Judge Williams
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.
Minor Role (uncredited)
Filme biográfico sobre a vida de Abraham Lincoln, um dos mais marcantes presidentes dos Estados Unidos. A narrativa mostra desde a juventude de Lincoln, quanto era um advogado, até sua eleição para a Casa Branca.
Committeeman (uncredited)
Ingênuo homem do interior (James Stewart) é convidado para preencher uma vaga no Senado dos Estados Unidos. Aos poucos vai descobrindo o mar de lama que é o ambiente político dos comandantes de seu país. Tudo em que acredita está ameaçado. Como enfrentar esses poderosos Senadores e dirigentes políticos?
Instructor in Montage
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Mr. Patton
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
Oliver Ames (uncredited)
Sinopse: Cecil B. DeMille nos leva de volta ao ano 1860, então reconstrói a primeira ferrovia intercontinental, a Union Pacific. Um dos últimos feitos do Presidente Lincoln foi autorizar a expansão da Union Pacific para o oeste dos EUA. Um espetáculo real e histórico, que as vezes mescla as aventuras fictícias do inspetor ferroviário (McCrea), a bilheteira (Stanwyck), e o melhor amigo de McCrea, Preston. Infelizmente, Preston une-se a Donlevy, que está empenhado a destruir a ferrovia, em nome de um cartel de políticos corruptos. Durante um ataque indígena, McCrea e Preston lutam lado a lado para salvar Stanwyck, então o inspetor tenta convencer Preston, a tornar-se um homem honesto.
Townsman
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Specialist #1 (uncredited)
Uma jovem socialite é diagnosticada com um tumor cerebral e deve decidir se vai ou não conhecer seus últimos dias com dignidade. Judith Traherne está no auge da sociedade quando o Dr. Frederick Steele diagnostica um tumor no seu cérebro. Após a cirurgia, ela se apaixona por Steele. O médico diz à secretária que o tumor vai voltar e eventualmente matá-la. Quando fica sabendo disso, Judith se torna maníaca depressiva. Seu treinador de cavalos, Michael, que a ama, diz a ela para tirar o máximo de proveito da vida possível. Ela se casa com o Dr. Steele, que pretende encontrar uma cura para sua doença. Quando ele vai para uma conferência em Nova York, Judith começa a ter falhas de visão, o que indica a que ela está morrendo.
Senator in the Dome Cafe
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
Vernon Castle é um ator cômico se segunda categoria. Ele conhece Irene Castle em uma praia de Nova Jersey. Os dois logo se apaixonam e se casam. Após muito insistir, Irene convence Vernon a desistir da comédia para começarem uma nova carreira como bailarinos. A agente Maggie Sutton descobre o talento do casal e Vernon e Irene atingem o sucesso. Mas quando estão no auge da fama, inicia-se a 1ª Guerra Mundial.
Citizen League Member
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
Silent Banker (uncredited)
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Board Member (uncredited)
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
Governor (uncredited)
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Dr. Matthews
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Guest (uncredited)
Um brilhante médico da Park Avenue, interessado em estudar a fundo a mente criminosa, resolve então se tornar um criminoso.
Dog Show Judge
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Dr. Reynolds
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
Judge
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
Man at Premiere (uncredited)
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
Mr. Killy (uncredited)
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
Bus Passenger (Uncredited)
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.
Theatrical Agent in Montage (uncredited)
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.
Elderly Man
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
Dinner Guest (uncredited)
A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.
Elderly Man in Hallway
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.
Judge (uncredited)
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Vice Admiral
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
Judge William H. Avery
When silver is found in Virginia City, Lawyer John Storm leads a group from Indiana west. He soon has to defend them all in court against a company that is after their claims. Fighting a crooked Judge, he gets a mis-trial by telling how much each of the jurors was bribed. Then he gets the Governor to appoint a new Judge. But just as the retrial opens, the Judge learns his daughter has been kidnaped.
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
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.
