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Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of the film image while foreshadowing the Holocaust.
Pop (uncredited)
Johnny Brett e King Shaw vêm tentando fazer sucesso como uma dupla de dança em Nova York. O produtor Bob Casey quer um novo parceiro para a estrela da dança Clare Bennett, ele escolhe Johnny, mas Brett acha que o produtor é um cobrador e diz que ele é King Shaw, que deve dinheiro. Devido a essa confusão o homem errado ganha o papel principal em um show da Broadway.
Mailman (uncredited)
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
Pawnbroker (uncredited)
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.
Frank Kennedy's Clerk (uncredited)
Scarlett O'Hara é uma jovem mimada que consegue tudo o que quer. No entanto, algo falta em sua vida: o amor de Ashley Wilkes, um nobre sulista que deve se casar com a sua prima Melanie. Tudo muda quando a Guerra Civil americana explode e Scarlett precisa lutar para sobreviver e manter a fazenda da família.
Father Reilly
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Clerk (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams é um filme de 1939 estrelado por Melvyn Douglas como o tenente de polícia Kenny Williams, que anda ocupado demais resolvendo crimes para passar um tempo com sua noiva Maxine Carroll, interpretada por Joan Blondell.
Priest (uncredited)
This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".
Dr. Hendricks - the Coroner
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Sam - Janitor (uncredited)
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Everett
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Judge
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Mr. Shackleford
Mais uma das primorosas versões feitas pelo cinema do livro de Mark Twain. Clássico.
Clerk at Royal Grand Hotel
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Leader
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
Hannah's Servant Leonard (uncredited)
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
Captain Escartefigue
In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out to sea for several years, she marries another man to prevent the child being born out of wedlock.
An American trader disrupts life on a Polynesian island.
Colonel Canfield
A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
Sam
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Professor (uncredited)
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Dr. Turner
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
Bit Part (uncredited)
This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never identified, but who was forced to wear an iron mask for the length of his captivity, which ended only in his death. Several candidates for the identity of the man are investigated.
Miner
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called "The Poker". She is the only woman in the town of Couldee - making her the fancy of all the men there, especially to Sheriff Jack Rance. On the way to Monterey to sing at a mass officiated by Father Sienna, her stagecoach is held up by the infamous masked bandit, Ramerez. He too takes a fancy to Mary, and decides to secretly follow her, taking on the identity of an officer named, Lieutenant Johnson. While in Monterey, he dances, sings and courts Mary, who has now fallen in love with him. He then has to make a quick getaway. In the mean-time, Sheriff Jack has set up a trap to catch Ramerez at "The Poker". When Ramerez does arrive he soon discovers that Mary is the owner, and quickly changes to the identity of Lieutenant Johnson. How long can this charade last?
Waiter
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
Al, Desk Clerk (uncredited)
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Clerk
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Carlisle P. Buxton
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
Prison Chef (uncredited)
A secretária do defensor público e um ex-presidiário se casam e tentam viver juntos, mas uma série de desastres deixa suas vidas fora de controle. Joan é a secretária do defensor público em uma cidade grande. Ela é apaixonada por um criminoso chamado Eddie, e acredita que ele é uma pessoa fundamentalmente boa, que só teve alguns problemas na vida. Ela usa sua influência para libertá-lo mais cedo, e ele tenta ir em frente depois de se casar com ela, mas as coisas não dão tão certo. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Joe Eldridge
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
Dr. Trevissant
The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. Evil Count Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending Mazovia's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, Armand (Dean Jagger), one of the members of the expedition, has his own agenda.
Captain (uncredited)
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Sebastian
1936 was a different world in Newfoundland - the bigotry and the unexpected ending will give you plenty to talk about and think about in this forgotten masterpiece of human drama.
Harry
The singing stoker and the vamp.
Jay Malone, Private Investigator
Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.
John Yee (as E. Alyn [Fred] Warren)
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Phillip Tsang
Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will be fulfilled. A killing spree follows in dark and dangerous Chinatown as Wong gets control of 11 of the 12 coins. Reporter Jason Barton and his girl Peg are hot on his trail, but soon find themselves in serious trouble when they stumble onto Wong's headquarters.
Ching Lee
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class, white pickpocket, diminishing his pride in the Chinese half of his heritage and sparking the jealousy of the nightclub's moody star performer.
Saga
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
General Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
Dr. Brooks
Mary Brooks' father, who has been studying ancient tribes, falls into the hands of "the people of Zar, god of the Emerald Fingers." Tarzan helps Mary locate her father, rescues everyone from the High Priest of Zar, and takes Mary to his cave.
Goy Lo Sung - Fu Manchu Messenger (uncredited)
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
Soo Lat the Cobbler
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
Gen. U. S. Grant
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
Lu Chung
At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
Ace's Butler Bottomley (uncredited)
Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) é um advogado bem sucedido que está passando por uma situação complicada. Isso porque, além de ter que lidar com o alcoolismo, ele vai precisar fazer de tudo para separar sua filha, Jan (Norma Shearer), do perigoso mafioso Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable).
