Victor Jory

Victor Jory

Nascimento : 1902-11-23, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada

Morte : 1982-02-12

História

Victor Jory was a Canadian stage, film and television actor, best known for his role as Jonas Wilkerson, the brutal and opportunistic overseer, in "Gone with the Wind", and as Lamont Cranston, aka 'The Shadow', in the 1942 serial film "The Shadow".

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Victor Jory
Victor Jory

Filmes

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Himself (archive footage)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Homens Da Montanha
Iron Belly
No Velho Oeste Bill Tyler (Charlton Heston), um comerciante de peles, tenta achar com seu melhor amigo, Henry Frapp (Brian Keith), o lendário vale conhecido pela enorme quantidade de animais para caçar. Mas acaba encontrando uma jovem de origem indígena, que está fugindo de um casamento indesejado, e resolve protegê-la a todo custo.
Power
Hillman
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.
Abraham's Sacrifice
Narrator (voice)
Tale of Abraham who battles a King for his land and who seeks revenge on Abraham for killing his son. And the birth of his son, Isaac and the scheming of a slave who wishes for his freedom and is willing to do whatever to get it. And eventually his test where he has to sacrifice Issac.
Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar
Narrator
A biblical drama about Daniel who gains his release by interpreting a dream for King Nebuchadnezzar.
The Story of Noah
Narrator
A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in 'The Story of Noah', a powerful story of devotion, courage and triumph.
O Cão do Diabo
Shaman
Um cão que é servo do demônio aterroriza e possui os membros de uma família suburbana.
Mission to Glory: A True Story
Father Zaya
Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills as well as building missions and spreading Christianity. An explorer, astronomer and map maker, Father Kino surmounted numerous challenges as he journeyed through California, Arizona and Mexico.
Perilous Voyage
Dr. Henry Merrill
A South American guerrilla, whose revolution is faltering, hijacks a ship carrying arms and holds all of the passengers hostage.
Papillon
Indian Chief
Na década de 1930, Papillon (Steve McQueen) foi acusado de assassinato e mandado para cumprir prisão perpétua na Guiana Francesa. As regras da prisão são claras: Qualquer um que tentar fugir ganhará como punição dois anos de solitária. Isso não é o bastante para assustar Papillon, que vai tentar fugir de qualquer maneira com a ajuda de Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman). Em uma das vezes ele quase consegue e vai parar incialmente em uma colônia de hansenianos e depois em uma tribo de índios caribenhos, até chegar na Ilha do Diabo.
Fúria Audaciosa
Wounded Bear Mr. Smith (Attorney at Law)
Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.
A Time for Dying
Judge Roy Bean
Cass Bunning, a farm boy with a talent for shooting, meets up with Nellie, a naive woman from the East, who has been lured West by the promise of a waitressing job which turns out to be in a brothel.
O Ouro de Mackenna
The Narrator
Ao cavalgar pelo deserto o delegado Mackenna (Gregory Peck), é alvo de tiros dados por um velho chefe Apache. Ao responder aos tiros, MacKenna acaba ferindo mortalmente o velho índio. Antes de morrer, o chefe lhe dá um antigo mapa que, segundo ele, traz o segredo da localização do vale do ouro. Mas o alerta que, ao encontrar o veio de ouro, despertará a fúria de antigos deuses... Ele não acredita no velho e joga o mapa no fogo. Mas grava o desenho na memória... O bandido Colorado (Omar Sharif) sequestra McKenna, pois acredita que ele é a única pessoa viva que conhece o tortuoso caminho para o vale do ouro... Ao longo da jornada, novos personagens se juntam a esta busca...
A Noite Convida ao Crime
Edward Arkroyd
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
Ride the Wind
Charles Ludlow
The international theatrical release of the 1966 William Witney feature cowboy western movie made from two 1966 episodes of the television series "Bonanza", entitled "Ride the Wind"
Crepúsculo de Uma Raça
Tall Tree
Quando a agência do governo encarregada dos índios não entrega os escassos suprimentos, devidos por tratado, para a orgulhosa tribo Cheyenne em sua estéril reserva no deserto, os índios famintos entendem que foram mais abusados do que vale a pena tolerar. Mais de 300 cheyennes abandonam a reserva destinada a eles, partindo em uma travessia de 2.400 km rumo à sua ancestral área de caça. Isso é encarado pelo governo como um ato de rebelião, que então tenta impedir a jornada. O Capitão de Cavalaria Thomas Archer é encarregado de sua captura, mas durante a busca cresce seu respeito pela sua nobre coragem, e decide ajudá-los.
O Milagre de Anne Sullivan
Captain Arthur Keller
Uma história verdadeira. A jovem Helen Keller (Patty Duke), cega, surda e muda desde a infância, corre o risco de ser enviada para uma instituição. A incapacidade de comunicar deixou sua frustração e violência. Em desespero, seus pais procuram ajuda do Instituto Perkins, o que lhes envia uma "aluna Yankee meio cega", chamada Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), para ensinar sua filha. Através da persistência e do amor, e de pura teimosia, Annie rompe as paredes de silêncio e escuridão de Helen e a ensina a se comunicar.
Vidas em Fuga
Jabe Torrance
Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier, um vagabundo de origens obscuras propenso a problemas, chega numa pequena cidade do Mississippi e consegue um emprego numa loja administrada por Lady Torrence cujo marido, Jabe M. Torrance, está morrendo de câncer. Apesar de estar em busca de uma vida simples e honesta, se vê envolvido com mulheres cheias de problemas. Val é perseguido por Carol Cutere, a enigmática vadia local de boa família.
Johnny Belinda
Black McDonald
In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.
Last Stagecoach West
Rand McCord
The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the new buyer, but has enough hidden money to buy a ranch and some cattle. To make more money, he starts a gang to rob the railroad, express offices and steal cattle. But the railroads send out special agent Cameron to end his reign of violence.
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Dr. Murdock
A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of ancient alchemists, who have insinuated themselves as the prison's chief staffers, to keep themselves alive and free from an insidious petrification, which is already afflicting one of their number.
Death of a Scoundrel
Leonard Wilson
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.
Forbidden Area
Rear Admiral Batt
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?
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
Jared Letlow
A former gunslinger comes to the aid of ranchers battling a murderous land baron.
Manfish
Professor
Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.
Sabaka, O Demônio de Fogo
Ashok
A fire worshipping cult of Indian is disbanded by a man, his elephant and tiger.
O Vale dos Reis
Tuareg Chief
Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's travels in ancient Egypt. As an ex-pupil of Ann's father, Mark accepts and the two embark on a search for the tomb of the Pharoah Ra Hotep, said to have had some connection with Joseph. The trail to the tomb is fraught with intrigue, betrayal, murder, and the possibility that the tomb itself has been emptied of all its artifacts by ancient looters.
Moby Dick
Captain Ahab
The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.
Mulheres-Gato da Lua
Kip Reissner
Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.
Sangue Por Sangue
Jess Wade
Em 1836, John Stroud, um dos rebeldes do Texas que estão cercados no Forte Álamo, recebe a notícia de que a sua região foi atacada pelos mexicanos. Ele ganha um sorteio com outros homens e sai do forte para tentar ajudar sua família e as de seus companheiros. Ao chegar lá só encontra o filho mexicano de um de seus empregados. Seu racho está queimado e sua esposa e filhos estão mortos. O garoto lhe diz que os responsáveis pelo ataque foram milicianos americanos que se aliaram aos mexicanos contra os rebeldes. Stroud leva o garoto até a cidade de Franklin, onde é preso como desertor e covarde. Na cadeia encontra um dos homens que atacaram sua família e que foi reconhecido pelo garoto mexicano. Quando o miliciano foge da cadeia com a ajuda de seu grupo, Stroud vai com ele, tentando se vingar na primeira chance.
Toughest Man in Arizona
Frank Girard
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring the prisoner his brothers free him. Then a stage is robbed of a silver shipment by Girard and his brothers. Examining telegrams gets Landry a confession from Girard's girlfriend. The telegraph line has been tapped and the telegrapher is the supposedly dead husband of the woman he brough in. Now knowing Girard's location he sets out after him.
Flechas Incendiárias
Lucky Lee
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
O Segredo da Caverna
Ben Cross
Macdonald Carey interpreta um ex-bandido que ao sair da prisão, busca um ouro perdido nas cavernas depois de um assalto quando ele era um adolescente.
The Highwayman
Lord Douglas
Terra Virgem
Frank Walsh
A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.
The Capture
Father Gomez
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.
Fighting Man of the Plains
Dave Oldham
Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James.
Canadian Pacific
Dirk Rourke
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
Mercadores de Intrigas
Luke Cottrell
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.
A Vida Íntima de uma Mulher
Brook Matthews
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
The Gallant Blade
Marshal of France Mordore
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
Os Amores de Carmen
García
Uma bela mas amoral garota cigana seduz um jovem militar da Cavalaria e o faz trair sua honra e ser dispensado do serviço militar. Por causa dela ele logo começa numa vida de crime. Baseado na ópera Carmen de Georges Bizet, por sua vez baseada no romance Carmen de Prosper Mérimée.
Tubby the Tuba
Narrator (voice)
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), Tubby the Tuba is disappointed that his sound limits what he's permitted to do in an orchestra of self-playing instruments that, unlike him, get to play pretty melodies. A chance meeting with a bullfrog changes everything.
Shoe Shine Jasper
(voice)
George Pal shines a shoes while fairy godmother visits him.
The Unknown Guest
Charles 'Chuck' Williams
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
Fazenda 20
Mark Jackson
Stagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin go after them.
The Kansan
Jeff Barat
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Revólveres e Laços
Jeb Hardin
Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam owned by a greedy merchant in town, who is intent on driving them out and taking their land for himself.
Mineiro Misterioso
Dan Slack
