Hollywood Uncensored (1987)
Hollywood Uncensored (1987) Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and later in the movie Peter Fonda narrate the story about the censorship, exploitation and sex in Hollywood movies from the 1930s and the Hays' Motion Picture Production Code to the present day era. This documentary focuses, sometimes just for a min
Little Caesar (1931)
Rico is a small-time hood who knocks off gas stations for whatever he can take. He heads east and signs up with Sam Vettori's mob. A New Year's Eve robbery at Little Arnie Lorch's casino ...
The Great Manhunt (1950)
The Great Manhunt (1950) Visiting in England, famed American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe is the object of a shoot-to-kil
Morning Glory (1933)
Morning Glory 1933 Ada Love, who has renamed herself Eva Lovelace, is a would be actress trying to crash the New York stage A wildly optimistic chatterbox full of theatrical mannerisms, her looks, more than her talent, attract the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
That Lady in Ermine (1948) Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: t
The Narrow Corner (1933)
The Narrow Corner (1933) Fred, an Englishmen, (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) , wanted for murder, winds up on a fishing boat in The South Seas, run by Nichols. ( Arther Nohl). Also present is the ships' doctor (Sidney Toler) who is there to treat Nichols for a stomach disorder. One day, after swimming nude
Mimi (1935)
Mimi (1935) The story of a struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate whose love furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Angels Over Broadway (1940) Charles Engle has been caught embezzling. He writes a suicide note, and goes out wandering on the town. Small-time hustler Bill O'Brian sees him give a couple of big tips, figures he's rich, and plans to take him over to a big-time card game and fleece him. He enlists Nin
The Young in Heart (1938)
The Young in Heart (1938) The Carletons make a living as card sharps and finding new suckers to mooch off of. When their latest scam backfires, they are asked to leave Monte Carlo. At the train station, they meet a kind old woman named Miss Fortune. The elderly lady is very wealthy and very lonely.
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
The Corsican Brothers 1941 After their parents are killed, co joined twin boys are separated, with one raised as a gentleman in Paris and the other in the mountains becoming a bandit
Parachute Jumper (1933)
Parachute Jumper 1933 To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles Bill is hired by a gangsters mistress and ultimately becomes the gangsters bodyguard Alabama unknowingly applies for a stenographers job at Mr Webers the gangsters business Bill is forced to fl
The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
The Rise of Catherine the Great 1934 In 1745, a German Princess, renamed Catherine Elisabeth Bergner, arrives to marry Grand Duke Peter of Russia Douglas Fairbanks, Jr , whom she initially likes But his suspicious, unstable nature gradually estranges them, and Peter finds solace with pretty courtier