John Sheehan

John Sheehan

Рождение : 1885-10-22, Oakland, California, USA

Смерть : 1952-02-14

Профиль

John Sheehan

Фильмы

The Lady and the Bandit
Huggens
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
Where Danger Lives
Quartz Miner (uncredited)
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
Alias Nick Beal
Reformer
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Judge
Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn't commit.
Buck Privates Come Home
Drew (INS) (uncredited)
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Magnificent Doll
Hugo
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
I've Always Loved You
Stagehand 1
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
Убийцы
Fight Arena Doctor (uncredited)
От пуль наемных убийц погибает скромный служащий бензоколонки. Страховой агент Реардон расследует это на первый взгляд случайное преступление. Раскручивая нить жизни погибшего «Шведа», Реардон раскрывает тайну кровавых преступлений и предательств, в центре которых ослепительная женщина-вамп Китти Коллинз. Он слишком близко подходит к давней загадке исчезнувших 250 000 долларов и теперь у него появляется новая задача: выжить!
The Man in Half Moon Street
Expressman
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
Джонни приходит поздно
Cop
В 1906 году Том Ричардс, бродяга, прибывает в Платтсвилль и знакомится с главным акционером газеты Винни Маклеод, которая борется с коррумпированным "хозяином" города В.М. Догерти. Том Ричардс вступает в должность управляющего редактора газеты "Щит и Знамя" Платтсвилля и, несмотря на первоначальное сопротивление с которым он столкнулся, при всеобщей поддержке граждан города дает решительный отпор махинациям Догерти, который поставлен в трудное положение и вынужден сделать не желательный для себя выбор....«Джонни приходит поздно» - это первый, драматический фильм, снятый Уильямом К. Говардом в студии "Кагни Продакшн" в марте 1943 года.
Бомбардир
Congressman
Майор Чик Дэвис демонстрирует армии США достоинства высотного прицельного бомбометания, с помощью нового высокотехнологичного прицела, а так же организовывает школу бомбардиров. Тренировки показаны в полудокументальном стиле, скрашенном драматическими моментами из личной жизни и учебных будней курсантов.
It Ain't Hay
Storekeeper (uncredited)
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
Silent Witness
Detective Dan Callahan
District Attorney Holden and his special investigator Betty Higgins are trying to convict brothers Joe and Lou Manson, silk-racket hoods, after they are indicted for murder.
Mug Town
Manager
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Theatre Ticket Seller
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
Остров Уэйк
Декабрь 1941. Без всякой надежды на помощь, небольшой гарнизон на островах Уилкс, Уэйк и Пил, в течение двух недель отражал яростные атаки японского флота.
Night in New Orleans
Drunk (Uncredited)
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Оружие для найма
Keever (uncredited)
Добрый к детям и котам наемный убийца Филип Рейвн, получает оплату своей «работы» от предателя Уилларда Гэйтса в «горячих» деньгах. Крейн (второй после Рейвна) завербован комитетом Сената, чтобы помочь в расследовании деятельности Гэйтса. Рейвн жаждет отомстить Гэйтсу, он отправляется на его поиски…
Женщина года
Red Face (uncredited)
В центре истории соперничающие репортеры Сэм и Тесс, которые влюбляются в друг друга и женятся. Однако брак совершенно не успокаивает их накаленные отношения…
Pacific Blackout
Sergeant
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Mob Town
Mr. Loomis
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
Honky Tonk
Townsman
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Авиазвено
Friendly Mechanic
Алан Дрэйк (Роберт Тейлор) – курсант, окончивший летную академию в г.Пенсакола, как лучший выпускник, получает назначение в легендарный летный отряд ВМС США под названием «Адские Коты», который базируется в Сан-Диего. Он сразу производит не самое приятное впечатление на закаленных ветеранов своей юношеской самоуверенностью. Эта неприязнь особенно усиливается, когда Дрейка начинают подозревать в том, что у него роман с Лорной Гэри (Рут Хасси) женой их любимого командира Билла Гэри (Уолтер Пиджен). Алану ничего другого не остается, как подать прошение об отставке...
Tin Pan Alley
Announcer
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.
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Janitor
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings
Hullabaloo
Audition Manager
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
Семь грешников
Drunk (uncredited)
Бижу - красивая певица кабаре в Южных Морях, где базируется Военно-морской флот США. Девушка вынуждена кочевать из одного салона в другой с острова на остров, доставляя немало хлопот местным «красоткам», привлекая к себе внимание всех мужчин и разбивая их сердца. Но однажды она влюбляется в морского офицера Дэна Брента. Их роман прекрасен и Дэн предлагает Бижу руку и сердце. Руководящие чины, зная дискредитирующее прошлое Бижу, пробуют отговорить Дэна от брака, дабы спасти его многообещающую карьеру...
Завоевать город
Man Yelling at Ringside (uncredited)
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…
Men Against the Sky
Bartender
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
Gold Rush Maisie
Drunk Greeting 'Pop' (Uncredited)
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
Millionaires in Prison
Deputy Taking Keats & Kellogg to Prison (uncredited)
