Roy Del Ruth

A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.

Uma jovem esposa é abandonada pelo marido no dia do casamento. Atormentada, ela o segue até sua antiga casa nos pântanos de Louisiana, onde, em meio aos lagos e à mortal vegetação rasteira, ela descobre um terrível segredo. Seu marido foi salvo da morte por um procedimento médico experimental envolvendo soro de jacarés, e agora ele começa a desenvolver efeitos colaterais horríveis. Ela enfrentará qualquer perigo para ajudá-lo, mas logo descobre que o amor pode não ser o suficiente.

When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.

A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.

A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".

Three friends enter military school together, but 2 of them don't know that the 3rd one is secretly married.

Os pilotos da Força Aérea Rick Williams (Ron Hagerthy) and Mike Nolan (Dick Wesson) tentam marcar um encontro com a estrela de cinema Nell Wayne (Janice Rule), que é da mesma cidade natal de Rick. As estrelas de cinema, interpretando a si mesmas, Doris Day e Ruth Roman acreditam erroneamente que Rick deve ser muito próximo de Nell e arrumam o encontro. O casal começa a namorar, especialmente depois de Nell, Doris, e Ruth conseguem mandar varias estrelas de Hollywood para se apresentar para os soldados em trânsito para a Guerra da Coreia, na Base Aérea de Travis. Um grande desfile de estrelas de Hollywood fazendo o papel de si mesmo. Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Ruth Roman, James Cagney, Virginia Gibson, Gary Cooper, Phil Harris etc...

Numa pequena cidade de Indiana, nos meados da década de 1910, a família Winfield acabou de se mudar para uma casa maior em um bairro agradável. O pai, o banqueiro George (Leon Ames), sua esposa Alice (Rosemary DeCamp), sua filha moleca crescida Marjorie (Doris Day), seu precoce e encrenqueiro filho Wesley (Billy Gray), e sua governanta exasperado Stella (Mary Wickes). Ninguém além de George está feliz com a mudança, até Marjorie encontrar seu novo vizinho, William Sherman (Gordon MacRae). Os dois ficam imediatamente atraídos um pelo outro, o que faz Margie mudar seu foco do beisebol para tentar tornar-se uma jovem senhorita educada. Teve uma continuação em 1953 com o filme Lua Prateada (By the Light of the Silvery Moon).

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.

Um diretor da Broadway ajuda os cadetes de West Point a montar um show, auxiliados por duas garotas encantadoras e complicações variadas. O diretor Bix Bixby (James Cagney), numa maré baixa graças a jogos de azar, é relutantemente convencido a ir a academia militar de West Point com Eve (Virginia Mayo), sua linda assistente e namorada não oficial, para ajudar os cadetes a montarem um show. Bixby também aceitou porque queria recrutar o cadete que é uma estrela Tom Fletcher (Gordon MacRae) para a nova produção de Harry Eberhart (Roland Winters). Eberhart é simplesmente o tio de Tom. Então, Bixby acha que ele mesmo deve viver como cadete. Claro, corações apaixonados entram na história também. Para um dos papéis femininos Bixby convida sua velha amiga e estrela Jan Wilson (Doris Day). - traduzido de Rod Crawford

A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

O falecido grande empresário Florenz Ziegfeld olha dos céus e ordena um novo espetáculo em seu antigo grande estilo. No céu, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. showman carinhosamente recorda seu primeiro musical da Broadway, o Ziegfeld Follies de 1907. Mesmo do céu, ele acha que pode, por uma última vez, criar essa mesma magia com a montagem de uma de suas últimas loucuras. Assim como ele pensa sobre quem ele gostaria de aparecer nessas loucuras, ele é auxiliado na realização de sua fantasia, pelo menos em sua própria mente, por luminares como Fred Astaire, Edward Arnold, "Lucille Ball ', Marion Bell, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Cyd Charisse, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, Virginia O'Brien, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Keenan Wynn, e, é claro, um bando de garotas bonitas.

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.

Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show.

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.

A playboy drops his many girlfriends when he falls in love with a grounded angel.

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?

Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. Karl decides to masquerade as a Russian guardsman and attempts to make Maria flirt with him - to test her loyalty to him - as the Russian, Karl makes a vigorous attempt to seduce Maria. For a moment she accepts then rejects. Karl is left in turmoil...

Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.

The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.

George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.

Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.

Steve Raleight quer produzir um show na Broadway. Ele já conta, inclusive, com sua atriz principal, a bela Sally Lee. Mas, infelizmente, a peça está passando por muitos problemas financeiros, o que está impedindo sua estreia. Além disso, Caroline Whipple está forçando Steve a usar uma atriz já veterana em vez de Sally, para que então possa lhe conseguir o dinheiro para o lançamento do show. Então, para ajudar Steve, Sally compra um cavalo que ela costumava treinar quando era mais nova, quando seus pais possuíam uma fazenda. Com muita garra, Sally o treina para competir, para que assim possa ajudar Steve.

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.

Ted meets and falls in love with Nora Paige, an aspiring Broadway dancer who tries out for a show starring Lucy James. After Ted rescues Lucy's pet dog during a public relations campaign on his submarine, Lucy falls for him. Ted is ordered to meet Lucy for a date at a night club, who later sees their picture in the newspaper and no longer wants anything to do with him.

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.

A poor boy rises to power in politics.

A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign speech by the troupe crooner, Eric Land, his political backers decide that they want him to run for Governor in the Judge's place. Romance, music, political corruption and the election results follow.

