Frankenstein (archive footage)
The third entry into the Born to Lose video mixtape series, once again packed to the brim with dumb videos and childish humor.
Self - Interviewee
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story takes a deeper look at the life and career of Boris Karloff, from 1931 to 1969, exploring films such as The Ghoul, The Walking Dead (1936), Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), the Mr Wong series, The Climax (1944), Lured (1947), The Strange Door (1951), Grip of the Strangler and Corridors of Blood(1958), The Comedy of Terrors (1963), The Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), the Mexican quartet, some of his major TV appearances (The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., Wild Wild West, I-Spy) as well as taking a deep look at his often ignored Broadway career in the 1940s and 50's. There is also much time devoted to Karloff's more personal side and his relationship with his daughter, Sara.
Self (archive footage)
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. Karloff's films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors, but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman, and John Landis, all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes.
Self (archive footage)
Documentry on the career of Jack Pierce, a make up man from the Golden Age of Hollywood, most remembered for creating the looks of various classic monsters such as Frankenstein, The Mummy, and the Wolf Man
Self (archive footage)
In this experimental film, British actor Boris Karloff (1887-1969) embodies over 170 characters, experiencing a schizophrenic horror trip in which he faces versions of himself in different masks, at different ages, of different genders and races. As Karloff’s career spans over 50 years, from the silent era to modern-day cinema, A Masque of Madness allows us to witness the aesthetic and technical developments of the medium in one single film.
Self (archive footage)
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll see stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Marlene Dietrich, Boris Karloff, Edward G. Robinson, Errol Flynn and more. They're not so perfect after all when these flubbed moments are caught on film!
Bob Wilkins (April 11, 1932 – January 7, 2009) was a beloved Northern California television personality best known for his long run as a horror host. His singularly unique approach to the films and his hosting style was a simple extension of his wit and charming personality. This film covers the dates and titles of his weekly horror shows on KCRA 3, KTXL 40, and KTVU 2 with vintage interviews of Bob Wilkins, clips from his shows, film trailers, commercials, stills, and audio recordings. A video scrapbook, you definitely will not catch it all on a single viewing.
Himself (archive footage)
On Valentines Day, 1931, Universal Pictures released the film Dracula - the first true horror movie. Its worldwide success catapulted the film's lead actor, Romanian-born Bela Lugosi, to overnight stardom. "Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire" traces the life and career of this mysterious man whose name became synonymous with the evil, yet magnetically compelling Count Dracula. Using archival still and film clips as well as interviews with film historians, actors and Lugosi himself, the special chronicles the meteoric rise and then precipitous decline of a talented yet tragic man who forever changed the face of horror films.
Cabman John Gray (archive footage)
Crime writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmare in September 1885, Rankin traces the roots of this story, which stretches back to Stevenson's childhood. Grave-robbers, hallucinatory drugs and prostitution all play their part in the disturbing account of Henry Jekyll's double-life, as Rankin's journey takes him into the yeasty draughts and unlit closes of the city that inspired the tale - Edinburgh.
Self (archive footage)
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today.
Self (archive footage)
Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Bela Lugosi.
Self (archive footage)
Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Boris Karloff.
Mr. Wong (archive footage)
A tribute to Poverty Row Studios of the 30's and 40's
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Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of the film image while foreshadowing the Holocaust.
Self (archive footage)
The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.
Various Roles (Archive Footage)
A & E Comprehensive biographies of 5 of the greatest classic stars of the horror genre. Included lots or archive footage from some the greatest horror movies committed to film.
Self (archive footage)
Documentary featured on the Classic Monster Collection and Monster Legacy Collection for The Mummy (1932).
Self (archive footage)
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
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A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Himself (archive footage)
Richard Dreyfuss hosts a celebration of the 80 year history of Universal Studios. Founded as IMP by Carl Leammle to oppose Edison's Motion Picture Tust, it soon grew under the leadership of 21 year old production head Irving Thalberg with classic silents from artists like John Ford, Erich Von Stroheim, and Lon Chaney and prospered further in the Sound Era under the leadership of Carl Leammle Jr. with such classics as "All Quiet on The Western Front," "Showboat," and the studio's signature monster franchises, "Frankenstein" and "Dracula."
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Phil Hartman hosts this retrospective look back at the legacy and making of the classic 1966 holiday special 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'
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This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.
Man in Room
The nephew of a librarian must go collect a 200 year old book, "The Book of Ulthar." that should have never been checked out by the Evil Count Orlock cause one of the spells in it could bring about the end of the world. During his trip to the castle, he meets Marissa, a gorgeous rock star and heir to the castle's fortune. There they must confront the only other heir to the fortune and the book, Uncle Byron; and Uncle Byron and his 3 adopted nieces all have very, very, very broad smile.
The Monster (archive footage) (uncredited)
Своеобразная антология самых страшных и кровавых моментов из знаменитых фильмов ужасов, снятых в 1960-1980-х годах.
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Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Frankenstein / Cabman John Gray (archive footage)
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
Self (archive footage)
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.
Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.
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In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.
Matthias Morteval
Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.
Prof. John Mayer
In the late 1800's, Boris Karloff has discovered a way to use nuclear power. He creates a beam weapon and blows up a big rock. Outer space aliens are scared and one alien who looks a lot like James Cameron with a big fake nose only this one isn't fake lands and brings other aliens who take over the bodies of Karloff and his assistant. The assistant is a Jack the Ripper style killer who has done a few nasty murders which have riled the townsfolk. The body-snatched bodies become radioactive and start killing flowers and other stuff (but don't die themselves) and some stuff happens and in the end Karloff destroys the beam weapon equipment (and his lab and house), then the aliens leave and warn us that if anyone ever does it again there will be trouble.
