Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
The Umpire
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
Mike the Bartender (uncredited)
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
Honest John
Skipalong Rosenbloom is the star of a heavily commercialized TV kiddie show, presided over by a smarmy announcer. He is at odds with western bad guy Butcher Baer.
Moving Man with Lamp (uncredited)
Классическая комедия о выживании преданного отца с того момента, когда дочь объявляет о своей помолвке до того, пока последний гость покинет свадебный банкет. Адвокат Стэнли Бэнкс оказывается неподготовленным, когда его дочь Кэй объявляет о своей помолвке с Бакли Данстэном, в то время как жена Элли и сын Томми с энтузиазмом воспринимают новость. Для Стэнли обретение «сына» не повод терять дочку, которая выросла и живет своей жизнью. Может быть, все уладится, если Стэнли примет Бакли и переживет свадьбу.
Bartender
Джерри Льюис играет несчастливого солдата, а Дин Мартин удачливого старшего сержанта неряшливого взвода на тренировочной базе в удаленном пограничном гарнизоне.В этой комедии представлены все типы «военных» характеров, включая горлопана-инструктора, подлизу-сержанта, тихого капрала и неуклюжего, постоянно клюющего носом, командира...
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.
Kryl
Обнаружив на захваченном корабле юную красотку, двое пиратов решают взять ее с собой. Искусанные и исцарапанные по дороге этой тигрицей, негодяи рады сбыть ее своему предводителю, кровожадному пирату по кличке Баптист. Увидев красавца-капитана, леди мгновенно превращается из дикой кошки в покорную овечку и уже ни о чем не жалеет. Тем более, что страшный пират оказался благородным морским разбойником, ведущим двойную жизнь — он прекрасно известен в Новом Орлеане как уважаемый капитан Кингстоун и жених племянницы губернатора. Все знают, что он «поклялся уничтожить подлого Баптиста», но никак не может найти его в открытом море, видимо Баптист «прячется»…
Drunk Blackrobe
An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.
Henchman #1 (uncredited)
Легкомысленная Бетти Барретт принимает массажиста Джека Спратта за капитана южноамериканской команды по игре в поло Хосе О`Рорка. Спратт не прочь поразвлечься с красоткой, он быстро соглашается со своей ролью популярного спортсмена. Но простой невинный флирт переходит в серьезное чувство — они влюбляются.
Cheyenne Bartender
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
Crap Table Croupier (uncredited)
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
Joe, the bartender
Hoppy and his pals arrive in a remote town to investigate the counterfeiting of both U.S. and Mexican money; his only clues are the name "Mordigan" and a drawing of a comet. He quickly finds out that Mordigan is the town "boss"; but what or who is "the comet", and why are Mordigan and his henchmen intent on persecuting a young woman, her drunken brother, and her deathly ill sister-in-law who've also just arrived in town?
Bartender
A psychiatrist tries to help a patient who loses consciousness after he kills someone. When the doctor provides the patient with a letter that explains his problem, he inadvertently implicates himself in the crimes.
Sergeant (uncredited)
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Bouncer
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance and deceit are catalyzed by the arrival of the gambling river boat, River Lady, owned by the beautiful Sequin. Bauvais, a representative of the local lumber syndicate and Sequin's business partner, is trying to convince H.L. Morrison, the mill owner, to sell his business.
Henchman 'Moose'
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
Policeman
The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.
Fighter
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Heinz (uncredited)
Фрэнки Мэдисон выходит из тюрьмы и встречается с бывшими партнёрами. За время его отсидки старые друзья заметно разбогатели и не спешат вводить старого друга в курс своих дел.
Street Cleaner (uncredited)
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
Pool Player
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Miner
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
Bartender
A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
McGowan - House Detective
Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
Stage Actor Playing King
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
Jim, Doorman
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
Lucky Leopold (uncredited)
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
Mug in Leather Jacket (uncredited)
Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertaining prospective voters at rallies. The candidate is really a stooge for a corrupt political machine, which discovers the band's handsome and appealing singer would make a better stooge. Meanwhile, romance blossoms between the band's singers. When election day approaches, the band's singer wants out of the campaign, but the machine threatens to smear him and his pals in the band if he quits.
Harry
While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
Bouncer at The Golden Rooster (uncredited)
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
Townsman
In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave wife Haydée (Lenore Aubert) throws the cop off her husband's scent by dressing up as the masked avenger herself and proving that she too is most competent with a sword.
Process Server
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
Pedestrian Pulling Bogardus from Under Truck (uncredited)
Отец О`Молли назначен новым священником в церковь Святой Марии и настоятелем в церковно-приходскую школу при храме, местные жители рассказали ему, что его предшественника монахини довели до того, что тот заболел и лег в больницу. Отец О`Молли знакомится с управляющей школой Сестрой Бенедикт, очень милой молодой женщиной, самозабвенно любящей детей и желающей восстановить уже сильно обветшавшую школу. Ее мечта, чтобы богатый прижимистый пожилой джентльмен, к сожалению, очень не любящий детей, пожертвовал деньги на строительство школы и прекратил свои намерения по захвату территории церкви с целью создания парковки для машин. Отец О`Молли начинает помогать новой знакомой в спасении школы и это у них получается и возможно даже, герои полюбили друг друга, но к сожалению они должны расстаться, у сестры Бенедикт ранняя стадия туберкулеза…
Derelict Saving Cross (uncredited)
Крис Кросс, застенчивый, наивный господин, утомившийся от собственного благополучия, спасает красивую девушку Китти от неуравновешенного приятеля. Герой увлекается Китти и позволяет ей считать себя состоятельным и успешным художником, не подозревая, что у новой знакомой и ее жениха имеются свои планы относительно него.
Plainclothesman
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
Head Keeper (uncredited)
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Stony, Bartender at Paradise Club
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Steve
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her.
Soda Fountain Customer
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Suspect (uncredited)
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Grogan
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
Doorman at Dance
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
Detective Delaney
Musical turned murder mystery set at a radio station.
Mac
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
New Boss at "Florian's" (uncredited)
Частного сыщика Филипа Марлоу нанимает недавно вышедший из тюрьмы субчик, чтобы тот нашел его бывшую подружку Велму, которая исчезла несколько лет назад. Естественно, тривиальными розысками пропавшей девицы дело не ограничивается.
Nick
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
Newsstand Owner
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Jack Shaw (uncredited)
Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed name, O'BRIEN goes to work at a shipyard, intending to keep both eyes open for potential saboteurs. To maintain the cover, O'BRIEN is given a "wife" (Carole Landis) and two children. When O'BRIEN's brother Chester Morris shows up, he can't comprehend the charade and nearly spills the beans to the Nazi spies O'BRIEN hopes to trap. Based on the short story The Saboteurs by John and Ward Hawkins, Secret Command offers a graying but still feisty Pat O'Brien doing what he does best.
Ship Builder
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
Workman (uncredited)
Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
Salos
«Сын № 3» - Тони прибегает на помощь к девушке - после этого ему предлагает помощь Чарли Чен - в этом «сверхсложном деле». Ли Мани всю жизнь посвятила поискам своего отца, хотя полиция и прокурор давно оставили это дело. А теперь, дабы ранить её ещё больше эксперт-криминолог обвинил в этом преступлении её мать! Расследование Чарли приводит его к кровавой схватке с преступниками, которые решают выкрасть бриллианты из китайской фарфоровой кошки.
Bullfrog
A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast. Hanging out in Hollywood's famed Trocadero restaurant and night-spot, he gets his story when "Troc" owner and band-leader Eddie LeBaron, relates to him the sage of the famed screenland nitery. And hears plenty of music furnished by four of the top name-bands in the land, including that of Bob Chester, who formed his own swing band in 1935 after being top saxophonist with the bands of Ben Pollack and Ben Bernie. Singer Ida James and the Chester band led off with "Shoo Shoo Baby" in their screen debut.
Wenzel (uncredited)
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.
Waddy Kerns
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
Boats
Молодой морской офицер Том Мерриам прибывает в порт Сан-Педро, чтобы занять должность третьего помощника капитана торгового судна «Альтаир». Перед посадкой на судно Мерриам встречает слепого нищего, который предупреждает его о том, что это плохой корабль. Это сообщение не вызывает у молодого человека ничего, кроме усмешки. Но не успел корабль отчалить, как один из членов экипажа был найден мёртвым. И вскоре трупов становится всё больше. Том Мерриам начинает подозревать, что во всём виноват капитан корабля Уилл Стоун, одержимый идеей власти и авторитета.
Bartender
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Subway Conductor (Uncredited)
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
Convict
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
Man in Carnival Crowd
1905 год. Мошенник Эдди Джонсон прибывает в Кони-Айленд, чтобы найти своего старого приятеля Джо Рокко, который когда-то обманул Эдди и сбежал с их общими заработанными деньгами. Эдди намерен получить долю в новом салоне Джо. В этом салоне Эдди знакомиться с певичкой Кэйт Фэрли. После того, как Эдди позволил себе раскритиковать безвкусный стиль Кэйт, Джо указывает ему на дверь. Эдди находит общий язык с Фрэнки и предлагает превратить его дешевый балаган с демонстрацией татуированной женщины в зрелищное танцевальное шоу. Очень скоро шоу Эдди и Фрэнка становится очень популярным и переманивает публику из заведения Джо Рокко. Когда Кэйт не скрывает от Джо заинтересованности новым шоу Эдди, вражда между старыми приятелями только накаляется...
Sam the Bartender
Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam owned by a greedy merchant in town, who is intent on driving them out and taking their land for himself.
Truck Driver
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Air Raid Warden on street
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Bouncer at Rick's (uncredited)
Оставивший родину американец Рик Блэйн, владелец игорного клуба в Касабланке, случайно встречается с покинувшей его несколько лет назад возлюбленной, Ильзой, которая приехала в город вместе со своим нынешним мужем, борцом антифашистского сопротивления Виктором Лазло. По их следу идут немцы, и Ильза пытается упросить Рика отдать принадлежащие ему важные документы, которые позволят Виктору бежать из Касабланки, чтобы продолжить свою борьбу.
Captain
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
Prisoner
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Fifth Member Ale and Quail Club
Том и Джерри Джефферс женаты уже несколько лет, но супружеская жизнь не складывается. Низкой зарплаты Тома не хватает на содержание их супружеского гнездышка, и молодым грозит выселение из квартиры. Джерри знакомится со странным богатым человечком по прозвищу «Король сосисок», который в будущем вроде бы должен занять их квартиру.
Новый знакомый дает ей 700 долларов для начала «новой жизни». Том не верит в «просто благотворительность» миллионера, и, подозревая измену, устраивает скандал. Милые ссорятся «навсегда». Джерри, посчитав, что их супружеской жизни пришел конец, отправляется в Палм-Бич, где надеется оформить быстрый развод. Том, взвесив все за и против в сложившейся ситуации, намерен ей помешать…
Irate Man at Burned Mill (uncredited)
Когда огонь уничтожает деревообрабатывающую фабрику и в пламени погибает диспетчер Клайд Бракен, пострадавший владелец предприятия Эндрю Холмс обвиняет своего служащего Леопольда Дилга в поджоге и убийстве. Арестованный Леопольд сбегает из тюрьмы и прячется в доме своей приятельницы, школьной учительницы Норы Шелли. Девушка отнюдь не рада такому гостю, потому что дом сдан на летний сезон Майклу Лайткэпу, уважаемому профессору юриспруденции, ожидающему назначение в Верховный суд и желающему посвятить это лето работе над своими трудами в тихом, укромном месте. Учительница перед профессором выдает Леопольда за своего садовника, но тот вскоре узнает истинную причину пребывания парня в доме. В итоге выясняется, что молодой человек стал пешкой в игре коррумпированных органов местной власти, а диспетчер, который якобы сгорел в пламени, жив и здоров.
Truck Driver (Uncredited)
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
Larkin
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.
Tough Waiter at Kelly's
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Liverlip
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
Policeman
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
Horse Dealer (uncredited)
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
'Bonzo'
Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a dance club, incognito, where the band plays, and soon is the band's singer.
Detective in Café
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
Dance Hall Bouncer (uncredited)
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
Dumb Guy
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Large Juror (uncredited)
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Kohler
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
Townsman
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
Palais Royale Manager (uncredited)
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Benny Felgman
Дэн МакГинти ведет успешную, но весьма лживую политическую деятельность. Но всего лишь один момент необдуманной честности ставит все под угрозу…
Uncle Dinwiddie
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
Bartender
Джон Филлипс начинает убеждать жителей небольшого городка Северной Дакоты в необходимости переезда в Орегон, где находятся лучшие пастбища для скота. Тем временем в городке появляются бежавшие от нацистского режима австрийский врач Браун и его дочь Лени, в которую сразу же влюбляется Филлипс.
Moving Man
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
Roundhouse
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
Georges, a guard (uncredited)
Группа заключенных бежит из тюрьмы. Их путь лежит через непроходимые джунгли. Спасителем оказывается неведомо откуда взявшийся странник...
Royal Forester
История, основанная на германских сказаниях, как брат и сестра ищут Синюю птицу для исполнения своего желания и попадают в разные места и времена.
Butcher (uncredited)
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.
Cab Driver (uncredited)
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
Soldier Collecting Signatures (uncredited)
Биографическая мелодрама о жизни Бенито Хуареса, национального героя Мексики. 1864 год. Когда Мексика почти выходит из под контроля Франции, Император Наполеон III посылает армию, чтобы свергнуть мексиканского президента Бенито Хуареса и взять под свой контроль страну, посадив своего ставленника на трон. Максимилиан Габсбург, Эрцгерцог Австрии, назначен Императором Мексики, не понимая, что французы подстроили результат плебисцита, чтобы одобрить имперское правление.
Riley
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.
Nick Salado
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
Milt
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Bartender
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
Lemonade Stand Man
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Man on Roller Coaster
Джим Лэйн - летчик-испытатель, который жить не может без полетов. Его можно назвать счастливчиком: у него есть верный друг, механик Ганнер, и любимая девушка Энн, согласившаяся стать его женой. Однако испытания ожидают Джима не только в небе, но и на земле.
Beef Dooley
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
Buster
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
Joe Guzzola
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.
Romeo Casanova
A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for his next investigation, he is murdered in the midst of a crowd. The police have many suspects and hardly any clues, so two reporters decide to investigate for themselves.
Bartender
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Cart Driver (Uncredited)
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.
News Photographer
When You're in Love is a 1937 musical film starring Grace Moore, Cary Grant, and Thomas Mitchell. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene. She also sings the wonderful Ernesto Lecuono classic "Siboney" (though her Spanish is not perfection) drooled over by Cary Grant
McNulty (uncredited)
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
Al
A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.
Seeley - a Gambler
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Hotel Manager
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
Harry Wilson
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Chips
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Homer
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
Dave Shane
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
Snug
Тезур — герцог Афинский собирается жениться на Ипполите, королеве амазонок. Деметриус ухаживает за Хермией, но она влюблена в Лизандра, а в Деметриуса влюблена Елена. А в это время Оберон и Титания из царства фей поспорили между собой, кому должен принадлежать маленький мальчик, которого они нашли. Оберон пытается заполучить ребенка, применив некоторые магические приемы против предводительницы фей и ее окружения.
И в эту круговерть нечаянно попадают запутавшиеся влюбленные, а так же некоторые странствующие актеры, которые прибыли, чтобы играть на свадьбе герцога и королевы. Из-за Оберона и его шаловливого сатиренка все запутывается еще больше…
Beef
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
Gangster Chief
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigeous beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
Big Doorman (uncredited)
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Jo-Jo
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
The Umpire
Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both rivals against the other and, because she is a baseball fan, both Elmer and Jim try to show each other up in the big local baseball game.
