Barney McGill

Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's activities, and, when she gets out, realizes she has been a bad example for her kid-sister, Jennie White, and five of her friends. With the aid of her old boyfriend, she manages to divert them from their juvenile-delinquent path leading to disaster for each.

В фильме «Циско Кид и леди» главный герой — неуловимый грабитель банков и почтовых карет, но он защищает грудного ребёнка погибшего золотоискателя и крепко наказывает другого грабителя, имеющего среди городка благопристойную репутацию, но не имеющего совести. Словом — мотив популярной у всех народов темы благородного разбойника, Робин Гуда.

An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.

After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.

Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.

A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.

Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.

A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.

Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).

Музыкальная комедия по пьесе Рудольфа Лотара и Ганса Адлера. На каждом своем выступлении певец Эжен Шарлье с успехом пародирует на сцене известного банкира барона Кассини. Удивительное внешнее сходство и тонкое исполнение позволяют артисту сыграть роль своего двойника вне стен мюзик-холла.

Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.

Президент внезапно пропал, причём в самый неподходящий для страны момент, накануне надвигающейся войны и возможного импичмента.

Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advantage of. Letty teaches her child to lie, steal, cheat and anything else he'll need to be street smart.

Author/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator for the League of Nations. He is Trinidad's Port o' Spain trying to track down the leader of a gang of diamond smugglers. A trail, littered with murders, leads him to a crocodile-infested swamp.

In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr taunts each one, claiming their only interest in him is his money, and sends them away when the report about the niece proves to be false. Only niece Marjorie, who has ridiculed one of his pet eccentricities, seems to be the object of any sentimental affection.

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.

Бутч Сондерс, дерзкий и бескомпромиссный детектив, был переведён из полиции в Отдел пропавших без вести. Когда молодая женщина просит его помочь найти ее мужа, он выясняет, что на самом деле она — некая Норма Филлипс, разыскиваемая полицией Чикаго за убийство своего мужа. Норма инсценирует самоубийство путём утопления и исчезает, и Сондерс заимствует труп из морга чтобы в свою очередь инсценировать её «похороны», в надежде, что Норма объявится.

While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.

Главарь банды рэкетиров Пэтси Гарган, за помощь местному политикану в предвыборной компании по всем канонам ганстерской традиции — «Голосуй за нашего кандидата или готовь костыли.» в качестве вознаграждения получает должность заместителя директора в исправительной школе для малолетних преступников. Пэтси и не думал вникать в работу данного заведения, а сама должность интересовала его лишь как возможность регулярно получать заместительскую зарплату. Но первый же приезд, который должен был стать последним в корне меняет отношение Пэтси. Увидев чудовищьные условия и жестокость персонала по отношению к детям, которых управляющий школой Томпсон и вовсе считает недочеловеками, показывая это всем своим видом, держась подчеркнуто высокомено по отношению к подопечным. Они для него отбросы общества, выходцы из трущоб, из неблагополучных семей, и Томпсон использует их как бесплатную рабочую скотину на производстве.

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Том Коннорс приговорен к заключению в тюрьме Синг-Синг, но верит, что его влиятельные друзья скоро помогут ему выйти на свободу. Однако, он проводит 90 дней в камере-одиночке и понимает, что на свободе он окажется нескоро. Он узнает, что его подруга Фэй ранена, и начальник позволяет Тому посетить ее, отпуская его под честное слово. Во время столкновения с гангстером Джо Финном Фэй убивает Джо, но обвиняет в случившемся Тома. Теперь ему грозит электрический стул…

Начало двадцатого века. На юге США не утихает борьба между богачами землевладельцами и сборщиками хлопка. Плантаторы удовлетворяли простейшие потребности крестьян, а взамен те без устали трудились в полях. Но этот фильм не о рабском труде и об определении прав и обязанностей обоих из сторон, он не стоит ни на одной из сторон — он просто показывает, как это было. Эта история Марвина, сына Тома Блэйка, скоропостижно скончавшегося от непосильного труда на полях одного плантатора Норвуда. Плантатор, чувствуя свою вину перед семьей усопшего, берет сироту к себе в дом, воспитывает, дает образование и предоставляет работу бухгалтера в своём бизнесе. Марвин становится преданным вассалом хладнокровного работодателя.

