William C. McGann

Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.

An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.

A garçonete do refeitório da Warner Brothers Judy Adams (Doris Day) está ansiosa para estourar nas telas. Ela acha que sua grande chance pode ter chegado quando os atores Jack Carson e Dennis Morgan concordam em ajudá-la. Mal sabe ela que os dois só estão tentando tirar um filme do buraco. E além disso o chefão do estúdio Arthur Trent (Bill Goodwin) não está ajudando nem um pouco. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)

In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.

Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.

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.

A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong...

Frank McCloud viaja para um hotel decadente em Key Largo para honrar a memória de um amigo que morreu bravamente em sua unidade durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. A viúva de seu amigo, Nora Temple, e seu pai James Temple que está preso numa cadeira de rodas, administram o hotel e o recebem calorosamente. Mas os três logo se veem virtualmente presos quando o hotel é tomado por um grupo de bandidos liderados por Johnny Rocco que se refugiam lá para aguardar a passagem de um furacão. Mr. Temple insulta fortemente Rocco que, porque está sozinho, só pode confrontá-lo verbalmente. Como ficou desiludido pela violência da guerra, Frank está relutante em agir, mas, o tratamento degradante que Rocco dá a sua alcoólatra amante Gaye Dawn, o envolvimento do grupo de Rocco na morte de alguns inocentes índios Seminole e um vice-xerife, Frank McCloud começa a superar sua inação Hamletiana. e10.

Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.

Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.

Dois vagabundos e um garimpeiro grisalho descobrem um verdadeiro tesouro em ouro, mas a ganância e a paranoia vai rapidamente se apoderar de todos neste clássico sobre o poder da riqueza escondida nas montanhas e a avareza que se esconde no coração dos homens. e 12.

A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness.

A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

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)

Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.

Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.

California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.

Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.

Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.

A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield (Ruggles) recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo (Phillip Terry) rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory (Ellen Drew).

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

In this comedic short, a reporter wins a boxer's contract and decides to stage an exhibition fight for a society ladies' Milk Fund benefit bazaar.

A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.

The story of Cinderella with a children's cast.

A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.

A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.

A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.

A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.

This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.

Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.

Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.

Um homem que foi levado para a prisão é acusado do assassinato de um companheiro de prisão e deve provar sua inocência.

Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.

A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm

Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.

A radio-network manager's boss makes him air a serial based on a murder, tormenting a woman involved.

A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.

Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

A married couple accidentally become mixed up with a bank robber.

This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.

A British crime thriller film directed by William C. McGann

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

A British crime film directed by William C. McGann

Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.

Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

Golden Dawn (1930) is a musical operetta released by Warner Brothers, photographed entirely in Technicolor, and starring Walter Woolf King and Noah Beery. The film is based on the semi-hit stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach. Beery's extraordinarily deep bass voice registers particularly well in the songs.

A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.

A Mexico/United States border patrol officer is aided by his police dog, Rinty.

A short drama about a married couple planning to go to Niagara Falls.

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.

Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.

A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.

Nesta sátira de "Intolerância", clássico de D. W. Griffth, um homem disputa o amor de uma bela mulher em três épocas diferentes. Dirigido por Buster Keaton, um dos grandes comediantes do cinema mudo.

Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to help children from poor neighbourhoods.

Na Califórnia espanhola, o opressor governo colonial é confrontado por uma herói mascarado chamado Zorro - que ninguém sabe se tratar de Don Diego Vega (Douglas Fairbanks). Visto pela população como o único capaz de salvá-los, Zorro deverá lutar contra a tirania do Capitão Ramon. Sem a máscara, a capa e a espada, Don Diego ainda disputa com Ramon o amor da donzela Lolita.

O jovem Daniel Brown cai nas garras do doutor Ulrich Metz, um psiquiatra que tenta hipnotizar o rapaz e levá-lo ao suicídio. Agora, Daniel precisa lidar com as engenhosas artimanhas do médico para se salvar.

O jovem Daniel Brown cai nas garras do doutor Ulrich Metz, um psiquiatra que tenta hipnotizar o rapaz e levá-lo ao suicídio. Agora, Daniel precisa lidar com as engenhosas artimanhas do médico para se salvar.

Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists on flirting with Tom despite his discouragement.

Silent Italy immigrant family relationship romantic melodrama about a poor Italian flower seller whose mother gets sick. The doctor tells him to take his mother to Arizona, which he does with his wife and child. The railroad men in Arizona think he is the start of a wave of Italian immigrants coming to take away their jobs, but they meet his darling son, Beppo, who wins them over. But then, his wife dies, and he gets involved with an immigrant Italian woman who takes Beppo back to Italy, but the railroad men help him get Beppo back. It turns out his land has oil on it, so he's fabulously rich, and he shares the fortune with the railroad men!