J. Walter Ruben Trailers
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Total trailers found: 69
24 March 1939
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
20 July 1930
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
01 June 1942
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon.
05 November 1927
Hired ranch hand Tex Smith is smitten with Lucy Blake, who lives in the cattle settlement of Marco. Meanwhile, Indian chief Brave Bear despises the encroachment of white people and conspires with Sam Hardman to steal the town's cattle during a rodeo.
22 June 1939
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely.
19 January 1940
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors.
26 July 1940
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
13 January 1934
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
29 April 1932
A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested.
25 September 1927
Rich boy Dick Wright, rejected by both the Army and the Navy because he is a sleepwalker, joins an ambulance unit during the war with his chauffeur and valet tagging along to protect him.
06 January 1933
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
10 January 1941
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid.
15 April 1931
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
14 November 1931
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
11 June 1928
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is re-discovered.
09 February 1929
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
23 April 1937
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
20 October 1933
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army.
15 March 1931
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
15 September 1939
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
31 May 1935
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums.
22 November 1935
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
31 July 1940
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
29 May 1936
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
08 June 1929
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.
01 July 1927
On his way to Steer City, Buddy Hale rescues Janet Lane from a runaway horse. Unknown to Buddy, the woman's brother Ward just shot the sheriff.
01 August 1941
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out.
28 April 1932
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news.
01 December 1942
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life.
15 January 1931
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
18 August 1931
High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars and marks the last starring screen appearance of silent screen diva Mae Murray.
11 August 1933
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
03 May 1940
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition.
12 December 1926
Women won't let potential son-in-law marry her daughter unless he can get her husband to quit golfing.
01 August 1931
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
12 December 1929
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
31 December 1937
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
25 September 1936
Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash.
06 April 1930
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
28 March 1941
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan.
03 January 1936
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail.
14 October 1932
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
23 June 1928
A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through the encroachments of nearby townspeople.
24 January 1942
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress.
10 November 1928
An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount.
11 March 1943
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
03 March 1933
Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son.
07 July 1938
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
17 May 1931
In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her with jewels and furs.
06 January 1939
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
25 November 1937
Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan.
30 January 1942
An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
16 July 1942
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
04 February 1928
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who after a poker game was shot by a gambler "who shuffles with one hand.
31 July 1934
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons.
15 September 1928
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with her.
18 May 1934
A pair of lovers are secreting away to Paris for a quick divorce and marriage when they find themselves trapped in a "hotel" where they are forced to get to know each other better and reconsider their plans.
25 February 1933
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly.