George Raft

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).

Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.

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

In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly like him and then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlow.

On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-weirding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, over-coated hitchhiker buddy.

The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape.

Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.

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.

While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.

Самый известный шпион в мире возвращается к зрителю - и к началу своей бурной деятельности на службе Ее Величества! Первая же миссия в качестве агента 007 становится его величайшим испытанием: ему выпадает сразиться с международной террористической организацией, опутавшей своей сетью всю планету. Используя богатый шпионский арсенал - от верного пистолета до навороченного спортивного авто - Джеймс Бонд вступает в поединок с ключевой фигурой сил зла, финансовым гением преступного мира Ле Шиффром. Но пули хороши лишь для приспешников Ле Шиффра: генеральное сражение против негодяя можно выиграть лишь силой ума - и не на поле боя, а на зеленом сукне роскошного казино «Рояль»…

Мсье Поль по прозвищу Паоло Алмаз — респектабельный владелец ночного клуба в центре французской столицы и один из самых знаменитых контрабандистов мира. Полициям разных стран никак не удается доказать причастность мсье Поля к самым громким преступлениям. Под видом журналиста «Гарольд Трибьюн» в Париж прилетает специальный агент Американского Казначейства Томпсон с заданием войти в доверие к контрабандистам. Любовь к проститутке Лили — по «легенде» — и вызывает у сластолюбивого американца серьезные финансовые затруднения. К кому запутавшийся молодой иностранец может обратиться в чужой стране? Конечно, к мсье Полю, который всегда ищет перспективных и легко контролируемых людей для реализации своих масштабных проектов.

A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.

A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?

Когда-то бравые солдаты 82-ой воздушно-десантной дивизии, а теперь обыкновенные, уже не молодые, да и не очень удачливые мужчины заняты поиском себя в этой жизни и конечно добычей денег. Поэтому у каждого из них нашлись те или иные причины, по которым они согласились участвовать в одной опасной авантюре. Ее вместе с известным аферистом разработал их однополчанин сержант Джон Оушен. Он собрал 11 бывших десантников своего отделения и предложил им ограбить несколько казино в Лас-Вегасе…

Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready, Brett Halsey, Anna Lee and Mary Anderson.

Когда чикагские музыканты Джо и Джерри случайно становятся свидетелями бандитской перестрелки, они в срочном порядке смываются на поезде во Флориду, прикинувшись женщинами. Теперь они — Джозефина и Дафна, новенькие и хорошенькие инструменталистки женского джаз — банда. До поры до времени их маскировка срабатывает. Но вскоре любвеобильная солистка «западает» на переодетую мужчиной Джозефину, престарелый плейбой влюбляется в Дафну, а босс мафии, разгадав тайну маскарада, решает срочно разделаться со свидетелями…

Обогнуть земной шар всего за 80 дней? Смешно! Даже лучшие паровые корабли Ее Величества Виктории не смогут сделать это. Но точный и пунктуальный Филеас Фогг заявил, что сможет. А когда члены лондонского престижного Реформ-Клуба попросят Фогга подкрепить его похвальбу солидной денежной ставкой, мы отправимся в путешествие Вокруг света в 80 дней!

Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.

Нэнни, совсем еще юная девушка (Пегги Энн Гарнер), приезжает в Готэм, чтобы добиться успеха, и становится жертвой убийства. В события оказываются втянутыми Лотти (Джинджер Роджерс), актриса, вечно сующая свой нос в чужие дела; Питер (Ван Хефлин), продюсер, и Брюс (Джордж Рэфт), детектив, ведущий расследование. Поначалу действие развивается медленно, затем напряжение нарастает, и ловишь себя на том, что фильм захватил тебя полностью. Этому способствует и музыка, и работа оператора.

