The Bard of Broadway
Oct 01, 1930Newspaper columnist helps finishing school students get out of trouble after the night club in which they go to see him is raided.
Florence Auer
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Blonde Dynamite
Feb 12, 1950While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients.
Crime
Quatre étranges cavaliers
Jul 23, 1954A Silver Lode, le jour de la fête nationale. Dan Ballard s'apprête à épouser la fille du plus riche propriétaire local. La cérémonie est interrompue par l'arrivée impromptue de McCarthy, un mystérieux agent fédéral, et de ses trois adjoints. Celui-ci détient un mandat d'arrêt au nom de Ballard, pour le meurtre de son frère et le vol de 20 000 dollars, perpétrés deux ans plus tôt. Bientôt, toute la ville est partagée entre l'innocence et la culpabilité de Ballard. Dan demande deux heures de répit...
Western
La Dynastie des Forsyte
Nov 03, 1949Dans l'Angleterre victorienne, faisant fi de ses nobles idéaux, Irene accepte à contrecœur d'épouser Soames Forsyte. Le jeune homme, issu d'une prestigieuse famille, est un riche avocat, séduisant mais égoïste, qu'elle n'aime pas. Deux ans plus tard, June, la fille de Jolyon, cousin de Soames et peintre bohème rejeté par sa famille, lui présente son fiancé, le charmant Philip Bosinney. Contre toute attente, un coup de foudre immédiat unit Irene et Philip. Folle de jalousie, June dénonce immédiatement leur liaison adultère à Soames. Peu après, Philip périt dans un accident. Désespérée, Irene quitte son mari et part vivre à Paris...
Drama
C'est arrivé dans la Cinquième Avenue
Apr 17, 1947Aloyisius T. McKeever (Victor Moore), un clochard de New York, fait sa résidence d'hiver d'une maison vide de la Cinquième Avenue dont le propriétaire, le multi-millionnaire Michael J. O'Connor ( Charles Ruggles ), a migré vers le sud. Par hasard, il rencontre Jim Bullock, un sans-abri vétéran de la Deuxième Guerre, et l'accueille dans la maison. Ils deviennent un trio quand la fille d'O'Connor s'amène, fuyant l'école et les deux hommes l'accueillent, pensant qu'il s'agit d'une pauvre fille fuyant son père abusif.
Comedy
Seeing Things
Nov 25, 1930The heir to a fortune will only receive his inheritance if he spends the night in a supposedly haunted house.
Comedy
Pardon My Nightshirt
Nov 22, 1956Professor Clyde is on the lookout for a nightshirt bandit prowling the college campus.
Comedy
Honni soit qui mal y pense
Dec 25, 1947Préoccupé par la construction d'une cathédrale, l'évêque Henry Brougham néglige sa famille. En réponse à l'une de ses prières, l'ange Dudley vient à son secours. Mais il tombe amoureux de la femme de l'évêque, Julia.
Comedy
Richard III
Sep 26, 1908
Madame Bovary
Aug 25, 1949Une femme ayant fait un mariage malheureux avec un triste et pitoyable médecin de campagne rêve d'amours romantiques.
Gustave Flaubert, auteur de "Madame Bovary", oeuvre jugée immorale, raconte son roman devant un tribunal : Emma Rouault, d'une nature ardente et d'une éblouissante beauté, épouse le petit médecin de campagne, Charles Bovary. Elle se lasse vite de la monotonie d'une vie sans éclat. Un bébé survient, mais rien ne change. Emma devient la maîtresse de Rodolphe Boulanger, un jeune aristocrate, puis de Léon Dupuis...
Drama
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Feb 11, 1944A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
Drama
Les Ruelles du malheur
Feb 22, 1949Un jeune délinquant, accusé du meurtre d'un policier, est défendu par un avocat qui est né et a vécu dans le même quartier que le prévenu: "Skid Row", les ruelles du malheur.
Drama
The Fatal Hour
Aug 18, 1908This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective of a female detective, played by Marion Leonard, whose assignment is to expose and break the traffic ring. A fragment is widely available.
Crime
The Sculptor's Nightmare
May 06, 1908At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken to jail. There he has a nightmare, wherein three busts are created and animated from clay (through stop-motion photography) in the likenesses of Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republicans Charles W. Fairbanks and William Howard Taft. Finally an animated bust of Roosevelt appears.
Comedy
Hey, Pop!
Nov 12, 1932
L'évadée
Nov 16, 1946Chuck Scott, vétéran tourmenté de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, est embauché comme chauffeur du gangster Eddie Roman. Il fait ainsi la connaissance de Gino, le bras droit d'Eddie, et de Lorna, la femme du truand. Vivant sous l'emprise d'un mari sadique et imprévisible, elle finit par s'enfuir avec Chuck à Cuba (les deux jeunes gens étant tombés amoureux l'un de l'autre), provoquant la rage d'Eddie...
Thriller
Slappily Married
Nov 07, 1946
Over the Hills to the Poor House
Jun 26, 1908The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a wild but kind young fellow, she leaves a small amount, feeling that he will soon run through it. The good-hearted boy is perfectly satisfied, believing in the wisdom of his mother's actions. He assumes she will find a home with one of his siblings, who are married and settled. The old woman moves in with her married son, but is driven out by his wife over an argument about her young granddaughter. She is forced to move into a squalid apartment in a cheap tenement house, but is evicted for failing to pay her rent. Mack Sennett appears as a bartender in this film.
Drama
The Kentuckian
Jul 07, 1908
The Beautiful City
Oct 25, 1925For their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brother's gangster boss. Considered a lost film.
Drama
No More West
Mar 29, 1934Bert Lahr is a big city boy hung up on tales of the Old West. When his playing cowboys and Indians causes a ruckus, he's brought before a judge who prescribes him rest and relaxation...out West.
Comedy
Wife Wanted
Nov 02, 1946Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
Crime
Bride for Sale
Nov 12, 1949Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their clients' tax documents. Martin finds out and tries to dissuade her from this approach, later enlisting the help of his friend Steve Adams, who tries to woo Shelley.
Comedy
Double Talk
Jun 26, 1937Orphanage manager Dr. Bergen tries to get a rich woman to adopt Charlie McCarthy.
Comedy
The Heart of a Siren
Mar 15, 1925This silent drama's story is based on the Broadway play Hail and Farewell by William Hurlbut.
Drama
L'Aventure
Dec 28, 1945Sur un radeau à la dérive, après le torpillage de son navire par les Japonais, Mudgin, un vieux marin sympathique et original, promet à Dieu de s'amender si lui et ses camarades ont la vie sauve. De fait, quelques heures plus tard, un navire recueille Mudgin et ses compagnons, parmi lesquels figure le maître d'équipage, Harry Patterson, un dur à cuire qui a pris Mugdin en amitié. Ils se retrouvent à San Francisco. Quelques heures passées sur la terre ferme suffisent à Mudgin pour oublier ses promesses...
Adventure
Nid d'amour
Oct 10, 1951Dans le New York de l'après-guerre, Jim ne parvient pas à boucler l'écriture de son roman. Lorsqu'une ancienne connaissance, Roberta, lui rend visite, cela n'est pas du goût de sa compagne Connie.
Comedy
That Royle Girl
Dec 07, 1925Joan Royle, beautiful but naive model who came from the slums, falls for Fred Ketlar, the leader of a dance band. When Fred's estranged wife Adele is murdered, Fred is arrested and convicted of the crime. Joan believes that the real murderer is Baretta, a gangster who was keeping Adele as his mistress
Comedy
Hold That Baby!
Jun 06, 1949While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.
Comedy
Fair Lady
Mar 19, 1922Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a criminal syndicate, wants her for himself. He arranges to have the bridegroom assassinated, and Norvin Blake, a young American (Robert Elliott), almost loses his life in his attempt to save him.
Adventure
Eradicating Aunty
May 31, 1909A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.
