Helen Mack

7.4

La Dame du vendredi

Jan 18, 1940

La Dame du vendredi

1940 92 min 841 vues

Hildy Johnson quitte son époux Walter Burns, le sarcastique rédacteur en chef du journal dans lequel elle officie en tant que reporter. Fatiguée par l’atmosphère électrique de la rédaction, elle songe à se remarier avec Bruce Baldwin, un banal assureur et à mener une vie plus paisible. Walter, qui connaît la passion de sa femme pour son métier de journaliste, a l’idée farfelue de la reconquérir en l’envoyant interviewer et couvrir les dernières heures d’un condamné à mort.

Comedy

6.278

Soupe au lait

Feb 07, 1936

Soupe au lait

1936 89 min 18 vues

Livreur de lait de son état, Burleigh Sullivan met accidentellement KO un champion de boxe un peu éméché à la sortie d’un club ce qui fait la une des journaux du lendemain. Le manager du champion cherche à exploiter cette popularité en faisant combattre le jeune laitier…

Comedy

5.4

La Source de Feu

Jul 12, 1935

La Source de Feu

1935 101 min 29 vues

Leo Vincey apprend de la bouche de son oncle mourant l'existence d'une terre inconnue qu'il dit avoir été visitée par leurs ancêtres il y a 500 ans. En compagnie de son ami Horace Holly, il essaye alors de trouver cette contrée dont la population connaitrait la vie éternelle grâce à l'utilisation d'un feu mystique. Ils se rendent dans le cercle polaire et vont découvrir une civilisation cruelle et étrange dirigée par une reine nommée She...

Adventure

5.4

Le Fils de Kong

Dec 22, 1933

Le Fils de Kong

1933 70 min 126 vues

Encore traumatisé par la mort de Kong, Carl Denham décide de quitter définitivement New York. Il s'embarque pour une nouvelle expédition vers l'île de Kong, afin de terminer le travail qu'il n'avait pu achever lors de son précédent voyage. Une mutinerie éclate bientôt à bord du navire....

Adventure

5

Girls of the Road

Jul 24, 1940

Girls of the Road

1940 61 min 3 vues

A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.

Adventure

5.2

Kiss and Make-Up

Jul 13, 1934

Kiss and Make-Up

1934 78 min 18 vues

Le docteur esthéticien Maurice Lamar a accompli un travail d'une grande qualité sur sa cliente Eve Caron, au point que son mari jaloux veut divorcer. Les rapports entre le docteur et sa cliente sortent alors du cadre professionel.

Comedy

5

Four Hours to Kill!

Apr 11, 1935

Four Hours to Kill!

1935 70 min 5 vues

A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.

Drama

1

Mystery of the White Room

Mar 17, 1939

Mystery of the White Room

1939 58 min 1 vues

A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.

Crime

5.7

Le bonheur est pour demain

Nov 22, 1944

Le bonheur est pour demain

1944 86 min 3 vues

Emily Blair est l'héritière d'une grande famille bourgeoise. Fiancée à Jeff Stoddard, Emily souffre cependant d'un handicap: la surdité, à la suite d'une méningite. Les plus grands spécialistes n'ont pu la guérir. Mais Emily a appris à lire sur les lèvres. Le docteur Weeks, médecin de la famille, fait venir Merek Vance, un de ses anciens élèves. Celui-ci n'exerce pas pour l'argent et donne ses soins aux plus pauvres. Janice, la sœur d'Emily, et Stoddard tombent amoureux l'un de l'autre, mais ce dernier ne veut pas révéler à sa fiancée la vérité, pour ne pas rajouter à sa détresse. Vance tente des expériences sur Emily.

Drama

5

Divorce

Aug 18, 1945

Divorce

1945 71 min 2 vues

A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.

Drama

6

King of the Newsboys

Mar 18, 1938

King of the Newsboys

1938 65 min 1 vues

A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.

Drama

5.2

The Return Of Peter Grimm

Sep 13, 1935

The Return Of Peter Grimm

1935 83 min 5 vues

The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.

Comedy

5.8

While Paris Sleeps

May 08, 1932

While Paris Sleeps

1932 67 min 4 vues

To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.

Drama

5.5

Blind Adventure

Aug 18, 1933

Blind Adventure

1933 63 min 5 vues

Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.

Mystery

5.8

Sweepings

Apr 14, 1933

Sweepings

1933 80 min 6 vues

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.

