(archive footage)
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.
Commandant
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works of Laurel & Hardy, into an original framework action
Ming the Merciless (archive footage)
Spaceship to the Unknown is a condensed version of the original serial, compressing the original twelve episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) heads into space with brilliant scientist Dr. Zarkoff (Frank Shannon) and his sweetheart Dale Arden (Jean Rogers) in an effort to throw the planet Mongo off course; it is expected to crash into the Earth within a matter of days. However, once Flash and his crew arrive on Mongo, they have to deal with the supremely evil Ming the Merciless (Charles B. Middleton) and his wicked minions.
Ming the Merciless
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.
Emperor Ming
Condensed feature version of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. The film, which was shown outside the US as simply "Flash Gordon", was re-named Rocket Ship for its 1950 stateside re-release.
Blindfolded Circuit Rider
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer, posing as Frank Norris, brother of Jim Plummer, who has being going straight and working as an express shipment guard. Jim also shows up and plans a robbery by stealing a train and hiding it in an abandoned tunnel. The two brothers are on opposite sides of the law with the now-reformed Kate caught in the middle.
President in Dream (uncredited)
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas, Cecil Kellaway, John Hoyt, Mary Wickes and Harry Davenport.
Mr. Burton, an Attorney
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.
Sheriff
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
Townsman (uncredited)
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
Wrecker (uncredited)
Блэндингзы живут в Нью-Йорке в крошечной квартире. Они решают переехать в пригород и построить свой дом. Но сказать гораздо проще чем сделать.
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
William the butler
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
Sheriff #1 (uncredited)
Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as a cowhand on the Inskip ranch. Upon arriving there he finds the bullet-riddled body of his friend. He carries the body to the Banner ranch, the largest in the territory, and is accused by Banner of murdering Tyrell; Banner orders Deputy Sheriff Bill Yount, who is in Banner's pay, to arrest Kane. But Kane has the sympathy of Banner's daughter, Jane, who notifies Inskip of Kane's plight, and Inskip arrives in time to prevent a lynching. Sheriff Kiscade dismisses the murder charge for lack of evidence. Brazos then sets out to find the killer of his friend. Bess Bannister, Jane's sister, is in love with the Banner ranch foreman, Bard Macky, and knowing that Bard killed Tyrell and that Kane will track him down, then hampers Kane's mission somewhat by pretending to be in love with him.
Farmer Pinkett (uncredited)
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?
Farmer (uncredited)
От пуль наемных убийц погибает скромный служащий бензоколонки. Страховой агент Реардон расследует это на первый взгляд случайное преступление. Раскручивая нить жизни погибшего «Шведа», Реардон раскрывает тайну кровавых преступлений и предательств, в центре которых ослепительная женщина-вамп Китти Коллинз. Он слишком близко подходит к давней загадке исчезнувших 250 000 долларов и теперь у него появляется новая задача: выжить!
Mr. Stiles
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla.
Ferryman Douglas
A number of swamp land men have died by strangulation and the inhabitants believe that an innocent man they hanged is seeking revenge on all of the male descendants of those responsible for his death. Maria, granddaughter of the innocent ferryman, decides to operate the ferry service. Chris Sanders, a son of one of the men who did the hanging, and Maria fall in love. The "strangler" seizes Chris and Maria offers her life if Chris is spared.
Sheriff Hayworth
Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.
Pierre
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.
