George IrvingFilmography

Blue Money

Actors: Tim Curry, Debby Bishop, Billy Connolly, Dermot Crowley, Frances Tomelty

Synopsis: An excellent vehicle to showcase the talents of Tim Curry, this comedy by Colin Bucksey casts Curry as Larry Gormley, an actor who has never really had the break he so desperately wants -- though whether or not his talent is up to the task is another question. Larry drives a cab in-between Read More

Pinocchio's Christmas

Synopsis: Pinnochio struggles to earn enough money to buy his father Gepetto a Christmas present in this animated holiday puppet show. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure

Actors: Didi Conn

Synopsis: This animated children's film tells the story of the two popular dolls who go off to find a pretty French doll who has been stolen by pirates. Many songs from popular children's composer Joe Raposo ensue, including: "I Look and What Do I See!," "No Girl's Toy," "Rag Dolly," "Poor Babette," "A Read More

Deadly Hero

Actors: Don Murray, Diahn Williams, James Earl Jones, Lilia Skala, George Irving

Synopsis: Don Murray plays Lacy, a blatantly bigoted New York cop who finds that his rabid hatred forces him into a bloody rampage in order to save himself and his job in the derivative cop melodrama Deadly Hero. At one point in the film, Lacy rehearses a speech to be given to a cadre of right-wingers by Read More

Foreplay

Actors: Zero Mostel, Estelle Parsons, Pat Paulsen, Jerry Orbach, George Irving

Synopsis: This comedy film revolves around the unusual life of a fictional former American president (Zero Mostel) as he reveals the reasons behind his loss of power on a television program. Three short skits depict a randy and raucous life in the White House. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

All in the Family: Amelia's Divorce

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, George Irving

Synopsis: Much to Archie's dismay, Edith has always regarded the union of her cousin Amelia and wealthy Russell DeKuyper as the "perfect marriage." Thus it is no small shock to Edith when, while visiting the Bunkers, Amelia blithely announces that she and Russell are splitting up. Elizabeth Wilson and George S. Irving Read More

The Year without a Santa Claus

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Shirley Booth

Synopsis: In Jules Bass' puppet-animated A Year Without A Santa Claus, an elf and a young boy have to rescue Santa from the evil Heat Meiser and Snow Meiser. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Up the Sandbox

Actors: Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Jane Hoffman, John C. Becher, Jacobo Morales

Synopsis: Up The Sandbox is a complex and difficult film, and it is ambiguous on many points, particularly on whether the protagonist Margaret Reynolds (Barbara Streisand) is a women's liberationist, a closet lesbian, or a masochist. Based on the novel by Anne Richardson Rolphe, it follows Margaret's Read More

Go-Go Gophers [Animated TV Series]

Synopsis: Colonel Kit Coyote and his aide ergeant Okey Homa occupied a U.S. Calvary fort in Gopher Gulch. They spent their time devising new ways to drive the dim-witted gopher natives, Ruffled Feathers and his interpreter Running Board from the land, while the gophers countered with creative ways to Read More

Magic Town

Actors: E.J. Ballantine, James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Mary Currier, Julia Dean, Kent Smith, Ann Doran, Ned Sparks, Wallace Ford, Frank Fenton

Synopsis: With Robert Riskin as screenwriter, director William Wellman proved in Magic Town that it was possible to make a Frank Capra-esque picture without Capra himself at the helm. James Stewart plays Rip Smith, a cynical pollster who comes across a small American town named Grandview, which represents a Read More

I'll Tell the World

Synopsis: In this comedy, a PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin. Songs include: "Slap Polka", "Walk A Little Faster", "Moonlight Fiesta", and "Where The Prairie Meets The Sky". ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Strange Confession

Actors: Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney plays an idealistic writer who allows himself to be used by a politically ambitious publishing mogul (J. Carroll Naish). Not only does the publisher distort the Read More

Lady in the Death House

Actors: Jean Parker, Lionel Atwill, Douglas Fowley, Marcia Mae Jones, Robert Middlemass

Synopsis: Like many PRC films, Lady in the Death House was run incessantly in the early days of television, then disappeared into the void of Public Domain once better-quality films were made available to TV. Actually, this women-in-prison low-budget attempt at film noir is pretty good as far as PRC Read More

Hangmen Also Die!

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe

Synopsis: Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious Gestapo leader Heydrich, then goes into hiding. The wounded patriot is sheltered by history professor Walter Brennan, who is already under surveillance by the Nazis thanks to Read More

Son of Dracula

Actors: Lon Chaney, Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Craven

Synopsis: Son of Dracula represents a felicitious creative collaboration between director Robert Siodmak and his screenwriter-brother Curt. The story is set in the American south, where the mysterious Count Alucard (Lon Chaney Jr.) has recently taken up residence. Katherine Caldwell (Louise Allbritton), a Read More

The Great Man's Lady

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Thurston Hall, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup, Barbara Stanwyck reminisces on her experiences in the American West. As a young woman, she is squired by gambler Brian Donlevy, but her heart belongs to dreamer Joel McCrea. She chooses Read More

Spy Ship

Actors: Craig Stevens, Irene Manning, Maris Wrixon, Peter Whitney

Synopsis: It takes a while for the viewer to catch on, but the 1942 quickie Spy Ship is a remake of the 1934 crime melodrama Fog Over Frisco. The main difference is that the film's principal murder victim, the sister of the heroine, is transformed from a dizzy socialite to an out-and-out villainess. The Read More

Once Upon a Honeymoon

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker, Albert Basserman

Synopsis: The surrealistic opening sequence, featuring a WW2 calendar as written "by A. Hitler", should be indication enough that Once Upon a Honeymoon is no ordinary lighthearted romantic trifle. Ginger Rogers plays Katie, an American chorus girl who seeks to better herself by marrying titled European Read More

King of the Mounties

She Couldn't Say No

Actors: Roger Pryor, Eve Arden, Cliff Edwards, Clem Bevans, Vera Lewis

Synopsis: Eve Arden played her first bonafide film-starring role in the 1941 Warner Bros. "B"-picture She Couldn't Say No. A brilliant lawyer, Alice Hinsdale (Arden) is obliged to act as secretary to her legal-eagle fiancé Wallace Turnbull (Roger Pryor) because he can't abide the notion that his wife might Read More

Love Crazy

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson, Florence Bates

Synopsis: William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks to a visit from mother, find their marriage on the rocks and the husband committed to a mental institution. Poised to celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary, Steven (William Powell Read More

Golden Hoofs

Actors: Jane Withers, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, George Irving, Buddy Pepper, Cliff Clark

Synopsis: In this drama, a female horse trainer works on her grandpa's farm training trotters. Trouble ensues when he is forced to sell his land to a millionaire who endeavors to replace the trotters with regular racehorses. The trainer ends up falling for the new owner. Even though her favorite horse loses Read More

Sergeant York

Actors: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond, Margaret Wycherly, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three conditions: (1) That the film contains no phony heroics, (2) that Mrs.York not be played by a Hollywood "glamour girl" and (3) That Gary Cooper portray York on screen. All three Read More

New Moon

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland, George Zucco, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given another airing in 1940 as Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald vehicle. Set in 18th century Louisiana, the story concerns the relationship between haughty plantation owner Marianne de Read More

A Child Is Born

Actors: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lynn, Gladys George, Gale Page, Spring Byington

Synopsis: A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify as an "A" picture. The film is an episodic account of one particularly busy night in a maternity hospital. A generous portion of screen time is lavished on a gangster's Read More

Yesterday's Heroes

Actors: Jean Rogers, Robert Sterling, Ted North, Kay Aldridge, Russell Gleason

Synopsis: While paging through a scrapbook, Dr. Wyman (Robert Sterling) recalls his college days. Though preferring to stick to his studies, Wyman was strong-armed into joining the football team because of his athletic abilities. Sure enough, his gridiron activities caused his grades to drop, while his Read More