Pendleton (uncredited)
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
Senator
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
George Washington Peachtree
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
John J. Foster (Uncredited)
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
Board Member
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Mr. Fletcher (uncredited)
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
Man at Bar
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Colonel
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
Prison Board Member (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
King's Chamberlain
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
Banker (uncredited)
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
School Board Member
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Legislator
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Dinner Guest (uncredited)
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Gloria's Father, Jim
Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
Theater Patron
Uma mulher não consegue decidir entre dois homens que a amam, e o trio concorda em tentar viver juntos em um relacionamento amigável platônico.
Dois americanos que partilham um apartamento em Paris, o dramaturgo Tom Chambers (Fredric March) e o pintor George Curtis (Gary Cooper), são seduzidos pelo espírito livre de Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins). Quando ela não consegue decidir com qual deles ela prefere ficar, propõe um "acordo de cavalheiros": Ela vai morar com eles como uma amiga e crítica de seus trabalhos, mas nunca vão ter relações sexuais. Mas quando Tom vai a Londres para supervisionar a produção de uma de suas peças, deixando Gilda sozinha com George, por quanto tempo o Acordo de Cavalheiros vai durar?
First Minister of Finance (uncredited)
Rufus T. Firefly é nomeado presidente/ditador da corrupta Freedonia e declara guerra à sua vizinha, Sylvania, disputando o amor da rica Sra. Teasdale.
American Consul
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.
Jefferson (uncredited)
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
Captain Gallon
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
Mr. Winslow
Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new husband, Patience is marooned on a desert island with handsome Captain Edmunds. Her head full of notions that she's gleaned from radio dramas and pulp novels, Patience demands that she and Edmunds enter into an in-name-only marriage, observing the responsibilities and proprieties of matrimony without the sexual entanglements. Complications naturally arise.
Mr. Grey Sr
Freddie, a rich young idler, meets Julia Harrington, a wealthy social service worker who runs a haven for reformed criminals. By telling her he is a hardened criminal, he is allowed to stay at the mission.
John Markham
Just out of jail and vowing to go straight, former jewel thief Boston Blackie, undertakes the reformation of a pretty blonde who has stolen a necklace from a cabaret dancer. He learns that the jewel belongs to the mother of the blonde girl, and the blonde's philandering father gave it as a gift to the cabaret girl. Now, Blackie must find a way to return the necklace to the owner's safe without arousing the suspicions of the girl's family.
Eleanor's Father
A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.
Jonathan Sims
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings.
The High Priest
The Green Goddess is a 1923 American silent adventure film based on the play The Green Goddess by William Archer. Set during the British Raj, it stars George Arliss as the Rajah of Rukh, into whose land arrive three British subjects, played by Alice Joyce, David Powell, and Harry T. Morey.
Director
Andy Walker, bullied and taunted with being a coward, leaves town on a freight. The brakeman shoots two ruffians, but Andy is hailed as the hero and made a deputy sheriff.
Director
Former A. E. F. boxing champion Tom Harper, who suffered gas poisoning, is sent to the mountains to regain his health so that he can re-enter the ring and earn the money needed for his crippled sister's operation. Under strict orders not to exert himself, Tom allows himself to be beaten up by Phillip Brand, the town bully, in front of his girl, Harriet Monroe.
Director
A railroad detective is falsely accused by a rancher's daughter Virginia Valli of being a notorious outlaw.
Director
Although renowned pediatrician Dr. Jim Keene loves his wife, Helen, she resents his devotion to his work and finds solace with other men. After the death of one of Jim’s young patients causes him to suffer a nervous collapse, the couple takes a sea voyage to restore his health.
Director
Young minister Keith Rollins comes to a backwoods community in Kentucky and finds that lawless and political elements are against him and threaten his position with the congregation.
Director
When her father, an indigent artist, dies, Sylvia Lacey goes to live with her Aunt Martha and her uncle, Judge Trent, in New England, where she is unwanted and humiliated. Though she and John Dunham, her uncle's young law partner, fall in love, she believes he intends to marry the daughter of a wealthy neighbor.
Director
After Mark Hanlon gambles away his fortune and his equity in his house, his daughter Molly marries Kirk, proprietor of the gambling hall; and as mistress of the gaming tables, she meets young Miles Rand, exiled to the West for his reckless behavior.