Mr. Jensen
Действие фильма происходит в маленьком городе в штате Висконсин. 7-летняя Сельма и 5-летний Арнольд живут на соседних фермах и дружат едва ли не с пеленок. Отец дарит Сельме новорожденного теленка, которого она называется Элизабет. Нельс — редактор крупного журнала. Виола — новая школьная учительница, приехавшая из большого города. В то время как Нельс надеется жениться на Виоле, та не хочет оставаться в городе, где никогда ничего не происходит…
Attorney
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Sam, Midvale District Attorney
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
Koda Bey
Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan enlists the aid of the chief Chamberlain, Faud and they send several henchmen into the royal palace, who then knock Kasim unconscious. Faud and Hassan dispatch a couple of different hirelings to take Kasim into another part of the town and murder him.Kasin comes to and gets away, but has been wounded. Omar, a beggar, takes Kasim to his home and nurses him back to health. But, it takes a few weeks for Kasin to get healthy and, by that time, Hassan has a firm grip on the duties of a Caliph. In a storeroom, Kasim finds a coat of mail with a great hawk emblazoned across the chest and promptly decides this is the costume he will wear while fighting to get his old job back. Meanwhile, the Emir of Telif shows up with his daughter, Princess Azala, with the intent of marrying her off to the local Caliph.
Tom Whitney
With a plot line mostly lifted from 1941's "White Eagle", Columbia's 24th serial (following "The Desert Hawk-1944" and ahead of 1945's "Brenda Starr, Reporter"), "Black Arrow" finds carpet-baggers Jake Jackson and Buck Sherman arriving in Blue Mesa in search of gold.
Phineas Hook
In this short western, a U.S. marshal seeks vengeance against the man who killed his father.
Sheriff
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Judge Ringle
In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa.
Ken Colton
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
Auxiliary home defense workers El and Monte are sent to a spooky house where they come across a mad scientist and his assistant.
Sheriff
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
Cassib
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, containing lost medical secrets. Also in the region is intrepid Nyoka Gordon, still seeking her father, lost on a previous expedition. She alone can translate the papyrus, which directs our heroes through deadly perils (including the Tunnel of Bubbling Death) into the land of the Tuaregs. Opposing them are Vultura, Queen of the Desert, and her Arab ally Cassib, both greedy for the treasure...
Saunderson
A corrupt official at San Quentin tries to frame an innocent guard for several murders within the prison.
Claim Jumping Leader
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Mountaineer (uncredited)
Этот фильм посвящен истории жизни американца, героя первой мировой войны Элвина С. Йорка, захватившего во время боя в одиночку 132 немецких солдата. Это событие произошло во время наступления Мойзе-Аргонн во Франции. После этого подвига простой солдат стал одним из самых любимых героев Америки.
Rev. James 'Jim' Graham
An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic.
Long Ben, gambler-saloon owner
Buck Peters arranges for Hoppy, California, Johnny and other cowboys to go to the aid of friends whose cattle are being rustled. Hoppy and California locate the rustlers' hideout and join the gang by posing as outlaws themselves, but must find a way to let the rest of the posse know where they are.
Carpetbagger
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Scott) Belle Shirley (Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation amongst the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
Doctor Jed Sloan
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with his best friend Blackie.
Blacksmith (uncredited)
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.
Stagecoach Rider
1860-е годы. Компания "Вестерн Юнион" проводит телеграфную линию через весь Дикий Запад от Омахи до Солт-Лейк-Сити. Авантюрист Вэнс Шоу, незадолго перед тем принявший участие в ограблении банка, спасает работника компании Эдварда Крейтона, раненного посреди пустыни. Чуть позже в Омахе Крейтон нанимает Вэнса разведчиком для "Вестерн Юнион". У Крайтона есть сестра Сью; за ней одновременно ухаживают Вэнс и щегль Ричард Блейк, работающий инженером на линии. После ухода рабочих из лагеря пропадает домашний скот. В краже обвиняют индейцев. Вэнс придерживается иного мнения. Он находит воров: это белые люди, переодетые индейцами - бывшие сообщники Вэнса, бандиты знаменитого Джека Слейда. Они делают вид, будто воюют за конфедератов, но это лишь предлог для того, чтобы набить карманы. Вэнс не может выдать бывших друзей. Он возвращается в лагерь и хочет подать в отставку, но Крейтон не принимает её...