Florian

Actors: Robert Young, Helen Gilbert, Charles Coburn, Lee Bowman, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the rights to the Felix Salten novel Florian, all about the Lippanzers. When the film was made, the producer was Winfield Sheehan. Coincidence? We don't think so. At any rate, the Read More

Calling Philo Vance

Actors: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O'Neill, Edward S. Brophy, Ralph Forbes

Synopsis: Calling Philo Vance is a perfunctory remake of 1933's The Kennel Murder Case, which many aficionados consider the best of the "Vance" films. James Stephenson plays the titular gentleman sleuth, who must solve the murder of the inventor of a revolutionary new bombsight (the original film concerned Read More

Knute Rockne, All American

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, Donald Crisp, Albert Basserman

Synopsis: Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he so closely resembled the title character that, in the words of Rockne's widow, "I almost expected him to make love with me". The life of the legendary Notre Dame football Read More

Johnny Apollo

Actors: Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan, Edward Arnold, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: Tyrone Power plays the college-grad son of jailed-embezzler Edward Arnold. Power tries to find work, only to be turned away because of his father's reputation. When he decides to use a phony name, he is still fired, because his ex-convict boss feels that Power is being unfair to his Read More

Sergeant Madden

Actors: Wallace Beery, Tom Brown, Alan Curtis, Laraine Day, Fay Holden

Synopsis: In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Unfortunately, the son is more interested in promotions than in upholding the law and he makes few friends among his peers. When he shoots a child caught stealing, the others Read More

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields

Synopsis: The last of RKO's Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers vehicles, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is also the least typical. At their best playing carefree characters in gossamer-thin musical comedy plotlines, Fred and Ginger seem slightly ill at ease cast as the real-life dancing team of Vernon and Read More

Wife, Husband and Friend

Actors: Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero, George Barbier

Synopsis: 20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who appeared in most of these films. Young plays the wife of businessman Warner Baxter, while "friend" Cesar Romero is an amorous singing teacher who convinces Young that she has a Read More

Land of Liberty

Synopsis: Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from past American historical epics. The project was sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, who also edited Read More

Streets of New York

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Martin Spellman, Sidney Miller, Buddy Pepper, Bobby Stone

Synopsis: The cumbersome title refers to the fact that tenement-dwelling teenager Jackie Cooper is studying to become a lawyer. Monogram Pictures decided that the title was too clever for its own good, thus the film was released as Streets of New York. Star Cooper manages a newstand by day, while attending Read More

Dust Be My Destiny

Actors: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Billy Halop

Synopsis: John Garfield once more plays a social outcast who's had nothing but lousy breaks. Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Garfield is promptly arrested as a vagrant and sent to a work farm. He falls in love with Priscilla Lane, stepdaughter of the farm's no-good foreman. Garfield Read More

Espionage Agent

Actors: Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: Unlike many another pre-WW II spy melodramas, Espionage Agent clearly identifies the villains as Germans. Joel McCrea plays Barry Corvall, the son of a recently deceased US diplomat. Boarding a Berlin-bound train, Corvall attempts to swipe a briefcase stuffed with documents which will prove that Read More

The Hardys Ride High

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: The fifth of MGM's "Andy Hardy" series, The Hardys Ride High finds the Hardy family outside their usual small-town environs. The complacently middle-class family (middle class by Hollywood standards, that is!) inherits a large estate, compelling them to move in different social circles. Judge Read More

Hell's Kitchen

Actors: Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running series, the Dead End Kids are freshly out of reform school when they find themselves victimized by the tough, corrupt head of the Hell's Kitchen Shelter. A reformed racketeer tries to help out, but he winds up violating his parole and getting sent back to prison. Read More

Blind Alibi

Actors: Richard Dix, Whitney Bourne, Eduardo Ciannelli, Frances Mercer, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: A French sculptor travels to LA and, with the help of Ace the Wonder Dog, pretends to be blind so he can sneak into a museum and reclaim some missing love letters. The amorous missives were written by his sister and could destroy her reputation. Someone has been using them to blackmail her, so her Read More

This Marriage Business

Actors: Victor Moore, Vicki Lester, Cecil Kellaway, Jack Carson

Synopsis: In this comedy, a marriage-license clerk is proud of the fact that during his 20-year career not one of the couples he has licensed have gotten divorced. A reporter learns of his record and writes an article resulting in the small town office being flooded with engaged couples. The reporter then Read More

She's Got Everything

Actors: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Parkyakarkus [Harry Einstein]

Synopsis: In this comedy, a woman is left destitute after her father dies. To make ends meet, she begins working as a secretary to a wealthy fellow. Soon the two fall in love and begin planning their wedding, much to the delight of the woman's creditors. When her fiancé learns that she is deeply in debt, he Read More

Go Chase Yourself

Actors: Joe Penner, Lucille Ball, Jack Carson, June Travis, Richard Lane, Fritz Feld

Synopsis: When mild-mannered bank clerk Wilbur Meely (Joe Penner) finds himself stuck in a speeding trailer after a bank robbery gone wrong, he doesn't think the situation could get much worse than it already is. Unbeknownst to him, however, both the police department and his domineering wife Carol (Lucille Read More

Smashing the Rackets

Actors: Chester Morris, Frances Mercer, Bruce Cabot, Rita Johnson, Donald Douglas

Synopsis: "Ripped from today's headlines", RKO Radio's Smashing the Rackets was inspired by the career of colorful New York district attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Chester Morris plays the Dewey character, here rechristened Jim Conway. Starting out as a G-Man, Conway is appointed special prosecutor of a Read More

Condemned Women

Actors: Louis Hayward, Anne Shirley, Esther Dale, Lee Patrick

Synopsis: In this drama, a falsely convicted woman falls in love with the prison psychologist who tries to liberate her. She ended up in prison to protect her boyfriend who was just about to finish law school. The doctor and patient tryst in the prison furnace room. When he is not around, the woman must Read More

Crime Ring

Actors: Allan Lane, Frances Mercer, Clara Blandick, Inez Courtney, Bradley Page

Synopsis: RKO Radio's ace short-subjects director Leslie Goodwins graduated to features with the economically produced Crime Ring. Allan Lane plays a hotshot newspaperman who takes on a phony spiritualist ring. The crooked soothsayers are in league with a band of stock swindlers, coercing the gullible into Read More

The Maid's Night Out

Actors: Allan Lane, Joan Fontaine, Hedda Hopper, George Irving, William Brisbane

Synopsis: Joan Fontaine was still two years away from full stardom when she appeared in the B-plus comedy Maid's Night Out. Future cowboy star Allan Lane plays Bill, a millionaire's son who, to win a bet with his father (George Irving), sets out to prove that he can succeed without his family's money. While Read More

The Law West of Tombstone

Actors: Harry Carey, Tim Holt, Evelyn Brent, Jean Rouverol, Clarence Kolb

Synopsis: Despite its title and its potent lineup of cowboy talent, RKO Radio's The Law West of Tombstone is more comedy than western. The characters are all based on famous frontier characters, with names changed to protect the producers. Harry Carey is cast against type as a blowhard Judge Roy Bean clone Read More

Mother Carey's Chickens

Actors: Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, James Ellison, Fay Bainter, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn's association with RKO Radio Pictures came to an abrupt end when she refused to star in the studio's adaptation of Kate Douglas Wiggins' sentimental novel Mother Carey's Chickens. Hepburn was replaced by musical-comedy favorite Ruby Keeler, who though woefully miscast did her Read More

The Saint in New York

Actors: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann, Jonathan Hale, Jack Carson

Synopsis: The Saint, Leslie Charteris' charming but deadly criminal-turned-sleuth, made his first film appearance in RKO Radio's The Saint of New York. Faithful to Charteris' original concept, this first movie Saint is a cold-blooded murderer, redeemed by the fact that all of his victims are notorious Read More

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

Actors: Joe Penner, June Travis, Richard Lane, Ben Alexander

Synopsis: Another of RKO's movie vehicles for radio comic Joe Penner ("You na-a-a-asty man!"), Mr. Doodle Kicks Off stars Penner as the son of a wealthy and influential businessman. Penner's dad is disappointed at how sonny has turned out (we can't blame him), but is bound and determined to enroll Joe in Read More

Bringing Up Baby

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and unwittingly makes a fiasco of both their lives. David Huxley (Grant) is the stuffy paleontologist who needs to finish an exhibit on dinosaurs and Read More

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Jean Muir, Van Heflin, Virginia Weidler, Margaret Irving

Synopsis: Outcasts of Poker Flat is an adaptation of Bret Harte's western story of the same name, with elements of Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp thrown in for good measure. Set during the California gold rush, the story traces the destinies of several divergent individuals. Preston S. Foster is gambler Read More

Saturday's Heroes

Actors: Van Heflin, Marian Marsh, Richard Lane, Alan Bruce, Minor Watson

Synopsis: The low-budget football drama Saturday's Heroes is remarkably frank and timely -- at least for the first 4 reels or so. Debunking the squeaky-clean image then enjoyed by college football players, the film shows its amateur athletes betting on games, scalping tickets, and willingly accepting Read More

The Life of the Party

Actors: Joe Penner, Gene Raymond, Parkyakarkus [Harry Einstein], Harriet Hilliard, Victor Moore

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, an irresponsible young heir is betrothed to the singing daughter of a wealthy matron. Unfortunately, the willful young is not even slightly interested in her "fiance," preferring the attentions of another instead. Unfortunately, the other man has a big problem. Though he Read More

The Man Who Found Himself

Actors: John Beal, Joan Fontaine, Philip Huston, Jane Walsh, George Irving

Synopsis: A doctor (John Beal) who loses faith in his skills renounces his profession and hides himself in a variety of jobs. He takes a minor job at an airfield, where he meets nurse Joan Fontaine, who works on a "flying hospital". On board the aircraft, Beal finds he is the only person who can perform a Read More

You Can't Buy Luck

Actors: Onslow Stevens, Helen Mack, Vinton Haworth, Maxine Jennings, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a highly superstitious racehorse owner spends his time off the track helping the less fortunate in any way he can so that he will always have good luck. His ploy works until he is accused of murdering his ex-lover. Fortunately, the real culprit is discovered before he has to Read More

Hats Off

Actors: Mae Clarke, John Payne, Helen Lynd

Synopsis: The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates Read More

The Mandarin Mystery

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Charlotte Henry, Rita La Roy, Wade Boteler, Franklin Pangborn

Synopsis: There was some novelty value in the fact that an actor whose initials were E.Q. was cast as intellectual sleuth Ellery Queen in Republic's The Mandarin Mystery. That actor was Eddie Quillan, who though a talented and appealing performer was woefully miscast as Queen. The story, based on the Ellery Read More

Meet the Missus

Actors: Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Anne Shirley, Alan Bruce, Edward H. Robins

Synopsis: Meet the Missus poked fun at the contest crazes of the 1930s. Helen Broderick stars as a woman who spends every spare moment entering contests, much to the discomfort of her browbeaten hubby Victor Moore, who is left with all the housework. She finally makes the finals in the "Happy Noodles Read More

Crashing Hollywood

Actors: Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury, Paul Guilfoyle, Lee Patrick, Richard Lane, Jack Carson

Synopsis: This back-stage crime comedy, a remake of Lights Out (1923), takes a healthy satirical stab at the powerful studio system of the times. The trouble begins when an ex-convict and a screenwriter together write a screenplay based on the bank robbery that got the criminal in trouble with the law. Read More

Breakfast for Two

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore, Frank M. Thomas

Synopsis: In this screwball comedy, Valentine Ransome (Barbara Stanwyck) is an heiress who falls for Jonathan Blair (Herbert Marshall), a carefree playboy who owns part of a large steamship line. However, Valentine doesn't especially like Jonathan's brassy fiancé, Carol Wallace (Glenda Farrell), and thinks Read More

Too Many Wives

Actors: John Morley, Anne Shirley, Gene Lockhart, Dudley Clements, Barbara Pepper

Synopsis: Poor Barry Trent (John Morley) has Too Many Wives in this RKO programmer. Actually, Barry starts out with no wife at all, which doesn't rest well with his new boss. To save his job, Barry pretends to have a spouse: now all he has to do is find the girl to fill the role. Thanks to a series of Read More

Annapolis Salute

Actors: James Ellison, Marsha Hunt, Harry Carey, Anne Hovey

Synopsis: Annapolis Salute is the 1937 remake of RKO's 1933 film Midshipman Jack. Lensed on location at the Annapolis Naval Academy, the film alternates scenes of cadet training with a sentimental romantic story. Essentially, midshipman James Ellison wants to romance officer's daughter Marsha Hunt. He is Read More

The Big Shot

Actors: Guy Kibbee, Cora Witherspoon, Dorothy Moore, Gordon Jones, Russell Hicks

Synopsis: A veterinarian and his wife leave their small burg and move to the Big Apple after he inherits a million dollars. His social climbing wife insists on the move because she wants her daughter to make a formal debut. Unfortunately for the family, the fortune was earned by a brutal mob boss, the Read More

We're on the Jury

Actors: Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Philip Huston, Louise Latimer, Vinton Haworth

Synopsis: In this comedy drama (a remake of 1932's Ladies of the Jury), an apparently bubble-headed but mule-stubborn jurist is convinced of the defendant's innocence and refuses to change her verdict. Unlike the others, she listens to her own common sense and looks carefully at the facts and decides that Read More

Border Cafe

Actors: Harry Carey, John Beal, Armida, George Irving, Leona Roberts

Synopsis: The cattle rustlers in Border Cafe, a modern-day western from the RKO B-unit, are Eastern gangsters headed by none other than that old reprobate J. Carrol Naish. After having landed in jail for drunken driving for the umpteenth time, young Bostonian Keith Whitney (John Beal callously leaves his Read More

China Passage

Actors: Constance Worth, Vinton Haworth, Leslie Fenton, Gordon Jones, Alec Craig

Synopsis: A couple of American soldiers of fortune are hired by the wife of a Chinese general to deliver a priceless diamond to a shopkeeper in Shanghai in this low-budget whodunit from the RKO "B"-unit. Just as the gem reaches its destination all hell breaks lose. When the dust settles, the diamond is gone Read More

There Goes the Groom

Actors: Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Mary Boland, Onslow Stevens, William Brisbane

Synopsis: In this screwball comedy, a fresh-out-of-college fellow heads for the gold fields of Alaska to find his fortune. He is gone for a long time. He returns to marry his girl friend and is dismayed to discover that she is no longer interested him. When her mother learns that the fellow has struck it Read More

The Toast of New York

Actors: Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie, Donald Meek

Synopsis: Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's The Toast of New York is a largely fanciful account of the career of 1870s financier "Jubilee Jim" Fisk. As played by Edward Arnold in his usual "tycoon" mode, Fisk was a Read More

High Flyers

Actors: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Lupe Velez, Marjorie Lord, Margaret Dumont

Synopsis: Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey's final film is far from their best, but at least it never plunges to the depths reached by their earlier Silly Billies and Mummy's Boys. Adapted from an unproduced stage play called The Kangaroos, High Flyers casts Bert and Bob as Jerry Lane and Pierre Potkins Read More

Hearts in Bondage

Actors: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Charlotte Henry, Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis: First-time director Lew Ayres performs miracles on a tiny budget in the Civil War drama Hearts in Bondage. The story offers a romanticized version of the events leading up to the battle between the "ironclads" Monitor and Merrimac. Northern naval officer Kenneth (James Dunn), the nephew of Monitor Read More

Hearts Divided

Actors: Dick Powell, Marion Davies, Charlie Ruggles, Arthur Treacher, Claude Rains, Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis: A remake of 1928's Glorious Betsy (itself based on a stage play by Rida Johnson Young), Hearts Divided is based, believe it or not, on a true story. Marion Davies stars as 19th-century Baltimore belle Betsy Patterson, who falls in love with Jerome Bonaparte (Dick Powell) -- the younger brother of Read More