Carl van Molder / Damballah
The inhabitants of a small, remote island have been practicing voodoo rites and worshipping an evil priest named Damballah for years, but the local law officials generally turn a blind eye to this death cult's bizarre activities. Captain Labesch arrives from the mainland, determined to crack down on the island's lawlessness and clean up the ineffectual, hard-drinking police force. He appeals for assistance from wealthy plantation tycoon Carl Van Molder, who owns nearly half of the island and wields a great deal of influence over the population. Van Molder has made the study of parapsychology his life's work and believes in the secret powers of the mind. He warns Labesch not to interfere with this forgotten island's ancient ways. Also visiting is Van Molder's niece, Annabella, a temperance crusader who wants her uncle to help fund the International Anti-Saloon League. She falls in love with handsome police lieutenant Andrew Wilhelm
Gorca (archive footage)
A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
Franz Badulescu
A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.
Professor John Marsh
When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.
Byron Orlok
В фильме две сюжетных линии, до поры до времени развивающиеся параллельно и независимо. Популярный, известный всем актер, решивший на склоне лет закончить сценическую карьеру и молодой человек, с виду уравновешенный и благополучный, захотевший однажды пострелять в людей. Что между ними общего? Один всю жизнь играл чудовищ, другой - чудовище во плоти. Два абсолютно разных персонажа, волею случая встретятся в финале этого напряженного триллера.
Self (archival footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Dr. Carl Mandel
Ученый доктор Карл Мантелл фиксирует странные колебания внутри потухшего вулкана. Его помощники отправляются в экспедицию и обнаруживает в глубине вулкана живой камень. Подсоединив камень к компьютерам, они выясняют, что для того, чтобы жить, камень потребляет человеческие гормоны, выделяемые людьми в состоянии сильного страха. Чтобы поддерживать камень в живом состоянии для изучения, доктор Мантелл и его ассистенты похищают молоденьких девушек и выкачивают у них гормоны страха.
Prof. Marcus Monserrat
Старая супружеская чета, профессор Монсеррат и его жена Эстель убеждают молодого человека Майка Роско принять участие в их экспериментах по гипнозу и телепатии. Приведя в действие все свои сложные приборы, Монсеррат и его жена заставляют исполнять подопытного злые поступки, которые только могли придумать их подавленные инстинкты…
Baron Boris von Frankenstein (voice)
Барон фон Франкенштейн вызывает всех монстров - Дракулу, Доктора Джекилла и Мистера Хайда, Горбуна из Нотр-Дама, Человека-Невидимку, Мумию, Волка-Оборотня и Существо из Черной Лагуны - на их ежегодную встречу в его замке на Острове Зла.
Там он объявляет, что он собирается уходить на покой с поста главы Monsters Inc. Но когда другие монстры узнают, что он собирается передать всю работу его тормозному племяннику Феликсу Франкену вместо кого-то из них, они пытаются остановить его.
Dr. Pierre Vaugiroud
Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.
Narrator / The Grinch (voice)
Гринч живет на вершине холма над городком Ктоград со своим псом Максом. Каждый год во время Рождества ненависть Гринча к счастливым жителям Ктограда росла все больше и больше. Они дарили друг другу подарки, веселились на праздничных обедах и пели песни в городском парке, даже не подозревая о копящейся обиде Гринча. Однажды Гринч решил сорвать Рождество. Переодевшись в Санта Клауса, наскоро снарядившись и заставив свою собаку тащить его на санях, он пробрался в дома жителей городка и украл их подарки, еду и украшения…
The Rat (voice)
In this hybrid of live-action and stop-motion animation, a young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina and The Emperor's New Clothes.
The Corpse
Недавно умерший Хирам Стокли узнает, что у него есть 24 часа, чтобы сделать какое-нибудь доброе дело для того, чтобы попасть в рай. С помощью своей давно умершей подруги Сецилии, ныне призрака, он хочет помешать жадному адвокату, Реджинальду Рипперу захватить наследство и защищать права законных наследников: Чака, Лили, двоюродной сестры Миртл и ее племянника, который ничего не подозревая приезжает с друзьями на пляжную вечеринку...
The Madman
An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.
The Grinch
The making of the story of how a grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville. You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch. Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things. The village is sure to have a sad Christmas this year.
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
Nahum Witley
Американский ученый приезжает в деревеньку Арнгейм к любимой девушке, где обнаруживает странные мутации у животных и растений. Через некоторое время ему становится понятна связь таинственного источника радиации и обитателей древнего замка.
Thanks
Шумная компания молодых людей, которая любит громкую музыку, задорные танцы и конечно-же сёрфинг, устраивается на прекрасном пляже, даже не подозревая, что побеспокоила стариков и старушек, живущих в местном пансионате. Кому-то это начинает очень не нравиться…
Art Dealer
Шумная компания молодых людей, которая любит громкую музыку, задорные танцы и конечно-же сёрфинг, устраивается на прекрасном пляже, даже не подозревая, что побеспокоила стариков и старушек, живущих в местном пансионате. Кому-то это начинает очень не нравиться…
Narrator
Narrated by Boris Karloff, this Movietone short spoofs the dangers of teenage rebellion around the world.
Amos Hinchley
Владельца похоронного бюро, у которого долгое время не было «клиентов», вынуждают заплатить арендную плату за год. Чтобы достать деньги, он начинает убивать людей, и дела у его конторы начинают идти лучше.
Self
Horror stars are interviewed about their craft and films. Included on Severin Films' "Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Vol. 1" collection.
Himself - Narrator
Documentary showing perverse and aberrant behavior from around the globe, including such things as sex slavery, dwarf love, Asian brothels and lesbians.