Gentry
1854 год. Вест-Пойнт, первый Федеральный кадетский кавалерийский корпус. Джеб Стюарт — новый кадет, который с успехом начинает проходить обучение. Молодой человек находится на хорошем счету у командиров, но, тем не менее, наживает себе врага в лице кадета Карла Райдера радикального аболициониста, настроенного изменить классовую и кастовую систему Америки. Этот тайный последователь фанатика Джона Брауна, стремящегося освободить всех рабов при помощи оружия и силы, в казарме завязывает драку со Стюартом, впоследствии чего Райдера исключают из Вест-Пойнта. Самому же Джебу и его друзьям дан приказ следовать на территорию штата Канзас, где они должны прекратить противозаконные действия идеолога Джона Брауна и вооруженных до зубов его приспешников. Здесь, на одной из пыльных дорог ведущих в Санта-Фе, он вновь встретит своего недоброжелателя Райдера.
Farmer (uncredited)
Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators through their basic training in Florida and advanced training in California.
Mob Member
Фильм рассказывает историю нескольких лет жизни Бригхэма Янга — американского религиозного деятеля, второго президента Церкви Иисуса Христа Святых последних дней (широкой публике известной как секта мормонов) и основателя города Солт-Лейк-Сити. Повествование начинается с 1844 года. После убийства Джозефа Смита — основателя религии мормонов и движения Святых последних дней, Бригхэм решает взять на себя руководство церковью и не дать только организовавшейся пастве разойтись в разные стороны. Именно он, после начатой травли мормонов властями США, стал инициатором «великого переселения» мормонов на запад 1846-47 гг. Под его руководством Мормоны дошли до Мексики, где и основали город Солт-Лейк-Сити, ставшей их столицей. В 1851 году президентом США Миллардом Филлмором, Бригхэм был назначен губернатором Юты.
Water Thug
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
Camp Owner with a Pig (Uncredited)
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
Alice's Father (uncredited)
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
Captain Cort
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
Jeremiah Walters
Известный китайский детектив находясь на круизном лайнере из Гонолулу в Сан-Франциско, пытаясь разобраться в убийстве друга из Скотланд-Ярда, ещё сталкивается с четырьмя убийствами.
Hod Carson
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
Emperor Ming
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov, this time with ready-made allies waiting: Prince Barin of Arboria and Queen Fria of the frozen northern land of Frigia; where, it so happens, is found polarite, antidote to the plague. But Ming will use all his forces to keep our heroes from thwarting his plans of conquest.
Jefferson Davis
1864 год, Гражданская война в США подходит к концу. Сторонники южных штатов решают использовать последний шанс. В помощь своей истекающей кровью армии, они решают доставить $5 миллионов в золотых слитках из Вирджиния-Сити.
Везти золото через вражеские штаты поручено капитану Ирби, у которого есть хитроумный план. Помешать этому пытается Керри Брэдфорд, капитан военной разведки союзной армии. Но о золоте узнал и главарь местной банды Маррелл. Три стороны сцепились в смертельной схватке…
Leader
После тюремного срока за убийство, Том Джоад возвращается на свое семейное ранчо, которое к тому времени полностью разорилось и прибывает в запустении. В отсутствие какой-либо перспективы найти работу в засушливой Оклахоме, вся семья собирает свой скарб и отправляется на «землю обетованную» — в Калифорнию. Но трудный путь и тяжкие условия не приносят искомой надежды, и даже единство семьи подвергается испытанию, одному из многих, с которыми приходится сталкиваться.
Tom Lincoln
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Lars Olsen
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
Man with Stove Pipe Hat in Charge of Convict Workers (uncredited)
Могучие ветры Гражданской войны в один миг уносят беззаботную юность южанки Скарлетт О'Хара, когда привычный шум балов сменяется грохотом канонад на подступах к родному дому. Для молодой женщины, вынужденной бороться за новую жизнь на разорённой земле, испытания и лишения становятся шансом переосмыслить идеалы, обрести веру в себя и найти настоящую любовь.
Kansas Jones
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.
