Harold GoodwinFilmography

Morituri

Actors: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard, Marlin Beneath

Synopsis: Bernhard Wicki directed this hard-hitting World War II espionage drama. Marlon Brando plays Robert Crain, a German deserter who is coerced by British Intelligence officer Colonel Statter (Trevor Howard) to impersonate a Gestapo officer in order to get aboard a German blockade runner that is Read More

Fate Is the Hunter

Actors: Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jane Russell

Synopsis: Suspense builds around the investigation of a plane crash that caused 53 deaths in this dramatic adaption of Ernest K. Gann's novel. Authorities systematically eliminate probable causes, finally placing blame on the pilot, who was seen drinking before the flight. The airline's director of flight Read More

Move Over, Darling

Actors: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Chuck Connors, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: A man makes the highly unexpected discovery that he has two wives in this romantic comedy. Widower Nick Arden (James Garner) has just set off on his honeymoon with his new wife Bianca (Polly Bergen) when his mother Grace (Thelma Ritter) receives a very unexpected guest -- Nick's late wife Ellen (Doris Day Read More

Portrait in Black

Actors: Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Richard Basehart

Synopsis: Wanting to be free of her crippled husband but not his enormous fortune, a glamorous wife talks her lover, who is also her spouse's personal physician, into injecting poison into the ailing industrialist. This crime melodrama chronicles the chain of events that leads to the murderous lovers' Read More

Spartacus

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov

Synopsis: Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before Read More

Desert Patrol

Actors: Richard Attenborough, John Gregson, Michael Craig, Vincent Ball, Percy Herbert

Synopsis: Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol. John Gregson plays Captain Williams, a martinet mine expert who vows to whip a lackadaisacal patrol into shape. This brings Williams in conflict with patrol leader Captain Cotton (Michael Craig), but also earns him the Read More

Joe Butterfly

Actors: Audie Murphy, George Nader, Keenan Wynn, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Based on a play by Evan Wylie and Jack Ruge, Joe Butterfly also bears the influence of Teahouse of the August Moon. The title character, played by Burgess Meredith, is a wily Japanese wheeler-dealer who offers his services as interpreter to the American GIs occupying postwar Tokyo (where the film Read More

The Third Key

Actors: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison, Michael Brooke, Sam Kydd

Synopsis: Jack Hawkins is starred as a gruff, intensely dedicated Scotland Yard superintendent. Working as much by instinct as through scientific methods, Hawkins and rookie sergeant John Stratton tackle the case of a string of unsolved safecrackings, committed by the elusive Richard Leech. This Dragnet Read More

Now and Forever

Actors: Janette Scott, Vernon Gray, Kay Walsh, Jack Warner, Pamela Brown

Synopsis: Now and Forever is a very slight piece, buoyed by the charm and attractiveness of its young stars. Janette Scott and Vernon Grey play Janette Grant and Mike Pritchard, who fall in love despite the objections of Janette's wealthy parents. Realizing that they will never be permitted to marry Read More

One Good Turn

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair, Thora Hird, William Russell

Synopsis: Beloved British comedian Norman Wisdom made his second film appearance in One Good Turn. This time, nebbishy Norman plays a jack-of-all-trades, employed by an orphanage. After a steady series of slapstick setpieces, our hero sets about to save the orphanage from the hands of its creditors. Those Read More

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Fred Clark, Lynn Bari, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Mack Sennett, Hank Mann

Synopsis: The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous outing Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Set in 1912, the film casts Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as a couple of New Yorkers who are swindled out of their Read More

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

Actors: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Lori Nelson, Byron Palmer, Russell Johnson, Hilo Hattie

Synopsis: The title tells all in this seventh entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series. This time around, Ma (Marjorie Main) and Pa (Percy Kilbride) take their brood to Hawaii, where Pa is to take over management of his cousin's fruit processing operation. The villains are a group of rival businessmen Read More

The Redhead from Wyoming

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Alex Nicol, Robert Strauss, William Bishop, Alexander Scourby

Synopsis: The title character of this western can only be one of two actresses: Maureen O'Hara or Rhonda Fleming. But Fleming apparently had something else to do, so O'Hara won the coin-toss. She plays a dance-hall gal who protects the identity of a cattle rustler--mainly because she's the same crooked Read More

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard, Robert Paige, Horace McMahon

Synopsis: They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello inadvertently launch a rocket ship with themselves aboard. After a wild ride around New York City (the Statue of Liberty ducks when the rocket heads her Read More

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

Actors: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins, Bodil Miller, Sig Rumann

Synopsis: This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the Universal back lot). All the standard "innocents abroad" gags are in attendance, including Pa Kettle's (Percy Kilbride) efforts to extinguish a flaming serving of crepes Read More

Paradise for Buster

Actors: Buster Keaton

The Promoter

Actors: Alec Guinness, Petula Clark, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Edward Chapman

Synopsis: The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young clerk Alec Guinness works his way up the financial ladder until he has become a successful and highly respected loan officer. Actually, Guinness is not as above-board as the Read More

Here Come the Nelsons

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson, Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Fresh from radio and TV, "America's Favorite Family" stars in Here Come the Nelsons. That's right: this harmless little comedy is purely a vehicle for Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky. Since there must be a plot, the scriptwriters contrive to have Harriet uncharacteristically express jealousy over Read More

Angels One Five

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Andrew Osborn, Cyril Raymond, Humphrey Lestocq

