Leon Ames

Leon Ames

Рождение : 1902-01-20, Portland, Indiana, USA

Смерть : 1993-10-12

История

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Leon Ames (January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing fatherly figures in such films as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), as Judy Garland's father, and in Little Women (1949). Description above from the Wikipedia article Leon Ames licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Профиль

Leon Ames

Фильмы

Пегги Сью вышла замуж
Barney Alvorg
Иногда очень хочется прожить жизнь заново. Во всяком случае — кое-что подправить. У Пегги Сью всё хорошо — есть милые дети, есть работа. Вот только брак трещит по швам. Сразу после развода Пегги отправляется на бал выпускников школы, где ее с восторгом выбирают королевой. Это дает ей шанс вернуться в конец 1950-х, когда «Бич Бойз» пели песенку «Красотка Пегги Сью», а жизнь казалась такой безоблачной. Вновь очутившись на заре прекрасной юности, Пегги встречает своих родителей, а самое главное — юного Чарли. И понимает, что все было не напрасно…
Джейк Speed
Pop Winston
Маргарет безрезультатно ищет свою сестру, которая была похищена во время путешествия по Европе, и даже полиция ничем не может помочь. Только дедушка Маргарет знает, что делать — он призвал на помощь знаменитого героя Быстрого Джейка. Девушка была очень удивлена, узнав, что Быстрый Джейк существует на самом деле, но оказалось, что в реальной жизни героям приходится весьма нелегко…
Завещание
Henry Abhart
Основанная на журнальной статье Кэрол Эймен «Последнее завещание», картина описывает обычное, тихое сообщество в маленьком калифорнийском городке Хэмлин. Спокойствие городка потревожено, когда по телевизору в новостях объявляют, что ядерные бомбы взорвались в Нью-Йорке и на Восточном побережье, и экран внезапно желтеет и изображение стирается, что означает взрывы на Западном побережье. Местный радио оператор Хенри Эбхарт становится единственным средством связи с внешним миром.
Just You and Me, Kid
Manduke the Magnificent
George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.
The Best Place to Be
William Callahan
A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much younger man -- and then a former suitor comes back into the picture.
Claws
Ben Jones, Forest Commissioner
"Claws!' is about a grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters one year. From then on, the bear goes on a killing spree in the woods, trying to take revenge on humans as a whole for its brush with the hunters. Jason and Chris Monroe, estranged husband and wife, go in search of the bear after it kills their only son, Buck.
Шерлок Холмс в Нью-Йорке
Daniel Furman
В Лондоне Шерлок Холмс узнает, что его заклятый враг профессор Мориарти снова планирует что-то большое. Еще одна возможность для главного детектива выследить криминального профессора и его преступную организацию. Расследования ведут Холмса и доктора Ватсона в Нью-Йорк, где они узнают, что сын Ирэны Адлер был похищен Мориарти. Вскоре после этого загадочно исчезают золотые резервы банка. Как связаны это преступление и похищение?
Timber Tramps
Deacon
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.
The Meal
Kroger
A rich Florida woman (Dina Merrill) invites big shots to a banquet, then watches with a friend (Carl Betz) as they destroy one another.
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Brother of the Wind
A man raises four wolf pups, hoping to release them back into the wild.
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
Hammersmith Is Out
General Sam Pembroke
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape.
Toklat
Old Man
A poor old mountain man returns to the wild Oregon countryside to find a grizzly bear he named Toklat. He recalls his old days with the bear, from rescuing him as a cub to teaching him how to hunt. He finally finds Toklat and faces the true reason he is after him: the bear is wanted for killing a rancher's livestock, and the mountain man badly needs the bounty money.
В ясный день увидишь вечность
Burt Clews
Дэйзи Гэмбл, необычная женщина, которая творит чудеса со своими цветами, слышит телефоны прежде чем они зазвонят. Она хочет избавиться от пагубной привычки курения. Для этого идет к доктору, который открывает в Дэйзи необычные способности…
Тора! Тора! Тора!
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox
Драма, посвященная событиям 7-го декабря 1941 года, когда японская армия нанесла сокрушительный удар по военно-морской базе США — Перл Харбор.
The Monkey's Uncle
Judge Holmsby
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus.
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
Judge Holmsby / Lex Fortas
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law.
