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Cliff Saum

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Cliff Saum was born on December 18, 1882 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for A Bum Mistake (1914), The Volunteer Fireman (1915) and The $5,000,000 Counterfeiting Plot (1914). He died on March 5, 1943 in Glendale, California, USA.

18-12-1882

Birthday

Sagittarius

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Columbus, Ohio, USA

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117 Works

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
5.7

Year:

1975

Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
7.1

Year:

1943

The Hidden Hand

The Hidden Hand

Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
6.3

Year:

1942

Spy Ship

Spy Ship

A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
6.0

Year:

1942

Murder in the Big House

Murder in the Big House

When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
6.5

Year:

1942

I Was Framed

I Was Framed

A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
4.0

Year:

1942

The Male Animal

The Male Animal

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
4.1

Year:

1942

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
4.7

Year:

1942

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
6.9

Year:

1941

Manpower

Manpower

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
6.7

Year:

1941

Highway West

Highway West

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
5.8

Year:

1941

The Nurse's Secret

The Nurse's Secret

An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
5.0

Year:

1941

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
5.2

Year:

1941

The Case of the Black Parrot

The Case of the Black Parrot

Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.
5.4

Year:

1941

East of the River

East of the River

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
5.7

Year:

1940

Flowing Gold

Flowing Gold

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
7.0

Year:

1940

Money and the Woman

Money and the Woman

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
4.3

Year:

1940

They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
6.9

Year:

1940

King of the Lumberjacks

King of the Lumberjacks

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
3.0

Year:

1940

Alex in Wonderland

Alex in Wonderland

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fred's displeasure. Alex in is New York to look for a job and he sees an ad for a champagne salesman. He decides to crash a swank party given by railroad tycoon J.D. Swinnerton and his wife. Alex has his own zany way of getting an introduction to the man. Mayhem ensues when several of the guests come as Robin Hood and one of them is a jewel thief.
0.0

Year:

1940

Castle on the Hudson

Castle on the Hudson

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
6.8

Year:

1940

Calling Philo Vance

Calling Philo Vance

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
5.8

Year:

1940

Brother Rat and a Baby

Brother Rat and a Baby

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
5.2

Year:

1940

The Return of Doctor X

The Return of Doctor X

When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
5.9

Year:

1939

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
7.5

Year:

1939

Smashing the Money Ring

Smashing the Money Ring

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
5.0

Year:

1939

On Your Toes

On Your Toes

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
3.9

Year:

1939

Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
6.2

Year:

1939

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
6.8

Year:

1939

Angels Wash Their Faces

Angels Wash Their Faces

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
6.4

Year:

1939

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
6.8

Year:

1939

Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite

Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
6.0

Year:

1939

Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
6.2

Year:

1939

Naughty But Nice

Naughty But Nice

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
6.2

Year:

1939

Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter

Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter

When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
6.0

Year:

1939

Code of the Secret Service

Code of the Secret Service

Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
3.5

Year:

1939

Dark Victory

Dark Victory

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
7.0

Year:

1939

Women in the Wind

Women in the Wind

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
6.8

Year:

1939

On Trial

On Trial

An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
5.5

Year:

1939

The Oklahoma Kid

The Oklahoma Kid

McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
5.9

Year:

1939

Secret Service of the Air

Secret Service of the Air

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
5.8

Year:

1939

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Nancy Drew... Reporter

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
6.2

Year:

1939

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
6.0

Year:

1939

They Made Me a Criminal

They Made Me a Criminal

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
6.3

Year:

1939

King of the Underworld

King of the Underworld

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
6.4

Year:

1939

Devil's Island

Devil's Island

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
5.4

Year:

1939

Heart of the North

Heart of the North

A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
3.7

Year:

1938

Nancy Drew… Detective

Nancy Drew… Detective

After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
6.3

Year:

1938

Torchy Gets Her Man

Torchy Gets Her Man

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
5.9

Year:

1938

Brother Rat

Brother Rat

Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
5.0

Year:

1938

Girls on Probation

Girls on Probation

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
5.9

Year:

1938

Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
6.2

Year:

1938

Penrod's Double Trouble

Penrod's Double Trouble

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
6.0

Year:

1938

Racket Busters

Racket Busters

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
5.1

Year:

1938

Cowboy from Brooklyn

Cowboy from Brooklyn

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
4.0

Year:

1938

The Beloved Brat

The Beloved Brat

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
6.4

Year:

1938

Over the Wall

Over the Wall

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
5.0

Year:

1938

Jezebel

Jezebel

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
7.0

Year:

1938

Blondes at Work

Blondes at Work

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
6.1

Year:

1938

The Adventurous Blonde

The Adventurous Blonde

The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
5.4

Year:

1937

Over the Goal

Over the Goal

The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
3.0

Year:

