(archive footage)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Burgher
Сын барона Франкенштейна вместе с женой и сыном возвращается в деревню своих предков, чтобы унаследовать дом своего отца. Их встречают неприветливо, так как жители деревни никак не могут забыть монстра, созданного бароном. Прибывший наследник встречает Игоря, пастуха, приговоренного к смерти за кражу трупов. Тот приводит сына барона в семейный склеп, где лежит монстр, находящийся в коме. Одновременно терзаемый воспоминаниями о невероятных опытах своего отца и одолеваемый желанием реабилитировать его как ученого, сын оживляет монстра и возвращает ему былые силы...
Old Man Sitting next to Mary at the Banquet Table (uncredited)
Мэри Смит не может посещать ночные заведения или расслабляться любым другим подобным образом, потому что любой намёк скандала может повредить политической карьере её отца. Однажды ей это надоедает и она с двумя другими девушками отправляется на свидание с участниками родео. Своему новому кавалеру — Стречу — Мэри говорит, что она горничная и что она сбежала из дома, так как её избивает отец. Возлюбленные решают убежать. Теперь Мэри стоит перед выбором: продолжать ей авантюру со Стречем или вернуться домой.
Old Man
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Andrew
Семейка Карлтонов зарабатывают на жизнь игрой в карты. Они находятся в постоянном поиске новых жертв, которых можно обмануть. Когда очередная афёра Карлтонов проваливается, они вынуждены покинуть Монте-Карло. На железнодорожном вокзале они знакомятся с приятной пожилой дамой мисс Фортуна, которая очень богата и очень одинока. Во время поездки происходит железнодорожная катастрофа и Карлтоны спасают жизнь мисс Фортуны. Старушка в награду приглашает Карлтонов пожить в её лондонском особняке…
Tom Riggins
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
Stationmaster (uncredited)
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
Stockholder - Receivership Hearing Member
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.
Old Man (Uncredited)
Десять лет не был в родном городе Мартин по прозвищу Детское личико. За это время он стал солидным гангстером с соответствующим послужным списком (ограбления, убийства) и характерными внешними приметами (дорогой прикид, пачки долларов и пистолет в кармане). Его малая родина — это нью-йоркские трущобы, где мечта людей вырваться из бедности так и остается мечтой, где любой подросток без колебаний готов пойти по жизни неверной дорогой гангстера. Мать прогоняет блудного сына, бывшая подружка тоже не рада встрече с ним. Если бы только этим ограничились «неприятности» Мартина. Как известно, возвращаться — очень плохая примета…
Egyptologist (uncredited)
In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police.
Ray (uncredited)
История теряющего популярность актера, предлагающего официантке сделать из нее знаменитость. Через некоторое время карьера девушки взлетает до небес, а его слава окончательно угасает.
A romantic headwaiter fights to save a woman from her possessive ex-husband.
Giles Cory (Uncredited)
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Henry the Butler (uncredited)
После того, как Ник Чарльз виртуозно распутывает дело Винанта, супруги возвращаются в Сан-Франциско, чтобы насладиться новогодними праздниками и обществом друг друга. Родственники Норы — ее тетя Кэтрин Форрест и кузина Сельма Ландис — пребывают в отчаянии, так как муж Сельмы, Роберт, не появляется дома вот уже трое суток. Они приглашают супругов на ужин, и Кэтрин просит Ника помочь разыскать Роберта. Тот нехотя соглашается.
Attorney General's Associate
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
Old Man in Hospital
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
Waiter
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
Sir Frederick (Uncredited)
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
Reporter
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Villager (uncredited)
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
Pigeon Receiver
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Elderly Dancer in Music is Magic Number (uncredited)
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
Don Salvador de Aragon
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
Nervous Thackeray Club Waiter (uncredited)
В богатом Лондонском отеле американский певец и танцовщик Джерри Трэверс глубокой ночью показывает своему импресарио очередной танцевальный номер. Звонкий стэп танцора разбудил красавицу Дэйл Тремон, снимающую комнату этажом ниже. Возмущенная девушка поднялась наверх и знакомство с нарушителем тишины состоялось.
Robert, the Butler
A visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang.
