Charles D. Hall

A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.

A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.

On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards

A savage story of hate turned love and frenzy turned loose!

Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd's treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate's island.

A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.

Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.

Shipwreck survivors land on an uncharted island inhabited by prehistoric beasts.

The CIA sends playboy Mike Trent to Alaska with agent Vee Langley, posing as his "nurse," to investigate flying saucer sightings. At first, installed in a hunting lodge, the two play in the wilderness. But then they sight a saucer. Investigating, our heroes clash with an inept gang of Soviet spies, also after the saucer secret.

After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.

Joe Carraclough chegou a maioridade no período da Segunda Guerra Mundial, e se tornou piloto da RAF. Laddie, o filho de Lassie, é o seu animal de estimação, que secretamente alija-se em seu avião, quando esse parte para uma missão perigosa, para bombardear o inimigo. Quando o avião é atingido, sobrevoando a Noruega, ocupada pelos nazistas, Joe e Laddie saltam de pára-quedas da aeronave em chamas. A partir daí, começam as aventuras duplas. Peter Lawford e June Lockhart (que por vários anos estrelaram Lassie na Tv) são Joe e Priscila, anteriormente interpretados por Roddy McDowall e Elizabeth Taylor. Donald Crisp e Nigel Bruce são os treinadores dos cães deste filme. Uma bela e terna história de amor, que aliada a coragem ilimitada a afeto da Collie pelo seu dono, conquistará seu coração. Roteiro impar da série.

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.

Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy's Mussolini and Japan's Suki Yama, although he tried to avoid taking them, is on his way, via submarine, to a tropical country to negotiate a treaty with the High Chief Paj Mab. However, an American P.T-boat crew is already there and have some plans for schickenbit-grubber and his buddies.

Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.

Two unemployed cowhands help a pill-popping rancher find the nasty varmint who's been rustling cattle.

The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.

A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede.

Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an affair with his secretary, Ms. Lucy Gibbs. To annoy Tim, Sadie starts taking classes with a fitness instructor, Samson, and later going with him to his out-of-town health club. To sort out all the misunderstandings both Tim and Eddie go to the health club as well.

An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.

Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.

The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with several pretty young ladies. Marjorie Woodworth plays the girl who helps Marshall in his escape, pausing occasionally to participate in a some lively but forgettable musical numbers.

Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.

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.

Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her childhood sweetheart José. Expectations are somewhat dashed as she shows up with Fernando to whom she is engaged. This makes José and Cholita's uncle more than a little bit put out as Fernando is not only not a Mexican, he is also a city slicker afraid of the country.

Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!

The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.

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.

Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.

Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid (Stan in drag) for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The thankful bank president sends them to Oxford to get an education. Predictable results ensue.

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

Mrs Topper's friend Mrs Parkhurst has convinced Mrs topper, to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs Parkhurst takes Mrs Topper on a trip to France, where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce, with help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel, to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.

A maluca matrona da sociedade Emily Kilbourne tem o hábito de contratar ex-presidiários e vagabundos como criados. Sua última descoberta é um belo 'vagabundo' que aparece na sua porta e logo acaba em um uniforme de motorista. Ele também chama a atenção da linda Geraldine. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

Após a Primeira Guerra Mundial, um grupo de ex-soldados alemães tenta se adaptar à vida civil.

A crise econômica levou Godfrey a viver embaixo da ponte. Mas ao ser convidado para se tornar mordomo de uma família rica, sua sorte muda. Na mansão, ele conhece a bela Irene e aos poucos vai conquistando a confiança de todos.

Num barco de espetáculos teatrais que desce o Mississippi, surgem problemas quando a filha do dono apaixona-se por ator e jogador. Paralelamente, mulata que esconde sua origem tem problemas com a lei racista.

O icónico Vagabundo está empregado em uma fábrica, onde as máquinas inevitável e completamente o dominam e vários percalços o levam para a prisão. Entre suas passagens pela prisão, ele conhece e faz amizade com uma garota órfã. Ambos, juntos e separados, tentam lidar com as dificuldades da vida moderna, o Vagabundo trabalhando como garçom e, eventualmente, um artista.

O icónico Vagabundo está empregado em uma fábrica, onde as máquinas inevitável e completamente o dominam e vários percalços o levam para a prisão. Entre suas passagens pela prisão, ele conhece e faz amizade com uma garota órfã. Ambos, juntos e separados, tentam lidar com as dificuldades da vida moderna, o Vagabundo trabalhando como garçom e, eventualmente, um artista.

A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

Um playboy tenta se redimir depois que seu comportamento descuidado causa a morte de um grande homem. A vida do mimado Robert Merrick é salva pelo uso do único ressuscitador de um hospital, mas como o dispositivo médico não pode estar em dois lugares ao mesmo tempo, resulta na morte do Dr. Hudson, um cirurgião altruísta e brilhante e filantropo generoso. Merrick se apaixona pela viúva de Hudson, Helen, embora ela o responsabilize pela morte de seu marido. Um dia, ele insiste em levá-la para casa. Quando ela sai do carro é atingida por outro carro. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

O filme começa de onde o original, de 1931, terminou: Frankenstein escapa do cerco ao moinho vivo, enquanto Dr. Frankenstein tem sua noiva sequestrada por outro lunático cientista. O objetivo dele é convencer o doutor a criar uma companheira para o monstro.

