Karl Dane

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A mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays. Jack Norton, whose brother was murdered by The Whispering Shadow, suspects that the eerie Professor Strang - whose ghostly wax museum contains figures far too lifelike - may be involved in the crimes.

Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.

Karl's so lethargic and sleepy, he dozes off at his club, and nobody notices him for days. To give him some pep, George takes him and their wives camping in the Catskills, but Karl still finds places to snooze away while all have a bad time.

Once again finding themselves out of work, Karl and George get a job assembling pre-fab houses -- with disastrous results.

Karl Dane & George K. Arthur trading places while dining.

Karl Dane & George K. Arthur enter a gangster town.

New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.

Karl Dane and his pal come home for a disastrous Christmas.

Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.

Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. Plunkett, a formidable woman, has little use for hapless Elmer. On the train west, they meet movie star Larry Mitchell, who takes a shine to Elvira and helps her meet MGM directors once they get to Tinsel Town. Elmer, meanwhile, wants to help Elvira with her career and he also wants to be her man. Movie stardom does come to the Gopher City entourage, but to whom is a surprise. And who will win the lovely Elvira's hand?

A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.

On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all. Their daughter takes offense at this, and in the ensuing argument she storms out of the house determined to live on her own.

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Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and plans to drive the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.

On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.

Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of servants. Susie likes him but, to get rid of her, his manager tells her Duke already has a New York chorus girl. As the students listen to a radio broadcast of his victorious fight from San Francisco, she learns that the student Duke is the boxer Duke and that there is no chorus girl.

Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.

Peggy Pepper arrives in Hollywood, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things do not go entirely according to plan.

An Incompetent insurance salesman sells a policy to Jesse James and has to protect his client until he can get it back.

Lois, a stenographer at a luxury hotel, is being pursued by the hotel's house detective and a bellhop. When some valuable jewels are stolen, the bellhop--who has always dreamed of being a detective--sees his chance to both solve the jewel robbery and impress the woman he loves. The house detective, however, has other ideas.

Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.

Greg, an arrogant entertainer, gets drafted into the army and runs up against tough drill sergeant Sgt. Diggs. Not wanting to stay in the army, Greg sets out to annoy and aggravate Sgt. Diggs so much that Diggs will have him thrown out. To make matters more complicated, they both have their sights set on pretty Betty Wayne. Complications ensue.

A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.

A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.

엄격한 청교도의 도시 보스턴. 재봉사 헤스터가 안식일을 지키지 않아 벌을 받는데, 젊은 목사 딤스데일은 그녀에게 연민을 느낀다. 얼마 뒤, 소식 없는 남편을 기다리며 홀로 살던 헤스터가 아이를 낳자 마을은 발칵 뒤집히고, 간통한 죄로 그녀는 평생 가슴에 ‘A(‘adultery, 간통’의 첫 글자)’자를 달고 살라는 벌을 받는다. 그러나 그녀는 끝까지 아이의 아버지를 밝히지 않는다. 19세기 미국문학의 걸작인 호손의 『주홍글씨』를 영화화했으며, 무성영화시대 최고의 감독과 여배우가 만났다.

Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone".

An Indian chief of the Arapahoe escapes the reservation where he has been living and takes along some of his warriors. The cavalry is sent out for them.

루이 13세의 통치기. 바들리스는 부상으로 죽어가던 레스페롱과 마주친다. 그는 바들리스에게 사랑하는 여인에게 보내는 인사를 부탁하며 숨을 거둔다. 한편, 레스페롱이 반역자임을 알지 못한 채 바들리스는 성으로 향하고, 결국 그가 반역자로 오인 받아 체포되고 만다. 위기의 순간, 바들리스는 아름다운 록살란느의 도움을 받게 된다. 라파엘 사바티니의 작품을 각색한 로맨틱 시대극. 예고편과 에 삽입된 일부 장면만이 전해졌으나, 2006년 프랑스에서 거의 완전한 분량의 필름이 발견되었고, 사진 등을 활용해 소실된 장면을 추가하여 복원하였다고 한다.

아흐메드 벤 하산 족장과 다이애나의 아들인 아흐메드는 부랑자 떼의 두목의 딸, 야스민과 사랑에 빠지고 둘은 사람들의 눈을 피해 밀애를 즐긴다. 하지만 아흐메드가 족장의 아들이란 걸 알게 된 부랑자들이 아흐메드를 납치해 몸값을 얻어내려는 사건이 발생한다. 가까스로 위기에서 탈출한 아흐메드는 야스민도 그들과 한패라고 오해하며 그녀에게 사랑과 증오 두 가지 마음을 품게 된다

It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next door who Rodolphe has met. But Count Paul also has his lusting eye on Mimi and uses her embroidery to get close to her. Rodolphe and Mimi fall in love and Mimi works endlessly to support Rodolphe who is writing his play with a new found passion. He does not know that he has been discharged from writing for 'Dog and Cat Fanciers'. Mimi wants to get his play produced and Count Paul offers to help, but there is a terrible fight when Rodolphe thinks that Mimi is faithless to him with Count Paul. After the fight, he seeks out a doctor as she is sick, but she has left when Rodolphe returns and will stay away until his play is finished.

When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.

Cowboy Mark King (Tom Mix) comes to the aid of an old miner, Honeycutt (George Berrell) who, in gratitude, reveals the location of a secret gold mine. To get to the mine, however, King must fight an evil claim jumper, Gratton (Robert Cain), whose fiance, Gloria (Alice Calhoun), he once saved from falling off a cliff.

제1차 세계대전이 중반을 넘어설 무렵, 부유한 사업가의 아들 제임스는 일할 생각은 않고 한량처럼 지낸다. 그런 아들을 보다 못한 아버지는 입대하지 않으면 쫓아내겠다고 협박하고 마지못해 입대한 제임스는 프랑스 전선으로 보내진다. 제임스는 군대에서 새로운 우정을 쌓고 전쟁의 포화 속에서도 사랑하는 여인을 만난다. 연극으로 성공하기도 한 로렌스 스탈링스의 소설을 킹 비더 감독이 영화화했다. 참혹한 전쟁의 시대에도 시들지 않는 웃음과 감동을 선사한 무성 영화 시대 말기의 걸작 중 하나.

Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.

The Whirlwind is a 1920 movie serial.

The Great Gamble is a 1919 movie serial.

Alice Grayson's uncle develops a wireless torpedo that can be controlled by radio. After he announces his invention to several of his colleagues, two of them murder the scientist, steal the blueprints and prototype, and make plans to sell both to the highest bidder. When Alice discovers the identity of the thieves, the intrepid heroine, with the help of Bob Moore, her two-fisted boyfriend, desperately tries to recover the plans and torpedo before enemy countries can unleash the torpedoes against American ships. (IMDb)

The experiences of the American ambassador to Germany, James Gerard, are recounted in this semi-documentary.