Sidewalk Onlooker (uncredited)
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Clerk
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
Lamson
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
Beggar
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Limey
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
Waiter at Wyler's Party (uncredited)
Director William Keighley's 1940 film adaptation of S. N. Behrman's stage hit, about an aspiring playwright who finds himself an overnight Broadway success, stars James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin, Louise Beavers, Charles Ruggles and Allyn Joslyn.
Butler
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins when he cannot meet her one night and Tony goes in his place. Tony believes that Julius and Amelia are a couple and then son Paul thinks that Tony and Amelia are a couple as he is sending her the money. The worst part is that Amelia might leave classical music for swing music with classmates Dusty, Joy and the band.
Steward Bringing Briefcase (uncredited)
После очередной переделки «крутой гангстер» Малыш Джон Сарто оказывается в обители Цветочного братства и принимает имя Брат Орхидея. В обители ему открываются истинные ценности этого мира, такие как любовь к ближнему, беззаветное служение обществу и прочее. В сознании Малыша Джона начинают происходить метаморфозы, в итоге превращающие его из гангстера в Человека.
Bank Guard (uncredited)
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…
Extra at Wedding Reception (uncredited)
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
Third Drugstore Clerk (uncredited)
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
Ben, the Lamplighter
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
Pop Dryden
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Night Clerk (uncredited)
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Ship Steward
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Nick's First Customer (uncredited)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Mr. Ferris
A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
Colonist
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
Charles the Butler (uncredited)
1860 год, в день свадьбы Делии Ловел и богатого управляющего банком Джима Рэлстона, появляется Клем Спендер, который отсутствовал два года в связи со службой в армии, но за которого Делия обещала выйти замуж. Узнав о предательстве любимой, Клем впал в отчаяние. Кузина Делии по имени Шарлота, с малых лет влюблена в Клемма и сжалившись над молодым человеком и пришла к нему, чтобы утешить. Вернулась юная Шарлотта домой далеко за полночь.
На следующий день Клем решил вернуться в армию и вскоре пал на поле битвы. Четыре года спустя, Шарлотта открывает дом для военных сирот, среди которых находится девочка Тина — внебрачная дочь Шарлотты от погибшего Клема. Шарлотта скрывает тайну рождения ребенка, так как надеется выйти замуж за Джима Джо, но этому не суждено случиться. Делия узнав, что Тина дочь ее бывшего возлюбленного Клема сделает все, чтобы ее сестра навсегда осталась «Старой девой»…
Spectator
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
Professor Listening to Radio (uncredited)
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Minister of Colonial Affairs
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
Mr. Simpkins (as Sidney Bracy)
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
Dolan's Butler (uncredited)
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Bartender (uncredited)
Молодая красавица Джудит Трэйхерн находится в центре внимания окружающих, когда доктор Фредерик Стил ставит ей страшный диагноз — опухоль мозга. После операции между Джудит и Фредериком начинается роман. Но вскоре выясняется, что болезнь вернулась и на этот раз ничто уже не поможет…
Race Official / Spectator (uncredited)
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Joe Burke
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
Pedestrian Discussing the War
Лондон. Конец XIX века. Капитан Кру, отправляясь на войну, привозит свою любимую дочь Сару, которую он называет «маленькой принцессой», в один из лучших и самых дорогих пансионов, чтобы она получила хорошее образование. Добрая, отзывчивая Сара быстро находит новых подруг. Ее самостоятельность и уважительное отношение к людям покоряют всех. Однажды приходит страшная весть — отец Сары погибает, не оставив дочери средств к существованию. Юной героине предстоит пройти через ненависть и унижение, голод и нищету. Но ее доброта, ум и находчивость помогают преодолеть все невзгоды.
John 'Joe' Vicary
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
Bert - the Farmer (uncredited)
Доктор Найлз Нельсон вполне мог считать свою жизнь счастливой. Успешная практика, красавица-жена Кэрол, тоже врач. Всё резко меняет случай: оказание помощи одному из людей гангстера Герни. Но дружба с гангстером, помимо защиты и денег, чревата огромной опасностью. Доктор Найлз недолго наслаждался появившимися деньгами — случайная полицейская пуля во время оказания помощи очередному бандиту сделала Кэрол вдовой и навлекла на неё подозрение полиции и врачебного сообщества в связях с гангстерами. У Кэрол есть только три месяца, чтобы очистить своё имя и отомстить за мужа.
Soupy
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
Major Brand's Orderly (as Sidney Bracy)
Действие фильма разворачивается во время Первой мировой войны. Майор Брэнд — командир эскадрона британского Королевского летного корпуса, размещенного во Франции. Капитан Кортни и его друг лейтенант Скотт называют своего командира мясником за то, что Брэнд поручает опасные задания неопытным пилотам и тем самым обрекает их на верную смерть.
Second Butler (uncredited)
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
English Porter (uncredited)
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Congress Clerk (uncredited)
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
Carl - Richards' Butler (uncredited)
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
Police Chemist (uncredited)
По мнению доктора Клиттерхауса, уважаемого врача с Парк-авеню, лучший способ изучить поведение преступника — стать преступником самому. Он начинает с того, что обворовывает нескольких своих знакомых, тщательно измеряя при этом свое давление, температуру и пульс. Однако результаты не удовлетворяют Клиттерхауса, и он принимает решение познакомиться с криминальным миром поближе.
Jenner
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
Opera House Usher (uncredited)
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
Kamarov's Butler
Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
2nd Butler
Дворецкий Батлер Гросвенор обнаруживает за завтраком, что фамильное серебро украдено бродягой, которого хозяйка Эмили Килборн приняла под свое крыло в качестве шофера, в своей последней попытке реформы пригреть и обласкать опустившихся бродяг, создавая этим много напряжения среди остальных членов семьи. Обиженная Эмили клянется больше не принимать участия в облагораживании «павших на дно» к вящей радости своего мужа и взрослых детей, однако позже в их дверь стучится очередной «бродяга» Уэйд Ролинс, который на самом деле является писателем. У него сломался автомобиль и он постучался, что бы позвонить. Его затрапезный вид ввел в заблуждение и дворецкого, и дочерей хозяйки Джерри и Марион и саму хозяйку.
Squad Car Driver (uncredited)
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
Member of Parliament
Дворецкий (Пауэлл) избирается в венгерский парламент, где он выступает против правительства своего господина.
Waiter (uncredited)
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
Steward
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
Movie Patron (uncredited)
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Densmore's Servant (uncredited)
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
Clarence - Blair's Butler
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
Waiter (Uncredited)
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Adjutant Potter
Young Sybil visits her grandfather, a British Colonel stationed at a garrison in India, and she helps negotiate a diplomatic truce between him and the local natives.
Hornsby - Mary's Chauffeur (uncredited)
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Waiter (uncredited)
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Butler
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
First Steward (uncredited)
Танцовщик Пит Питере — гениальный мастер своего жанра. Его импресарио и продюсер Джеффри, чтобы заинтриговать публику, выдает его за русского по фамилии Петров. Однако «Петрова» все время тянет танцевать что-то «несерьезное», в основном степ.
К тому же он неравнодушен к танцовщице и актрисе Линде Кин, которая успешно выступает с танцевальными номерами. И он решает, что девушка должна танцевать только с ним. Чтобы познакомиться и завоевать сердце красавицы, танцор идет на различные ухищрения, порой очень комичные…
Burke's Butler (uncredited)
История теряющего популярность актера, предлагающего официантке сделать из нее знаменитость. Через некоторое время карьера девушки взлетает до небес, а его слава окончательно угасает.
Flower Shop Owner (uncredited)
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
Townsman (Uncredited)
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Lampier's Butler (uncredited)
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Sam
На небольшом острове в районе Южных морей Вэл Стивенс и Люсиль Гордон вступают в брак, когда из-за шторма рядом с островом терпит кораблекрушение судно. Вэл и его работники успевают спасти только капитана Дивера и его таинственного пассажира Эрика Блэка. Доктор Харди, врач острова, с подозрением относится к вновь прибывшим и задает весьма каверзные вопросы. Он первым догадывается, что через некоторое время между Эриком и Люсиль вспыхивает чувство и чтобы предотвратить возможность их оставить наедине, он советует Эрику совершить поездку с Вэлом на другой остров, где местные ныряльщики отказываются добывать жемчуг, потому что чего-то боятся в воде…
Waiter (uncredited)
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Waiter on ship
Когда друг Чарли был найден забитым насмерть собственной скаковой лошадью на борту лайнера, направляющегося в Гонолулу, детектив обнаруживает нечестную игру и раскрывает международную игорную сеть.
Burley's Butler Allen (uncredited)
Блейк Нортон высокомерный щеголь - хозяин ночного клуба, пользующегося дурной славой. К нему в бар приходит девушка Мэри Блэйк, приехавшая из провинции, которая отчаялась найти работу. Он соглашается взять ее в качестве певицы, а услышав, как она поет, заключает с ней контракт. Но девушка мечтает о другой карьере, она хочет петь в опере Сан-Франциско и вдохновлять прихожан пением в хоре священника Тима Муллина. Нортон делает все, чтобы Мэри работала только у него. Он требует монопольного выполнения контракта от девушки. К негодованию Нортона закон на стороне Мэри, она в праве самостоятельно решать, как жить. Несмотря на вспыхнувшее взаимное чувство и приготовления к свадьбе, они ссорятся из-за желания Мери выступать в опере.
Grayson, the Butler
On New Year's Eve, a girl is told a story by her grandfather about his days in a military regiment; then, the girl dreams she's at the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Noel's Henchman (Uncredited)
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
George, Butler (Uncredited)
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
Smythe - Sutter's Accountant
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
DuBeck's Valet (Uncredited)
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
Court Clerk (uncredited)
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
Butler
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
Фильм рассказывает о двух тонко чувствующих людях, потерявших себя из-за огромной любви. Их обреченная любовь завладевает властью над их жизнью, навсегда меняет их семьи и взаимоотношения с друзьями, решает их судьбу. Анна Каренина – аристократка, юная жена и мать, но, несмотря на светские обязанности дамы высшего общества в имперской России, она остается одинокой и несчастной до своего скандального сумасшедшего романа с графом Вронским.
Butler at Spencer Home
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
Bank Employee
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Paula's Chauffeur (Uncredited)
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
Higgins' 2nd Butler (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…
Constituent Shouting 'Three Cheers' (uncredited)
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
Rent Collector
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
Napier's Butler
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
Waiter
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
Movie Butler (uncredited)
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
Edgar Ashe
A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.
Denny
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
Waiter
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
White Father
A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.
Arbuthnot
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
Hawkins
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
Norma's Butler (uncredited)
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.
Mrs. Teasdale's Butler (uncredited)
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…
Second Butler (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Hopkins
Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue his medical studies. Morley returns to his hometown six years later, now a successful doctor and engaged to be married to a beautiful socialite. He also feels differently about the boy and attempts to gain custody from his aunt and uncle.
Butler
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
Dr. Robbins
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.
James Munson
An adventure serial presented in 12 chapters. Inventor Thomas Edmunds uses a super plane, 'The Phantom,' to protect his new anti-gravity invention, the Contragrav, from theft.
Butler
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
Carlo - Valet
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
Dr. Smith (uncredited)
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
Butler (as Sidney Bracy)
Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home.
Prince Wolfram's Lackey
A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.
McGinnis, posing as Professor Marmont
An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a nearby deserted house. Soon some of the passengers are found murdered, and one of the passengers reveals himself to be a detective who was guarding one of the murdered passengers, who was carrying a bag of diamonds--which is now missing. The detective must find out which of the passengers is the killer.
Benedict
An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptations and innocent looking traps of Washington.
Man Wanting to Use Phone Booth (uncredited)
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
Waiter (Uncredited)
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
Driscoll
A pilot and a gold mine owner go up against the evil Black Hawk, who has invented a plane that can take off and land without using a runway.
Hans' Butler (uncredited)
Клеопатра — красавица-акробатка. В нее влюблен карлик Ганс, которому она предпочла силача Геркулеса… Когда Клеопатра узнает, что Ганс — наследник огромного состояния, она решает сначала выйти замуж за несчастного лилипута, а потом отравить его. Но после неудачной попытки отравления цирковые уродцы (сиамские близнецы, безрукая девушка и гермафродит) решают отомстить Клеопатре…
Herbert Wilkes (as Sidney Bracy)
Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. Now it's her turn, as her deranged and relentless uncle targets her for death with the help of his wife and son, plus a very unhappy ape.
The Waiter
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
Plunkett
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.
Volunteer from Audience (uncredited)
Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.
The Tout (uncredited)
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
Herman Stevens
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
Wilson, Carlton's Butler
Красивая танцовщица Барбара О`Нил работает в одном из танцевальных залов Нью-Йорка. У неё появляется богатый покровитель Брэдли Карлтон, который ничего не жалеет для Барбары и готов оказать ей любую помощь. Но Барбара давно влюблена в своего соседа Эдди и, не раздумывая, соглашается выйти за него замуж. Вскоре оказывается, что Эдди — мошенник. И когда он в очередной раз попадает в беду, Барбара вынуждена обратиться за помощью к Брэдли.