Synopsis: "Angels One Five" is the cognomen bestowed upon a group of WW II British fighter pilots. The squadron leader is Tiger Small (Jack Hawkins), who is taken out of commission after an accident. Despite the protests from his fellow flyboys, Tiger insists upon taking to the air again, thereby setting Read More

Comin' Round the Mountain

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Shay, Kirby Grant, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: In this Abbott & Costello vehicle set in rural Kentucky, a magician (Lou Costello), his agent (Bud Abbott) and his sister (Dorothy Shay) unwittingly become involved in a down-home feud. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Double Dynamite

Actors: Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra, Don McGuire, Howard Freeman

Synopsis: One man's good luck leaves a very bad impression in this comedy. Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) and Mildred Goodhug (Jane Russell) are two tellers working at the same bank who have fallen in love and want to get married. However, neither is making much money, and Johnny doesn't want to set a date Read More

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild, Arthur Franz, Adele Jergens

Synopsis: The best of Universal-International's followups to Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man casts Bud and Lou as mail-order private eyes. The boys champion the cause of boxer Arthur Franz, who has been framed for murder. Utilizing the formula created by Claude Rains Read More

The Kid from Texas

Actors: Audie Murphy, Gale Storm, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: If ever there was an actor born to play Billy the Kid, it was the combustible Audie Murphy. In Kid from Texas, Murphy is cast as a relatively benign Billy. Hoping to put down his guns and go straight, the Kid takes a job as a ranchhand. When his kindly boss is murdered, however, all bets are off Read More

The Great Rupert

Actors: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Frank Orth, Sara Haden

Synopsis: Jimmy Durante plays the patriarch of a down-on-their-luck family of acrobats, who suddenly finds a great deal of money hidden in his house amid the depths of the Great Depression. The authorities suspect Durante of being a thief, but in fact the culprit is a benevolent little squirrel named Read More

The Misadventures of Buster Keaton

Synopsis: This hastily assembled "feature" is comprised of several episodes of an early-1950s TV series starring Buster Keaton. One of the most important stepping stones in Keaton's miraculous career comeback was a live (as opposed to film) comedy series titled Life With Buster Keaton, produced in Los Read More

I Was a Shoplifter

Actors: Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King, Charles Drake

Synopsis: The title tells all--or at least most--in I Was a Shoplifter. The title character, played by Mona Freeman, is Faye Burton, a well-off socialite suffering from kleptomania. Faye falls into the hands of a professional shoplifting ring headed by Herb Claxton (Charles Drake) and Ina Perdue (Andrea King Read More

The Magnet

Actors: Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, Meredith Edwards, Gladys Henson

Synopsis: This gentle Ealing Studios comedy features young William Fox as a mischievous English lad. A goodly portion of the film shows Fox and his companions at play, aimlessly but enjoyably wandering about their neighborhood in search of adventure. Eventually the boy finds a discarded magnet, believing it Read More

The Vanishing Westerner

Actors: Monte Hale, Paul Hurst, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft, Arthur Space

Synopsis: Despite its somewhat lofty, Zane Grey-flavored title, The Vanishing Westerner is a modest Republic western, off and on the screen in about an hour. Cowboy hero Monte Hale is accused of the murder of sheriff Arthur Space. The principal accuser is Space's look-alike British cousin, who stirs the Read More

The Lady Gambles

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett, John Hoyt

Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman whose addiction to gambling all but ruins her life. Stanwyck's husband Robert Preston tries to stand by her side, but even he is driven away by her gambling mania. Stanwyck lies, cheats and steals in order to raise capital for her addiction, descending from Read More

Law of the Golden West

Actors: Monte Hale, Paul Hurst, Gail Davis, Roy Barcroft, John Holland

Synopsis: Many observers felt that western star Monte Hale finally hit his stride with Law of the Golden West. This time, Hale plays young William Cody in his pre-Buffalo Bill days. When his wagon train is raided by bandits and his father is killed, Cody doggedly pursues the villains, with only a hotel-room Read More

Radar Patrol vs. Spy King

Synopsis: In this suspenseful espionage actioner, the US radar defense system is about to be breached by enemy saboteurs and now only agent Chris Calvert and research-scientist Joan Hughs can stop them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tokyo Joe

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa, Jerome Courtland

Synopsis: One of the less famous Humphrey Bogart films is this 1949 drama about post-war guilt and remembrance. Bogart plays U.S. airman and war hero Joe Barrett. During the war, he believes, his wife Trina (Florence Marly) died in a Japanese concentration camp. But when Barrett returns to Tokyo and the bar Read More

Family Honeymoon

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, William Daniels, Rita Johnson, Gigi Perreau, Jimmy Hunt

Synopsis: In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the bride's three bratty children. Unfortunately, the way things work out, the whole family ends up tagging along. The little darlings are less than pleased that their widowed Read More

Carson City Raiders

Actors: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Frank Reicher, Beverly Jons

Synopsis: Whenever veteran stuntman Yakima Canutt held the directorial reins of a Republic western, it was a sure bet that there'd be plenty of breakneck action. The star of Canutt's Carson City Raiders is Allan "Rocky" Lane, a former college football player who was no slouch in the stunting department Read More

River Lady

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Helena Carter, Lloyd Gough

Synopsis: Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen, in charge of a profitable Mississippi riverboat casino. DeCarlo falls in love with logger Rod Cameron; when he won't succumb to her charms, she tries to buy his affections Read More

