Paul Lukas

A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.

All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island.

Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.

피터는 증기기관 항해선의 일등 항해사다. 그는 항해 도중 폭풍을 만나자 배가 침몰할 줄 알고 비겁하게 승객들이 탄 배를 포기한다. 그러나 배는 천신만고 끝에 침몰을 면하게 된다. 불명예의 멍에를 진 피터는 자신의 명예를 되찾기 위해서 노력하게 된다. 지도에도 없는 동양의 한 원주민들에게 다이너마이트를 배달하는 계약을 하게 된 것이다. 그러던 중 그는 억압받고 있는 마을 원주민들의 편에 서게 되어, 흉악한 유럽인 악당들과 맞서 싸운다. 마침내 스스로 죽을 결심을 하고 싸움에 휘말려든 피터는 결국 원주민 민족의 영웅이 되는데... - ebs 일요시네마 작품해설 20세기 모더니즘의 선구자라 불리는 조셉 콘래드의 소설을 원작으로 완성된 작품이다. 드넓은 세계와 미지의 인생에 대한 동경으로 선원을 지원한 청년 짐이 운행 중에 풍랑을 만나 혼란 끝에 승객을 버리고 탈출한다. 얼마 후 배가 침몰하지 않았음이 밝혀지고, 짐은 법적 처벌과 함께 세간의 도덕적 비난에 시달린다. 선원 자격을 박탈당한 짐은 동남아 각지를 떠돌다 어느 오지 마을에 정착해 새로운 인생을 시작하게 되는 내용. 콘래드는 이 작품에서 성격적 견고성을 결하고 있을 뿐 아니라 난해할 정도로 복잡하며 인격적 분열까지 보이는 현대인의 전형을 훌륭하게 그려냈다. 자신의 꿈과 이상이 현실에서 실현될 수 없음을 깨닫고 절망하는 짐은 서구 사회의 급격한 변화와 심각한 정신적 위기를 대변한다. 현대적 인물의 복잡한 내면을 표현하기 위해서 이야기 속에 다양한 시점과 시간을 도입함으로써 재래 기법의 한계를 극복하고 짐의 행위 속에 개재된 도덕적 의미의 불확실성에 대한 독자의 인식을 부단히 일깨운다. - ebs 일요시네마

1900년 여름 열강들의 북경 열강들의 자리 다툼이 한창인 가운데 가뭄으로 인한 민심은 더욱 흉흉해 진다. 중국인의 18명 중 13성이 외국인들에 의해 점령당하자 이를 저지하기 위한 의화단의 폭동이 기승을 부리는 가운데 외국인 거주지역 1천여 명의 거주자들은 긴급 대피를 서두른다. 북경에 도착한 미 해병대의 루이스 소령(Major Matt Lewis : 찰톤 헤스톤 분)은 호텔에서 묘한 매력을 풍기는 나타샤(Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : 에바 가드너 분)에게 호감을 느끼지만 주위의 시선이 따가움을 느낀다. 러시아 사령관의 부인이었던 그녀는 중국 장교인 영록과 염문을 뿌려 남편을 자살하게 만든 과거가 있었던 것. 열강 12개국 대표자들은 연합군이 4백명 뿐인 것을 우려, 떠날 것을 의결하지만 영국 대표는 시드니 장군이 도착할 때 까지 북경에 남을 것을 고집한다. 결국 이들은 북경 사수를 결정, 임전 태세를 갖춘다. 한편 서태후의 황실에서 의화단을 비호하는 단군왕과 정부군을 지휘하는 영 장군 사이에 묘한 갈등이 대두되는데. 의화단의 활동에 대해 공식적인 입장을 표명하지 않았던 서태후는 이를 공식화 하면서 영록에게 시드니의 상륙을 막을 것을 명령한다. 시드니는 정부군의 반격으로 천진으로 후퇴, 북경에 고립된 열강 대표들은 점점 위험에 빠진다. 결국 시드니가 북경에 도착, 의화단에 맞서 싸울 때까지 55일간의 서사적 로맨스가 펼쳐진다.

Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival lifeguard, who is the champion diver of Mexico.

Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS and in WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France.

프랑스 리비에라 해안, 아들과 함께 해수욕 중이던 딕 다이버(제이슨 로바즈)는 일광욕을 즐기던 여배우 로즈마리(제니퍼 존스)를 만나 인사를 나눈다. 그리고 밤에 벌어진 파티에 그녀를 초대해 또 만나게 된다. 그렇게 두 사람은 점점 가까워진다. 딕 다이버는 대부호의 딸인 니콜 워렌(조안 폰테인)의 정신질환을 치료하다가, 그녀의 매력적인 미모에 사랑을 느껴 결혼했고 지금까지 남편과 의사로서의 역할을 감당해왔다. 그런데 이들 부부 앞에 로즈마리가 나타나면서 관계가 흔들리게 된 것이다. 결국 딕과 로즈마리는 사랑에 빠지게 되고 딕은 유부남으로서 심각한 가치관의 혼란을 겪는다. 이후 건강을 되찾은 니콜은 자신을 사랑하는 토미(세자르 다노바)와 재혼을 하게 되고 딕은 그녀로부터 버림받는다. 원작은 바로 대문호 F 스콧 피츠제럴드가 자전적 경험을 바탕으로 7년 만에 완성한 다. 만큼의 인기를 얻은 작품은 아니지만 그의 영혼과 신념이 담긴 소설이고, 1차 세계대전 이후 기존 가치가 붕괴되는 암울한 역사적 전환기가 겹쳐지면서 정신적으로 표류하는 한 남자의 삶을 들여다본다. 헨리 킹 감독은 피츠제럴드가 임종을 맞기 직전의 순간을 옮긴 전기영화 을 만들었을 정도로 피츠제럴드에게 관심이 많았으며 역시 원작에 충실한 작품이다. (EBS)

An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.

In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining "roots of Heaven." At first, he finds only support from Minna, hostess of the town's only night club, who is in love with him, and a derelict ex-British Army Major, Forsythe. His crusade gains momentum and he is soon surrounded by an odd assortment of characters: Cy Sedgewick, an American TV commentator who becomes impressed and rallies world-wide support; a U.S. photographer, Abe Fields, who is sent to do a picture story on Morel and stays on to follow his ideals; Saint Denis, a government aide ordered to stop Morel; Orsini, a professional ivory hunter whose vested interests aren't the same as Morel's; and Waitari, leader of a Pan-African movement who follows Morel only for the personal good it will do his own campaign.

The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.

19세기 후반, 바다는 사람들에게 모험의 공간이자 공포의 대상이었다. 항구를 떠난 많은 배들이 실종되는 사태가 벌어지자, 선원들은 배를 가라앉게 하는 긴 뿔이 달린 거대한 일각고래에 관해 수군대며 항구로 돌아온다. 동물학자 아라낙스 교수와 조교 콘세일, 그리고 전문 고래잡이 네드는 그 미스터리를 풀기 위해 미국 원정단에 합류하는데... 플레이셔의 디즈니 시기를 대표하는 작품으로, 질 베르너의 원작 소설을 가장 완벽하게 영화화한 작품으로 손꼽힌다.

During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.

Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.

After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.

After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.

In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.

