In this thriller, a concert promoter is sent to Australia where he ends up entangled in corporate spying and is forced to...
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1978
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Based in part on a true story, Kiss of Death is given a veneer of reality by being filmed on location in New York, per the...
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1947
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In this mystery, a Chinese criminal genius kidnaps a woman so that he can finally steal the "Silver Ray" from her brother. ~...
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1938
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This drama chronicles the love affair between a composer and the concert singer who jilts him for the love of a count. In...
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1937
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Ash has developed a cancer cure and the Chinese villain, Lyons, using his Fu Manchu techniques, attempts to wrest it from...
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1937
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In this drama, a group of young cadets in a military academy struggle to overcome their personal problems and make it through...
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1936
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Though now all but forgotten, early 20th Century actor Charles Ray once reigned as one of the most popular comedic film...
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1936
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Joanne de Beaudricourt [Phase II]
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1935
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Katharine Hepburn suffers nobly while her philandering conductor husband Charles Boyer dallies with the likes of Helene...
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1935
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Stanley MacLaurel (Stan Laurel), the American "black sheep" of the MacLaurel clan, stows away on a cattle boat to Scotland in...
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Violet Ormsby
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1935
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In this costume drama, Colonel Blood, a notorious Irish patriot/outlaw, tries to steal the British Crown Jewels. He is...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Director Dick Lester does an astute job of orchestrating several rock 'n roll and jazz performers in this musical drama...
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1934
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In this British drama, a recently bankrupt fellow blames four people for his financial woes. Later he becomes wealthy again...
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1934
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Tom Walls is both star and director of the airy comedy-melodrama Lady in Danger. Marooned in the revolution-torn kingdom of...
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1934
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In this romance, a golddigger jilts her poorer true love in favor of a wealthy man whom she marries. The poor man is...
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1933
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Tom Walls, one of the most famous of the Aldwych Theater farceurs, was both star and director of Leave It to Smith. Based on...
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Lady Moynton
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1933
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The Fire Raisers (British slang for arsonists) was inspired by the true story of Leopold Harris, an insurance assessor...
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1933
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A feisty Irish lad leaves his home village to find fortune in bustling London. Things start off well when he lands a good...
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Lady Anne Cranton
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1933
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In this drama, a country physician earns the gratitude of an important newspaper publisher by saving the man's daughter's...
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1933
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In this mystery, two men, in love with the same woman go to a house party and trouble ensues. The woman, a widow, is also...
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1933
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Joanne de Beaudricourt
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1933
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In this romantic comedy, a 30-year-old spinster dreams of finding a man, but finds it difficult living with her older...
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1933
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Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter...
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Diana
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1933
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A classy woman has an affair with a rake after she learns that she has a terminal disease in this British melodrama. When...
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1933
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Based on a stage play by Edgar Wallace, The Old Man is nowhere near as benign as its title. The eponymous character is a...
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1932
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In this lively romance, an aristocratic agent from the Foreign Office finds himself falling for an enigmatic woman during...
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Paula Zahren
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1932
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In this crime drama, a private eye is engaged to infiltrate the smugglers that murdered a nightclub owner. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1932
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Corinne Griffith, the stunningly attractive "orchid lady" of the silent screen, originally intended to retire when talkies...
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1932
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1932
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This early Hitchcock effort is a parody of the thriller genre about a transient (Leon M. Lion) who accidentally discovers the...
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The Girl
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1932
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The racetrack provides the setting for this melodrama that centers upon the owner of a racehorse who is jilted by a...
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1932
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In this courtroom drama, a devoted father takes the rap for a killing to protect his daughter. She killed the man after he...
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1931
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1931
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As the curtain rises, the faithful butler to an elderly dowager is found murdered. The dowager herself is found nowhere --...
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1931
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In this drama, a mother tries to talk her daughter out of eloping by telling her a story. It is a tale of a wife who shot...
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1930
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This suspenseful crime drama is the first talkie to be based on a novel by Edgar Wallace (he also directed the film). It...
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1930
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1930
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Clarissa Wentworth
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1930
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1930
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1929
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In this romantic comedy, a poor but honest young woman finds an aristocrat's missing necklace. She returns it to the lady...
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1929
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