Production Supervisor
미디어 재벌인 에이모스 카인이 죽자 그의 사업체는 유일한 상속자인 아들에게 넘어간다. 아들은 평소 요트와 여자에만 빠져 있어서 회사 경영에는 관심이 없었다. 아들 카인은 회장직을 차지하자마자 회사 주요 간부들을 불러 모은다. 카인은 흥미로운 제안을 한다. 그는 최고 이사장 직을 비워둘 테니 경쟁을 통해서 그 자리에 오를 사람을 결정하겠단다. 이 게임에는 신문사 편집장인 그리피스, 통신사를 경영하는 마크 러빙, 칼럼리스트가 참여한다. 그리고 한 명 더. 게임 장을 서성이는 남자가 하나 있다. 영화의 주인공인 모블리는 방송에 출연하는 아나운서다. 그는 게임에 거리를 두면서도 가장 적극적으로 게임에 참여하는 사람이다. 신문사, 칼럼리스트, 방송사 즉, 카인 미디어를 움직이는 세 사람이 게임에 참여하면서 미디어 내 분파들 간의 암투가 간접적으로 드러나기 시작한다. 게임의 내용은 ‘립스틱 살인 사건’이다. 영화 초반부에 한 여성이 살해되는 사건이 일어나고, 카인은 죽기 직전, 이 사건을 1면에 싣게 하면서 사회적으로 큰 이슈가 되도록 하는데...
Producer
Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.
Supervising Producer
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
Supervising Producer
Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Louis with only a buck on his person. To remedy the problem, Doyle pawns the revolver he's carrying. When the gun is subsequently used in a murder, Doyle's problems only multiply. In the meantime, he's also fallen in love with a comely stranger (Maxine Doyle) he convinced to impersonate his wife.
Producer
Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will be fulfilled. A killing spree follows in dark and dangerous Chinatown as Wong gets control of 11 of the 12 coins. Reporter Jason Barton and his girl Peg are hot on his trail, but soon find themselves in serious trouble when they stumble onto Wong's headquarters.
Assistant Director
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.
Assistant Director
In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.
Writer
The film is perhaps the only remaining example of silent era cinema from a Chinese-American production company, and was co-written, co-directed (with Francis J. Grandon) and produced by James B. Leong, who changed his name from Leong But-jung after emigrating from Shanghai in 1913. Of the seven reels that originally comprised 'Lotus Blossom,' only one (the fifth, running for 12 minutes at 20fps) is known to survive. This remaining reel of film is now available on Disc 2 of the DVD Collection "More Treasures from the American Film Archives," and was preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Writer
In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two children, Fanny and Theodore, run a modest dry goods store.
