William Worthington

Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.

Наивный идеалист Джефферсон Смит, лидер организации Мальчиков Рейнджеров назначен представителем в Сенат. Он объединяется со старшим сенатором от своего штата, однако не подозревает, как много людей вокруг него ведут двойную игру и выполняют приказания тех, кто выше. Наивный молодой сенатор сталкивается с понятиями коррупции, грязной игры, лживости и заангажированности прессы.

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.

Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.

Один из последних законопроектов, который подписал президент Линкольн, был законопроект о прокладке трансконтинентальной железной дороги через пустыню в Калифорнию, чтобы соединить между собой два океана, Север и Юг. Однако нечестный делец и политик Аса Бэрроуз надеется извлечь прибыль именно от задержки строительства.

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

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…

When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.

After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.

Мэри Смит не может посещать ночные заведения или расслабляться любым другим подобным образом, потому что любой намёк скандала может повредить политической карьере её отца. Однажды ей это надоедает и она с двумя другими девушками отправляется на свидание с участниками родео. Своему новому кавалеру — Стречу — Мэри говорит, что она горничная и что она сбежала из дома, так как её избивает отец. Возлюбленные решают убежать. Теперь Мэри стоит перед выбором: продолжать ей авантюру со Стречем или вернуться домой.

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.

Фильм представляет собой биографическую драму о жизни пастора Эдварда Дж. Флэнэгэна, который основал приют для обездоленных и трудных подростков, назвал его «Город мальчиков» и посвятил свою жизнь служению этому великому делу. Отец Флэнэгэн считает, что не существует такой вещи, как «плохой мальчик» и проводит свою жизнь, пытаясь это доказать. Он борется с безразличием правовой системы и общества, а зачастую и самих мальчиков, чтобы построить святилище, в котором ребята имеют свое собственное правительство, создают свои собственные правила и сами решают, какое нарушение какого заслуживает наказания. Хотя история во многом вымышлена, она рассказывает о реальном человеке и реальном месте, которое располагалось в штате Небраска.

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.

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.

Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.

An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.

A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.

A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

Миссис Фэй Чейни - богатая американская вдова - прибывает в Лондон и быстро входит в высшее общество. Она становится объектом ухаживания немолодого уже лорда Келтона и молодого плейбоя лорда Артура Диллинга. Сама миссис Чейни склонна отдать предпочтение лорду Келтону. Однажды во время великосветского приёма в доме герцогини Эбби Артур Диллинг обнаруживает в саду дворецкого миссис Чейни, Чарльза, в котором он узнаёт некоторое время назад задержанного в Монте-Карло известного вора, специализирующегося на краже драгоценностей. Артур начинает догадываться об истинных причинах появления Фэй в доме герцогини, которая известна как обладательница знаменитого жемчужного ожерелья.

An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.

A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.

When silver is found in Virginia City, Lawyer John Storm leads a group from Indiana west. He soon has to defend them all in court against a company that is after their claims. Fighting a crooked Judge, he gets a mis-trial by telling how much each of the jurors was bribed. Then he gets the Governor to appoint a new Judge. But just as the retrial opens, the Judge learns his daughter has been kidnaped.

Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.

Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

У автомобильного магната Джеймса Бьюкенена есть невеста, которая совершенно его не любит, и совет директоров, который никогда к нему не прислушивается. Как-то раз, сидя в раздумье на скамейке в парке, он знакомится с безработной Джоан Хоуторн, прекрасной поварихой, которая как раз ищет себе партнера, чтобы устроиться на работу «парой» (дворецкий / повар) к изысканному гурману — бывшему бутлегеру Майку Россини. Ошеломленный таким предложением, Бьюкенен без лишних слов соглашается на роль дворецкого. Но ведь когда-нибудь обязательно настанет день расплаты…

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.

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.