As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. Realizing his telegram about Slack was intercepted, he locks up the operator Lafe knowing he can escape. Tailing Lafe he finds a secret entrance to a mine and inside finds the missing cattle. But Slack's men also find him just as the cattle are stampeded through the mine shaft.
Buckskin Frontier
Champ Clanton
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
Mantenho a Ordem
Tom Jordan
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.
Power of the Press
Oscar Trent
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Ike Clanton
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.
Shut My Big Mouth
Buckskin Bill
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Tulips Shall Grow
(voice)
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path. In 1997 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
As Jóias do Imperador
'Dapper' Dan Streever
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.
The Stork Pays Off
Deak Foster
Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco, only to discover it is a nursery run by Irene Perry. All fall under the benign influence to the point where the three henchmen go to night school to be educated and Deak falls in love with Julie.
Lenhadores de Improviso
Baptiste Deschamp
Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging their efforts.
Charlie Chan no Rio
Alfredo Cardozo, alias Marana
In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer's own murder.
Cidade Sem Justiça
Steve Fraser
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.
Bad Men of Missouri
William Merrick
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Hoola Boola
Narrator (voice)
Jim Dandy lands on a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful maiden. Soon a tribe of cannibals kidnap him. A Puppetoon animated short film.
Fronteiras Perigosas
Henry Logan
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss, and so are the vigilantes.
Give Us Wings
Mr. Arnold Carter
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
Lady with Red Hair
Mr. Clifton
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
The Green Archer
Spike Holland
Columbia's 12th serial of 57 total (following 1940's "Deadwood Dick" and ahead of 1941's "White Eagle") is another of director's James Horne's "classics" where he evidently figured that the same reactions that served him well in Laurel and Hardy films would work well in action serials where he has all hands, heroes and villains alike, doing some kind of over-the top "take", no matter the situation. This loose adaptation of an Edgar Wallace story finds Michael Bellamy (Kenne Duncan in his Kenneth Duncan period) inheriting Garr Castle, but his brother, Abel Bellamy (James Craven, as usual making Oil-Can Harry look smooth), has him imprisoned unjustly and moves into the castle himself. When Michael's wife, Elaine Bellamy (Dorothy Fay), fails to return after visiting Abel, her sister Valerie Howett (Iris Meredith), accompanied by their father,
Cherokee Strip
Coy Barrett
Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.
Girl from Havana
Tex Moore
Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America...
River's End
Norman Talbot
An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays two roles.
Noiva da Fatalidade
Clay Beaudine
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
The Light of Western Stars
Gene Stewart
Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back Gene Stewart ex-foreman who left the country after fighting with the Sheriff.
Knights of the Range
Malcolm Lascalles
Russell Hayden, taking a break from playing Hopalong Cassidy pictures, stars as Renn Frayne, a college-educated youth heading westward who finds more than he bargained for. Following a terrifying run-in with an outlaw gang, Frayne aligns himself with the heroine Holly Ripple (Jean Parker), whose father's cattle ranch is in danger of falling into the hands of the villains. Victor Jory as Malcolm Lascallie, the wily gambler,
O Sombra
Lamont Cranston, aka 'The Shadow'
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
...E o Vento Levou
Jonas Wilkerson
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.
Call a Messenger
Ed Hogan
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.
I Stole a Million
Patian
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Each Dawn I Die
W.J. Grayce
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Suzana
Wolf Pelt
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...
Man of Conquest
William B. Travis
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Women in the Wind
Doc
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Uma Cidade Que Surge (Dodge City)
Yancey
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Asas da Esquadra
Lt. Parsons
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
Blackwell's Island
Thomas MacNair
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
As Aventuras de Tom Sawyer
Injun Joe
O pequeno Tom Sawyer (Tommy Kelly) vive com sua tia Polly (May Ribson) numa pequena cidade do Mississipi. Ele e seu inseparável amigo Huckleberry Finn (Jackie Moran) adoram pescar, sonham com piratas e grandes tesouros e vivem pensando em Becky Thatcher (Ann Gillis), uma linda garota do colégio. Os dois vivem se metendo em aventuras e confusões até que um dia presenciam um assassinato, e juntos conseguem provar a inocência do homem injustamente acusado, esse fato faz com que Injun Joe (Victor Jory), o verdadeiro assassino, passe a caçá-los. Ao tentarem escapar de Joe, os dois vivem uma fantástica aventura nas águas do Rio Mississipi que os leva até cavernas misteriosas e ao esconderijo em que Injun Joe havia enterrado uma fortuna.