Director
Donald Grant, after serving a prison term, obtains a job in a smalltown factory where he meets Helen Wilburton, who invites him to board with her and her father. He marries her, and on the first night of their honeymoon, a burglary is traced to one of Donald's former cohorts.
Director
An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.
Director
In this picture, Sessue Hayakawa is in a dual role, playing twin brothers. One of them, Yamashiro is serious and hardworking, while the other, Sadao, is a playboy. There is a girl, Toko-Ku, who loves them both, but really prefers the bad boy. Sadao encounters Paul Berkowitz in a gambling den and borrows far more money from him than he can ever pay back.
Director
A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.
Director
The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister Mary is engaged to Ashutor's college friend, James Bassett. Although Kate loves Ashutor, she says marriage would make them social outcasts.
Director
Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their living separately and only meeting on Wednesday evenings, as they did while they were engaged. Warren's boss, however, who was never enamored of the idea, fires him when he bungles an account and loses the company a large order. On top of that, through a series of misunderstandings Warren comes to believe that his wife is pregnant and his mother-in-law believes that Warren is having an affair with Betty's friend Ethel. Things go downhill for Warren from there.
Director
Sessue Hayakawa was making the transition from Asian villain to sympathetic hero in this picture. The plot is a combination of racial stereotypes that were common in the U.S. during the silent era and real-life situations experienced by Asians living Stateside. Hayakawa plays Suki Iota, a student who, while born and bred in America, wants a wife with traditional Japanese values. She appears in the form of Rei (Tsuru Aoki, Hayakawa's real-life wife), a singer who becomes known as the Japanese Nightingale.
Director
Toyama wants to go to college in America but his alcoholic father won't supply the funds. He gets the money to go, however, from Sada, whom he has married in secret. But Sada has a secret of her own -- she told Toyama that she got the money from a relative, but the truth is that she has signed up to do a four-year stint as a Geisha girl.
Director
Yukio is illegal in the United States and is used by a gang of spies for their plans. Yukio must steal secret documents from an admiral. When he's submitting the documents to the gang, he realizes what he has done and claims the documents back. A struggle follows.
Director
A publicist for a racy burlesque troupe romances the daughter of the head of The Purity League, an organization that wishes to see such shows banned.
Director
In his will, Mr. Baird leaves his son Arnold (Franklyn Farnum ) just one seven-passenger auto and a hundred dollars to keep it filled up and in good repair. When James Bennett (Mark Fenton) hears of this, he insists that Baird do something to make his fortune before he can marry his daughter Ruth (Agnes Vernon). Bennett begins by using the car to start a jitney-bus line. This is not terribly impressive to Bennett -- who owns a trolley company -- and he decides he would rather see Ruth married to his controller, William Mott-Smith (H.J. Bennett).
Director
Director
A 1917 American silent comedy film
Director
Director
Director
A rancher moves to the city, and finds competition for the affections of an heiress in the form of a doppelganger.
Director
Love Never Dies was set in France, and convincingly so (which was not often the case in American-made films of this period). It is established in the first reel that hero Felix and heroine Cecile have been sweethearts since childhood. Later on, Fate forces Felix and Cecile to separate, but viewers could take heart in the positive sentiments expressed by the film's title.
Director
The False Part
Director
The Wire Pullers
Prof. Ashleigh / Lord Ashleigh / Lady Ashleigh
Science fiction serial, presumed lost.
Old Carl Bauer
1915 film with Jack Holt
Damon
The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.
Gen. George Washington
An American agent exchanges places in prison with a condemned British officer and brother of a woman he greatly admires and goes to the gallows.
Ladal
Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.
The Stranger
The Dreamer is unhappy with his marriage and runs away. He collapses and is found by The Desert Flower, who convince him to return to his family. In various illusions he sees himself in three stories. In first is Napoleon. In the second he is a Knight. And in the third a Sultan. But in all the illusions he die. Meanwhile his wife is about to be send into the desert while refusing to remarry a Stranger. Before this could happen, the Dreamer arrives and send the Stranger into the desert. He becomes again a loved and respected member of the Town.