Elmer Diltz
A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a professional wrestler.
Detective
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
Wong Loo - War Lord
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Steward (uncredited)
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
Palermo - the Chief
A gangster is smitten with the two girls in the next apartment. With the help of his violinist friend he gets acquainted with the girls by posing as a musician.
Slim
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Detective Sgt. Charlie Lorrimer
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.
Burly Star Turkish Bath Attendant (uncredited)
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Waterfront Diner Wanting Salt (uncredited)
Бутч Сондерс, дерзкий и бескомпромиссный детектив, был переведён из полиции в Отдел пропавших без вести. Когда молодая женщина просит его помочь найти ее мужа, он выясняет, что на самом деле она — некая Норма Филлипс, разыскиваемая полицией Чикаго за убийство своего мужа. Норма инсценирует самоубийство путём утопления и исчезает, и Сондерс заимствует труп из морга чтобы в свою очередь инсценировать её «похороны», в надежде, что Норма объявится.
Denman
A compulsive gambler, thought to have been killed in an automobile crash, reappears when his wife remarries.
T.A. ''Tuffy'' Kraft
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler. When the scum bag is shot and killed, the little goodie good is the prime suspect. Can her old beau come to the rescue and save her from the death penalty? Hell, its the least he can do, or is he a scum bag too!
Colonel on Military Court
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
Smith
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Butch
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
Luke
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
Chuck Bailey
Soldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
The Colonel
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
Restaurant Patron
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Spider Kane
Леди Лу — хозяйка салуна в Нью-Йорке, за которой ухаживают два бизнесмена. Она живет в роскошных апартаментах, имеет огромную коллекцию бриллиантов и не нуждается в мужчинах. Тем не менее, когда на ее жизненном пути появляется новый сосед, Лу охватывает страсть…
Canadian Airport Contact (uncredited)
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
Waiting Client (uncredited)
Адвокат-идеалист Антон Адам попадает в заголовки газет, когда он успешно преследует известного нью-йоркского рэкетира по имени Гилмерри. Внезапная известность Адама привлекает внимание известного юриста Грэнвилла Бентли, который просит Адама стать партнером его юридической фирмы. Но карьера Адама резко ухудшается, когда его подставляют Гилмерри и сексуальная актриса в сфабрикованном иске о нарушении обещания. Единственная постоянная в жизни Адама - это верность и безответная любовь его секретарши Ольги.
Gregory Howard
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.
Sergeant Illya (Uncredited)
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
Blucher
A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
Basso
The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
Honolulu Bartender (uncredited)
На борту круизного лайнера из Гонконга в Сан-Франциско зарождается любовь между пойманным преступником, которого под конвоем везут в тюрьму Сан-Квентин, где его должны казнить, и неизлечимо больной пассажиркой.
Американский химик Нед Фарадей во время путешествия по Германии влюбляется в певицу варьете Элен. Они переезжают в Америку, рождается сын, Элен оставляет эстраду и все вроде бы идет благополучно, но Нед во время экспериментов облучен радием и вынужден уехать на лечение в Европу…
Greek Restaurant Owner (uncredited)
Американский химик Нед Фарадей во время путешествия по Германии влюбляется в певицу варьете Элен. Они переезжают в Америку, рождается сын, Элен оставляет эстраду и все вроде бы идет благополучно, но Нед во время экспериментов облучен радием и вынужден уехать на лечение в Европу…
Little Erny
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
Baker
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
Cook
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
Tony Catello
The Lady cop Florence Vinton goes undercover to get the goods on rival gangsters Eddie Swan and Larry Marsh. Just at the point in which Florence looks like she's going to be rubbed out, Swan and Marsh shoot each other down.
Tony the Waiter
Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Norman Cravath instead. Nancy acquiesces to her mother's wishes but, despite the fact her new husband does everything he can to please her, she is miserable in her marriage.
