A narrative feature made from a collage of clips from various films around the world.
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
Cuke Gillen
Em um mundo em mudança onde a televisão se tornou a principal fonte de informação, um jovem jornalista testemunha como seu tio, Frank Skeffington, um político veterano e honesto, prefeito de uma cidade da Nova Inglaterra, tenta ser reeleito enquanto banqueiros e empresários conspiram na sombra para colocar um candidato fraco e manejável no conselho da cidade.
Henry Devers
Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.
Postmaster
Dois incompetentes foras da lei tentam um último golpe antes de se regenerarem.
Doc Simpkins
Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) mora em uma pequena cidade chamada Midvale e ainda é apaixonado por Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell), uma moça da cidade que se tornou uma grande estrela do cinema. Quando Carla engravida, seu empresário lhe diz que um filho pode arruinar sua carreira. Com medo das consequências e responsabilidades da maternidade, a atriz pede ajuda a Clayton e ele, ingenuamente, acaba aceitando cuidar dos trigêmeos de Carla. Clayton será obrigado fazer alguns sacrifícios se quiser ficar com a guarda das crianças. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Sheriff Jim Jackson
Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier town of Dusty Flats. After outdrawing wanted outlaw Buckstorm Corley in the saloon, Smith finds himself up against the entire corrupt Corley clan -- who've been running roughshod over the fearful townsfolk for years.
Tom Maloney
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...
Hank James
Na cidade rural de Spurline, Virgil Renchler (Orson Welles) é o poderoso dono da fazenda "Golden Empire". Uma noite, um trabalhador rural é espacando até à morte por empregados de Renchler. Quando o novo xerife Ben Sadler (Jeff Chandler) chega à cidade, descobre que será mais dificil do que se imagina, investigar esse crime.
Carl Meade
Deke Rivers, vem do Sul, mas ele não se adapta ao mundo da música country. Uma promotora musical megera, interpretada por Lizabeth Scott, reconhece o talento único de Deke e o explora como um novo rosto que encanta o público jovem. A mídia distorce seu encanto e o identifica como uma pessoa temperamental até Derek provar que foi tão somente um mero engano.
Collie
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
Orval Jones
The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued; and Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie. But Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall: a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law.
Ether Ferguson
When her compulsive-gambler father dies, leaving her with an inheritance that amounts to zip, single gal Kim Halliday jumps at a caller's claim that she's part-owner of a Las Vegas "hotel." But hilarity ensues when she flies to Sin City to see it. While a wealthy casino owner eyes her dilapidated property, she takes a chance and tries to sell it to an hotelier's wealthy son.
Birdie Steptoe
Baseado em romance de Davis Grubb, conta a história de um assassino de viúvas ricas que, ao sair da prisão, persegue uma família para encontrar o dinheiro que o pai, que conhecera na cadeia, havia guardado em lugar não revelado. É o único filme dirigido pelo premiado ator Charles Laughton
Peter 'Pop' Benson
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Eddie Woods
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.
General Cokely
França, 1918. As noites de combate estão ficando cada vez mais longas e violentas. Para o capitão Flagg, manter a disciplina entre os fuzileiros americanos é uma prioridade, mesmo sob fogo cerrado. Mas, agora, Flagg tem um problema que não sabe como solucionar: um de seus antigos inimigos pessoais é o novo sargento indicado para sua unidade. Como irão reagir esses dois homens, cujo passado belicoso os une, na frente de combate? A resposta está nesse envolvente trabalho do diretor vencedor do Oscar John Ford e estrelado por James Cagney.
Bert Lynn
Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers
Duffy
Um juiz de paz realiza casamentos poucos dias antes de sua licença ser válida. Alguns anos depois, cinco casais descobrem que nunca foram legalmente casados. Annabel Norris, já Sra Mississippi e pronta para entrar no concurso Sra América, está agora livre para entrar no concurso de Miss Mississippi. Ramona e Steve, que se detestam, mas se casaram para obter um contrato lucrativo de rádio; um casal que mal conseguia se falar; um magnata do petróleo e uma caçadora de fortunas; e soldado Willie Fisher, prestes a ser enviado para a Guerra da Coréia deixando sua linda esposa grávida.
Fred Townsend
Em Chicago, o aspirante a compositor Gus Kahn (Danny Thomas) procura Miss Grace LeBoy (Doris Day) que trabalha em uma editora de partituras e mostra suas letras esperando sua avaliação. O insistente Gus chama a atenção de Grace e logo ela sai de seu emprego para ajudá-lo em sua carreira. Eles se casam, Gus Kahn atinge o estrelato e eles têm dois filhos. No entanto, Gus Kahn perde sua fortuna na crise da bolsa na Grande Depressão e o casal fica em sérias dificuldades financeiras. Mas por trás de todo grande homem, existe uma grande mulher e Grace o encoraja a regressar a uma carreira de sucesso.