Dr. Stoke
История Джеймса Смита и жителей Пенсильвании, после окончания англо-французской войны оказавшихся под угрозой нападений индейцев, официально считавшихся мирными. Для того, чтобы лишить индейцев оружия и припасов, гражданам приходится идти на конфликт с британской короной.
Commandant
Стэн Лорел и Оливер Харди. Это мастера фарсовой клоунады, создавшие маски двух обаятельных чудаков: тщедушного плаксы Лорела и толстяка-бонвивана Харди.
Stage Manager (uncredited)
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
Southern Deputy (uncredited)
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Mr. Crumley (uncredited)
This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices.
Cass
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
Luke Parker
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
39013
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
Mergon
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.
Alec Martin
Банда Маккорда совершает грабёж, чтобы заплатить индейцам за их землю, а преступник, известный как «Оклахомский парень» — Джим Кинкэйд — получает эти деньги от Маккорда. Маккорд хочет использовать полученную землю для строительства нового города, но отказывается от задуманного, когда ему предлагают контролировать азартные игры.
Doctor
Этот фильм снят по реальным событиям, произошедшим во второй половине девятнадцатого века в США. После трагической войны между южными и северными штатами Америка приступила к завоеванию запада. Символом этой эпохи стало строительство трансконтинентальной железной дороги.
Строительство часто сопровождалось произволом и насилием, люди стали ощущать себя жертвами растущего чудовища по прозвищу «железный конь». Хорошо это или плохо, но та эпоха даровала миру самых известных преступников — братьев Фрэнка и Джесси Джеймса. По легенде изначально братья были мирными фермерами, но когда железнодорожная компания попыталась нагло отнять их ферму в свою пользу, парни взялись за оружие, и, организовав отряд «справедливого мщения», начали совершать дерзкие ограбления банков, поездов и почтовых дилижансов.
Southerner
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Lacey
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
Ming the Merciless
Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS: Flash Gordon fights Ming the Merciless once again to ensure the survival of the Earth.
Pa Stark
Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.
Ace Daggett
Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gold fields and Eaton and his men follow. Eaton teams up with Ace Daggett who plans to doublecross him and get the gold for himself. They frame Tom for murder and then try to get him to sign over his claim. The famous scout Tex Houston is on hand, escaping the attempts on his life, saving Mary from various perils, and trying to bring in the real killer and clear Tom.
Politician (uncredited)
This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, in California in the 1850s.
Officer (uncredited)
1852-й год. Новый Орлеан. Великосветская красавица Джули Марсден готовится выйти замуж за молодого политика и банкира Престона Дилларда. Однако, поругавшись с ним, Джулии назло своему жениху появляется в красном платье на ежегодном, престижном «Олимпийском» балу. Поскольку незамужние девушки в свет должны выходить только в белом, светское общество шокировано выходкой Джули. Престон расторгает помолвку и уезжает на Север. Спустя год, он возвращается в Нью-Орлеан с молодой женой. В городе бушует эпидемия желтой лихорадки, общество парализовано паникой и страхом, а у Джули появляется шанс доказать Престону свою любовь…
Emperor Ming
A 15-episode serial starring Buster Crabbe.
President Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
Actor dressed as Abraham Lincoln
Аттербари Додд - лучший бухгалтер на Уолл Стрит. Однажды он вступает в полемику с 70-летним главой компании по поводу решения учредителей продать убыточную студию "Колоссо фильм" за 5 миллионов долларов. Молодой бухгалтер считает, что студия стоит как минимум 10 миллионов и вся история с продажей - это подозрительная фальсификация. Хозяин, выслушав, с доводами Додда соглашается и отправляет его на "фабрику грез" разобраться во всем. Голливуд сразу облетает весть о новом управляющем из Нью-Йорка, который сует свой нос во все дела съемочного процесса. Новоиспеченный босс узнает много нового о том, что происходит за фасадом студии. Он понимает, что бизнес и последнюю картину "Секс и Сатана", на которую сделана главная ставка в этой игре, можно спасти только при помощи сомнительной пары союзников в лице циничного, любящего выпить, но доброго продюсера Дуга Куинтэйна и Лестер Плам - сексуальной кинодублерши многих Голливудских кинозвезд...