Windy
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
Butler
Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefers to stay single. Jeff then tries to make Angelica interested in the mild-mannered and timid Reggie Irving passing him off as a notorious playboy to intrigue her. He asks his friend Polly to teach Reggie "how to treat a woman right", but he turns to be a disastrous learner.
Albert (uncredited)
Дочь Бонни и сын Родни дети богатого биржевого маклера Стенли Джордана проводят свои дни в приятном "ничегонеделании", когда грянула беда. Их отец все теряет на бирже и в результате сердечного приступа умирает. Семья полностью разорена и даже утварь уходит с молотка для покрытия долгов. Оставшись ни с чем, брат и сестра сталкиваются с совершенно новыми для них проблемами: друзья все как песок просочились сквозь пальцы и надо самостоятельно найти способ прокормиться. Из них обоих именно Бонни оказалась более устойчивой. Она отказывается выйти замуж за своего жениха.
The Butler
Charley is invited to a high class party, where he feels ill at ease and has no idea how to act, yet he wants to impress his young lady.
Beasley's Butler
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Bit Role (uncredited)
Set in London, American Larry Brooks, former millionaire and now broke, pursues lovely Elinor Farrington who, encouraged by her Aunt to marry wealth, falls for him not knowing that he is poor. Trying to regain his status in the racing world since the loss of his champion racehorse and the efforts of a gangster left him penniless, he and his trainer live from hand to mouth as he tries desperately to woo the girl, despite her aunt's suspicions. But Elinor soon finds herself falling for him until he admits to all that he is not what he appears to be.
Butler
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
Irate Customer
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
Doctor (uncredited)
Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
Recruiter (uncredited)
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.
Butler
A lawyer, left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
Waiter
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
The Second Butler (uncredited)
An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.
Miles the Butler (uncredited)
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
Alfred
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.
Waiter
Feyda is a man of wealth and has many fine qualities, but he is powerless to resist gambling and beautiful women. Feyda falls instantly in love with Lisa, who is engaged to his dear friend Victor.
At a small hotel, Judith Barrett and Norman Peck are eloping; John Litel and Addie MacPhail are quarreling because of his constant jealousy; and Eva Thacher and Al Thompson are tracking down their eloping daughter. It's a constant barrage of slamming doors and such trapping of the stage farce.
Pyne (as Sydney Bracey)
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom McCarthy, a New York detective, is sent after Anna and arrests her, chartering a steamer to bring her back to the United States. The steamer sinks, and Anna and Tom are stranded on a small island. They fall in love, and Tom's influence brings about a benign change in Anna's character. They are rescued, however, and Anna is placed on trial for her life. Tom takes the stand in her defense and informs the judge of Anna's conversion in the solitude of the island. The judge instructs Tom to marry Anna and then sentences them to life--on the island where they found happiness together.
Dramatic Director
Peggy Pepper arrives in Hollywood, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things do not go entirely according to plan.
Tully
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
Haskins (the butler)
An artistic salesgirl falls in love with a chauffeur not realising he is actually the heir to a huge fortune.
Larry Brawn I
A gridiron rivalry between two colleges is entering its third generation, and the Norton family (father and grandfather were members of teams defeated by rival squads captained by members of the Brawn family) rears Johnny Norton, 3d, to be a star football player. The lad is underweight, however, and initially shows a talent only for drop kicking. During the big game, Johnny is substituted for another player and leads his team to victory, winning for himself the love of Gloria Havens.
Editor
Бастер, мелкий уличный фотограф, становится оператором-документалистом, пытаясь добиться любви Салли, и после множества приключений превращается в профессионала. Результаты его первых проб, показанных на экране, таковы: «… лошади скачут задом наперед, опрокидывая барьеры, которые сами собой встают на место; красавицы наяды выпрыгивают из вод на трамплин; броненосец добирается до моря по нью-йоркским улицам, пугая людей, соперничающих в скорости с автобусами».
Owens
The man who loved her showed her how to hold the man she loved. A novel picture story packed with drama, thrills and laughs.
Bream's Valet
In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to teach her a lesson, and forces her to live with him in the remote African outback where, eventually, she realizes her true affections.
