Tom McGuire

Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them.

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?

Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.

After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.

The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives.

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.

New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?

청년 링컨이 미국 정계에 입문하기 전의 상황이다. 약관의 나이에 변호사가 된 그는 아직은 풋내기지만 정의감이 강하다. 그는 첫 사건으로 살인혐의를 받은 두 청년의 변호 건을 맡게 된다. 이 과정에서 시골뜨기에 불과했던 그가 비로소 법률을 통해 자신의 뜻을 피력하게 된다. 또 켄터키주에서 온 메리 토드라는 아가씨와 만나게 되고, 그녀는 미래의 아내가 된다. 가끔 실수도 하지만 인간미가 있고, 실패를 통해서 점점 배워나가는 이 정직한 인물은 이제 정계에 입문하게 된다.

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.

죠니는 고생을 많이하며 자랐지만 하버드를 졸업한 유능한 젊은이. 어느날 그는 평생 처음 휴가를 즐기러 레이크 플레씨드에 가고, 거기서 쥴리아와 사랑에 빠진다. 둘은 결혼을 약속하고 죠니는 절친한 친구 부부 파터에게 그 사실을 알린다. 파터 내외는 죠니가 혹시 가난한 처녀를 만난 건 아닌가 걱정한다. 그러나 쥴리아가 준 주소로 찾아간 죠니는 엄청난 부유함에 놀란다. 한편 줄리아의 아버에게 죠니와 결혼하겠다고 조르고 아버지 에드워드는 죠니의 직장 상사한테 그의 사업 수완이 탁월하단 평가를 듣고 내심 흡족해한다. 쥴리아의 언니 린다와 인사한 죠니는 린다의 자유스러운 성격, 활달함에 매료되고 린다는 린다대로 죠니를 향한 사랑에 가슴앓게 된다.

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

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.

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.

A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.

재능은 있지만 가난한 메리가 일자리를 찾고 있다. 클럽 사장 블래키는 메리의 노래를 들은 뒤 바로 메리를 고용하기로 한다. 블래키의 경쟁자인 오페라 하우스의 벌리도 메리의 아름다운 노래에 반해 메리를 탐낸다. 블래키와 메리를 둘러싸고 갈등과 오해가 이어지는 가운데, 강력한 지진이 샌프란시스코를 덮치고 만다. 폐허가 된 도시에서 블래키는 메리를 찾아 헤맨다. 1906년 4월 18일에 발생한 샌프란시스코 대지진을 배경으로 한 작품. 연출진에 이름을 올리진 않았지만, D. W. 그리피스와 에리히 폰 스트로하임이 일부 작업에 참여했다고 한다. ＊1937 아카데미 음향상 ((재)영화의전당)

A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.

Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.

To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.

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.

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.

The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.

Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a radiogram informing him that his wife has died at sea. That night a burglar breaks into the Antigue & Second Hand Shop ran by Sol Bloom, directly below O'Hara's flat. The burglar shoots O'Hara, who has rushed to his friend's aid, and, with his last breath he asks Sol to take care of Shandy. When Shandy arrives, Sol immediately makes him a member of the family, which also consists of a very mischievous motherless boy named Joey Bloom, whose pursuits consist of stealing oranges from fruit-dealer Tony, and playing hookey from school. Tom Varney, the young beat cop, is in love with Ruth Sneider, whose mother runs a Cleaning and Dyeling establishment. Ruth, however, is momentarily dazed with worthless Dave Haller.

Sixth entry in the Rufftown 2-reel comedy series based on stories by Arthur 'Bugs' Baer.

A man tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.

A gambler falls for a fake countess.

왕년의 복싱 챔피언 챔프는 술과 도박의 방탕한 생활을 하다가 아내 린다 마저 떠나버리고 이제는 아들 딩크와 단 둘이 사는 챔프는 지금도 술과 도박에 빠져 아들에게도 실망을 주지만 언젠가 아빠가 다시 챔피언이 될 것이라고 믿으며 아빠를 챔프라고 부른다. 하지만 나이도 나이거니와 아빠 챔프는 다시 복귀할 의지가 없다. 어느 날 패션 디자이너로 성공한 린다가 그들 앞에 나타나 딩크에게 접근한다. 어릴 적에 떠나버린 엄마 린다를 기억 못하는 딩크는 아빠 친구로 알고, 자신에게 무척 잘해주는 린다를 따르는데 그 모습을 지켜보는 챔프는 묘한 질투와 희망을 차차 품게 된다. 린다의 성공과 여전히 자신이 최고 인줄 아는 딩크의 응원에 자극을 받은 챔프는 다시 복싱을 하겠다는 결심을 하고 옛 트레이너를 찾아가 훈련을 도와 달라고 청한다. 챔프는 투지를 불태우며 훈련에 돌입하고 그 옆에서 딩크는 열심으로 응원한다. 드디어 챔프의 복귀전이 열리고 복서의 나이로서는 사양길에 접어든 챔프는 죽을 힘을 다해 경기를 치르지만... 챔피언이었던 전직 복서 앤디는 술과 도박에 빠져 지금은 밑바닥 생활을 한다. 앤디는 훈련을 계속해 재기하려 하지만, 매번 술 때문에 일을 망쳐버린다. 하지만 그의 8살 난 아들 딩크는 계속된 실패에도 결코 아빠에 대한 믿음을 잃지 않는다. 어느 날, 경마장에 갔던 앤디와 딩크는 딩크의 엄마 린다를 만나게 된다. 진한 부성애를 느끼게 하는 감동 드라마로, 비더는 희망에 대한 믿음과 가족의 가치에 대한 의미심장한 메시지를 던진다. 능청스러우면서도 천진한 딩크 역의 재키 쿠퍼는 어린 나이에도 타고난 연기력을 선보인다. 1952년과 1979년에 리메이크되기도 했다. * 1932 아카데미 남우주연상, 각본상 (2015 영화의 전당 - 킹 비더 특별전)

After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicago gang war. He's aided by his innocent twin brother, Julius, a greenhorn from the Old Country. Both are played by Benny Rubin.

Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.

After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.

A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.

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...

미네소타에서 밀 농장을 하는 렘은 시카고로 밀을 팔러 간다. 기차에서 렘은 우연히 케이트를 만나고 둘은 사랑에 빠진다. 렘은 케이트와 함께 고향으로 돌아오는데, 어머니와 어린 여동생은 케이트를 반기지만 아버지는 의심과 경계의 시선을 거두지 않는다. 독일 표현주의를 대표하는 거장 프리드리히 빌헬름 무르나우가 할리우드에서 만든 마지막 작품. 분주한 도시와 드넓은 밀밭의 모습이 대조되며 햇살이 비치는 밀밭, 역동적인 수확기의 모습은 무르나우의 서정적인 풍경을 더욱 풍요롭게 만든다.

On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him.

Henry B. Walthall made his talkie debut in this 10-minute short from Vitaphone. In the film he plays a once rich man who has found himself in the dumps due to drug abuse and other issues. He goes to see a former friend (Tom McGuire), now a Senator, and he's not too open to giving the man a second chance.

윌리엄 캔필드 시니어(어니스트 토렌스)는 미시시피강에서 사람과 짐을 운반하는 증기보트의 선주이다. 그는 어느 날 신흥부호인 킹(톰 맥과이어)이 거대한 자본을 앞세워 들여온 최신식 증기보트에 의해 위기에 처한다. 때마침 대학을 마친 아들 윌리엄 캔필드 주니어(버스터 키튼)가 돌아온다는 소식을 들은 아버지는 아들과 함께 이 위기상황을 극복할 수 있을 것이라 다짐한다. 그러나 돌아온 아들은 심약하고 어리바리한 그야말로 도시에 물든 대학졸업생에 지나지 않는다. 어떤 힘든 일도 감당해내는 아버지는 겉멋만 들어 돌아온 아들에게 실망하는데 한술 더 떠 아들은 아버지의 원수인 킹의 딸에게 반해버린다.

A baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film.

Arthur Wells, an impoverished poet, impersonates a big-game hunter in an attempt to locate the missing link. However, the poet has an aversion to animals...tame or wild.

The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.

A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table and turning out the lights. When the lights are turned back on the box is gone, and the district attorney has a knife in his back and is quite dead. The police and the coroner arrive. There are several attempts made on the life of the coroner. Ruth Whitman is found hiding in a grandfather-clock, holding the gem box. She claims the box was pushed into her hands and she was pushed into the clock. The district attorney's butler/valet tells the coroner he saw who killed his employer and a few minutes later he is also murdered. The mystery deepens.

My Own Pal takes Tom Mix out of his customary western surroundings and plunks him in the middle of New York City.

Having been brought up by his Uncle Clem, an itinerant peddler, Elmer Clinton has no trouble becoming the sales manager for a company that manufactures washing machines. Royce Enfield, the son of the company's president, wants his father to sell the business and therefore undermines Elmer's sales campaign. In a real effort to help Elmer, Uncle Clem obtains numerous orders for washing machines, but these are intercepted by Royce before they can be filled. Elmer is fired and, finding out the reason why, whips Royce in a fight.

The first time Al Jones sees Elizabeth Lowden, he becomes so distracted that he runs his car into a steamroller. The second time he sees her, Elizabeth's car frightens his horse, causing him to fall. ....

Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.

This silent romantic melodrama is believed to be lost.

Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.

Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, drab woman with no social skills whatsoever. Tim gets so embarrassed by her that he hires a "social secretary" for her to teach her how to function in the social strata in which they find themselves.

In order to save his family from financial ruin, an English aristocrat agrees to come to America and marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Once there he can't bring himself to do it.....

Hector MacKnight, known to the townspeople as "Goofy" and an irritatingly terrible fiddler, is innocently drawn into a rigged poker game. A general fight brings the sheriff, and a chase ensues. Before the confusion is ended and Hector cleared, he meets Ruth Randolph and becomes involved in a circus while trying to recover the other half of her treasure map.

Former A. E. F. boxing champion Tom Harper, who suffered gas poisoning, is sent to the mountains to regain his health so that he can re-enter the ring and earn the money needed for his crippled sister's operation. Under strict orders not to exert himself, Tom allows himself to be beaten up by Phillip Brand, the town bully, in front of his girl, Harriet Monroe.

The Girl in the Taxi (1921)

After a forward introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, Jim O'Neil, a young shipping clerk, is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. The celebrated novelist Grace Norton, selected to be on the jury at Jim's trial, becomes the first woman juror in New York.