éxito de la pareja Sternberg- Dietrich.
McArthur aka Arthur Mack
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.
James Fitchmueller
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
Paul Van Dyne
An exploitation film about homosexuality. The film is believed to be lost. Elinor Gordon, who was frightened sexually by a man while an infant, confides in her psychoanalyst that she is contemplating yielding to the advances of her overly attentive and affectionate female roommate, Bobby Allen. The psychoanalyst advises the woman to dispossess her roommate, who works in the same law office as she, and to marry a football player. After the young woman rebuffs her roommate, she accompanies her lawyer employer, Dave Warren, to the country home of the firm's senior partner, John Grant. While Elinor falls in love with Dave, the senior partner's socialite daughter, Judy, yearns for Paul, an artist, who, unknown to her, is a homosexual.
Holmes
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.
The Colonel
Dimitri Ivanovich (Fredric March) es un militar de la nobleza que vuelve a la hacienda de sus tías Marie y Sophia, donde se reencuentra con Katusha (Anna Sten), la joven plebeya con la que jugó de pequeño y que está ahora convertida en una preciosa mujer. El amor surge entre ellos, pero el servicio militar de su majestad el zar, reclama a Dimitri y este se marcha luego de haberse esforzado por educar en socio-política a su enamorada. Lo que se avendrá después, es un drama de abandono y sufrimiento, mientras los reclamos de la aristocracia envuelven en sus redes a aquel hombre que parecía tener una gran conciencia.
Nathan Silas
El propietario de unos grandes almacenes paga a un pretendiente de su entrometida hija para que se la lleve.
Police Inspector
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the younger brother goes to Mexico City to become a matador. While there, he gets word that the police, who have been hunting his brother, have finally captured him.
Oliver Lang i.e. Long
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.
Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
Jones
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Chandler
Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages to get his photographer pal Dick (Richard Cromwell) fired as well, but he promises to restore Dick's reputation, some way or another. He gets his chance while covering a dirigible wreck (some three years before the Hindenburg), saving the day for both Dick and himself.
H.E. Gillette (uncredited)
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Trading Center Spokesman (uncredited)
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
Mr. McIntosh
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
Morton Hazlitt
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
District Attorney (uncredited)
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Phineas Baldwin
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
Dr. Pierce
Helen es una cantante de cabaret que decide abandonar su profesión para contraer matrimonio con Edward Faraday, un abnegado científico entregado a su trabajo y cuya situación económica no es muy boyante. Durante un viaje a Alemania, Edward contrae una grave enfermedad, debido a sus investigaciones, y se ve obligado a seguir un costoso tratamiento. Para sufragar los gastos, Helen vuelve a su antiguo trabajo. Así conoce a Nick Towsend, un playboy que la enamora y con el que inicia una nueva vida. Cuando Edward regresa y descubre la infidelidad de su mujer, decide quitarle a Helen el hijo que tuvo con ella.
Cash Enright
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his father, Stag's manager, is killed.
Cueball Kelly
Un delincuente ha decidido regenerarse por completo.
Chauffeur
Las diferentes historias de los huéspedes de un elegante hotel es el argumento de este film de brillante reparto. Obtuvo tan sólo un Oscar, pero fue el de mejor película.
Bootlegger Leader (uncredited)
Los males del alcohol antes y durante la prohibición se hacen evidentes cuando vemos sus efectos en la familia Chilcote.
E.A. Smith
Tras la ejecución de un inocente, un joven fiscal deja su cargo y se hace abogado defensor. Se hace rico y poderoso defendiendo mafiosos, pero pronto verá el error de esta decisión.
Tuxedo Carter
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
Attorney Neil Selby
A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.
Frank Gebhardt
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
Bruno
Para evitar los rigores de la ley, Gilda huye de Nueva Orleans y se esconde en una isla caribeña donde los peores criminales pueden pedir asilo. Asediada por indeseables, Gilda descubrirá pronto que ha encontrado refugio en el mismísimo Infierno.
Arthur Raymond's Pal
A wealthy young woman struggles to find love while surrounded by possible suitors.
Captain Kruger
En un hotel en medio del Sahara, un anciano y su hija intentan ocultar la ubicación de un tesoro escondido a un grupo de ladrones y delincuentes que se alojan en el hotel y que están decididos a conseguirlo. Un día llega al hotel un ladrón de refinados modales, con su propio plan para conseguir el botín, pero surgen complicaciones cuando comienza a enamorarse de la hija.
James Monroe
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
District Attorney (uncredited)
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
L.R. McChesney
To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his "product" turns out to be more successful than even he imagined--and now he has to deliver.
Durkin
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
Frosby (uncredited)
Dos prisioneros se escapan de la cárcel para ayudar a una pareja que, tras cumplir su condena, se instaló en una pequeña localidad para que nadie conociera su oscuro pasado. Ahora la pareja ve amenazada su felicidad por un deshonesto vendedor que quiere implicar al hombre en sus fraudulentas actividades.
François Molyneaux
BY DAY a beautiful wife-accepting a husband's humble love, his humble home, his humble pleasures. BY NIGHT a glittering butterfly yearning for the wine of life and tossing all to the winds when the glamour of romance calls.
Col. Percy Kirk
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
Lord Robert Erisey
In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hire, stands ready to defend his lady-love, the fair Thomsine Musgrove, and prove his nettle, and that his blade is made of the finest metal.
J. Wilson Rockmaine
A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older suitor who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with Fairfax, a young stranger at a party. A group of bootleggers try to get away with the loot stashed previously within Fairfax's mansion; Mysterious faces peer into the windows and shadowy figures stalk the hall. One of the bootleggers is killed and the young stranger becomes the prime suspect.
Marquis de Praille
Francia, en vísperas de la Revolución francesa. Henriette y Louise se han criado juntas como hermanas. Cuando la plaga que se lleva la vida de sus padres causa la ceguera de Louise, ambas deciden viajar a París en busca de una cura, pero se separan cuando un aristócrata lujurioso se cruza en su camino.
Masked Violinist
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.
William Endicott
Wild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a difference--she wants to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane. Capt. Endicott, a friend of Robert's, offers to teach her how to fly. One day while aloft in the plane, the craft takes a sudden nosedive and crashes. The pair walk away uninjured and find shelter in a roadhouse. Robert, upon hearing of this, becomes jealous of Pat's spending so much time with Endicott, which angers Pat. She decides to leave Robert and slips out of the house to catch an evening train, but unfortunately, Endicott is also aboard the train. Robert finds out about that, too. Complications ensue.
Duke of Medonia
During a lawn party at his New York home, steel magnate Theodore Morton claims he is bankrupt as a deterrent to Lord Dormer and the Duke of Medonia, two fortune hunters competing for his niece, Betty. After the suitors depart, unscrupulous Carl Gates is informed by his fiancée, banker's secretary Adele Shelby, that Theodore was lying. Carl pursues Betty, who accepts his proposal with the belief that the marriage will benefit her uncle. During a yachting expedition with Carl, Betty falls overboard and is rescued by architect Tom Waring, who is competing in a race. Tom wins with Betty on board, and a romance develops.
Thief in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
Charlot es un timador de ciudad que induce a Tillie a robar los ahorros de su padre y huya con él. Una vez ha llegado a la ciudad, Charlot se apropia del dinero y vuelve junto a Mabel, su primer amor y pareja del delito. Esta considerado como el primer largometraje del genero de comedia de la historia.
Director
Caught in a Flue is a 1914 Comedy short.