Charley Dolan
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.
Knobby Walsh
Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals.
Max Howard
A singing couple gets their own television show, and the strains of putting on a TV show every week starts to jeopardize their relationship.
Knobby Walsh
Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.
Harry Summers
Bill Lawrence ganhou uma enorme quantidade de prêmios em um programa de perguntas e respostas no rádio. Mas sua felicidade dura pouco quando ele descobre que tem que vender todos os prêmios para pagar os impostos.
Racing Secretary
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Mickey Corkins
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.
Sergeant Hogan
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home. Written by Ron Kerrigan
Timothy Gleason
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.
Captain Gledhill
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
Gillis
Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working husband-and-father with no shortage of family problems.
Chief
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
Lefty Moore
Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway while Bonny gets left behind on the road. Things get worse with Skid's increasing drinking problem and the fact that the press has reported him to be spending a lot of time with his pretty co-star.
Uncle Willie Ramsey
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
Sam Briggs
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the target in a saloon showdown, and the lone source of the whereabouts of a fabulous gold strike.
Sam Corkle
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
Pop Mathews
O competente e correto engenheiro Johnny Munroe (John Wayne) é contratado para construir uma perigosa estrada de ferro numa montanha dos Andes.
Sylvester
Um bispo tentando construir uma nova catedral pede a Deus uma orientação. Um anjo (Cary Grant) chega, mas a sua ajuda não é sobre a captação de recursos. Henry Brougham é um bispo dedicado à nova construção de uma catedral que será paga pela viúva Agnes Hamilton. Dudley, um anjo, é enviado pelo céu para ajudá-lo. Mas Dudley acaba sendo tão prestativo e bondoso para todos que Henry acaba se sentindo ameaçado.
Max Corkle
Preocupada com a zombaria de um novo musical da Broadway sobre a mitologia grega, a deusa Terpsichore vem à terra e entra no elenco do show. Ela usa seus encantos no produtor do programa e ele incorpora suas sugestões no programa. Infelizmente, suas mudanças também produzem um grande fracasso. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Doc Kilborne
A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.
Sacramento Sam
A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
Sgt. O'Hare
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 Hornby
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.
Snarp
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Tom Clark
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.
Al Henry
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.
McGarrity
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Jimmy Shannon
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but the bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, The pilot faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Weaver transfers to the Ferry Command, and while on assignment in Burma, his aircraft crashes in Japanese territory. Trumpet rushes to the scene with a rescue team. Both are successfully brought out and are decorated for their heroism. Afterward, Weaver indicates that he will be returning to the lighter-than-air service in Lakehurst, to reunite with his "father".
Rev. Dr. Wilbur Fiske
Um jovem sacerdote, padre Chisholm é enviado à China para estabelecer uma paróquia católica entre chineses não cristãos. Enquanto seu amigo de infância, também sacerdote, prospera em seu chamado como um sacerdote em uma área mais cristã do mundo, padre Chisholm luta muito. Ele encontra hostilidade, isolamento, doenças, pobreza e uma variedade de contratempos que o humilham, mas que o tornam mais determinado do que nunca em ter sucesso. Durante um período de muitos anos ele ganha a aceitação e uma crescente congregação entre os chineses, por sua calma determinação, compreensão e paciência.
Lt. Rooney
Mortimer Brewster é um jornalista e escritor conhecido por suas implicância com o casamento. Logo na cena de abertura nós vemos ele se casar na prefeitura. Agora, só falta uma rápida viagem para casa para informar as tias solteironas de Mortimer. Ao tentar dar a notícia, ele descobre o passatempo de suas tias: matar velhos solitários, como se fosse um ato de caridade, e enterrá-los no porão. E vai ficar pior.
Moke McGillicuddy
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
“Nails” Kilpatrick
Uma sentimental, patriótica (se não propagandística) fantasia de Hollywood sobre um piloto de bombardeiro morto na Segunda Guerra Mundial, Maj. Pete Sandidge que se torna anjo da guarda para outro piloto, o capitão. Ted Randall, orientando Randall através de batalhas e ajudando-o no romance de sua ex-namorada, apesar de sua devoção excessiva a memória do Sandidge.
Chief Mike 'Mac' McDonnell
Um tenente submarino e seu comandante se apaixonam pela mesma garota.