Agitator
Король Франции Людовик XIII, находящийся под влиянием своего министра - кардинала Ришелье, готовит указ, ущемляющий права крупных феодалов. Недовольные таким положением вещей и растущей властью кардинала, королева-мать, королева Анна Австрийская и граф Барада пытаются, в отсутствие своего главного врага, убедить короля подписать указ об отставке Ришелье. Им почти удается достичь своей цели, но неожиданное возвращение кардинала спутывает им планы. В результате свершившихся событий в стране зреет заговор. Опирающие на поддержку англичан и испанцев, заговорщики, при участии королевы-матери, стремятся свергнуть короля Людовика XIII и посадить на трон его слабовольного брата Гастона. Кардинал Ришелье плетет интриги, пытаясь разрушить планы врагов короля и укрепить могущество Франции. Между тем воспитанница кардинала, юная красавица Ленора, недавно покинувшая стены монастыря, и Андре де Понс, один из заговорщиков, влюбляются друг в друга...
Wiff' Wiffens (Uncredited)
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
Old Man in Club
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
Hotel Manager
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
Barrister (Uncredited)
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
Judge
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
Rich Man
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
Janitor
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Stoner, the Bennet Butler
Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
Puppeteer
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Old Farmer with Barn (uncredited)
Химик поселяется в маленькой деревенской гостинице и совершает первое убийство. Оказывается, юный химик открыл ужасную формулу, опасный препарат, делающий человеческую плоть невидимой. Интерес у него был исключительно научный, но препарат имел побочный эффект, превративший его в маньяка. Почти сразу же он начинает искать противоядие, которое могло бы вернуть его в нормальное состояние…
Pop - the Stage Doorman
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.
Fred's Father
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
Town Crier (uncredited)
A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
Amos Gray
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her.
Mr. Pierrepont
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
The Man from Manchester (Uncredited)
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
Augus
He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Ray Harris and Harlan Thompson. The film stars Stuart Erwin, Susan Fleming, Alison Skipworth, Gordon Westcott, Grant Mitchell and Sidney Toler. The film was released on November 4, 1932, by Paramount Pictures
Mr. Johnson
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
Judge
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Mrs. Walker's Dancing Partner (uncredited)
Умирающий миллионер, окруженный толпой жадных наследников, придумывает способ употребить свои деньги с пользой: раздать случайным людям, выбранным наугад из телефонной книги. Однако не каждому из «счастливчиков», среди которых затюканный женой продавец, проститутка, мошенник, пара бывших цирковых артистов, приговорённый к смерти, клерк, легкомысленный вояка и пожилая дама, деньги пойдут впрок.
Williams
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
Grandpa Zachary Thayer
Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the spell of the town vamp Jill Fenwick.
Wedding Spectator (uncredited)
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Sir Pitt's Butler Parker
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Dietenhofer
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
Littleton
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
Tom Allison
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
Elderly Party Guest (uncredited)
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
Old Man at Graduation Dance (uncredited)
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
Mr. Bradkin
Четыре года назад, Майкл Тревор был многообещающим журналистом по имени Джимми Пауэре, но из-за скандального инцидента, он вынужден был покинуть Соединенные Штаты и перебраться в Париж, где стал издателем бульварной газетенки. Его бизнес процветает за счет скандальных статеек о ночной жизни богатых людей, а, кроме того, он частенько берет деньги с согрешивших в ночном Париже приезжих добропорядочных американцев, за то чтобы статьи об их приключениях не увидели свет.
Последней жертвой джентльмена - рэкетира стал Гарри Тэйлор, толстый угольный король из Штата Пенсильвания. Выдавая себя за американского романиста, Майкл приходит в гостиничный номер с еще неопубликованной статьей из бульварной газетенки и оказывает «дружескую поддержку» Тэйлору, заявляя, что он подаст в суд на редактора скандальной газетки, который собирается напечатать заметку о любовном свидании миллионера и некой блондинки.
Commander
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.
Elderly Fashion Show Spectator
Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.
King's Aide
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted by a pool of water, she disrobes and plunges in. Cosse de Brissac, a handsome private in the King's Guards, comes to her rescue and they become sweethearts. Meanwhile, Jean Du Barry, a shrewd roué, takes note of her at the millinery shop and tricks her into staying at La Gourda's, where she soon becomes a favorite among the men.