A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked leprechaun. On a trip to New York, Hunter and Meg (the leprechaun) decide to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and turn all of the Statues of Greek Gods into people. What follows in a drunken romp around New York with Medusa's severed head still in Perseus' hand.

In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.

Uma viúva em dificuldades e sua filha recebem uma empregada negra e sua filha de pele clara; as duas mulheres iniciam um negócio de sucesso, mas enfrentam problemas familiares, de identidade e raciais ao longo do caminho. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)

Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.

A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.

A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.

Um estranho chega em uma pequena localidade com o objetivo de terminar suas pesquisas científicas. Seu nome é Jack Griffin (Claude Rains), que criou uma fórmula que o permitiu tornar-se invisível. Porém, enquanto busca o antídoto, os problemas começam a acontecer quando as pessoas da localidade descobrem sua natureza e forçam sua fuga. Enlouquecido e com a cabeça cheia de planos destrutivos, Jack torna-se uma grande ameaça e põe toda a polícia em seu encalço.

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.

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.

A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.

When the villagers of Kleinschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl Brettschneider remains skeptical, scientist Dr. Otto von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop.

Seeking shelter from a relentless rainstorm and landslides in a remote region of Wales, five travelers are admitted to a large foreboding old house that belongs to the extremely strange Femm family. Sepulchral Horace Femm and his obsessive, inhospitable sister Rebecca are the group's peculiar hosts. The house also holds surprises - and a brutish mute manservant named Morgan.

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.

General Jinjur approaches Mombi for aid in conquering the Scarecrow king of the Emerald City. Meanwhile, the Soldier with the Green Whiskers does cartwheels prior to the annunciation of the return of Dorothy. Several dances later, Dorothy notices a miniature statue of Nick Chopper. Wishing he were present, she uses the powder of life, and with the magic words, "Wogglebug! Whimsy!" transforms the statue into the real Nick Chopper, who thanks her for bringing him to the city. They do more dances as General Jinjur summons her all-girl army by tap dancing on a drum. At this point the sound drops out on the existing print as they raid the city, leaving Scarecrow and Nick on the run, Jellia disguised as the SGW, and taking Dorothy to Mombi, who imprisons her on a flaming table, with slave boy Tip trying to rescue her.

Em 1845, em Paris, o cientista louco Dr. Mirakle sequestra mulheres jovens e as injeta com sangue de macaco para criar uma companheira para Erik, seu macaco falante de show secundário. Pierre Dupin, um jovem e ingênuo estudante de medicina e detetive, a noiva de Pierre, Camille L'Espanaye, e seus amigos Paul e Mignette, visitam o show secundário de Mirakle, onde expõem Erik. Tanto Mirakle quanto seu servo Janos estão encantados por Camille, que Mirakle planeja como companheira de Erik. Mirakle convida Camille para dar uma olhada em Erik, que agarra seu chapéu. Pierre tenta recuperar o capô, mas Erik tenta estrangulá-lo. Mirakle restringe Erik e se oferece para substituir o capô, mas Camille desconfia e reluta em dar seu endereço ao médico. Quando Pierre e Camille partem, Mirakle ordena que Janos os siga.

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.

Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.

Myra, uma "dançarina" de revista, passa por dificuldades e acaba se prostituindo, durante a primeira guerra mundial. Durante um ataque aéreo, ela conhece Roy, um jovem que se alistou no exército canadense e os dois logo se apaixonam, mas ela oculta dele o seu passado.

Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.

Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.

Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.

At midnight on Walpurgis Night, an English clerk, Renfield, arrives at Count Dracula's castle in the Carpathian Mountains. After signing papers to take over a ruined abbey near London, Dracula drives Renfield mad and commands obedience. Renfield escorts the boxed count on a death ship to London. From there, the Count is introduced into the society of his neighbor, Dr. Seward, who runs an asylum. Dracula makes short work of family friend Lucia Weston, then begins his assault on Eva Seward, the doctor's daughter. A visiting expert in the occult, Van Helsing, recognizes Dracula for who he is, and there begins a battle for Eva's body and soul.

Drácula (Bela Lugosi) é um conde vindo dos Cárpatos que aterroriza Londres por carregar uma maldição que o obriga a beber sangue humano para sobreviver. Após transformar uma jovem em vampira, ele concentra suas atenções em uma amiga dela, mas o pai da próxima vítima se chama Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), um cientista holandês especialista em vampiros que pode acabar com seu reinado de terror.

Um vagabundo (Charles Chaplin) impede um homem rico (Harry Myers), que está bêbado, de se matar. Grato, ele o convida até sua casa e se torna seu amigo. Só que ele esquece completamente o que aconteceu quando está sóbrio, o que faz com que o vagabundo seja tratado de forma bem diferente. Paralelamente, o vagabundo se interessa por uma florista cega (Virginia Cherrill), a quem tenta ajudar a pagar o aluguel atrasado e a recuperar a visão. Só que ela pensa que seu benfeitor é, na verdade, um milionário.

