Joseph H. August

Загадочная девушка становится источником вдохновения для художника, который находится в творческом кризисе.

После атаки Перл-Харбора экипаж торпедных катеров в районе Филиппинских островов должен сразиться с превосходящими их силами японцев…

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.

Джейбз Стоун, простой фермер в Новой Англии, страдает от неурожая и долгов и не видит смысла продолжать заниматься фермерством. В отчаянии, он говорит, что готов продать душу в обмен на деньги и достойный урожай. Тут как тут появляется некий мистер Скрэтч, и предлагает контракт на семь лет: деньги, процветание и удача в обмен на душу. Вскоре к Стоуну приходит успех и он становится самым богатым фермером Новой Англии. Однако он становится тираном и теряет любовь семьи и уважение друзей. Через семь лет Стоун осознает свою ошибку, но контракт есть контракт. И спасти его может только блистательный оратор, возможно будущий президент Соединенных Штатов - Дэниэл Уэбстер...

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.

Элли Мэй Адамс живет в пользующемся дурной славой районе города вместе с матерью, подрабатывающей проституцией, отцом - пьяницей, младшей сестрой и бабушкой. Она влюбляется в трудолюбивого и амбициозного молодого человека Эда Уоллеса из благопристойного района. Элли скрывает от него своё происхождение. Молодые люди женятся, но когда Эд обнаруживает правду, их брак оказывается под угрозой.

Звонарь Собора Парижской Богоматери Квазимодо, его опекун и верховный судья Жеан Фролло, поэт Пьер Гренгуар и капитан королевской гвардии Феб де Шатопер влюбляются в цыганку Эсмеральду, но не предполагают, что тем самым обрекают её на верную смерть.

British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans

The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.

"Ганга Дин" можно назвать "Унесенными ветром" в жанре приключенческого боевика - в нем есть всего понемногу: юмор, саспенс, зрелищность, "экшн" и хорошая доля расизма, империализма и ксенофобии. Основанный на сюжете Бена Хехта и Чарлза МакАртура по замечательному стихотворению Редьярда Киплинга, этот захватывающий приключенческий фильм повествует об уничтожении бандой туземных повстанцев отдаленного британского поста в горах Индии. Туда отправляют трех ветеранов - сержантов Каттера, МакЧесни и Бэллэнтайна. Их сопровождает небольшой отряд солдат-индусов и носильщики воды, или бхисти, включая Ганга Дина, у которого в жизни только одна мечта - стать солдатом. Вскоре сержанты получают приказ - уничтожить секту убийц Тагов, которая ранее считалась мрачной легендой прошлого.

A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.

A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.

A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.

Романтичная жизнь леди Элис Маршмортон - тема большого количества сплетен и разных пари среди служащих замка Топли фамильного владения Маршмортонов. Чтобы победить в одном из очередных споров на тему: «Кто станет мужем юной графини» молодой служащий, подделав почерк девушки, пишет любовное письмо гастролирующему по Англии американскому танцору Джерри Холидэю, с которым она случайно за день до этого имела короткий разговор в Лондоне. Джерри попадается на эту уловку и приезжает в замок, ведь он давно ищет спутницу жизни из приличной семьи. Здесь ему предстоит столкнуться с массой конкурентов, которые не прочь также получить руку и сердце отнюдь не бедной и красивой наследницы замка...

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.

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.

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.

A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

Вдовец Генри Скарлетт бежит в Англию из Франции из-за обвинения в растрате. Его сопровождает дочь Сильвия, которую в целях маскировки переодевают в мальчика, Сильвестра. К ним присоединяется мошенник Джимми Монкли и легкомысленная сексуальная горничная Моди Тилт. Никто не может признать в Сильвии девочку, пока им не встречается художник Майкл Фэйн.

Джипо Нолан — бывший солдат Ирландской республиканской армии, который пытается утопить свое горе в бутылке. Он хочет сбежать из Дублина и начать новую жизнь вместе со своей женщиной. Когда британцы объявляют награду за информацию о местонахождении его лучшего друга, участника ИРА, Джипо сдает товарища. Он получает средства, позволяющие ему покинуть Ирландию, но сможет ли он сбежать от своей совести?

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.

A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.