A Message to Garcia

Actors: Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Alan Hale, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's help in the Spanish-American war. The fact that the lieutenant made his way to Garcia in absolute safety was ignored in 20th Century-Fox's Message to Garcia--which is just Read More

Navy Born

Actors: William Gargan, Claire Dodd, Douglas Fowley, George Irving, Dorothy Tree

Synopsis: A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the resistance of the lad's surviving relatives, who worry that growing in the Navy will be hard on the boy, the officer loves and takes good care of the boy. At Read More

Private Number

Actors: Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, Patsy Kelly, Basil Rathbone, Marjorie Gateson

Synopsis: Private Number is the old saw about the wealthy young man who marries his family's serving girl. This time Richard Winfield (Robert Taylor) is the handsome, aristocrat hero, while Ellen Neal (Loretta Young) is the gorgeous, low-born heroine. Though they oppose the match, Richard's parents cope Read More

It Had to Happen

Actors: George Raft, Rosalind Russell, Leo Carrillo, Arline Judge, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Italian immigrant George Raft uses his wits and his fists to rise to prominence in a local political machine. He falls in love with Rosalind Russell, the wife of a prominent banker, but discreetly hides his feelings even as he and Russell are thrust together by social circumstances. The banker Read More

Navy Wife

Actors: Claire Trevor, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Darwell, Warren Hymer, Ben Lyon

Synopsis: A Kathleen Norris novel was the source for this romantic drama, which begins when widowed navy doctor Quentin Harden (Ralph Bellamy) falls in love with nurse Vicki Blake (Claire Trevor). Despite her awareness that most naval marriages end in divorce, Vicki says "yes" when Harden proposes. Soon she Read More

Sutter's Gold

Actors: Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katherine Alexander, Addison Richards

Synopsis: Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss immigrant Johann Sutter, who seeks his fortune in the California of the 1830s. Against all odds, Sutter builds up a huge land empire, only to watch its explode when gold is Read More

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

Actors: Warner Oland

Synopsis: En route from Honolulu to Los Angeles by steamship, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is pressed into action when a fellow passenger is killed. The dead man was a prominent horse breeder, whose favorite stallion has been entered in the Santa Anita handicap. At first glance, it appears as though the Read More

Captain January

Actors: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, George "Slim" Summerville, Buddy Ebsen

Synopsis: Previously filmed as a vehicle for Baby Peggy Montgomery in 1922, Laura E. Richard's Captain January was warmed up as a Shirley Temple picture 14 years later. Temple plays Star, a child of divorce who is looked after by crusty-but-lovable lighthouse keeper Captain January (Guy Kibbee). Truant Read More

The Sea Spoilers

Actors: John Wayne, Nan Grey, William Bakewell, Fuzzy Knight, Russell Hicks

Synopsis: John Wayne steered clear of westerns for the most part during his year-long contract with Universal Pictures. In The Sea Spoilers, Wayne is cast as Bob Randall, temporary skipper of a Coast Guard cutter. Randall knows that a gang of seal poachers are operating within his jurisdiction but can do Read More

Charlie Chan in Egypt

Actors: Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck, Rita Hayworth, Stepin Fetchit

Synopsis: As much a horror film as a murder mystery, Charlie Chan in Egypt is one of the best entries in the "Chan" series. The story is motivated by a King Tut-like curse, which has apparently befallen the members of an archeological expedition. Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is brought into the case when a Read More

Under the Pampas Moon

Actors: Warner Baxter, Ketti Gallian, Veloz & Yolanda, John Miljan, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen horse. Once there, he soon engages in hot pursuit of a lovely singing señorita. Soon he discovers that her manager just may be the thief he has been looking for. Keep a Read More

Oil for the Lamps of China

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir, Lyle Talbot, John Eldredge

Synopsis: This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart. Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien) is a salesman and inventor with an American oil company who is sent to China to reach that nation's untapped market. While Stephen is often told that his company looks Read More

A Night at the Opera

Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Walter Woolf King, Edward Keane, Sig Rumann, Allan Jones

Synopsis: Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best film. Immediately after the credits roll, we are introduced to Groucho Marx as penny-ante promoter Otis B. Driftwood. After a sumptuous dinner with a beautiful blonde at a Read More

Death Flies East

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Florence Rice, Raymond Walburn, Geneva Mitchell

Synopsis: Two of Hollywood's duller actors, Conrad Nagel and Florence Rice, star in this overly complicated melodrama from Columbia Pictures. The latter plays Evelyn Vail, a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate Carl Peters Read More

Dangerous

Actors: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge

Synopsis: Not even considered a good film back in 1935, Dangerous is held together by the mesmerizing performance of Bette Davis. The star is cast as alcoholic, self-destructive stage actress Joyce Heath, a character obviously based on Jeanne Eagels. Wealthy architect Don Bellows (Franchot Tone) becomes Read More

Society Fever

Actors: Lois Wilson, Lloyd Hughes, Hedda Hopper, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Grant Withers

Synopsis: In this comedy, a woman lives with her recently impoverished family who would do anything to regain their former wealth and status. They use the young woman, and every time any likely person comes to call, they try to foist her upon them. One of these visitors is the son of a conniving lawyer who Read More

Buried Loot

Dante's Inferno

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, Rita Hayworth, Alan Dinehart, Scotty Beckett

Synopsis: Carnival barker Spencer Tracy befriends elderly concessionaire Henry B. Walthall, who owns a picturesque but stodgy display depicting Dante's Inferno. Walthall is more interested in the spiritual aspects of Man's fascination with Hell, but Tracy uses hoopla and exaggeration to get the suckers into Read More

Bright Eyes

Actors: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell, Judith Allen, Lois Wilson

Synopsis: Despite stiff competition like Poor Little Rich Girl and Heidi, Bright Eyes is arguably the best of Shirley Temple's 1930s vehicles. The little curly-top is cast as Shirley Blake, daughter of Mary Blake (Lois Wilson), the widowed housemaid of snooty J. Wellington and Anita Smythe (Theodore Von Eltz Read More

Born to Be Bad

Actors: Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Jackie Kelk, Henry Travers, Russell Hopton

Synopsis: Loretta Young, who became known almost exclusively for playing sweet, wholesome roles, is kind of a shocker in this romantic drama as Letty Strong, an unwed mother who survives by living life as a grifter and the next thing to a prostitute -- all for the good of her son Mickey (Jackie Kelk), who Read More

You're Telling Me

Actors: W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter

Synopsis: W.C. Fields stars in a remake of his silent comedy So's Your Old Man. Fields plays Sam Bisbee, an erstwhile inventor who is the laughingstock of his small town. Returning in defeat from a disastrous big-city demonstration of his latest invention, Sam makes the acquaintance of a beautiful young Read More

Manhattan Melodrama

Actors: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered the years as one of MGM's finest examples of pure storytelling. The pageant-like story begins in 1904, when the excursion steamer "General Slocum" blows up and burns in the Read More

Wonder Bar

Actors: Kay Francis, Dick Powell, Al Jolson, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez

Synopsis: Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris' Montmartre district. Presiding over the evening's entertainment is manager-emcee Al Wonder (Jolson), who after greeting his guests in a multitude of languages (a la Joel Grey in Cabaret Read More

Once to Every Bachelor

Actors: Marian Nixon, Neil Hamilton, William Austin, Raymond Hatton, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: Marian Nixon made the first of a brace of starring appearances at low-budget Liberty Pictures in Once to Every Bachelor. Nixon plays a young innocent who through no fault of her own has become involved with gangsters. Seeking a way out, she latches on to a wealthy playboy (Neil Hamilton). Having Read More

George White's Scandals

Actors: George White, Rudy Vallee, Alice Faye, Jimmy Durante, Gregory Ratoff, Dixie Dunbar, Adrienne Ames

Synopsis: Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he wrote, co-directed, and starred in as himself. Reporter Miss Lee (Gertrude Michael) is looking for a story and approaches White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns Read More

Pursued

Actors: Rosemary Ames, Victor Jory, Pert Kelton, Russell Hardie, George Irving

Synopsis: In this drama, a nice young woman is saving all her money so she can leave her South Seas island home, move to San Francisco and open a tea room. Meanwhile, a hardworking young man has come the island to begin running his uncle's profitable plantation, a piece of property coveted by the island Read More

The World Moves On

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Franchot Tone, Lumsden Hare, Raul Roulien, Reginald Denny, Dudley Digges

Synopsis: In the tradition of Fox Studios' Oscar-winning Cavalcade, The World Moves On covers over one hundred years in the lives of two Louisiana families: The Girards, of French extraction, and the Warburtons, formerly of Manchester. Forming an alliance by marriage in 1825, the families rapidly corner the Read More

The Oil Raider

Synopsis: From low-budget Mayfair Pictures Corp., this robust action-melodrama starred Larry "Buster" Crabbe as an oil prospector whose financial backer turns crooked when he suddenly finds himself faced with bankruptcy. Learning that Dave Warren (Crabbe) has been forced to fire a troublesome worker Read More

Here Comes the Navy

Actors: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh, Dorothy Tree

Synopsis: Actually this film should have been titled "Here Comes Jimmy Cagney Again, so Duck!". James Cagney is a bantam-cock sailor who runs up against chief petty officer Pat O'Brien. Seems that Cagney and O'Brien had come to blows early in the film when O'Brien stole Cagney's date at a dance hall. Read More

42nd Street

Actors: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Una Merkel, Guy Kibbee, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell

Synopsis: The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to opening night. Warner Baxter plays famed director Julian Marsh, who despite failing health is determined to stage one last great production, "Pretty Lady." Others involved Read More

The Worst Woman in Paris

Actors: Benita Hume, Adolphe Menjou, Harvey Stephens, Helen Chandler, Margaret Seddon

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an American art student goes abroad to study and gets a reputation when she marries a wealthy shipping magnate. She eventually returns to her hometown. While en route, a train wreck occurs and she proves herself a heroine by helping out. She then finds herself falling in Read More

One Year Later

Actors: Mary Brian, Russell Hopton, Donald Dillaway, George Irving, Will Ahern

Synopsis: In this drama, a recently convicted criminal boards a train bound for the prison where he will be hanged. His wife rides with him and en route tells a reporter how her husband had accidentally killed a man while protecting her. The reporter, who is dying of tuberculosis, is touched by the story Read More

Son of a Sailor

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Jean Muir, Thelma Todd, Johnny Mack Brown, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: Joe E. Brown is a sailor who hopes to match the accomplishments of his seaman father. Unfortunately, Joe is perhaps the clumsiest gob ever to sail the seven seas. Nor can he steer clear of trouble: Through a series of wholly unbelievable circumstances, Joe finds himself alone on deck of a ship Read More

Heroes for Sale

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Gordon Westcott, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic" Wilson Mizner) tackles such issues as disenfranchised war veterans, misguided hero worship, drug addiction, the Depression, capitalism, labor relations and communism. Richard Barthelmess Read More

Humanity

Actors: Ralph Morgan, Boots Mallory, Alexander Kirkland, Irene Ware

Synopsis: In this melodrama a Lower East Side doctor struggles to earn enough money to pay for his son's tuition in a prestigious European medical school. The doctor, who raised the boy alone following his wife's death, dreams that the boy will join his humble practice and help the poor receive proper Read More

Damaged Lives

Actors: Diane Sinclair, Lyman Williams, Cecilia Parker, George Irving, Almeda Fowler

Synopsis: Although venereal disease was considered as delicate a subject then as it is now, this was nonetheless the third filmed version of Eugène Brieux' 1901 play Les Avariés, known in English-speaking lands as Damaged Lives. Don is a shallow, naïve former ship's officer trying to make the transition to Read More

The Vanishing Frontier

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Evelyn Knapp, ZaSu Pitts, Raymond Hatton, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: In one of his first westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays Kirby Tornell, who does the "Robin Hood" bit on the wide open spaces. When not flummoxing the Cavalry, Kirby relaxes by playing the piano and rendering a song or two. Despite Kirby's notorious reputation, Carol Winfield (Evalyn Knapp), the Read More

Thrill of Youth

Actors: June Clyde, Allen Vincent, Dorothy Peterson, George Irving

Synopsis: Virtually none of the male characters in The Thrill of Youth could pass muster as a role model. As an old man preaches against the sexual promiscuity of the early 1930s, the man's middle-aged son galavants around with a married woman -- while his sons regularly entertain good-time girls in their Read More

Island of Lost Souls

Actors: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke

Synopsis: This first film version of H.G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau stars Charles Laughton as Dr.Moreau, a dedicated but sadly misguided scientist who rules the roost on a remote island. Shipwrecked sailor Edward Parker Richard Arlen finds himself on Moreau's island, agreeing to stick around until another Read More

Guilty or Not Guilty

Merrily We Go to Hell

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen

Synopsis: If only Merrily We Go To Hell was as interesting as its title! To escape an arranged marriage, heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney) elopes with reporter Jerry Corbett (Fredric March). Unfortunately, Corbett is not only irresponsible, but also an abusive drunkard. To make matters worse, predatory Read More

Lady with a Past

Actors: Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, David Manners, Don Alvarado, Albert Conti

Synopsis: This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and very little romance in her life. Hoping to overcome her bashfulness during a trip to Europe, she invents a lurid history for herself, then engages the services of paid escort Read More

Shipmates

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Jordan, Hobart Bosworth, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: Actor Robert Montgomery would serve as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WWII, but he was just a lowly seaman in the 1931 MGM programmer Shipmates. When he's not being pushed around by chief petty officer Ernest Torrence, naval recruit Jonesy (Montgomery) is busily wooing Kit (Dorothy Jordan Read More

Girls Demand Excitement

Actors: Virginia Cherrill, John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Helen Jerome Eddy, Marion Byron

Synopsis: No relation to the 1935 Mascot programmer of the same name, Girls Demand Excitement offers an early starring appearance by John Wayne. The Duke is cast as college basketball player Peter Brooks, who's in love with sports-happy Joan Madison (Virginia Cherrill). Their hot-and-cold relationship Read More

The Gay Diplomat

Actors: Ivan Lebedeff, Genevieve Tobin, Betty Compson, Ilka Chase, Purnell Pratt

Synopsis: The Gay Diplomat was an attempt by RKO Radio to make a movie star out of Ivan Lebedeff, a Russian actor better suited to supporting roles as gigolos and stuffed shirts. Lebedeff plays a Russian military officer sent to Rumania to dispose of a beautiful female spy. Genevieve Tobin plays the Read More

Cisco Kid

Actors: Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Conchita Montenegro, James Bradbury, Jr.

Synopsis: The Cisco Kid was to have been the sequel to the pioneering 1929 talkie In Old Arizona, with Warner Baxter repeating his Oscar-winning role as "O. Henry's Robin Hood of the Old West". Unfortunately, Fox Studios temporarily lost the rights to the Cisco Kid character, thus Baxter was starred as Read More

Five and Ten

Actors: Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Irene Rich, Richard Bennett

Synopsis: Based on a story by Fannie Hurst, Five and Ten stars Marion Davies as Jennifer, the spoiled daughter of department-store magnate John Rarick (Richard Bennett). Because Rarick neglects his family, they all manage to get themselves into hot water. Jennifer's mother, Jenny (Irene Rich), nearly runs Read More

Expensive Women

Actors: Dolores Costello, Anthony Bushell, Joe Donahue, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Dolores Costello spent the twilight months of her Warner Bros. contract in such trifles as Expensive Women. The star is cast as wealthy society girl Constance Newton, a "girl of whims" who flits from one man to the next like a butterfly. After a couple of desultory affairs with Bobby Brandon (Joe Donahue Read More

Star Witness

Actors: Walter Huston, Charles "Chic" Sale, Frances Starr, Grant Mitchell, Sally Blane