Contra sua preferência pessoal, o comandante da embarcação PT Ward Stewart é nomeado diretor executivo do submarino USS Corsair. De licença antes de zarpar, ele conhece a professora Jean Hewlett e fica apaixonado... sem saber que ela é a queridinha de Dewey Connors, seu novo comandante. No mar, os homens criam um relacionamento enquanto lutam contra os navios alemães. Quando eles descobrirão sua rivalidade romântica mútua? Será que isso vai interferir num ataque de comando espetacular à uma base secreta alemã?
Tim O'Rourke
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.
Joe - Mission Aid Society
Breves histórias ligadas por um casaco azarado, uma boa oportunidade para ver algumas grandes estrelas no seu auge. A primeira história é um triângulo amoroso com Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, e Thomas Mitchell. O casaco vai para outro proprietário, um conto fantasioso com Henry Fonda, Ginger Rogers, e Cesar Romero. Em seguida é comprado por Elsa Lanchester para seu marido (da vida real), Charles Laughton, dando má sorte ao músico e compositor. Depois ele vai para as mãos de um advogado expulso, Edward G. Robinson, que encontra um colega de classe, George Sanders, em uma muito elegante reunião da faculdade. O casaco é levado por dois bandidos que o perdem e então é encontrado pelos mais pobres dos pobres da comunidade negra na depressão de 1930, interpretados pelo famoso cantor Paul Robeson e a grande Ethel Waters, que vão ao seu pastor, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, para quem o casaco finalmente traz algo de bom.
Bruce McKay
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.
Inspector Mike O'Hara
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
Pat Hawley
Conta o início da vida do compositor da década de 1890, Paul Dresser, quando ele supera seu trabalho como artista de carnaval e se muda para a sociedade de Nova York, escrevendo uma música de sucesso após a outra. Apesar de seu comportamento egoísta, ele consegue conquistar Sally Elliott, uma das cantoras mais populares da época. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Inspector Michael 'Mike' O'Hara
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
Colonel J. A. Barkley
Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gun shy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb.
Thornton Reed
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blooper out-takes from Torrid Zone, Four Mothers, The Wagons Roll at Night, The Sea Wolf, No Time for Comedy, The Bride Came C.O.D., and Affectionately Yours, among other Warner Brother productions of 1940 and 1941.
Sergeant Daniels
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Col. 'Spitfire' Barkley
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence.
Max Corkle
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
'Chet' Phillips
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
Henry Connell
Como tacada de despedida, a recém demitida repórter Ann Mitchell faz matéria com uma carta falsa do desempregado "John Doe" ou Zé Ninguém, que ameaça o suicídio em protesto pelos males sociais. O jornal é forçado a recontratar Ann e a contratar John Willoughby para se fazer passar pelo Zé Ninguém "Doe". Ann e seus chefes cinicamente usam e abusam dessa história, extraem tudo que é possível, até que a filosofia do inventado "Zé Ninguém" faz surgir um movimento político inteiro.
Joe Higgins
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
Joe Higgins
Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middle of a ghost town that hasn't seen a human face in years.
Joe Higgins
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.
Joe Higgins
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
Phil Dolan Sr.
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Joe Higgins
Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy
Joe Higgins
It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.
Hennessy
Uma luta para impedir que cavalos de cavalaria sejam substituídos por tanques culmina em uma grande corrida entre máquina e fera.
James Gleason
A visit to Buck Jones's new ranch and his horse, Silver, to James Gleason and his dog, to Charles Ruggles and his kennels; on the set of 'You Can't Take it With You', director Frank Capra and stars James Stewart and Jean Arthur celebrate Lionel Barrymore's sixtieth birthday; a ski meet is held at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Joe Higgins
Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.
Danny The Duck
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and "It's Round-up Time in Reno."
Inspector Oscar Piper
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
Himself
Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under the open air big tent. There is as much action in the audience as Tracy identifies a number of movie stars watching the proceedings incognito, having their own fun in the stands, and sometimes interacting with the circus acts.
Oscar Piper
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
George Scott
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Detective Daniels
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
Saratoga
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
Inspector Corrigan
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Police Insp. Oscar Piper
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
Detective Danny Walsh
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Director
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Jimmy McGill
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Himself
This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some of Hollywood's most popular celebrities. Big names such as Boris Karloff, Buster Crabbe, and Clark Gable make appearances, enjoying games of golf, field hockey, swimming, and many other fun hobbies.
