J. Roy Hunt

Nascimento : 1884-07-07, Caperton, West Virginia, USA

Morte : 1972-10-01

História

From Wikipedia J. Roy Hunt (July 7, 1884 Caperton, West Virginia – October 1972 Sheffield, Alabama) born John Roy Hunt was an American motion picture cameraman and cinematographer. His career began around the time of World War I and continued to the 1950s. Hunt served as director of cinematography on numerous films, such as Beau Geste, A Kiss for Cinderella, Flying Down to Rio, and She.

Filmes

O Malabarista
Director of Photography
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
Eight Iron Men
Director of Photography
During the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier trapped in no man's land.
Desert Passage
Director of Photography
Parolee John Carver seeks the stolen money he has hidden, but so does his girlfriend, lawyer and cellmate. Tom and Chito are hired to get him across the border into Mexico and find themselves caught in the middle.
Target
Director of Photography
A female marshal and a newspaper editor help heroic Tim Holt fight an evil land agent. Western.
Road Agent
Director of Photography
Brand controls the only road to the cattle market and is charging exorbitant rates. Tim and Chito rob Brand to recover only their overcharge, but accidentally end up with all of Brand's money......
Overland Telegraph
Director of Photography
Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Selander stars Tim Holt as a cowboy appropriately named Tim Holt. In order to hinder the construction of a new telegraph line for his own financial gain, scheming shopkeeper Paul Manning (George Nader) enlists the assistance of a gang of outlaws led by Brad Roberts (Hugh Beaumont in one of his many pre-Leave it to Beaver roles). Unfortunately for the bad guys, Holt and his cohort Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) sense that there's foul play afoot and embark on an investigation.
Pistol Harvest
Director of Photography
Two men are accused of killing their boss. They are saved from the hangman's noose when two other guys are arrested, but Holt feels as though justice is still not being served. On their own, they set about to track down the genuine killer.
Gunplay
Director of Photography
Landry has Sam Martin killed. When Tim and Chito find Martin and his son, Chip says Matt Potter was responsible. But when Tim and Chito start their search, no ones knows a Matt Potter.
Saddle Legion
Director of Photography
A cattle inspector runs a rustling ring on the side.
Rio Grande Patrol
Director of Photography
Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in the luggage of the girls that come to work in his saloon. Border guards Kansas and Chito, along with Mexican Captain Trevinom suspect them and they are trying to find the guns.
Border Treasure
Director of Photography
Two cowboys aim to reclaim stolen jewels and money in this 1950 Western.
The Lawless
Director of Photography
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers..
Storm Over Wyoming
Director of Photography
Dave Saunders and his sidekick Chito, cowhands looking for work, arrive in Sundown Valley, Wyoming just in time to stop sheep ranch foreman Jess Rawlins from lynching cattleman Tug Caldwell. Rawlins seems set on starting a range war; but why? Before Dave and Chito can find out, they must convince Chris Marvin, Rawlins's attractive boss, that he's no good...and get out from under a framed murder charge. - Rod Crawford
Kill or Be Killed
Director of Photography
An innocent man accused of a murder hides out aboard a steam ship in South American.
Riders of the Range
Director of Photography
Out-of-work cowboys Kansas Jones and Chito Rafferty are offered jobs at pretty Dusty Willis' ranch after saving her from a beating by saloon owner Clint Burrows. Dusty's good-hearted but weak-willed brother Harry, adding to his $3000 gambling debt to Willis, reluctantly agrees to pay it off by allowing the Ringo Kid, Burrows' vicious hired gun, to rustle cattle from his sister's ranch. Kansas intervenes, deters the rustlers and persuades Harry to confess his involvement to Dusty. Kansas, sent into town by Dusty to pay off Harry's debts, suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law, wrongly accused of murder and must rely on Dusty's belief in his innocence for his salvation.
Monstro de um Mundo Perdido
Director of Photography
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
Rustlers
Director of Photography
A group of Arizona ranchers, trying to learn the identities of the Salt River Gang and prevent any further rustling, marks the currency that rancher Frank Abbott turns over to the gang to get his cattle back. Unfortunately drifters Dick McBride and Chito Rafferty are accused of being in the gang when they are found with the money, which they have actually won at the casino of saloon owner Brad Carew, a member of the gang. Dick and Chito break out of jail and hunt down the fleeing Carew in hopes of finding out who the true leader of the gang is.
Brothers in the Saddle
Director of Photography
When he thinks his brother has let him down, a cowboy goes bad.
Gun Smugglers
Director of Photography
A young boy threatens to follow in his outlaw brother's footsteps.
