Self (archive footage)
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
Shimkey (uncredited)
Нью-Йоркский гангстер Красавчик Дэйв - парень с предрассудками. Он считает, что с ним ничего не может случиться, если каждый день он будет покупать яблоко у Яблочной Энни, вечно поддатенькой торговки фруктами. Хотя его помощник Джой Бой и шофер Джуниор считают это полной ерундой, его подружка всегда поддерживает все, чтобы не произнес ее дорогой Дэйв. В один прекрасный день Яблочной Энни не оказывается на ее обычном месте на углу улицы, и Дэйв отправляется ее искать. Он застает ее в глубокой депрессии, так как ее дочь Луиза, уверенная, что ее матушка уважаемая богатая матрона, приезжает в гости. С помощью Дэйва Яблочная Энни смогла чудесным образом преобразиться и выдать себя за «Миссис И. Уортингтон Мэнвилл», которой услуживают даже такие шишки, как мэр, губернатор и целая свора светской публики.
Proprietor (uncredited)
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…
New York Bar Gibson Girl Fan (uncredited)
Боб Хоуп играет страхового агента 19-го века, чьи неудачные продажи заставляют его босса отправить его подальше на Запад, где он (предположительно) не принесет большого вреда. Не тут-то было: Хоупу удается продать полис страхования жизни на 100 тысяч долларов - преступнику Джесси Джеймсу (Уэнделл Кори), ничего хуже с точки зрения риска и придумать нельзя! В своих попытках заполучить полис обратно Хоуп обнаруживает, что его приняли за Джесси, - это входит в план Джесси, согласно которому Хоуп должен быть убит, а он сможет получить страховые деньги. Однако с помощью прелестной Ронды Флемминг (довольно добродетельной выгодоприобретательницы по полису Джесси), Хоуп приобретает репутацию виртуозного стрелка. В неминуемой перестрелке с бандой Джеймса Хоупу помогают несколько знаменитых "вестернцев": Гэри Купер, Рой Роджерс, Джин Отри, Джеймс "Мэверик" Гарнер и даже Тонто (Джей Силверхилз).
Toothpick Charlie
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…
Slim (uncredited)
Романист-неудачник, ветеран второй мировой Дэйв Хирш, возвращается домой в родной городок Паркмэн, штат Иллинойс, с рукописью нового романа и очаровательной девицей Джинни Мурхед. Их появление в маленьком городишке производит сенсацию. Здесь под внешней респектабельностью скрываются и коррупция, и сексуальные интрижки. Разочарования Дэйва в жизни городка, погрязшего в лицемерии, доводят его до безрассудства и приводят к трагедии...
Waiter
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Pino
Американский фильм, действие которого происходит на границе Мексики, - разоблачает продажность и коррупцию, царящие в маленьком городке, превращённом при поддержке местных властей в центр торговли наркотиками и женщинами.
A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.
Barfly Dan
A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.
Mr. Trosk
Jungle natives are treated by a physician who goes against the wishes of a witch doctor to provide burn healing methods caused by radioactive rocks discovered when the elephants were felling trees.
Sibilant Sam (uncredited)
Вождь монголов Тимучин, который влюблен в дочь татарского вождя Бортай, крадет ее, тем самым ускоряя начало войны. Бортай отвергает Тимучина. Позже, при налете Тимучин попадает в плен. Но тут Бортай влюбляется в него и помогает ему бежать. Тимучин подозревает, что он был предан и намеревается найти предателя и победить татар.
Roos (uncredited)
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
Sam Markette
Фрэнки Макине, маэстро карточной игры, возвращается домой из наркологического реабилитационного центра, в котором он лечился. Он мечтает начать новую жизнь, бросить игру и стать джазовым барабанщиком. Но его прикованная к инвалидной коляске жена Зош, требует, чтобы все осталось по-старому. Его бывший хозяин шантажом заставляет его вновь сесть за карты, а наркодилер соблазняет бесплатным уколом. И только его бывшая любовница Молли поддерживает в нем надежду на перемены и веру в себя. Обиду, злость, ревность, наркотические ломки предстоит пережить Фрэнки, чтобы приблизиться к своей мечте.
Society Max
Прожжённый игрок Натан Детройт получает предложение организовать большую игру в кости, однако для этого требуется где-то достать 1000 долларов. Пребывая в затруднении, Натан случайно встречает Ская Мастерсона, славящегося своей страстью заключать пари практически на что угодно. Скай хвастается, что может взять с собой в поездку на Кубу любую женщину, которую бы он только пожелал. Воспользовавшись этим случаем, Натан предлагает пари, что указанная им женщина не согласится отправиться со Скаем. Тот соглашается на поставленные условия, а Натан выбирает строгую Сару Браун из «Миссии по спасению душ». Скаю предстоит непростая задача…
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Solly, Convict Chef, segment "The Chef"
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
Executive Reception Guest
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
Louie Mott
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
Brown - Medic
A tough sergeant helps a raw recruit find courage under fire during the Korean War.
Gracchus (uncredited)
Римский центурион Галл Марцелл был беден и неудачлив, но он очень любил азартные игры. И однажды ему сказочно повезло — он выиграл одежду распятого на Голгофе за какие-то пригрешения осужденного. Если бы он мог заранее знать, как навсегда изменится его жизнь, если бы он только мог представить себе, что значит выиграть хитон самого Христа…
Willie, Police Desk Clerk
Пленка, которую Кенди везла в метро, содержит государственнуютайну, и она находилась под наблюдением правительственныхагентов. Они видят, как некий Скип Маккой крадет пленку, но онускользает от них. Стремясь вернуть фильм, Джой, экс-возлюбленный Кенди, и человек, использующий ее как курьера, убеждает ее искать вора. Она разыскивает Скипа через уличные связи, в то время как полицейские находят его вскоре после кражи.
Ropes McGonigle
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
Skeezer
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.
Film Cutter
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Pablo
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
The Runt
Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.
Waiter (uncredited)
Нью-Йорк, Гринич-Виллидж. Художница Дэйзи Кеньон, работающая в журнале моды, — любовница знаменитого адвоката Дэна О`Мары, женатого мужчины и отца двух детей. Она больше не хочет идти за него замуж и временами думает, что их любовь окончательно осталась в прошлом. Иногда она говорит об этом Дэну, но тот отказывается верить. Она знакомится с Питером — солдатом, до войны рисовавшим корабли. Питер с огромным трудом пытается обрести равновесие в гражданской жизни; его жена погибла пять лет назад. Он предлагает Дэйзи выйти за него замуж, и она соглашается, увидев в этом, в первую очередь, хороший повод порвать неустойчивые отношения с Дэном. Они проводят медовый месяц в коттедже на берегу моря. По ночам он часто видит кошмары, в которых к нему возвращаются воспоминания о военных днях и о погибшей жене.
Дэйзи возвращается на работу в Нью-Йорк. Дэн отказывается признать свое поражение. Он приходит к Дэйзи домой и пытается вновь овладеть ею, пусть даже силой. Дэйзи бьет его по лицу.
Isaac Cohen
Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.
The Runt
Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
Max
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate...
The Runt
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
Toy Hawker (uncredited)
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
Cab Driver
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart. As Janet attempts to convince her husband of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.
The Runt
Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
Stage Manager
Королева фарса Кэрролл мечтает выступить в бродвейском шоу. Но получает отказ из-за своей репутации. Ее босс полагает, что она сможет заработать уважение и известность, если опубликует свою биографию...
Joe Wells
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
The Runt
Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
Mink
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
The Runt
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
The Runt
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Pete
A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.
"Ice Box" Hamilton
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Squirrel
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.
The Runt
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
The Runt
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
The Runt
Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.
Suki Yaki
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
Kingoro
Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.
The Runt
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
Mousey Scarlatti
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Euchre
Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, making life difficult for Dunne inasmuch as he's in love with Longstreth's niece Barbara.
The Runt
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
Euchre
Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.
Lefty
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
Indian
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
Dinky
In this low-budget thriller, Peter Lorre plays Janos Szabo, an immigrant from Hungary who is a skilled craftsman. After he's caught in a fire, his face is horribly scarred; his terrifying appearance makes it impossible for him to get a job. With nowhere else to turn, Janos begins working for the criminal underworld. Janos begins having second thoughts about his life of crime when he falls in love.
Johnny Pelang
О сотрудничестве техасского ковбоя с канадской конной полицией в поисках убийцы, сбежавшего из Канады.
Petey
A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
Abe Gabbert
Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.
Siggy
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
Sid
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
Sammy Kayn
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
Benny
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Toad
Юный Джонни Стоун арестован после того, как связался с матерым Фрэнком Уилсоном, который втянул его в ограбление с убийством. Уилсон оставил на месте преступления украденный пистолет Фреда Берка, жениха сестры Джонни. Теперь Берку угрожает смертная казнь…
Danny Welch
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.
Seaman Irving Goldfarb
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
Pasty
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.
Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit.
Jerry Connors
Мистер Мото, известный как суперсыщик, выходит на бой, когда жестокий боксерский поединок превращается в хладнокровное убийство! С помощью детектива-стажера Ли Чена, Мото отправляется на поиски убийцы по единственной зловещей улике: отравленной боксёрской перчатке! Но когда догадка Мото указывает на коррумпированный игорный синдикат, он вынужден поставить на кон свою жизнь, чтобы разоблачить преступника, или пойти на казнь... навсегда!
Gyp Hatton
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Kirk
Сухой закон официально отменен. А это значит, что торговец контрабандными спиртными напитками Реми Марко должен внести в свою работу кое-какие изменения. Теперь вся эта операция с торговлей спиртным называется не преступление, а бизнес. Рабочие теперь не просто олухи, а партнеры. И не обращайтесь теперь к Марко иначе, чем «сэр»…
Pete, a Reporter
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
'Tough Tony' Burke
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Mac (as George Stone)
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
Chuck
Don't Get Me Wrong is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell and starring Max Miller and George E. Stone. It was made at Teddington Studios with sets designed by Peter Proud. Unlike several of Miller's Teddington films which are now lost, this still survives. Miller plays a fairground performer who meets a professor who claims to have invented a cheap substitute for petrol. They team up and persuade a millionaire to finance them to develop and market the product, while unsavoury elements are keen to steal the formula and try all means to get their hands on it, involving slapstick chases and double-crosses. It then turns out that the miracle fluid is diluted coconut oil, and the genius professor is an escaped lunatic. The millionaire finds himself taking the brunt of the disappointment.
Himself
Time marches on.
Nick Torga
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
Steve
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
Loafer
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
Boots
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Sancho
Марч играет заглавную роль, незаконнорожденного ребенка, чей отец был убит на дуэли. Его воспитал в монастыре добрый священник. Усыновленный добрым торговцем из Шотландии, подросший мальчик вскоре влюбляется в девушку, которая мечтает петь в опере. Хотя они и поженились, им приходится расстаться, так как роковая записка была унесена порывом ветра. Энтони сходит с ума от отчаяния в течение нескольких лет, следя за интересами своего отчима в Африке. Когда он возвращается в Европу, отчим его уже в могиле, жена стала оперной дивой с романтической связью с Наполеоном, а на его наследство зарится подлый Дон Луис, который когда-то убил его настоящего отца.
Mr. Sweeney
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
Weeper
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Shorty
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
Wires Kagel
Неподкупный комиссар решил очистить полицию от «оборотней в погонах». Блейк так зол, что «чистит нюхалку» бывшему другу на глазах у авторитета Крюгера. Крюгер же давно имеет виды на Блейка, который знает изнанку Нью-Йорка, как никто другой в городе. «Бывший» полицейский наконец-то соглашается на предложение короля рэкетиров, и они начинают работать вместе. Но это совсем не нравится правой руке Крюгера Нику «Психу» Феннеру, который считает Блейка стукачом. Тем временем комиссар Макларен, очистив ряды правоохранительных органов от пособников мафии, начинает крупномасштабную войну против организованной преступности. Нити расследования ведут в коридоры высшей власти…
Man Aiding Ann (uncredited)
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Silk
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
E. Prendergast Biddle
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Solomon "Solly" Green
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.
Small Change
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
Larkey
A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they actually do generate him huge amounts of money. Soon a local banker and others who scoffed at his ideas see the amount of money he's making and try to cheat him out of his system.
Butch
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Bennie South Street
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
Benny
When the romance between radio-singer Eddie Blake and Bessie Dunn goes sour through a series of misunderstanding, Bessie packs to take a week-end trip with the station boss,Stephen Barclay, and Eddie proposes to Hazel, who appears to be open to any kind of proposal. With all of the principals involved and in the office elevator, a cable breaks and the elevator is suspended between floors...and the resolvements begin.
Armand
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.
Louie
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
Ken Tatum
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
Soapy McCoy
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Emilio Chavito
Беллетризованная биография Панчо Вильи, одного из лидеров повстанцев во время Мексиканской революции. Он родился в бедной крестьянской семье и рано потерял отца, в молодости трудился на ферме. Но однажды Панчо убил надзирателя и вынужден был бежать в горы. Там в 1910 году он познакомился с американским репортером Джонни Сайкесом. Они подружились, вместе вышли из тени и Панчо Вилья начал восхождение к оппозицонной власти. Ему предрекли будущее генерала революции. «Да здравствует Вилья!» — будут выкрикивать в его честь повстанцы. Цель революционера — свергнуть власть и самому править Мексикой.
Abe Ruskin
Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone
Sammy Kohn
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
Hymie
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Joey
Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.
Tim Murtoch
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Spats
A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.
Max Werner
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money. Disgruntled investor Fay Wray is the one who finally blows the whistle on the prevaricating hair-snipper.
