Lloyd Bacon

Lloyd Bacon

Nascimento : 1889-12-04, San Jose, California, USA

Morte : 1955-11-15

História

Lloyd Bacon was an American stage and silent-era screen actor who is most remembered as a film director, making films in virtually all genres. Among the 130 films he directed is the 1933 Warner Bros. classic 42nd Street.

Perfil

Lloyd Bacon

Filmes

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Self (archive footage)
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
Bonita e Audaciosa
Director
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
The French Line
Director
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
Walking My Baby Back Home
Director
A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.
Hordas Selvagens
Director
Durante a Guerra Civil, os sulistas agitadores utilizam equipamento dedicado a estragar a paz de soldados da União com Sioux em Wyoming. Ela oferece ajuda á um negociante de cavalos sem escrúpulos.
The I Don't Care Girl
Director
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.
Golden Girl
Director
Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.
Call Me Mister
Director
A G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who's putting on a show for the troops.
Homens-Rãs
Director
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
The Fuller Brush Girl
Director
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
Kill the Umpire
Director
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.
The Good Humor Man
Director
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Director
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
Todas as Primaveras
Director
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
Mamãe, Ele e Eu
Director
Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch: Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing her entrance exams, Abby goes to college and becomes very popular, especially with a handsome English professor whom Susan has a crush on.
An Innocent Affair
Director
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife Paula gets suspicious and finally decides to do some flirting of her own to make him jealous. Unknown to her, she chooses cigarette tychoon Claude Kimball. In fact, Kimball hits it off well with both of the Doanes. The question is whether or not their marriage can survive all the shenanigans.
Give My Regards to Broadway
Director
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
You Were Meant for Me
Director
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Director
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
Wake Up and Dream
Director
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
Paixão dos Fortes
Co-Director
Em 1882, Wyatt Earp e seus irmãos decidem se estabelecer em Tombstone depois que seu gado é roubado e seu irmão mais novo James é morto. Wyatt é um ex-delegado e aceita de bom grado ser delegado em Tombstone, juntamente com seus irmãos como ajudantes. Ele logo se torna amigo do segurança do saloon local, Doc Holliday e ele faz justiça calma e friamente. Wyatt tem vários desentendimentos com Ike Clanton e seus quatro filhos. Então ele é forçado a matar Billy Clanton, o que leva ao famoso tiroteio no OK Corral.
Home Sweet Homicide
Director
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.
Captain Eddie
Director
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.
Um Sonho de Domingo
Director
Uma família pobre na Flórida economiza todo o dinheiro que puder a fim de planejar algo especial para o soldado que convidou para o jantar de domingo. Eles não percebem que o seu pedido para convidar o soldado nunca foi enviado. No dia do jantar agendado, um outro soldado é trazido a sua casa e o amor logo floresce entre ele e Tessa.
The Fighting Sullivans
Director
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.
Comboio Para o Leste
Director
O tenente Joe Rossi é primeiro oficial num Navio da Liberdade em um grande comboio de Halifax para Murmansk. Depois de submarinos alemães atacarem o comboio seu navio se separa e está indo sozinho para Murmansk. Apesar dos ataques de aviões e submarinos alemães ele luta para levar o navio em segurança para Murmansk.
Silver Queen
Director
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
Wings for the Eagle
Director
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
Larceny, Inc.
Director
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
Navy Blues
Director
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
Volta Para Mim
Director
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
Festival Charlie Chaplin
Various Roles (archive footage)
‎Quatro curtas chaplin de 1917: The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy Street e The Immigrant, apresentados com música e efeitos sonoros. ‎
Footsteps in the Dark
Director
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
Honeymoon for Three
Director
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.
Knute Rockne All American
Director
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Irmão Orquídea
Director
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Three Cheers for the Irish
Director
Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when he's asked to retire on his 25th anniversary with the force. He's even more unprepared for the romance that develops between his favorite daughter, Maureen, and the Scottish cop who takes over his beat.