Son of Flubber
Rufus Daggett
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
Отмороженный профессор
President Rufus Daggett
Профессор живет в маленьком городке, он увлекается химией - изобретает озорное вещество, «плюющее» на законы тяготения. Он называет его «флаббером», летающей резиной, использовать его можно в разных целях. Если намазать им спортивную обувь,баскетболисты совершенно безнадежной команды колледжа обретут удивительную прыгучесть, победят соперников.
С террасы
Samuel Eaton
История погони человека за успехом и богатством. Герой взбирается по лестнице, ведущей на вершины Уолл Стрита, пренебрегает женой, жертвует своей цельностью, но в конце, по законам американской попкультуры, переживает болезненное прозрение, так называемый «момент истины».
Пэйтон Плейс
Leslie Harrington
Несмотря на то, что Констанс, как и другие родители, населяющие этот образцово-порядочный городок, стремятся растить своих детей-подростков по всем правилам хорошего тона и воспитания, скандалы только набирают оборот вокруг них: пьяный сторож избивает свою падчерицу, что влечет за собой убийство, суд и осознание того, что все в этом городе далеко не так хорошо, как кажется.
Engagement Party
Elliott Winston
Fresh from "business college" a young man learns a little about relationships and a lot about "S & H Green Stamps."
Sabre Jet
Lt. Col. Eckert
The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Jane Carter (Coleen Gray), a reporter for a large newspaper syndicate arrives... she's also the estranged wife of the assistant squadron commander, Colonel Gil Manton (Robert Stack.) At first, she goes at her assignment of getting a story on the pilots wives with the same ruthlessness and persistence that broke up her marriage - but a mirror isn't needed to peek around the corner to where this one is headed.
Let's Do It Again
Chet Stuart
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
В свете серебристой луны
George Winfield
Дорис Дэй в роли сорвиголовы из колледжа, которая доставляет много проблем окружающим. Все меняется, когда приходится заняться проблемами брата…
Angel Face
Fred Barrett
An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side.
Cattle Drive
Chester Graham, Sr.
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego.
On Moonlight Bay
George Winfield
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president
Watch the Birdie
Grantland D. Farns
A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.
Dial 1119
Earl
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
The Happy Years
Sr. Samuel H. Stover
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
Crisis
Sam Proctor
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
The Skipper Surprised His Wife
Dr. Philip Abbott
A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.
The Big Hangover
Carl Bellcap
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
Ambush
Maj. C.E. Breverly
A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.
Поле битвы
The Chaplain
Сто первая десантная дивизия США — по прозвищу «Кричащие Орлы» заброшена в один из сельских районов Франции, ее цель противостоять натиску нацистов. Однако из-за плохой поддержки с воздуха и отсутствия боеприпасов одна из частей десантников возглавляемая офицером Холли, попадает в окружение. Парням необходимо прорвать блокаду и отразить основной удар немецких войск на своем направление, но перед этим солдатам и офицерам перестоит преодолеть немало трудностей и невзгод на холодном декабрьском снегу Нормандии, прежде чем они получат долгожданные боеприпасы и вступят в решающий бой, став героями и братьями по оружию…
Scene of the Crime
Capt. A.C. Forster
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Any Number Can Play
Dr. Palmer
When illegal casino owner Charley Enley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
Маленькие женщины
Father March
Гражданская война в США. Сестры Мэг, Джо, Бесс и Эмми Марч живут дружно, невзирая на внешние обстоятельства. Их отец находится на фронте, и семье, ведомой их любимой мамой, необходимо как-то свести концы с концами. Существенную помощь семейству оказывают их сосед мистер Лоуренс и его внук Лори… Это история о взрослении сестер Марч, об их первой любви, надеждах и разочарованиях, о формировании их жизненной позиции и начале самостоятельной жизни.
Свидание с Джуди
Lucien T. Pringle
В прекрасном, затерянном между гор, южном городке Санта Барбара, штат Калифорния, всегда происходит что-нибудь интересное. На этот раз вы узнаете историю о любви тинейджеров из местной гимназии. Девушка подросток Джуди Фостер — солистка школьного оркестра. Она с друзьями старательно репетируют песни для танцевального вечера, но ее манера пения и поведения на сцене не нравится ее старшей подруге и руководительнице бала Кэрол Прингл, котораяназывает исполнение «слишком юным» и беспечным. Приходит день праздника и выясняется, что парень по имени Оджи — постоянный кавалер Джуди, не будет сопровождать её на выпускной бал. Расстроенная этим ужасным обстоятельством девушка просит владельца популярного в городе кафе отпустить его двадцатилетнего племянника Стивена Эндрюса с ней в качестве партнера для танцев.
The Velvet Touch
Gordon Dunning
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
On an Island with You
Commander Harrison
A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her at a Forces show, the young lad somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend is just one of those disagreeing.
Alias a Gentleman
Matt Enley
Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.
Merton of the Movies
Lawrence Rupert
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
The Amazing Mr. Nordill
Everett Nordill aka Everton
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the cleverest counterfeiters who ever baffled the agents of the U.S. Treasury department.
Песня тонкого человека
Mitchell Talbin
В шестом и заключительном фильме о «тонком человеке» Ник и Нора оказываются на благотворительном вечере, устроенном на роскошном лайнере-казино. А позже Тома Дрэйка, лидера джазового оркестра, игравшего в тот вечер, находят убитым. Подозрение падает на Фила Брэнта, владельца лайнера, который просит Ника расследовать это дело…
Undercover Maisie
Amor/Willis Farnes
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.
Леди в озере
Derace Kingsby
Лос-Анджелеский частный детектив Филип Марлоу с целью дополнительного заработка пишет детективный рассказ, который отправляет в редакцию журнала «Самые ужасные истории». Придя на встречу с главным редактором, миловидной женщиной Адриен Фромсетт, Филип узнает, что его рассказ будет напечатан при условии, если он поможет расследовать некое запутанное дело, связанное с исчезновением Кристал Кингсби — жены издателя журнала Дераса Кингсби.
The Show-Off
Frank Harlin
Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date.
The Cockeyed Miracle
Ralph Humphrey
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
Почтальон всегда звонит дважды
Kyle Sackett
Фрэнк, путешествующий по Калифорнии в поисках работы, заходит перекусить в придорожную забегаловку. Её владелец Ник предлагает поработать у него, но Фрэнку не очень-то нравится место, пока на сцену не выходит жена Ника. Появление платиновой блондинки Коры в дверном проеме в обтягивающих белых шортах нокаутировало бы любого. Одно из лучших появлений героини в истории кино: мгновенное влечение выплескивается на экран, с самого начала Фрэнк понимает: эта женщина — для него одного. Он остается работать за небольшие деньги и бесплатную комнату, в которой вскоре появляется ОНА! Кора признается Фрэнку, что не любит пожилого мужа и готова бежать с ним отсюда, но они бедны, начинать жизнь с нуля красавица не хочет, а деньги можно получить, только если Ник умрет… Всё идет как по маслу, но от посланника Смерти уйти нельзя — старый Почтальон всегда найдёт Вас и позвонит в Вашу дверь…
No Leave, No Love
Colonel Elliott
A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he falls in love with a woman at the hotel at which he is staying.
Они были незаменимыми
Major James Morton
После атаки Перл-Харбора экипаж торпедных катеров в районе Филиппинских островов должен сразиться с превосходящими их силами японцев…
Yolanda and the Thief
Mr. Candle
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.
Week-End at the Waldorf
Henry Burton
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Поднять якоря
Admiral's Aide
Фильме, где смешались живые актеры и мультипликация. Два моряка ищут в Голливуде очаровательных юных кинозвезд, а находят любовь, танцуют с мышонком из мультфильма, помогают юной звезде найти себя – и все за это за время одной увольнительной на берег.
Son of Lassie
Anton
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?
Fall Guy
Floyd Parkson
Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.
Between Two Women
Masters
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
The Great Morgan
K. F.
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
Тонкий человек едет домой
Edgar Draque
На этот раз Ник и Нора отправляются на родину Ника, в маленький провинциальный городок Сигамор Спрингс, навестить его родителей. Его отец, местный врач, никогда не одобрял выбор профессии Ника и его образ жизни. Прибытие Ника всколыхнуло жизнь городка. Местные жители и местные преступные элементы убеждены, что Ник прибыл в связи с расследованием какого-нибудь дела, несмотря на его уверения в обратном. Однако убийство, случившееся на пороге его дома, заставило его взяться за расследование…
Встреть меня в Сент-Луисе
Mr. Alonzo Smith
Сент-Луис. 1903 год. Алонсо Смит, преуспевающий бизнесмен, живет со своей женой Энн, дочерьми Эстер, Тути, Роуз, Агнесс, сыном Лоном, капризным дедушкой и служанкой. Дочь Роуз кокетничает с одним кавалером дома и переписывается с другим, уехавшим в колледж, а Эстер помолвлена с мальчиком, живущим в соседнем доме. Когда Алонсо получает повышение по службе и ему необходимо переезжать в Нью-Йорк, чего никто из членов семьи никак не желает, начинаются неприятности.
