Self (archive footage)
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
Pushcart Man (uncredited)
Dolly Levy é uma viúva socialite que trabalha como casamenteira. Ela viaja para Yonkers para encontrar uma parceira para o "meio-milionário" Horace Vandergelder. Dory insentiva os dois funcionário de Vangergelder a viajar para Nova Yorque para procurar garotas onde acaba se metendo em grandes confusões.
Halvah Peddler (uncredited)
A carreira da lendária estrela Fanny Brice. Desde o início, quando somente sua mãe acreditava em suas chances, ao estrelato no famoso show de Florenz Ziegfield, passando pelo malogrado casamento com um jogador inveterado. Oscar de melhor atriz (Streisand) e mais sete indicações da Academia.
Dr. Eric Zinthrop
Uma poderosa proprietária de uma empresa de cosméticos cria uma fórmula da juventude usando geleia real extraída de vespas rainhas, mas não consegue prever os efeitos colaterais.
Innkeeper
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
Gaston (watchman)
Esta história se passa quando Philippe, o filho do cientista Andre Delambre, da continuidade ao trabalho de seu pai. Apesar de seu Tio não aprovar as experiências com a máquina de teletransporte, que deram cabo da vida de seu irmão, ele acaba cedendo e financia seu sobrinho. O que eles não sabem é que há outros interessados na maquina o que leva a um desastre.
Emil
A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.
Dormeyer
A Brooklyn-born 17-year-old's loyalty is torn between his parents' old-fashion values and a local gangster's flashy lifestyle.
Hobo
In this heart-warming drama, a beggar and his performing dog, Flip, struggle to eke out a living upon the cruel streets. He is hired to perform at a rich kid's birthday party. There, the beggar is offered $500 for his beloved dog. He refuses and again hits the streets. Soon he becomes so impoverished that he can no longer provide food for his four-legged friend; he sells him for $20. The beggar is then beaten and robbed. Later he learns that Flip died. The man soon follows the dog to heaven where they begin performing for God.
Fred (hotel clerk)
O Tenente de polícia Diamond recebe a ordem de parar de investigar o chefe da máfia, Sr. Brown, porque está custando muito dinheiro ao departamento, e sem obter resultados. Diamond faz uma última tentativa de descobrir evidências contra Brown indo até a namorada de Brown, Susan Lowell.
Watchman
Quando um asteróide cai, um ser alienígena com o poder da invisibilidade pousa em Santa Monica. A busca das autoridades governamentais começa a rastrear as misteriosas criaturas.
Fisherman (uncredited)
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew...who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there'll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge's former sweetheart Leslie, who's fond of a bit of gold herself. Which side is Waldridge really on?
Fisherman (uncredited)
Após três anos em campanha, o general Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor) retorna à Roma e encontra Lygia (Deborah Kerr), por quem se apaixona. Ela é uma cristã e não quer nenhum envolvimento com um guerreiro. Mas, apesar de ter sido criada como romana, Lygia é a filha adotiva de um general aposentado e, teoricamente, uma refém de Roma. Marcus procura o imperador Nero (Peter Ustinov), para que ela lhe seja dada pelos serviços que ele fez. Lygia se ressente, mas de alguma forma se apaixona por Marcus. Enquanto isso, as atrocidades de Nero são cada vez mais ultrajantes e, quando ele queima Roma e culpa os cristãos, Marcus salva Lygia e a família dela. Nero captura todos os cristãos e os atira aos leões mas, no final, Marcus, Lygia e o cristianismo prevalecerão. Na filmagem da obra de Sienkiewicz, foram utilizados cerca de 32 mil figurinos e milhares de figurantes, dentre eles então os 'desconhecidos' Bud Spencer, Sophia Loren (então com 17 anos) e Elizabeth Taylor.
Milton
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Her troubles start again, however, when she falls madly in love, blind to the fact that her boyfriend is a four-flushing, small-time con man.
Mr. Perry
The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
Fisherman (archive footage) (uncredited)
This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and prohibition of the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments - in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.
2nd Baggage Clerk
The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert sees the Falcon dealing with art thieves.
Salvation Army Captain
John Calvert takes over as the Falcon in this Poverty-Row continuation of the film series.
Pop Palooka
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Drunk (uncredited)
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
Mike the Janitor
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
Scene deleted
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
Herman (Pop) Palooka
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
Joe Allen
A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.
Señor O'Bordo (uncredited)
O coronel do Exército norte-americano Joseph Madden é alocado nas Filipinas, onde seu grupo é obrigado a sair pelas tropas japonesas. Apesar da situação, Madden lidera uma guerrilha que inclui o neto de um herói de guerra contra os inimigos.
Lutz, Cafe Waiter (uncredited)
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
Nightwatchman
Homem tem como único objetivo é manter-se como o grande e renomado artista, fazendo do espetáculo um escape de vida. Quando sua ajudante vê nele um alvo fácil de sedução, planeja o assassinato do inconveniente marido. O que ela não sabe é que o despertar do amor em Flamarion pode tornar-se uma obsessão mortal.