1940년, 지하운동에 가담해 나치 정권에 저항하던 독일인 쿠르트 뮬러는 아내 사라와 세 자녀를 데리고 사라의 어머니와 남동생이 사는 미국 워싱턴으로 온다. 지난 17년 동안 유럽에서 反 파시스트 활동에 참여하며 나치 정권에 맞서온 쿠르트는 온갖 수난의 상처로 여유로운 장모의 집에서 안정을 취하기로 하지만, 그는 가족들을 이곳에 맡겨둔 채 본격적인 지하운동을 준비한다. 한편, 이 저택에는 독일 대사관을 드나들며 나치당원들에게 비위를 맞춰온 루마니아인 텍 드 브랑코비스란 유숙객이 있었다. 첫눈에 쿠르트를 의심한 텍은 쿠르트의 가방에서 총과 돈을 발견하고 그가 지하 요원임을 알아챈다. 얼마 지나지 않아, 쿠르트의 저항군 동료인 막스 프라이당크가 체포되었다는 소식이 이곳에 전해진다. 과거 막스의 도움으로 게슈타포의 손아귀에서 벗어날 수 있었던 쿠르트는 막스와 함께 체포된 사람들을 돕기 위해 독일로 돌아갈 계획을 세운다. 유럽으로 돌아가 재기를 꿈꾸는 텍은 쿠르트에게 나치에게 함구하겠다는 조건으로 만 달러를 요구한다. 심사숙고 끝에, 텍을 믿을 수 없다고 결론을 내린 쿠르트는 그를 쏴 죽이고 나치의 심장부를 향해 길을 나선다.

After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.

Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.

An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.

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 man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.

All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan Sing (Paul Lukas), British singer Sadie Merivale (Kay Walsh) begins a dangerous affair with nearby plantation owner Harold Marquess (Wallace Douglas). But when Sing discovers his wife’s betrayal, he plots to regain his honor by slowly torturing her lover to death.

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

반드리카를 여행 중인 영국인 처녀 아이리스 헨더슨은 별로 내키지 않은 약혼자와 결혼을 앞두고 귀국하려는 중이다. 역전에서 중년의 영국 부인과 알게 되는데, 이때 누군가에 의해 건물 2층에서 물건이 떨어져 머리를 다친다. 결국 열차에 오르자 마자 의식을 잃었다가 그 부인의 따뜻한 보살핌으로 깨어난다. 그후 식당칸에서 부인과 차를 마시며 이야기를 나누다가, 이름을 묻자 프로이라고 대답하는데, 기차의 기적 소리 때문에 들리지 않자 창문에 프로이라는 자신의 이름을 써서 가르쳐준다. 그런데 두통 때문에 객차에서 잠시 잠이 들었다가 깨어났을 때, 앞에 앉아있던 프로이 부인은 온데 간데 없어지고 없다. 옆에 있던 사람들도 모두들 모른다는 것이다. 식당칸에서 프로이 부인에게 설탕을 건네 주었던 컬디컷과 차터스라는 영국인은 크리켓 국제전을 보기 위해 귀국 중이었는데, 사람이 없어져 열차가 늦어질 까봐 자신들도 못봤다고 대답한다. 그리고 애인과 밀애를 즐기던 토드헌터 부부라는 사람도 이것이 사람들에게 알려질까봐 못봤다고 대답해, 결국 사람들은 아이리스가 착각한 것으로만 생각한다. 이에 아이리스는 자신이 착각한 것일지도 모른다고 생각하는데, 식당칸의 창문에 프로이라는 글자를 보고는 꿈이 아님을 알게 된다. 이때 전날 여관에서 시끄럽게 했다고 다투었던 음악가 길버트와 만나게 되어 그와 함께 프로이 부인을 찾아나서게 된다. 이때 명성 높은 독일 의사 하르츠 박사와 알게 되는데, 그가 비밀 정보를 알고 있는 프로이 부인을 독일로 빼돌리려는 음모를 꾸민 장본인이었다.

The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.

The story of a surly crew, an honest God-fearing captain, a hardboiled-but-loyal Scotch mate, a scoundrelly second-mate, and then a mutiny, the fight and the final voyage to a safe harbor. But not before the Captain has been murdered, his pretty daughter in peril, her rescue by the single passenger on board, and a member of the crew thrown overboard by another crew member.

A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

Time marches on.

Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.