Indian Agent
Cinematography
Honest government agent Dave Taylor sets out to find the men responsible for stealing food supplies from an Indian reservation.
Indian Agent
Director of Photography
Honest government agent Dave Taylor sets out to find the men responsible for stealing food supplies from an Indian reservation.
Traição
Director of Photography
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
Return of the Bad Men
Director of Photography
US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.
The Arizona Ranger
Director of Photography
A disgraced veteran wanders the West alone until he decides to help a battered woman.
Rancor
Director of Photography
O detetive Finlay encontra evidências de que um ou mais soldados de um grupo de 4 amigos podem estar envolvidos no assassinato do judeu Joseph Samuels. Flashbacks revelam os acontecimentos da noite fatídica através de diferentes pontos de vista. O Sargento Keeley investiga por conta própria e tenta livrar o amigo Mitchell, que tem as evidências apontadas para si. Porém, ambos os detetives começam a perceber o verdadeiro e horroroso motivo para o crime.
Montanhas Perigosas
Director of Photography
A stagecoach owner goes to jail to catch a holdup gang.
A Likely Story
Director of Photography
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Director of Photography
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
O Passo do Ódio
Director of Photography
Bat Masterson cleans up Liberal, Kansas.
Beleza Negra
Director of Photography
Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess's colt because it is her birthday, and she names him "Black Beauty."
A Game of Death
Director of Photography
A shipwreck victim washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island.
The Brighton Strangler
Director of Photography
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
What a Blonde
Director of Photography
American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls.
Heavenly Days
Director of Photography
Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.
Action in Arabia
Director of Photography
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Director of Photography
The Falcon is called to a young woman's school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another victim is discovered.
The Avenging Rider
Director of Photography
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
A Morta-Viva
Director of Photography
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
Red River Robin Hood
Director of Photography
An honest cowpoke (Tim Holt) comes to the rescue when the ranchers of Red River, AZ have their property seized by a greedy businessman (Eddie Dew). This 1942 B-western, directed by Lesley Selander, also stars Barbara Moffett, Cliff Edwards, Otto Hoffman and Russell Wade.
Thundering Hoofs
Director of Photography
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.
Cavalgada de Melodias
Director of Photography
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
Call Out the Marines
Director of Photography
Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.
Parachute Battalion
Director of Photography
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
They Met in Argentina
Director of Photography
A Texas oil millionaire, after failing to secure oil lands in Argentina, seeks out a famous racehorse in Buenos Aires and orders his representative to buy the nag at any price. The representative, Tim Kelly, has a love affair with Lolita O'Shea, the beautiful daughter of the prize horse's owner.
Triple Justice
Director of Photography
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad realizes he must escape and track down the real killers since the only one who can prove his innocence is his friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory, who has been shot and will not soon regain consciousness. Chasing down the robbers one by one, he eventually discovers the identity of the gang's ringleader.
I'm Still Alive
Director of Photography
Hollywood stuntman falls in love with a big name actress but still wants to pursue his risky career. The women gives him a choice-the stunts or her. He chooses the stunts and still manages to get her.
One Crowded Night
Director of Photography
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
Stage to Chino
Cinematography
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
Cross-Country Romance
Director of Photography
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Prairie Law
Director of Photography
Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef. When the Sheriff accuses butcher Gore of possessing stolen beef, Gore kills him. Curry then holds a quick election to change the county seat so he can preside at the trial. But Brill gets the Governor to change it back and this leads to the big shootout between Curry's men and Brill and the ranchers.
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Director of Photography
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
Little Orvie
Director of Photography
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
The Saint's Double Trouble
Director of Photography
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Married and in Love
Director of Photography
Two married couples become engulfed in a storm of emotional fury when Doctor Leslie Yates runs into writer Doris Wilding, his old college flame, whom he has not seen in ten years. After reminiscing about their past, Doris and Leslie make a dinner date with their respective spouses. On the eve of the Yates's dinner party, Leslie's wife Helen brings home a magazine article written by Doris, which sparks Leslie's memory of his separation from her.
Reno
Director of Photography
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
Full Confession
Director of Photography
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
Esposa Só no Nome
Director of Photography
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Panama Lady
Director of Photography
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
Fixer Dugan
Director of Photography
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
The Flying Irishman
Director of Photography
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
Almost a Gentleman
Director of Photography
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
Boy Slaves
Director of Photography
Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".
The Law West of Tombstone
Director of Photography
A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town.
A Man to Remember
Director of Photography
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Por Conta do Bonifácio
Director of Photography
Os Irmãos Marx tentam montar uma peça de teatro antes que o gerente do hotel descubra que eles estão sem dinheiro. Para confundir o gerente eles fingem que o autor da peça contraiu uma doença terrível e não pode ser movido. Originalmente uma peça de teatro, o cenário mostra as suas origens, mas isso é dos Vintage Irmãos Marx.
