Charles Bickford

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.

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.

Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.

Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out Barney Stafford to talk to her. She invites Barney over to negotiate the proposal. Barney soon takes a liking to Della's equally reclusive daughter Jenny Chappell. After spending some time with Jenny, he realizes that Della has a dark secret, one that keeps them from the outside world.

회사에서 대외 홍보직을 맡고 있는 조 클레이(잭 레몬), 그는 항상 이런 저런 술자리와 파티를 따라다니느라 한시라도 손에서 술이 떠날 날이 없다. 그러던 어느 날 고객의 요청으로 선상 파티에 여자들을 데리고 가는 중에 고객 회사 비서인 크리스틴(리 레믹)을 그런 여자 중 하나로 오인하지만 조의 끈질긴 요청에 저녁 약속을 허락하고 둘은 함께 저녁을 먹으며 즐거운 시간을 보내고 술 한 모금 하지 못하던 크리스틴은 조를 만나면서 서서히 술 맛을 알아가고 이후 둘의 관계는 급진전하여 결혼도 하고 아이도 낳는다. 하지만 결혼 후에도 매일 접대로 늦는 남편 때문에 크리스틴은 외로운 밤을 술로 달래고 남편이 먼 지방으로 좌천되어 서로 떨어져 살게 되자 외로움이 극에 달한 크리스틴은 술에 취해 담배 불을 붙여놓고 잠드는 바람에 아파트에 불을 낸다. 결국 조까지 회사에서 해고되고 조는 문득 술어 쪄들어 망가진 자신과 아내의 모습에 뭔가를 깨닫는다. 이 후 두 사람은 크리스틴의 아버지 농장으로 내려가 술을 끊고 잊었던 일상의 행복을 잠시 느끼지만 어느 날 밤 다시 시작한 술로 인해 알코올 중독자 재활 병원으로 가게 된다. 그러나 조는 알코올 중독자 모임에 나가면서 점차 건강을 회복하는 반면 아내 크리스틴은 자신이 알코올 중독자라는 사실을 인정 못하고 더욱 술에 의존해 간다. 아내를 설득하다가 조 또한 다시 술을 입에 대고 또 다시 병원에 실려 간다. 다시 병원에서 나온 조는 알코올 중독 치료를 거부하는 아내를 끝내 설득하지 못하고 너무도 사랑하지만 어쩔 수 없이 떠나보낸다.

Young Swedish-American Katrin "Katie" Holstrom leaves her family farm in Minnesota, headed for nursing school. After her tuition money runs out, she is forced to take a job as a maid in the home of Congressman Glenn Morley. Holstrom endears herself to the genteel Morley, and begins to show a surprising aptitude for politics herself. She launches a campaign for Congress, and, as right-wing reactionaries plot against her, a romance develops.

재커리 가족은 텍사스에서 목장을 경영하며 평온하게 살고 있다. 그러던 어느날 켈시라는 낯선 남자가 찾아와 입양된 딸 레이첼(오드리 햅번)을 내놓으라고 한다. 재커리 가족은 그를 쫓아내지만 카이오와 인디언 족이 찾아와 레이첼의 출생의 비밀을 폭로하고, 가족에게는 비극이 닥쳐오는데..

Pilot episode, directed by Dick Powell.

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

물이 풍부한 땅을 두고 벌이는 두 집안의 갈등과 분쟁을 묘사한 도널드 해밀턴의 동명 소설을 영화화한 작품

An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?

A young girl, played by Pamela Beaird, normal in every way is affected with severe epilepsy. What happens, in regard to her parents and school friends and their reactions, is shown. In addition, an explanation of the affliction and a demonstration of the treatment involved, both physically and psychologically, are detailed.

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.

Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.

연예계의 숨겨진 일화를 그린 영화. 영화배우 겸 가수로 주가를 높이고 있는 노먼 메인은 부와 명예를 지니고 있지만 삶이 권태롭다. 그런 어느 날 친구들과 다운비트 클럽에 갔다가 무명 가수 에스터의 선천적인 재질을 발견, 자신의 상대역으로 발탁시킨다. 두 사람은 점차 사랑하는 사이로 발전하고 비키 에스터라는 이름으로 바꾼 노먼은 팬들의 야유를 무릅쓰고 그녀를 공연에 출연시켜 대성공을 거두어 에스터는 하루 아침에 스타가 된다. 노먼과 에스터는 비밀리에 결혼식을 올리고 네바다 주의 사막에다 그들만의 보금자리를 꾸민다. 하지만 에스터의 인기가 높아 갈수록 노먼은 슬럼프에 빠지게 되면서 두 사람의 행복은 금이 가기 시작하는데...

A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.

A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.

The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war.

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.

High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?