Rheumatic Old Man
Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with her sister.
Williams
Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to save the man she loves, Rupert Endon (Ian Keith), from being unjustly arrested as a thief. Rupert, unaware of the reason his sweetheart married his rival, goes to the Far East where he grows rich after discovering a diamond mine. He breaks Eve's husband by underselling him and then returns to England to exact his revenge on the woman he thinks did him wrong.
The Astrologer
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.
Edgar, the old beau
Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.
Edward Madison
"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.
Admiral
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
Colonel
Хью "Бульдог" Драммонд, британский ветеран Первой Мировой, в мирной жизни не находит себе место - ему слишком скучно среди повседневной, обывательской рутины. Но в тот момент, когда он занят поисками чего-то нового и волнующего, к нему обращается молодая девушка с просьбой спасти ее отца - того, без чьего-бы то ни было согласия, упекли в частную лечебницу, где пытаются силой отнять все его состояние. "Бульдог" Драммонд просто не может остаться в стороне...
Colonel Long (as Thomas Ricketts)
A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-speeding campaign, she uses an assumed name. She is paroled into the custody of an assistant district attorney, who doesn't know who she really is.
Charles Smith
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.
Wicks
When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.
Joseph
Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis and women. However, Elizabeth seeks a wild time and ends up leaving France with her father's drinking buddy, Freddie, and Willoughby goes back to his dry martinis.
Makepeace Witter
After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
Percival's Butler
A woman must choose between a life on the farm and a life of luxury.
Quintus Newtoon
A silent film from the end of the silent era.
Judge Elmer Elderberry Egbert Belmore
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt Bedelia (Ethel Wales), whisks her away. On a mission to "find the girl," Tommy looks for her everywhere. He unknowingly befriends her brother Charlie, who invites him to spend the evening in Smith's palatial home. The next morn Aunt Bedelia finds Tommy with his head wrapped in a towel and assumes him to be the Hindu prince that Charlie promised to bring to her society party. Introduced to all as a Prince from Calcutta, Tommy is forced to see the charade through. But the local con-man Charlie had previously arranged to appear at the party as the Prince shows up as well. At least Tommy is able to reconnect with Barbara, that is until the police show up with orders to arrest all fake fakirs.
Old Man in Wax Museum
Молодая американка Нэнси, будучи первый раз в Париже, влюбляется в молодого и красивого сына французского герцога. Однако он, согласно древнему семейному обычаю, уже с детских лет обручён с дочерью маркиза. Нэнси задумывает преодолеть это препятствие и получить желаемого мужчину.
Professor Meekham
Cynthia Botts is the headmistress of a girls' school who has left a fortune on the condition that no scandal could ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of Sandy McTavish, a romantic sailor and Charlotte Ralston is just around the corner.
The Secretary
Китти, Тед и Джин — друзья детства, и все они дети разведенных родителей. Повзрослев, они полны решимости не совершать подобных семейных ошибок. Китти влюблена в Вико, но у него недостаточно денег, чтобы содержать ее так, как ей хотелось бы. У Теда есть деньги, но он и Джин любят друг друга. Не обращая внимания на счастье своей подруги, Китти обманывает пьяного Теда, выйдя за него замуж.
Butler
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
Bride's Father
A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.
Laughing Spectator (uncredited)
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
Marquis of Hurlshire
A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the girl is Jewish, her new "husband" lets her know that the marriage is strictly a business matter and that he could never have romantic feelings for one of "her kind".
Deacon Ezra Boody
Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of, but, so far, her aunts haven't approved of any man she knows. Ann tries to get a bashful hotel clerk to marry her in name only, and then get a divorce, but he refuses to because he is in love with her. Her cousin then brings in another clerk and Ann now has two men on her hands. Ann now wants to marry the first clerk, having discovered she also loves him, but the aunts object. She then hires two gigolos to charm her aunts into a compromising situation.
Mistaken identity and female impersonation take place when indigents Billy Winthrop (George K. Arthur) and Ethel Winthrop (Dorothy Reviere) rent a fashionable apartment for a few days in order to impress rich uncle Hiram (Tom Ricketts.) Complications and misunderstanding arise.
