John Hyams
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Give Me Action
Sep 28, 1930James Stanton and John Lane meet 30 years after graduating from Yale to decide the winner of a bet as to who is the more successful.
Comedy
Broadway Scandals
Nov 10, 1929Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.
Music
Women Won't Tell
Nov 16, 1932A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
Drama
The Bands Plays On
Dec 21, 1934A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
Morals for Women
Oct 24, 1931
Saratoga
Jul 23, 1937Pour sauver le haras de son père au bord de la faillite, Carol Clayton accepte de se fiancer avec un riche agent de change. Mais elle est en fait amoureuse de Duke Bradley, un bookmaker...
Comedy
Mary Jane's Pa
Apr 27, 1935Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Comedy
The Jonker Diamond
Mar 27, 1936Re-enactment of how the 726-carat Jonker diamond was discovered in South Africa in 1905 by the family of Jacobus Jonker; how it was sold to Harry Winston; and how it was cut by Lazarre Kaplan.
Documentary
Remember?
Dec 19, 1939Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
Comedy
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Oct 26, 1939A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Comedy
Murder in the Fleet
May 24, 1935A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
Drama
Life of an Actress
Feb 15, 1927
And Sudden Death
Jun 16, 1936An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
Drama
Grand Slam
Feb 22, 1933A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Comedy
Her Secret
Dec 18, 1933In "Her Secret" (aka "The Girl from Georgia" in the UK in 1934 when shown there)Johnny, the son of a rich-man, is an idling, good-for-nothing loafer, who leads a wild-and-hectic life, flunks out of college, and is disinherited and made to leave home by his father, who has given up on his on in despair. Johnny opens a gas-station in Arizona, where "Waffles,", a girl from Georgia, takes him in hand and employs her own methods of reformation with astonishing and fruitful results.
Comedy
Death on the Diamond
Sep 14, 1934Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
Mystery
A Night at the Ritz
Mar 23, 1935A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Comedy
Cameo Kirby
Jan 12, 1930Cameo Kirby, an honest riverboat gambler who works the Mississippi, rescues a girl from a gang of ruffians in New Orleans, but she disappears after he sings her a love song.
Drama
Bureau of Missing Persons
Sep 16, 1933Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Comedy
Go Into Your Dance
Apr 20, 1935
Choisissez une étoile
May 21, 1937Une histoire de Cendrillon d'une jeune fille de la campagne qui vient à Hollywood et réalise un film stardom avec l'aide d'un homme de publicité.
Comedy
The Longest Night
Oct 02, 1936Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
Mystery
Ladies They Talk About
Feb 04, 1933Une ravissante jeune femme blonde, Nan Taylor (Barbara Stanwyck), complice d’un gang de casseurs, fait ouvrir une agence bancaire pour permettre à ses complices de dévaliser la banque. Elle est reconnue par le policier qui dévoile, sous sa perruque platine (« Not so hot as a blonde ! »), une délinquante bien connue de la justice,
Crime
Trois ans après qu'un virus ait ravagé les Etats-Unis, un seul homme est immunisé contre l'infection. Le futur de l'humanité dépend de lui, mais le terrible secret qu'il cache pourrait mettre en danger l'équipe chargée de le conduire jusqu'en Californie, dans un laboratoire susceptible de développer un vaccin. Le chemin sera long et semé d'embûches...
Mystery