Don's Valet (uncredited)
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don?
John's Supervisor (uncredited)
Главный герой фильма — Джон, приехал в Нью-Йорк из глухой провинции. Он мечтает стать «королём» рекламы, но, столкнувшись с горькой действительностью, он вынужден работать клерком. Он влюбляется, женится. После свадьбы молодожены селятся в маленькой стандартной квартире. Появляется ребенок. Жизнь усложняется. С рождением второго ребёнка увеличиваются, и материальные затруднения. Главному герою повезло, он выиграл в лотерею, но за ним приходит несчастье — дочь погибает под колесами автомобиля. Джон стал рассеян и его увольняют с работы. Нужда приводит к разногласиям в семье. Жена собирается оставить Джона. Но однажды он возвращается домой счастливый — наконец он заработал доллар. Ему повезло — он теперь будет работать носильщиком рекламных щитов циркового представления.
Short Order Cook
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
The Butler
A 1927 American mystery film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Charles Logue and Walter Anthony. It is based on the 1908 play Counsel for the Defense by Henry Irving Dodge. Richard Marsden is a long-time friend of Henry Desmond, a powerful and successful attorney. The district attorney plan to break Desmond by having George Quinn infer that Marsden's wife is having an affair with the lawyer.
Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)
Молодой крестьянин Анзас, соблазненный городской красоткой, по ее наущению пытается убить жену, столкнув ее с лодки…
Butler Serving Dinner (uncredited)
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.
Brideaux
A story of a woman who committed a murder.
Secretary
Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller, headed the cast of Universal's Painting the Town. In his first starring role, Tryon is cast as bucolic inventor Hector Whitmore, who falls for flirtatious city gal Patsy Deveau (Miller). Misinterpreting her fluttering eyelashes as a sign of true and lasting love, Hector follows Patsy to New York, much to the dismay of the girl's wealthy fiance.
Gaston
Helen Wayne and Archie Crossley, two clever pickpockets, rob J. Hamilton Smith, a well-known metropolitan banker, and he is later recognized by one of their gang as a former prisonmate; they demand a price for their silence, and he is forced to accede.
Valet to Sascha
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women and spectacular settings.
Danilo's Footman (uncredited)
Принц Данило влюбляется в танцовщицу по имени Салли О’Хара. Но его дядя, король Никита I из рода Монтебланко, даже и слышать не хочет о браке с простолюдинкой…
Manager
On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling girder by Eugene Foster, a wealthy broker who persists in his efforts to win the girl. Foster engages the troupe to perform at his home, and Vera, stunned by a fall, awakens to find Foster pleading his love, while Norodin, her partner who loves her, sees them embrace. Norodin, who performs an underwater stunt, asks Vera not to be present for his act and causes her to believe him dead; heartbroken, Vera tells Foster of her mistake; and enraged, he attempts to seize her. The magician appears, pins Foster to the wall with knives, and advises him to leave before the last blade is thrown.
Homer Webb
A Man Four-Square is a screen version of William McLeod Raine's popular tale of a rancher who finds himself falsely accused of murder while attempting to help a friend in need.
The Butler
A Bankrupt Honeymoon is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring Harold Goodwin and featuring Oliver Hardy.
Bertie's No. 1 Man
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
Hobson (as Sidney Bracy)
Katherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown and sets out for New York. En route, she is involved in a train wreck in which another woman is killed. Katherine finds the woman's purse and, among its contents, discovers an invitation for the woman to spend 6 months in an unoccupied luxury apartment in Manhattan. Katherine seizes this opportunity and sets up housekeeping in the elegant suite, living well and dressing in the newest fashions.
Banks
Her Market Value is a 1925 American silent melodrama film directed by Paul Powell and starring Agnes Ayres. Powell produced the picture and distributed through Producers Distributing Corporation.
Hawkins
The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.
Butler
An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
Philip Deaby
Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives in to his family's pressure, however, and marries Suzanne, after which Valerie leaves town. Years later, after Charles and Suzanne have had a child, Valerie comes back to town and Charles realizes he is still in love with her, and she with him. Complications ensue.
Sam Neilson
John and Irene Emerson's marriage begins well enough, but it is not long before John becomes less attentive. Feeling neglected, Irene spends more time with her girl friends, and John, consequently, falls prey to the vamping wiles of his secretary, Jean Ralston. When John comes home from the theater smelling of Jean's perfume, Irene procures a divorce; John then marries Jean.
