Various Roles (archive footage)
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Archive Footage
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
Self
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Little John
The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition. Director Gordon Douglas' minor 1950 swashbuckler stars John Derek, Diana Lynn, Alan Hale, Billy House, George Macready, Lowell Gilmore, Paul Cavanagh. Lester Matthews, Billy Bevan, Wilton Graff, John Dehner, Donald Randolph and Paul Collins.
Sheriff Harris
Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
Jed Isbell
The story of a young pastor coming to a small town in the United States to set up his ministry. The movie tells of the various relationships and struggles he goes through as he goes about raising his family and preaching to the community.
Kovatch
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
Sam Washburn
A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.
J.B. Grennell
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
Sheriff Knudson
Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
Jake Evarts
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.
Terrance O'Leary
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
Leporello
Após manchar a honra de Espanha com os seus escândalos amorosos, o aventureiro e sedutor Don Juan de Maraña terá de salvar os reis espanhóis de uma conspiração política perigosa, orquestrada por um dos seus ministros.
Dugan
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
John Donovan
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
Fred Durkin
Slick gambler James Wylie (Dennis Morgan) is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover the identity of the Poet, a notorious outlaw who has been holding up bank-owned stagecoaches and leaving verses at the crime scenes to taunt the authorities. James finds time to woo the Poet's lovely wife, Ann (Jane Wyman), who initially cold-shoulders him. But, as a romance develops, they partner up to find the robber.
Jake Dingle
Um menino assombrado por pesadelos sobre a noite em que toda a sua família foi assassinada é criado por uma família vizinha na década de 1880. Ele se apaixona por sua adorável irmã adotiva, mas seu desagradável irmão adotivo e tio misterioso o querem morto. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Herman Brinker
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
John Braden
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies' man, and Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music over the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead, they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.
Riley
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
Leon Dowling
Porter, um rico e sofisticado herdeiro, decide servir na Primeira Guerra Mundial como enfermeiro de ambulâncias. Lá ele encontra Linda Lee, que se tornará sua esposa, servindo como enfermeira. Depois da guerra, sua atividade na Broadway permite mostrar uma sequência de belas canções, como Just One of Those Things, You're the Top e a música título.
Dr. Lilley
A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley.
Dr. Orville Tedder
Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.
Big Mike Harrigan
Robert L. Scott sonhou toda a sua vida de ser um piloto de caça, mas quando a guerra chega ele encontra-se voando em aviões de transporte na China. Na China, ele convence general Chennault para deixá-lo voar com os Tigres Voadores, famosos pilotos que estavam lutando contra os japoneses muito antes de Pearl Harbor. Scott consegue a sua chance de lutar, em última análise, enfrentar em combate o piloto japonês conhecido Tokyo Joe.
Herman Plottke
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.
Lew Morton
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
Self
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
rof. Matthew Q. Reardon
Teenage Janie (Joyce Reynolds) falls in love with a private (Robert Hutton) from an Army base opposed by her editor father (Edward Arnold).
Walter Whirtle
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
Steve Gillis
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
'Cookie' Wainwright
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o Capitão Cassidy e sua tripulação recebem a ordem de ir até a Baia de Tokio em uma missão secreta. O objetivo é reunir informações para o bombardeio planejado de Tóquio. Ao longo do caminho, a tripulação aprende uns com os outros como devem enfrentar o inimigo, e alguns deles perdem a vida. Depois de obter as informações que necessitam, eles enfrentam a angustiante tarefa de escapar da baía uma vez que sua presença foi descoberta.
Self
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Sergeant McGee
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Boats O'Hara
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.
Pat Corbett
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Kirk Edwards
Um grupo de aviadores norte-americanos ao serviço da RAF britânica embarca numa missão suicida: voar até ao interior do território alemão e bombardear um entroncamento ferroviário muito bem defendido por artilharia e armas antiaéreas. Após serem abatidos, eles são presos, mas conseguem fugir, iniciando uma desesperada luta pela sobrevivência e pela liberdade no interior do território germânico.
Yippee 'Yip'
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.
Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
Norton
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
Jumbo Wells
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Robert Barnes
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
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.
