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Total trailers found: 55
24 February 1937
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics.
08 June 1941
A young girl fresh out of reform school who is singing in a burlesque show is offered a scholarship to a famous music camp by the camp's owner.
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.
14 June 1940
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle.
01 January 1984
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
27 August 1941
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
10 February 1939
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
23 July 1936
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income.
18 March 1939
Promotion reel/souvenir of a 1939-40 meeting of the Paramount Studios sales people.
18 September 1938
Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post.
17 June 1936
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.
24 September 1936
Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship.
30 November 1934
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that.
31 August 1934
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
09 December 1938
The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.
07 March 1934
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.
20 February 1942
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
15 April 1938
While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of Tura, a beautiful jungle girl who is the only inhabitant of the island and is believed a goddess by the natives of the adjoining islands.
27 November 1936
Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away, leaving him for dead.
16 July 1938
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight.
31 December 1935
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
21 October 1942
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson.
05 March 1942
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade.
05 May 1939
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California.
22 October 1940
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder.
26 March 1942
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
04 June 1937
Parkhouse plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise stuffed in his coat pocket.
05 July 1935
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati).
09 July 1937
A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy.
31 October 1941
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski.
10 May 1940
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York.
23 June 1943
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie.
27 December 1935
A behind-the-scenes showcase of how screen tests for studio executives are made and used in the Hollywood casting process.
29 June 1935
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
04 July 1941
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married.
01 June 1934
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money.
12 September 1935
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
26 August 1938
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
27 May 1938
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own.
11 February 1938
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
16 May 1940
Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on the island in her childhood.
24 December 1937
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney.
08 September 1934
When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job.
06 August 1937
Fred Stevens is an aspiring songwriter from Schenectady who journeys to New York City, hoping to make a name for himself.
17 December 1943
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
04 January 1935
Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.
08 February 1935
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
05 March 1937
After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless stock in a New Mexico gold mine.
04 August 1928
A police inspector 'solves' a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.
30 September 1930
When Bert Adams brings his boss, Mr. Mason, home for dinner, he and his wife Carrie hope Mason will take the opportunity to announce that Bert will be promoted to fill a new vacancy in the company's shipping department.
08 October 1937
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
11 November 1937
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.
23 April 1937
Kitty Reily and Lena Marchetti meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena.
24 August 1939
Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclopedias.