16-летняя Канако — официантка в дешевой японской столовой. Однажды она случайно становится свидетельницей убийства, но отчетливо видит лишь лицо водителя автомобиля, в котором киллер скрывается с места преступления. За рулем машины сидит знакомый ей Минэо Комацу из группировки Екомицу, мечтающий завязать с криминальными делишками и стать настоящим джазовым певцом. Босс считает, что теперь Минэо должен прекратить выходить на сцену, а Канако необходимо срочно устранить... Впрочем, среди членов банды Екомицу находится человек, который готов помочь героине фильма «Босс города гангстеров» избежать гибели.
Warren Madison
Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibility chemical and plans to build a mercenary army of invisible men.
Doctor (uncredited)
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Surveyor General Miller
14 февраля 1912 года Аризона становится штатом в составе США. У губернатора Тафта собирается кружок его близких друзей. Джон Грифф, специалист по подделкам, написавший о них авторитетный труд, рассказывает о похождениях одного из самых странных аферистов, которых знавала аризонская земля: Джеймса Эддисона Ривиса, окрестившего себя «Бароном Аризоны». Выдающийся мошенник Джеймс Ривис потратил годы, тщательно подделывая документы и права на владение землей, делающие его и его подопечную Софию единоличными хозяевами целого штата Аризона.
Judge Wiggins
Roy is a United States Marshal tracking down a counterfeiting ring and hunting down a mountain lion. Songs: "It's One Wonderful Day," "Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy," "Pancho's Rancho" and the title song.
Jack Bell (uncredited)
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
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.
Judge (uncredited)
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Jim Locke
A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.
Marty Floyd
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
Police Chief (Uncredited)
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
Sheriff Jones
Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the jockey can ride in the Big Race if the lad can regain his self-confidence. Meanwhile, Gene and comical sidekick Sterling Holloway have another problem on their hands: A rogue stallion has "kidnapped" Gene's prize mare. Piloting a plane, Autry seeks out and locates the stallion.
Tom (Bldg. & Loan)
Джордж Бейли, владелец кредитной компании в выдуманном американском городке Бедфорд Фоллс, честный, отзывчивый, любящий муж и отец, подавлен свалившимися на него невзгодами и подумывает о самоубийстве. Очевидно, что человек, отказывающийся от самого большого дара Бога - жизни - нуждается в помощи ангела-хранителя. И Небеса отправляют ему на выручку Кларенса, единственного свободного на тот момент Ангела Второго Класса, приятного, доброго, но неопытного, еще даже не заслужившего крылья. Если он сделает свою работу хорошо и сможет отговорить Джорджа от смертного греха, он получит крылья. А времени у него почти не осталось... Кларенс находит единственно правильное решение - показать Джорджу мир, в котором тот не существует.
E.J. Pearson
Newcomer Monte Hale is tying to just get a job in western films when he meet young Danny McCoy and his sister Gloria. Danny is trying to get his horse, "Pardner" into films. Monte sings a song and "Pardner" does some tricks and a casting director notices. Monte gets a singing-cowboy role and the horse gets a bit, but there is an accidental explosion, engineered by western star Rod Mason, who is jealous of Monte, and the horse is badly scared and blows his lines.
Reporter (uncredited)
Сестра милосердия Элизабет Кенни во время пребывания в австралийском буше обнаруживает революционный способ лечения полиомелита. Девушка пытается добиться признания этого метода в научном сообществе, но никак не может получить официальное признание своей теории. Более трех десятков лет сестра Кенни борется за правду. Она упорно отказывает своему жениху в свадьбе и лишает себя нормальной жизни. Медсестра не имеет возможности лечить острые случаи полиомелита с помощью своего метода, а научное общество высмеивает ее. Все же главная цель Элизабет Кенни - спасти как можно больше человеческих жизней.
Prison Yard Captain (uncredited)
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Frank B. Wilson
To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. After killing Delaney, he tries to kill his daughter Jill and then Roy who was sent to investigate the war. But the failed attempts gives Roy the information he needs.
Golfer (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.
Police Chief Burns (Uncredited)
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Detective (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.
Doctor
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
Jacques Duval
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
Gentry
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them and they to the lab to see Professor Reynolds, the real inventor. Soon, they are involved in several shootings, blueprints that change hands several times, a corpse in their car that appears and disappears a few times, the loss of their jobs and several people who either think they are killers or candidates for being killed.
Police Commissioner Howard (Uncredited)
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Fredrick Vorhees [Ch. 1]
A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen. They head for the island of Pulinan, where they believe the real murderer--the captain's former partner--is hiding so the captain can clear his name. As it turns out, their troubles are only beginning
Middle-Aged Man
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
Horace Sardham
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
Mr. Platt
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
Mr. Manning, Bank Official (Uncredited)
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
District Attorney (uncredited)
A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.
Governor Glynn
During the Civil War, three American soldiers are sent, disguised as civilians, to California to gather evidence that Southern agents there are agitating for that state to join the Confederacy with the aid of California's governor.
Policeman (uncredited)
Этот фильм рассказывает историю, случившуюся в небольшом старинном французском городе, в предгорьях Пиренеев, недалеко от границы с Испанией, где ежегодно бывает около 6 миллионов туристов. Лурд знаменит тем, что, согласно преданию, в 1858 году в здешнем гроте явилась Богоматерь 14-летней девочке Бернадетт Субиру. Тогда же в пещере был открыт источник, вода которого считается целебной. Над пещерой Массабель был построен костел в неоготическом стиле — храм Четок и подземный храм, где могут одновременно разместиться 20 тысяч человек. В городе все сделано для того, чтобы принимать огромное число паломников: с 1864 года в римско-католической церкви он обрел официальный статус как место, в котором произошло 18 явлений Девы Марии.
Domack
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
Stiles (uncredited)
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
Isolationist (uncredited)
Хроника впечатлений о Советском Союзе американского посла Дэвиса, его встреч со Сталиным, и его общая точка зрения на отношения Советского Союза и Соединенных Штатов.
Blaxton's Lawyer
In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
Hon. George Hill [Chs. 8-12]
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
Davis
In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not the town mayor, was responsible for catching a regiment of Germans during WW I. Unfortunately, no one in town takes him seriously. Later the daughter meets a German immigrant who confirms her father's claim. She then convinces her boy friend to use this information to blackmail the mayor into giving him a new truck and some extra amenities lest he tell the truth.
Carter (uncredited)
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
Judge
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Forsythe - Second Politician (uncredited)
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
Dr. Richard Clark
A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted gangster, who embarks on a vengeful crime wave.
Congressman (uncredited)
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Elliott Carlton
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Oscar of the Waldorf (uncredited)
Этот фильм посвящен истории жизни американца, героя первой мировой войны Элвина С. Йорка, захватившего во время боя в одиночку 132 немецких солдата. Это событие произошло во время наступления Мойзе-Аргонн во Франции. После этого подвига простой солдат стал одним из самых любимых героев Америки.
Preston Yates
Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging their efforts.
City Editor
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
Commissioner Bob Trent (as Edmund Keane)
A lawman infiltrates a gang of racketeers.
Mr. Wharton
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
Colonel Stoddard
Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible.
Turnkey
1865 год. Войска Наполеона III готовятся к вторжению на Балканы для поддержки диктатора генерала Гурко Лейнена. Чтобы обеспечить содержание войск на своей территории, а так же для организации пышных свадебных торжеств с местной красавицей Зоной, диктатору нужны деньги. Он надеется получить их у одного банкира. Но финансист, которого по всем канонам не должно волновать ничего, кроме собственного благополучия, оказывается благородным героем с горячем сердцем. Он поднимает народ на борьбу, призывая свергнуть диктатора, и освобождает Зону от брака, который так страшит её.
Reporter (uncredited)
Фильм о Поле Джулиусе Рейтере, который создал первое агентство новостей «Рейтер».