Kiss the Blood off My Hands

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell, Aminta Dyne

Synopsis: In this film noir drama, Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) is a former Prisoner of War living in England whose experiences have left him emotionally unstable and prone to violence. One night, while drinking in a pub, he gets into an argument with the owner which quickly escalates into a brutal Read More

The Bold Frontiersman

Actors: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Roy Barcroft, John Alvin

Synopsis: Republic cowboy star Allan "Rocky" Lane shares above-the-title billing with his stallion Black Jack in The Bold Frontiersman. Lane and his faithful mount come to the aid of a group of farmers who are attempting to raise enough cash to build a dam. Evil Roy Barcroft steals the money, but the law Read More

Slave Girl

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, George Brent, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford, Lois Collier

Synopsis: Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of entertainment (along with the equally lowbrow Abbott and Costello and Ma and Pa Kettle pictures) paid the bills for the studio's more ponderous projects. The slave girl of the Read More

Ride the Pink Horse

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Thomas Gomez, Rita Conde, Iris Flores, Fred Clark, Art Smith, Andrea King

Synopsis: Robert Montgomery directed and starred in this exotic film noir set during a New Mexico fiesta. Montgomery plays a secretive ex-GI who plans to extort money from a prominent gangster (Fred Clark) as retribution for the death of Montgomery's best friend. An FBI man (Art Smith) would like the Read More

Lover Come Back

Actors: George Brent, Lucille Ball, Vera Zorina, Charles Winninger, Carl Esmond

Synopsis: Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby (George Brent) is looking forward to feminine companionship after four long years at the front. Imagine her surprise when it looks as though her husband wasn't quite as Read More

Don't Gamble with Strangers

Actors: Tony Caruso, Peter Cookson, Frank Dae, Steven Darrell

Synopsis: The title states the case in Monogram's Don't Gamble with Strangers. It's all about a pair of crooked gamblers, Mike (Kane Richmond) and Fay (Bernardine Hayes), who pose as brother and sister to lure in suckers. After several months of penny-ante activities, Mike and Fay take over a posh gambling Read More

She Gets Her Man

Synopsis: Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan teams with patrolman Leon Errol to solve a series of blowgun murders. The two erstwhile Sherlocks track down the alleged murder weapon to a theatre, where it is being used Read More

Frontier Gal

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, Andy Devine, Fuzzy Knight, Andrew Tombes

Synopsis: Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has Read More

He Hired the Boss

Actors: Stuart Erwin, Evelyn Venable, Thurston Hall, Vivian Blaine, William Orr

Synopsis: In this comedy, a milque-toast bookkeeper buckles under his overbearing girl friend's constant nagging and begins investing his money so he won't have to wait for a raise from his boss. His girl friend pushes him, because she wants to marry him and he refuses to until he has enough money. Luckily Read More

Quiet Please, Murder

Actors: George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a gentleman crook specializing in selling forgeries of rare books. In the company of phony policemen, Sanders enters the library unmolested and pilfers a priceless Shakespeare folio in order to expedite Read More

Forced Landing

Synopsis: In this war drama, a commercial pilot joins the air corps of a South Pacific island, and there he finds that he must contend with a dictator. He also falls quietly in love with the leader's girlfriend. Unfortunately, the evil leader is the head of the air corps, and to get rid of the young man who Read More

Tanks a Million

Actors: William Tracy, James Gleason, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Sawyer, Elyse Knox

Synopsis: In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a four-reel film-halfway between a short subject and a feature-designed for the double-bill market. The first Roach streamliner was the timely service comedy Tanks a Million Read More

International Lady

Actors: George Brent, Ilona Massey, Basil Rathbone, Gene Lockhart, George Zucco

Synopsis: Hungarian actress Ilona Massey stars as an operative for the Axis in this slightly tongue-in-cheek wartime melodrama. She spends her working hours signalling secret messages to enemy U-boats. George Brent is the U.S. counterspy sent to track down the security leak. Brent's job is made doubly Read More

Buck Privates

Actors: Lee Bowman, Alan Curtis, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Jane Frazee, The Andrews Sisters

Synopsis: Filmed on a B-picture budget, Buck Privates was Universal's biggest box-office hit of 1941, firmly securing the movie popularity of the studio's hot new team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The story is fairly evenly divided between the antics of Bud and Lou-here cast as sidewalk salesmen Slicker Read More

You'll Never Get Rich

Actors: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, John Hubbard, Osa Massen

Synopsis: You'll Never Get Rich was the first of two films made by Fred Astaire at Columbia, and also the first in which he was paired with his favorite female dancing partner--not Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, but Rita Hayworth. Fred and Rita play a team of Broadway dancers whose partnership is abruptly Read More

Texas Rangers Ride Again

Actors: Ellen Drew, John Howard, Akim Tamiroff, May Robson, Broderick Crawford

Synopsis: Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young girl returning to her grandmother's ranch in Texas. Old Mrs. Dangerfield (May Robson) is experiencing a rash of cattle rustlings and, fed up with her no-good grandson Carter's Read More

Viva Cisco Kid

Actors: Cesar Romero, Jean Rogers, Chris-Pin Martin, Minor Watson, Stanley Fields

Synopsis: While Cesar Romero could usually be relied upon to ladle out the charm in his film roles, Romero's handful of appearances as O. Henry's "Cisco Kid" were disturbingly cold and distant. In Viva Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the Old West" and his sidekick Pancho (Chris-Pin Martin) save a stagecoach Read More

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Actors: Sidney Toler, Marc Lawrence, Joan Valerie