Тридцать секунд над Токио
Lieut. Jurika
Драматическая история рейда американских ВВС на Японию в годы Второй мировой войны.
The Iron Major
Robert 'Bob' Stewart
Pat O'Brien in the role of William 'Frank' Cavanaugh, a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war he went back to coaching where he ended up having one of the best winning percentages in football history.
Crime Doctor
William Wheeler
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.
Здесь ночевал Джордж Вашингтон
Leon Ames (uncredited)
Из-за того что их собака снова погрызла дорогой ковёр домовладельца, Билл Фуллер, его жена Конни и её сестра Мадж, вынуждены съехать с очередной съёмной квартиры. Вместо того чтобы искать новую квартиру, Конни, мечтающая о собственном жилье, без ведома Билла приобретает дом, который, как говорят, служил временным пристанищем Джорджу Вашингтону во время войны за независимость. Сказать, что эта покупка не приводит Билла в восторг, значит ничего не сказать. Для городского жителя, желавшего таковым и оставаться, находящаяся в сельской местности ветхая развалюха и участок, на котором она расположена, преподносят массу сюрпризов в плане обустройства быта...
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
John Stack
Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring. On this occasion, Ellery and his police-inspector father are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack. There've been some very weird goings-on at the hospital as of late, and Mrs. Stack wants to get to the bottom of things.
No Greater Sin
Dr. Edward Cavanaugh
The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commissioner who is out to get rid of the tawdry hookers responsible for spreading the disease.
East Side Kids
Pat O'Day
After living all his chilhood in the street, a young boy notices rapidly that crime doesn't pay and that´s why he decides to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends go in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Immediately the policeman tries his best to release him and prove his innocence.
Fugitive at Large
Carter
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow, is an exact-double for Storm.
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Sheriff Jud Cronin
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
Legion of Lost Flyers
Smythe
A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen wastelands of Alaska. The operation does not go without misadventures, foul-ups, and a bit of treachery tossed in.
Pack Up Your Troubles
Adjutant
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Calling All Marines
Murdock
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
Thunder Afloat
Recruiting Officer (uncredited)
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Code of the Streets
'Chick' Foster
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor (Harris Berger), Murph (Hally Chester), Monk (Charles Duncan), Trouble (Billy Benedict) and Yap (David Gorcey). The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis (Harry Carey), Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay (Paul Fix) is innocent.
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Commissioner Madero
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.
Panama Patrol
Maj. Phillip Waring
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
I Was a Convict
Jackson
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
Risky Business
Hinge Jackson
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Blackwell's Island
Ballinger (uncredited)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Secrets of a Nurse
Joe Largo
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
Суец
Napoleon III - Emperor of France
Однажды на приеме у короля маг предвещает Фердинанду, что тот большую часть своей жизни посветит рытью большой канавы. Забавное будущее, но никто не верит прорицателю. И все же, через несколько лет Фердинанд действительно задумывает соединить моря, чтобы появились новые возможности для соседних стран. Мысль кажется невозможной, но как раз тогда он вспоминает странного старца, говорившего про какую-то канаву. Фердинанд намерен осуществить задуманное, но непросто пойти против воли короля, для которого подобное возвышение и популярность соперника совсем некстати. И Фердинанд вынужден всю жизнь сражаться не только со стихией воды, но и с королем. А последнее куда сложнее, чем работать над воссоединением земель. Но Фердинанд не отступает.
Cipher Bureau
Maj. Philip Waring
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
Mysterious Mr. Moto
Paul Brissac
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Come On, Leathernecks!
Otto Wagner / Baroni
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.