Gaul
Бывший чемпион по боксу Данни Кенни уходит на покой. Он собирается вложить все свои сбережения в мечту своего брата — написание симфонической оды городу, в котором они оба живут — Нью-Йорку. Но все складывается не так как хотелось…
Mr. Kaiser
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Barney aka Derby Hat (uncredited)
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
John Hartford
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
Partridge
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Lecturer
Биографическая лента, рассказывающая об изобретателе Томасе Эдисоне. В 1869 году, в возрасте 22 лет, устав от бедной жизни и работе на телеграфе, он поехал в Нью-Йорк по совету старого друга. Томас приходит в телеграфную контору «Вестерн Юнион», рассчитывая найти там место. Он пытается убедить финансиста господина Таггарта профинансировать его изобретения. Президент компании Пауэлл соглашается дать Эдисону денег. За свою разработку — усовершенствование системы телеграфирования биржевых бюллетеней о курсе золота и акций — Томас Эдисон получает 40 000 долларов. Это становится началом новой жизни.
Ship Officer (uncredited)
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Prosecuting Attorney
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
Officer (uncredited)
1864 год, Гражданская война в США подходит к концу. Сторонники южных штатов решают использовать последний шанс. В помощь своей истекающей кровью армии, они решают доставить $5 миллионов в золотых слитках из Вирджиния-Сити.
Везти золото через вражеские штаты поручено капитану Ирби, у которого есть хитроумный план. Помешать этому пытается Керри Брэдфорд, капитан военной разведки союзной армии. Но о золоте узнал и главарь местной банды Маррелл. Три стороны сцепились в смертельной схватке…
Captain Harrigan
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.
Dr. Fredericks
Сыщик Чарли Чен и неугомонный «сын № 2» снова с нами. Чарли выдаёт себя за служащего правительства США, чтобы помешать шпионскому заговору, который разрушит часть Панамского канала и заманит в ловушку военно-морской флот, направляющийся в Тихий океан после манёвров в Атлантике.
Dr. Harrison (uncredited)
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
Newspaper Editor
Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.
Warden
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Williams (uncredited)
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
Moran
Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime and is arrested for murder.
Henderson
Шли «ревущие 20-е» годы, время, когда спор решали пулями, а автоматные очереди все чаще нарушали тишину улиц. Вернувшиеся в Чикаго по окончании Первой мировой войны, Джордж и Эдди начинают сколачивать свои капиталы, торгуя контрабандным спиртным и организовав крупную банду. Их рэкет процветает, пока «здоровая» конкуренция не вмешивается в их дружбу. Выясняется, что уложить всех вокруг себя гораздо проще, чем договориться…
Captain of Detectives
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.
Defense Attorney (uncredited)
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
Bank Manager
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
DNXY Radio Operator
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
Jarvis
It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.
Clerk
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
FBI Agent (uncredited)
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Man (uncredited)
Один из последних законопроектов, который подписал президент Линкольн, был законопроект о прокладке трансконтинентальной железной дороги через пустыню в Калифорнию, чтобы соединить между собой два океана, Север и Юг. Однако нечестный делец и политик Аса Бэрроуз надеется извлечь прибыль именно от задержки строительства.
Senator Calhoun Lassister
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
Washington Official
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
Banker at Demo
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
Stock Broker
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Psychology Examiner
Джерри и Кэсс всегда соперничали. Кэсс стал уважаемым авиатором в ВМФ, как его отец, а Джерри бросает службу на подлодке и поступает в авиашколу в Класс 61 в Пенсаколе, где во время тренировок знакомится с невестой Джерри Айрин и влюбляется в неё. Поборов укачивание, страх и, совершив аварийную посадку, Джерри получает свои крылышки. Кэссу повезло меньше - он покалечился во время крушения и вынужден уйти в отставку. Кэсс конструирует новый истребитель для флота, а Джерри в Сан Диего управляет гидросамолётами. Джерри готов на всё, лишь бы показать Кэссу, что он лучший пилот, даже если для этого придётся уйти из флота, чтобы испытать экспериментальный истребитель, на котором разбился лётчик-испытатель Стив Коннерс.
