The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 2 Trailer42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage TrailerThe Charlie Chaplin Festival Trailer
Lloyd Bacon was an American stage and silent-era screen actor who is most remembered as a film director, making films in virtually all genres. Among the 130 films he directed is the 1933 Warner Bros. classic 42nd Street.
Total trailers found: 160
15 September 1950
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
11 February 1939
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
19 April 1932
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed.
24 April 1942
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers.
13 July 1927
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt.
16 November 1919
When jockey Jimmie Driscoll, responsible for making Jim Richardson's horses winners, is fired for being too heavy, he goes to the home of the late Judge Bell, the father of local horse racing.
08 March 1941
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes.
31 August 1929
Nightclub hostess Sophie Leonard educates her daughter Beth abroad and keeps her life secret for her.
16 July 1938
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
05 October 1940
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
18 February 1931
Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Brown is a wrestler named JoJo and he is forced to enter the ring and face down a musclebound masked opponent (Frank S.
01 December 1920
Aurelie, an orphan, escapes from a New Orleans convent and is adopted by Mississippi riverboat captain Lindstrom.
20 September 1930
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
14 November 1942
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
10 August 1928
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced and distributed by Warner Bros.
28 July 1919
Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.
13 August 1915
Because he believes in education, a ranch owner hires a school teacher from the east and opens a school for his cowboys.
08 June 1948
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
25 June 1926
Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him.
20 February 1932
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.
21 March 2006
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
20 September 1925
Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback.
29 November 1933
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
07 June 1940
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
24 September 1922
Lloyd has spent his entire life savings on a new flivver.
21 May 1928
Judge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns considerable stock has been subsumed by the larger firm, thus creating the appearance of a conflict of interests.
18 January 1941
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers.
01 February 1921
Tom Mix trades horses for cars. Tom Higgins meets Patricia O'Malley whose father is a car manufacturer.
22 July 1933
Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together.
20 November 1915
Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out.
25 May 1935
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
20 August 1932
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
24 December 1931
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
02 December 1946
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
17 July 1953
During the Civil War, in Wyoming, horse dealers Joan Britton and Stephen Cook are competing to supply the Union Army with horses.
06 December 1953
A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.
01 November 1951
Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.
30 November 1935
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
24 March 1950
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator.
01 February 1951
A G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who's putting on a show for the troops.
14 January 1953
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.
05 August 1939
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
08 January 1927
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
26 September 1936
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
23 August 1930
Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's duties creates a relationship approaching that of his wife.
20 October 1949
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on.
17 October 1946
Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen.
18 July 1942
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
08 December 1932
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
10 April 1937
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
07 May 1915
A rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. But he hasn't gone straight yet, as he and a partner attempt to rob the home of a rich homeowner-- whose wife is asleep in the next room.
22 February 1931
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
11 March 1933
Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.
17 January 1925
A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin.
20 October 1934
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
25 January 1951
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