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
Обращение на запад
Man Asking When Wedding Will Be
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.
King of the Lumberjacks
Bartender
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
The Marines Fly High
Airplane Seller
Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
I Take This Woman
Clinic Patient with Good Blood Pressure (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.
Hidden Enemy
Marden
Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.
Mexican Spitfire
Bartender in Mexico
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
Slightly Honorable
Mike Daley
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Dust Be My Destiny
County Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Desk Sergeant O'Toole (uncredited)
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Wolf Call
Grogan
A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
Big Town Czar
Ray Norman
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
They Made Me a Criminal
Man in Front of Grandma (uncredited)
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Down on the Farm
Fire Chief
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Youth Takes a Fling
Second Communist
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Many Sappy Returns
Mr. Benson
Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
Love on a Budget
Fire Chief Nelson
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.
Night Club Scandal
Duffy
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
Love Takes Flight
Spud Johnson
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
All Over Town
McKee
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
Island Captives
Island Police Commandant
A murdered businessman's daughter is shipwrecked on a jungle island with the son of the man who killed her father. Both are threatened by a smuggling ring that uses the island as its headquarters.
Кид Гэлэхэд
(uncredited)
Когда гостиничный посыльный нокаутирует широко разрекламированного тяжеловеса Чака МакГро, защищая честь девицы Филлипс по кличке Пушок, та дает ему прозвище Кид Гэллэхэд. Ее парень, Ник Донати, принимает решение сделать из юноши чемпиона. Начинаются тренировки, но вскоре Нику приходится пожалеть о своем выборе. Терзаясь ревностью, так как и Пушок и его собственная сестра, воспитанная в монастыре, проявляют к Киду совершенно определенный интерес, Ник выставляет его против МакГро, будучи уверен, что его боец проиграет. Но все идет совсем не по плану…
Меченая женщина
Vincent
В одном заведении на одного крупного сутенера работают пять девушек, но только одна из них собирается вырваться и уехать. Пока же ей приходится терпеть, быть послушной и копить деньги. После того как ее младшую сестру убивает босс, она уговаривает других девушек стать свидетельницами на процессе…
Midnight Court
'Clouter' Hoag
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Under Southern Stars
Number Thirteen
Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.
Великий О’Мэлли
Policeman in Radio Car (uncredited)
Джеймс О’Мэлли проходит путь от супер-правильного полицейского, дотошно следующего букве закона, до человека, способного сопереживать проблемам окружающих. А помогает ему в этом маленькая дочка недавно арестованного им парня…
On the Avenue
Stage Manager
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
Join the Marines
O'Day
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
Smart Blonde
Leon Blyfuss
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Дело о чёрном коте
Sergeant Holcomb (uncredited)
Адвокат Перри Мейсон глубокой ночью вызван в особняк Лакстеров, чтобы исключить внучку Вилму из наследства Уильяма Лакстера, чтобы она не вышла замуж за подозреваемого в охоте за наследством Дуга. Питер умирает при загадочных обстоятельствах, и два внука Лакстера, Сэм Лакстер и Фрэнк Оффли, наследуют его имение при условии, что старый сторож Шустер и его кошка Клинкер продолжают там проживать. Когда ненавидящий котов Сэм угрожает Клинкер, Перри входит и узнает, что смерть Лакстера была подозрительной, а семейное состояние и бриллианты пропали без вести. Шустер найден мёртвым в своей подвальной квартире, медсестра Лакстера Луиза убита костылем Шустера, и косвенные доказательства приводят Дуга к суду за смерть Луизы. Расследование Мейсона приводит к неожиданному свидетельству, который превращает суд в переворот.
Here Comes Carter
Slugs Dana
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Ticket to Paradise
Taxi Driver
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
Бывшая миссис Брэдфорд
Bert Murphy (uncredited)
Лоуренс Брэдфорд - успешный городской врач, которого вполне устраивает размеренная жизнь после развода. Но внезапно свалившаяся как снег на голову бывшая жена Пола, авантюристка и писательница детективов, непроизвольно увлекает Дока в круговорот криминальных событий, связанных с необъяснимой смертью жокея на скачках.
Three Godfathers
Ed Barrow
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
Laughing Irish Eyes
Joe Cronin
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
The Goose and the Gander
Murphy
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
The Murder Man
Sweeney
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
The Human Side
Gardy (uncredited)
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
The Circus Clown
Moxley
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Such Women Are Dangerous
Granigan
An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatened.
The Personality Kid