Dr. Duval
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
Donnelly
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Man at Race Track
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
District Attorney
A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her because he has become involved in an extortion racket, then finds herself becoming involved with the doctor who has saved her life and become attracted to her.
Adam Thorne
Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady. Ted has to disguise himself as a nurse while Nancy becomes a "widow" in order to locate the lady they are rescuing.
Henchman Stoneham (uncredited)
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
Bob Brian
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
American Consul
A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
George Horton
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
Board Member (uncredited)
Тони — сын одного из самых богатых воротил бизнеса в Нью-Йорке влюблен в Алису — простую девушку секретаря и молодые хотят обвенчаться. Однако эксцентричное поведение родственников и друзей будущей невесты наводит родителей жениха на мысль, что у них с головами не все в порядке. Их дом — это клуб по интересам «городских сумасшедших».
Мать Алисы — Пенни пишет пьесы, потому что пишущую машинку когда-то доставили в их дом по ошибке. Ее бездарная сестра Эсси грезит балетом и берет уроки танца у сумасшедшего русского по имени Потап Коленков, который не прочь отобедать за чужой счет. Папа с друзьями Алисы тратит все свое время, создавая фейерверки и запуская их прямо в доме.
Но больше всех отличается эксцентричным поведением дедушка, который отказывается платить налоги по убеждениям. Весь этот балаган шумит, поёт, танцует и прыгает одновременно, под аккомпанемент губной гармоники дедушки и ксилофона мужа Эсси, мешая делать большой бизнес корпорации Энтони П. Кирби — отца Тони.
General (uncredited)
16 мая 1770 г. 15-летняя Мария-Антуанетта была выдана матерью-императрицей Австрии замуж за Луи Августа, наследника трона Франции. Супруг не вызвал у возвышенной девушки восхищения: одутловатый и туповатый - он только раздражал юную принцессу. Еще больше расстраивали Марию ехидный, извращенный и больной король Людовик XV и его фаворитка - интриганка мадемуазель дю Барри, почувствовавшая угрозу со стороны будущей королевы. Следуя совету герцога Орлеанского, Мария ищет развлечения в светской бурлящей жизни и состоит в любовной связи с графом Акселем де Ферсеном. Однажды дело доходит до скандала, когда Мария публично на балу оскорбляет дю Барри, ее даже намерены с позором отправить обратно в Австрию, но король внезапно умирает, и Мария становится королевой Франции
Colonel Christie
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
Doorman (uncredited)
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
Nicholas Fouquet (uncredited)
This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never identified, but who was forced to wear an iron mask for the length of his captivity, which ended only in his death. Several candidates for the identity of the man are investigated.
Bank Manager
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
San Francisco Bar Patron (uncredited)
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
Captain
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
Officer at Dolman's Hearing
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
Salmon P. Chase - Secretary of the Treasury
История из времен создания знаменитой банковской компании "Уэллс Фарго" в 1850-х годах: погонщик дилижансов, период от "золотой лихорадки" в Калифорнии до Гражданской войны, разумеется, немного авторских домыслов, и всё в одном флаконе. "Вместе они покорят континент! Его жизнь - в череде увлекательных приключений, которые в результате соединят в одно целое страну, а она готова разделить эти приключения с человеком, которого любит!
Backstage Reporter (uncredited)
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Lew Wallace
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.
Gendarme at Villa
Жаклин Флорио, жена дипломата закрутила роман и по этой причине вынуждена оставить мужа и сына. После этого она погружается в пучину разврата, в проституцию, шантаж и, в конечном итоге, становится подозреваемой в убийстве. Её сын Рэймонд, к тому времени уже взрослый мужчина и известный адвокат, призван быть её защитником. Он не знает, что женщина, которую он защищает, — его давно потерянная мать, а Жаклин пытается скрыть своё прошлое от успешного сына.