Король Франции Людовик XIII, находящийся под влиянием своего министра - кардинала Ришелье, готовит указ, ущемляющий права крупных феодалов. Недовольные таким положением вещей и растущей властью кардинала, королева-мать, королева Анна Австрийская и граф Барада пытаются, в отсутствие своего главного врага, убедить короля подписать указ об отставке Ришелье. Им почти удается достичь своей цели, но неожиданное возвращение кардинала спутывает им планы. В результате свершившихся событий в стране зреет заговор. Опирающие на поддержку англичан и испанцев, заговорщики, при участии королевы-матери, стремятся свергнуть короля Людовика XIII и посадить на трон его слабовольного брата Гастона. Кардинал Ришелье плетет интриги, пытаясь разрушить планы врагов короля и укрепить могущество Франции. Между тем воспитанница кардинала, юная красавица Ленора, недавно покинувшая стены монастыря, и Андре де Понс, один из заговорщиков, влюбляются друг в друга...

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.

An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.

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

A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.

Два Американца, драматург Томас Чамберс, чьи пьесы никто не ставит, и живописец-неудачник Джордж Куртис, снимающие одну квартиру в центре Парижа случайно в поезде знакомятся с художницей — карикатуристкой Гилдой Фаррелл, работающей в рекламном агентстве. Гилда производит на друзей неизгладимое впечатление. Эта белокурая особа сразу вскружила голову обоим крепким парням, и каждый из них готов отдать уже свою руку и сердце, но девушка решает для себя иначе. Из-за того, что она не может остановить своё предпочтение ни на одном из кандидатов, она предлагает ухажерам «Джентльменское соглашение», она будет им верным другом и критиком их работ и не более, — «о другом и не смейте мечтать». Неожиданно пьесу Тома покупает Лондонский театр, и он должен уехать на несколько дней. Гилда остаётся наедине с Джорджем…

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…

A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.

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

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.

Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new husband, Patience is marooned on a desert island with handsome Captain Edmunds. Her head full of notions that she's gleaned from radio dramas and pulp novels, Patience demands that she and Edmunds enter into an in-name-only marriage, observing the responsibilities and proprieties of matrimony without the sexual entanglements. Complications naturally arise.

Freddie, a rich young idler, meets Julia Harrington, a wealthy social service worker who runs a haven for reformed criminals. By telling her he is a hardened criminal, he is allowed to stay at the mission.

Just out of jail and vowing to go straight, former jewel thief Boston Blackie, undertakes the reformation of a pretty blonde who has stolen a necklace from a cabaret dancer. He learns that the jewel belongs to the mother of the blonde girl, and the blonde's philandering father gave it as a gift to the cabaret girl. Now, Blackie must find a way to return the necklace to the owner's safe without arousing the suspicions of the girl's family.

Однажды после вечеринки Том Стерлинг обнаруживает себя женатым на хористке Кармен Мендосе. Он спешит расторгнуть этот брак и в ожидании развода неожиданно получает 3 миллиона долларов в наследство. Кармен требует половину суммы в качестве отступных. Адвокат советует Тому нанять своего случайного знакомого, помощника портного по прозвищу Малыш Бутс, которому Том недавно помог отбиться от рассерженного клиента, чтобы тот в свою очередь помог ему без потерь избавиться от Кармен.

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings.

The Green Goddess is a 1923 American silent adventure film based on the play The Green Goddess by William Archer. Set during the British Raj, it stars George Arliss as the Rajah of Rukh, into whose land arrive three British subjects, played by Alice Joyce, David Powell, and Harry T. Morey.

Andy Walker, bullied and taunted with being a coward, leaves town on a freight. The brakeman shoots two ruffians, but Andy is hailed as the hero and made a deputy sheriff.

Former A. E. F. boxing champion Tom Harper, who suffered gas poisoning, is sent to the mountains to regain his health so that he can re-enter the ring and earn the money needed for his crippled sister's operation. Under strict orders not to exert himself, Tom allows himself to be beaten up by Phillip Brand, the town bully, in front of his girl, Harriet Monroe.

A railroad detective is falsely accused by a rancher's daughter Virginia Valli of being a notorious outlaw.

Although renowned pediatrician Dr. Jim Keene loves his wife, Helen, she resents his devotion to his work and finds solace with other men. After the death of one of Jim’s young patients causes him to suffer a nervous collapse, the couple takes a sea voyage to restore his health.

Young minister Keith Rollins comes to a backwoods community in Kentucky and finds that lawless and political elements are against him and threaten his position with the congregation.

When her father, an indigent artist, dies, Sylvia Lacey goes to live with her Aunt Martha and her uncle, Judge Trent, in New England, where she is unwanted and humiliated. Though she and John Dunham, her uncle's young law partner, fall in love, she believes he intends to marry the daughter of a wealthy neighbor.

After Mark Hanlon gambles away his fortune and his equity in his house, his daughter Molly marries Kirk, proprietor of the gambling hall; and as mistress of the gaming tables, she meets young Miles Rand, exiled to the West for his reckless behavior.

Donald Grant, after serving a prison term, obtains a job in a smalltown factory where he meets Helen Wilburton, who invites him to board with her and her father. He marries her, and on the first night of their honeymoon, a burglary is traced to one of Donald's former cohorts.

An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

In this picture, Sessue Hayakawa is in a dual role, playing twin brothers. One of them, Yamashiro is serious and hardworking, while the other, Sadao, is a playboy. There is a girl, Toko-Ku, who loves them both, but really prefers the bad boy. Sadao encounters Paul Berkowitz in a gambling den and borrows far more money from him than he can ever pay back.

A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.

The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister Mary is engaged to Ashutor's college friend, James Bassett. Although Kate loves Ashutor, she says marriage would make them social outcasts.

Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their living separately and only meeting on Wednesday evenings, as they did while they were engaged. Warren's boss, however, who was never enamored of the idea, fires him when he bungles an account and loses the company a large order. On top of that, through a series of misunderstandings Warren comes to believe that his wife is pregnant and his mother-in-law believes that Warren is having an affair with Betty's friend Ethel. Things go downhill for Warren from there.

Sessue Hayakawa was making the transition from Asian villain to sympathetic hero in this picture. The plot is a combination of racial stereotypes that were common in the U.S. during the silent era and real-life situations experienced by Asians living Stateside. Hayakawa plays Suki Iota, a student who, while born and bred in America, wants a wife with traditional Japanese values. She appears in the form of Rei (Tsuru Aoki, Hayakawa's real-life wife), a singer who becomes known as the Japanese Nightingale.

Toyama wants to go to college in America but his alcoholic father won't supply the funds. He gets the money to go, however, from Sada, whom he has married in secret. But Sada has a secret of her own -- she told Toyama that she got the money from a relative, but the truth is that she has signed up to do a four-year stint as a Geisha girl.

Yukio is illegal in the United States and is used by a gang of spies for their plans. Yukio must steal secret documents from an admiral. When he's submitting the documents to the gang, he realizes what he has done and claims the documents back. A struggle follows.

A publicist for a racy burlesque troupe romances the daughter of the head of The Purity League, an organization that wishes to see such shows banned.

In his will, Mr. Baird leaves his son Arnold (Franklyn Farnum ) just one seven-passenger auto and a hundred dollars to keep it filled up and in good repair. When James Bennett (Mark Fenton) hears of this, he insists that Baird do something to make his fortune before he can marry his daughter Ruth (Agnes Vernon). Bennett begins by using the car to start a jitney-bus line. This is not terribly impressive to Bennett -- who owns a trolley company -- and he decides he would rather see Ruth married to his controller, William Mott-Smith (H.J. Bennett).

A 1917 American silent comedy film

A rancher moves to the city, and finds competition for the affections of an heiress in the form of a doppelganger.

Love Never Dies was set in France, and convincingly so (which was not often the case in American-made films of this period). It is established in the first reel that hero Felix and heroine Cecile have been sweethearts since childhood. Later on, Fate forces Felix and Cecile to separate, but viewers could take heart in the positive sentiments expressed by the film's title.

The False Part

The Wire Pullers

Science fiction serial, presumed lost.

1915 film with Jack Holt

The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.

An American agent exchanges places in prison with a condemned British officer and brother of a woman he greatly admires and goes to the gallows.

Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.

The Dreamer is unhappy with his marriage and runs away. He collapses and is found by The Desert Flower, who convince him to return to his family. In various illusions he sees himself in three stories. In first is Napoleon. In the second he is a Knight. And in the third a Sultan. But in all the illusions he die. Meanwhile his wife is about to be send into the desert while refusing to remarry a Stranger. Before this could happen, the Dreamer arrives and send the Stranger into the desert. He becomes again a loved and respected member of the Town.