Townsman
Al Graham runs a trucking business in Alaska, America’s final frontier which confronts him with washed out bridges, female hitchhikers and mayhem concerning his partner Gerard Mason and his scheming wife.
Guard (as André Adorée)
Pursued by a posse, a rancher and a young woman, partners in crime, are chased into Indian country.
Fighter (uncredited)
Спортивный журналист Эдди Виллис вращается в мире профессионального бокса и становится, как сейчас говорят, «пиарщиком» начинающего боксера. Проработав 17 лет в газете и не заработав ничего на «черный» день, он соглашается вести грязную «раскрутку» бездарного, слабого боксера внушительной внешности и роста.
«Бокс — это балет, шоу, на котором делают деньги», — так говорит ему полукриминальный промоутер Род Стайгер, — но ведь в балете не убивают в раздевалке танцоров, отказывающихся танцевать. Только сейчас Эдди понимает всю подноготную этого безжалостного мира, где менеджеры жестоко и без всяких сантиментов манипулируют своими боксерами. Хватит ли у него силы воли восстать против хорошо отлаженной машины криминального бизнеса?
Utah
The Three Stooges travel West where they become heroes by nabbing a gang of would-be robbers.
Battling Brennan
Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercover agent assigned to the case happens to get into a traffic accident with the sister of the man the police suspect is head of the burglary ring, and in order to work his way into the gang, he romances the boss' sister. Complications ensue when the two fall in love.
Crook
Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some of the biggest names of the era: director J.P. McGowan, actors Francis Ford and Joe Bonomo (a carnival strongman-turned-actor), producer Trem Carr (who would later help found Monogram Pictures), and a slew of silent-era supporting icons such as Ruth Hiatt, Grace Cunard, and more. Chapter names like “The Clutching Claw,” “The Devil’s Dice, “Galloping Fury,” and “The Invisible Hand” offer all one needs to know of the film’s concerns: to promise and deliver as much action and suspense as possible, and move our intrepid hero and heroine from one perilous situation to another. One of the biggest stars of the early silent era and a successful serials director in his own right, Francis Ford was the brother of director John Ford.