Homens Marcados
Director
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
A Child Is Born
Director
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
Espionage Agent
Director
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Indianapolis Speedway
Director
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
A Lei do Mais Forte
Director
Trata-se de um acelerado e divertido western com James Cagney e Humphrey Bogart. Jim Kincaid (Cagney) é um pistoleiro notório que volta à sua cidade natal, Tulsa e descobre que seu pai foi linchado depois de ser acusado de um assassinato que não cometeu. Os verdadeiros culpados são Whip McCord (Bogart) e sua gangue. A melhor parte deste emocionante pacto de vingança é quando o personagem vivido por Cagney usa honky tonk piano e um par de pistolas para executar uma versão de "Eu não quero jogar no seu quintal."
Asas da Esquadra
Director
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.
Boy Meets Girl
Director
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
Vítimas do Terror
Director
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Cowboy de Asfalto
Director
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
A Slight Case of Murder
Director
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Submarine D-1
Director
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable.
Ever Since Eve
Director
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
San Quentin
Director
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
Mulher Marcada
Director
Policial persuade "dançarina de clube noturno" a testemunhar contra seu chefe mafioso depois que a sua irmã inocente é acidentalmente assassinada.
Gold Diggers of 1937
Director
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
Cain e Mabel
Director
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
Sons o' Guns
Director
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish musical comedy romance, 'Cain and Mabel."
Frisco Kid
Director
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
O Filhinho da Mamãe
Director
A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.
Broadway Gondolier
Man Going to Brooklyn (uncredited)
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Broadway Gondolier
Director
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
In Caliente
Director
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
Devil Dogs of the Air
Director
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
6 Day Bike Rider
Director
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
Here Comes the Navy
Director
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
He Was Her Man
Director
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
A Very Honorable Guy
Director
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
Wonder Bar
Director
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Son of a Sailor
Director
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Belezas em Revista
Director
Um diretor da Broadway, vendo sua carreira em declínio, decide investir na criação de prólogos, pequenas apresentações musicais encenadas em cinemas antes dos filmes. Porém, os planos são atrapalhados por concorrentes que tentam roubar suas ideias. Sua grande chance ocorre quando seus produtores fazem um acordo com um eminente empresário teatral, mas para isso ele precisa correr contra o tempo para impressionar o homem. Entretanto, está tão envolvido com o seu trabalho que não percebe que sua secretária está apaixonada por ele.
Médica e Mulher
Director
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Picture Snatcher
Director
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
Rua 42
Director
Peggy Sawyer é uma jovem dançarina iniciante que acaba de chegar a Nova York e consegue uma participação no coro de um espetáculo musical chamado Pretty Baby. Ela seria apenas mais uma, só que a estrela principal, a temperamental Dorothy Brock machuca o tornozelo pouco antes da estreia do musical. O acidente faz com que Peggy tenha que assumir o lugar da outra dançarina, e também coloca todo o destino da companhia nas suas costas.
Até Debaixo D'Água
Director
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
Crooner
Director
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
Miss Pinkerton
Director
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
The Famous Ferguson Case
Director
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglers", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Fireman, Save My Child
Director
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?
Manhattan Parade
Director
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
Honor of the Family
Director
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
Gold Dust Gertie
Director
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
Maridos Apenas
Director
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
Sit Tight
Director
Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Brown is a wrestler named JoJo and he is forced to enter the ring and face down a musclebound masked opponent (Frank S. Hagney). Making matters worse, the masked marauder is convinced that his wife has been fooling around with JoJo. JoJo is knocked out early in the proceedings, whereupon he dreams he's a sultan surrounded by harem girls. A romantic subplot involves Paul Gregory and Claudia Dell. Gregory works for Dell's father and Dell asks her father to give Gregory a promotion so that she can spend more time with him. When Gregory refuses to be promoted without earning the position, she threatens to have him fired and Gregory quits his job. Gregory attempts to start a new career as a championship wrestler and is trained by Lightner and Brown. When Dell finds out about this, she attempts to stop him and asks for his forgiveness. She pleads with him to not fight but he has already promised...
50 Million Frenchmen
Director
In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman with out spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchman to stop him.
Moby Dick
Director
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
The Office Wife
Director
Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's duties creates a relationship approaching that of his wife. Little does Larry know that sometimes literature mirrors life.