Bronson
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
Marshal Morse
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.
Mayor (uncredited)
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
Gendarme
Действие разворачивается на улицах Парижа в 1914 году до наступления Первой Мировой войны. Канализационный работник Чико твердо убежден, что он стал атеистом потому, что его молитвы остались без ответа, когда он просил Бога исполнить два его сокровенных желания. Но герой оптимист по жизни и глубоко порядочный и сострадательный человек, хотя свое доброе сердце он скрывает за внешней грубостью. Он помогает Диане, когда ту избивает жестокосердная сестра — содержательница притона, за то, что девушка отказалась быть приветливой с клиентом.
Stanhope
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Captain Littlejohn
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
Ed Stanley (uncredited)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Lawyer
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
Thompson
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
Ship's Captain
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
District Attorney
Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
Jack Campbell
A wife whose husband is away asks her decorator to impersonate her husband, to help her deal with a pest. Soon there is quite a web of confusion that also involves the decorator's girlfriend and the wife's suddenly returned husband.
Attorney
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Captain Murphy
Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his best to keep the peace between the Native Americans and a government outpost. O'Bryan is replaced by George Murphy (Clifford Jones), the son of commanding officer Captain Murphy (Edward Keane). Obviously unqualified for his job, Murphy proves himself a coward and a weakling, forcing O'Bryan to take over when the fort is besieged by outlaw Bruce Howard (Fred Kohler) and his gang.
Chief Purser (uncredited)
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Arthur Hill
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.
Agent Potter (uncredited)
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
Board Member (uncredited)
Лонгфеллоу Дидс, деревенщина из Вермонта, наследует огромное состояние своего дяди и за одну ночь становится известен всей стране. Весь городок собирается на вокзале, чтобы проводить Дидса, поэта, играющего на трубе, в Нью-Йорк, где он должен вступить во владение дядюшкиным капиталом и переехать в огромный особняк. Циничный газетчик МакУэйд не верит в имидж простого честного человека, созданный Дидсу в прессе. Он поручает красавице Бэйб Беннетт взять у парня интервью и дает ей недвусмысленные инструкции. Журналистка притворяется, что теряет сознание у входа в особняк. Галантный Дидс поднимает ее на руки, заботится. Она сообщает ему, что осталась без работы и постепенно начинает вытягивать информацию…
Leon Errol trying to report a stolen car.
Mr. Edwards (uncredited)
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Doctor
Знаменитая актриса Хит Джойс внезапно пропала с подмостков, оставив за собой легенду, что всем кто имел с ней дело, она приносила несчастье, будь-то продюсер, режиссер или просто мужчина. С ее именем связывали провалы премьер, разводы, травмы и даже смерти. И только Доналд Берроуз, в судьбе которого она невольно сыграла положительную роль, в результате чего он стал архитектором на Уолл-стрит, не верит в зловещую легенду. Встретив однажды опустившуюся пьяную женщину, он узнает в ней знаменитую актрису и пытается ей помочь и ему самому придется узнать, так ли уж преувеличивает молва о ее злополучном влиянии…
Mortgage Man
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
Doctor (uncredited)
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
Contractor (uncredited)
Сан-Франциско, 1854 год. Бывший моряк Бэт Морган в драке убивает опасного бандита Дака и попадает на страницы газеты «Трибьюн». Вскоре Бэт знакомится с владелицей газеты и светской дамой Джин Баррат. Решив добиться её расположения, он использует весь свой ум и упорство, чтобы стать во главе всех городских игровых залов и притонов. Довольно быстро Морган превращается в одного из самых богатых и влиятельных людей города, но это не приносит ему счастья. Джин, привлечённая обаянием Бэта, влюбляется в него, но отказывается выйти за него замуж из-за его безнравственного образа жизни. Тем временем в городе нарастает недовольство безнаказанностью преступников и бессилием закона.