Slave Dealer
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Gene Autry Sr.
The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero.
'Doc' Kramer
Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes a picture and goes camping. Attracted to Joyce Butler, he hires on at her ranch and quickly gets caught up in Butler's conflict with Kramer. When the Butlers refuse to buy his service, he has their cattle stampeded.
Wolf Larson
Hero Bob Larson takes on an impressive triumvirate of villains.
Mr. Martin
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
Cim White
Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch.
Matt Clay
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
Ming the Merciless
Three earthlings visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless.
Turnbull
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
American Settler (uncredited)
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
Dan Stone
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Sheriff Ike Vallon
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Grayson
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Blacksmith
Испокон веков враждуют два семейных клана в горах Кентукки. Никто уже и не помнит, что именно не поделили Толливеры и Фэлины, но жить они продолжают по законам кровной мести. В разгар одной из стычек в городок прибывает Джек Хэйл, инженер, приехавший строить железную дорогу. Волей судьбы он спасает одного из Толливеров — Дэйва. Прошло несколько лет. Предприятие железной дороги приносит большие доходы. Но и профессиональному делу мешает неприязнь семей:на лагерь рабочих нападает клан Фэллинов, в столкновении погибает один из Толливеров. Хэйл продолжает взывать к миру и благоразумию. Дэйв решает послушать его.
Phineas P. Hook
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
Neil Brannum
Sunset of Power is regarded as one of Buck Jones' more meritorious Universal westerns. The heavy of the piece, grim-visaged cattle baron Neil Brannum, drives everyone around him mercilessly, including his own granddaughter Ruth. In retaliation, a caped-and-masked Spanish bandido stages nightly raids on Brannum's spread.
Horse Doctor (uncredited)
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had colonized it a hundred years before and whose title deeds bore the signature and seal of a long-dead Spanish king. But, by a loop-hole in the law, the title-deeds of the Dons could not be recognized, and this opened the door of organized gangs of land-grabbers, such as the one led by Joe Kincaid, to operate with a prime excuse for legitimate plunder and robbery. In most cases the law was unable to cope with the situation. Then Rosita Castro, the daughter of Don Pasqual Castro, masked and disguised as a man, organized a band of vigilantes to fight against the tyranny of the outlaws, aided by an undercover federal agent, Jim Kearney.
Speaker (uncredited)
Сан-Франциско, 1854 год. Бывший моряк Бэт Морган в драке убивает опасного бандита Дака и попадает на страницы газеты «Трибьюн». Вскоре Бэт знакомится с владелицей газеты и светской дамой Джин Баррат. Решив добиться её расположения, он использует весь свой ум и упорство, чтобы стать во главе всех городских игровых залов и притонов. Довольно быстро Морган превращается в одного из самых богатых и влиятельных людей города, но это не приносит ему счастья. Джин, привлечённая обаянием Бэта, влюбляется в него, но отказывается выйти за него замуж из-за его безнравственного образа жизни. Тем временем в городе нарастает недовольство безнаказанностью преступников и бессилием закона.
State Police Commander (uncredited)
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
Fleety Belle's Father
Фильм рассказывает о старом речном волке докторе Джоне, ворчуне и одиночке, который с помощью невесты племянника Флети пытается собрать деньги для оплаты юридических услуг, чтобы вызволить племянника из тюрьмы, где его приговорили к виселице за то преступление, которое он не совершал. Они спускаются вниз по реке на его старом пароходе с малочисленным экипажем, чтобы собрать людей на посещение импровизированного музея, собранного из остатка разорившегося театра восковых фигур…
Buck Peters
An evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other while helping a gang to rustle the cattle. Each cattleman blames the other for missing cattle. With the help of Bill Cassidy (Hop-along, because of an earlier bullet wound) and Johnny Nelson, the warring cattlemen join forces to do in the outlaws.