Mother Carey's Chickens
Director of Photography
A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
Blond Cheat
Director of Photography
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
Radio City Revels
Director of Photography
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.
Hitting a New High
Director of Photography
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
Patuscada para Dois
Director of Photography
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
The Life of the Party
Director of Photography
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
New Faces of 1937
Director of Photography
A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.
Vamos Dançar?
Camera Operator
Linda Keene é uma louvada dançarina de balé. Petrov é um exímio sapateador. O sonho dele é realizar uma apresentação artística ao lado dela e, após espalhar um rumor de que ele era casado com Linda, as coisas ficam confusas entre os dois.
You Can't Buy Luck
Director of Photography
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
The Man Who Found Himself
Director of Photography
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
Sea Devils
Director of Photography
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
That Girl From Paris
Director of Photography
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
Smartest Girl in Town
Director of Photography
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
Without Orders
Director of Photography
At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison. Len dates her sister Penny who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.
Walking on Air
Director of Photography
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
Casar é Melhor
Director of Photography
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Director of Photography
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Silly Billies
Director of Photography
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
Muss 'em Up
Director of Photography
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
The Lady Consents
Director of Photography
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
We're Only Human
Director of Photography
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Na Mira de um Coração
Director of Photography
Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
The Last Days of Pompeii
Director of Photography
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.
She
Director of Photography
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire. Picking up Tanya, a guide's daughter, in the frozen Russian arctic, they stumble upon Kor, revealed to be a hidden civilization ruled over by an immortal queen, called She, who believes Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo's ancestor.
Star of Midnight
Director of Photography
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
A Dog of Flanders
Director of Photography
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
The Silver Streak
Director of Photography
A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport an iron lung to a needy patient.
Dangerous Corner
Director of Photography
Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
Hat, Coat and Glove
Director of Photography
A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
Let's Try Again
Director of Photography
To divorce, or not to divorce. That is the question pondered by a married couple of 10 years who miss their burning desire for each other (Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard) in this 1934 film directed by Worthington Miner.
Finishing School
Director of Photography
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.
The Meanest Gal in Town
Director of Photography
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
Voando para o Rio
Director of Photography
Roger Bond e sua orquestra se apresentam em Miami; Honey Hale é a vocalista e Fred Ayres é um dos instrumentistas. Roger vê a bela Belinha entre o público, encontro que provoca paixão à primeira vista no líder do grupo. Por isso, ele e sua orquestra a perseguem no Rio de Janeiro, onde vivem aventuras musicais.
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Director of Photography
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
Double Harness
Director of Photography
After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Cinematography
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
Emergency Call
Director of Photography
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Oliver Twist
Director of Photography
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
Lucky Devils
Director of Photography
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
Men Of America
Director of Photography
Bank robbers and killers cause mayhem in a small western town.
The Sport Parade
Director of Photography
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
The Age of Consent
Director of Photography
College co-eds struggle with the moral, societal and human aspects of romance.
The Roadhouse Murder
Director of Photography
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric Linden, Dorothy Jordan, Bruce Cabot, Roscoe Ates, Roscoe Karns and Purnell Pratt star in this 1932 thriller, directed by J. Walter Ruben.
Girl Crazy
Director of Photography
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
Consolation Marriage
Director of Photography
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
Way Back Home
Director of Photography
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
Friends and Lovers
Director of Photography
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
High Stakes
Director of Photography
High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars and marks the last starring screen appearance of silent screen diva Mae Murray. It is based on a 1924 Broadway play that starred Sherman playing the same role he plays in this film.
The Woman Between
Director of Photography
Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
Behind Office Doors
Director of Photography
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
Beau Ideal
Director of Photography
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
The Life of the Party
Director of Photography
Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.
The Pay-Off
Director of Photography
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
Leathernecking
Director of Photography
Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
Lawful Larceny
Director of Photography
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
Dixiana
Director of Photography
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.
Alias French Gertie
Director of Photography
A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted by another safecracker. Narrowly escaping arrest, they decide to pool their talents, but she gets the urge to reform and encourages him to do the same.
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Director of Photography
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived. Contemporary reviews were scathing, describing the film as a vastly overlong and boring talk-fest.
Love Comes Along
Director of Photography
An American sailor comes to a seedy banana republic, and finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl, as a saloon singer. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding about her feelings toward the local dictator threatens their happiness.
The Mighty
Director of Photography
In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in town as the new police commissioner.
The Virginian
Director of Photography
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
Why Bring That Up?
