Felix E. Feist Trailers
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Felix E. Feist (February 28, 1910 - September 2, 1965) was a film and television director born in New York City. Feist was the son of MGM sales executive, Felix F. Fiest (1884–1936), and nephew of publishing house magnate, Leo Feist. He was educated at Columbia University. He is probably best remembered today for Deluge (1933), for writing and directing the film noirs The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) and The Threat (1949), and helming the second screen version of the Curt Siodmak sci-fi tale Donovan's Brain (1953). He directed Judy Garland and Deanna Durbin in their first significant screen appearances, in the short film Every Sunday. Feist was the adoptive father of noted fantasy author Raymond E. Feist.
Most Popular Felix E. Feist Trailers
Total trailers found: 46
02 June 1936
This short follows the early career of actress Jane Barnes. She starts by doing extra work. After several months she is offered a studio contract (the "first step").
01 December 1949
A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.
22 October 1943
A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to keep him.
06 October 1939
Five years after he narrated STRIKES AND SPARES, Pete Smith returns to the subject of bowling with two pros: Andy Varipapa, who threw some trick shots in the earlier movie and Ned Day, who demonstrates proper form and technique.
17 August 1933
A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.
01 July 1939
A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.
20 October 1934
This short features professional bowler Andy Varipapa. He first shows the correct way to grip a bowling ball and the proper form for delivering the ball down the alley.
28 October 1939
It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her scowling family, and Abner has no idea how to proceed.
01 March 1938
A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.
10 February 1955
A pirate tries to help a deposed Arabian princess reclaim her throne.
14 April 1939
For some unexplained reason, sales of waffle irons have plummeted. Evelyn Foster, president of the Magic Circle Waffle Iron Company, and Richard Wright, president of the Four Square Waffle Iron Company, decide to merge their companies and get married as well.
22 March 1950
Joe Riley is a boxing referee whose life-code is the same as the sporting rules of the prizefight ring.
18 September 1937
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on charity fraud. Two scam artists set themselves up as 'philanthropists' to help raise money for a local clinic, but the funds they raise never get to help the people who need it.
01 May 1944
A high school bandleader captures the interest of a popular co-ed.
20 February 1950
The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war.
20 November 1937
This Pete Smith Specialty tells how Glenn Morris trained for and won the 1936 Olympic decathlon event.
19 May 1939
A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows aircraft using morse code.
08 June 1948
A Thoroughbred makes the long journey from initial training and workout to ultimate triumph as a champion horse.
11 June 1943
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it.
01 August 1944
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home.
14 January 1939
An exmination of the sport of championship diving.
13 March 1937
A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and digesting food.
16 July 1938
A magician's daughter falls in love with a reporter for a magazine. When the magazine publishes a story that exposes her father's methods, she dumps the reporter.
04 September 1936
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
25 June 1932
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
05 February 1952
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood.
20 February 1947
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women.
01 June 1944
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated.
31 January 1953
This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists.
01 August 1951
A college basketball star collaborrates with organized crime and becomes involved in 'point shaving.' A sportswriter tries to get him back on the right track.
10 November 1940
This entry in MGM's Passing Parade series looks at the meaning of dreams, including one by Abraham Lincoln that foretold his death.
08 August 1951
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past.
27 January 1940
An expose of attempts by wealthy people to avoid payment of customs duties. Part of the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series.
26 December 1950
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
09 October 1945
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
28 November 1936
Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts.
30 September 1953
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid.
09 February 1952
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight.
07 December 1952
The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
27 October 1934
At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it.
20 May 1939
This short film portrays the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), an American Naval officer who developed the first maps that charted the oceans' winds and currents.
08 December 1952
In pre-Revolutionary America, the efforts of a Colonial officer trying to broker a peace deal between Indian chief Pontiac and British and American settlers are threatened by the commander of a Hessian mercenary unit who embarks on a campaign of extermination against the Indians.
25 December 1937
John Jones, newlywed, attends a party with his wife, when an incident occurs with his mother-in-law. His sweetie believes him to be the culprit of a supposed prank, and forces him to sleep in the guest room, but could the accident have been the benevolent warning of a twenty-years-gone ghost?
17 October 1936
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
12 August 1939
Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C.
01 October 1934
The "Inquiring Cameraman" conducts "man-on-the-street" interviews with Californians prior to the gubernatorial election of November 6, 1934.