1937

It's Love I'm After

It's Love I'm After

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
7.0

Year:

1937

Love Is on the Air

Love Is on the Air

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
5.0

Year:

1937

Wine, Women and Horses

Wine, Women and Horses

An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
4.0

Year:

1937

Varsity Show

Varsity Show

Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
6.0

Year:

1937

Talent Scout

Talent Scout

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
6.0

Year:

1937

Blazing Sixes

Blazing Sixes

Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
6.0

Year:

1937

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
6.8

Year:

1937

The Go-Getter

The Go-Getter

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
5.8

Year:

1937

The Cherokee Strip

The Cherokee Strip

A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
6.0

Year:

1937

Melody for Two

Melody for Two

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
0.0

Year:

1937

Men in Exile

Men in Exile

An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.
4.8

Year:

1937

Land Beyond the Law

Land Beyond the Law

A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
7.0

Year:

1937

Ready, Willing and Able

Ready, Willing and Able

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
5.2

Year:

1937

Midnight Court

Midnight Court

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
4.8

Year:

1937

Penrod and Sam

Penrod and Sam

A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
6.0

Year:

1937

Her Husband's Secretary

Her Husband's Secretary

A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
5.0

Year:

1937

The Great O'Malley

The Great O'Malley

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
6.7

Year:

1937

Once a Doctor

Once a Doctor

Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
6.3

Year:

1937

Smart Blonde

Smart Blonde

Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
6.2

Year:

1937

Guns of the Pecos

Guns of the Pecos

A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
6.2

Year:

1936

King of Hockey

King of Hockey

Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
5.0

Year:

1936

California Mail

California Mail

The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
4.8

Year:

1936

Trailin' West

Trailin' West

A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
0.0

Year:

1936

Jailbreak

Jailbreak

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
6.4

Year:

1936

Satan Met a Lady

Satan Met a Lady

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
5.9

Year:

1936

Treachery Rides the Range

Treachery Rides the Range

The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty. After the trouble starts, the Indians get the Colonel's daughter and hold her prisoner. Written by Tony Fontana
1.0

Year:

1936

Moonlight on the Prairie

Moonlight on the Prairie

A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
5.5

Year:

1935

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
6.4

Year:

1935

The Goose and the Gander

The Goose and the Gander

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
4.6

Year:

1935

Broadway Gondolier

Broadway Gondolier

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
5.4

Year:

1935

Stranded

Stranded

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
5.8

Year:

1935

Murder in the Clouds

Murder in the Clouds

Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
4.7

Year:

1934

Gentlemen Are Born

Gentlemen Are Born

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
6.5

Year:

1934

Desirable

Desirable

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
7.3

Year:

1934

Dames

Dames

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
6.3

Year:

1934

The Dragon Murder Case

The Dragon Murder Case

Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
5.8

Year:

1934

The Merry Frinks

The Merry Frinks

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
3.7

Year:

1934

Lady Killer

Lady Killer

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
6.7

Year:

1933

The Kennel Murder Case

The Kennel Murder Case

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
6.2

Year:

1933

Baby Face

Baby Face

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
7.3

Year:

1933

Hard to Handle

Hard to Handle

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
6.6

Year:

1933

Afraid to Talk

Afraid to Talk

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
6.0

Year:

1932

The Dark Horse

The Dark Horse

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
7.2

Year:

1932

Fireman, Save My Child

Fireman, Save My Child

Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?
5.0

Year:

1932

Expensive Women

Expensive Women

A wealthy young woman struggles to find love while surrounded by possible suitors.
4.8

Year:

1931

Side Show

Side Show

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
5.0

Year:

1931

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
7.0

Year:

1931

River's End

River's End

Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung and Keith takes his place.
6.2

Year:

1930

The Doorway to Hell

The Doorway to Hell

A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
6.3

Year:

1930

Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
5.3

Year:

1930

The Three Sisters

The Three Sisters

A 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Paul Sloane and starring Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola and Kenneth MacKenna. It was distributed by Fox Film Corporation five years before they would become Twentieth Century Fox. It is unknown whether a print of the film still exists.
0.0

Year:

1930

Show Girl in Hollywood

Show Girl in Hollywood

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
5.8

Year:

1930

Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
6.1

Year:

1928

The House Without a Key

The House Without a Key

A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
0.0

Year:

1926

The Bridge of Sighs

The Bridge of Sighs

The spoiled, arrogant and slow-witted son of a wealthy businessman falls in love with the daughter of his father's business manager.
0.0

Year:

1925

Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget

A story of the First World War, told in semi-documentary style, focusing on the iniquities of the German war machine, and with its dramatic center the sinking by a German U-boat of the passenger liner Lusitania in 1915.
6.0

Year:

1918