Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story Trailer
Joseph M. Newman (August 17, 1909 - January 23, 2006) was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film This Island Earth. His credits include episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. He was also nominated for 2 Oscars for the now dead category of assistant director.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628149/awards
Total trailers found: 53
11 March 1939
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it.
01 November 1948
Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.
16 August 1951
Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light.
22 July 1939
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New York was tried for sedition based on what he printed in his newspaper.
14 May 1958
New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to reach Fort Crain.
18 January 1935
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
09 August 1935
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold.
27 January 1940
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.
05 February 2002
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
26 October 1949
A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.
22 December 1933
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple.
03 October 1954
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer.
22 July 1949
David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell.
31 March 1933
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
22 June 1940
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved.
10 June 1955
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
05 July 1959
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
19 November 1938
An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.
22 July 1953
A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husband’s existence.
15 August 1961
The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner 's efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department.
28 October 1942
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
01 April 1952
Duncan MacDonald, a 19th-century Royal Canadian Mountie, has to escort a group of Cree Indians back to their above-the-border reservation.
18 February 1939
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.
26 June 1936
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
26 September 1961
Captain Maddocks will never be promoted beyond Captain because of a mistake that he made in the past.
01 July 1945
Harold Russell, an American soldier who lost his hands in a training accident, tells the story of his medical rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, how he and his fellow amputees at the hospital at first despaired and then found new hope in the prostheses and training available to amputees through the Army's medical corps.
30 August 1947
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the cleverest counterfeiters who ever baffled the agents of the U.
16 September 1938
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding.
05 November 1937
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain.
31 January 1936
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.
01 May 1959
Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town.
08 October 1956
On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend or pursue Pamela, an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated.
23 September 1955
In 1700, a Spanish princess travels from New Mexico to California with ruthless outlaw El Tigre as guide.
23 January 1952
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U.
26 March 1937
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
02 November 1934
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
17 August 1940
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
28 February 1942
This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public.
10 July 1947
U.S. Army training film about avoiding venereal disease, intended primarily for Black servicemen.
01 October 1959
An English colonel's daughter meets the lord of the jungle who makes her his mate.
22 November 1961
The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
11 June 1961
Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
15 September 1957
A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.
04 January 1941
Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.
01 July 1950
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation.
10 October 1951
Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed.
03 November 1952
Four undesirables run out of a mining town and become marooned in a deserted mountain cabin during a raging snowstorm.
13 August 1961
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress.
07 June 1941
Unscrupulous car dealers foist faulty and dangerous cars on an unsuspecting public.
24 January 1951
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino.
25 January 1947
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man destroys his life through gambling debts and stealing company funds.
13 January 1940
Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted.