도스워드 자동차 회사의 설립자인 샘 도스워스(Sam Dodsworth: 월터 휴스턴 분)는 미국 굴지의 사업가이다. 경제적으로 안정된 생활 속에서 중년의 삶을 살아가고 있던 어느날, 아내 프랜(Fran Dodsworth: 루스 채터톤 분)의 청으로 은퇴할 것을 결심한다. 사회적 책임에서 벗어나 자유롭게 새 인생을 시작하자는 아내의 소망에 따른 것이다. 샘과 프랜은 주위의 만류에도 불구하고 제2의 인생에 대한 희망으로 유럽 여행을 떠난다. 뉴욕항에서 이들을 배웅하는 친구들과 갓 결혼한 딸 에밀리(Emily: 캐서린 마로 분) 부부. 런던으로 향하는 배 안에서 프랜에게 첫 눈에 반한 아놀드(Arnold Iselin: 폴 루카스 분)는 그녀의 주위를 맴돌며 프랜의 마음을 흔들리게 한다. 처음에는 주저하던 프랜도 20년동안 나무랄데 없는 남편이었던 샘 대신 아놀드를 자신의 변화된 삶 속에 어울리는 동반자로 여기게 된다. 역시 배 안에서 만난 이혼녀 에디뜨(Edith Cortright: 매리 애스터 분)와 함께 샘, 프랜 그리고 아놀드는 런던에 도착한다. 그러나 아내 프랜과는 달리 계속되는 여행과 파티에 싫증을 내고 있던 샘은 집으로 돌아가길 원하고 결국 혼자 돌아가게 된다.

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.

The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.

When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.

After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Later Flambeau sends notes to both Leopold Fischer, who unknown to him is Evelyn's uncle, and Father Brown, in which he vows he will steal from them the ten diamonds that comprise the "Flying Star." Flambeau intends to give these diamonds to Evelyn. Father Brown, whose gold cross contains some of the Flying Star diamonds, is determined to meet Flambeau before he is arrested, to reform and redeem his soul.

Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.

After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...

When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.

A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.

A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.

Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.

While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.

A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.

According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.

When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.

In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.

Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil rigger Walt (Charles Bickford), who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken (Paul Lukas) but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis (Ralph Forbes), and Ken urges her to return to Walt.

A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.

When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to.

A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boorish New Jersey boyfriend or a dashing Opera star, a man of experience.

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her sister June, more streetwise, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.

Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes jealous of Julie Stressman, an old friend of Michael's and one of his models, Michael reluctantly asks Julie not to visit him at his studio. They agree to meet only at the construction site where he is working on a sculpture for which Julie is modeling. When Elinor also shows up at the site, Julie leaves so as to avoid a confrontation, but she is killed by some falling materials. Julie's dying request is that Michael adopt her daughter Mitzi, whose father died years earlier. In order to prevent Mitzi from being taken to an orphanage, Michael lies and says he is her father. Elinor hears this, and without asking questions, leaves him and marries another man the same night.

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

마물리안은 30년대 할리우드에서 꾸준히 상상력이 넘치는 작업을 해온 감독으로 독특한 스타일과 매체를 다루는 숙련된 솜씨 모두를 갖추었다. 러시아에서 그는 스타니슬랍스키의 이론을 실천하던 연출가였던 전력을 살려 뉴욕에서 연극을 연출하다가 영화계에 입문하게 된다. 실험적이고 시적인 양식에 이끌려 이미 퇴색해버린 자연주의적인 색채를 버리고 연기와 춤, 음악, 맛깔스러운 대사, 무대 장식과 색깔을 조화롭게 연출할 줄 알았다. 노래와 춤이 섞인 드라마에 복합적인 카메라 움직임을 사용해서 정서를 극대화하고, 사운드의 효과를 잘 표현했다는 평가를 받는다. 는 갱스터의 사랑이야기로, 생략적인 내러티브의 사용이 돋보이고, 사실적인 대사와 움직임에 능통하며, 카메라의 구도도 탁월하게 사용되었다. 아이러니와 시니컬리즘에 입각한 그의 코미디는 루비치의 영화보다 훨씬 더 예민한 취향과 감각을 구사한다. 초기 작품은 루비치, 르네 클레르, 조지 큐커, 막스 오퓔스와 유사함을 보이고, 미넬리에게도 영향을 주었다. (부산시네마센터 2011 - [개관영화제]백화열전)

In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.