Drama

3

Secrets of a Nurse

Dec 02, 1938

Secrets of a Nurse

1938 75 min 2 vues

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.

Drama

4.3

The Wrong Road

Oct 11, 1937

The Wrong Road

1937 62 min 6 vues

A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.

Crime

5.5

I Promise to Pay

Apr 21, 1937

I Promise to Pay

1937 68 min 2 vues

A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.

Drama

7

You Belong to Me

Sep 08, 1934

You Belong to Me

1934 67 min 1 vues

When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unreliable in relationships, but he tells her to call him whenever she needs help. While working in a beer garden, Florette meets Hap Stanley, an avaricious performer who marries her to get the rights to perform her show routine. Hap dislikes Jimmy and eventually convinces Florette to send him away to school. Both Jimmy and Florette are broken-up over being apart, but Jimmy pretends it is what he wants so Florette can be happy with Hap.

Drama

4.6

The Last Train from Madrid

Jun 11, 1937

The Last Train from Madrid

1937 78 min 8 vues

The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.

Action

5

Fit for a King

Sep 01, 1937

Fit for a King

1937 73 min 2 vues

Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.

Comedy

6

All of Me

Feb 01, 1934

All of Me

1934 70 min 1 vues

A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.

Drama

6.7

The Struggle

Dec 10, 1931

The Struggle

1931 87 min 9 vues

A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.

Drama

1

Fargo Express

Nov 20, 1933

Fargo Express

1933 61 min 1 vues

When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identified by his palomino horse. Ken tries to clear him by robbing a stage while riding a palomino, but he also gets caught.

Western

1

I Stand Accused

Oct 29, 1938

I Stand Accused

1938 63 min 1 vues

Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally quick success - in the district attorney's office. Inevitably, they meet on opposite sides of the courtroom.

Crime

4.5

You Can't Buy Luck

Apr 30, 1937

You Can't Buy Luck

1937 61 min 4 vues

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.

Crime

5.5

The Silent Witness

Feb 07, 1932

The Silent Witness

1932 73 min 2 vues

L'histoire d'un homme qui essai de protéger son fils de l'accusation de meurtre, assume sa culpabilité.

Mystery

4.6

Power Dive

Jun 04, 1941

Power Dive

1941 68 min 5 vues

The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).

Action

1

Calling All Marines

Sep 20, 1939

Calling All Marines

1939 66 min 1 vues

Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.

Action

4.7

College Rhythm

Nov 23, 1934

College Rhythm

1934 86 min 3 vues

The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.

Romance

5.2

Melody Cruise

Jun 22, 1933

Melody Cruise

1933 76 min 6 vues

A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.

Music

1

Gambling Ship

Dec 16, 1938

Gambling Ship

1938 65 min 1 vues

A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.

Drama

4.5

Captain Hurricane

Mar 01, 1935

Captain Hurricane

1935 72 min 2 vues

Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.

Comedy

5

The Lemon Drop Kid

Sep 27, 1934

The Lemon Drop Kid

1934 71 min 2 vues

The Lemon Drop Kid is a fast-talking racetrack bum who swindles $100 from an old, ailing man. He takes it on the lam with his sidekick, The Professor.

Drama

1

Success

Feb 25, 1923

Success

1923 70 min 1 vues

The often-told film story of a drunken actor hitting the skids, making a comeback, and helping his grown daughter in the bargain.

Drama

6.1

Zaza

Oct 21, 1923

Zaza

1923 84 min 21 vues

Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.

Romance

7

The California Trail

Mar 24, 1933

The California Trail

1933 67 min 1 vues

Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Commandante and his brother the Mayor's effort to starve out the peasants. Thrown in jail and about to be hung, he escapes and joins the peasants in their fight against the brothers and their troops...

Western

6.4

Strange Holiday

Oct 19, 1945

Strange Holiday

1945 61 min 5 vues

An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.

Fantasy

5

Under the Red Robe

Nov 12, 1923

Under the Red Robe

1923 100 min 1 vues

A young man is tasked by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu to capture one of the cardinal's enemies but falls in love with his target's sister. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.

History

1

Christopher Bean

Nov 17, 1933

Christopher Bean

1933 75 min 1 vues

When the painter Christopher Bean dies, some unscrupulous art dealers try to get several of his paintings cheaply from a family who have no idea of their value.

Comedy

5

Pied Piper Malone

Feb 04, 1924

Pied Piper Malone

1924 77 min 1 vues

Pied Piper Malone (1924)

Comedy