Synopsis: Star Witness starts out as a homey family comedy and develops into a rather gutsy thriller. Chic Sale plays a cantankerous Civil War veteran who, while visiting his family, witnesses a gangland shooting. The rest of the family also gets a good look at the gang boss (Ralph Ince) and everyone agrees Read More

Resurrection

Actors: John Boles, Lupe Velez, Nance O'Neil, William Keighley, Rose Tapley

Synopsis: Three years before Sam Goldwyn's overpublicized Anna Sten vehicle We Live Again, Leo Tolstoy's Resurrection was filmed under its original title by Universal (it had previously been filmed no fewer than times, most recently with Dolores Del Rio and Rod LaRocque in 1926). Set in 19th-century Russia Read More

Confessions of a Co-Ed

Actors: Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Norman Foster, Claudia Dell

Synopsis: Rakish college student Hal (Norman Foster) is in love with sorority girl Peggy (Claudia Dell), but she only has eyes for Hal's roommate Dan (Philips Holmes). Hoping to get Dan out of the way, Hal enlists the aid of campus vamp Patricia (Sylvia Sidney). She manipulates Dan into a hot necking Read More

Graft

Actors: Dorothy Revier, Regis Toomey, Boris Karloff, George Irving

Synopsis: In this drama, an eager-beaver cub reporter looking for the big scoop that will give him his big break is sent to interview a building contractor. While awaiting his interview, he eavesdrops upon as heated argument between the contractor and his ex-mistress who is about to tell the D.A. about his Read More

A Free Soul

Actors: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Gleason

Synopsis: In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family, whose main failing is his indulgence in alcohol. After winning a case for mobster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable), Stephen brings his client along to a party at his parents' Read More

Hush Money

Actors: Joan Bennett, Hardie Albright, Owen Moore, Myrna Loy, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: A woman trying to live down her past finds it coming back to haunt her in this drama. Steve Pelton (Owen Moore) is the leader of a gang of confidence men and petty criminals who have set up a base of operations in a large house they all share. One of Pelton's roommates is his girlfriend, Janet Read More

Behind Office Doors

Actors: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez, Kitty Kelly, Edna Murphy

Synopsis: A pompous executive has a hard time admitting that his hard-working, devoted secretary is really the one pulling the strings in his office and is behind his promotion to company president. As a result, he takes her for granted until she falls in love with another up-and-coming executive. Romantic Read More

Dishonored

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Lew Cody, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland

Synopsis: Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise. Marlene Dietrich delivers a subtle and witty performance as a Viennese prostitute who offers her services as a spy during WWI. As "Agent X-27" our heroine proves invaluable to her Read More

The Naughty Flirt

Actors: Alice White, Paul Page, Myrna Loy, Robert Agnew, Douglas Gilmore

Synopsis: The fact that The Naughty Flirt was advertised as having a 78-minute running time but was released at 57 minutes is indication enough that the picture didn't test well with preview audiences. Alice White does her usual as Kay Elliot, a footloose heiress who spends most of her time in night court Read More

An American Tragedy

Actors: Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Frederick Burton, Emmett Corrigan

Synopsis: Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he's the passenger in a car that kills a little girl, Clyde fears he'll be arrested and flees town. His wealthy uncle Read More

Touchdown

Actors: Richard Arlen, Peggy Shannon, Jack Oakie, Regis Toomey, George Barbier

Synopsis: In this gridiron drama, a college football coach and ex-All American will stop at nothing to have a winning team. The trouble begins as Dastardly Dan Curtis sends an injured player into a big game. The ploy works and the team wins; unfortunately, the player ends up hospitalized. Later he changes Read More

The Hot Heiress

Actors: Ben Lyon, Ona Munson, Walter Pidgeon, Tom Dugan, Holmes Herbert

Synopsis: Class distinction rears its ugly head in this otherwise tuneful little musical from the pens of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Ona Munson plays Julie Hunter, a society belle who falls in love with Hap Harrigan (Ben Lyons), a lowly construction worker. But their different stature in life makes a Read More

Young Eagles

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Jean Arthur, Paul Lukas, Stuart Erwin, Frank Ross

Synopsis: Aerial photography highlights this early sound actioner, set during World War I. Lt. Robert Banks (Charles "Buddy" Rogers), an American flier on leave in Paris, meets fellow American Mary Gordon (Jean Arthur) and the two fall in love. In combat, Banks makes a captive of Von Baden (Paul Lukas), the Read More

Free Love

Actors: Genevieve Tobin, Conrad Nagel, Monroe Owsley, Bertha Mann, Ilka Chase

Synopsis: Sometimes all it takes to save a marriage is a good pop, right in the kisser or so this family drama seems to imply. The story focuses on a troubled married couple. At first the wife turns to a therapist, but she finds herself paying a lot of money for nothing. In desperation, she decides to pack Read More

Young Desire

Actors: Mary Nolan, Ralf Harolde, Mae Busch

Synopsis: Released in both silent and sound versions, this lurid melodrama from Universal was based on the 1924 play Carnival by William R. Doyle. Mary Nolan, whose demure name hid a rather volatile personality, played Helen Herbert, a sideshow dancer falling for handsome socialite Bobby Spencer (Leon Read More

The Spoilers

Actors: Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson, Harry Green

Synopsis: This third film version of Rex Beach's rugged Yukon novel The Spoilers was also the first talkie adaptation. This time, Gary Cooper and William "Stage" Boyd are cast as gold prospector Glennister and crooked Alaska politician McNamara. In partnership with Dextry (James Kirkwood), Glennister is the Read More

Son of the Gods

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Constance Bennett, Mildred van Dorn, King Ho Chang, Geneva Mitchell

Synopsis: Adapted from a story by Rex Beach, Son of the Gods stars Richard Barthelmess as Sam Lee, a young Chinese-American, anxious to distance himself from his oriental heredity. While travelling throughout the world, Sam falls in love with wealthy white girl Allana (Constance Bennett). He chooses not to Read More

The Divorcée

Actors: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on Ex-Wife, a 1929 Ursula Parrott novel. Shearer is Jerry, a socialite who marries handsome Ted (Chester Morris) after a whirlwind courtship. But Ted is not exactly the faithful type Read More

Conspiracy

Actors: Bessie Love, Ned Sparks, Hugh Trevor, Rita La Roy

Synopsis: The "conspiracy" of the title refers not only to a deadly narcotics ring, but also the combined efforts by the good guys to capture the villains. Margaret Holt (Bessie Love) and her brother Victor (Bert Morehouse) team up to destroy the drug peddlers responsible for their father's death. They are Read More

Just Imagine

Actors: El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick, Marjorie White, Frank Albertson

Synopsis: Made in 1930, this well-known sci-fi musical chronicles the adventures of a lightning-struck man who awakens to find himself in futuristic New York City, circa 1980. He finds it a strange new world where fantastically attired people are ascribed numbers rather than names and all marriages must be Read More

Maybe It's Love

Actors: Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown, James Hall, Laura Lee, Anders Randolf

Synopsis: Maybe It's Love is one of the many college football musicals which bred like minks in the early talkie era. A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president (George Irving). The nominal leading man is Tommy Nelson (James Hall), the black-sheep son of a Read More

Puttin' on the Ritz

Actors: Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, James Gleason, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: The rise and fall of a popular entertainer provides the basis of this musical drama. Harry Raymond (played by nightclub superstar Harry Richman) begins his career with nothing but his ambition, his talent and the support of friends and loved ones. Eventually he hits the big time and becomes a Read More

Shadow of the Law

Actors: William Powell, Marion Shilling, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: In this suspenseful crime drama a woman is threatened by an angry husband and a man comes to her aid. Unfortunately, after he accidentally kills the husband, the woman flees the crime scene and he ends up imprisoned. While doing his time, he and his cell mate, a con artist, become friends. The con Read More

Only Saps Work

Actors: Leon Errol, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Stuart Erwin, Anderson Lawler

Synopsis: Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) Read More

Paris Bound

Actors: Ann Harding, Fredric March, George Irving, Hallam Cooley, Juliette Crosby

Synopsis: This drama is an adaptation of a popular 1927 play and tells the story of a pair of married liberals who are content to remain faithful in spirit only. The ends up having an affair with a musician while her husband heads for Europe. When he returns he tells her about his affair with a French Read More

Thunderbolt

Actors: George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall, Eugénie Besserer

Synopsis: Thunderbolt was Josef von Sternberg's first American talking picture. George Bancroft, a von Sternberg regular (despite frequents clashes between the two men), plays a death row inmate who may be on the eve of eternity, but who has still one more murder on his mind. He plans to kill the young Read More

The Last Performance

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Leslie Fenton, Fred Mackaye, Gus Partos

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a aging illusionist falls in love with his comely young assistant. Unfortunately, she is enamored with the young thief who has become the magician's student. Another assistant gets jealous of the affair and tells the master. In retaliation, the thief kills the snitch and then Read More

Coquette

Actors: Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore, John St. Polis, William Janney

Synopsis: Coquette is Mary Pickford's first talkie, based on the play by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers. The story was already made famous on the stage by star Helen Hayes. At almost 40 years old and lacking her signature curls, Pickford plays the young Southern belle Norma Besant, who is courting Read More

The Dance of Life

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Hal Skelly, Dorothy Revier

Synopsis: A vaudevillian working in a third-rate burlesque show suffers marital turmoil when success swells his head in this silent back-stage melodrama. He celebrates his stardom with a few drinks. Unfortunately, this leads to alcoholism and carousing with other women causing his wife to eventually leave Read More

The Godless Girl

Actors: Tom Keene, Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, George Duryea, Eddie Quillan, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: Completed as a silent film, Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl was quickly converted into a part-talkie by the simple expedient of tacking on a 10-minute coda, wherein the characters discuss the weather. The film begins as a condemnation of the atheistic movement then prevalent on high-school and Read More

Runaway Girls

Actors: Hedda Hopper, Alice Lake, Arthur Rankin, Shirley Mason

Synopsis: Runaway Girls was the first directorial credit for Mark Sandrich, who would still have to serve a long apprenticeship in short subjects before regaining his stride at RKO in the mid-1930s. An unabashed exploitationer, this 1928 release was redeemed somewhat by virtue of its professional Columbia Read More

Honor Bound

Actors: George O'Brien, Estelle Taylor, Leila Hyams, Tom Santschi, Frank Cooley

Synopsis: George O'Brien, Fox Studios' general-purpose leading man, heads the cast of Honor Bound. The story opens in the bedroom of hero John Ogletree (George O'Brien), who is awakened from his slumbers by the unexpected arrival of Evelyn (Evelyn Brent), a total stranger. Claiming that she's fleeing from Read More

Feel My Pulse

Actors: Bebe Daniels, George Irving, Charles Sellon, William Powell

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels' popular Paramount comedies of the 1920s frequently cast the sprightly heroine as a female Douglas Fairbanks, saving the day with equal parts cleverness and physical dexterity. Feel My Pulse is a typically Fairbanksian romp, with Daniels playing a sheltered rich girl who has been Read More

Partners in Crime

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Mary Brian, William Powell, Jack Luden

Synopsis: Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a half-bright gumshoe, and Scoop McGee, his equally dim-witted journalist pal. While on the trail of a group of gangsters, Doolan and McGee unwittingly fall in with a group of Read More

Craig's Wife

Actors: Irene Rich, Warner Baxter, Virginia Bradford, Carroll Nye, Ethel Wales

Synopsis: George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife was given three screen treatments by Hollywood. The first of these was filmed in 1928, with Cecil B. DeMille's talented brother William in the director's chair. Irene Rich stars as Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and Read More

Two Flaming Youths

Actors: W.C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Mary Brian, Jack Luden, George Irving

Synopsis: Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a tantalizing peek at this long-lost effort. Fields is cast as Gabby Gilfoil, owner of "Gilfoil's Nonpareil Circus," a dog-and-pony operation that must forever stay one step Read More

Wings

Actors: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston, Gary Cooper

Synopsis: Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today. Too much time is afforded the wheezy old plotline about two World War I aviators (Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen) in love with the same woman (Jobyna Ralston), while the comedy relief of El Brendel is Read More

Shanghai Bound

Actors: Richard Dix, Mary Brian, Charles Byer, George Irving, Jocelyn Lee

Synopsis: This rugged Richard Dix vehicle casts the star as rough-and-tumble sea captain Jim Bucklin. Landing at a Chinese port, Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all Read More

Man Power

Actors: Richard Dix, Mary Brian, Philip Strange, Charles Hill Mailes, Oscar Smith

Synopsis: This two-fisted Richard Dix vehicle casts the muscular star as virile caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts. It is Roberts' mission to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to be denoted for the purposes of redirecting an anticipated flood. The hero's odyssey is fraught with peril as he burrows Read More

Home Struck

Actors: Viola Dana, Alan Brooks, Tom Gallery, Nigel Barrie, George Irving

Synopsis: Chorus girl Barbara Page (Viola Dana) gives up the footlights when she becomes the wife of bank clerk Dick Cobb (Tom Gallery). Content to be a housewife, Barbara is unable to convince her party-animal husband of the joys of domesticity. To support his hedonistic lifestyle, Dick embezzles money Read More

One Increasing Purpose

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Lila Lee, Holmes Herbert, May Allison, Lawford Davidson

Synopsis: This portentously (and pretentiously) titled Fox Studios release stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to Read More

Broncho Twister

Actors: Tom Mix, Jack Pennick, Helene Costello, Paul Nicholson, Malcolm Waite

Synopsis: Returning from the war, Tom Mason (Tom Mix) rides square into a raging feud between the his family and the neighboring Brady gang. Dad Mason (George Irving) is wounded in an ambush, and Tom goes out to get revenge. At the Brady ranch he meets the lovely stepdaughter Paulita (Helene Costello) Read More

Desert Gold

Actors: Neil Hamilton, Shirley Mason, Robert W. Frazer, William Powell, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: Based on a story by Zane Grey, Desert Gold is a remake of the 1919 film of the same name. Neil Hamilton stars as George Thorne, a U.S. cavalry lieutenant in love with fair senorita Mercedes Castaneda (Shirley Mason). When Mercedes is kidnapped by scurrilous outlaw Snake Landree (William Powell in Read More

Midnight Kiss

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Richard Walling, Arthur Houseman, Doris Lloyd

Synopsis: This early Janet Gaynor vehicle was based on Pigs, a play by John Golden. While vain Gladys O'Connell busies herself with her romantic pursuits, O'Connell's kid sister Gaynor tries to keep the family of her boyfriend Richard Walling from going broke. Gaynor works up a business arrangement, whereby Read More

The Ice Flood

Actors: Kenneth Harlan, Viola Dana, George Irving, Fred Kohler, Norman Deming, DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: A robust potboiler from Universal, The Ice Flood stars Kenneth Harlan as Jack De Quincey, a handsome youth returning from Oxford to take part in his father's Oregon lumber business. But Jack demands to work incognito and bets the elder DeQuincey (George Irving) 10,000 dollars that he will not only Read More

Eagle of the Sea

Actors: Florence Vidor, Ricardo Cortez, Sam de Grasse, André Beranger, Mitchell Lewis

Synopsis: Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a bold American pirate captain who proves to be putty in the hands of New Orleans belle Louise Lestron (Florence Vidor). While dancing with Louise at a masked ball, Sazarac Read More

His Jazz Bride

Actors: Matt Moore, Marie Prevost

Synopsis: His Jazz Bride was based on Beatrice Burton's novel The Flapper Bride, leaving no doubt as to the decade in which this film was made. Bored by her conservative husband Dick (Matt Moore), fun-loving Gloria Gregory (Marie Prevost) kicks up her heels and goes on a pleasure cruise with her best Read More