Gorca (segment "The Wurdalak")
В первой новелле вернувшаяся домой с работы героиня, услышав телефонный звонок, снимает трубку и погружается в пучину кошмара. Замогильный голос обещает ей мучительную и скорую смерть, причем, когда она начинает в ужасе метаться по квартире, он сообщает ей обо всех её телодвижениях, как будто присутствуя рядом. Во втором сюжете в восточноевропейской глубинке старик-вурдалак безжалостно расправляется со своей многочисленной семьёй… И, наконец, в третьей истории, медсестра, похитившая перстень у мертвой старухи, очень пожалела затем о своём святотатстве.
Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe
Молодой офицер французской армии Андре Дювалье по случайности отстает от своего полка. Он встречает загадочную девушку, после чего один за другим начинают происходить таинственные события, которые Андре пытается прояснить.
Dr. Scarabus
Пожилой маг Эрасмус Крэйвен, скорбящий вдовец, скучает дома в компании своей очаровательной дочки. Привычное семейное спокойствие нарушается появлением ворона, вернее, другого волшебника в образе ворона, который самым бесцеремонным образом требует сначала вина, а потом — чтобы его срочно превратили обратно в человека, а именно, в волшебника Адольфуса Бэдлоу. Превращение удалось, но и тут наглец не успокаивается: он рассказывает хозяину замка, что зря тот скорбит по жене, ибо супруга его живехонька и проживает нынче в соседнем замке с злобным колдуном доктором Скарабусом, который и превратил его в птицу. А может, и не сама супруга, но по крайней мере ее неупокоенная душа так точно. Естественно, наш «вдовец» отправляется в замок, надеясь на то, что рассказ нежданного гостя — вымысел. Но правда оказывается куда более серьезной, нежели можно было себе предполагать.
Host
The only surviving play from the anthology series, Out of This World, presented by Boris Karloff.
Dr. Konrad Markesan
Penniless Fred Bancroft, along with his new wife Molly, visits a sinister uncle he hasn't seen in years in hopes of living rent-free in his musty, decaying mansion.
Jonathan Brewster
1962 telefilm adaptation of the classic American play about a deranged family and the string of murders they flippantly commit
A newlywed woman is alone in her home during a devastating storm. As she waits for her husband to return, she is besieged by menacing sounds throughout the house, power outages, a jumpy pet black cat, and a creepy cabbie. After much deliberation, she decides to investigate a strange disturbance in the storm cellar.
Self - Host
White magic practitioner Amos Wilder kills himself after securing his nephew's sworn promise to guard his body against evil spirits. The nephew must never leave his uncle's mansion, to protect the shire from the return of black necromancer Bentley, cast back to Hell by Wilder.
archive footage
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
Dr. Thomas Bolton
An 1840s British surgeon, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to the gases and gets involved with a gang of criminals, led by Black Ben and his henchman Resurrection Joe.
Mr. Kurtz
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Baron Viktor von Frankenstein
В замок к стареющему барону Франкенштейну приезжают телевизионщики, которые страсть как хотят снять здесь фильм, они даже готовы ему заплатить. Барон соглашается: деньги ему нужны затем, чтобы купить для своих опытов ядерный реактор. Цель опытов, естественно, — создание искусственного человека. А киногруппа становится чем-то вроде ходячего донор-банка, поставляющего для будущего гомункула органы.
James Rankin
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Host / Capt. John Elwood / Jonas Atterbury / Dr. Francis Mason
Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series "The Veil" (1958) - "Summer Heat," "Genesis," "Food on the Table," and "Jack the Ripper."
Host / Ira Perry / Pete Wade Sr. / Professor Charles Goncourt / Morgan Debs
Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series The Veil (1958) - "Whatever Happened to Peggy," "Destination Nightmare," "The Return of Madame Vernoy," and "Girl on the Road.'
Narrator (voice)
Medieval times. A juggler has little success making a living; he puts on a hair shirt and becomes an ascetic, but attracts only other ascetics. Finally, in desperation, he becomes a monk. He visits the other monks, who all glorify the Lady with their skills: cooking, painting, sculpture, etc. He tries helping them, but botches it. A festival is held for the Lady, and each of the monks offers his gift, but the juggler has nothing. Frustrated, he juggles for her, all night, alone.
Phillip Knight
A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes that voodoo does exist when he discovers man-eating plants and a tribe of natives with bizarre powers.
Colonel March
This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' (1954-56, 26 episodes) starring Boris Karloff as Colonel March, head of Scotland Yard's Department D.3, otherwise known as The Bureau of Queer Complaints.
King Arthur
A live television presentation of Rodgers and Hart's 1927 stage musical.
Mr. Mycroft
Horror legend Boris Karloff stars in this rarely-seen mystery tale, directed by Daniel Petrie (A Raisin in the Sun, Sybil) . Sidney Silchester, a college professor, is enjoying a summer holiday in a quiet English village. His peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare when the town is invaded by a swarm of killer bees. One of the few to escape, Silchester finds refuge with an elderly recluse, ""Mr. Mycroft"". With the old man's help, the academic discovers that the bees were let loose by a mad killer. As the two men close in on the lunatic, Silchester realizes that Mycroft is no ordinary retiree, and in fact may be the greatest detective of them all.
General Pollegar
A fire worshipping cult of Indian is disbanded by a man, his elephant and tiger.
Don Gaetano
An Italian government agent is assigned to break up a drug smuggling ring on the island of Ischia but his daughter is kidnapped by the gang.
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Эбботт и Костелло, два неуклюжих американских полицейских, находящиеся по обмену в Лондоне, охотятся за мистером Хайдом — монстром, который вселяет ужас в жителей города.
