Paul Lukas

A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.

All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island.

Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.

Офицер торгового флота Джим Берк в сильный шторм покидает корабль, не позаботившись о пассажирах. Их спасает французское судно. Джим оставляет службу, понимая, что опозорил мундир офицера. Мучаясь от угрызений совести, он ищет случая искупить свою вину. Судьба приводит его в Азию. Здесь он возглавляет борьбу туземцев против местного феодала и становится их героем.

История о мужестве и борьбе за жизнь военных и дипломатов, в 1900 г. попавших в западню в закрытой зоне Пекина. С молчаливой поддержки императрицы Китая, их осадили тысячи восставших против иностранцев китайских фанатиков. Разногласия забыты перед лицом опасности, забыта и борьба за сердце прекрасной, русской графини. Все вовлечены в ужасные события…

Главный герой — Майк Виндгрэн работает на лодке в Акапулько. Когда своевольная дочь владельца лодки увольняет его, Майк вынужден отыскать для себя новую работу. В этом ему помогает маленький мальчик по имени Рауль. Теперь он начинает работать в качестве спасателя и певца в местной гостинице. Работая спасателем и конферансье, Майк влюбляется в социального директора — Маргариту Дофин.

Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS and in WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France.

Талантливый врач-психиатр американец Дик Дайвер, работая в одной из клиник Швейцарии, влюбляется в пациентку по имени Николь и женится на ней. Николь происходила из очень богатой семьи, и родственники восприняли брак без оптимизма. Дику еще долгое время после выписки Николь из больницы приходится совмещать две роли, — мужа и врача. Течёт время, проходят года..

Отдыхающий англичанин наталкивается на заговор с целью убийства молодой американской туристки в Испании.

In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining "roots of Heaven." At first, he finds only support from Minna, hostess of the town's only night club, who is in love with him, and a derelict ex-British Army Major, Forsythe. His crusade gains momentum and he is soon surrounded by an odd assortment of characters: Cy Sedgewick, an American TV commentator who becomes impressed and rallies world-wide support; a U.S. photographer, Abe Fields, who is sent to do a picture story on Morel and stays on to follow his ideals; Saint Denis, a government aide ordered to stop Morel; Orsini, a professional ivory hunter whose vested interests aren't the same as Morel's; and Waitari, leader of a Pan-African movement who follows Morel only for the personal good it will do his own campaign.

The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.

На календаре 1868 год и весь Сан-Франциско взбудоражен поступающими сообщениями о плавающем под водой огромном чудовище, которое может сожрать любое судно, если оно к нему приближается. Многие плавания отменены, и правительство вынуждено послать военный корабль исследовать и очистить море от «чудищ». Корабль этот был потоплен неизвестным «существом», и только троим чудом удалось спастись: профессональному гарпунисту, профессору из Морского музея в Париже и его помощнику. Их вытаскивают из воды на эту чуду-юду, которое оказывается подводной лодкой Капитана Немо, ученого, изобретателя и радикального борца за мир. Он топит корабли с благородной целью покончить с войной на бескрайних водах мирового океана…

1885 год, Британия колонизирует Индию. Кимбол О Хара, а по попросту мальчик Ким, — наполовину британец наполовину индус, отец его умер много лет назад, так что он вынужден жить с матерью индианкой на улицах Калькутты. Этот парнишка очень ловок и смекалист. Благодаря этим качествам и незаурядной зрительной памяти он становится лучшим Чела — помощником странствующего Ламы. Волею судьбы мальчик попадает к полковнику Критону, который вербует его в качестве юного следопыта и дает задание выполнить разведывательную операцию в паре с профессиональным шпионом Махабом Али... Экранизация одноимённого романа Редьярда Киплинга.

Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.

After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.

After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.

Моряк Алекс просыпается после бурной пьянки с большой суммой денег, принадлежащих Эдне Бартелли, которая пригласила его домой, чтобы «исправить её радио». Он пытается вернуть деньги с неохотной помощью танцовщицы Джун Гос. Они обнаруживают, что Эдна убита. Алекс не вполне уверен, что он сам не убивал девушку. У него и Джун есть четыре часа глубокой ночи для того, чтобы найти настоящего убийцу. Поиски заставляют их встретиться со множеством разных людей, в то время как история становится все более и более запутанной.