Оскар Джаффе — успешный Бродвейский режиссер и продюсер, он ставит спектакли, которые собирают немалые деньги. Его боятся и уважают, успех постановок гарантирован, когда он говорит, все должны молчать. Его слово — закон. Однажды, во время очередной репетиции новой постановки, среди актеров-новичков он находит будущую звезду Бродвея Лили Гарлэнд. Эта девушка на три года становится его музой и их семейный дуэт «продюсер и актриса» возглавляет рейтинг успешных пар на театральных подмостках Нью-Йорка. Быстро текущее время и желание новых ощущений берет свое и в один из дней Лили решает порвать с театром ради карьеры в Голливуде. Фабрика грез манит красотку своими перспективами. Такой поворот сюжета не нравится Оскару: во-первых, жена — актриса приносит немалую прибыль его бизнесу; во-вторых, он все-таки, несмотря ни на что, ее любит.

The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

Однажды на улице, хорошо одетый господин кормил в парке лебедей, а рядом сидела молоденькая девушка Трина и голодными глазами смотрела на крошки хлеба. Сжалившись над бедным созданием, мужчина ведет ее в ресторан и кормит, но в итоге оказывается, что он, такой же бездомный, как и девушка, однако умеющий заставить обстоятельства при необходимости работать на себя. Он зарабатывает на жизнь случайными заработками и путешествует в новый город, когда здесь становится скучно. Билл, свободная душа без цента в кармане — грубый и жесткий обитатель трущоб, кто принимает участие в судьбе Трины. Герой Трэйси грубовато обращается с Триной, но очевидно, что он скрывает много граней за своей внешней жесткостью.

Slowly dying of an unspecified illness, wealthy invalid Charles Sellon wants his aide Neil Hamilton to end his suffering. Hamilton won't do it, but villainous lawyer Alan Dinehart, in line to inherit Sellon's millions, is not so charitable. Dinehart kills Sellon, then makes it look as though Hamilton murdered the old guy for his money.

Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".

Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice.

A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).

Чарли является предполагаемой жертвой убийства, и он избегает смерти только случайно. Чтобы найти убийцу (поскольку убийства, конечно же, случаются), Чарли должен перехитрить Скотланд-Ярд и полицию Нью-Йорка.

Чарли является предполагаемой жертвой убийства, и он избегает смерти только случайно. Чтобы найти убийцу (поскольку убийства, конечно же, случаются), Чарли должен перехитрить Скотланд-Ярд и полицию Нью-Йорка.

A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.

A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.

Двое осужденных Сент Луис и Дэннимора Дэн помогают другому осужденному по имени Стив, который влюбился в осужденную из женской части тюрьмы Джуди. В конце концов, и Стив, и Джуди освобождены из тюрьмы. Они женятся и уезжают в родной город Стива, где никто не догадывается о его преступном прошлом. Не долго, однако, пара наслаждалась счастливой и мирной жизнью, поскольку их семейное счастье оказалось в руках шантажиста и нечестного продавца Фросби, который знал раньше Джуди…

On Your Back is a 1930 American drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and written by Howard J. Green. The film stars Irene Rich, Raymond Hackett, H. B. Warner, Wheeler Oakman, Marion Shilling and Ilka Chase.

Based on a novel by William R. Lipman

Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example of a hybrid silent-talkie. A disgraced English sub commander changes his name to Burke and joins the American Navy. When the U.S. submarine on which he is serving as a torpedo launcher begins to sink, Burke must make the ultimate sacrifice to save as many crew men as possible..

Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there.

"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the frustration of his girlfriend Mary, he is not ambitious enough to take a white-collar position. But when he thwarts an attempted train robbery and saves the Queen of Lisonia's jewels, he is viewed as a hero and Mary finally agrees to marry him.

Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the man who made The Iron Horse and Four Sons.

Nancy Woods, secretary to a divorce lawyer, is tantalized by the idea of collecting alimony payments, she marries Stockney Webb with the intention of fleecing him after the honeymoon. Realizing that he has been fooled, Webb determines to teach Nancy, whom he truly loves, a lesson in humility and wifely behavior by taking her to his cabin in the wilderness.

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.

Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.

This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully only to meet him later in the boxing ring in New York City. Ambition has swept him to Broadway, but the search for love brings him back to the Main Street of his home town.

Set in a hotel straddling the border between California and Nevada, this early John Ford comedy follows a female hotel owner's efforts to turn a profit and get some work out of her husband.

Venus, the Goddess of Love (Celeste Lee) sends Cupid to Earth to look for romance.

Dan O'Hara, known as "Big Dan," returns from the war, and finding that his wife has left him, turns his home into a boys' camp and begins to train boxers. He meets Dora Allen, rescues her from an unwanted suitor, and gives her shelter in the camp. For a time, their relationship, which has become serious, is complicated by the intrusion of another suitor and by a woman who informs Dora that O'Hara is already married. The wife dies, however, and O'Hara wins Dora.