Synopsis: Escaped gangster Steve McBirney (Marc Lawrence), vowing to get even with Oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler), lies in wait at a spooky wax museum run by demented plastic surgeon Dr. Cream (Henry Gordon). Chan is lured to the museum's opening day ceremonies on a ruse, along with a variety Read More

Ragtime Cowboy Joe

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Dick Curtis, Lynn Merrick

Synopsis: Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures. The title character is a confused cowhand played by Fuzzy Knight, while the hero is Steve (Johnny Mack Brown), an undercover detective on the prowl for cattle rustlers. Read More

Boy Friend

Actors: Jane Withers, Arleen Whelan, Richard Bond, Douglas Fowley, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: There was no getting around the fact that child star Jane Withers was growing up in a hurry by the time she made The Boy Friend. To its credit, Withers' home studio 20th Century-Fox took into consideration the star's blossoming womanhood by allowing her to have her first on-screen romance. The Read More

Young Mr. Lincoln

Actors: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan, Pauline Moore, Richard Cromwell

Synopsis: John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film shows Lincoln (Henry Fonda) as he rises from a country boy born in a log cabin to a lawyer in Springfield, Illinois defending two young men unjustly accused of murder. The Read More

Jesse James

Actors: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Henry Hull, Brian Donlevy

Synopsis: The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by revisionist dime novelists. But in 1939, 20th Century-Fox wasn't about to build an expensive Technicolor feature around the exploits of a couple of low-lives, thus Jesse James upholds Read More

Second Fiddle

Actors: Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee, Edna May Oliver, Mary Healy

Synopsis: Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this backstage musical extravaganza is all Henie. Taking a leaf from producer David O. Selznick, Consolidated Pictures send public relation expert Tyrone Power in search of an unknown to Read More

Susannah of the Mounties

Actors: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: The sole survivor of an Indian attack, orphan girl Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) becomes the mascot of the Canadian Mountie outpost headed by Superintendent Standing (Moroni Olsen). Mountie Angus "Monty" Montague (Randolph Scott) and his sweetheart (and Standing's daughter), Vicky (Margaret Lockwood Read More

Too Busy to Work

Actors: Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, Ken Howell, George Ernest, June Carlson

Synopsis: Too Busy to Work is not a remake of the 1932 Will Rogers film of the same name-but it is a partial remake of Rogers' 1935 vehicle Doubting Thomas. This standard entry in the "Jones Family" series finds the Jones women trying to convince Pa Jones (Jed Prouty) that he's spending too much time at Read More

Union Pacific

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The real-life spectacle is occasionally interrupted by the fictional adventures of railroad overseer Joel McCrea, postmistress Barbara Stanwyck (with an incredible Irish brogue), and Read More

The Ware Case

Actors: Clive Brook, Jane Baxter, Barry Barnes, C.V. France, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: In this taut drama, a wealthy financier is tried for the murder of his brother-in-law after the damning corpse is found floating in his garden pond. He is eventually acquitted. Upon his return home, he is angered to find his lawyer has become romantically involved with his wife. An argument Read More

My Lucky Star

Actors: Sonja Henie, Richard Greene, Joan Davis, Cesar Romero, Buddy Ebsen

Synopsis: Sonja Henie is the "lucky star" in this enjoyable 20th Century-Fox musical. Henie plays Kristina Nelson a humble department store sales clerk who is spotted while skating by George Cabot Jr. (Cesar Romero_, son of the store's owner. George is so taken by Kristina that he gets her an athletic Read More

Always Goodbye

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: Former doctor Jim Howard (Herbert Marshall) helps desperate Margot Weston (Barbara Stanwyck), pregnant and unmarried; when her son is born, Jim helps her place the baby with Phil Marshall (Ian Hunter) and his wife, on the condition that neither the Marshalls nor the child ever know Margot is his Read More

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Actors: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley

Synopsis: His Aunt Sophie (Helen Westley) and his teacher Professor Heinrich (Jean Hersholt) are sure that Roger Grant (Tyrone Power) will be a famous classical violinist, but Roger's more interested in popular music. He and his friend, pianist Charlie (Don Ameche), audition at a saloon in San Francisco's Read More

City Girl

Actors: Phyllis Brooks, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Wilcox, Douglas Fowley, Chick Chandler

Synopsis: In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend the district attorney to take up with a notorious gangster who lavishes her with stolen furs and fabulous diamonds. She has no idea that the crook Read More

Ditto

Actors: Buster Keaton

Jail Bait

Actors: Buster Keaton

A Fight to the Finish

Actors: Don Terry, Rosalind Keith, George McKay, Ward Bond, Wade Boteler

Synopsis: A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his rival with whom he was competing for the position of fleet superintendent in the city's biggest cab company. The hero does not know who framed him until 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

It Happened in Hollywood

Actors: Richard Dix, Victor Kilian, Franklin Pangborn, Charles Arnt

Synopsis: By 1937, everyone was tired of films about silent stars who couldn't make the transition to talkies (and would be until Singin' in the Rain), but this Columbia comedy-drama still had its moments in spite of gross inaccuracies. Richard Dix is Western star Tim Bart, a screen hero who is adored by Read More

Grand Slam Opera

Actors: Buster Keaton

Three on a Limb

Actors: Buster Keaton

Synopsis: Scoutmaster Elmer Brown (Buster Keaton) loses his heart to the pretty carhop (Lona Andre) who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé (Harold Goodwin). When he tries to eliminate Elmer by giving him traffic tickets for every conceivable violation, the Read More