Lo Sang Kee
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
Denys
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted by a pool of water, she disrobes and plunges in. Cosse de Brissac, a handsome private in the King's Guards, comes to her rescue and they become sweethearts. Meanwhile, Jean Du Barry, a shrewd roué, takes note of her at the millinery shop and tricks her into staying at La Gourda's, where she soon becomes a favorite among the men.
Stephen A. Douglas / General Grant
Um marco no cinema, este filme do legendário diretor Griffith, é a primeira obra biográfica da era dos filmes "falados" e a primeira na tentativa de narrar a vida do Presidente Lincoln desde sua infância até a sua morte, incluindo o martírio na Guerra Civil.
Emil Goltz
The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
Li Fang
Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to save the man she loves, Rupert Endon (Ian Keith), from being unjustly arrested as a thief. Rupert, unaware of the reason his sweetheart married his rival, goes to the Far East where he grows rich after discovering a diamond mine. He breaks Eve's husband by underselling him and then returns to England to exact his revenge on the woman he thinks did him wrong.
Lee Ying
The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
Train Engineer
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.
Robert Chandler
When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see his actress wife Carol Chandler (Claire Windsor), thought to be a widow, marrying her leading man Jimmy Keane (John Bowers). Rather than mar her new-found happiness, he takes a job washing cars. New York City is a small town. Will Carol need her car washed?
Baruch Koweski / Jethro Koweski
A kindly but desperate Alsatian innkeeper named Mathias murders and robs a rich Jewish merchant staying at his inn, but the ghost of his victim will not let him rest. Meanwhile, a mysterious Mesmerist has come to town, claiming he has made many criminals confess their crimes...
Sam Rudd
Dare Rudd and Bate Fillmore have been enemies since early childhood, primarily over the affections of Nell Worstall. Dare, assuming the name of Holt, goes west to Colorado, as does most of his Kentucky friends and enemies. The feud between Dare and Bate is renewed, and Dare learns that Nell's father is in jail on a trumped-up charge made by Bate in order to force Nell to marry him.
Prosecuting Attorney
Três artistas de circo abandonam suas vidas de cativeiro e formam uma quadrilha conhecida como "A Trindade Maldita" - um espetacular ventríloquo, um anão, e um homem forte unem forças para cometer uma série de assaltos. Refilmado posteriormente em uma versão falada chamada de "Trindade Maldita".
Myles Standish
A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America aboard the Mayflower.
Abraham (as E.A. Warren)
A family of Russian Jews living in New York struggles to survive, while the mother strives to better their lives, but she finds that most of her efforts costs more then they are worth.
Lo Sang Kee
She'd wink till hearts went on the blink. And staid professors couldn't think. And everywhere they'd stop to stare. And say "Some Chink!" when Ming Toy winked.
Evers (as E.A. Warren)
Jack Norman is an office clerk who falls in love with co-worker Kate Blair, a stenographer. He gets fired from his job but before this can really sink in, he suddenly inherits 80 million dollars from a financier who once loved his mother. The financier, Glyde, was murdered, so Norman also inherits a load of troubles involving the blackmailers who want to killed him. In his attempt to outwit them, Norman poses as a valet, and has a friend impersonate him.
Rabbi Thalman
In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two children, Fanny and Theodore, run a modest dry goods store.
Ah Wing
A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
Chang Low
Silent Madden, um líder criminoso de San Francisco, e sua filha Molly deixaram a vida de crimes depois de receber conselhos de Chang Low, um filósofo confucionista que vive em Chinatown. Black Mike, um gangster desprezível, incrimina o pai de Molly em assassinato, fazendo com que Molly perca a fé na lei e retorne ao crime.
Yusef Bey
Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.
Chris Cotterill
A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife prefers the new, non-abusive version and falls in love him.
Wong Li
The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines.
Judge Hampton Bates
The Westbrook family has been ruined financially, and when the daughter Lucille comes home from boarding school, she finds herself in a terrible dilemma -- she either must marry a rich man she does not love and save her family's fortune, or marry the man she loves and lose everything.
Chico Piave (as E.A. Warren)
Andrea Minghetti runs a California vineyard with the help of his pretty niece Bona, who cooks for the employees. A worker named Chico Piave, who belongs to a secret crime society, tries unsuccessfully to force himself on Bona, and later, he demands that Andrea give him both the young woman and a large sum in cash.
Louis Bracchi (as E.A. Warren)
At a mountain resort, Kenneth Scott falls in love with Marie Beauchamp, an older woman who merely amuses herself with him. When she deserts him to open a roadhouse, he sadly leaves the mountains and, in the company of an old wandering poet named "Doc" Podden, travels to a little village in the woods.
Rosario (as E.A. Warren)
Police headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a priceless necklace smuggled from Europe. The detectives are on the track of a gang led by master thief Ramon Mordant and his accomplice known as "the Face" because of his twisted and hideous countenance.
Romeo Bonelli (as E.A. Warren)
Mrs. Standing, an old-fashioned country mother, sacrifices to put her son John through college so that he might have a better life. Upon completing school, John goes to the city where his financial success blinds him to the basic values taught to him by his mother.