Strauss (uncredited)
Um cientista lunático e perigoso foge da prisão e ressuscita Drácula. Seu ato de terror vai mais além, quando ele consegue trazer de volta os monstros Frankenstein e Lobisomem, que estavam congelados e enterrados.
Hotel Night Clerk
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Timid Man (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Vendor (uncredited)
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, muitos fugitivos tentavam escapar dos nazistas por uma rota que passava pela cidade de Casablanca. O exilado americano Rick Blaine encontrou refúgio na cidade, dirigindo uma das principais casas noturnas da região. Clandestinamente, tentando despistar o Capitão Renault, ele ajuda refugiados, possibilitando que eles fujam para os Estados Unidos. Quando um casal pede sua ajuda para deixar o país, ele reencontra uma grande paixão do passado, a bela Ilsa. Este amor vai encontrar uma nova vida e eles vão lutar para fugir juntos.
Pottery Vendor (uncredited)
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Councilman (uncredited)
Ygor ressuscita o monstro de Frankenstein e leva-o até o filho do médico original, Ludwig, em busca de ajuda.
Goronoff
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Archbishop
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
Joe, Botzelberg's Assistant (Uncredited)
Claudette Colbert faz o papel de uma jornalista americana baseada em Paris que envia para seu jornal notícias sobre a Guerra Civil Espanhola e se envolve com um aviador aventureiro que luta do lado dos republicanos (o papel de Ray Milland).
Tonbstone Painter (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Bazaar Owner
A cômica dupla de arqueólogos Steve (Dick Foran) e Babe (Wallace Ford) estão viajando pelo Egito quando descobrem evidências do local de sepultamento da antiga princesa egípcia Ananka. Depois de receber financiamento de um excêntrico mágico (Cecil Kellaway) e sua bela filha Marta (Peggy Moran), eles partem para o deserto onde são aterrorizados por um sinistro sumo sacerdote (George Zucco) e a múmia Kharis (Tom Tyler), que são os guardiões do túmulo de Ananka. Sequência de "A Múmia" (1932).
Professor Karm
Uma misteriosa praga, a Morte Púrpura, devasta a Terra. Dr. Zarkov, investigando em sua nave espacial, encontra uma espaçonave do planeta Mongo lançando um pó na atmosfera. Com certeza, Ming, o Impiedoso está de volta com seus velhos estratagemas. Então retornam Mongo, Flash, Dale, e Zarkov, desta vez com aliados esperando: Prince Barin de Arboria e Rainha Fria das terras do norte congeladas de Frigia; onde, é encontrado o Polarite, antídoto para a praga. Mas Ming vai usar todas as suas forças para impedir os nossos heróis de frustrar seus planos de conquista.
Small Thief (uncredited)
In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation, the agent promptly fires "Mr. M" and takes her to the altar personally. Songs include: "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me," "Unfair To Love," and "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love."
Ex-Convict Reading Tribune
A decadência da família Pyncheon é simbolizada no aspecto sombrio de sua mansão, em cujas fundações estão a ganância, a traição e a arrogância. Persistirá o mal, como terrível maldição, enquanto sobreviverem os últimos Pyncheons.
Ex-Convict
A decadência da família Pyncheon é simbolizada no aspecto sombrio de sua mansão, em cujas fundações estão a ganância, a traição e a arrogância. Persistirá o mal, como terrível maldição, enquanto sobreviverem os últimos Pyncheons.
(uncredited)
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Henry VI's Servant
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Mechanic
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Mr. Robert
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Rug Merchant
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
Ewald Neumüller
Barão Wolf von Frankenstein quer limpar o nome da família da desgraça. Com a ajuda de Ygor, Wolf consegue reanimar o monstro que seu pai criou. Mas quando vários aldeões são mortos misteriosamente, Wolf deverá encontrar o culpado.
Peasant (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.
Cafe Owner (archive footage) (uncredited)
This was one of the annual "blooper" reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke fun at the flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Drunk Fortune-Teller (uncredited)
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
Carl
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.
Arthur Bell
A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.
Smiley's Henchman (uncredited)
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
Execution Official (Uncredited)
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Bartender
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
Messenger from Restaurant (uncredited)
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
Flower Store Man
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Puppeteer
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Airport Office Employee (uncredited)
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
Townsman in Window
A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
Wounded Informant
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
Ludwig (uncredited)
Henry Frankenstein, um cientista louco, vive obcecado pela ideia de criar um ser, com partes de corpos humanos que vai roubando, e ao qual tenciona dar vida usando a electricidade. O que ele desconhece é que o seu ajudante, o corcunda Fritz, roubou o cérebro de um psicopata para a criatura, que assim se tornará num monstro que usa da violência sem qualquer critério.
Republican Revolutionary Sniper
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
Baron's Secretary
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
The Actor's Valet (uncredited)
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.
Simon Kartinkin – Innkeeper
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Man Standing at Cafe (uncredited)
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
Thin Twins is a comedy short.
Peasant
Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the man who made The Iron Horse and Four Sons.
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.