Comedy
At the Crossroads of Life
Jul 02, 1908At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an actress are condemned by her stern father, a man of the cloth who has no time for those in the acting profession.
The Tavern Keeper’s Daughter
Jul 24, 1908In the lonely wilds of Southern California there stands a rural tavern, kept by an old trapper, who had been widowed years ago; his wife leaving him a most precious legacy in the being of a pretty daughter.
Action
The Fight for Freedom
Jul 17, 1908In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot dead by Pedro, who is wounded as he attempts to escape. Pedro is followed home by the local sheriff, who proves the next victim of Pedro's quick temper and pistol. Pedro's wife, Juanita, is thrown into jail, but he manages to break her out. They head for the border, unaware that a posse is waiting for them.
Western
Le charlatan
Oct 09, 1947Bonimenteur de fête foraine, Stanton Carliste entre en possession du secret d'un numéro truqué de lecture des esprits. Grâce à ce secret, il devient le "clairvoyant" à succès de Chicago. L'affaire qu'il a montée avec la liseuse de carte Zeena et le docteur Lilith Ritter, un psychologue, est prospère. Molly, sa jeune femme, est aussi de l'affaire même si c'est à contrecœur qu'elle participe aux démonstrations, mais elle ne peut tout accepter. Ecœurée, c'est en pleine exhibition, alors que "le Grand Stanton" était en train d'abuser une riche clientèle, qu'elle dénonce la supercherie...
Drama
L'Ange noir
Aug 02, 1946Marty Blair, musicien célèbre, idole de Los Angelès sombre dans l’alcool, et la déchéance en quelques mois. Mavis Marlow chanteuse de cabaret, dont Marty avait fait la réputation et la fortune l’avait épousée jusqu’au jour où la chanteuse ambitieuse, avide et cruelle l’avait abandonnée. Mavis est retrouvée morte dans son appartement par Kirk Bennett qui est immédiatement soupçonné par le capitaine Flood, traduit devant les tribunaux et condamné à mort. Sa femme Catherine Bennett convaincue de son innocence demande à Marty de l’aider. Après une longue enquête et intrigue autour de Marko tenancier d’un cabaret, d’un clip en forme de cœur serti de rubis offert à Mavis par Marty, et le tout mêlé d’amour platonique entre Marty et Catherine, Marty réussira in extremis à sauver Kirk, le mari de Catherine, en retrouvant après une soirée trop arrosée, une partie de sa mémoire.
Mystery
A Modern Cinderella
Jan 08, 1917Joyce's mother keeps her younger daughter in the background so that Polly, the elder daughter, can monopolize all the eligible young men, especially Tom. Although Tom is Polly's choice, she decides to pique his interest by flirting with Harry. Joyce, who likes Tom herself, decides to defeat her sister's plan by having Tom pretend that he likes her. Soon, the pretense turns to love and Tom proposes to Joyce. To test his sincerity, Joyce jumps into shark-infested waters and almost loses her life. Tom visits her constantly in the hospital and finds that his operation on her heart was quite successful.
Drama
A Modern Cinderella
Jan 08, 1917Joyce's mother keeps her younger daughter in the background so that Polly, the elder daughter, can monopolize all the eligible young men, especially Tom. Although Tom is Polly's choice, she decides to pique his interest by flirting with Harry. Joyce, who likes Tom herself, decides to defeat her sister's plan by having Tom pretend that he likes her. Soon, the pretense turns to love and Tom proposes to Joyce. To test his sincerity, Joyce jumps into shark-infested waters and almost loses her life. Tom visits her constantly in the hospital and finds that his operation on her heart was quite successful.
Drama
Her Mad Bargain
Dec 12, 1921After the death of her benefactress, Mrs. Beresford, Alice Lambert is evicted by Ruth, Mrs. Beresford's jealous niece; and in despair Alice seeks employment as a model. Her refusal to accept the attentions of Monsieur Armand ends in her dismissal
Romance
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
May 16, 1958The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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