James Hall

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Hell's Angels
6.4

Hell's Angels

Nov 15, 1930
Trois amis, deux frères américains et un allemand, se sont rencontrés lors de leurs études. Mais quand éclate la Première Guerre Mondiale, ils se retrouvent dans des camps opposés. Les deux frères s’engagent dans l’aviation : ils se battront dans les airs, mais aussi pour les faveurs d’une jeune anglaise. Quant à l’allemand, il devra choisir entre suivre les ordres et épargner l’Angleterre qu’il aime tant. Sur terre comme dans les cieux, bravoure et lâcheté s’affrontent.
Drama
Sporting Chance
1

Sporting Chance

Oct 25, 1931
A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career and his life.
Action
The Canary Murder Case
5.6
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
Crime
Rolled Stockings
1

Rolled Stockings

Jun 18, 1927
Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's the old one about two collegiate brothers, Jim and Ralph Treadway (James Hall, Richard Arlen), in love with the same girl, Carol Fleming (Brooks).
Drama
Les Quatre Fils
7.2

Les Quatre Fils

Feb 13, 1928
Dans une petite ville de Bavière une mère vie heureuse avec ses quatre fils lorsque l'un d'eux émigre en Amérique. Puis, lorsque que la guerre éclate, deux autres partent au front et se font tuer avant que le dernier soit incorporé de force.
War
Millie
5.6

Millie

Feb 06, 1931
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Drama
Hôtel Impérial
5.8

Hôtel Impérial

Jan 01, 1927
Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, un officier autrichien est sauvé par une femme de chambre dans un hôtel devenu le quartier général des forces russes.
Drama
Manhattan Tower
6

Manhattan Tower

Dec 01, 1932
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
Drama
Silk Legs
1

Silk Legs

Dec 18, 1927
Male and female sales agents, Phil and Ruth, for rival hosiery concerns try to land an order. For a while Phil succeeds and puts on an exhibition but Ruby makes the mannequins use her own brand of hose, flirts with the buyer and wins order away from her rival.
Comedy
Let's Go Native
7.5

Let's Go Native

Aug 15, 1930
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
Music
Dangerous Nan McGrew
2

Dangerous Nan McGrew

Jun 22, 1930
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.
Western
The Good Bad Girl
5.5

The Good Bad Girl

May 20, 1931
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Drama
Maybe It's Love
4

Maybe It's Love

Oct 04, 1930
A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president. The nominal leading man is Tommy Nelson, the black-sheep son of a wealthy alumnus. Though Nelson is an ace football player, President Sheffield refuses to enroll the boy because of his bad reputation, whereupon Tommy's father withdraws his financial backing and bars his son from ever setting foot on Sheffield's campus. Falling in love with Nan, Tommy signs up with the college under an assumed name, giving up his wastrel ways to lead the football team to victory. Joe E. Brown steals the show as Speed Hanson, a goofy gridiron star who emits a loud and long yell whenever scoring a touchdown (this was, in fact, the first film in which Brown's famous "Yeeeeowww" was heard -- but certainly not the last).
Romance
The Saturday Night Kid
4.4
Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.
Comedy
Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
6
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.
Documentary
Divorce Among Friends
4.4

Divorce Among Friends

Dec 13, 1930
George Morris constantly lies to his wife, Helen, to hide his escapades. As he is about to leave his wife, some guests arrives, including Paul Wilcox, who is in love with Helen. By the end of the party, however, George and Helen have reconciled yet again. Soon after, George meets Joan Whitley and loses a lighter which his wife has given him; Whitley drives off with it. When Helen throws a party, Joan, who is an old friend of Helen, arrives. When Helen introduces Joan to George, they pretend not to know each other. George pleads with Joan to return his lighter. She agrees to meet him later in the library and if he is nice to her she will give him back the lighter.
Comedy
The Fleet's In
1

The Fleet's In

Sep 15, 1928
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with her.
Comedy
Just Married
1

Just Married

Aug 18, 1928
After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
Comedy
The Case of Lena Smith
5.2
A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is considered lost, and only four minutes of footage are known to remain.
Drama
The Third Alarm
1

The Third Alarm

Nov 16, 1930
The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.
Action
The She-Wolf
1

The She-Wolf

May 01, 1931
An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.
Drama
Swim Girl, Swim
1

Swim Girl, Swim

Sep 03, 1927
Serious university co-ed Alice Smith, is wholly engrossed, it would appear, in chasing butterflies and rare insects under the guidance of her friend, Mr. Spangle, Ph. D., though she secretly yearns to be an athlete and thus win the admiration of Jerry Marvin, a popular schoolmate. She takes up swimming, making herself the campus joke because of her ideas on the subject.
Comedy
The Fifty-Fifty Girl
1

The Fifty-Fifty Girl

May 12, 1928
Strong-willed Kathleen O'Hara, believes in equality of sexes, makes a pact with her sweetheart, Jim Donahue, when they become joint owners of a California gold mine. According to the agreement, Donahue will do the housekeeping while Kathleen runs the mine; the first to call for help loses his share of the mine.
Comedy
The College Flirt
1

The College Flirt

Sep 18, 1926
A product of wealth and high society, Patricia Mansfield is sent to Colton College by her father, who hopes to eradicate her snobbish veneer. On the train, Pat meets Denis Adams, a prominent athlete who is working his way through school as coach of the girls' track team; he introduces her to track star Charlie Paddock. Through efforts to keep her associates in place, Pat sinks deeper into the mire of antagonism; her only friends are Harriet Porter and Knute Knudson, the Swedish janitor.
Comedy
Stranded in Paris
1

Stranded in Paris

Dec 13, 1926
American shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye, who has to kiss her when she loses a sack race. In Paris, Julie finds her proposed residence destroyed, and while waiting for Bob her purse is snatched; in the ensuing chase she gets lost and enters a dressmaker shop, where the two owners are in dire need of an English-speaking girl to deliver some gowns. Accidentally she is given free entry to the apartment of Countess Pasada and is shown to her rooms; the count is in his pajamas when she emerges from her bath, and she locks him in the bathroom.
Romance