Additional Writing
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
Joe 'Bags'
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
Inspector Oscar Piper
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
Inspector Oscar Piper
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
Hot Dog Vendor
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
Screenplay
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
Dan Healy
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
Duke Slater
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
Jerry
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
Screenplay
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.
Screenplay
A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.
Ed Waggermeyer
A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.
Lefty Williams
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
"Ratsy" Harris
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
'Beef' Evans
Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.
Police Inspector Oscar Piper
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
Director
When Russel Gleason is thought to have made a kick by Jim Thorpe, he is reinstated on the college team in time for the big game.
Jimmy Gleason
James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up.
Chick Knipe
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
Arthur Crimmer
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
Picture in Opening Credits
It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports reporter insists that his nephew, Minor, can really play ball and will help the team win.
Director
It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports reporter insists that his nephew, Minor, can really play ball and will help the team win.
Pa McClune
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.
Danny Ruff
Sixth entry in the Rufftown 2-reel comedy series based on stories by Arthur 'Bugs' Baer.
Pin Streaver
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his father, Stag's manager, is killed.
Silk Henley
A crooked jockey tries to reform.
Skeets
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
Fred 'Squint' Dugan
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
Sleepy Jones
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Eddie
Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) é um advogado bem sucedido que está passando por uma situação complicada. Isso porque, além de ter que lidar com o alcoolismo, ele vai precisar fazer de tudo para separar sua filha, Jan (Norma Shearer), do perigoso mafioso Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable).
Cool Kelly
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
Jim Mobley
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Writer
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Writer
Phyllis, uma atriz contratada encontra Leota, uma atriz desempregada vagando no portão do estúdio e a leva para casa, onde ela mora com sua amiga Rita. Bill, que trabalha no estúdio, oferece um papel a Rita, que o recusa. Leota aceita o papel e torna-se uma grande estrela.
Tom
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
Steve
A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.
Screenplay
A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.
Adaptation
A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.
Writer
Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.
Gustave Corton
Five years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are remarried and with children.
Writer
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
Mike
In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
Writer
In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
Theatre Play
Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another. One of Jolson's fellow minstrels (Lowell Sherman) is shot backstage, and it is assumed thanks to several plot convolutions that Jolson is guilty of the deed.
Johnny Trump
A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And then he loses his friends, loses his girl-friend, loses his confidence and is all set-up to lose his title.
Dialogue
A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And then he loses his friends, loses his girl-friend, loses his confidence and is all set-up to lose his title.
Dialogue
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
James 'Jimmy' Tierney
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
Screenplay
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Story
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Husband
Two couples meet on the fairway for a golfing competition.
Dusty
A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. American-slang rules the dialogue to the point non-USA viewers need a slang-glossary to follow the dialogue.
Additional Dialogue
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him. Unfortunately, he winds up falling in love with her himself.
Dialogue
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
Screenplay
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
Bert La Motte
When the story begins, James is confronted by his wife for his roving eyes! Soon after this, he goes to a speakeasy and begins chatting up women. One in particular catches his eye and so he brings her home to meet the wife. And here's where it gets weird. Apparently the Gleasons have an agreement that if either meets another person and falls for them, the marriage will be amicably dissolved and they'll each go their separate ways! Of course, things don't work out the way the hubby expects...and it certainly will come as a surprise to you as well!
Dialogue
Melodia na Broadway é um dos primeiros filmes musicais da história do cinema, dirigido por Harry Beaumont e lançado em 1º de fevereiro de 1929. O filme relata os romances das estrelas de musicais do famoso bairro teatral de Nova Iorque, a Broadway. Queenie e Hank Mahoney são duas irmãs que se apaixonam pelo mesmo homem, Eddie Kearns.
Music Publisher (uncredited)
Melodia na Broadway é um dos primeiros filmes musicais da história do cinema, dirigido por Harry Beaumont e lançado em 1º de fevereiro de 1929. O filme relata os romances das estrelas de musicais do famoso bairro teatral de Nova Iorque, a Broadway. Queenie e Hank Mahoney são duas irmãs que se apaixonam pelo mesmo homem, Eddie Kearns.
Paul Gordon
A romantic comedy, focusing on the love triangle between Bob Jones, Alysia Potter and Polly Meachum. Originally engaged, Bob and Alysia elope to Bowling Green, Connecticut, where they meet Silas Meachum, a campaigner against motion pictures, and his daughter, Polly. The eloping couple’s family arrive, chasing them, and persuade them to wait to get married. Polly goes to New York to join the Ziegfeld Follies, but is ultimately replaced by Alysia. As Bob consoles Polly, Alysia breaks off the engagement, and Bob and Polly may now marry.