Theodora Goes Wild

Actors: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall, Spring Byington, Rosalind Keith, Elizabeth Risdon

Synopsis: After six years' worth of tragic and noble roles, Irene Dunne began a new phase in her career as a top comedienne in Theodora Goes Wild. She plays a prim small-town schoolteacher, raised in an oppressive environment by two maiden aunts. Seeking surreptitious adventure, Dunne writes a steamy Read More

The Dark Hour

Actors: Ray Walker, Irene Ware, Berton Churchill, Hedda Hopper, Hobart Bosworth

Synopsis: The Dark Hour was based on The Last Trap, a mystery novel by Sinclair Gluck. The setting is one of those Old Dark Houses which proliferated in 1930s "B"-pictures. Elsa Carson (Irene Ware), mistress of the house, fears that her weird uncles intend to do her harm and calls in detectives Landis (Ray Walker Read More

One-Run Elmer

Actors: Buster Keaton

Synopsis: Dialogue only punctuates this inventive, near-silent two-reeler starring the great Buster Keaton. He plays the titular Elmer, who operates a rickety gas station in the California desert. A rival station opens for business right across the road from him, and the rivalry becomes personal when the Read More

Western Frontier

Actors: Ken Maynard, Lucille Browne, Nora Lane, Frank Yaconelli

Synopsis: In this western, a wagon train is destroyed and all but two children, a brother and sister, are slaughtered. The sister is abducted by the Indians while the boy is raised by an Anglo family. He grows up with no memory of his sister. Now a young cowboy, he is called upon to attack an outlaw gang. Read More

The Crusades

Actors: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Katherine de Mille

Synopsis: The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD, when Jerusalem falls into the hands of the Saracens, and the Christians are slaughtered or sold into slavery. A holy man known as The Hermit (C. Aubrey Smith) rallies the Read More

Smoking Guns

Actors: Ken Maynard, Gloria Shea, Walter Miller, Harold Goodwin, Bob Kortman

Synopsis: To say that Smoking Guns is one of Ken Maynard's strangest Westerns is understating the case. The film wastes no time getting started, with Ken Masters (Maynard) in mid-sentence accusing the villain (Harold Goodwin) of murdering Masters' father. Framed for murder himself, our hero is forced to Read More

She Was a Lady

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Donald Woods, Ralph Morgan, Monroe Owsley, Paul Harvey

Synopsis: The relative importance of social class differences is examined in this drama that centers on the daughter of a disinherited British nobleman who has moved his family to the United States. Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American Read More

Lone Cowboy

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Lila Lee, John Wray, Addison Richards, Gavin Gordon

Synopsis: Adapted by director Paul Sloan from the novel by Will James, Lone Cowboy is an "outdoors" epic tailored to the talents of young Jackie Cooper. Actually the title character is not played by Cooper but by character actor Addison Richards, cast as a grizzled old rodeo rider named Dobe Jones. Placed Read More

Romance in Manhattan

Actors: Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Jimmy Butler, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: Ginger Rogers and Francis Lederer share equal billing -- and near-equal screen time -- in this amiable RKO programmer. Lederer plays Karel Novak, an incredibly naïve Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia Dennis (Rogers). With the help of lovable Read More

Wagon Wheels

Actors: Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Billy Lee, Leila Bennett, Jan Duggan

Synopsis: Adapted from a Zane Grey story, Wagon Wheels is a remake of the 1931 Gary Cooper starrer Fighting Caravans. Randolph Scott assumes Cooper's role, playing a trail guide named Clint Belmet. The plot follows the progress of a typical wagon train journey from Missouri to Oregon, with the usual quote Read More

Strawberry Roan

Actors: Frank Yaconelli, James Marcus, Jack Rockwell

Synopsis: Curley Fletcher's famous lament "The Strawberry Roan became Ken Maynard's favorite Western and went a long way to popularize the Singing Cowboy trend. Ranch owner Big Jim Edwards (James Marcus) promises a job to anyone who can round up the Strawberry Roan, a wild stallion that has been rustling Read More

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

Actors: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Harry Langdon, Chester Conklin

Synopsis: Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and S.N. Behrmann and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Jolson plays a genial hobo who wanders happily around Central Park, neither seeking nor accepting honest Read More

Broadway Bad

Actors: Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Adrienne Ames, Allen Vincent

Synopsis: Broadway Bad stars Joan Blondell as a wisecracking but goodhearted chorus girl whose husband (Ricardo Cortez) is an abusive lout. Blondell's plight makes the headlines, which results in an upswing in her career. Rather than wallow in self-pity, she trades on the publicity to become a star, while Read More

Movie Crazy

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Ken Thomson, Sidney Jarvis

Synopsis: Movie Crazy was Harold Lloyd's best-received sound film. It is the semi-autobiographical tale of an idealistic aspiring movie star who exchanges the quiet life in his sleepy Kansas hometown for the glamour and excitement of Tinseltown where he mistakenly believes he has been selected for a Read More

Pleasure

Actors: Conway Tearle, Frances Dade, Paul Page, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: Though produced by Supreme Pictures and distributed by Artclass, the poverty-row sex drama Pleasure is neither supreme, arty, nor classy. Conway Tearle stars as a wealthy, conservative author who is saddled with libertine wife Carmel Myers. Bored by her husband, Myers inaugurates an affair with Paul Page Read More