Sete estudantes patriotas alemães apresentam-se como voluntários para o serviço militar em plena Primeira Guerra Mundial. Baseado no conto homônimo de Erich Maria Remarque, "Sem Novidade No Front" é um grande filme pacifista, que mostra a loucura e futilidade da guerra. As cenas de guerra nas trincheiras são retratadas de forma brilhante e dolorosa. Mesmo muitos anos após o seu lançamento, continua sendo um tema atual e dominante nos países que sofreram e sofrem com a guerra. Vencedor dos Oscars de Melhor Filme e Melhor Diretor. Considerado o maior filme anti-guerra de todos os tempos.

A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.

A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family.

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.

Duas pessoas solitárias em uma cidade grande se conhecem num parque de diversões. Após passarem um grande dia juntos, se separam. Será que eles nunca se verão novamente?

Herdeiro de um ducado, Gwynplaine é sequestrado quando garoto e, por ordem do rei, ele fica com o rosto esculpido num perpétuo sorriso macabro. Quando cresce, acaba virando atração de circo como palhaço.

Parentes de um milionário excêntrico reúnem-se em sua mansão assustadora no 20º aniversário da sua morte para a leitura de seu testamento.

Ray Sturgis, leader of the fashionable Long Island jazz set, is engaged to "Egypt" Hagen, an up-to-date girl in every respect. Egypt is arrested at a roadhouse raid, and at her mother's bidding, the Reverend Norman Lodge arranges for her freedom. At a fancy-dress ball, when Ray wears a costume made of newspaper headlines concerning her arrest, Egypt is offended. Seen constantly in the company of Reverend Lodge, her reputation causes church people to take up the matter with the bishop. Leaving the country club, Egypt goes to the Lodge home and hides behind the door when the bishop arrives; Reverend Lodge wants to marry her, and they admit their love; but humiliation causes her to leave with Sturgis that night. Their yacht is wrecked, but Lodge and the bishop follow and rescue Egypt, though Sturgis is drowned. The bishop, realizing the depth of their love, consents to marry them.

Jacob Cohen, who owns a dry goods store, and Patrick Kelly, an Irish cop, are constantly at loggerheads, feuding over anything and everything. Kelly's son, Tim, and Cohen's daughter, Nannie, fall in love despite the bickering of their parents; when they cannot get parental consent for their marriage, they secretly wed.

Joan and Magdalen are the daughters of a fisherman. Magdalen leaves her fiancé, Peter, to run off to the big city. Joan and Peter marry. Magdalen's return years later causes trouble for the marriage, but Joan and Peter remain together in the end.

Um compositor grotescamente desfigurado conhecido como o "Fantasma" assombra a casa de ópera de Paris, onde, apaixonado, ajuda secretamente Christine Daae a ser uma diva da ópera. Após atraí-la para seu covil subterrâneo, o Fantasma declara seu amor por ela. Mas Christine ama Raoul de Chagny e planeja fugir com ele depois de sua próxima apresentação. Quando o Fantasma descobre, ele rapta Christine, provocando a ira de Raoul - e uma horda de parisienses raivosos. O filme foi relançado com som, em 1929, usando discos de som da Vitaphone/Western Electric.

No Alasca, Carlitos (Charles Chaplin) tenta a sorte como garimpeiro em meio a corrida do ouro de 1898. Lá ele conhece o gordo McKay (Mack Swaim), com quem cria bastante confusão após uma tempestade de neve, e se apaixona por uma dançarina (Georgia Hale).

Depois de um dia difícil no trabalho, um pedreiro tenta aproveitar o seu dia de recebimento sem que sua esposa saiba.

At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.

Uma mãe abandona seu filho com um bilhete em uma limusine, mas o carro acaba sendo roubado e a criança é deixada em uma lata de lixo. Um vagabundo encontra o bebê e passa a cuidar dele. Cinco anos depois, a mulher tenta encontrar o filho perdido.

Um pai de família leva sua esposa e filhos para um passeio em seu Ford T. Mas o carro está caindo aos pedaços e o tráfego é muito complicado. Quando tudo parece perdido, o dia melhora com um passeio de barco inesquecível.

Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares to sleep the sleep of the just man. Unfortunately he accidentally knocks the box off his bed and the fleas have the time of their lives pestering Bosco's neighbors. To get the escapees back in their box again, the trainer resorts to... his whip! All is back to normal one more time. But not for long, as a stray dog enters the flophouse and very unwisely opens the box, thus creating new havoc.

Charlot é um soldado de campo que tem o sonho de ser um herói que atua numa missão ousada atrás das linhas inimigas.

Paralelo entre a vida de um vagabundo e de um cachorro, mostra de maneira cômica e afetuosa a cumplicidade de ambos, ora um sendo o salvador, ora sendo salvo pelo outro. Num baile, uma moça que é explorada pelo proprietário do salão junta-se à dupla.