A Notorious Affair
Director
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
She Couldn't Say No
Director
A night club singer falls for a gangster.
So Long Letty
Director
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
Honky Tonk
Director
Nightclub hostess Sophie Leonard educates her daughter Beth abroad and keeps her life secret for her. But suddenly the daughter shows up.
Say It with Songs
Director
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.
No Defense
Director
No Defense is a 1929 romantic drama directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue. It was a silent film with part talking and sound-effects by the Vitaphone Company. It was distributed by Warner Brothers.
Stark Mad
Director
An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
The Singing Fool
Director
After years of hopeful struggle, Al Stone (Jolson) is on his way. "I'm Sittin' on Top of the World", he sings to an appreciative speakeasy crowd. But, as Al discovers, getting there is one thing. Staying there is another. Singing waiter Stone gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows a big-time producer and a gold-digging showgirl he fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way. Al's fickle wife abandons him, taking the beloved son he calls Sonny Boy with her. Heartbroken, Al becomes a devastated loner until friends from the speakeasy that launched his career rescue him from a life on the streets. Soon, Al is back in lights. But another crisis awaits: Sonny Boy is in the hospital and dying....
Women They Talk About
Director
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is considered to be a lost film.
The Lion and the Mouse
Director
Judge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns considerable stock has been subsumed by the larger firm, thus creating the appearance of a conflict of interests. When one of the Judge's enemies plots to ruin the Judge over this apparent improper behavior, Judge Ross's daughter Shirley sets out to prove her father's innocence.
Pay as You Enter
Director
Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith.
A Sailor's Sweetheart
Director
Cynthia Botts is the headmistress of a girls' school who has left a fortune on the condition that no scandal could ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of Sandy McTavish, a romantic sailor and Charlotte Ralston is just around the corner.
The Heart of Maryland
Director
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe. Nancy, whom Thorpe has loved unwisely, follows him to Washington and commits suicide when she learns he will not marry her; as a result, Alan is forced to request his resignation. When Fort Sumter is fired upon, Alan, who admires Lincoln's principles, joins the Union Army though his father is among the Secessionist leaders; as a result, he is estranged from Maryland. Thorpe, who has joined the Confederacy as a spy, is responsible for Alan's arrest, but Maryland victoriously comes to his aid by ringing the alarm bell.
White Flannels
Director
A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz, stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank Politz to local girl Anne, because she, as the wife of Jacob Politz, an ill-educated coal miner, believes their son should obtain a college education.
Smith's Customer
Director
Eighth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Bubbles is up to mischief.
Finger Prints
Director
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Director
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles. Meanwhile, her daughter, Betty Ann, has won a beauty contest, and heads for Hollywood. They end up in the same, film, with Mom playing her Mom. Marshall tries to take advantage of the naive Betty. Somebody gets shot. Somebody is put on trial.
A Prodigal Bridegroom
Director
Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a preposterous tale.
Meet My Girl
Director
Meet My Girl is a comedy silent short.
Circus Today
Director
Two circus hands create chaos.
There He Goes
The Cook
1925 Mack Sennett Comedies production three-reel short.
Isn't Love Cuckoo?
Director
An auto salesman fall in love with a rich girl but she is already engaged.
Hurry, Doctor!
Director
Hurry, Doctor! is a 1925 comedy short
A Rainy Knight
Director
Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. When this woman mysteriously disappear on him, he can't stop thinking about her and follows her innuendo to meet with her at her apartment. All the while, he is unaware that she is Peggy Joyce, Brock's gold-digging fiancée. He is also unaware that Peggy has ulterior motives for coming on to him, which, in combination with her dangerous past, could lead to complications for all involved.
Good Morning, Nurse
Director
Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong.
The Raspberry Romance
Director
The Raspberry Romance is a 1925 comedy short.
The Wild Goose Chaser
Director
A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin.
The Speeder
The Speeder is a 1922 comedy short
The Speeder
Director
The Speeder is a 1922 comedy short
Hands Off!
Ford Wadley
Tex Robert rescues beautiful Ramona Wadley from the gang-leader of cattle rustlers. Later, he saves Ramona's sister from a stampede, and is then awarded a job on the Wadley ranch. The obligatory showdown features Pete and the gang.