Island in the Sky
Marty Butler
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
Восьмая жена Синей Бороды
Ex-Chauffeur (uncredited)
Американский мультимиллионер в восьмой раз женится. Его избранница Николь — дочь разорившегося французского маркиза — не желает пополнить ряды его бывших жен и начинает «приручать» графа. Мадемуазель Николь узнает в день своей свадьбы, что ее жених-миллионер уже был женат прежде — семь раз!
Walking Down Broadway
Frank Gatty
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
International Settlement
Monte Silver
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
The Spy Ring
Frank Denton
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
45 Fathers
Vincent
An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
Murder in Greenwich Village
Rodney Hunter
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
Чарли Чен на Бродвее
Buzz Moran
Вернувшись из европейской ссылки, где она избегала дачи показаний против своих преступных сообщников, бывшая певица с откровенным дневником убита, чтобы заставить её молчать.
Dangerously Yours
Phil
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.
Soak the Poor
Special Investigator Stanton
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
Song of Revolt
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
Pilot X
Carl Goering
Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.
Get That Man
Don Clayton / McDonald
Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.
Rescue Squad
Lester Vaughn (as Leon Waycoff)
An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an Asian importer raise money for a son's surgery by buying a sacred statuette of Buddha, the sale of which the importer believes will curse him; therefore, the importer secretly plans to poison the collector after receiving the cash and keep the statuette in his possession. The titled "rescue squad" appears only briefly in the picture to help firemen rescue two principal characters from a stuck elevator in a building set afire by accident. There are no arsonists in this film.
Безрассудные
Ralph Watson
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Strangers All
Frank Walker
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
Mutiny Ahead
McMurtrie
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.
Now I'll Tell
Max
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
I'll Tell the World
Spud Marshall
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
Only Yesterday
Lee (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Ship of Wanted Men
John Holden
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth, as well as a few honest guys who were framed. Into this den of iniquity swims socialite Dorothy Sebastian, who jumped off a yacht after apparently murdering her lecherous host. To remain on the Island, Sebastian is told that she must pay $5,000 to head honcho Fred Kohler -- and if she hasn't got the money, it is implied, there are other methods of collection.
The Man Who Dared
Yosef Novak
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
Alimony Madness
John Thurman
A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
Forgotten
Louie Strauss
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
Парашютист
Pilot with Alabama (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.
Uptown New York
Max Silver (as Leon Waycoff)
Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from a failed romance with aspiring Jewish doctor Max Silver (Leon Ames). But when Pat is nearly killed in an effort to protect her husband's gumball machines from hoodlums and is in need of a lifesaving operation, Eddie calls on Dr. Max
That's My Boy
Al Williams
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.
A Successful Calamity
Barney Davis
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Тринадцать женщин
Тринадцать женщин, которые во время учёбы в колледже принимали участие в спиритическом кружке, обращаются к знаменитому пророку Свами Йогадачи, чтобы он составил гороскопы для каждой из них. Все тринадцать гороскопов предсказали трагедию в ближайшее время. И предсказания начинают сбываться…
The Famous Ferguson Case
Judd Brooks
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglers", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Stowaway
Tommy
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and being pursued by a Policeman who thinks she is a prostitute, Mary seeks shelter on an old freighter. She is soon discovered by second mate Tommy and they quickly fall in love, but with first mate Groder lurking around will their lives work out in the end?
Убийство на улице Морг
Pierre Dupin
XIX век, Париж. Доктор Миракл, живущий на улице Морг, похищает женщин и проводит над ними бесчеловечные эксперименты. Его целью является скрещивание человека с гориллой. После введения крови примата в кровеносную систему женщин последние погибают и Миракл выбрасывает их трупы в Сену. На ярмарке доктор показывает говорящую гориллу Эрика. Среди зрителей - молодая девушка Камилла Леспане и её жених Пьер Дюпен, подозревающий Миракла в убийствах. Камилла становится предметом вожделения Эрика. Миракл решает воспользоваться и приказывает Эрика похитить девушку. Ночью обезьяна пробирается в спальню Камиллы и крадет её. Дюпен, догадавшись, что Камиллу похитил Миракл, обращается в полицию. В лаборатории Эрик, увидев, что Камилле угрожает опасность со стороны его хозяина, освобождается и убивает доктора. Затем, схватив Камиллу, бежит с ней по крышам Парижа. За зверем и его добычей устремляется погоня во главе с префектом и Дюпеном. Дюпен взбирается за Эриком на крышу и пристреливает обезьяну.
Quick Millions
Hood
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.