Dr. Meissen
A Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
Voltan
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.
Swami Talpur
В отеле, где работают Эбботт и Костелло, совершается убийство. Все улики указывают на Костелло, который решает провести собственное расследование и доказать властям свою невиновность.
Narrator (English version)
Adaptation of a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, the nightingale's song restores his health.
Tishomingo
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Guyasuta, Chief of the Senecas
Несправедливо осужденная в Англии Марта Хейл продана в рабство в Северную Америку, где она встречает капитана Кристофера Холдена.
Gruesome
Преступники узнают о секретном газе, который парализует человека. Один из бандитов случайно вдыхает газ и падает в обморок. Полицейские, думая что он мертв, относят его в морг, откуда он, ожив, убегает. Этот случай привлекает внимание Дика, и когда преступники используют газ, чтобы ограбить банк, Трейси начинает действовать.
Dr. Hugo Hollingshead
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Charles van Druten
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
George Sims
1761 год. Лондон. Город содрогается только от одной мысли о Бедламе, так называют горожане — Лечебницу для душевнобольных святой Марии Вифлеемской, которой управляет главный врач и директор больницы Мастер Симс. При виде этого человека любой горожанин впадает в оцепенение, будь он даже сам Лорд Мортимер. Этот страшный врач устроил из лечебницы настоящий театр абсурда, в котором поставленные им спектакли играют душевнобольные люди, истязаемые голодом и пытками. Вельможи и знать, когда приходят в больницу платят директору плату как за посещение настоящего театра, ведь психи-актеры, так забавляют здоровых людей. Но есть и сострадающие больным люди, эти порядочные граждане, которые посмели вступить с жутким директором в схватку, но бой был неравный. Ведь Мастер Симс легко может одолеть любого правдоискателя, объявив его душевнобольным и помочь ему, затем уйти из жизни, инсценировав самоубийство, недаром Симс обладает изрядным театральным талантом...
Gen. Nikolas Pherides
1912 год. Американский военный корреспондент сопровождает генерала Ферида на небольшой греческий остров, где генерал собирается почтить могилу жены. Однако оказывается, что могила разорена, а на острове свирепствует чума. К тому же, по слухам, где-то в окрестностях завёлся самый настоящий вампир.
John Gray
Доктору Макфарлану для практики и лекций необходимы трупы, которые ему поставляет грабитель могил Грей, днем работающий извозчиком. Однажды Грей привозит к доктору вдову с парализованной дочерью, и студент Макфарлана уговаривает того провести сложнейшую операцию на позвоночнике девочки.
Dr. Gustav Niemann
Учёный Густав Ниманн восхищён трудами своего коллеги Виктора Франкенштейна и обещает сокамернику — горбуну Дэниэлу — новое здоровое тело, если им удастся покинуть застенки и найти рукописи Франкенштейна. Воспользовавшись случаем, они совершают побег и тут же убивают проезжавшего мимо некоего Лампини, колесящего по округе со своей передвижной «Комнатой ужасов». Ослеплённый жаждой мести, Ниманн направляется в город, где некогда его приговорили к тюремному сроку, чтобы не только совершить возмездие, но и возродить к жизни Человека-оборотня и чудовище Франкенштейна, похороненных под руинами лаборатории...
Dr. Friedrich Hohner
Старый доктор Фридрих Хонер служит врачом в Венской Опере. Никто не знает о том, что в свое время, Хонер, охваченный ревностью, задушил свою возлюбленную, оперную диву Марселлину, которая не пожелала отказаться от блестящей карьеры ради уединенной семейной жизни с ним. Прошло десять лет, все считают Марселлину пропавшей без вести, полиция прекратила безуспешные поиски. Однажды, придя на службу в Оперу, доктор слышит, как ему кажется, пение Марселлины и с удивлением узнает, что обладательница голоса удивительной красоты - молодая певица Анжела Клатт, возлюбленная молодого композитора Франца Мюнцера ...
Prof. Nathaniel Billings
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
Himself
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
Self
We have writer Fadiman, regulars Franklin P. Adams, Oscar Levant, and John Kieran, with Boris Karloff as the guest panelist for this edition of Information Please.
Dr. Julian Blair
A scientist kills innocent victims in his efforts to communicate with his late wife.
Judge Spencer Mainwaring
Менеджер Кэй Кайзер и его оркестр отправляются на празднование дня рождения Джэнис Беллакрест, богатой наследницы, в роскошную усадьбу, выстроенную покойным Элмером Беллакрестом, известным финансовым магнатом и исследователем. Добравшись до особняка, гости замечают, что в доме царит таинственный заговор и какие-то «зловещие темные» силы пытаются убить Джэнис ...
Dr. Bernard Adrian
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
Dr. John Garth
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
James Lee Wong
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
Dr. Leon Kravaal
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
Dr. Ernest Sovac
Во время уличной драки профессор университета Кингсли оказывается серьёзно ранен. В это же время аналогичный случай происходит с гангстером Кэнноном. Чтобы спасти своего друга, доктор Совак трансплантирует профессору часть мозга гангстера, который умирает. Но теперь Кингсли знает, где находится тайник с награбленными деньгами, которые Кэннон похитил у своего соперника Марнея. Получив мозг гангстера, Кингсли начинает вести себя соответствующим образом.
Valdar
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
James Lee Wong
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
Mord
Вольная экранизация шекспировского «Ричарда III», увидевшая свет аккурат перед началом Второй мировой, относится к категории «трофейного» кино. В 15 веке герцог Ричард Глостерский при помощи своего косолапого палача Морда устраняет все препятствия, мешающие ему взойти на трон. Смерть короля Эдуарда IV приводит к тому, что Ричард осуществляет свою мечту, и ему остается только одолеть изгнанного Генри Тюдора, чтобы сохранить власть. Инфернальные звезды классических хорроров Карлофф и Прайс возглавляют блестящий актерский ансамбль, разыгрывающий необычную и в чем-то даже спорную интерпретацию шекспировской трагедии.
Dr. Henryk Savaard
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
Mr. James Lee Wong
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
James Lee Wong
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
The Monster
Сын барона Франкенштейна вместе с женой и сыном возвращается в деревню своих предков, чтобы унаследовать дом своего отца. Их встречают неприветливо, так как жители деревни никак не могут забыть монстра, созданного бароном. Прибывший наследник встречает Игоря, пастуха, приговоренного к смерти за кражу трупов. Тот приводит сына барона в семейный склеп, где лежит монстр, находящийся в коме. Одновременно терзаемый воспоминаниями о невероятных опытах своего отца и одолеваемый желанием реабилитировать его как ученого, сын оживляет монстра и возвращает ему былые силы...
Dr. Charles Gaudet
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
Mr. James Lee Wong
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
Jevries
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
Wu Yen Fang
American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
David Mallory
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
Himself
Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under the open air big tent. There is as much action in the audience as Tracy identifies a number of movie stars watching the proceedings incognito, having their own fun in the stands, and sometimes interacting with the circus acts.
Himself
Warner Brothers bloopers of 1937.
Gravelle
В здании оперы происходит сильный пожар, во время которого бесследно исчезает ведущий баритон Гравель. Певца считают погибшим, но он оказывается в психиатрической лечебнице с сильной амнезией. Никто не знает, как его зовут и откуда он взялся. Проходит семь лет, как однажды Гравель узнает новость, что его бывшая жена и партнерша по театру стала главной исполнительницей оперы. К Гравелю возвращается память, и он сбегает из лечебницы. Вскоре обнаруживают мертвую жену Гравеля, а затем еще нескольких артистов оперы. За расследование берется знаменитый детектив Чарли Чен и его сын Ли...
Dr. Laurience
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...
Dr. Victor Sartorius
An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
John Ellman
Несчастный Джон Эллман обвиняется в убийстве судьи. После того, как его осуждают и приговоривают к смертной казни, появляются свидетели и доказывают его невиновность. Но уже слишком поздно, и Эллмана казнят. Врачебный эксперимент возвращает его к жизни, но результат отличается от ожидаемого.
Dr. Janos Rukh
Доктор Янош Рух обнаруживает источник нового излучения, которое обладает почти волшебными целебными свойствами. Но вещество таит в себе и опасность, и оно начинает влиять на разум Руха. Охваченный паранойей, он подозревает, что его открытие украли другие ученые. Одержимый жаждой мести, Рух собирается использовать собственное отравленное тело в качестве орудия убийства.
Baron Gregor de Berghman / Anton de Berghman
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
Edmond Bateman
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
Himself
This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some of Hollywood's most popular celebrities. Big names such as Boris Karloff, Buster Crabbe, and Clark Gable make appearances, enjoying games of golf, field hockey, swimming, and many other fun hobbies.
The Monster
"Невеста Франкенштейна" начинается там, где закончился "Франкенштейн" Джеймса Уэйла. Доктор Франкенштейн не был убит, как изображалось ранее, и теперь он хочет уйти от безумных экспериментов. Тем не менее, когда его жена похищена его творением, Франкенштейн соглашается помочь ему создать нового монстра, на этот раз женщину.
Himself
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Hjalmar Poelzig
Американские новобрачные проводят медовый месяц в Венгрии, где их ожидают жуткие приключения.
Count Ledrantz
История финансовой империи Ротшильдов, начавшаяся с небольшой лавки и выросшая до участника финансирования разгрома Наполеона. Но это был трудный путь.
В 1780 году во Франкфурте к лавке Ротшильдов идет сборщик налогов. Ротшильды прячут свои богатства, в том числе валюту, серебро и т. д. Налоговик требует 20 000 гульденов - это непомерная сумма, но соглашается на взятку в размере 5000. Однако удовлетворение Майера Ротшильда недолговечно: курьер, доставлявший ему 10 000 гульденов, был перехвачен, а деньги конфискованы налоговиками.
Sanders
1917г. Месопотамия. Пустыня. Конный патруль британских войск остаётся без офицера, которого застрелили арабы. Не зная точного маршрута, т.к. это знал только убитый офицер, солдаты добираются до оазиса, где и остаются решив дождаться помощи от основных войск. Но арабы не дремлют и методично отстреливают британских солдат...
Himself
Long before the release of the cult film Dracula vs. Frankenstein, the original stars of Dracula and Frankenstein met face to face--for a game of chess. The scene is from an early 1934 episode of Columbia Pictures' Screen Snapshots, a series of short films featuring the off-screen lives of Hollywood stars.
Prof. Morlant
Профессор Морлант, британский египтолог, желает обрести бессмертие, используя силу драгоценного камня, найденного в древней восточной гробнице. После смерти Морлант возвращается в мир живых, чтобы отомстить тем, кто украл драгоценный камень из его склепа.
Frankenstein's Monster (edited from "Frankenstein")
A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.
Dr. Fu Manchu
Британский археолог сэр Лайонел Бартон намерен отправиться в Монголию, чтобы найти гробницу Чингизхана. Разведчик Нейланд Смит предупреждает его, что он должен добраться до сокровищ гробницы раньше, чем злодей Фу Манчу, которому меч и посмертная маска Чингизхана нужны для того, чтобы поднять восточные народы на борьбу с западной цивилизацией и уничтожить её.