Old Man Grimes
Biff Grimes está desesperadamente apaixonado por Virginia, mas seu melhor amigo Hugo se casa com ela e manipula Biff para se envolver em seus negócios um tanto nefastos. Hugo parece ter roubado os sonhos de Biff, e Biff tem que lidar com a percepção de que ter o que ele quer e querer o que o outro tem podem ser coisas muito diferentes. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
'Skipper' Martin
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Tex Bell
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Capt. Bullwinkle
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
Carl Pitt
Enquanto a Espanha prepara um exército para invadir a Inglaterra, o pirata britânico Geoffrey Thorpe embarca em uma missão para saquear barcos espanhóis. Quando ele captura o barco que transportava o embaixador Don Jose Alvarez de Cordoba, o vistoso capitão apaixona-se por sua sobrinha, a bela Dona Maria, que se instala confortavelmente na Inglaterra. Dedicado a proteger os interesses ingleses, Thorpe vai para o mar em uma perigosa expedição que pode determinar o destino do país.
Ed Carlsen
Joe Fabrini (George Raft) e Paul Fabrini (Humphrey Bogart) são dois irmãos motoristas de caminhão que levam uma acidentada e explorada vida como caminhoneiros. Joe sonha com o dia em que terão seu próprio negócio. Eles acabam sendo demitidos do serviço de um patrão corrupto. Um acidente com Paul mudará os sonhos dessa dupla, e para tentar manter um emprego, Joe se vê envolvido em uma trama de crime com a mal-intencionada Lana Carlsen (Ida Lupino), mulher de seu patrão.
Olaf Swenson
Bradford, um capitão nortista, encontra-se preso. Seu carcereiro é um capitão sulista, de nome Irby. Depois que Bradford escapa, ambos vão travar nas ruas de Virginia City, no condado de Storey, no estado de Nevada, uma luta por recursos para ambas as partes.
Gallagher
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.
Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
Big Mike Wynn
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
The Prince of Tyrone
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Sergei Alexandrovitch
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Michael 'Mike' Leonard
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Porthos
Os Três Mosqueteiros vão resgatar o rei que está preso injustamente pelo seu irmão gêmeo. Luís XIV da França faz artimanhas para manter seu irmão gêmeo Philippe encarcerado em uma máscara de ferro, longe do conhecimento do público, que dava mostras de preferir Philippe como Rei da França. Mas os mosqueteiros e o camarada D’Artagnan se combinam para salvar Philippe.
Rusty Hart
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Gallagher
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
J.J. Slattery
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.
Sam Johnson
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
'Ox' Smith
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
Little John
Quando o Rei Richard é capturado, seu irmão, o Príncipe John planeja em alcançar o trono, para a revolta do senhor Robin de Locksley, o rei bandido da floresta de Sherwood. Com o seu bando de homens e ganhando o suporte de Maid Marian, Robin acusa o Príncipe John de traição. Quando o fugitivo Richard volta para a Inglaterra, ele junta forças com o rei para impedir que o Príncipe John tome a coroa.
Furnoy
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
Kaidu
Marco Polo (Cooper) cruza o mar em busca de tesouros e aventuras. Com a ajuda de seu fiel e covarde amigo Binguccio (Ernest Truex), encontra na China, como primeiro visitante do país europeu, várias inovações práticas como massas e explosivos. Ele é também apresentado a Kublai Khan (George Barbier), o imperador sábio e benevolente da China, e sua adorável filha, a Princesa Kukachin (Sigrid Gurie). O romance começa a florescer entre Marco e a princesa, mas Ahmed (Basil Rathbone), o dissimulado assistente do Imperador, também tem seus olhos sobre a princesa e ele está determinado a conquistar a mão dela e assim usurpar o trono de Kublai Khan.
Grandpere
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby, which arouses the jealousy of Ines.
Detective Flugelman
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
Baron
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
Ed Munn
Stella e Stephen Dallas são casados e têm uma filha, Laurel. O casal se separa quando Stephen se cansa do comportamento vulgar de Stella. Em pouco tempo, Stephen se casa com a viúva Helen, abalando Stella profundamente. Isso faz com que Laurel passe a ser a única razão pela qual Stella viva.
Walt Brennan
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.
Captain of the Guard
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
Himself
Warner Brothers bloopers of 1937.
Bjorn Skalka
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
Joe Grogan
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
John Alexander Hardigan
Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
John Borchard
Louis Friedlander-directed film
Jim Alison
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
Dr. Ivan Krug
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
Inspector Florio
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Charles L. Kellar
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
Burbix
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
Crusades Actor
Semi-documentary of a typical "extra girl" on a C.B.DeMille film.
Blondel
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
Maurice Schlapkohl
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.