Hat Check Girl

Actors: Sally Eilers, Ben Lyon, Ginger Rogers, Monroe Owsley, Arthur Pierson

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Rian James, Hat Check Girl stars Sally Eilers as the title character, a pert little number named Gerry Marsh. Despite her lowly station in life, Gerry manages to fall in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins (Ben Lyon). The fly in the ointment is blackmailing newspaper Read More

Symphony of Six Million

Actors: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Gregory Ratoff, Anna Appel, Lita Chevret

Synopsis: In this misleadingly-titled 1932 medical (not musical) drama, the resolve of a young surgeon is severely tested. Dr. Felix Klauber (Ricardo Cortez), is a selfless Jewish physician who has grown up in the segregated slums of New York City. Through hard work, he becomes a wealthy Park Avenue doctor. Read More

Sky Bride

Actors: Richard Arlen, Jack Oakie, Virginia Bruce, Robert Coogan, Charles Starrett

Synopsis: Richard Arlen more or less revives his aviation-ace role from Wings in the Paramount programmer Sky Bride. Arlen plays Speed Condon, the star attraction of a barnstorming troupe of stunt flyers. When his best friend Eddie (Tom Douglas) is killed during a staged "dogfight," Speed quits the troupe Read More

Dirigible

Actors: Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Fay Wray, Hobart Bosworth, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: Columbia spent the 1920s and 1930s dusting off its reliable "two guys/one girl" military plotline and dressing it up in a variety of uniforms. Dirigible was the 1931 edition of this old chestnut, with navy pilots Jack Holt and Ralph Graves battling over the affections of Fay Wray. The film picks 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

The Lawyer's Secret

Actors: Clive Brook, Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Jean Arthur

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a lawyer defends his sister's fiance after he is accused of murder. The lawyer knows his client is guilty, and that another man, a sailor, also accused of the crime because he gambled away his gun, which became the murder weapon, but he must honor the confidentiality Read More

The Widow from Chicago

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Alice White, Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh, Lee Shumway

Synopsis: The Widow from Chicago is Polly Henderson (Alice White) -- only she isn't really a widow and in fact has never been married. It's like this: Polly's police-detective brother Jimmy (Harold Goodwin), hoping to get the goods on the criminal gang run by vice lord Dominic (Edward G. Robinson) Read More

All Quiet on the Western Front

Actors: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Raymond Griffith, George "Slim" Summerville

Synopsis: One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join the Army during World War I and are assigned to the Western Front, where their fiery patriotism is quickly turned to horror and misery by the harsh realities of combat. Read More

Flight

Actors: Jack Holt, Lila Lee, Ralph Graves, Alan Roscoe, Harold Goodwin

Synopsis: This early Frank Capra talkie stars popular screen action team Jack Holt and Ralph Graves as US marines stationed in Nicaragua. The "two guys fighting over one gal" throughline is there because the audience expected it -- and besides, leading lady Lila Lee is awfully cute. But the meat of the Read More

The Cameraman

Actors: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey, Harry Gribbon

Synopsis: This is one of the last films from Buster Keaton's classic period, before the coming of sound and interference from MGM spoiled his work and softened his popularity. The Great Stone Face portrays Luke Shannon, a "tintype" portrait photographer who develops a serious crush on Sally (Marceline Day) Read More

Her Summer Hero

Actors: Hugh Trevor, Duane Thompson, Harold Goodwin, James Pierce

Synopsis: The outcome of a love triangle is once again decided by a "big race" in this lighthearted silent comedy-drama from FBO, the forerunner of RKO. Lifeguard and champion college swimmer Hugh Trevor saves pretty Duane Thompson from drowning and they become engaged. But after a misunderstanding, Duane Read More

Cheer Leader

Actors: Ralph Graves, Gertrude Olmstead, Ralph Emerson, Harold Goodwin

Synopsis: Still another of the seemingly endless stream of "collegiate" pictures, The Cheer Leader starred athletic Ralph Graves as the title character (even though he doesn't lead all that many cheers). Not exactly the hero of the piece, campus football star Graves stirs the fires of jealousy between his Read More

College

Actors: Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin, Buddy Mason, Grant Withers

Synopsis: The silent comedy feature College stars Buster Keaton as a scholarly young man who doesn't know beans about sports. When he arrives in college, Buster finds that all the Big Men on Campus are jocks. To impress pretty coed Anne Cornwall, Buster tries and fails to join all the school teams. Even Read More

Tarzan and the Golden Lion

Synopsis: James Pierce is one of the lesser-known film Tarzans, partly because this picture -- his debut as an actor -- has apparently been lost, and partly because it was his only starring role. He is a fairly significant Tarzan, however, because his association with author Edgar Rice Burroughs led to a Read More

Snowbound

Actors: Betty Blythe, Lillian Rich, Robert Agnew, Harold Goodwin, Pat Harmon

Synopsis: Young Robert Agnew discovers that he's first in line to inherit three million dollars. But there's always a hitch; in this case, confirmed bachelor Agnew must find a wife in a hurry, lest he lose his legacy. Hoping to collect several debts from Agnew, Pat Harmon suggests that his own secretary Betty Blythe Read More

When a Dog Loves

Actors: Ranger the Dog, Harold Goodwin, Helen Foster, Frank McGlynn, Jr.

Synopsis: Rin Tin Tin wannabe Ranger is the canine hero of When a Dog Loves. The story gets underway when both Ranger and a valuable necklace turn up missing. The dog is rescued by a small boy who adopts him as a pet, never realizing that Ranger's owners have offered a huge reward for his return. Meanwhile Read More

Honeymoon Express

Actors: Irene Rich, Willard Louis, Holmes Herbert, Virginia Lee Corbin, Helene Costello, Harold Goodwin

Synopsis: Corpulent middle-aged Willard Louis fancies himself God's gift to women, indulging in various affairs while his frumpy wife Irene Rich busies herself with her grown children. Following the example set by Louis, the kids indulge in their own hedonistic pleasures, leaving Rich all alone. Finally Read More

The Better 'ole

Actors: Sidney Chaplin, Doris Hill, Harold Goodwin, Theodore Lorch

Synopsis: The Better 'Ole was based on a play by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot, which was itself inspired by a cartoon character created by Bairnsfather during WWI. Decked out in a lavish paintbrush mustache, Sydney Chaplin is cast as Bairnsfather's immortal British army sergeant Old Bill, whose Read More

The Flaming Frontier

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Anne Cornwall, Dustin Farnum, Ward Crane, Kathleen Key

Synopsis: Marking the 50th anniversary of General George Armstrong Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn, Universal re-created the battle in their biggest production ($400,000) of the year, The Flaming Frontier. Veteran screen actor Dustin Farnum came out of semi-retirement to play Custer -- to Read More

Secret Orders

Synopsis: Evelyn Brent was known for playing lady crooks in the 1920s (in fact, she carried this typecasting into the sound era). In this drama -- very similar to the play Three Faces East, according to trade magazine Film Daily -- Brent switches to the right side of the law. Janet Graham (Brent) marries Read More

The Midshipman

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Harriet Hammond, Wesley Barry, Margaret Seddon, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Metro Goldwyn Mayer produced this drama with the cooperation of the Navy Department, and many of the scenes -- including the graduation ceremony -- were actually shot at Annapolis Naval Academy. James Randall (Ramon Novarro) enters the Academy and befriends freshman Ted Lawrence (Wesley Barry). Read More

Talker

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Lewis Stone, Shirley Mason, Ian Keith, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: This drama, based on the play by Marion Fairfax, concerns a woman who talks big, but does not practice what she preaches. Kate Lennox (Anna Q. Nilsson) is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry (Lewis S. Stone). Their next-door neighbors, the hen-pecked Henry Fells (Tully Marshall) and Read More

Riders of the Purple Sage

Actors: Tom Mix, Beatrice Burnham, Arthur Morrison, Seesel Ann Johnson, Warner Oland

Synopsis: First filmed by Fox in 1918 with William Farnum, Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage became a typically lavish Tom Mix extravaganza, filmed on locations at picturesque Lone Pine, California. Mix plays Jim Lassiter, the bold Texas Ranger whose sister, Millie Erne (Beatrice Burnham), and her Read More

The Arizona Express

Actors: Pauline Starke, Evelyn Brent, David Butler, Anne Cornwall, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: This picture was based on an old time melodrama by Lincoln J. Carter. Pauline Starke stars as Katherine Keith, whose brother David (Harold Goodwin) is vamped by Lola Nichols (Evelyn Brent). Lola belongs to a gang of crooks who are planning to rob the bank where David works. When one of the gang Read More

Madonna of the Streets

Actors: Alla Nazimova, Milton Sills, Claude Gillingwater, Courtenay Foote, Tom Kennedy

Synopsis: Alla Nazimova had been away from the screen for over a year when she made this drama, and she was paid well under half her former salary. To add box-office value, she was given Milton Sills as a co-star, but even so, the film did not do well either in film receipts or reviews. Reverend John Morton Read More

That French Lady

Actors: Shirley Mason, Theodore Von Eltz, Harold Goodwin, Charles Coleman

Synopsis: The racy William Hurlbut play The Strange Woman was toned down to make this romantic Shirley Mason vehicle. When small-town resident John Hemmingway (Theodore Von Eltz) travels to wicked Paris to study architecture, he meets Inez de Pierrefond, a young widow (Shirley Mason). He falls in love with Read More

Burning Words

Actors: Roy Stewart, Laura La Plante, Harold Goodwin, Edith Yorke, Alfred Fisher

Synopsis: Keeping in mind that "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for a friend," a Northwest Mounted Police officer saves his own brother from a murder rap in this action adventure from Universal. When Ross Darby (Harold Goodwin) is accused of murdering nasty "Slip" Martin (Harry Carter Read More

Alice Adams

Actors: Florence Vidor, Vernon Steele

Synopsis: Almost an instant classic, Booth Tarkington's 1921 small-town morality tale reached the screen two years later courtesy of King Vidor and Encore Pictures. Vidor's wife, the beautiful Florence Vidor, played the title-role, a girl of modest means who pretends to be wealthy to her friends in general Read More

Gentle Julia

Actors: Bessie Love, Harold Goodwin, Frank Elliott, Charles French, Clyde Benson

Synopsis: Julia (Bessie Love) is a small-town girl who falls in love with George Crum (Frank Elliott) a much-older man. Though the object of her affection regards her as a nuisance, Julia tags after Crum all the way to Chicago. Just when it looks as though Julia's dream romance is about to be consummated Read More

Broadway Gold

Actors: Elaine Hammerstein, Kathlyn Williams, Elliott Dexter, Richard Wayne

Synopsis: As naïve chorus girl, Sunny Duane (Elaine Hammerstein), finds herself in a load of trouble in this comedy-melodrama. She is befriended by the older, more experienced Jean Valjean (Kathlyn Williams) and meets society man Eugene Durant (Elliot Dexter). A wealthy playboy asks Sunny out to dinner, but Read More