Morgan
Стремясь укрыться от дождя, что стало причиной оползней и развезло все дороги в отдаленном районе Уэльса, несколько заблудившихся путешественников находят приют в мрачном особняке, принадлежащем странной семье Фемм — атеисту Горацию и его сестре Ребекке — религиозной фанатичке и злобной фурии. Путешественники Роджер Пендерел, Филип и Маргарет Уэйвертоны так устали и промокли, что подавили свой страх, встретив открывшего дверь страшноватого на вид то ли слуги, то ли дворецкого немого и хромого Моргана. Вскоре к ним присоединяется достаточно резвый и эксцентричный сэр Уильям Портерхауз и его огненная подруга Глэдис ДуКэйн, которые тоже поспешили укрыться в этом доме от дождя. Никто бы из них ни за что не остался в этом старом доме, если бы не острая нужда…
Man Approaching Ticket Counter
Skyscraper Souls is a Pre-Code 1932 drama film starring Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was directed by Edgar Selwyn and is based upon the novel Skycraper by Faith Baldwin. The film depicts the aspirations and lives of several people in the Seacoast National Bank Building. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.
'Happy' MacDonald
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
Gaffney
Фильм рассказывает захватывающую историю о жестком контроле организованной преступности над Чикаго в эпоху «сухого закона». Главный герой — Тони Кармонте, честолюбивый преступник, не знающий жалости. Тони идет к своей цели: он намерен стать криминальным боссом города.
Nikko
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
Boris Karloff
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
Jim Henderson
A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.
Sheik Ali Ben Joseph (uncredited)
On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he becomes embroiled in a feud between two Arab tribes.
Imhotep / Ardath Bey
Египетский жрец Имхотеп через 3700 лет после смерти возвращается к жизни. Повстречав англичанку Хелен Гросвенор, он узнает в ней жрицу, жившую также почти сорок столетий назад…
The Monster
Доктор Франкенштейн решил сыграть в азартную игру с жизнью и смертью, создав жуткое чудовище из частей тела, позаимствованных у мертвецов.
Tony Ricca
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
Drunken Orderly
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Fedor's Father (uncredited)
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
T. Vernon Isopod
О бесчеловечности и безнравственности желтой прессы, погубившей в погоне за сенсацией нормальную, счастливую семью.
Terry
Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
Luigi - Pacheco's Butler
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.
The Professor
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Sport Williams (uncredited)
Робинсон играет парикмахера, обладающего невероятным везением в азартных играх. При поддержке друзей он отправляется испытать удачу в большом городе, и в итоге проходит тернистый путь от провинциала из крошечного городка до «крупного босса в крупном городе», став царём азартного мира. Но такие выскочки мешают жить добропорядочным высокопоставленным гражданам, и окружной прокурор решает любыми средствами избавиться от парикмахера, у которого есть одна слабость — блондинки…
Cokey Joe
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
The Voice (voice)
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
Boris - First Revolutionary
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...
Mustapha
Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to Africa.
Waiter
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
Ned Galloway
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.
Henchman Baxter
The Utah Kid eludes a sheriff's posse and takes refuge in Robber's Roost, a hideout for outlaws running from the law where he meets and falls for a waylaid school teacher.
Corsican
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
Monsieur Gaston
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
Abdul Mohammed Bey - the Hindu Lawyer (uncredited)
One dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. When Scotland Yard gets Monty to gather the other nine surviving officers at his home, one of them is murdered, and no one else has entered the house. Now, they must determine who the murderer is.
The Hindu Lawyer
One dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. When Scotland Yard gets Monty to gather the other nine surviving officers at his home, one of them is murdered, and no one else has entered the house. Now, they must determine who the murderer is.
Scarface Macklin
A Secret Service agent seeks his missing brother in Africa, and finds his mission complicated by ivory thieves, a girl with a mysterious past, and a troublesome gorilla.
Beetham's Manservent
Дядя богатой наследницы Евы Мэннеринг нанял частного детектива, чтобы тот выяснил подноготную женихов, претендующих на руку и деньги племянницы - полковника Битэма и красавчика Эрика Дюрана. Детектива убивают, а Ева выбирает в мужья Дюрана и оправляется с ним в Индию.
Jules Gregg
In the great white north, a trapper searchers for the thief who has been stealing his furs while a local trader seeks to take advantage of the situation.
Shirley Mason plays the title-role, a glamorous musical star having a hard time escaping the clutches of her lecherous producer (Tom Curran). The producer, however, refuses to leave well enough alone, and Anne is tempted to return to her glamorous life.
Cecil
Twin sisters, one good and honest and sweet, and the other given to totin' pistols and pulling robberies, keep confusing a detective about which one he his chasing for what, since he has different reasons for chasing both.
Boris
Escaping from a revolution, the King of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds a friend in the form of dashing secret service agent Yorke Norray.
Mullins
When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her father and clear his name.
Pug Doran
Two ranchers get together to fight a common enemy and fall in love.
Maurice Kent
Vacationing in the Canadian Northwest, a playwright and a songwriter both fall in love with Marie Cleste and take her back with them to New York when her father and her sweetheart apparently die in a forest fire. (The father did perish; the sweetheart escaped, crippled, with his blinded Indian guide into the forest to hide his infirmities.)
Grouchy
When his father is falsely convicted and sentenced to die for a murder committed aboard ship, the man's son signs on as a crewman to discover the real killer and clear his father.
The Villain
William Desmond plays Jim Davis, a secret service agent by day and masked avenger by night. Ethlyne Clair provided feminine appeal, while Bud Osborne, as the notorious Butch Bradley, and a young Boris Karloff took care of the villainy.
Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his ship to sail. She falls in love with him, and when his ship leaves port she decides to show up at its next stop and reunite with her lover. However, when she arrives at the ship's next destination, she discovers that her "lover" has already found another local girl to spend his time with. Complications ensue.
Fleming
Victor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a barber shop as the result of winning a duel, and decides to settle down to a life as a barber. He meets a beautiful young woman and pursues her, but she dismisses his attentions because she thinks he is just a barber. Also pursuing the woman is the evil Capt. Remy, whom she also brushes off. He, however, doesn't take rejection so lightly, and forges papers "proving" that the girl is a "quadroon"--part black, which means that she can be sold as a slave. She is sold to Capt. Remy, and when Victor hears of it, he determines to rescue her.
Purser
Американский солдат и его сержант, который его ненавидит, захвачены немцами. В немецком лагере они забирают у арабских военнопленных белые одеяния, которые помогают им бежать. Их принимают за арабов и отправляют в Турцию на борту немецкого поезда заключенных, из которого они убегают. Случайно спасают аравийскую принцессу от потопления. Капитан любовного судна, который конкурировал с этими двумя американцами за привязанность женщины, требует плату за проезд…
The Chief Conspirator
Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
Ramon
Buddy Roosevelt, a notorious bandit known as the "Phantom," and his doppelgänger, drifter Jeff McCloud. Bull manages to throw suspicion on Jeff but is himself killed by Jim Breed (John Junior).
Al Meggs
Popular B-Western hero Wally Wales (later known as Hal Taliaferro) went up against none other than Boris Karloff in this primitive silent oater from poverty row studio Action Pictures.
Owaza
Flora Hawks is in love with the overseer of Tarzan's African estate. After a search for a legendary city of diamonds, Tarzon races with his pet lion Jad-bal-ja to save Haws from being sacrificed to a lion-god.
Pavel
To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.
Crook
Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl's affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Boteler). The guys find out that the object of their affections is but a modest switchboard operator but she proves to be invaluable when she deciphers a code and discovers that a mail train is about to be robbed.
Saracen Guard (uncredited)
An embellished account of the 1813 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
Gaspard
Ranger the dog stars.
Dance Hall Masher
Пэдди по ночам за гроши работает инструктором танцев в клубе, а днём моет полы и сидит с чужими детьми. Ещё и её отец выгонят всех парней, которые хотят с ней познакомиться. И вот однажды Пэдди знакомится с ищущим приключений богачом.
Pirate (uncredited)
Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a bold American pirate captain who proves to be putty in the hands of New Orleans belle Louise Lestron (Florence Vidor).
Blackie Blanchette
Railroad builder James Travers (George Nichols) wants his pretty daughter, Anne (Virginia Valli), to marry Herbert Landis, a young engineer (Eugene O'Brien). Unfortunately, Anne loves Landis...like a brother, and his rival, Hilary Fenton (Bryant Washburn), stands ready to snatch her up.
Dave Sinclair
After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuable mine and is using it for blackmail purposes. The former owner of the mine is framed for a murder, and his daughter and the new owner work to save him from the gallows.
The Mesmerist
В небольшом городке у подножия горы в Эльзасе живёт Матиас, мечтающий стать бургомистром. Ради исполнения этой мечты ему пришлось заложить таверну и мельницу соседу Францу за шесть тысяч франков. Но срок возврата денег близится, Франц грозится выкинуть всю семью Матиаса на улицу. Было о чем задуматься Матиасу в рождественскую ночь во время сильнейшей бури, когда в его таверну постучался странник, польский еврей Барух Ковеский, желающий немного согреться и передохнуть. А в поясе его Матиас увидел много яркого, сияющего, манящего золота…
Snipe Collins
The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house. Having refused to support a water power bill endorsed by Jim Dornton, the political boss of the state, the governor is threatened.
Robber (uncredited)
A party of campers return to Tom Stewart's ranch resort to report they have been held up by bandits. Lawrence, their guide, explains that it is a staged stunt for their benefit; Stewart confirms this and refunds the losses but writes to his old pal Jeff Morgan, a former gunfighter, telling him of his predicament. Morgan sends his son, Jeff, Jr., a superb rider and dead shot but otherwise an awkward lout; at the insistence of Pauline, Stewart places Jeff in charge of a camping party. Laura Mayhew, a city girl in league with Lawrence, sends up a flare signal at night, and while Jeff chases some bears into the woods, Lawrence and his men hold up the camp.
Scissors Grinder
A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
Madame Gordon's 2nd Henchman (uncredited)
Silent melodrama.
Pierre
American sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, until Jean Ballard, a wild apache leader, takes refuge from the police in her apartment.
Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas.
Cabraza
Disguising herself as a masked bandit, Catalina, the ward of the governor of a Spanish province, avenges injustice, aids the poor, and plots a revolution.
Diego
While in Europe, Chaddie Green, a society girl, discovers that she has been left penniless. She returns to the United States and meets Duncan MacKail, who is equally broke though he owns grainland in the West. Duncan and Chaddie are married and go west to homestead. Duncan hires Ollie, a Swedish caretaker, who frightens Chaddie. When business takes Duncan away, Chaddie goes to take care of Percy Woodhouse, an Englishman who has become ill at his place fifteen miles away. Her horse runs away, and she is forced to spend the night there. She sleeps under a wagon, but Duncan is nevertheless angry and jealous.
Pietro Castillano
A vivacious young woman known only as Captain Joe captains a rum-runner operating between the Bahamas and the United States. Jerry Burke, a Secret Service agent assigned to the Bahamas to halt this illegal trade in rum, meets Captain Joe, whom he knows as Peggy O'Day, and falls in love with her, arousing the antipathy of Pietro, Peggy's first mate.