Click Dade
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Rob Daw
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
Charlie McKelvey
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
Martin the Furniture Man
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)
Henry
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
Joe Gargery
A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the convict is captured, Pip meets the reclusive Miss Havisham and her niece, Estella, eventually becoming friends with the girl. Wealth comes to Pip via a mysterious benefactor and he goes off to London for an education. As adults, Pip and Estella become romantic, and Pip learns the identity of his patron.
Bartholomew Hockings
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Emil Miller
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Holgar Jachman
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.
Chief O'Malley
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Von Luden
Four "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines. Also on the boat with the four "mail-order" brides (Americans Mame Smith, Flo Lane, and Gwen from England and Lena from Europe) is Mary Lee, a frightened and innocent girl, who has come to see the mine's brutal supervisor, Von Luden, about a job.
Danker
Peter Warren, um jornalista desempregado, encontra Ellie, a filha de um milionário que fugiu do iate de Alexander Andrews, seu pai, pois este não aprova quem ela escolheu como marido. Peter vê a oportunidade de obter uma boa matéria, mas vários fatos criam uma forte aproximação entre eles.
Cook
Primeira Guerra Mundial. Patrulha britânica perde-se no deserto da Mesopotâmia após comandante ser morto por um inimigo invisível. O sargento tenta reencontrar sua unidade e leva os comandados até um oásis, onde todos vão sendo abatidos um a um por atiradores de elite.
Sam
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Lundstrom
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
Max Stager
A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, various people turn up claiming to be the rightful heir to her fortune.
Borglund
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Mr Simpson
A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.
Klass Pool
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Capt. Greg Winters
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Submarine U-67."
Hubert
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Jeb Mondstrum
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
Biezel
In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's daughter to a nurse's home until her mother is released. When the happy day comes, he goes to visit them, but is attacked by the doorman, who is in love with the daughter and jealous of the DA. The DA kills him in self-defense but is acquitted when the daughter delivers a highly emotional speech professing her love for him.
Stevens
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their cheap flat. Meanwhile, Boris, a bookshop keeper, dreams of a prosperous future from the book he is writing. Their boarder, Dave, a partner in a gambling establishment, makes a play for Mahyna; she is tempted to leave with him when Eddie, a former admirer, arrives on the scene, and the two get into constant arguments over her.
Walter
A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.
Adam Pike
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
Flash
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
Captain Erickson
SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
Hanson
Tale of a pair of dam workers who, despite their strong friendship, duke it out on a regular basis. But when the dam threatens to burst, the battling buddies work side by side to rescue the deluge-threatened townsfolk.
Mather
Pete Smith, a lift bridge operator in a harbor, feels lonely in his cabin, his only visitor being a policeman on patrol, Sgt. Coughlin. One night, after hearing shots, Smith gives shelter to a wounded man, whom he hides from Coughlin. Before leaving, the man, Marcas, promises to return the favor and the coat he borrows from him. Later, Smith enters the police, and his chief, Mather, suspects he is protecting Marcas, who is actually a gangster. Marcas sends a girl, Mary Monks, to deliver a luxurious coat with a fur collar to Smith. Pete and Mary get along well, and for his sake, she betrays Marcas, who is eventually shot to death by the cops, after having stopped his mob from killing Smith. Mary goes away alone into the night, and when Mather finds out that Pete is protecting her, he drops away the evidence of her presence on the spot.
Jansen
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.
Slim Strede
Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured in an accident and temporarily crippled, he rejects her. Swede tries every desperate measure to get Blondy to fight back, to try to walk, even masquerading as stealing Sally away from him.
Caesar
Jacqueline Logan stars as Paula, a beautiful and fearless circus leopard trainer. Working hand-in-glove with the police, Paula joins a circus where several murders have occurred. Among the suspects is gorilla trainer Caesar (Alan Hale Sr.). (NY Times)
Singapore Jack
Captain Slocum of the Hesperus arrives on shore in a New England village to find that the girl he loves has been tricked into marrying John Hazzard in his absence. Heartbroken and bitter, the captain, with his daughter, Gale, and second mate, Singapore Jack, returns to sea. He rescues from a burning vessel John Hazzard, Jr., son of his rival, and though he tries to keep the boy from Gale, a romance develops. ...
'Happy' Dan Morgan
Barbara Fiske, a beautiful girl of social standing, is about to be married to Lloyd Van Courtland. On the eve of their marriage, she foolishly pays a visit to a colorful steamship captain aboard his ship.
Director
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, their used car is worth more than they ever could have imagined.
Director
A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived devices and bringing in other candidates more to her liking.
Director
Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens.