First Lady
Senator Gordon Keane
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Gregoroff
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
Glamorous Night
Baron Lyadeff
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
Breakdowns of 1936
Himself
Time marches on.
Rangle River
Dick Drake
Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan's cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with hostility by her father's foreman, Dick Drake, and her father's neighbour, Don Lawton.
A Astúcia de Nero Wolfe
Claude Roberts
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
The King Steps Out
Capt. Palfi
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
Hell-Ship Morgan
Jim Allen
A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.
A Dream Comes True
Oberon (archive footage) (uncredited)
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
White Lies
Terry Condon
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is implicated in a murder.
Too Tough to Kill
John O'Hara
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
Escape from Devil's Island
Dario
Two men escape from the French penal colony but not from their jealousy over a woman.
Sonho de uma Noite de Verão
Oberon
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Streamline Express
Jimmy Hart
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
Party Wire
Matthew Putnam
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Mills of the Gods
Jim Devlin
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
Madame Du Barry
Duc Armand d'Aiguillon
Dolores Del Rio plays 18th-century French courtesan DuBarry like a 20th-century golddigger on the make. Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon (Victor Jory), former street waif DuBarry charms her way into the heart -- and boudoir -- of gouty King Louis XV (Reginald Owen).
He Was Her Man
Nick Gardella
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
Murder in Trinidad
Howard Sutter
Author/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator for the League of Nations. He is Trinidad's Port o' Spain trying to track down the leader of a gang of diamond smugglers. A trail, littered with murders, leads him to a crocodile-infested swamp.
I Believed in You
Jim Crowl
an aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile the writer attempts to become a Greenwich Village Bohemian type. She and her new friends are all starving for their art until a kindly gent offers them financial assistant. They refuse on principle. Tragedy pays a call when the writer learns that her boyfriend has been untrue.
Smoky
Clint Peters
Rodeo star forms a strong bond with the noble horse he took from the wilds and trained. Unfortunately, they end up on different life paths and are separated. When at last they are reunited, the cowboy is appalled to discover that Smoky has become a broken down cart horse with an appointment at the local abattoir. Fortunately the cowboy intervenes and saves the horse from death
My Woman
John Bradley
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
The Devil's in Love
Dr. Andre Morand/Paul Vernay
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
I Loved You Wednesday
Randall Williams
Vicki Meredith, an American ballet student in Paris, falls in love with Randall Williams, another American studying architecture in Paree, and they set up some light housekeeping together until she learns that Randall has forgotten to mention that he has a wife back in the USA. This miffs Vicki to the point where she ups and heads for South America where she meets and falls in love with Philip Fletcher, a construction engineer from America. But he hustles off to build Boulder Dam. They meet again in New York City and discover their separation has made their love even stronger. Then, Randall and his wife show up and sophistication rears its ugly head.
Trick for Trick
La Tour
A magician is accused of killing his female assistant.
Infernal Machine
Alfred Doreen
This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to return Green's thought-to-be stolen purse ends up rendering him a stowaway on board a ship bound for America. Also aboard is a collection of characters, including Green's banker fiancé, a famed scientist, and an opera singer. Romance begins to blossom between Holden and Green, just as a radiogram claims that an “infernal machine,” or bomb, is aboard the ship. Quickly each passenger accuses the others of planting the bomb until eventually Holden, jealous of Green's attention to her undeserving fiancé, falsely admits to being the culprit. In his role as assumed perpetrator, Holden tests the group further.
Sailor's Luck
Baron Portola aka Darrow
U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.
State Fair
Hoop Toss Barker
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
Handle with Care
1st Public Enemy
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they can't understand why grown-ups kiss...and other complications.
The Pride of the Legion
Jerry Brewster
After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters.
Renegades
Officer Belonge (uncredited)
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting decorated by the French Minister of War. Deucalion spots Eleanor, a spy who had done him dirt and after tangling with the local gendarmes, they take her and head back for Morocco where they are charged with desertion, and have to go out and defeat some more marauding natives, and dodge the machine-gun fire directed at them by the highly-displeased Eleanor, and one thing just follows another.