Jean (as Thomas Ricketts)
Stubbins
Despite the fact that he has a beautiful wife who loves him and a good home, gold-digger Lillian Loring discovers that Ralph Hedman is a pushover for her winsome wiles and ways. Ralph's wife, Alice, becomes suspicious when she sees them together at lunch one day. He asks for a divorce but Alice says she wants to keep the marriage going for at least a year, for appearances sake, and says she will agree to a divorce then if he still wants it. Alive stays home alone for three months while Ralph is living it up as a full member of the Jazz Age. He gets sick and Alice invites Lillian to come over and help get him well. Lillian decides that lots of saxophone playing and wild dancing is the best cure. Alice takes all she can stand, leaves a note for Ralph and departs the premises. Ralph also takes his own departure, after leaving a note for Alice. Lillian keeps on partying. Alice and Ralph, driving their respective cars into an intersection, have a collision.
Henry Curlew
In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
Maurice Penelli
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform as the Madame Adele of old, and both become the darlings of Paris, one again and the other newly-crowned.
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex-husband tries to blackmail her. Mamie is saved from suicide by Eric, who's in a compromising position when he brings her home.
Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and clumsy, but also quite fascinating. She takes him into her employ insisting he does everything she asks.
Mr. Brewster
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
Andrew J. Casson (as Thomas Ricketts)
Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas.
The Rounder (as Thomas Ricketts)
Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts with him and is fired. Because she is mad at her fiancé, William Norworth, Mary takes off in Kent's car and she doesn't come home until the early hours. Her father is furious and slaps her, so she leaves home. Kent offers to let her stay in his apartment, while he sleeps at the club.
Valet
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.
Mr. Peck
Rufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is now a hypochondriac of the first order. Now an adult Rufus has learned his late father has left him $750,000 but he won't inherit the sum for three more years. Rufus is certain he is on death's door and will never last three years so his Doctor arranges for a loan of $100,000 to pay for a live in nurse. Rufus only has to sign over his inheritance to the greedy trio of Clinch, McIntosh and Peck who along with the doctor are confident he'll live long enough to pay his debt.
The Old Man
Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy, Donald Dillingham causes even greater disapproval by marrying chorus girl Ardell Kendall. Learning that famous sculptor Gustaf Borgstrom wishes to use Ardell as model, the Dillinghams suddenly welcome Donald and Ardell to their estate. Donald surrenders to both the jazzy pleasures and the attentions of Maybelle Wescott, but Ardell remains aloof and in order to pay off Maybelle threatens Mr. Dillingham with exposure of his infatuation with a chorus girl.
Jerry Hammond
Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
Archibald Crumm
Circe, The Enchantress
Charles Dinwiddie
Нью-йоркский драматург Ли Клэверинг влюблён в таинственную европейскую молодую красавицу, которая очень похожа на богатую и красивую светскую женщину, покинувшую Америку много лет тому назад и которой сейчас должно быть около 60-ти лет. Сначала он думает, что его избранница — дочь или племянница той женщины. Однако дальнейшие события покажут, что он ошибался…
John Standish Lane
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
Lush (as Thomas Ricketts)
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when the two Russian thieves Anna Valeska and her partner Borolsky, arrive at the mansion one dark night.
General Hastings
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law.
Vidame de Pameir (as Thomas Ricketts)
A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
Anton Huber
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
Rev. Dr. Romney
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as Shattered Idols. Jean Hurst, the widow of a British Army officer in India, hates her crippled son David because she thinks he is a coward and a weakling. She sends him away to England for his education. When he returns to India, he falls in love with native girl Sarasvati, who he saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
Jules Fanchette
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow safecracker. Out of "professional courtesy" he informs Lawson of what he has done. Instead of calling the police, Lawson--who believes in the philosophy of "honor among thieves"--makes a deal with Charlie: to show Charlie that it's actually more profitable to be a legitimate businessman then a crook, he'll give Charlie some money if Charlie will use it to establish a legitimate business in the small town of Plumfield, and at the end of a year they will divide up whatever profits Charlie is able to make honestly. Charlie agrees, but soon discovers that things aren't going to be quite as easy as he thought.
