Self (archive footage)
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.
Austin Parsons
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Could he be deliberately blocking out memories of his past?
(archive footage)
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.
Dr. Jubal Harrington
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Self
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Sir Wilfrid Lucas
연쇄 살인마를 쫒는 전 영국 정보부 요원이 조사에 나서지만 용의자는 변장의 귀재로 좀처럼 정체를 드러내지 않는데...
The Prime Minister
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.
Gov. Oliver P. Thornwall
A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator--each hoping to be elected the next governor--attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their own political ambitions. Director Vincent Sherman's 1961 drama stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Don Ameche, Jack Kelly, Angie Dickinson, Herbert Marshall, Jesse White, Parley Baer, Carroll O'Connor, Ray Danton, Andra Martin, Rhodes Reason and Louise Lorimer.
Charles Manning
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
Henry Addison
Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.
Insp. Charas
늦은 밤 부유한 사업가 프랑수아에게 한통의 전화가 걸려온다. 그 전화는 특별한 연구를 하던 과학자 동생 앙드레의 부인 헬렌이 건 것으로, 느닷없이 그녀는 자신이 남편을 살해했음을 고백한다. 경찰과 함께 사건이 벌어진 인쇄공장으로 달려간 프랑수아는 프레스기에 깔려 처참하게 죽은 동생을 발견한다. 갑작스러운 동생의 죽음에 의문을 가진 프랑수아는 사고 뒤 이상할 정도로 파리에 집착하는 헬렌을 추궁하는데...
Robert Harley Hedges
A young woman arrives in New York City determined to become a great theatrical star, but discovers that her goal may not be as easily attainable as she had hoped.
Insp. Mackenzie
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
Stephen Collins
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
Lord Leicester
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.
William, Earl of Mackworth
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth castle. There, Myles falls in love with the Macworth's daughter Anne, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight.
Dr. Van Ness
A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.
Dr. Donald L. Stanton / Narrator
Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
Mr. Charles Tremayne
An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side.
Dr Jameson
카리브해를 누비는 무시무시한 해적 검은 수염과 그의 후계자 프로비던스. 어느 날, 프로비던스가 영국 선박을 나포하는데, 그 배에 타고 있던 프랑스 군인 라로셸이 프로비던스의 눈에 띈다. 라로셸은 앤 프로비던스가 미모의 여자 선장임을 알고 놀란다. 해적 선장이었던 라로셸은 배를 빼앗긴 뒤 신분을 숨긴 채 자신의 배를 되찾을 궁리를 하고 있었다. 라로셸이 속셈을 드러내지 않은 채 기회를 엿보는 사이 앤은 라로셸을 사랑하게 된다. 활력 넘치는 여자 해적 캐릭터가 등장하는 액션 모험극. 영화 〈선셋 대로〉 〈이창〉 등의 음악을 만들었던 작곡가 프란츠 왁스만이 음악을 맡았다.
((재)영화의전당)
Dr. James Curtis
A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's closing in.
E.J. Stanton
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
Archibald Craven
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
Willard I. Whitcombe
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
Miles Rushworth
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
Scott Chavez
백인 아버지와 인디언 어머니 사이에서 태어난 혼혈 처녀 펄은 아버지가 품행이 깨끗하지 못한 어머니를 살해한 뒤 교수형을 당하자 아버지 친척인 남부의 대 목장주 잭슨 맥캔리스의 부인인 로라벨 아주머니 집에서 살게된다. 로라벨의 두 아들 제시와 루트는 곧 펄을 좋아하게 된다. 서부에 철로가 생기면서 철로부설을 반대하는 맥켄리스는 철도회사 편을 든 아들 제시와 의절하고 집에서 쫓아낸다. 루트는 펄을 유혹해서 친하게 되나 아버지의 반대로 펄과 결혼할 생각을 버린다.