Bill is a gambler, whose friend Scipio goes in search of his wife Jessie. Jessie, fed up with her life of poverty, has run off with the wealthy and villainous James. She has left behind her two children on James' promise that she can send for them later. Scipio leaves the tots with Bill when he goes on his search..

A Western involving William S Hart as an outlaw who comes to the aid of a preacher in a small town through his infatuation with the preacher's wife. Rarely screened but considered one of his best; the version at the Library of Congress is missing one of the middle reels.

Ben Trego dies defending his twin sons from Indian attack. Separated, the two boys grow up very differently, one as Paul Marsden, the other as a cowboy named Three Word Brand. Paul becomes governor of Utah while Brand partners with George Barton in a ranch. The owner of the adjacent ranch plots to get Barton and Brand out of the way in order to control water rights. When Governor Marsden comes to the area to investigate, Brand sees the resemblance between them, though neither knows about his twin. Brand waylays Paul and takes his place as governor in an attempt to thwart the crooked rancher in the water rights scheme.

Robert must avenge his son who was killed in a workplace accident.

The tough outlaw 'Sierra' Bill falls in love with the traveling girl violinist Nelly Gray. Sierra forces her into marrying him. They have a child, but family life is interrupted by the gambler Ringe, who not only persuades Nelly to leave her husband but ruins Sierra at the gaming table. With thoughts of vengeance, the angry Sierra breaks out of jail and goes after Ringe.

Former crook 'Square' Kelly serves in the First World War. When he returns from the war, one of his comrades-in-arms convinces him to join the police force. But Kelly finds himself confronting the very criminals who made up his old gang.

Railroad station agent Dan Kurrie is fired from his job by his rival in love, Joseph Garber. Believed false by the girl he loves, Margaret , Kurrie must prove himself by unmasking a gang of bandits preying on the trains.

Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.

Cowhand Lem Beason wins a shooting contest at a Western rodeo, and as a result is hired by railroad president Gregory Collins to return to Chicago with Collins to take charge of security for Collins' vaults. Lem is reluctant to go, but Collins' pretty niece Rose changes his mind. In Chicago, Lem finds a great deal of criminal activity, but none of it can get the best of him.

A silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama about a man who gets out of prison after ten years and discovers that his wife has divorced him and married the man who sent him to prison. Worse yet, she fears he will want to exact revenge, so she sets up her new husband to frame her first husband, so he will be sent back to prison!

Drunk and disorderly cowpoke Robert Sands is banished from an Arizona frontier town and hops on a freight train heading for New York. Arriving in Manhattan, the rough-and-tumble cowboy obtains a position as "physical guardian" to a spoiled member of the social register.

In this 1918 film, newly restored by MoMA, Hart is a ship's captain in the Pacific Northwest who abandons his post to pursue a woman who does not love him (MacDonald) across the Klondike, eventually rescuing her from the grip of a white slaver.

Outlaw Hawk Parsons, notoriously successful in his pursuits, has been caught by the local sherif of a New Mexico town in the 1850s. The overly prideful sherif and his lawmen are outsmarted and Parsons escapes. In the desert, he falls in with a reverend, his wife, and their group of missionaries, who hope to establish a church. After coming under attack by a tribe of Native Americans, Parsons strikes a deal: in exchange for the safe keeping of the missionaries, he takes the reverend's wife for himself. Ultimately a parable of Christian values, the film's narrative establishes and overcomes obstacles that test the virtue of men in the American West.

Rawden, a lumberjack in the North woods, fights with crooked dance hall owner 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard over the affections of Babette DuFresne. Hilgard is killed. When Hilgard's mother and younger brother arrive in the remote logging town, Rawden attempts to ease their suffering by creating the fiction that Hilgard had been a well-loved man who died naturally. But when young Eric Hilgard learns the truth of his brother's death, he comes gunning for Rawden.

A hard-working prospector enters the town of Bakeoven to stake his claim, only to have his rights stolen and his face on "Wanted" posters. He plans reprisal.

Gambler "On-the Level" Leigh (William S. Hart) is forced to leave his high rolling lifestyle to move his ailing sister Alice (Mildred Harris) to the healing climate the mountains. Financial strain compels him to resume his favored vocation. Unfortunately for Level, the dance hall girl Coralie (Alma Rubens) doesn't take rejection well and convinces the dealer to clean him out with a "cold deck". A desperate robbery ensues, leading to Level wanted for murder!

