C.A. Tuthill

The swamp folk of the deep Okefenokee live a brutal primitive life untouched by modern times - they support themselves by hunting alligators and selling them to the outside world. Jeff returns home from college with an engineering degree and dreams of bringing modern medical care and education to the swamps. He is immediately confronted by his old boyhood rival, "Gator-Bait" Blair, who thinks things are just fine the way the are. "Gator" whips the ignorant locals into a frenzy of fear and resistance. When Jeff is unintimidated by their threats, Blair sets out to stop his plans once and for all - with a rifle.

Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair. Restoration by the Academy Film Archive and Blackhawk Films with funding from the estate of David Shepard from a 35mm nitrate duplicate negative and 35mm nitrate fine grain in the Lobster Films collection.

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.

Story of mother's antagonism to her son's wife. From the novel "Wild Beauty" by Matsel Farnham.

Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New York, ships mate Gatson sexually attacks her. The Captain knocks Gatson overboard in an ensuing scuffle. A romance developing between the Captain and Miss Clark is put to the test in New York after an assault investigation uncovers the girl's questionable past.

Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family.

오스트리아의 왕실 근위병 니키는 방문 중인 플라우젠섬 왕족을 수행한다. 가벼운 성격의 니키는 섹시한 바이올리니스트 프란치에게 반해 근무 도중에도 그녀에게 미소와 윙크를 보내느라 여념이 없다. 플라우젠섬의 공주 안나는 니키가 자신에게 윙크를 보내는 것으로 착각하여 사랑에 빠지고 결국 두 사람은 결혼하기에 이른다. 그러나 무뚝뚝한 공주에게 매력을 느끼지 못한 니키는 프란치와 밀회를 가지고, 공주는 그런 두 사람을 발견하고 슬픔에 빠진다. 그런 공주를 딱하게 여긴 프란치는 공주에게 남자의 마음을 사로잡는 법을 가르쳐준다.

월 스트리트 사업가 제리는 유능한 비서 줄리아와 진지한 관계를 맺길 원하지만, 줄리아에게는 약혼자 필립이 있다. 제리의 구애를 뿌리친 줄리아는 필립과의 결혼을 서두르고, 더 이상 줄리아와 함께 일할 수 없다고 생각한 제리는 그녀를 해고한다. 1년 후 줄리아를 만난 제리는 그녀에게 다시 반하고, 둘 사이에 대해 의혹을 품고 있던 필립은 해서는 안 될 짓을 벌이고 만다. 떠오르는 스타였던 클로데트 콜베르의 지적인 매력이 스크린을 가득 채운다.

Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.

A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become the winner's personal manservant for a year.

Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.

This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom's footsteps.