Tony Garcia
Dan (Kenneth MacDonald) knocks out the foreman (Boris Karloff) at his workplace so the foreman accuses him of stealing money from the company safe. Dan takes off to visit his girlfriend when they're attacked by a man who Dan eventually knocks out with a single punch. A boxing manager see this and signs him up.
B-Western regulars Jack Perrin and Marilyn Mills starred in this obscure, low-budget Western serial released in 15 chapters.
The Outlaw
Ranch hand Tex Gardy comes to the aid of the father of the girl he loves, whose ranch is being threatened by a gang of criminals led by a woman known as The Hellion.
Shere Ali's Aide (as Karloff Boris)
Australian star Rex "Snowy" Baker stars in this military melodrama. This was the first of a series of four films Baker made for producer Phil Goldstone, and they were offered on a States' Rights basis. Irene Falliday (Gertrude McConnell) is the daughter of the British governor (William Bainbridge) who rules over an Indian province. She finds Yasmini (Lois Scott) wearing the shawl she believes she has lost and asks Tommy Farrell (Phil Burke) to get it back. Farrell is in love with Irene, but Yasmini loves him, and when he finally gets the shawl from her, the circumstances shame her in the eyes of her father Shere Ali, Sirdar of the Afghans (Frank Whitson), and his subjects.
Prince Kapolski
While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo Ravorelli, whom Philip recognizes as the man wanted for a murder in Brazil.
Imam Mowaffak
About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to marry the shah, but she eventually escaped and, with help of grand Vazir, joined Omar Khayyam. Hollywood made a film based on the same story with Connell Wilde, the life and adventures of Omar Khayyam.
Hugo
On an island in the South Seas, derelict Tony Heritage is rescued from savage natives by trader and ship captain Rod McLean, but repays him by stealing Rod’s money and fleeing to France. There, Heritage marries a young French woman named Joie Malet, but her father, Captain Jean Malet, having discovered his miscreant past, snatches Joie from the altar stairs and takes her to a South Sea island where he has been posted. Tony Heritage follows, but Capt. Malet keeps him away from Joie by giving him a job on another island, helping Rod McLean build a new trading post.
Raoul Maris
Tired of her friends and life as a society leader, Ninon Le Compte goes north to the Hudson Bay area to inspect trapping holdings inherited from her uncle.
The Nabob
Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom -- her father -- was so cruel that he drove her mother out of the house. When Bully Haynes (Melbourne MacDonald) wants her help in showing up a group of South Seas missionaries, she's more than happy to assist. But Lola doesn't realize she's being used so that Haynes can gain control over the copra trade from his rival, Cyrus Flint (Robert Ellis).
Maharajah Jehan
Someone in India is deciphering secret codes and passing information from London's Downing Street to the natives, so Captain Robert Kent comes down from London to investigate. He disguises himself as a Rajah, and Colonel Wentworth introduces him to the colony.
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
A Canadian Mountie and a young girl team up to prevent an evil couple from finding a fallen meteorite that contains a powerful element called "Tilano."
Baptiste
A 1921 film.
Nei Hamid
Barry Gordon, the older son of a Virginia colonel, inherits a taste for alcohol--a habit that caused his father's death. His brother, Tom, falls in love with Muriel Beekman, their guardian's daughter. Barry also loves her but feels rejected. Three years later, after extended travels, Barry learns that Tom, having been sent to Morocco by Mr. Beekman, has been captured by desert marauders and is being held for ransom. He begins a search for him and in Tangiers encounters the Beekmans and Kitty Van Ness. Barry and Muriel discover their love for each other, but he refuses to commit himself while Tom is still alive.
Ahmed Khan
A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.
Priest of Kama-Sita / Dakar
The true story of Lord Francis Hope who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe. Lord Francis Hope gambles away the family fortune and May Yohe leaves him. Another suspected curse of owning the Hope Diamond.
Indian (uncredited)
Действие фильма происходит в 1757 году. Между Англией и Францией идет война за американские колонии. Дочери британского командира Мунро Кора и Элис пытаются пробраться в английский форт, осажденный французами. В качестве проводников с ними отправляется индеец Магу, который хочет заманить сестер в ловушку. Но его планам мешают молодой охотник Соколиный Глаз и его друзья Чингачгук и Винкас. «Последний из Могикан» — экранизация одноименного романа Джеймса Фенимора Купера.
Tavish
Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One winter day, while on a journey, Michael meets with an accident and fails to return home. Believing that he is dead, Margaret goes into a state of delirium which enables Buck Tavish, a long-time admirer, to carry her away to his cabin. When she finally comes to her senses she flees in search of Michael, leaving Marge behind.
Jules Borney
The Deadlier Sex features Blanche Sweet playing the daughter of a railroad magnate (Winter Hall) who has to take charge when her father unexpectedly dies. She uses her outdoor survival skills to kidnap a business rival to save the company from a stock market struggle.
Undetermined Role
Young American John Maude is forced to find a job when he falls in love with society girl Betty Keith. He accepts a sudden offer to go to Mervo, a tiny island country, where he is hired by Benjamin Scobell to pose as the lost prince of Mervo as an attraction to bolster the Mervo casino as a rival of Monte Carlo. Scobell also wants John to marry his stepdaughter, who turns out to be Betty. When Betty accuses John of being simply a shill for a gambling house, John closes the casino and tries to stage a revolution to make Mervo a republic.
Henchman in cloth cap
A European prince is raised in America without knowing his true identity; he spends his time thrill-seeking, but his country needs him when a revolt threatens the crown.
A beautiful young woman is a daring master thief. She meets the young millionaire Thomas Babbington Norton, while fleeing from the scene of her latest theft.
