Robert Usher

The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...

Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.

제프(빙 크로스비 분)와 터키(밥 호프 분)가 밀항을 한 상선이 항해를 하던 중 사고로 침몰하면서 두 사람의 모험이 시작된다. 극적으로 생존한 두 사람은 아프리카 해안에 도착하고, 어렵게 사막을 건너 모로코로 가게 된다. 빈털터리였지만 굶주림에 지친 두 사람은 무작정 식당에 들어가 배불리 음식을 먹는데, 그때 나타난 노예상인이 제프에게 돈을 지불하고 터키를 노예로 산다. 터키가 팔려간 후, 양심의 가책을 받고 괴로워하던 제프는 결국 터키를 찾아 나선다. 그리고 웅장한 궁전에 잠입한 제프는 노예로 팔려간 줄 알았던 터키가 모로코 공주(도로시 라무르 분)와 멋진 시간을 보내고 있는 모습을 보고 깜짝 놀란다. 사실 공주는 세력가인 카심(안소니 퀸 분)과 결혼하기로 되어 있었지만, 첫 남편이 비명횡사하게 된다는 점성술사의 예언을 들은 공주가 터키를 희생양으로 선택한 것이었다. 한편, 공주는 터키를 찾아온 제프에게 반하게 되고, 마침 점성술사로부터 예언이 틀렸다는 말을 전해 듣자마자 제프와 결혼식을 올리게 된다. 하지만 소식을 전해들은 카심이 부하들을 이끌고 쳐들어와 공주와 하녀를 납치해 가고, 제프와 터키는 사막에 버려진다. 하지만 두 사람은 사막을 헤매다 카심의 본거지를 찾아내고, 우여곡절 끝에 공주와 하녀를 구출해낸다. 그리고 두 쌍의 남녀는 함께 미국으로 떠난다.

2차 세계대전기간 동안의 샌프란시스코. 옷을 벗지도 못한 채 새벽 늦게 잠들었던 냉혹한 살인청부업자 필립 레이븐은 새로운 임무를 실행하기 위해 다시 깨어난다. 그 새로운 임무는 니트로케미컬 코퍼레이션이 생산하는 독가스의 제조공식을 갖고 있는 화학자 앨버트 베이커를 살해하는 일이다. 레이븐은 베이커와 그의 비서를 제거하고 공식을 가져다 준 댓가로 니트로케미컬의 간부이며 한 나이트클럽의 사장인 윌라드 게이츠에게 2만불을 받는다. 하지만 곧 게이츠의 음모에 걸려든 레이븐은 쫒기는 신세가 된다. 그레이엄 그린의 소설인 에 기초한 영화. 풍부한 심리적 분위기와 어두운 뉘앙스를 지닌 이 영화는 살인청부업자 필립 레이븐의 고통받은 영혼 속으로의 여행이다. 특히 이 영화를 통해 최초로 호흡을 맞춘 알랜 래드와 베로니카 레이크가 완벽한 앙상블 연기를 보여준다.

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.

Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.

Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her uncle T.T. Ralston will match the figure. Steve bets that if he can spend an entire day without telling a lie, Ralston and his business partners must double Gwen's money. Bennett then earns the enmity of everyone involved in his attempt to win the bet.

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.

In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.

At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located on Black Island near the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.

A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.

This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.

Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.

미국에서 온 쇼걸 이브는 빈털터리인 채로 파리를 헤맨다. 이브는 마음씨 좋은 택시 기사 티보르를 만나 도움을 청하지만, 일은 여의치 않다. 티보르와 헤어진 후 어느 파티에 숨어든 이브는 부유해 보이는 엘렌과 젊은 남자 피코를 만나게 된다. 얼마 후, 엘렌의 남편 조르주까지 합류하는데, 불청객인 이브를 알아본 조르주는 다음 날 이브에게 은밀한 제안을 한다. 아내와 피코의 사이를 눈치채고 있던 조르주는 이브에게 엘렌이 피코와 헤어질 수 있도록 자신을 도와 달라고 한다. 오랫동안 함께 작업했던 빌리 와일더와 찰스 브래킷이 쓴 시나리오를 바탕으로 한 스크루볼 코미디. ((재)영화의전당/필름제공: Library of Congress(USA))

A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.

The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.

미국의 억만장자 마이클은 휴양지에서 가난한 후작의 딸 니콜과 마주친다. 짧은 만남 뒤, 우연히 니콜의 아버지를 만나게 된 마이클은 호의를 베풀며 니콜과 결혼하고 싶다는 마음을 내비친다. 그러나 약혼 파티에서 마이클이 일곱 번이나 결혼한 이혼남임을 알게 된 니콜은 충격에 빠져 결혼을 취소하려 한다. 동명의 프랑스 희곡을 각색했으며, 샘 우드의 작품을 리메이크한 것이기도 하다. 흥미로운 이야기에 클로데트 콜베르와 게리 쿠퍼의 연기 호흡이 자연스럽게 어우러졌다. (2015 영화의 전당 - 에른스트 루비치 특별전)

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.

영국의 고위 외교관 프레드릭 바커의 부인 마리아는 부유한 생활을 하지만, 일에만 몰두하는 남편 때문에 마음 한 구석이 늘 허전하다. 한편, 혼자 파리에 간 마리아는 사교장에서 매력적인 앤서니를 만나고, 둘은 서로에게 이끌린다. 그러나 관계를 지속하길 원하지 않던 마리아는 조용히 앤서니를 떠나고, 그는 마리아를 찾아 헤맨다. 그러다 어느 사교 모임에서 프레드릭과 앤서니가 마주치고 만다. 할리우드 로맨틱 코미디의 대가 에른스트 루비치의 정교한 멜로 드라마. (2017년 영화의 전당)

An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away, leaving him for dead. But the tiger is the pet of Ulah, a beautiful young woman who grew up by herself in the jungle. She rescues Chris and takes him back to her cave, where she nurses him to health and falls in love with him. When he eventually returns to camp, she follows. The fiancée is jealous, and the natives don't like Ulah or her pet tiger either, all of which leads to a lot of trouble.

A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation. An interesting mixture of the stars whose fame continued to grow, those who became bit players in show business history, and those who have been forgotten entirely, except at the Internet Movie Database of course!

보석 전문 사기꾼인 미모의 매들린은 보석상 듀발과 의사 포케의 부인을 사칭하여 두 사람을 감쪽같이 속이고는 220만 프랑에 달하는 진주 목걸이를 훔쳐 달아난다. 한편, 미국인 정비사 톰은 스페인으로 휴가를 가는 길이다. 그런데 차를 세우고 사진을 찍던 톰을 매들린의 차가 거의 덮칠 뻔한 뒤 쏜살같이 사라진다. 고약하게 시작된 톰과 매들린의 인연은 진주 목걸이 때문에 계속 이어진다. 무성영화의 걸작 (1927)을 만든 프랭크 보제지의 유성영화로, 마를렌 디트리히와 게리 쿠퍼가 주연한 범죄 코미디. 프랭크 보제지와 에른스트 루비치가 함께 제작하였다. (2017년 영화의 전당)

A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.

The wisp of a storyline involves two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller, who doubles as the station's sole announcer while his comic partner Smiley serves as the house crooner. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device which can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.

Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.

Young freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Despite the responsibility of his new family, Jerry is swayed by the corruptible influence of jewelry thief Felix Evans. When Evans lures Jerry into a job, it puts the continuation of his new family life at risk.

Jack Oakie stars as seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily (Dorothy Dell) to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who ends up the loser -- at least until he gets wise to himself.

New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.