Сержант полиции Крис Келвени (Роберт Тейлор) подрабатывает на гангстеров под руководством Дэна Бомонта (Джордж Рафт). Брат Криса по имени Эдди (Стив Форрест) также работает в полиции, и однажды задерживает убийцу Джорджа Фаллона. Бомонт вызывает Криса и требует, чтобы тот заставил своего брата не давать показания в суде за взятку в размере 15 тысяч долларов. Но Эдди проявляет принципиальность и отказывается. Тогда Бомонт посылает своего наемного убийцу устранить Эдди. После того, как Крис узнает об убийстве брата, ему ничего другого не остается, как отправиться мстить Бомонту и его бандитам…

"The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around Algiers with mystery surrounding the people he meets and the things he does and has done to him, all deriving from the war-time theft of $100,000,000 in gold which lies somewhere in the adjacent desert. People representing many nationalities and reasons are also seeking the gold. It boils down to a battle between Canelli and the original looter aboard a speeding train.

When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.

A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang. At first Joe does not want to get involved, but changes his mind when his brother-in-law dies at the hands of a savage loan shark hood. Joe works his way into the mob, but in order to keep his cover, Joe can't tell anyone what he is up to. This results in him being disowned by his sister and girl friend.

Американский игрок Ник Кейн приехал в средиземноморский город Сан-Паола и подружился с сиротским мальчиком из итальянского ботинка по имени Тони. Он озадачен приемом и приветствием, который он получает от управления казино до тех пор, пока он не обнаружит, что его подставили на обвинение в убийстве агента казначейства США. Он сбежал с Кей чудо, и бежал в пустынную деревню, где он оставляет Кея, чтобы спрятаться. Ник получает помощь от таинственного персонажа по имени Массине, которого он подозревает в попытке собрать награду, предложенную на его поимке. Ник обнаруживает, что люди, ответственные за смерть агента, являются членами международного кольца для подделки, используя казино для передачи фальшивых денег.

The film tells the story of three presenters on Radio X, an amateur clandestine radio station.

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation.

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.

Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.

A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.

Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market. Teaming with the treacherous Tamara Baranoff (June Havoc), Dunham prospers in his newly-found illicit profession, much to the dismay of his best friend, reporter Mark Andrews (Tom Tully). When Tamara has the troublesome Andrews murdered, Dunham realizes the folly of his behavior and works overtime to squash the black market for good and all.

The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?

In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.

A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.

When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco's high society. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film was released in 1945.

История о неразлучной троице Тони, Китти, и Ник Вест которая покорила весь Голливуд своим актерским мастерством и, не испугавшись трудностей военной жизни, внесла свой вклад в борьбу с нацистами в Европе. Великолепный музыкальный фильм созданный для развлечения зрителей и сегодня смотрится легко и непринужденно благодаря великолепной игре актеров и превосходно поставленным музыкальным номерам.

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers.

Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.

Blooper out-takes from Torrid Zone, Four Mothers, The Wagons Roll at Night, The Sea Wolf, No Time for Comedy, The Bride Came C.O.D., and Affectionately Yours, among other Warner Brother productions of 1940 and 1941.

Работник электростанции Джонни Маршалл помогает своему коллеге встретить дочь, выпущенную из тюрьмы. Ему достаточно взгляда, чтобы понять — эта женщина приносит только несчастья. Однако с Фэй знакомится его лучший друг Хэнк, который делает ей предложение, и попытка Джонни расстроить свадьбу проваливается. А когда Фэй признается ему в любви, он хочет самоустраниться — но поздно.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.

Джо и Пол Фабрини — братья-дальнобойщики, работающие за небольшие деньги на контору-перевозчика, и при этом постоянно скрывающиеся от кредиторов, у которых заложен их автомобиль. Но они живут мечтами о лучшей жизни — Джо хочет работать сам на себя, а Пол хочет оставить водительское ремесло, чтобы больше времени проводить с женой. Работа братьев и их коллег-дальнобойщиков зачастую связана с определенным риском — ради того, чтобы доставить груз вовремя, многие вынуждены ездить сутками почти без сна, что приводит к несчастным случаям. Героям наконец выпадает шанс заработать и встать на ноги, но на обратном пути случается авария…

Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt (George Raft) sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda (Joan Bennett), testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma (Lloyd Nolan), who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan (Walter Pidgeon), who knows nothing about her past.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.

