Merritt B. Gerstad Trailers
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Merritt B. Gerstad (5 July 1900, Chicago, Illinois – 1 March 1974, Laguna Beach, California) was an American cinematographer of silent and early sound films.
After beginning as a cinematographer on films for Universal, he worked for MGM, working with director Tod Browning on (the lost) London After Midnight (1927) and Freaks (1932), and Sam Wood on the Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera (1935). Later he was at Warner Bros. for Watch on the Rhine (1943) starring Bette Davis, Conflict (1945) with Humphrey Bogart in the lead, and the Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), his last credit.
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22 August 1931
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.
01 March 1940
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals.
15 November 1930
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
07 October 1939
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour.
19 October 1929
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium.
01 November 1932
Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses.
04 May 1932
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
16 May 1931
Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend.
02 May 1931
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
30 March 1929
This first cinematic version of the classic book is a part-talkie, although the only surviving print is silent (housed in the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY).
18 July 1931
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
28 November 1931
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.
27 November 1937
Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which prompts Toni to seek retribution in divorce court.
01 January 1932
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
07 March 1931
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
16 August 1930
A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent.
28 July 1939
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
07 October 1932
Socialite banker Henry Judson maintains his extravagant lifestyle by embezzling from his bank, but is caught by sleazy assistant manager Waters and is blackmailed by him into continuing.
15 June 1945
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
20 December 1929
On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all.
01 July 1942
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
01 October 1926
Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest.
11 October 1936
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger.
01 January 1940
Andy wants to buy a new car so he goes into the judge's home office where his father is about to write a $200 check to charity.
10 March 1934
Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss.
22 December 1939
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
13 May 1936
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her.
23 March 1929
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
24 January 1936
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
15 November 1935
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
17 July 1935
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke).
31 March 1928
Francis Byrd is in love with circus acrobat, and daughter of the show's owner, La Belle, and tries to join the show to be near her.
13 August 1927
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk.
29 March 1939
Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation involving a series of deaths and an elusive murderer.
08 April 1936
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend.
25 March 1937
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
02 March 1925
A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.
01 November 1933
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk.
14 November 1931
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
22 January 1934
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
29 May 1927
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder—a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives.
03 September 1937
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
27 August 1943
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC.
27 June 1945
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
23 November 1934
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
28 February 1930
Middle-aged Napa Valley grape-grower Tony posts a marriage proposal to San Francisco waitress Lena enclosing a photo of his handsome younger brother Buck.
25 May 1929
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
03 March 1924
Sheriff Bob Winton sets out to capture a mysterious bandit named "The Hawk," a phantom rider who is admired by the townspeople, because he steals from the Williams Lumber Co.
03 February 1933
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
24 June 1933
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles.
13 June 1941
Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry.
19 July 1930
Gerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Gerry is determined to remain practical.
03 December 1927
The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants.
01 October 1936
A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
27 December 1929
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
20 July 1929
The artistic temperament of a German concert pianist renders him chronically unfaithful to his devoted wife.
15 November 1928
An Incompetent insurance salesman sells a policy to Jesse James and has to protect his client until he can get it back.
27 January 1933
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
17 May 1930
Tony, a prosperous Italian vineyardist in California, advertises for a young wife, passing off a photograph of his handsome hired man, Buck, as himself.
31 March 1924
War hero Jim Jordon is unable to get back his old ranch job. He takes work at a ranch owned by Anne Morse and finds that Kincaid, owner of a nearby marble quarry, is preparing to seize some of Miss Kincaid's land.