The Road Demon
Luther McCabe
Tom Mix trades horses for cars. Tom Higgins meets Patricia O'Malley whose father is a car manufacturer. O'Malley is hoping to land a contract with a Japanese firm, if only his car wins the Los Angeles-Phoenix auto race. Hap enters, but O'Malley's driver, Luther McCabe causes the race to be lost. Higgins discovers that McCabe is in league with O'Malley's competition, so for the next race, in Fresno, he takes over when McCabe drops out and wins the race.
The Broken Gate
John
Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an illegitimate child and with the earnings from her millinery shop, she has sent him away to be educated. When Don, her son (Arnold Gregg), returns from college, he finds he has to defend his mother constantly. He is accused of murdering a man who made a snide remark about Aurora and is put on trial.
The Midlanders
The Girl in the Rain
Walter
A man and two women, suspected of stealing bonds, are traced to a country hotel. While Judith, one of the women, is out horseback riding, the other two, Walter and Vera, are arrested. When, during a storm, Judith is injured in a fall from her horse, Boone Pendleton comes to her rescue. Soon the river becomes impassable, and they are trapped in Boone's cabin, where the two fall in love.
Miss Nobody
The Aviator
A raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island. There, a band of thieves and smugglers name the girl Rose Marie, though she grows up as "nobody's girl."
The Feud
Ben Summers
Two Southern clans, the Lynches and the Summers, have been at odds with each other since long before Civil War times. But that hasn't stopped Jere Lynch and Betty Summers from falling in love.
Wagon Tracks
Guy Merton
Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.
The Blue Bonnet
Jan Peterson
As an infant, Ruth Drake was stolen from her father by her vengeful mother, and then abandoned. She was adopted and raised by a pawnbroker, and as a young woman joins the Salvation Army in order to help the kinds of people she has seen--and was--growing up. When war breaks out in Europe, she volunteers to go to France
Square Deal Sanderson
Barney Owen aka Bill Bransford
Square Deal Sanderson is in pursuit of a horse thief, but someone else shoots the varmint before Sanderson can offer him a "square deal."
Rua da Paz
Junkie (uncredited)
Carlitos vive um vagabundo que é convertido por um pastor e uma missionária. Ele se torna policial e toma conta da Rua da Paz. Neste mesmo local, existe um bandido que costuma expulsar todos os policiais de lá.
Sobre Rodas
Guest
Após causar uma grande quantidade de caos, um garçom (Charles Chaplin) decide pegar seus patins e vai até o rinque de patinação de gelo da cidade. Depois do verdadeiro balé no gelo, o garçom é convidado para uma grande festa na casa de Edna (Edna Purviance) e lá, ele causa mais confusões ainda.
Charlot Maquinista
Director of Comical Film (uncredited)
David trabalha como assistente de Golias em um estúdio de cinema. Além de criar confusão com os outros que lá trabalham, ele também ajuda uma moça que trabalha no estúdio disfarçada de homem, mas que sonha em ser atriz.
O Vagabundo
Artist (uncredited)
Um vagabundo tenta ganhar dinheiro tocando violino, mas logo enfrenta a concorrência invejosa.
O Bombeiro
Her Father
Um homem, em combinação como chefe dos bombeiros, planeja colocar fogo na casa em que mora a fim de receber o dinheiro do seguro. Quando começa o incêndio, Carlitos corre para salvar Edna, que, sem saber de nada, dormia no quarto.
Carlitos no Armazém
Assistant Manager
Carlitos é um cliente que anda por uma grande loja e que usa algumas mercadorias, causando algumas confusões. Enquanto isso, o supervisor da loja, que havia roubado o dinheiro do caixa e se dispunha a fugir, encontra Carlitos, que é idêntico a ele, a ponto de o supervisor acreditar estar se olhando no espelho. O supervisor lhe oferece trocar de papéis, e Carlitos aceita. Então aparece o gerente - que era cúmplice do supervisor - e que confunde Carlitos com o empregado. Acontecem então os conhecidos alvoroços, com a intervenção dos detetives.
