Bender
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
Steve Owens
Дик сталкивается с серией жестоких убийств, в которых жертвы, все из разных социальных слоев, злобно порезаны на части. Подозреваемых достаточно много, но Трейси, получая ключ, что будет всего пятнадцать убитых, должен найти общую связь между жертвами, прежде чем погибнет кто-то еще.
Henry Childs
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
Cyrus P. Adams
An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives.
Fred Garrett (uncredited)
Десять лет Пола боялась вернуться в Лондон, где была когда-то убита её тётя. Наконец, выйдя замуж за пианиста Грегори и поддавшись на его уговоры, она решает переехать в Лондон и поселиться в том самом доме. С течением времени жизнерадостной красавице Поле начинает казаться, что она сходит с ума в его стенах. И горячо любимый муж Грегори ведёт себя более чем странно…
Capt. Lester
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Mayor Adams
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Alumni Committee Man
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
Reynolds
Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. Scattergood decides to loan Elly the money but things are not as David has been telling his Mother...
Sheriff Collins
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.
Zachary
The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife. The trouble began when the daughter wanted to marry Mr. Braun's doctor, James Rogers. Mrs. Braun asks Inspector Queen to help find the long-missing Barbara. The inspector's son, Ellery, works on the case. He goes to a home frequently visited by Dr. Rogers where the bell is answered by Nikki Porter who Ellery mistakes for Barbara and insists she return to the Braun home. Nikki does, to protect Barbara, and a short time later finds herself alone in a room outside Braun's bedroom. She finds him dead - his throat cut. No weapons are found and the door to the room where Nikki had been is locked, and she is suspected. Ellery hides Nikki in his apartment. Braun's body, sent for an autopsy, disappears and in its place is a life-sized statue of the dead man.
Captain Andrews
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
Frederick - Aide-de-Camp (uncredited)
Симпатичная девушка крестьянка Илонка Толнэй из горной деревушки направляется на ярмарку в ближайший городок, где птица цыгана вытаскивает ей записку-предсказание с обещанием счастливой судьбоносной встречи и скорой свадьбы. Девушка, волею судьбы, попадает в Вену, в дом пекаря, который поставляет выпечку императору. Однажды она встречает армейского барабанщика Гарри Мартена, тайно мечтающего стать композитором и дирижером. К сожалению, военный устав запрещает молодому капралу создавать свою собственную музыку. На помощь загрустившему таланту приходит предприимчивая и наивная Илонка. Девушка отправляет листы с нотами вместе с ежедневной порцией печенья во дворец. С этого момента начинают сбываться волшебное предсказание цыгана…
Mr. Phil Belenson
Скучный и скупой бизнесмен Ларри Уилсон возвращается из кругосветного круиза, в последнюю ночь он пытается спасти Дока, упавшего с корабля, и в результате сам оказывается за бортом. Во время спасения их матросами Ларри получает веслом по голове, после чего он полностью забывает свое настоящее и помнит только то, что происходило с ним девять лет назад. Ларри считает, что он мошенник Джордж Кэри и вместе с Доком он хочет обчистить сейф Ларри Уилсона. В это же время он узнает, что у него есть красавица-жена Кей, которая хочет с ним развестись. Ларри не хочет разводиться с ней и делает все возможное, чтобы Кей влюбилась в него снова...
Mr. Wadsworth
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.
Gambler (uncredited)
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Ben
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
David Perez
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
Dunlap
Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.
Sen. Smith
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.
Mr. Park (uncredited)
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Brandon Edwards
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
Joe Draper
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
'Big Bill' Anderson
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
J. B. Morganson
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.
Charles Wharton, as an adult
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
Crime Boss Big Matty (uncredited)
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can become a major clue.
Morton
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
George Long
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves.
Mr. Wood
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Inspector Layman
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Carey MacGregor
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, this arouses hostility amongst Bailey's friends, relatives and associates, some of whom have murder on their minds.
Tod Barsto
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.
Honorable Charles Zaraka
Будьте готовы к тайне убийства с золотой медалью! Эта «напряженная, захватывающая тайна» («Калифорнийский конгресс родителей и учителей») с Чарли Ченом противостоит международным шпионам, которые используют Олимпийские игры в Берлине как идеальное прикрытие... для хладнокровного убийства!
Dr. Kenmore
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
Mr. Emmett Fawcett
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
Fred Garrett
По рассказу "Правило толпы" Нормана Красны.
Фильм основан на реальных событиях, происшедших в окрестностях Сан-Франциско в 1930-е годы. Спровоцированная толпа обывателей провинциального городка осаждает и поджигает тюрьму, где заключен подозреваемый в похищении детей совершенно невиновный человек.
Gilbert Fender
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Hacendado Wanting to Fight
В 1848 году на лесопилке Саттера в Калифорнии нашли золото. Началась Золотая Лихорадка. Страну наводнили американские проходимцы, жадные до быстрой наживы. Проживавшим в Калифорнии мексиканцам пришлось несладко. Их сгоняли с родных земель, грабили, убивали. Когда несчастья коснулись Хоакина Мурьеты и его родных, он встал на путь жестокого мщения. Калифорния наполнилась криками умирающих американцев. Золотоискатели волей-неволей объединились, чтобы истребить Хоакина и его мексиканцев.
Morton, Escaped Con
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
General Fremont
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Heegan (uncredited)
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Managing editor
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
Big Jim Bradley
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
H. Van Cleve
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
Rand Leavitt
Gold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of cowboys who find a gold mine in "Thunder Mountain", but have no money to develop it. One of the cowboys rescues a girl on a stagecoach and her grateful father agrees to finance them. Along the way, she pretends to fall in love with one of the cowboys. Thinking he is about to be very rich, he sets out, but upon arrival, he finds that a bad man has stolen the claim and started a town. There, everyone turns on him, including the girl, but luckily, another pretty girl, a barmaid (who is secretly in love with him), sticks by him, and he ends up in a climactic shootout on the mountain where the gold is stashed.
Captain Morgan
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
Clarkey
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
Dr. Mendez (uncredited)
В кафе, вспоминая свою жизнь, человек пытается предостеречь своего молодого знакомого. Тот клянется, что избежит подобной участи, но сам мчится прямо на огонь.
McArthur aka Arthur Mack
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
James Fitchmueller
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
Paul Van Dyne
An exploitation film about homosexuality. The film is believed to be lost. Elinor Gordon, who was frightened sexually by a man while an infant, confides in her psychoanalyst that she is contemplating yielding to the advances of her overly attentive and affectionate female roommate, Bobby Allen. The psychoanalyst advises the woman to dispossess her roommate, who works in the same law office as she, and to marry a football player. After the young woman rebuffs her roommate, she accompanies her lawyer employer, Dave Warren, to the country home of the firm's senior partner, John Grant. While Elinor falls in love with Dave, the senior partner's socialite daughter, Judy, yearns for Paul, an artist, who, unknown to her, is a homosexual.
Holmes
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.
The Colonel
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Nathan Silas
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.
Police Inspector
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the younger brother goes to Mexico City to become a matador. While there, he gets word that the police, who have been hunting his brother, have finally captured him.
Oliver Lang i.e. Long
an aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile the writer attempts to become a Greenwich Village Bohemian type. She and her new friends are all starving for their art until a kindly gent offers them financial assistant. They refuse on principle. Tragedy pays a call when the writer learns that her boyfriend has been untrue.
Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
Jones
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Chandler
Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages to get his photographer pal Dick (Richard Cromwell) fired as well, but he promises to restore Dick's reputation, some way or another. He gets his chance while covering a dirigible wreck (some three years before the Hindenburg), saving the day for both Dick and himself.
H.E. Gillette (uncredited)
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Trading Center Spokesman (uncredited)
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
Mr. McIntosh
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
Morton Hazlitt
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
District Attorney (uncredited)
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Phineas Baldwin
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
Dr. Pierce
Американский химик Нед Фарадей во время путешествия по Германии влюбляется в певицу варьете Элен. Они переезжают в Америку, рождается сын, Элен оставляет эстраду и все вроде бы идет благополучно, но Нед во время экспериментов облучен радием и вынужден уехать на лечение в Европу…
Cash Enright
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his father, Stag's manager, is killed.
Cueball Kelly
A crooked jockey tries to reform.
Chauffeur
Обычный день роскошного Берлинского гранд-отеля, сотни служащих и гостей, люди встречаются, люди расходятся… Убийство и воровство, любовь и ненависть, азарт и жадность — все грехи мира представлены в этом замкнутом мире красоты и порока. Судьба всех сводит в один клубок.
Bootlegger Leader (uncredited)
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
E.A. Smith
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.
Tuxedo Carter
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
Attorney Neil Selby
A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.
Frank Gebhardt
Молодой человек Джимми Мейсон живет на ферме со своей овдовевшей матерью. Но однажды пожилую женщину сбивает машина, и она умирает. Оставшись один, Джимми решает переехать в большой город к своим дяде Генри и тете Эмме, которые владеют многоквартирным домом. Там он знакомится с одним из жильцов Мэттом Келли, который представляет Джимми свою очаровательную подружку Пегги. Но Джимми даже не подозревает, что на самом деле Мэтт-мелкий бандит и рэкетир.
Bruno
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.
Arthur Raymond's Pal
A wealthy young woman struggles to find love while surrounded by possible suitors.
Captain Kruger
At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.
James Monroe
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
District Attorney (uncredited)
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
L.R. McChesney
To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his "product" turns out to be more successful than even he imagined--and now he has to deliver.
Durkin
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
Frosby (uncredited)
Двое осужденных Сент Луис и Дэннимора Дэн помогают другому осужденному по имени Стив, который влюбился в осужденную из женской части тюрьмы Джуди. В конце концов, и Стив, и Джуди освобождены из тюрьмы. Они женятся и уезжают в родной город Стива, где никто не догадывается о его преступном прошлом.
Не долго, однако, пара наслаждалась счастливой и мирной жизнью, поскольку их семейное счастье оказалось в руках шантажиста и нечестного продавца Фросби, который знал раньше Джуди…
François Molyneaux
BY DAY a beautiful wife-accepting a husband's humble love, his humble home, his humble pleasures. BY NIGHT a glittering butterfly yearning for the wine of life and tossing all to the winds when the glamour of romance calls.
Col. Percy Kirk
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
Lord Robert Erisey
In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hire, stands ready to defend his lady-love, the fair Thomsine Musgrove, and prove his nettle, and that his blade is made of the finest metal.
J. Wilson Rockmaine
A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older suitor who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with Fairfax, a young stranger at a party. A group of bootleggers try to get away with the loot stashed previously within Fairfax's mansion; Mysterious faces peer into the windows and shadowy figures stalk the hall. One of the bootleggers is killed and the young stranger becomes the prime suspect.
Marquis de Praille
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Masked Violinist
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.
William Endicott
Wild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a difference--she wants to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane. Capt. Endicott, a friend of Robert's, offers to teach her how to fly. One day while aloft in the plane, the craft takes a sudden nosedive and crashes. The pair walk away uninjured and find shelter in a roadhouse. Robert, upon hearing of this, becomes jealous of Pat's spending so much time with Endicott, which angers Pat. She decides to leave Robert and slips out of the house to catch an evening train, but unfortunately, Endicott is also aboard the train. Robert finds out about that, too. Complications ensue.
Duke of Medonia
During a lawn party at his New York home, steel magnate Theodore Morton claims he is bankrupt as a deterrent to Lord Dormer and the Duke of Medonia, two fortune hunters competing for his niece, Betty. After the suitors depart, unscrupulous Carl Gates is informed by his fiancée, banker's secretary Adele Shelby, that Theodore was lying. Carl pursues Betty, who accepts his proposal with the belief that the marriage will benefit her uncle. During a yachting expedition with Carl, Betty falls overboard and is rescued by architect Tom Waring, who is competing in a race. Tom wins with Betty on board, and a romance develops.
Thief in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
Бравый городской парень как-то пошел искать сельские тропы, после того, как городские улицы стали слишком горячими для него. Случайно он знакомится с Тилли, дочкой фермера. Ну и что же, что она больше похожа на слониху, чем на девушку, зато у ее отца водятся денежки, и наш герой не прочь или завладеть. А Тилли, никогда прежде не видевшая такого бравого парня, влюбляется в него по уши и сбегает с ним из отчего дома.
Director
Caught in a Flue is a 1914 Comedy short.