Loris Keene's Press Agent (uncredited)
Стенли, наследник состояния своего дяди, влюблён в медсестру. Но она считает его слишком ветреным. Чтобы выйти из этой ситуации, Стенли решает, что ему нужен совет женщины. Но все девушки, к которым он обращается за помощью, неверно истолковывают его откровенность, как признание в любви.
Sam Henshaw
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Gisella's Groom
A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
Henry Bolton
A silent romantic adventure melodrama (from the play and novel by Richard Harding) about a womanizer who follows a beautiful Hispanic woman to her home country and his adventures there. He ends up helping her father become dictator of the entire country, and is rewarded with marriage to her and he is named Minister of Finance!
Stinson
Reared in a Turkish harem and threatened with marriage to a man she does not love, Carlotta escapes to London with an English adventurer. When he is killed, she is left destitute and attaches herself to Sir Marcus Ordeyne and begs his protection. He takes her home out of pity, and her charm and innocence cause him to fall in love with her. When he plans to marry her, Judith Mainwaring, who looks upon Carlotta as a rival, tells her he merely pities her and is marrying her to avoid a scandal. Carlotta runs away with Pasquale, a friend of Sir Marcus, though she loves her guardian. Later, Mrs. Mainwaring meets Carlotta in Paris and tells the girl the truth--that Sir Marcus is searching for her. Realizing his love for her, Carlotta is reunited with her benefactor.
Col. Landis
A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.
The Ancient
Filmed on location at Monterey, CA, and starring exotic stage dancer Mlle. Doraldina, this long-lost South Seas romance featured Stuart Holmes as a vicious plantation overseer who poisons his boss (W.A. Bainbridge) in order to possess both the unfortunate man's estate and his daughter.
Jean Deaux
A scientist discovers a death ray and locks it in a box, giving the key to his daughter, who soon finds herself hunted by criminals looking to steal the deadly mineral.
Percy Gryce
Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.
Toby Rice
After running away from an orphanage, young Alicia Jones disguises herself as a boy and gets a job on a farm. She falls in love with Harry Deigan, a farmhand who knows her secret, but when the farm's owner finds out, he fires her. Alicia is forced to return to the city, where she meets up with a wealthy man who adopts her. He turns out to be Thomas Deigan, the half-brother of Alice's love Harry Deigan. Harry finds out that Thomas is his half-brother, but also finds out something that could change his, Thomas' and Alicia's lives forever.
Jim Crosby, the product of a broken home, becomes a gangster and goes to prison. Meanwhile, Ann Payton, an heiress, converts a saloon into a mission. She is engaged to her father's secretary, Temple Vaughn, a gambler. Jim is released from prison and seeks shelter at the mission. Temple becomes indebted to gambler Phil Johnson and is forced to arrange a crooked poker game involving some of his wealthy friends. Jim overhears the plot and, realizing that Temple is Ann's fiancé, robs the poker game and puts a check Temple forged into Temple's own pocket.
Luiigi
Based on the spy novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle.
Ned Ashley
Upon hearing about a woman dubbed The Huntress because of her wild attention craving ways, Fleming Harcourt decides he can domesticate her and they marry. He takes her to settle down in a mining town, however she soon becomes bored and returns to the city and her lavish parties with plenty of adoring male admirers. Fleming decides to make her jealous by flirting with other women. When the Huntress hears the rumors of his affairs, she soon realizes her one true love is Fleming, and they are happily reunited.
Sick of life in the city after his fiancée deserts him, Merrill Day goes to the country for a rest with his sister and niece. There he meets Joan, who has lived in the hills for her whole life, and they quickly begin a romance. Grekko, however, a hunchback who has loved Joan for years, convinces her that Merrill's sister is really Merrill's wife.
Tom Hunt
Zudora, not knowing she's an heiress to a $20 million fortune, lives with her uncle, a mystic and detective, who covets her inheritance. She wants to marry John Storm but her uncle is against it. However, the uncle makes a bargain; if Zudora can solve the next twenty mysteries brought to him, she can marry as she chooses. Episodes 1,2 and 8, plus another unidentified chapter, survive. The rest is believed to be lost.
Jones - Hargreave's Butler / Stanley Hargreave
This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollars.
Uncle John
An American family in need of some money decides to pull a little innocent scam on a wealthy English relative.
A Short comedy starring Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.