W. Somerset Maugham
1930년대 유럽, 그 풍요와 야망의 시대를 배경으로 꿋꿋이 자신만의 길을 개척하는 한 젊은이의 구도적 여정을 그린다
Traybin
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
Dr. Charles Evans
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
Major John Hillgrove
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
Dr. Standish
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.
Self
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
Prof. Michael Kingsley
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
Paul Turner
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
Curate in Air Raid Shelter
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Geoffrey Wolfe
스트릭랜드는 런던의 평범한 주식 중개인으로 처자가 있는 40대 남자다. 이 남자가 돌연 무엇엔가 홀린 듯 처자를 버리고 파리에 나가 화가가 된다. 그는 그에게 호의를 보이는 선량한 친구의 부인과 정을 통하여 그 일가를 파멸하게 한다. 마지막에는 타히티섬으로 이주하여 나병에 걸려 고통의 나날을 보내며 강렬한 그림을 그리다가 이 섬에서 죽는다.
John Davis
Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true.
Rogers Woodruff
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
Horace Giddens
어느 남부 지방의 목화 공장을 경영하는 한 가정. 레지나(베티 데이비스 분)는 병든 남편의 재산을 이용하여 시카고에 있는 회사의 지분을 손에 넣으려고 한다. 한편 레지나의 두 오빠들은 동생 레지나의 재산을 이용해 자신들의 욕심을 채우려고 한다. 레지나는 요양 중인 남편 호레스(허버트 마샬 분)의 동의를 얻기 위하여 알렉산드라(테레사 라이트 분)를 보내 남편을 데려온다. 하지만 호레스는 레지나 형제의 음모를 눈치채고 투자에 동의하지 않는다. 그러자 레지나의 오빠인 오스카(칼 벤튼 레이드 분)는 자신의 아들 리오(댄 듀리어 분)가 은행에서 일하고 있는 점을 이용하여 호레스의 금고를 열어 주식을 빼돌려 마음대로 투자해 버린다. 우연히 은행에 들려 이 사실을 알게 된 호레스는 자신의 변호사를 시켜 새로운 유언을 작성하게 하고 이 사실을 부인에게 알린다. 레지나는 자신도 모르는 사이에 두 오빠가 이런 일을 꾸몄다는 사실에 놀란다. 자신은 돈을 위해 호레스와 결혼했다는 독설을 퍼붓는다. 호레스는 충격으로 쓰러지고 알렉산드라는 엄마를 원망하게 된다. 결국 호레스는 혼수 상태에서 깨어나지 못하고 죽음을 맞는다. 하지만 레지나는 이런 상황에서도 오빠에게 회사 지분의 75%를 달라고 협박한다. 이런 엄마의 모습을 지켜본 알렉산드라는 엄마의 욕심에 회의를 느끼게 되고, 결국 엄마를 뒤로 한 채, 냉정하게 집을 떠난다.
Sen. John Coleridge
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
Robert Crosbie
서머셋 모옴의 원작을 영화화한 것으로 살인을 한 여인이 자신의 결백을 입증하기 위해서 그것이 정당방위였음을 주장하는 이야기. 치정살인 이후에 이어지는 재판과정을 통해 보여지는 베티 데이비스의 뻔뻔하게도 평온한 베티 데이비스의 연기 일품이고, 예상치 못한 사적인 복수과정으로 끝나는 결말도 상당히 충격적인 마무리.
Stephen Fisher
주인공 맥클란은 기자들과 함께 스파이 조직에 연루되면서 복잡한 암살을 비롯한 사건들이 벌어진다. 기자의 카메라에 숨겨진 총으로 벌어지는 암살 장면이나, 네덜란드의 풍물인 풍차가 등장하는 스펙타클한 장관, 그리고 전쟁이 시작되는 날 런던에서 출발하는 대서양 횡단 비행기 씬 등이 유명한 이 영화의 장면들이다. 초창기 영화에서 보여준 스토리 스텔링이라는 단순한 이야기 나열에 그치지 않고, 영화 본래의 기술인 볼거리 중심의 미장센 연출을, 완벽한 카메라와 편집, 계산된 연기 지도 등으로 보여준다. 이 영화가 헐리웃에서 대성공을 거두자 제작자들이 히치콕에게 찾아와 최고의 대우를 해 주겠다는 계약서가 줄을 이었다고 한다.