줄스 다신 감독의 강인하고 사실적인 교도소 폭동영화. 1974년산 흑백으로 사나운 걸작. 새디스트인 교도소장의 학대에 견디다 못한 죄수들이 폭동을 일으키면서 교도소가 불바다가 된다. 폭동을 주도한 죄수역의 버트 랭카스터의 연기가 뛰어나다. 강펀치를 맞은 듯한 충격을 준다.

미첼 윌슨의 "그토록 눈 먼 사람이 또 있을까 None So Blind"를 원작으로 한 작품으로, 르누아르의 영원한 주제인 삼각관계를 다룬 작품이다. 맹인 화가 테드와 그의 열정적인 아내 페기, 그리고 페기를 사랑하는 선원 스콧은 고통스러운 사랑의 삼각관계를 이룬다. 하지만 스콧은 테드가 사실은 앞을 볼 수 있고, 자신들의 불륜을 알고 있을 것이라 의심한다. 절벽 위의 외로운 집, 해변에 흩어진 폐선 조각들은 이들의 감정적인 대립을 표현하며 필름누아르적인 분위기를 연출한다.

주인공 캐티(일명 카트린 홀스트롬)는 가족이 있는 미네소타의 농장을 떠나 대도시로 공부하러 간다. 그러나 도착한 첫날 사기를 당해 학비와 용돈을 잃어버리고 일자리를 찾을 수밖에 없는 처지가 된다. 캐티는 워싱턴의 국회의원 글렌 몰리의 집에서 가정부로 일하게 되는데, 솔직함과 현명함으로 몰리와 몰리의 어머니의 사랑을 받는다. 몰리를 후원하는 정치세력이 정직하지 않다는 것을 알아챈 캐티는 정치 활동에 적극적으로 관여하여 마침내 국회의원에 입후보한다. 몰리를 후원하는 세력의 보스는 선거 직전에 캐티의 평판을 나쁘게 퍼뜨려서 곤경에 빠뜨리려고 하지만 그녀를 사랑하는 몰리가 구해준다.

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.

전작〈로라〉에 이어지는 프레민저의 스타일리시한 필름누아르. 몰락한 홍보담당원 에릭 스탠튼은 버스 차비를 낼 돈조차 없이 떠돌아다니다 캘리포니아의 작은 마을 월튼에 도착한다. 마을의 유지 조 엘리스와 매들리 교수를 구슬려 머물 곳을 마련한 스탠튼은 마을 커피숍에서 일하는 아름다운 아가씨 스텔라에게 한눈에 반한다. 하지만 스텔라는 가난한 그와는 결혼하지 않겠다고 한다. 돈이 필요해진 스탠튼은 자신에게 관심을 보이는 부유한 노처녀 준 밀스와 결혼한 뒤 돈을 챙기고 이혼할 계획을 세운다. 하지만 스탠튼이 준과 결혼하고 얼마 후, 스텔라가 살해되면서 사태는 급변한다. 은퇴한 경찰 출신의 사립탐정 마크 저드가 수사에 나서고, 유력한 용의자로 몰린 스탠튼은 캘리포니아로 도망친다.

WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.

프랑스 산골마을 루르드. 가난한 집안의 맏이로 태어난 베르나데트는 어린 시절부터 천식을 앓았다. 병약한 소녀이긴 했지만 천성적으로는 티없이 맑고 착한 소녀였다. 어느 날 동생과 함께 땔감을 줍기위해 나가서 우연히 발견한 동굴에 호기심을 갖고 들어가서 뜻밖에 일을 겪게된다. 베르나데트가 성모를 보았다는 소문이 돌기 시작하고 그에 사람들과 신문을 통해 그녀는 프랑스 전역에 알려지게 된다. 베르나데트는 시당국의 탄압을 받게 되고, 베르나데트가 파 놓은 땅속에서 샘물이 솟아 오르고 병자들이 치유되는 기적이 일어나면서 소문을 들은 사람들은 시골마을인 루르드로 모여 들게 되는데.... 그리고 성모로부터 은총을 받은 베르나데트는 수련수녀가 되어 수녀원으로 가게되는데...

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

서커스를 위한 사자들을 잡으러 정글로 간 서커스 주인 버크 랜드와 동물 조련사 마운트포드는 보이가 동물들과 지내는 모습에 반해서 보이를 뉴욕으로 납치한다. 보이를 구하러 뉴욕으로 간 타잔과 제인은 재판정에 서게 되지만 타잔이 난폭하게 행동하는 바람에 투옥 당하게 된다.