Director
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle the threat. Standing Rock's son, Braveheart, is sent to college to study law so that he can protect their rights, but others in the tribe, led by the hot-tempered Ki-Yote, want to provoke a more violent confrontation.
Director
A beautiful con artist marries Hayes Hallan, the owner of a pearl-rich island. No sooner has the couple said "I do" than Beatrice's partners in crime show up, claiming to be the bride's parents.
Tom King
In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to rescue his sweetheart from a terrible marriage.
Duke Mareno
The story of a great Italian Duchess and of the baffling mystic, L Enigma
Prince Rohenhauer
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first he thinks it's just a coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished, who would be in her late 50s or early 60s by now. Soon, however, he begins to believe that maybe it's not such a coincidence after all.
King Karl
A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?
Colonel Moreau
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter.
Alan Hale
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Prince Stefan de Bernie
An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world.
Miles Bjornstam
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
Sam Woodhull
Duas caravanas de vagões convergem no que é agora Kansas City, e combinam-se para o empurrão para oeste, para o Oregon. Na sua busca, os peregrinos experimentarão o calor do deserto, a neve das montanhas, a fome, e o ataque dos índios. Para complicar ainda mais a situação, desenvolve-se um triângulo amoroso, já que a bela Molly deve escolher entre Sam, um bruto, e Will, o afoito capitão da outra caravana. Poderá Will superar o esqueleto no seu armário e conquistar o coração de Molly?
Ferrago
Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina suspected of being the headquarters of the dope ring.
Little John
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
Sabos
A silent romantic adventure melodrama (from the play and novel by Richard Harding) about a womanizer who follows a beautiful Hispanic woman to her home country and his adventures there. He ends up helping her father become dictator of the entire country, and is rewarded with marriage to her and he is named Minister of Finance!
Benson
A felicidade de um mineiro é destruída quando um rival rouba sua mina. Ele se torna obcecado por vingança, e planeja uma armadilha para o homem que lhe tirou a mina.
Torvald Helmer
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed ...
Ben Wadley
Ek is a disembodied spirit, required to wait his turn in the boring cosmos until he is allowed to inhabit an earthly body. Impatient, he sneaks off to earth to find a body and, after several failed attempts, finds Professor Ezra Botts, a timid old pedant and researcher of psychic phenomena. Life fairly well kicks Professor Botts around as it does all timid souls, and he gets little love or respect. But during an experimental trance, he is able to leave his body behind and at that moment, Ek sees his chance and slips in, taking over the professor's body. The "new" professor is energetic, charismatic, and dynamic, and from the limbo in which he floats, the real professor fears that Ek is going to wear out the tired old body before he, Botts, can return to it. And just how is he supposed to get back into his body, anyway?
Gustave Seimann
When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something about him is different. But with Europe racing toward war and England infiltrated by saboteurs, will the truth emerge before it is too late?
Rufus B. Coulter
Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sheriff's daughter; and after adopting Pard he gets a job as a porter in the bank. Santa Fe learns that the leading banker, Coulter, is in league with a band of outlaws, and when Coulter frames Dick Farwell, Annette's fiancé, Dick is suspected of robbery and is captured by the outlaws.
George Masson
Jean, a wealthy young Canadian back from a trip to Europe, meets and falls for Carmen, a pretty young Spanish girl. They marry and have a daughter, but soon afterward Jean discovers his wife is having an affair. She takes her daughter and leaves him, and Jean's luck gets even worse--he loses his business in a fire and his thieving father-in-law steals what little money he has left.
Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man.
Mark Grant
Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign.
Karl von Hartrott
Os Quatro Cavaleiros do Apocalipse (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) éum filme mudo de 1921 produzido e realizado por Rex Ingram. Foi adaptado para cinema por June Mathis a partir do livro de Vicente Blasco Ibanez com o mesmo nome. Teve como actores principais Rudolph Valentino, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard e AliceTerry. No filme Os Quatro Cavaleiros do Apocalipse, Valentino é sensacional como Júlio,um dançarino de tango e conquistador de mulheres.
'Lucky' Travers
Wealthy Richard Covington, although aging and lonely, distresses his children, Waverly and Beatrice, by marrying a heartless seductress named Fay Hope. Because Fay's extravagant spending threatens to ruin Richard, Beatrice confronts her, which prompts Richard, who is hopelessly in love with the beautiful vampire, to order his daughter from the house.
Count Rudolph Frizel
Austrian diplomats, seeking papers in the possession of the United States diplomat, work through the infatuation of his son, Harry, for an Italian widow. In his desperate financial straits, he is induced to turn traitor to his trust, but the woman, truly loving him, saves him from the consequences of his crime, at the cost of her own love and life.
