James T. Mack

It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.

A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.

Фильм об истории репортера, которому поручено выяснить подробности биографии недавно умершего газетного магната Кейна.

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.

An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.

Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.

A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.

История противостояния Теодоры Линн, церковной органистки и учительницы воскресной школы, в тайне от всех пишущей любовные романы, и местного литературного кружка, прознавшего о ее увлечении, полного благопристойных матрон, которые, на словах выражая пренебрежение и недовольство трудами Теодоры, также в тайне от всех зачитываются ее беллетристикой.

Бил Чандлер один из самых мастеровитых рыболовов Америки, по технике ему нет равных, любая форель попадется к нему на удочку. Но Чандлер рассказывает нам не только рыболовную историю. Все начинается, когда светская дива предъявляет репортеру Трейси иск по делу о клевете. Трейси привлекает невесту Харлоу и неудачливого Пауела к встречному маневру, включающему в себя фальсифицированную свадьбу, подстроенное насилие, необычайно смешную сцену на рыбалке, драку, обманутые обещания и разбитые сердца, и, конечно же, настоящую любовь.

Океанский лайнер тонет у берегов Гонолулу, и Аллен Колби, наследник миллионов, считается мертвым, но местный сыщик Чарли Чан в этом не уверен и летит в Сан-Франциско для дальнейшего расследования. Каким-то образом пропавший Колби оказывается там раньше него, но его убивают ножом в спину, прежде, чем он предъявляет права на свое наследство. Спиритические сеансы, устраиваемые в доме, "призраки из загробного мира" не помешают Чарли Чену сделать нужные выводы и вычислить убийцу...

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

Джеймс Дэвис по прозвищу «Кирпич» рос фактически на улице и наверняка оказался бы в команде гангстера МакКэя. Однажды Эд Бьюкенен, старый приятель «Кирпича», предлагает Джеймсу поступить на работу в ФБР, в только что организованный отряд «джи-менов». Джеймс гневно отвергает предложение друга, но вскоре узнает о гибели Эда, убитого при исполнении служебных обязанностей. И тогда «Кирпич» идет в ФБР, чтобы, во-первых, завязать со своим прошлым, и во-вторых, иметь возможность отомстить за смерть друга…

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.

Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them. He meets a young boy, Laury and his mother, Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them. He gets a job-prospect letter, as a private tutor, and applies at once. His employer is Mr. Morley, a surly, sour, mean-tempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson, who turns out to be Laury. Sharon, Morleys daughter had eloped against her father's wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laury's birth.

A reporter is frustrated with women after a string of failed relationships. But then he finds himself taking up the cause of a young women he believes is falsely accused of killing her husband.

Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.

A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.

Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.

Двадцативосьмилетний аристократ Гарри сообщает своему дедушке, что собирается жениться на актрисе. Он ждет упреков, но вместо этого дед рассказывает внуку, как сам 50 лет назад влюбился в итальянскую певицу Риту Кавалини…

Анна Кристи бросает опостылевшую семейную ферму, оставленную ей отцом, и уезжает в город, где волею судьбы становится проституткой. Проходит время. Героиня решает покончить с постыдным занятием и вернуться к отцу, живущему на разбитой барже. Однажды, во время шторма, они спасают тонущего ирландского матроса Мэтта Барка. Спасенный влюбляется в Анну и делает предложение, но она с болью рассказывает ему о своем прошлом. Мэтт услышав рассказ, оставляет девушку. Анна разочарована его поступком, но любовь вновь примиряет их...

Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.

Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.

Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his friend's money, and almost wrecks their romance.

The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short

История приключений молодого человека из Бостона, которого его суровый отец пытается научить премудростям навигации. Несмотря на замечательные для того времени кадры урагана, впечатлившие критиков, фильм не сделал больших кассовых сборов. В «Пароходе Билле младшем» Китон выполнил один из самых рискованных и знаменитых трюков в истории кино: на него падает стена здания, а он о, как ни в чем ни бывало, стоит, точно в оконном проёме. Декорация весила почти две тонны, оконный проём имел допуск всего в пять сантиметров, лицо Китона не отразило никаких эмоций… Это был последний фильм, снятый Китоном на собственной студии. В 1928 году Шенк продал его контракт студии "Метро-Голдвин-Майер".

Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to reveal it.

Marie Devere and Helen Gray are two sophisticated, gold-digging chorus girls on the look-out to marry a rich man, who measure the men they meet by their Bradshaw ratings. They befriend Lettie Crain, a country girl who comes near being deceived by Bartley Mortimer, a rich playboy. She is saved by another girl, Cynthia Kane, whose life Mortimer has ruined, and Lettie finds happiness with Bob Garrett, a poor but honest working man.

The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as 'Jerry Cleggert', a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday - otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune. Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride Agatha Fairhaven (Mildred Harris) and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when Jerry's cousin, the dastardly lawyer Reginald Maltravers (Snitz Edwards) claims Agatha as his own. The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities.

War veteran returns home to find his sweetheart totally upset. Her father will lose his sight unless she can get funds for an expensive procedure. He and some army mates hatch a plot. For the railway safe to be utilized. A rival though robs the safe and the money is taken by the pals. A train journey later involving high speed the money is needed before the rival can send the hero to prison.

A 1917 film directed by Charles Miller.