키웨스트에 해적들이 우글거리면서 배를 일부러 난파 시켜 화물을 건지고 이익을 얻고 있었다. 주빌리의 선장인 잭 스튜어트도 부선장이 해적과 손을 잡고 배신을 해서 화물을 잃게 되었다. 키웨스트에서 록시 클레이본을 만나게 되고 사랑을 하게 된다. ​ 데보로사가 있는 찰스턴으로 돌아간 잭은 킹 커틀러의 짓이라는 걸 알지만 아무도 증거를 찾지 못한다. 데보로사의 직원인 잭은 증기선인 써던크로스를 지휘하는 것이 소원이지만 배가 난파하여 펠리칸호를 타고 대기하게 됐다. 록시는 데보로 준장을 만나기 위해 찰스턴으로 가지만 데보로사의 변호사인 스티브 톨리버를 만나게 된다. ​ 잭을 돕기 위해 스티브를 계속 만나는데 스티브는 록시를 사랑하게 된다. 록시는 잭과 결혼을 하려고 하지만 스티브가 그걸 막는다. 킹 커틀러는 잭과 스티브를 고래잡이 배에 팔아 넘기려고 하지만 실패한다. 잭은 자신이 써던크로스의 지휘를 맡게 된 사실을 알게 된다. 하지만 아팠던 데보로 준장이 죽고 스티브가 데보로 회장이 된다. 그렇게 되면 자신이 지휘를 하지 못하게 될 거란 걸 킹으로부터 들은 잭은 킹과 돈을 잡고 일부러 써던크로스를 난파 시키기로 한다. ​ 써던크로스는 난파당하고 재판을 하게 된다. 재판을 하는 과정에서 배에 록시의 사촌인 드루실라가 몰래 탔다는 사실이 드러난다. 증거를 찾기 위해 잭과 스티브는 난파당한 배를 찾아간다. 바다 속에서 왕문어가 나타나 스티브가 위험에 빠진다. ​ 잭은 스티브를 구하고 자신은 죽는다. 해적들의 모든 소행이 밝혀지자 킹의 동생인 댄을 사랑하는 드루실라가 죽은 걸 알고, 킹의 모든 짓을 이야기하려 하지만 킹은 동생을 쏴 죽인다. 위기의 상황에서 필 선장은 킹을 죽이고 록시와 스티브는 연인으로 발전한다.

A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.

The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.

Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.

Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to bring the paper down..

June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on himself when Malone dies under cloudy circumstances.

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.

A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.

An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.

Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.

남북 전쟁 직후 존라티머가 인디언들에게 총을 밀매하려 하면서 이야기가 시작된다. 이를 막기 위해 서부 개척자의 정의로운 사내 대장부인 빌 힉콕과 그의 친구 버팔로 빌 코디는 그를 쫓는다. 시끄러운 칼라미티 제인은 빌 힉콕을 사랑하지만, 빌은 그런 그녀를 피하고만 싶다. 그는 여자나 가정 그리고 결혼에 대한 생각보다 자유로운 생활이 아직 더 좋다. 빌은 인디언들과 평화롭게 지내려 했으나 칼라미티가 인디언들에게 붙잡히자 마음을 바꾼다. 그녀를 구하려 가다가 빌 힉콕 자신이 붙잡히게 되고 칼라미티가 그를 구한다. 결국 빌은 라티머를 처라하지만, 다른 사람에게 죽음을 당한다.

A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prosperous life.

It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had colonized it a hundred years before and whose title deeds bore the signature and seal of a long-dead Spanish king. But, by a loop-hole in the law, the title-deeds of the Dons could not be recognized, and this opened the door of organized gangs of land-grabbers, such as the one led by Joe Kincaid, to operate with a prime excuse for legitimate plunder and robbery. In most cases the law was unable to cope with the situation. Then Rosita Castro, the daughter of Don Pasqual Castro, masked and disguised as a man, organized a band of vigilantes to fight against the tyranny of the outlaws, aided by an undercover federal agent, Jim Kearney.

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.

A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, where his girl, Bangles Carson sings, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but is unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his daughter, Marthy Jane (Shirley Temple), as security, or in bookie's terms, a "marker". Having lost his bet, he commits suicide, leaving "little Miss Marker" under the care of Sorrowful Jones. As Steve hides out in Chicago to avoid investigation for his crooked bets, he entrusts Sorrowful to watch over Bangles during his absence, at which time the "gold digger" helps "tight-wod" with his trouble. When Big Steve learns Bangles is involved with Sorrowful, he returns to New York to do something about it.

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.

A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.

A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.

This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.

A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".

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 man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.

An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.

A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a deal: he will settle her debts if she teaches him how to be "a gentleman".

Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on a dare. He drinks the concoction down in one swallow and also manages to outsmart Dot's boss and his rum-running hooligans. You see, Dingo is a bootlegger himself. He literally sweeps the lady off her feet and they set up housekeeping in a tropical hotel full of colorful characters, some of whom are in the bootlegging business too.

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.

Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.

A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.

Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung.

The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.

A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears short skirts and shocks the puritanical New Englanders in her new home with her wild candid ways...