Uncle James (as Thomas Ricketts)
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and her wealthy aunts and uncle refuse to give her any money. Katherine is desperate enough that she is considering marrying the wealthy Montee Buck (Hiers), although she is in love with the westerner Tom Jaffrey (Fillmore), who says he is poor. Finally, Katherine decides to sell the famous Van Riper pearls, pay off her debts, and marry Tom. However, upon examination the jewelry turns out to be paste, with her father having sold the genuine pearls several years earlier before his death. Montee is assured by the aunts that Katherine will marry him and tells this to Tom. Tom is about to leave town when Uncle James (Ricketts) steps in and pays off Katherine's debts, leaving the niece free to marry Tom.
Tim Westmore
Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-brother Frankie Lee until a handsome stranger (Jack Conway) rescues them.
Potter
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the star. Carlo Sonino, also a member of the company, falls in love with Ethel and warns her against becoming infatuated with the amorous singer.
Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endears herself to all, especially Victor Baron, the invalid son who has written the play. He begs her to stay on to help him write another play, despite the reluctance of his mother.
Butler
Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out his sweetheart, Mabel Darrow, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, as soon as Henry gets the money, his tailor demands that he pay off his debt. Also, youngsters set the car on fire before he can give to the winner, Joseph Plant, whose wife Evelyn was formerly Henry's sweetheart.
Major Archie Phipps
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
Priest
After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself so that her lover will go off to battle. When he makes a purchase from Tomotada, an image maker, he meets his pretty daughter O-Riu, and they recreate the events of the legend.
Director
Director
"Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the abuse of moral law. It is a stirring plea for a pure life before marriage, in order to make impossible the transmission of hereditary traits to future generations. This film is presumed lost.
Director
The Thomas family are the owners of a large horse ranch, on the borders of New Mexico. A neighboring band of Apaches, under the famous Geronimo, had for several years been at peace, consequently the Thomas ranch was in a flourishing condition. Tom, the foreman, and Jerry, one of his trusted lieutenants, are rivals for the hand of Jess, the ranch owner's daughter.
Director
Will Barton is really sick and about to. He is afraid of leaving his daughter Netta alone in the world.
Director
A silent short Western comedy film directed by Thomas Ricketts.
Writer
Daniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well. In the dead of the night, a burglar enters the Lyttell home. His silent footsteps reach the ear of the sick man. Clara, too, hears mysterious noises. She pacifies Daniel and tells him to rest and sleep. Softly she steals out of the room to investigate and soon discovers the burglar. Quickly rushes to the telephone, but finds that the wires have been cut. For a moment she hesitates and fears, fears for her husband. Goes to his bedside and rejoices to find him asleep. Hastily dons a wrap and envelops her head in a black veil, leaves the room and busies herself rummaging in the drawers of a desk. The burglar comes upon her but is unable to intimidate the brave little woman. Clara tells him she, too, is a thief; only she came to steal very important letters. When the man attempts to go into the bedroom for his "haul," she commands him to stay where he is.
Director
Daniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well. In the dead of the night, a burglar enters the Lyttell home. His silent footsteps reach the ear of the sick man. Clara, too, hears mysterious noises. She pacifies Daniel and tells him to rest and sleep. Softly she steals out of the room to investigate and soon discovers the burglar. Quickly rushes to the telephone, but finds that the wires have been cut. For a moment she hesitates and fears, fears for her husband. Goes to his bedside and rejoices to find him asleep. Hastily dons a wrap and envelops her head in a black veil, leaves the room and busies herself rummaging in the drawers of a desk. The burglar comes upon her but is unable to intimidate the brave little woman. Clara tells him she, too, is a thief; only she came to steal very important letters. When the man attempts to go into the bedroom for his "haul," she commands him to stay where he is.
Director
The Marines are sent to rescue an American engineer in Nicaragua.
Ebenezer Scrooge
Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scrooge to donate enter. However, Scrooge dismisses them. On the night of Christmas Eve, his long-dead partner Jacob Marley comes as a ghost, warning him of a horrible fate if he does not change his ways.
