Bert Starkey

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The Best Man Wins
5.8

The Best Man Wins

Jan 14, 1935
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
Atlantic Adventure
5.5

Atlantic Adventure

Aug 25, 1935
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Comedy
The Sin Ship
5.8

The Sin Ship

Apr 18, 1931
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
Drama
The Iron Trail
1

The Iron Trail

Oct 29, 1921
Alaskan railroad magnate Curtis Gordon hires engineer Dan Appleton to design a railroad route up the Salmon River to the rich gold country. Gordon turns down the engineer's proposed route in favor of his own, and Appleton quits. Murray O'Neil, a rival builder, hires him and falls in love with his sister Eliza, while Appleton courts Natalie, Gordon's stepdaughter. Following Appleton's plan, O'Neil lays the trail with a bridge crossing the river in face of Gordon's opposition.
Adventure
After the Dance
6

After the Dance

Jun 25, 1935
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
Drama
The Dark Mirror
6

The Dark Mirror

May 08, 1920
New York society member Priscilla Maine is troubled by strange dreams in which she vividly sees members of the underworld involved in a murder. She confides this to her admirer, Dr. Philip Fosdick, who undertakes to solve the mystery.
Horror
New York - Miami
7.8

New York - Miami

Feb 22, 1934
Ellie Andrews, jeune fille gâtée, échappe à l'emprise de son père millionnaire qui veut à tout prix l'empêcher d'épouser un play boy sans avenir. En route pour New York, elle rencontre Peter Warner, journaliste au chômage. Mais le bus tombe en panne et le couple impromptu se lance dans une folle randonnée improvisée.
Comedy
Wild Geese
1

Wild Geese

Nov 15, 1927
Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to reveal it.
Drama
Hat, Coat and Glove
5.5

Hat, Coat and Glove

Jul 26, 1934
A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
Drama
Vous ne l'emporterez pas avec vous
7.5
Après avoir fait fortune, le vieux Vanderhof est devenu un sage en pensant que l'argent ne fait pas le bonheur. Il vit entouré de ses petits-enfants et de ses domestiques, pour le moins originaux. Mais voila que sa petite-fille Alice s'éprend de Tony Kirby, le fils d'un homme d'affaires. Si Alice et Tony s'aiment, ce n'est pas le cas des Vanderhof et des Kirby, qui n'ont pas réellement la même conception de la vie.
Comedy
Scarface
7.4

Scarface

Apr 09, 1932
Chicago, au temps de la prohibition. Un petit malfrat, l'ambitieux Tony Camonte, tue son patron et devient le garde du corps de Lovo, chef du gang rival. Amoureux de Poppy, la petite amie de Lovo, il veille jalousement sur sa soeur Cesca, lui interdisant toute liaison sentimentale. Avec son complice Guido Rinaldo, Tony prend peu à peu le pouvoir au sein du gang de Lovo.
Crime
Carnival
1

Carnival

Feb 15, 1935
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Romance
The Cub
5.9

The Cub

Jul 15, 1915
This breezy comedy is about a cub newspaper reporter who goes to investigate a family feud, which has erupted into violence again—a parody of the real Hatfield-McCoy feud.
Comedy
Dorian's Divorce
1

Dorian's Divorce

Jun 05, 1916
Wealthy clubman Richard Dorian is a lighthearted soul who can't seem to take anything seriously, including his wife. Even when they decide to divorce, he meets the lawyers with a smile. When one of the attorneys suggests a charge of brutality, Mrs. Dorian points out that it is ludicrous. Dorian offers to have a party on his yacht, during which he will try very hard to be brutal to her to give her grounds for the divorce. Among the partygoers are Mrs. Dorian's guardian and Morgan, a smuggler who is buying the yacht. The guardian, who has squandered Mrs. Dorian's money on the stock market, kills himself. Dorian thinks that his wife killed him, gallantly takes the blame himself, and dives overboard. He becomes a tramp and is shanghaied by Morgan's men to become a stoker on his former yacht. Dorian's steward, Puck, is still onboard, and he tells Dorian that the guardian committed suicide.
Drama