Landers Stevens

1940년 뉴욕 인콰이어러지를 비롯, 수 많은 신문들의 발행인이었던 찰스 포스터 케인이 죽는다. 그는 당시 70세로 세계에서 손꼽히는 부자였으며, 죽음 직전에는 플로리다의 대저택에서 은둔 생활을 하고 있었다. 생전에 많은 정치인과도 친분을 맺고 있었고, 미국 정책에 막강한 영향력을 발휘하기도 했던 그는 자신에 대한 여러 얘기들에 대해 "나는 현재 미국인이고 과거에도 미국인이었으며 앞으로도 항상 미국인일 것이다"라고 일축하곤 했다. 잡지 편집장 록스톤은 그의 죽음을 취재하고자 기자 톰슨에게 케인이 죽기 전에 말했다는 장미꽃 봉오리가 무슨 뜻인지 알아오라고 한다. 톰슨은 케인의 주변 인물을 샅샅이 취재하기 시작하는데...

A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.

A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.

During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.

Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.

잭슨시를 대표하는 상원의원이 임기 중에 급사한다. 잭슨시의 다른 상원의원인 조세프 페인은 잭슨시 주지사에게 전화를 걸어 새로운 상원의원을 선출하라고 지시한다. 새로운 의원의 조건은 페인과 그의 재정적 후원자인 짐 테일러의 댐건설 계획을 방해하지 않을 인물이어야 한다는 단서가 붙는다. 주지사는 고민 끝에 보이스카웃 단장인 제퍼슨 스미스를 임명한다. 아이들과 다람쥐나 잡으러 쫓아다니는 순박한 촌뜨기야말로 정치판의 꼭두각시 역할로 적격이라는데 의견을 같이했기 때문이다. 스미스는 죽은 아버지의 친구이자 존경하는 정치가인 페인 의원과 함께 워싱턴으로 향한다. 상원의원으로 임명된 제퍼슨은 잭슨시의 월워크 계곡에 소년 야영장을 만들려는 계획을 입안하여 상정하려 하지만 월워크 계곡에 댐을 건설하려는 페인과 테일러의 계획과 맞부딪친다. 이에 페인은 스미스를 등원시키지 않으려고 음모를 꾸미는데...

Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.

A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.

Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.

Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.

Noted child psychologist Errol marries a widow with a nasty brat, and finds none of his theories seem to work when trapped in a pullman car on the way to his honeymoon at Niagara Falls.

In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting on the ritz. A valet comes with the house and he spends a lot of time trying to soften Kennedy;s rough edges, but when he becomes to insistent about giving his master a bath, the always-irritable Kennedy throws the valet in the hot tub, clothes and all. Meanwhile, his father-in-law has been putting the squeeze on Edgar's boss, telling him that Edsgar has fallen heir to so much money he is going to buy out the business and fire his boss. So the boss comes to Edgars's home and fires him.

Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.

A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.

New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.

Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.

Tired of being a cowboy movie star, Yorke quits the movies and buys a ranch so he can be a real cowboy. But just as in his films trouble arrives. This time it's bank robber Sampson and his two cronies.

A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.

존 럭키 가넷(프레드 아스테어)은 도박가이자 댄서이다. 그와 마가렛(베티 퍼네스)과의 결혼식에 늦게 되자, 마가렛의 아버지는 자신의 딸과 선한 의도에서 결혼하고자 한다면 이를 증명하기 위해 25,000 달러를 가지고 오라고 가넷에게 말한다. 가넷과 친구인 팝 카데티(빅터 무어)는 첫 화물 기차를 타고 뉴욕으로 향하는데 거기서 가넷은 댄스스쿨 강사인 페니(진저 로저스)를 만나 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 그 둘은 카지노 댄스 무대에서 성공적인 공연을 선 보인다. 25,000 달러를 벌게 된 가넷은 페니와 결혼할 것을 결심하고, 페니를 안심시키고 그녀에게 인정받고자 댄스 밴드 지휘자인 로메로(조지스 메탁사)와의 경쟁에서 이기고자 결심한다.

Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.

Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.

Leon Errol in court for stealing an umbrella and abusing his wife.

Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.

A whodunit set in Budapest, starring Edmund Lowe as a detective investigating the murder of an unemployed vaudeville actor.

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.

After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Two drive in waitresses try to find a wealthy boyfriend.

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.

The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

금주령 시대, 탐 파워스는 술집, 당구장 등을 어슬렁대며 퍼티 노우즈 같은 불량한 친구들과 어울린다. 곧 탐과 맷은 무자비하지만 품격있는 밀주업자인 패디 라이언에 의해 고용되고 거침없는 성공에 힘입어 그들은 업계의 정상에 이르는데... 개봉 당시 선례 없는 섹스와 폭력 묘사로 악명을 떨쳤으며, 브로드웨이 댄서 출신의 마이너 배우에 불과했던 제임스 캐그니를 스타덤에 올려놨다. 윌리엄 웰먼은 이 영화의 성공을 모두 제임스 캐그니 덕분이라고 했는데, 그것은 그가 누구도 흉내 낼 수 없는 '순진한 소년의 모습을 간직한 갱스터'를 연기해냈기 때문이다.

시골출신 3류 깡패가 큰 뜻을 품고 최고의 댄서를 꿈꾸는 친구와 함께 대도시로 올라온다. 제법 세력권이 큰 조직에 들어간 시저는 자신의 뜻을 펼치기 위해 온갖 악행을 저지르면서 조직에서 벗어나고자 하는 친구까지 끌어들여 은행을 털고, 결국에는 경찰까지 죽이게 되는데...

A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)

Drama set in Alaska

A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner.

A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. The problem is that he isn't an athlete, knows nothing about boxing and stands a very good chance of getting the stuffing beaten out of him.

Evelina Grey is the prettiest girl of the small community where she lives. Her sweetheart is Dr. Dexter, and they share a passion for scientific research. While they are both working in the laboratory one day, there is an explosion which renders Evelina unconscious. Concerned that her beauty has been marred, Dexter disappears.

Lady Vivienne is implicated in a murder as a result of refusing the romantic suit of Henry Porthen. Years later, in South Africa, she encounters the man she suspects of the murder.

Handle with Care is a 1922 silent comedy.