Клифф и Чак вместе выходят из тюрьмы. Клифф хочет покончить со своим криминальным прошлым, устраивается на работу, но работодатели не хотят держать условно-досрочно освобожденного. Поэтому он вынужден пойти к Чаку в поисках заработка. После неудачного ограбления Чак со своей бандой прячется в гараже, принадлежащем брату Клиффа, Тиму, который соглашается «прикрыть» их, поскольку думает, что в ограблении участвовал Клифф…

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Заключенный в тюрьму за убийство после написания статьи о коррупции, репортер Френк Росс уверен, что сможет доказать свою невиновность и выйти на свободу. Но не так работает система тюрьмы «Роки Пойнт». Охрана жестока, работа на мельнице джута нескончаема, а силы, с которыми Росс боролся на свободе, намерены надолго удержать его за решеткой. Вера Френка поколебалась, и он начинает сдаваться…

Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which he quickly calls in. He discovers the other owner to be a young woman from an old horse racing family who wants to protect her colt almost as much as Marty wants to rush him into big races for a fast buck. While they clash, Marty soon comes to understand the human bond with the horses and what it means to be a thoroughbred.

Два капитана рыболовецких шхун — Тайлер Доусон и Джим Киммерли, добывающие лосось на Аляске в жизни были друзьями детства. Они даже в одну девушку были влюблены и соперничали. Но более серьезный раскол произошел тогда, когда Тайлер вступает в сотрудничество с русскими браконьерами, а Джим считает вправе повести себя соответственно своим представлениям о чести…

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Фильм начинается со сцены суда, где судят человека, за то, что он погубил души 19 человек. Только один присутствующий в зале человек знает всю правду о подсудимом — это полицейский агент английского правительства, и когда ему выносят смертельный приговор, он встает и просит суд его выслушать. Он рассказывает реальную историю осужденного, и фильм разворачивается в прошлое…

Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.

A poor boy rises to power in politics.

Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's The Devil Is a Woman (1935).

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.

Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.

When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.

A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.

Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class, white pickpocket, diminishing his pride in the Chinese half of his heritage and sparking the jealousy of the nightclub's moody star performer.

In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the younger brother goes to Mexico City to become a matador. While there, he gets word that the police, who have been hunting his brother, have finally captured him.

The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.

A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.

Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.

"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.

With a sparkling script by Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint" - the latest crime wave has Scotland Yard baffled. Commissioner Hope (Sir Guy Standing) sends two of his officers (Billy Bevan and Charles McNaughton) to the Midnight Club to check up on a couple of shady characters - Colin Grant (Clive Brook) and Arthur Bradley (Allan Mowbray) and a girl, Iris Witney (Helen Vinson). There have been a number of jewel robberies around town recently, but, unknown to the police, these three have the perfect alibis!!! They have found "doubles", and while they are out committing the robberies, their doubles spend the night at the club, confusing the two officers who are on their tail.

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.

When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.

Умирающий миллионер, окруженный толпой жадных наследников, придумывает способ употребить свои деньги с пользой: раздать случайным людям, выбранным наугад из телефонной книги. Однако не каждому из «счастливчиков», среди которых затюканный женой продавец, проститутка, мошенник, пара бывших цирковых артистов, приговорённый к смерти, клерк, легкомысленный вояка и пожилая дама, деньги пойдут впрок.

A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.

International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.

"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.

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.

A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.

Действие фильма рассказывает о временах войны, развязанной таксомоторными компаниями против независимых извозчиков. Сью остается одна, когда ее пожилого отца сажают в тюрьму за убийство водителя грузовика, который по наущению таксомоторной компании намеренно разбивает его такси. В тюрьме отец умирает, а Сью приглашают на собрание водителей, на котором Мэтт призывает друзей к активному сопротивлению…

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.

Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old associate foiled by friendly detective.

A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.

Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.