Director of Photography
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
The Dance of Life
Director of Photography
A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on the road, they get married. Soon their act begins to catch on, and they find themselves booked onto Broadway. They also realize that they actually are in love with each other, but just when things are starting to look up, the comic starts to let success go to his head.
Close Harmony
Director of Photography
Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get him a place on one of the programs. Max Mindel, the house manager, has a yen for Marjorie and, discovering that she is in love with Al, gives the band notice and hires harmony singers Barney & Bey as a replacement. Marjorie makes up to both men and soon breaks up the team. Al learns of her scheme, however, and makes her confess to the singers. Barney and Bey make up, and Max gives Al and his band one more chance. Al is a sensation, and Max offers him a contract for $1,000 a week.
Interference
Director of Photography
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.
Forgotten Faces
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A petty thief (Clive Brook) just robs the very rich at speakeasies, and gets away with it because the rich don't want the bad publicity, finally is caught and sent to Sing Sing. After good behavior, he gets an emergency permission for a return home, so that he may save his daughter from the hands of her disreputable mother (Baclanova). However, he must first promise not to kill his wife while he is out of prison.
Feel My Pulse
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A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.
Rubber Heels
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A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out to be a bumbling, inept fool--or so everyone thinks.
The Ace of Cads
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An officer in the British Guards takes to drink when a friend and fellow officer convinces the woman they both love that he has another woman.
Beau Geste
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Michael "Beau" Geste deixa a Inglaterra em desgraça e se junta à infame Legião Estrangeira Francesa. Ele se reencontra com seus dois irmãos no Norte da África, onde enfrentam maior perigo por parte de seu próprio comandante sádico do que dos rebeldes árabes.
Dancing Mothers
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An unfaithful husband and his daughter go on nightly club outings, leaving the mother at home. The mother rebels against her lonesome life and attempts to prevent a man from pursuing her daughter.
The American Venus
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A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, a hot-shot public relations man, quits the employ of Hugo Niles and goes to work for Gray, persuading Mary to enter the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, with the intention of using her to endorse her father's cold cream should she win. Mary breaks her engagement with Horace. When it appears that she will win the contest, Hugo lures her home on the pretext that her father is ill, and she misses the contest. Chip and Mary return to Atlantic City, discovering that the new Miss America has told the world that she owes all her success to Gray's cold cream. On this note, Chip and Mary decide to get married.
A Kiss for Cinderella
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An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.
The Manicure Girl
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A manicurist in the beauty shop of a large metropolitan hotel, is engaged to Antonio Luca an electrician. However she a meets James Morgan a wealthy guest who wants to go out with her, but she declines so he sends her ten dollars for theater tickets.
The Rejected Woman
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Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are trapped by a blizzard, her father thinks wrong of her...
Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. Prince Alexis is accused of a theft that he insists he didn’t commit. The evidence is stacked against him, but Holmes’ trusted friend, Dr. Watson, vouches for the prince. As the famed detective investigates, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Professor Moriarty.
Smilin' Through
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The story is essentially the same as the popular Jane Cowl play, with Talmadge in the dual role of Kathleen and Moonyean. Kathleen, a young Irish woman, is in love with Kenneth Wayne but is prevented from marrying him by her guardian John Carteret. John is haunted by memories of his thwarted love for Kathleen's aunt, Moonyean.
Love's Redemption
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A 1921 film directed by Albert Parker.
The Wonderful Thing
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A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.
The Sign on the Door
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A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.
The Passion Flower
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A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.
The Branded Woman
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A 1920 film directed by Albert Parker.
The Truth
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Becky Warder constantly indulges in the telling of little white lies. In an innocent effort to ease the troubled marriage of her quarreling friends Eve and Fred Lindon, Becky meets secretly with Fred, thereby constructing a web of deceit that leads Eve to suspect Becky of trifling with her husband's affections. Eve informs Becky's husband Tom of these meetings and Tom, suspicious, accuses his wife of infamy. ....
War Brides
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Joan is loved by a young man of the village and they are married. In a few weeks the husband, a soldier, is sent to the war-front along with his three brothers. Word is received that her husband has been killed in battle and Joan's first impulse is suicide by she is pregnant and her prospective motherhood makes her realize her new responsibility. The military authorities start a movement to get the young women of the country to marry departing soldiers, so that the empire may have another generation of fighting men. Word is received that the King is to pass through their village and Joan organizes the women in a general protest against the war. She leads them all, dressed in black, in a long procession to meet the Monarch. The soldiers threaten to shoot her unless she turns the women back, buy Joan comes face-to-face with the ruler and kills herself, as her message from the women that they refuse to make another generation victims of a ruthless militarism.