В 1903 году доктор Бэйли встречает в поезде очень странную женщину, а позже узнает, что она умерла при загадочных обстоятельствах. Через своего друга он знакомится с семьей Бедеро, все члены которой выглядят замкнутыми или неврастеничными. Вопреки своим намерениям, он все глубже увязает в кругу этой семьи, и причиной тому - необыкновенная красота Алиды Бедеро.

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.

In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.

Сара и Курт Муллер с тремя детьми возвращаются в дом ее матери в Вашингтоне после 18 лет, проведенных в Европе. Румынский князь, проживающий там, находит чемодан Курта полный денег…

After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.

Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.

An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.

Мэри Картер унаследовала на Кубе замок, населенный зомби. Тем не менее, она направляется туда в сопровождении радиоведущего Ларри Лоуренса. После многочисленных потрясений и волнений Мэри раскрывает истину: замок расположен на серебросодержащей шахте...

A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.

All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan Sing (Paul Lukas), British singer Sadie Merivale (Kay Walsh) begins a dangerous affair with nearby plantation owner Harold Marquess (Wallace Douglas). But when Sing discovers his wife’s betrayal, he plots to regain his honor by slowly torturing her lover to death.

Группа заключенных бежит из тюрьмы. Их путь лежит через непроходимые джунгли. Спасителем оказывается неведомо откуда взявшийся странник...

Ирландский заключенный, отправленный на каторгу в Австралию, сбегает из под стражи, отправляется в пустошь и там собирает банду таких же беглецов, чтобы бороться с коррумпированным землевладельцем.

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

Действие фильма происходит накануне второй Мировой Войны. В поезде, едущем из Тироля в Лондон, загадочным образом исчезает пожилая леди. Ее попутчица начинает расследовать это происшествие вместе с молодым человеком. Постепенно они, вместе с остальными пассажирами, оказываются втянутыми в шпионскую интригу.

The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.

The story of a surly crew, an honest God-fearing captain, a hardboiled-but-loyal Scotch mate, a scoundrelly second-mate, and then a mutiny, the fight and the final voyage to a safe harbor. But not before the Captain has been murdered, his pretty daughter in peril, her rescue by the single passenger on board, and a member of the crew thrown overboard by another crew member.

A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

Time marches on.

Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.

Король автомобильной промышленности Сэм Додсворт уходит от дел, чтобы насладиться радостями жизни в обществе жены. Они отправляются в путешествие по Европе, но относятся к нему по-разному: Сэму быстро все наскучило, а Фрэн наслаждается новизной. Ни флирт с повесой, ни обиды от опасного авантюриста, ничему не научили ее. Она просит у Сэма развод, чтобы выйти замуж за молодого барона...

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.

The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.

When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.

После того, как печально известный вор драгоценного камня Фламбо встречает Эвелин Фишер во время налёта на казино, он откровенно влюбляется в неё. Позже Фламбо посылает записки как Леопольду Фишеру, который незнакомый ему дядя Эвелин, так и к отцу Брауну, в котором он клянётся, что украдёт у них десять алмазов, составляющих «Летающую звезду». Фламбо намерен отдать эти алмазы Эвелин. Отец Браун, чей золотой крест содержит несколько алмазов «Летающей звезды», полон решимости встретиться с Фламбо до его ареста, исправить и искупить свою душу.

Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.

After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...

When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.

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.

A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.

Гражданская война в США. Сестры Мэг, Джо, Бесс и Эмми 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…

While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.

A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.

According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.

When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.

In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.

Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil rigger Walt (Charles Bickford), who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken (Paul Lukas) but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis (Ralph Forbes), and Ken urges her to return to Walt.

A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.

When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to.

A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boorish New Jersey boyfriend or a dashing Opera star, a man of experience.

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her sister June, more streetwise, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.

Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes jealous of Julie Stressman, an old friend of Michael's and one of his models, Michael reluctantly asks Julie not to visit him at his studio. They agree to meet only at the construction site where he is working on a sculpture for which Julie is modeling. When Elinor also shows up at the site, Julie leaves so as to avoid a confrontation, but she is killed by some falling materials. Julie's dying request is that Michael adopt her daughter Mitzi, whose father died years earlier. In order to prevent Mitzi from being taken to an orphanage, Michael lies and says he is her father. Elinor hears this, and without asking questions, leaves him and marries another man the same night.