In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.

Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.

Лора Харт учится на курсах медицинских сестер, твердо решив целиком посвятить себя этому делу. Однажды ночью в больницу привозят бутлегера по имени Морти. Лора и ее сокурсница Мэлони устанавливают, что Морти получил огнестрельное ранение, и, поддавшись на его уговоры, соглашаются не сообщать об этом в полицию. Морти клянется Лоре в дружбе и присылает бутылку спиртного в подарок.

Преподаватель музыки Свенгали при помощи гипноза превращает прелестную, но лишенную музыкального слуха девушку Трильби О'Фиррэл, которая работает натурщицей для художников, в замечательную певицу. Свенгали увозит Трильби, и она начинает совсем другую жизнь, выступая в качестве знаменитой певицы мадам Свенгали. Однако маэстро вынужден постоянно держать свою жертву под гипнозом, поскольку, просыпаясь, она испытывает необъяснимый ужас перед хозяином, несмотря на его глубокую любовь к ней. Это подтачивает силы самого гипнотизера и приближает трагическую развязку...

A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.

It's a burlesque of a melodrama in which all the parts are taken by birds. There's lots to be offended by, given that it's a talking comedy, with lots of stereotyped voices, and so forth, and it's not too long before you get tired of the gimmick.

The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.

A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.

Луи Рикарно - редкой смышлености малый. Однажды он организовывает между всеми крупными бандами Чикаго союз, дабы они друг друга не истребили окончательно, благодаря чему, будучи лидером этого преступного альянса, быстро идет в гору, женится и переезжает во Флориду, где начинает написание автобиографии, играет в гольф и входит в высший свет. Увы, в его отсутствие между группировками вновь начинает разгораться вражда, так что вскоре из преступной столицы Луи начинают поступать тревожные вести, на которые он, впрочем, не особо реагирует, упиваясь своей новой шикарной жизнью. Однако он несет ответственность за все происходящее, и вскоре ему об этом не очень деликатно напомнят северные друзья...

The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

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.

Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another. One of Jolson's fellow minstrels (Lowell Sherman) is shot backstage, and it is assumed thanks to several plot convolutions that Jolson is guilty of the deed.

Evidence is a 1929 Pre-Code crime drama film produced and distributed by the Warner Brothers. It is based on the 1914 Broadway play Evidence by J. duRocher MacPherson and L. duRocher MacPherson. This early talkie was directed by John G. Adolfi and starred Pauline Frederick and Lowell Sherman. While this film is lost, its soundtrack, recorded by the Vitaphone process, survives.

It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. But also appear actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway and of course the German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.

French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.

Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One of the pilots is injured and the other leaves him to die, so he can have the girl all to himself. However, the injured pilot survives and when he recovers he vows vengeance on the man who left him to die--especially after he finds out that he married the girl they were both after.

Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his friend's money, and almost wrecks their romance.

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".

Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery.

Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit.

Brothers Hugh and Dan Clayton are both in love with Phyllis, their father's secretary. She finally chooses Hugh, and they marry before he joins the army and is sent overseas as a fighter pilot. He is shot down in a dogfight, crashes and loses his memory and drifts around Europe. Years go by, and Phyllis decides to try to find him in France before consenting to marry Dan, who still loves her. Complications ensue.

Our doggy hero is abandoned in the desert while in pup-hood. Upon reaching maturity, Tin Tin has undeservedly earned the reputation as a killer canine. Thus, the human characters spend most of their time hunting down the dog in hopes of collecting a huge bounty.

Mortimer grabs an opportunity to take a truck driving job; Matthew intends to hang onto it.

The Duff family can't seem to get along with their neighbors, an obsessed policeman and his wife.