The King of the Turf

Actors: Patsy Ruth Miller, David Kirby, Billy Franey, Kenneth Harlan

Synopsis: King of the Turf has more plot twists than a Charles Dickens novel. It begins as no-account horse breeder Martyn Selsby (David Torrence) railroads his ex-partner Colonel Fairfax (George Irving) into prison on a trumped-up charge. Years later, the guilt-ridden Selsby writes a confession but dies Read More

Three Bad Men

Actors: George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen, John Farrell MacDonald, Tom Santschi

Synopsis: Long thought lost, the silent Three Bad Men is an vital ingredient in the cinematic canon of director John Ford. Often described as a film version of Peter B. Kyne's Three Godfathers (which Ford would direct in 1948), Three Bad Men is actually based on Over the Border, a novel by Herman Whitaker. Read More

Goose Hangs High

Actors: Constance Bennett, Myrtle Stedman, George Irving, Esther Ralston

Synopsis: While his reputation has faded next to stronger talents such as Cecil B. DeMille, Erich Von Stroheim, and King Vidor, James Cruze was one of the most popular directors of the 1920s. He is the biggest name associated with this drama. The picture was based on a successful Broadway play by Lewis Read More

The Primrose Path

Actors: Clara Bow

Synopsis: Even though Clara Bow was close to achieving true stardom, she was still being cast in crass, low-budget fare. In fact, she has little to do in this overwrought melodrama -- Wallace MacDonald has the meaty role, and is billed above her. Bruce Armstrong (MacDonald) is quite wealthy. He is also a Read More

Wild Horse Mesa

Actors: Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Sr., Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., George Magrill

Synopsis: Square-jawed Jack Holt and ornery Noah Beery were the stars of Paramount's popular Zane Grey adaptations. Their best efforts were probably their first two films, the epic Wanderer of the Wasteland and North of 36 (both in 1924). Although lesser in scope, Wild Horse Mesa was filmed on breathtaking Read More

The Air Mail

Actors: Warner Baxter, Billie Dove, Mary Brian, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., George Irving

Synopsis: By using a borrowed medal, Russ Kane, a crook (Warner Baxter), is able to get a job as an air mail pilot. His plan is to steal some valuable cargo, but soon enough the job begins to have a positive effect on him. When his plane has to make a force landing, he meets Alice Rendon (Billie Dove, who Read More

Floodgates

Crew: Director

Actors: John Lowell, Jane Thomas, Ivy Ward

Synopsis: This lumber camp melodrama features a thrilling flood scene at its climax. Dave Trask (John Lowell) is the foreman of a lumber mill run by Lemuel Bassett (William Calhoun). Bassett's nephew, Tom (F. Serrano Keating) loves Trask's sister, Ruth (Evangeline Russell), and wants to find a cure for Read More

Wanderer of the Wasteland

Actors: Jack Holt, George Irving, Kathlyn Williams

Synopsis: Based on Zane Grey's 1923 novel of two brothers, one an honest cowpoke, the other a gambler, this fine silent melodrama was produced by the Lasky company in two-strip Technicolor, a first for a Western. When Adam Larey (Jack Holt) confronts his younger brother Guerd (James Mason) about his Read More

Man Who Fights Alone

Actors: William Farnum, Lois Wilson, Edward Everett Horton, Lionel Belmore, Barlowe Borland

Synopsis: John Marble (William Farnum) and Bob Alten (a miscast Edward Everett Horton) both love Marion (Lois Wilson). Marble wins her and Bob is relegated to family friend. Marble spends so much time at his work as a successful construction engineer that he has a mental and physical breakdown. Confined to Read More

North of 36

Actors: Jack Holt, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Sr., David Dunbar

Synopsis: North of 36 was conceived in the wake of the immensely popular Covered Wagon, right down to the casting of that earlier film's leading lady, Lois Wilson (Covered Wagon director James Cruze was also to have been involved in the project, but dropped out when the budget was reduced from $1 million to Read More

Her Majesty

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mollie King, Creighton Hale

Synopsis: Molly King has a duel role in this lightweight romance. Susan and Rosalie (both King) are twins who are raised by two different aunts. Susan grows up on a farm, while Rosalie is reared in society. Just before he comes home from college, Ted Harper (Creighton Hale) meets Susan and falls in love Read More

The Misleading Lady

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When engineer Jack Craigen (Bert Lytell) returns from an assignment in Africa, he stays with his Uncle Cannell (Stephen Grattan). Two other visitors are there -- aspiring actress Helen Steele (Lucy Cotton) and her fiancé, Tracy, a playwright (Cyril Chadwick). Helen is annoyed because Tracy and Read More

Blue Pearl

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This independently made mystery features a solid, if not exactly stellar, cast. The Blue Pearl of the title is a priceless piece of jewelry which belongs to a royal Romanian family. However, Frederick Thurston (D.J. Hannegan) and Penrose Kent (Earl Schenk) have managed to get their hands on it. Read More

The Silver King

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The old Henry Arthur Jones stage melodrama The Silver King was taken out and brushed off for the screen in 1918. When British gentleman Wilfred Denver (William Faversham) weds the beautiful Nellie (Barbara Castleton), he earns the undying hatred of Nellie's former sweetheart, Geoffrey Ware (John Read More

As a Man Thinks

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Based on a stage play by Augustus Thomas, this silent takes a Biblical saying, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," and applies it to the double standard of the then-modern era. Frank Clayton (Henry Clive) travels to Paris with his wife Elinor (Leah Baird). In steps the treacherous Benjamin Read More

Glorious Lady

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Instead of letting his family choose an appropriate wife, the Duke of Loame (Matt Moore) falls in love with Ivis Benson (Olive Thomas), the daughter of the farmer of his estate. They marry, but the family physician falsely tells Ivis that she will not be able to bear children. This news is Read More

Volcano

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Schoolteacher Ruth Carroll (Leah Baird) falls under the influence of a group of Bolshevist radicals, headed by Alexis Minski (Jacob Kingsberry). She also becomes romantically involved with Nathan Levison (Edward Langford), a captain recently returned from the war who has been hired by the Read More

Hidden Fires

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Toward the end of the 1910s, it seemed like every star had to do one film in which he or she played a dual role. Mae Marsh got her chance in this one. Peggy Murray (Marsh) works at a newspaper stand until one day, she's spied by Dr. Granville (Alec B. Francis). Peggy, it turns out, is a dead Read More

Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Author E.W. Hornung's charismatic rogue was tailor-made for John Barrymore. As Raffles, he wins the heart of Mrs. Vidal (Christine Mayo) and loses his own to the beautiful Gwendolyn (Evenlyn Brent), all while making off with the Melrose jewels, much to the frustration of another thief, Crawshay (Mike Donlin Read More

Raffles

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Considering the number of John Barrymore films that have crumbled to dust, it is fortunate indeed that the Barrymore vehicles which have survived are among his best works. One of the earliest Barrymore pictures still extant is Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, a consistently delightful Read More

God's Man

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Arnold L'Hommedieu (H.B. Warner) and his friends Archie Hartogensis (Edward Earle) and Hugo Waldemar (Walter Hiers) go to New York to find work after being unfairly expelled from college. Arnold starts off as helpful and idealistic, but after being beaten down by life, he decides he is only after Read More

The Ballet Girl

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Actress Alice Brady was the star player at the World Film Studios, which was as much due to her versatility as to the fact that her father William Brady ran the studio. In Ballet Girl, she plays a carnival performer who aspires to better things in life. Her big break in the ballet world finally Read More

The Builder of Bridges

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Arnold (Jack Sherill) works for a bridge contracting concern. When he embezzles a large sum from the company and can't return the money, his sister Dorothy (Marie Edith Wells) gets involved. She goes to the head architect, Thursfield (C. Aubrey Smith), and he falls in love with her. When he Read More

The Jungle

Synopsis: The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's searing expose of the meat-packing industry, was given a reasonably realistic screen treatment in 1914. The film traces the "progress" of a Lithuanian family as they head for the purportedly greener pastures of the USA. The family ends up in Packingtown (a thinly Read More