Robert Emmett O'Connor

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Huston

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Gaynor

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Freddie Bartholomew

A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Lowe

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Warner Baxter

Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Evelyn Brent

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Tracy

Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren William

Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.

Genre: Action

Cast: Stan Laurel

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Bela Lugosi

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage...

Genre: Music

Cast: June Allyson

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chester Morris

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Loretta Young

Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bette Davis

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Farrell

Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Cantor

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jack Holt

Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lew Ayres

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Al Jolson

A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wallace Beery

A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins

Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan...

Genre: Action

Cast: George O’Brien

Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Cooper

Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Lyon

Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Tracy

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Clark Gable

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clark Gable

A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Compson

Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Sinatra

A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.

Genre: Action

Cast: Rex Bell

Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger:...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lola Lane

The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miriam Hopkins

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

A detective investigates a racing scam.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Kelly

A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Dix

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bebe Daniels

A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phillips Holmes

A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Betz

Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Melvyn Douglas

A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Patsy's working at Rumplemeyer's Donut Shop in Brooklyn. By accident she catches Mr. Rumplemeyer's trousers in the donut machine as he's leaving to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patsy Kelly

The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed,...

Genre: Western

Cast: James Craig

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Preston Foster

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

Genre: History

Cast: Joel McCrea

Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Penner

Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Raft

A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Richard Dix

A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edna May Oliver

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carole Lombard

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Wallace Beery

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harold Lloyd

When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren William

A murder has occurred at Gruesome Gables, and the dog detective trying to find the killer has to deal with some suspicious suspects and a haunted...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Robert Emmett O'Connor

In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mickey Rooney

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gordon Jones

Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret O'Brien

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barton MacLane

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Powell

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Holden

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maureen O'Hara

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ann Rutherford

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Stewart

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Arnold

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Wallace Beery

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Bruce Cabot

A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harold Lloyd

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Wayne Morris

On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House"...

Genre: Music

Cast: Judy Garland

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Lionel Atwill

The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.

Genre: Western

Cast: James Craig

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Judy Garland

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Huston

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Van Johnson

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Montgomery

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Loretta Young

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mady Christians

A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Constance Bennett

Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He...

Genre: Western

Cast: Wallace Beery

Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from...

Genre: Family

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor

A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Judy Garland

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Huston

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Winnie Lightner

Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Gerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mel Bryant

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jack Oakie

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lana Turner

A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Gloria Stuart

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Tin Gods is a lost 1926 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play Tin Gods by William...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Meighan

Medieval French monks find a freezing, ill juggler and take him in. Upon recovering, the impoverished man wishes to illustrate his tremendous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucille Ball

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tom Trout

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Roger Pryor

In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sothern

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

Genre: War

Cast: Edward Arnold

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lewis Stone

After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jackie Cooper

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ann Sothern

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sothern

A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sothern

Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Richard Arlen

The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitaphone track of effects and music. It was produced...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jason Robards Sr.

"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mary Astor

The Booster is a silent comedy short

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

The life of a St. Louis family in the year before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Garland

In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Snub conducts a blind pig in a barn, where the village cronies gather for their "licker," and the place is raided by revenue officers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry 'Snub' Pollard

A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Arnold

The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jack Mulhall