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24 March 1939
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
15 April 1923
A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of his league when it comes to women.
17 April 1941
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist.
27 December 1940
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
25 February 1939
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out.
05 February 1936
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
28 November 1941
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
29 September 1933
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig.
24 November 1918
Ali Baba, a poor Turkish wood chopper, discovers that a robbers' cave, concealed in the mountains that surround his house, opens to the magical phrase, "Open Sesame.
16 May 1937
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
25 January 1936
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
21 June 1942
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
13 May 1938
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
05 May 1929
An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.
06 October 1939
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City.
19 May 1936
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
09 July 1920
Edgar delivers a cake to his sister's ill friend. The cake arrives safely, but not sound, and Edgar is taken to task for his careless handling of the article.
27 January 1939
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
27 December 1940
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
22 June 1930
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him.
07 October 1933
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job.
19 December 1936
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
24 December 1922
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock.
26 September 1941
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise.
09 October 1936
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her.
27 March 1920
The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the triumphant master of his fate, revenging himself on a scornful young female classmate.
16 September 1938
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding.
05 July 1940
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
17 May 1940
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
18 August 1950
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
18 November 1938
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
10 March 1927
Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)
18 September 1936
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
18 April 1920
Edgar and his schoolmates put on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet such as the townsfolk have never seen.
10 June 1927
Two henpecked men run off and pretend to be athletic trainers in order to get jobs in a weight loss club for women.
08 October 1924
Buddy, an office-boy in a newspaper plant, puts on long trousers to get a man's-size job on the paper, and impress his girl.
18 November 1917
Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, but when they are threatened by a pirate attack, they stay with friend, the squire, for the night.
10 December 1922
Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve to propose and asks her to run away with him.
01 September 1920
Edgar is about to lose the lady of his heart because the Bates boys have been given a complete camping outfit for their back yard: tent, stove, and everything.
21 January 1924
Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her.
31 August 1919
A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleasantness.
17 February 1939
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
01 December 1928
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.
31 January 1942
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
07 July 1924
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values.
01 February 1921
Episode 11 of the series of 2-reel comedies “The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy”.
26 October 1939
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
10 November 1922
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey.
08 May 1920
Edgar is called upon by his mother to execute a disagreeable errand, has to mind his troublesome younger brother, and runs away.
25 October 1940
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
09 September 1944
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
27 January 1939
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
01 July 1937
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.
18 July 1928
Wealthy miser Martin Stanley forces his family into desperate financial measures. His daughter Diana secretly works as an artist's model for Paul Howard, sparking jealousy from her sister Marjorie—who loves Paul—and fury from their mother.
18 June 1923
Penrod and his gang don't want to let neighborhood "goodie-goodie" Georgie Bassett into their club, but Penrod's father pressures him to allow the boy in because his parents are wealthy and prominent members of the town.
13 December 1919
The circus comes to town, and the town's orphans are treated to a day at the circus. The circus troupe's 'Jinx' girl causes so many problems for the performers and performances that, to escape punishment, she has to run away.
02 December 1917
A story within a story, including a passage from Hansel and Gretel.
30 July 1917
Jack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which Jack climbs, arriving at a castle that is his.