Ford
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
Captain
Ловкач Отис Дрифтвуд придумал способ прикарманить денежки богатой вдовы, делами которой он управлял. Вдовушка спала и видела, как бы пробиться в высшее общество и Отис подговорил её вложить круглую сумму в Нью-Йоркскую оперу. Вместо прославленного тенора Ласпари Отис нанял за «десятку» певца из хора, а остаток присвоил себе. Певец оказался действительно хорош и за 10 долларов отработал на всю тысячу, а заодно покорил сердце любимой девушки-хористки.
Gangster
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Piane Doctor (uncredited)
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
Advertising Man (uncredited)
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Doctor (uncredited)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Inspector Jim Barry, RCMP
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
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O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to learn the business from the ground up, so he gets a job as a track walker for his dad's rail line. While going about his duties, he meets Nan Roberts (Irene Ware), who is about to sell her Colorado ranch. Smith finds out that there are valuable tungsten deposits on her land and makes certain she won't be cheated by the villains
Bank Teller (uncredited)
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…
Producer #3
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
Major Bonnell (uncredited)
Драматический мюзикл по мотивам одноимённой оперной постановки. Действие разворачивается накануне первой волны колонизации. В поисках любви и приключений, принцесса Мариетта бежит прочь из королевского дворца. Под видом переселенки она садится на судно, плывущее в Новый Орлеан. У берегов Вест-Индии корабль путешественников подвергается нападению пиратов. К счастью, оказавшийся рядом капитан Уортингтон быстро освобождает пленников.
Edward Keane
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
Frank (uncredited)
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
Morgan
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
First Broker
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
The Murderer (uncredited)
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
Plaza Garden Captain (uncredited)
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
Thornton
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
First Playgoer
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Hotel Manager
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
William Reynolds' Attorney
Нан Рейнольдс изо всех сил пытается вести домашнее хозяйство на скромную зарплату ее кроткого мужа Билла, офис-менеджера. Она призывает его искать лучшую работу в другом месте, но он не склонен к риску, и его отсутствие амбиций влияет на отношения супругов отрицательно.
По прошествии времени, Билл всё же уступает жене, и открывает свое собственное агентство на деньги, которые она сумела сохранить. Вдохновленный Нан, он переманивает крупного клиента у своей бывшей фирмы и нанимает Пэт Беркли, которая училась вместе с Нан и Биллом в средней школе. Билл проводит много времени с Пэт и постепенно понимает, что чувства, которые он испытывал к ней в юности, пробудились с новой силой. Нан становится известно об их отношениях, но она предпочитает игнорировать их.
Metropolitan Stage Director
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Raynor
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
Truant Officer
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Mr. Lee
Leon trades in his old car for an expensive new car, which promptly begins to fall apart.
Theatre Manager
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?
El Havana Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Department Head (Uncredited)
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Construction Boss (uncredited)
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
Hotel Manager (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.
Grant
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned man--and who also has some inside knowledge of the circumstances of the man's case. Also aboard is the prisoner's wife, who doesn't believe her husband is a killer and desperately wants to talk to him about it but he refuses to speak to her.
Joe Burnett
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Harrison
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
Sergeant
A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?
Defense Attorney
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingston, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?
Crewman
Судно Сэма Уалана бросает якорь в карибском порту Тимариндо. Напившись на берегу, Сэм возвращается на корабль и обнаруживает, что кто-то подбросил на борт маленького мальчика. Он принимает решение отвезти ребенка в Нью-Йорк и нанимает ему няню, девушку по имени Салли Кларк. Хотя на самом деле Салли работала в дансинг-холле, она представляется Сэму дочерью недавно умершего миссионера.
Detective Morgan
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.
Maitre d'
Жизнь богатого семейства Ленокс из Лонг-Айленда идет наперекосяк после того, как их дочь Мэрион влюбляется в автомеханика Генри Моргана, а сын Берти связывается с хористкой Элис О'Нил. Глава семейства Бронсон Ленокс пытается сделать всё возможное, чтобы эти отношения не зашли слишком далеко.
Policeman
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