The Book Agent's Romance
The Butler
The book agent meets the daughter of a capitalist on a street car when she accidentally ties her shoelace to his. A few days later the girl's father advertises for a butler. A gang of crooks send one of their number to apply for the position. He is accepted. The capitalist gives his wife the choice between a trip abroad and a pearl necklace.
Her Lesson
The Butler
The capitalist one evening suddenly realizes that his wife is slowly drifting away from him. A certain young Rodney Hildebrand has been paying her great attention and her affairs are the common gossip at the club. He determines to at least save his wife's name from dishonor.
A Christmas Revenge
Billy's rival
Broncho Billy becomes enraged when a stranger comes to town and wins the affections of his sweetheart. On the night of the wedding Broncho Billy "shoots up" the church, wounding the bridegroom. He then escapes across the border, after leaving a note to his rival telling him he will finish the job on Christmas night.
Carlitos no Teatro
Man in Balcony
O senhor Pest experimenta diversos assentos num teatro, e fica irritado por não achar um lugar adequado para assistir sossegadamente ao espetáculo. Por essa razão, ele acaba arrumando confusão com a platéia, com o condutor da orquestra, e até com um bêbado chamado senhor Rowdy, que joga uma garrafa na cabeça dele.
The Escape of Broncho Billy
The Sheriff
Broncho Billy is in love with the rancher's daughter. Her father disapproves of their affair and one day quarrels with Broncho. A few days later the rancher drops dead while at work. Broncho Billy's rival discovers the body and seeing an opportunity to implicate Broncho, shoots the rancher's body. Broncho Billy is accused of the murder
Wine, Women and Song
Jack Dobbs starts to gamble and dissipate when he inherits a fortune from his rich uncle. In a few years he has squandered the entire fortune and is heavily in debt to the proprietor of a gambling club. He appeals to all his friends who welcomed him while he had money, but finds they do not know him when he is penniless. Finally, in desperation he forges a check to pay his gambling debts. He is caught and sent to prison for fifteen years. At the end of his term he leaves the prison an old and broken man.
Broncho Billy's Cowardly Brother
Billy's Brother
Broncho Billy and his brother are both in love with the same girl, but she decides to marry Broncho's brother. One Sunday morning an outlaw creates a panic in the church by "shooting up" the place. The sheriff, who is the girl's father, is shot when he attempts to arrest the outlaw. Broncho's brother is offered the sheriff's star, but is afraid to take it.
Broncho Billy Misled
The Prospector
In a fight Marguerite's father kills a man and Broncho Billy, the sheriff, goes in search of the slayer. Marguerite successfully hides her father. Broncho Billy, however, waits on the outside. Marguerite, in order to get the sheriff away from the door and allow her father to make his escape, leads Broncho Billy to believe that she has hidden her father in a woodshed. Broncho Billy with drawn revolver rushes into the outer building and Marguerite hastily throws on the lock, making him a prisoner.
Broncho Billy and the Card Sharp
The Cattle Thief
Broncho Billy, in a quarrel with Faro Dan, a card sharp, shoots him and flees. Pursued, he hides in the wagon of a man whom he meets on the prairie. The posse is misled by Broncho Billy's friend and the fugitive escapes. Several years later Broncho is made sheriff of an adjoining county.
Broncho Billy and the Lumber King
The Sheriff
Tired out, a ranger happens upon a cabin in the woods to ask for rest. He is met at the door by a pretty girl, and it is a case of love at first sight. The girl's father, leader of the lumber thieves, returns to find her before a small mirror arranging her hair, and upbraids her for her vanity. The ranger hears and, as the father is about to strike the girl, rushes out and hurls the man from her. When the ranger departs, the leader of the thieves follows with a rifle, and catching the ranger unawares, forces him to go to the thieves' rendezvous. The girl, who has seen, rushes to call the sheriff. Meanwhile the thieves draw lots to see who shall kill the ranger. It falls to the chief, who is about to shoot the ranger when the sheriff and his aides rush up and arrest the thieves.