The Wanters

Synopsis: A young and still inexperienced Norma Shearer was originally cast in the lead role of Myra Hastings in this society drama -- it was her first film for Metro, and Irving Thalberg, vice president and Louis B. Mayer's right hand man, had high hopes for her. But director John M. Stahl didn't see much Read More

Kindled Courage

Actors: Hoot Gibson

Synopsis: Driven out of town by the local bully, Universal's rumpled cowboy star Hoot Gibson hops a freight train, only to be declared a hero for shooting a couple of fleeing bank robbers. The noble deed was actually performed by the train's brakeman, but Gibson is made deputy sheriff. Assigned to bring in Read More

Kissed

Synopsis: Marie Prevost got her start as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty, and even though this romantic comedy runs rather short for a feature, it's still only got about enough plot for a two-reeler. Spunky Constance Keener (Prevost) and her mother (Lillian Langdon) don't see eye to eye on matters of romance. Read More

The Flirt

Actors: George Nichols, Lydia Knott, Eileen Percy, Helen Jerome Eddy, Buddy Messenger

Synopsis: Pretty Eileen Pearcy plays the title character in this adaptation of the Booth Tarkington novel. Cora (Pearcy) is the spoiled daughter of the Madison family. Everyone caters to her every whim. She is engaged to Richard Lindley (Edward Hearn), although her sister Laura (Helen Jerome Eddy) secretly Read More

Man to Man

Actors: Harry Carey, May Giraci, Charles Le Moyne, Willis Robards

Synopsis: Harry Carey's final western for Universal was the story of a South Sea island beachcomber who sobers up after returning to the family homestead. His father is murdered by a scoundrel, the family fortune about to be usurped, and Carey himself is falsely accused of theft. He heroically tracks down Read More

Rosary

Actors: Lewis Stone, Jane Novak, Wallace Beery, Robert Gordon, Eugénie Besserer

Synopsis: This was the second time Edward Rose's play was committed to celluloid (the first was in 1915). This Jerome Storm-directed version offered a fine cast and several deviations from the original plot which only enhanced its dramatic value. Spendthrft Kenward Wright (Wallace Beery, always a good Read More

Tracked to Earth

Actors: Frank Mayo, Duke Lee

Synopsis: Best known for western series starring the likes of Hoot Gibson and Jack Hoxie, Universal of the '20s also issued several non-series oaters. Tracked to Earth, a minor effort to be sure, featured all-purpose leading man Frank Mayo as a railroad detective falsely accused by a rancher's daughter Virginia Valli Read More

Oliver Twist, Jr.

Synopsis: Modernizing any classic story is a questionable pursuit, and few are successful (the musical West Side Story, which took Romeo and Juliet to the rough streets of 1950s Manhattan comes to mind). It's especially dangerous with most of Charles Dickens' tales, since the atmosphere of nineteenth Read More

Hearts of Youth

Actors: Harold Goodwin, Lillian Hall, Fred Kirby, George Fisher

Synopsis: Ishmael Worth (Harold Goodwin) gives up the love of a young woman because of the social stigma attached to his illegitimacy. Beatrice (Lillian Hall) is the woman he loves so much he refuses to dishonor her by his past. He later discovers his mother (Iris Ashton) was married after all, but he must Read More

Overland Red

Synopsis: Universal ace director Lynn Reynolds directed this better-than-average silent western about a hobo Harry Carey who stumbles upon a gold-mine. The story was old hat, of course, but Carey's realistic approach to the genre proved a breath of fresh air in an era increasingly dominated by the Read More

Suds

Actors: Mary Pickford

Synopsis: Mary Pickford recreates her ugly-duckling drudge from Stella Maris (1918) in this bright comedy co-starring Charles Chaplin stock company regular Albert Austin. She is Amanda Afflick, the least appreciated employer in Madame Didier's (Rose Dione) French Hand Wash establishment. Even lower on the Read More

Heart O' the Hills

Actors: Sam de Grasse, Harold Goodwin, Mary Pickford, John Gilbert

Synopsis: This film was one of Mary Pickford's attempts to add at least a touch of maturity to her little girl characterizations. She is a Kentucky mountain girl in this romantic adventure film, and Harold Goodwin is the boy who befriends her. Sam DeGrasse was the villain. Future silent-screen idol Jack Gilbert Read More

Set Free

Synopsis: Roma (Edith Roberts) is a girl with too much energy and time on her hands. She becomes bored living with her staid aunt Henrietta (Blanche Gray) and decides to dress up as a Gypsy and head for the open road. Somehow, this open road lands her in New York, where she is promptly arrested because she Read More

Sawdust Ring

Synopsis: For reasons unknown, it took two directors to put the modestly budgeted The Sawdust Ring together. Bessie Love stars as Janet Magie, an awkward country girl who aspires to become a circus bareback rider. Together with her bucolic boyfriend Peter Weldon (Harold Goodwin), Janet runs away from home Read More

Old Heidelberg

Synopsis: Erich Von Stroheim played one of his first important roles in the D.W. Griffith-produced romantic drama Old Heidelberg, and he took full advantage of the opportunity, ruthlessly upstaging everyone in sight. For the most part, however, this first film adaptation of Wilhelm Meyer-Forster's novel Read More