District Attorney (uncredited)
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Zaroff
In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to follow in his path as a proponent of Indian rights. His task as a Ranger is to stop the evil Zaroff and his gang, who are smuggling the elements for a powerful explosive from a mine on Indian land.
Mr. Merritt
Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a roadside lunch-wagon and she helps him get a job as a truck driver. They fall in love and get married. He gets a contract to haul a load of dynamite and, when coming down a steep mountain, he finds his truck's brakes have been sabotaged, just as were the brakes on his race-car.
Pierre Gustave
Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.
Miller
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.
Stanchon
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
Juan Storm Cloud
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
Veterinarian (uncredited)
Дэн Брукс, женатый на дочери магната Джэй. Эл Хиггинса Маргарет, не желает делать карьеру в корпорации своего тестя. Его увлечение — это лошадь Бродвей Билл, которую он мечтает выставить на скачках. В этом его поддерживает младшая дочь Хиггинса Элис. Убежав от богатой, но скучной жизни, без гроша в кармане, они заявляют лошадь на участие во всеамериканских скачках…
Mr. Bagby
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
Constable Malcolm (uncredited)
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
Homer Boothby
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
Sheriff
Randolph Scott plays Jim Cleve, one of several volunteers keeping the US-Mexican border safe on behalf of American settlers. Ostensibly the hero, Cleve is actually out-heroed by the film's nominal villain, outlaw leader Jack Kells (Monte Blue). It is Kells who brings about the story's happy ending, sacrificing his own life to ensure the blissful future of young lovers Cleve and Joan Randall (Barbara Fritchie).
Deacon Perkins
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
Sheriff Scatters
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.
Joe
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
U.S. Marshal
Prosecutor
Чтобы спасти маленькую страну Фридонию от банкротства, богатая вдова госпожа Тисдейл соглашается пожертвовать на это 20 миллионов долларов. Но только при условии, что ухлестывающий за ней Руфус Т. Файрфлай станет лидером страны. Файрфлай — циничный и бесцеремонный диктатор — провоцирует посла соседней Сильвании, и между странами начинается война. Военную «игру» осложняют и запутывают два друга-неумехи, которых посол Сильвании отправил шпионить за Файрфлаем с целью выкрасть его тайные планы сражения…
Fenton
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.
Sheriff
Big Executive
Detective (uncredited)
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.
Mr. Upjohn
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
District Attorney
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.
District Attorney
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.
Jerry Simons
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace.
Roger Thurston
A hero in a robbery comes up against a crime boss and the crooked guardian of the girl he loves
Williams
A US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.
Turk
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
Mr. Brewster
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
Abraham Lincoln
A Songwriter falls asleep while writing a song about the NRA. He dreams that Washington, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt appear in his room asking him why he wants to write such a song and they're reassuring him that FDR is the right way. When he starts singing his new song, he finds himself alone, but he knows that the FDR will lead the USA back on the road to prosperity.
Jenkins
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Chief of Police
A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him...
Tyros
В этом фильме представлена жизнь античного Рима. В 64 г. н. э. император Нерон решил возложить ответственность за пожар в городе на христиан.
Префект Марк увлечен милой девушкой-христианкой, Мерсией. Когда императрица Поппея понимает, что ее виды на Марка встречают преграду, она решает с Нероном предать всех христиан смерти.
District Attorney (uncredited)
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Ветеран Джеймс Аллен отказывается вернуться на старую фабрику и постепенно деградирует. Случайно он оказывается вовлеченным в ограбление. После этого он попадает на каторгу…
Abe Lincoln (uncredited)
Теодор К. Блэр - успешный банкир, решивший попытать счастья в президентской кампании, которая, однако, начинается не очень успешно. Однопартийцы понимают, что Блэру недостает популярности и умения общаться с аудиторией и уже подумывают лишить его номинации. Но, как подарок судьбы, в этот момент на горизонте появляется абсолютный двойник Блэра – пройдоха Док Варни. Он настолько похож на Блэра, что ему удаётся обвести вокруг пальца даже подругу банкира - Фелисию Хаммонд. Блэр с однопартийцами решают использовать дарованный им шанс и предлагают Варни принять участие в предвыборной кампании вместо Блэра. Очень скоро, благодаря харизме Варни, забуксовавшая было предвыборная кампания вновь начинает набирать обороты и “Блэр” вырывается в лидеры. Но, по мере приближения выборов, заговорщики начинают ломать голову, что же им делать с Варни после того, как Блэр станет президентом...