Broncho Billy Begins Life Anew
The Sheriff
Broncho Billy, through a notice posted on a tree, learns he can go free if he will give himself up. He keeps the notice, and, as he rides away, comes upon a little girl, who wandered from her mother, when an accident happened to the stage coach in which the two were riding. The mother, frantic, starts in search of her child, and meanwhile the coach drives on.
Broncho Billy Steps In
The Rancher
Because he believes in education, a ranch owner hires a school teacher from the east and opens a school for his cowboys. The teacher is admired by all of the cowboys, and by one in particular, an outlaw, who frightens all the pupils one morning by writing "school" with bullet holes on the blackboard. Broncho Billy steps in and sends him over the county line.
Broncho Billy's Protégé
The Girl's Sweetheart
Broncho Billy, engaged to the girl, becomes jealous of a newcomer, and in remorse, gets intoxicated. He takes hack the girl's ring and frightens the tenderfoot out of a general store. Mounting his horse he pursues his frightened rival and, after many miles of galloping, overtakes him and brings him back to town, where he flings him in the girl's arms, saying, "Here's your tender foot. Try and make a man of him." Two years later, her husband dead, the wife is at the point of death, half-starved and with a small child to care for.
Broncho Billy and the Land Grabber
Broncho works for a despicable land grabber who treats his help like a brute. The men finally plot to lynch the land grabber. Broncho races on his horse ahead of them and tells him of the plot.
The Bachelor's Burglar
The girl gets a job on the local newspaper and is sent out to get the story of one of the escapades of a rich bachelor. While she is on her way she determines to break into the house, because she is sure the bachelor will refuse her an interview. She breaks into the house and is blithely gathering the details of her story when the bachelor surprises her and calls the police. Just as the police arrive, the bachelor puts on a housecoat and an old cap. He looks very much like a burglar.
Regeneração
The Saloon Girl's Companion
A rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. But he hasn't gone straight yet, as he and a partner attempt to rob the home of a rich homeowner-- whose wife is asleep in the next room.
O Vagabundo
Edna's Fiancé / Second Thief
O vagabundo encontra a garota dos seus sonhos e trabalha na fazenda da família. Ele ajuda a defender a fazenda contra criminosos, e tudo parece bem, até que ele descobre que a garota dos seus sonhos já tem alguém em sua vida. Não querendo ser um problema em suas vidas, ele pega a estrada, embora seja visto pulando e balançando sua bengala como se estivesse feliz por estar de volta à estrada onde ele sabe que pertence.
Carlitos Quer Casar
Young Butler / Cop
Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
Carlitos no Parque
Pocketbook Thief
Um ladrão rouba a bolsa de uma enfermeira e, após isso, ele tenta roubar o Vagabundo, mas acaba perdendo os seus cigarros e fósforos. Já o Vagabundo, com fome, tenta roubar um cachorro-quente de um outro ladrão, com a sua bengala. Quando o ladrão tenta pegar a comida do Vagabundo, ele consegue pegar a bolsa da moça que, então, passa de mão em mão até voltar para as mãos da sua proprietária, que fica brava por seu namorado não tê-la protegido. O namorado vai até o lago para, desesperado, se atirar nele, mas o Vagabundo o salva.
O Campeão
Second Sparring Partner / Exerciser in Gym / Referee
Caminhando com seu buldogue, Charlie encontra uma ferradura de "boa sorte" ao passar por um campo de treinamento anunciando um parceiro de boxe "que aguenta uma surra". Depois de ver os outros perderem, Charlie enfia a ferradura na luva e vence. O treinador prepara Charlie para lutar contra o campeão mundial. Um jogador quer que Charlie jogue a luta. Ele e a filha do treinador se apaixonam.
Broncho Billy's Brother
Broncho's brother has a quarrel with a greaser. In the fight that follows the greaser is bested, but swears to be avenged. Broncho's brother then goes home and while under the influence of liquor, strikes his mother. Broncho, hearing her screams, rushes into the room, but by this time his brother has departed.
Broncho Billy's Greaser Deputy
Broncho Billy, the sheriff, is in love with a girl, but another man wins her affections and marries her. He is a worthless sort of fellow, and when Broncho sees him in the saloon, drinking with an outlaw, he gives the bartender orders to sell him no more liquor. This causes a fight, but peace is soon restored.