Gray Meredith
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.
Dufresne
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
Stephen Holland
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
Jim Howard
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
Richard Todd
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.
Sir Frederick Barker
영국의 고위 외교관 프레드릭 바커의 부인 마리아는 부유한 생활을 하지만, 일에만 몰두하는 남편 때문에 마음 한 구석이 늘 허전하다. 한편, 혼자 파리에 간 마리아는 사교장에서 매력적인 앤서니를 만나고, 둘은 서로에게 이끌린다. 그러나 관계를 지속하길 원하지 않던 마리아는 조용히 앤서니를 떠나고, 그는 마리아를 찾아 헤맨다. 그러다 어느 사교 모임에서 프레드릭과 앤서니가 마주치고 만다. 할리우드 로맨틱 코미디의 대가 에른스트 루비치의 정교한 멜로 드라마.
(2017년 영화의 전당)
Jonathan Blair
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
Christopher 'Chris' Drew
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
Thomas Lane
A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
Dr. Stephen Dominik
When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.
Alan Barclay
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage. But the War comes and Elsa mysteriously disappears. Alan's ease in speaking German results in his appointment to the British Intelligence and, to aid his use as a spy, they announce he was killed in action. He takes the name and personality of "shell-shocked" Hans Teller, a German prisoner, and is sent into Germany on an exchange of prisoners.
Dr. Michael J. Talbot
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
Jim Buchanan
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
Gerald Shannon
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
Steven Gaye
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
Dr. Gordon Phillips
Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.
Dr. Max Sporum
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
Walter Fane
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
Napier
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
Lord Philip Rexford
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
Arnold Ainger
Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave the ship in a tiny boat and make it to a desert island, where many adventures ensue and, of course, the two men fight over the beautiful young schoolteacher who is with them.
Oliver Lane
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
Stephan
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
Count Franz von Degenthal
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gigolo.
Gaston Monescu
악명 높은 도둑이면서 상류 사회의 신사이기도 한 가스통은 베니스에서 아름다운 귀부인 릴리를 만난다. 그런데 릴리 역시 귀족 행세를 하지만 정교한 실력을 가진 소매치기였다. 서로의 실력에 반한 두 사람은 사랑에 빠지고, 함께 파리로 건너가 유명 향수 회사를 소유한 콜레 여사의 금고를 털 계획을 세운다. 그런데 콜레 여사가 신분을 위장한 가스통에게 관심을 보이고, 가스통 역시 여사에게 특별한 감정을 느낀다. 릴리는 금세 두 사람 사이의 이상 기류를 눈치채고는 질투심에 사로잡히는데...
지적이면서도 우아하고 유쾌한 농담이 빛나는 ‘루비치 터치’가 돋보이는 에른스트 루비치의 대표작이며, 로맨틱 코미디의 원형이라 할 수 있는 작품이다.
Edward 'Ned' Faraday
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner, she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend.
Waverly Ango
Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.
Michael Rowe
A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....
Gerry Anson
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
Lord Danforth
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
(archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
Sir John Menier
살인 사건이 발생하는 한 마을에 여배우 다이아나 밸링이 용의자로 지목된다. 그녀가 사체 바로 옆에서 부지깽이를 들고 있었던 것. 프로듀서 디렉터인 허버트 마샬은 살인재판의 배심원으로 위촉된다. 재판이 끝나고 배심원들이 모여 그녀의 죄를 논하는 과정에서 투표는 무죄가 3표, 유죄 7표로 결론이 난다. 그러나 그는 다이아나의 결백을 믿고살인범을 찾아 나서는데.
Geoffrey Hammond
A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.