Dr. Henry Grey
Ethel Barrymore plays the wife of an abusive country squire. So nasty is her husband that he all but forces her to seek solace in the arms of her former sweetheart (played by Alan Hale in his leading-man period). Their clandestine relationship finally comes out in the open when the nasty husband is killed by his irate tenants.
Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the President's beautiful daughter, Juana. Valdez returns to Paragonia, but is deposed by Generals Sanchez and Garcia and locked in San Mateo Prison. The Americano arrives...
Captain Arthur Boyce
The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
John Huntington
Driven from Russia by the persecution of the police, who had caused the death of his wife, was Ivan Pavloff, a Nihilist, accompanied by his two infant twin daughters Olga and Nina, en route to America in search of freedom.
Cowboy
Mildred Manning wants to experience the Wild West firsthand with her beau, Sir Charles Beverly. While Charles is gambling, Mildred is saved from two drunken cowboys by Del Burton. Del falls in love with Mildred and follows her back east.
Halsey Brent
This picture tells of Leila Austen, a wealthy girl, who leaves Halsey Brent, a young suitor, to marry Tom Carter, a mining engineer.
Hugh Fernely
Ronald, heir to Lord Earle in Earlescourt, England, secretly loves Dora Thorne, a desirable but working-class woman. When Lord Earle hears of the relationship, he brings Valentine Charteris to the estate to distract his lovesick son. True to his love, however, Ronald refuses Valentine and marries Dora. After emigrating to Italy, Ronald earns a modest living as a painter, and Dora gives birth to twins. When Ronald receives a generous commission to paint a portrait, he asks Dora to pose for him, but overly preoccupied with the children, she refuses. Wounded by the rejection, Ronald calls on Valentine Charteris and quickly becomes infatuated with her, forcing Dora to return to Earlescourt with the twins.
Sir Francis Levinson
An adaptation of the stage warhorse East Lynne featuring a young, curly-haired Alan Hale as the villain.
Madison - The Americano
Isabella De Ortega rides over to the mission for her music lesson. While she is there, pirates attack the mission and loot its treasures. The monks hide her in the tower, but she is discovered by the ruffian crew and in grave peril until the Americano, leader of the pirate band, rescues her at his own risk.
Frank Mansfield
Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the gypsies and, along with her mother Zenda, known as "The Woman in Black," she vows revenge. Meanwhile, Crane blackmails Stella Everett's father into forcing her to marry him, even though she loves Frank Mansfield, Crane's rival for a congressional seat. Frank wins, but Stella still faces the prospect of marriage to Crane until Zenda comes to her with a plan. On their wedding day, after the vows are recited, when Crane lifts the veil from his wife's face, he is shocked to discover, that his new bride is Mary. Now Stella and Frank are free to marry, and Zenda has gained her revenge.
Sam Freeborn
An innocent man, serving a sentence of five years in prison through the perjured testimony of the real criminal, Steve Carson, foreman of a shipyard, strikes up a warm friendship with his cellmate, Harold Norwood, a defaulting paying teller. No less strange than their friendship is the befriending of Steve's wife, Annie, by Julia Seymour, prima donna, who is Norwood's wife. As a reward of good behavior, the men are released on Christmas morning. Annie is bewildered by the receipt of a bank book which shows that large deposits of gold have been made in her name and that of her sister, Mary, by their uncle, George Hosford, who, dying in Alaska, has entrusted the book to Joe Hawes, a fellow prospector.
An early short film in which the young widow is protected by the employer of her recently deceased husband.
John Tressider
Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger, prettier and flightier of the two. While "doing the town," Miriam is lured into the apartment of a pair of letches named Crooke and Craven, who ply her with drugged liquor, then have their way with her. Holding Bessie's libertine friend, Rachel, responsible for all this, she heads to Rachel's flat and tries to strangle the life out of the woman. She also sees to it that Crooke and Craven are thrown out of their lodgings for their wanton behavior
Ralph Thorne
STRONGHEART (1914) is a rare Native American Indian drama that was produced by the Biograph Company in New York City. Based on a famous play of the time, the film features an all-star cast: Henry B. Walthall (later of BIRTH OF A NATION), Blanche Sweet, Antonio Moreno, Lionel Barrymore, and Alan Hale (father of "Gilligan's Island" skipper). Originally five reels, the film was reissued at three reels in 1916.
Brother Owner
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her job, a young girl almost falls into the hands of white slavers.