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

Фильм рассказывает о любви бедного, честного парня к дочери гангстера, которая была осуждена за убийство. Ради этой любви юноша пошел на компромисс со своей совестью и, чтобы заработать много денег ивызволить любимую из тюрьмы, устроился телохранителем к одному из руководителей крупной бандитской группировки…

In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.

A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

A lawyer, left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.

An exhaustingly cantankerous old man solves a jewel robbery.

Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie is only interested in luring David in for a lucrative business deal. David easily falls in love, but older brother Mark brands Hallie a gold-digger. To get even with the straight-laced Stone family, Hallie accepts David's marriage proposal.

Циничный и безжалостный биржевой маклер убит в своём шикарном загородном поместье. Фило Вэнс, случайно оказавшийся на месте преступления, решает выяснить, кто убийца.

Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by his return to the front. In an air battle, Robert brings down and captures the Grey Eagle, Baden, and takes him to American Intelligence in Paris. Mary, ostensibly a spy for the Germans, drugs Robert, who awakens to find that his uniform has been stolen by Baden. Later, in an exciting air conflict, Baden is wounded but shoots down Robert's plane. The German rescues him, however, and takes him to an Allied hospital, assuring him of Mary's love; his faith in her is restored when he learns that she is actually a spy for U. S. Intelligence.

Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel-thief Malatroff blackmails Lucy into helping him steal the valuable necklace owned by the young wife of phlegmatic American businessman Sylvester Corbett.

Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.

Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.

A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.

Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.

Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with her campus chums Fred (Richard Arlen) and Bob (Danny O'Shea), likewise aspiring thespians, Babes heads to Broadway with stars in her eyes. The winsome threesome are quickly disillusioned by the heartless machinations of nasty producer Renov (Paul Lukas) and his harridan wife (Lilyan Tashman). Before the plot proper gets under way, the audience is regaled with a cute "mythological" prologue, featuring the same three leading actors. Manhattan Cocktail was a silent picture, except for two brief musical numbers showcasing Nancy Carroll.

A silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.

Night Watch is a 1928 American drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Paul Lukas, and Donald Reed. It was an adaptation of the dramatic 1921 play In the Night Watch, written by Michael Morton. The film is set almost entirely on a French warship at the beginning of the First World War.

Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval....

Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best cameraman, to quit in protest of the hiring of a woman. The Mercury hires Scoop, and there begins a heated rivalry between him and Pat. Pat gets a few lucky breaks and manages to get a beat on Scoop during her brief career. After she exposes the theft of a jewel from the turban of a visiting maharajah, she and Scoop are kidnapped by Clayton, the thief, and taken aboard his yacht. Rescued, she and Scoop find love and happiness.

A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.

Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the guise of "Leatherface," a swashbuckling masked avenger, Van Ryke performs his derring-do on behalf of the Prince of Orange (Nigel de Brulier). Naturally, Van Ruke considers beautiful Spanish aristocrat Donna Leonora de Vargas (Vilma Banky) to be a bitter enemy, and the feeling is mutual. To no one's surprise, however, Van Ryke and Donna Leonara eventually fall in love (hence the title). The pulse-pounding climax finds Van Ryke riding hell-for-leather through a rainstorm to warn the Flemish troops about the Spaniards' plans to burn the city of Ghent to the ground. Two Lovers was based on Madame Orczy's novel Leatherface, and adapted for the screen by Alice Duer Miller.

In English known informally as "The Half of a Boy" and "Stepmother". Based on the novel by Kálmán Mikszáth. After his wife's death Gáthy Lörinc (in Serbian version: Mr. Wickfield) remarries and in secret he takes his son born from this second marriage to the same foster parents who take care his first son born from his first marriage and left without mother. Five years later, when both boys return home, his wife does not know which is her own child, and which is the child of the previous wife, so the husband's desire is fulfilled, his orphaned son doesn't have step-mother, because his wife loves both boys equally, as her sweet children.

Silent film drama

Directed by Béla Balogh.