A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

A lawyer, left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.

An exhaustingly cantankerous old man solves a jewel robbery.

Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie is only interested in luring David in for a lucrative business deal. David easily falls in love, but older brother Mark brands Hallie a gold-digger. To get even with the straight-laced Stone family, Hallie accepts David's marriage proposal.

A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.

Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by his return to the front. In an air battle, Robert brings down and captures the Grey Eagle, Baden, and takes him to American Intelligence in Paris. Mary, ostensibly a spy for the Germans, drugs Robert, who awakens to find that his uniform has been stolen by Baden. Later, in an exciting air conflict, Baden is wounded but shoots down Robert's plane. The German rescues him, however, and takes him to an Allied hospital, assuring him of Mary's love; his faith in her is restored when he learns that she is actually a spy for U. S. Intelligence.

Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel-thief Malatroff blackmails Lucy into helping him steal the valuable necklace owned by the young wife of phlegmatic American businessman Sylvester Corbett.

Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.

Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.

A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.

Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.

Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with her campus chums Fred (Richard Arlen) and Bob (Danny O'Shea), likewise aspiring thespians, Babes heads to Broadway with stars in her eyes. The winsome threesome are quickly disillusioned by the heartless machinations of nasty producer Renov (Paul Lukas) and his harridan wife (Lilyan Tashman). Before the plot proper gets under way, the audience is regaled with a cute "mythological" prologue, featuring the same three leading actors. Manhattan Cocktail was a silent picture, except for two brief musical numbers showcasing Nancy Carroll.

A silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.

Night Watch is a 1928 American drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Paul Lukas, and Donald Reed. It was an adaptation of the dramatic 1921 play In the Night Watch, written by Michael Morton. The film is set almost entirely on a French warship at the beginning of the First World War.

Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval....

Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best cameraman, to quit in protest of the hiring of a woman. The Mercury hires Scoop, and there begins a heated rivalry between him and Pat. Pat gets a few lucky breaks and manages to get a beat on Scoop during her brief career. After she exposes the theft of a jewel from the turban of a visiting maharajah, she and Scoop are kidnapped by Clayton, the thief, and taken aboard his yacht. Rescued, she and Scoop find love and happiness.

A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.

Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the guise of "Leatherface," a swashbuckling masked avenger, Van Ryke performs his derring-do on behalf of the Prince of Orange (Nigel de Brulier). Naturally, Van Ruke considers beautiful Spanish aristocrat Donna Leonora de Vargas (Vilma Banky) to be a bitter enemy, and the feeling is mutual. To no one's surprise, however, Van Ryke and Donna Leonara eventually fall in love (hence the title). The pulse-pounding climax finds Van Ryke riding hell-for-leather through a rainstorm to warn the Flemish troops about the Spaniards' plans to burn the city of Ghent to the ground. Two Lovers was based on Madame Orczy's novel Leatherface, and adapted for the screen by Alice Duer Miller.

In English known informally as "The Half of a Boy" and "Stepmother". Based on the novel by Kálmán Mikszáth. After his wife's death Gáthy Lörinc (in Serbian version: Mr. Wickfield) remarries and in secret he takes his son born from this second marriage to the same foster parents who take care his first son born from his first marriage and left without mother. Five years later, when both boys return home, his wife does not know which is her own child, and which is the child of the previous wife, so the husband's desire is fulfilled, his orphaned son doesn't have step-mother, because his wife loves both boys equally, as her sweet children.

Silent film drama

Directed by Béla Balogh.