Matthew the Hermit
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
Welfare Association Officer
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
Henry Steele
Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice.
Police Capt. Slade
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
Lip Hop Fat
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
Mr. Banks
Гар Эванс соглашается продвигать продукт Гинзбурга — искусственный каучук, созданный из сточных вод, только после того, как его друг Майк Донахи заверил его, что это не афера. Гар суеверен - он верит, что добьется успеха только в том случае, если его многострадальная подруга Фрэнсин Дейл присоединится к их проекту. Она, однако, рассержена на Гара после того, как он бросил её пять дней назад, уйдя, чтобы что-то забрать, и больше не вернулся. Только с огромным усилием Гар убеждает её дать ему ещё один шанс. Гар быстро создаёт компанию «Золотые Ворота из искусственной резины», арендует целый этаж здания, назначает своего старого друга Клиффорда Грея на должность президента, даёт Хелен Уилсон работу секретаря и нанимает много продавцов, использующих сильное давление на потенциальных покупателей акций. Но за первыми успехами в бизнесе приходят большие неприятности.
Sheriff Casey
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
Kirby
The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to pay for an operation, otherwise his young sister will be crippled for life. The desperate reporter is finally able to get the cash from a shady acquaintance, Riggs. Eight years later in New York, circumstances conspire to place the reporter as the number one suspect in the murder of a showgirl. With no witness or alibi, the reporter devises a plan to smoke out the real culprit. A meeting is arranged under the cover of night and to the surprise of both men, the murderer is Riggs. Out of gratitude for past generosity to his sister, the reporter agrees not to expose Riggs, however unwittingly leads the police to him! Riggs is found guilty, and a dramatic scene in the courthouse ensues.
Lawyer Jones
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.
Minister
A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.
Commandant
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
City Editor Baker
Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.
Tupper
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.
Yolando
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") with Eddie Cantor as an assistant to a phoney psychic, who is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rub the payroll.
Board Member (uncredited)
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
Attorney Reuben Jephson
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
Sheriff Flint
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
Simpson
Флоренс Фэллон, дочь проповедника, после смерти отца остается в бедственном положении. Ее втягивает в аферу мошенник Хорнсби. Они открывают храм, и пока Флоренс проповедует и творит мнимые чудеса, Хорнсби обирает ее прихожан. Однажды Флоренс нечаянно спасает слепого юношу, и между молодыми людьми вспыхивает любовь. Флоренс хочет вернуться к честной жизни, но Хорнсби препятствует этому…
Captain Lash
A cruel sea captain (Charles Middleton) oversees a rough crew.
Mr. Satan (uncredited)
At Satan & Co., Inc., the devil is upset because too many people are going up to Heaven rather than down to Hades. He gives his assistant, Mr. Burns, the task of getting more people to his domain. In front of a nightclub, Mr. Burns invites a crowd of people to come inside to The Devil's Cabaret to be entertained. After they enjoy songs and dancing, the people go willingly to Hades.
Dr. Fredericks
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
Buck Rankin
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner of the ranch, but runs afoul of foreman Steve, who also loves Molly.
Lucius J. Perkins
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse. Montero has intentions of robbing the bank owned by skinflint Lucius Perkins, but is sidetracked by the attractions of singing-teacher Helen Wardell. He learns that Perkins has marital designs on Helen and holds the mortgage on her ranch. But Helen is in love with Bill Howard. Perkins offers Montero money to kill his rival.
John Thorne / The Dragon
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
District Attorney
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.