Sam Shapiro
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.
Sammie "Kid" Jacobs
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Gus
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
Andy Lee
Во время подготовки к новому масштабному мюзиклу неопытной девушке приходится заменить главную звезду представления.
Murphy
A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up for a fight.
Kringen
Жители маленького немецкого городка один за другим умирают от потери крови, и местный ученый безуспешно пытается пасти пострадавших. Городские старейшины подозревают вампиров, но инспектор полиции настроен скептически. Подозрение падает на городского сумасшедшего, питающего странную любовь к летучим мышам. Преследуемый кровожадной толпой, Герман погибает, но нападения вампиров не прекращаются.
Based on a novel by Émile Gaboriau.
The Cat
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Joe Berg, Cell 1
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
Rutchkin
During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.
George E. Stone
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Le Duc
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
Skeets
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…
Johnnie the Sheik
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.
Dr. Blackstone
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
Ziggie Feinstein
О бесчеловечности и безнравственности желтой прессы, погубившей в погоне за сенсацией нормальную, счастливую семью.
Shorty (as Georgie Stone)
While trying to nab a gang of diamond smugglers, the police are notified by Scotland Yard that the gang's leader, a beautiful Englishwoman who was on her way to the States to take control of the gang, has been caught. Because the American gangsters don't know what their English boss looks like, the police persuade a female impersonator to pretend to be her and infiltrate the gang.
Gangster
У Нормы Ширер на балу украли жемчужное ожерелье. Детектив принимается искать пропажу, опрашивая всех подряд кинозвёзд.
Earl Williams
Репортер Хилди Джонсон планирует перебраться в Нью-Йорк на более высокооплачиваемую работу. Он попадает в пресс-центр городской тюрьмы, где группа газетных репортеров праздно ждет оглашение приговора над преступником-коммунистом, обвиняемом в убийстве. Когда тот сбегает, в пресс-центре начинается настоящий переполох. Политика, система правосудия, коммунистическая истерия, любовь и брак — такие острые темы высмеивают авторы в этой картине.
Sol Levy
В центре сюжета газетчик и адвокат Янси Крават и его жена Сабра, которые во время земельного бума в Оклахоме отправились на поиски счастья на Запад.
Otero
Мелкий преступник Цезарь Энрико Банделло, известный как Рико, и его друг Джо Массара переезжают в Чикаго в поисках удачи. Они присоединяются к банде Сэма Веттори, но Джо, мечтающий стать танцором, больше заинтересован в славе и женщинах. Он знакомится с Ольгой и отходит от дел банды. Тем временем Рико быстро встаёт во главе организации Сэма и занимает место в верхах чикагского преступного синдиката. Одновременно в нём растёт уверенность, что однажды Джо предаст его…
Steve
The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
Pedro
A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of cattle thieves while romancing a pretty young girl.
Danny
A songwriter leaves his chorus girl sweetheart to join the US Army in WWI. In France he falls in love with French singer Madelon. He is crippled in action. Back in the States, his girl friend there leaves him. But Madelon can't forget him and comes to the USA to work there as singer. Per chance she meets the songwriter, and he is cured. Singing one of his love songs, he knows that he has found the right girl.
Carlos
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.
A Sewer Rat
The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.
Blackie
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
Tony Caponi
A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.
Joe Scarsi
Крутой гангстер Махлон Кин практически заправляет преступностью в Нью-Йорке. Он знакомится с разорившейся светской девушкой Родой Филбрук на благотворительном вечере общества и помогает ей обманом выиграть в покер…
Slinky
Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery.
Assistant Director
A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.
Crook
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
Flash Hoxy
Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...
Sparrow
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is only just as another toy to play with. Rose is unknowingly placed in a position in which she is implicated in a crime which she knows nothing about.
Limey
Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, and Sam Hardy.
Sewer Rat
События разворачиваются в Париже накануне Первой мировой войны. Молодая девушка Diane терпит побои от своей старшей сестры, которая обвиняет её во всех неудачах. В очередной момент насилия над Diane ей на помощь приходит молодой красавец Chiko — работник городской канализации. Путём хитрой авантюры дабы запутать полицию, Diane попадает в дом Chiko, где и рождается между ними светлое чувство. Влюблённые готовы пожениться, но начинается война, добавляя драматизма в и без того нелёгкую жизнь бедных парижан.
Director
Dried fruits and less-perishable varieties of citrus had been sent east for decades, but Sunshine Gatherers promotes the canning of delicate fruits like apricots and peaches that had previously been consumed out of season in the Northeast only after the expensive luxury of shipment in refrigerated trains. Now California’s sunshine would be packaged for the nation year-round.