The setting is the Old West town of Paradise, Nevada, where a young woman, Mercedes Murphy (played by Louise Glaum), co-owns and operates a combination saloon and dance hall called the Red Hen with her business partner, Slick Barney (played by Jack Richardson). Her little half-sister, Olive "Live" Sumner (played by Mildred Harris), who is crippled, lives with her and she makes every effort to protect the child. A tough, but good-hearted businesswoman, Mercedes shows a tender side at home with Live. Her partner, Slick, and a cowboy called the Heller (played by John Gilbert), who has a heart of gold, are both interested in Live.

William S. Hart was the great solitary Western hero of silent film who rode his horse off to new adventures once his job was done. In WOLF LOWRY, he meets a young settler played by Margery Wilson, herself a director in the early 1920s whose films are all considered lost.

William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope, and the name pretty much describes its inhabitants. Jim meets and falls in love with Jennie (Margery Wilson), whose father (Walt Whitman) is gravely ill. Jim rounds up a reluctant doctor from another town to tend to the old man, but he dies anyway. The doctor, however, gains Jennie's trust and she runs off with him. Only then does he tell her he's already married. She leaves immediately, but is too proud to go home so she finds work as a dance hall girl at Tacoma Jake's saloon. Jim, meanwhile, finds gold near Broken Hope, which raises its inhabitants' attitudes considerably. But the bad element is still there, and Jim is chasing after a group of kidnappers when he enters Tacoma Jake's saloon and sees Jennie. Jim not only overcomes the bad guys, he gets the girl, too.

Cliff Hudspeth, the leader of a band of outlaws in Arizona, has won his place by the killing of notorious gun-bullies. At their headquarters, in the Gila Mountains, in consultation with "Ace High," his lieutenant, he plans depredations on the neighboring settlements. Although Hudspeth is powerful, their rule is disputed by El Salvador, a half-breed, and his following of desperadoes. Desert Pass is the scene of many conflicts between the contending bands. Rumors of the arrival of miners with gold causes El Salvador to send "Cactus" Fuller, his henchman, to levy tribute by a hold-up, which is successful. Flushed with triumph, he boasts in the "Golden Fleece" saloon of the ignominies to which he would treat Cliff Hudspeth if he ever met him.

A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.

A Spanish boy is shipwrecked and cast ashore in Mexico in the sixteenth century. He is raised as a god by the Tehuan tribe, who have never before seen a white man, and is named Chiapa. Then at manhood he rules the Tehuans. Chiapa loves the priestess Tecolote but she is kidnapped by the Aztec warrior Mexitli, so he follows in the hopes of rescuing her.

Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in the following fracas. In the spirit world, Christ commends the captain, and returns to earth in the commander's body to promote His message of peace.

Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rage, he kidnaps the woman most responsible and makes her his slave in a desert hideaway.

Family relationships of a New Mexico family are just one part of this silent cowboy western about a war veteran who finds a goldmine. He wants to earn enough money to take care of his young son, but crooked officials swindle him out of the mine, and then his son is killed. He swears vengeance and joins up with Mexican bandit, "Pancho Zapilla", who intends to destroy his whole town.

When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, saloon owner Silk Miller and his cohorts sense danger to their evil ways. They hire gunman Blaze Tracy to run the minister out of town. But Blaze finds something in Faith Henley that turns him around, and soon Silk Miller and his compadres have Blaze to deal with.

When Ashley Hampdon becomes the target of a scheme to ruin him by his daughter's suitor, Hampdon sends for his old friend Bob White. Bob discovers that the suitor, Gregg Lewiston, cannot hope to win Lina Hampdon while her father's wealth remains intact. Lewiston hopes that if her family becomes destitute, she will turn to him. But Bob White is there to upset the scheme.

Начало Гражданской войны в США, южане в массовом порядке записываются в армию. Юный Фрэнк, сын полковника Уинслоу, однако не горит желанием стать солдатом. Тем не менее суровый отец заставляет его записаться добровольцем. И видно судьба ему стать дезертиром, если бы не случай - северяне наступали и в доме Уинслоу расположился вражеский штаб...

Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier community.

An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York.

After the bandit Jim Stokes robs the stage he is wounded fleeing. Recuperating at a ranch, he falls in love with and marries the daughter. Now wishing to go straight he tries to return the money but is recognized and captured. When the Sheriff then loses the recovered money at a crooked roulette table, he and Stokes strike a bargain.