Dotada de uma voz surpreendente e admirada por seu carisma, Irene Foster (Eleanor Powell), sonha em brilhar nas noites da Broadway. Seguindo seu instinto e seu coração, Irene se muda para a Broadway na esperança de que seu amor de infância, agora produtor, Robert Gordon (Robert Taylor), a reconheça. Robert, por outro lado, está muito ocupado com um jornalista fofoqueiro, o colunista Bert Keeler (Jack Benny), e acaba não a notando. Kitty (Una Merkel), secretária de Robert, no entanto, percebe o talento da moça e planeja, junto com Irene, uma situação onde Robert note não só sua voz, mas também todo o seu charme e encanto. Melodia da Broadway, além de indicado a dois Oscars, Melhor Fotografia e Melhor Roteiro Original, foi vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Direção. Este filme ainda foi o principal responsável pela grande ascenção da atriz Eleanor Powell em Hollywood, e fez das músicas You Are My Lucky Star e Brodway Rhythm os maiores sucessos da época.

Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).

An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.

A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.

An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

Chandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals Ameicans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology. The carny, renamed Chandra, falls for one of his marks, Sylvia, but their love is tested when he brings tragedy to other peoples' lives and she asks him to go straight.

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?

Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

O Detetive Sam Spade e seu parceiro Miles Archer são procurados por uma mulher misteriosa que os contrata para seguir um homem a quem ela acusa de ter fugido com sua irmã. Miles Archer e o homem são assassinados, e a partir daí, Sam Spade, suspeito pelo assassinato de Archer, se vê envolvido com uma série de figuras misteriosas.

A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.

George Morris constantly lies to his wife, Helen, to hide his escapades. As he is about to leave his wife, some guests arrives, including Paul Wilcox, who is in love with Helen. By the end of the party, however, George and Helen have reconciled yet again. Soon after, George meets Joan Whitley and loses a lighter which his wife has given him; Whitley drives off with it. When Helen throws a party, Joan, who is an old friend of Helen, arrives. When Helen introduces Joan to George, they pretend not to know each other. George pleads with Joan to return his lighter. She agrees to meet him later in the library and if he is nice to her she will give him back the lighter.

Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.

The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.

A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.

Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One of the pilots is injured and the other leaves him to die, so he can have the girl all to himself. However, the injured pilot survives and when he recovers he vows vengeance on the man who left him to die--especially after he finds out that he married the girl they were both after.

A young doctor is accused by his pretty wife of paying too much attention to one of his woman patients when she makes a pass at him. Ferris, assuming that her husband is having an affair, decides to have one herself with a perfumer.

Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".

Rex Hale, a reform mayor, closes the musical comedy "Powder My Back" because he feels that it is immoral. Indignant, Fritzi Foy, star of the comedy, determines to revenge herself on Hale. Gaining entrance to his home by pretending to be injured in an automobile accident, Fritzi has Claude, her press agent, masquerade as a doctor and advise that she should not be disturbed until she has completely recovered. Hale is enraged, but his son, Jack, falls in love with Fritzi though he is already engaged to Ruth Stevens, an attractive flapper. When she sees that her plan has caused unhappiness for an innocent person, Fritzi dissuades Jack, who returns to his old sweetheart; she ends up with the mayor.

Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a light flirtation with a light-in-the-slippers specimen named Claude.

Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.

The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.

Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding officer, whom he is romancing.

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.

Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother's hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot's spell, gets suckered into the game and loses all his money. He asks his newfound "friends" to come back to his hometown to buy the hotel. They accept but are actually planning to swindle Johnny's grandmother out of her hotel. It turns out that Granny isn't quite the easy mark they thought she would be.

The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.

Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighborhood on New York's East Side known as "Hogan's Alley." Lefty defeats Battling Savage for the championship, breaking his left hand and leaving his opponent close to death.

Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune.

A cruel sea captain shanghais Jimmie to work on his ship, but Jimmie's girlfriend also stows away on board, disguised as a sailor.

The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab. Through a fare, he meets a lovely lassie. His work takes him to the beach, where he sees dad's fiancée with another man. The lad and his lassie follow the woman and try to prevent her from marrying yet another rich man. Will our farm boy and his sweetie stop injustice from happening again?

Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.

A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!

Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.

Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset. First our hero must do a few heroic things, saving the lass from danger. He must also not move too quickly on the romantic front. Once she's willing to marry him, he must balance the duties of groom with that of sheriff, while Dudley tries to convince the lass that our hero is untrue to her...

An itching courtship from Mack Sennett.

Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.

The story is about a crackpot inventor who manages to get himself in a heap of trouble. Though no fault of his own, it appears that he's run off with the wife of a cop and both the policeman and the inventor's wife are in hot pursuit. What makes this interesting are the inventor's clever devices--such as a hot air balloon car!

Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.

Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge.

Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.

O policial Billy Bevan tenta limpar seu nome. Curta Metragem de 1922 dirigido por Roy Del Ruth...

A 1922 comedy short.

An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.

Billy is a bit of a masher. He meets a lady on the beach and immediately gives her an expensive gift (some pearls). The problems are that she has her eyes set on the handsome lifeguard and the collection agents either want Billy to pay for this necklace or return it. Well, she naturally doesn't want to give up the pearls, so Billy decides to break in to her house to steal them (and a few other items while he's at it).

If you can't buy it... make your own! A Fox silent short subject comedy.

A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.

A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.