Prof. Thompson
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
Little Miss Marker
Sun Rise, a Bookie
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, where his girl, Bangles Carson sings, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but is unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his daughter, Marthy Jane (Shirley Temple), as security, or in bookie's terms, a "marker". Having lost his bet, he commits suicide, leaving "little Miss Marker" under the care of Sorrowful Jones. As Steve hides out in Chicago to avoid investigation for his crooked bets, he entrusts Sorrowful to watch over Bangles during his absence, at which time the "gold digger" helps "tight-wod" with his trouble. When Big Steve learns Bangles is involved with Sorrowful, he returns to New York to do something about it.
House of Mystery
Harry Smith
Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Sterner
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
Trimmed in Furs
William
Bill's wife insists that he get her a fur coat, and since he cannot afford to buy one, he goes on a hunting trip, hoping to capture some furs himself. Meanwhile, a temperamental actress, needing a rest for her nerves, has made plans to visit the same hunting lodge where Bill will be staying. They and several others meet at the lodge, resulting in chaos and confusion.
King for a Night
Manny
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
The Chief
Charlie, a Streetcleaner
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
Бюро пропавших без вести
Tom--Morgue Attendant (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.
As the Devil Commands
Wilfred Morgan
Slowly dying of an unspecified illness, wealthy invalid Charles Sellon wants his aide Neil Hamilton to end his suffering. Hamilton won't do it, but villainous lawyer Alan Dinehart, in line to inherit Sellon's millions, is not so charitable. Dinehart kills Sellon, then makes it look as though Hamilton murdered the old guy for his money.
Arizona to Broadway
Flynn's Straightman
In the small town of Larrup, Arizona, Smiley, a con-artist traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris and Ambrose, persuades Lynn Martin, a traveling demonstrator of pancake making, to accompany him to a carnival, where Kingfish sells a large number of bottles of Bambo, an elixir...
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Gypse Joe
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
The Gay Nighties
Mr. Oliver Beezley
This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
The Warrior's Husband
Pokus
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
Lost in Limehouse
Sir Marmaduke Rakes
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
The Keyhole
Ship Bartender (uncredited)
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
Ярмарка штата
Barker at Aerial Act (Uncredited)
Семья Фрэйков отправилась на ярмарку штата Айова. И пока отец с матерью принимали участие в различных соревнованиях и конкурсах, их сын с дочерью нашли свои вторые половинки.
Тяжело управлять
Ed 'Mac' McGrath (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
The Past of Mary Holmes
Tom Kincaid
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.
Call Her Savage
Drunken Tenant (Uncredited)
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
Hold 'Em Jail
Mike Maloney
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
Too Young to Marry
In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wife and allows his good daughter to marry the grocery boy she loves, they finally come to respect him.
Fair Warning
Kelduff
This George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix vehicle The Untamed. Cast as devil-may-car Whistlin' Dan Barry, our hero rides into a passel of trouble in a wide-open town. Warned to leave the premises or else, Whistlin' Dan refuses to do so, sticking around long enough to whomp villain Jim Silent (Mitchell Lewis) and romance heroine Kate Cumberland (Louise Huntington).
The Criminal Code
'Mac' McManus
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Kismet
Kazim
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
Swing High
Doc May
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
The Comet's Come-Back
The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the planet lazy and lethargic, and actually stops time.
Притворство
Steve Nolan
Комедия о посыльном в банке, который притворяется менеджером, чтобы произвести впечатление на девушку.
The Last Chapter
Reggy Trevor
Gordon, a young war correspondent, after being wounded in the jungles of Africa, is picked up and taken back to England by James Egerton, a wealthy rubber magnate, who has been investigating conditions on his plantation, where there has been a great shortage in the year's yield. On the voyage homeward the correspondent and Egerton's daughter Alice fall in love.
The Key to Yesterday
George Steels
George Carter, a revolutionist in South America, is the exact double of Frederick Marston, a famous artist in Paris. Carter is betrayed by a comrade and is sentenced to be shot. He takes a desperate chance and escapes on board a vessel bound for London. In Paris Marston is stabbed by a model because he does not return her love. The wound incapacitates him from painting, and leaves an ugly scar, and he goes to America on a vacation. Highwaymen attack him, inflicting injuries which cause a total loss of memory. The robbers leave nothing in his pockets but the key to his Paris studio, and Marston adopts the name of Robert Anglo-Saxon.