William Randolph Hearst Trailers
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles TrailerWhy Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema TrailerThe Battle Over Citizen Kane Trailer
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles TrailerWhy Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema TrailerThe Battle Over Citizen Kane Trailer
Total trailers found: 31
23 May 2007
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing.
01 August 1923
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
12 December 2014
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
04 February 1916
An exasperated traffic cop resigns after failing to control speeding drivers.
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.
21 January 1916
Two men plan to invite their friends, so they buy a turkey and ask Olaf to cook it. Olaf is distracted by the prospect of going to the dance this night.
29 June 1919
Prohibition has just gone into effect, and Judge Rummy's wife eagerly throws away all of the Judge's liquor.
14 January 1917
Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border.
28 April 1919
Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strips.
07 January 1916
Workman Dennis O'Shay finds a woman's lost purse and returns it to her, hoping it may lead to a new romance.
24 March 1919
"Smash-Up in China" is a very early animated film. The story consists of the Hooligan telling the little hooligans about his supposed adventures in China.
01 January 1934
This plea to reduce the growing numbers of imprisoned youths, with its warning from the celebrated warden of Sing Sing prison, is drawn from the October 1, 1934, issue of Hearst Metrotone News.
13 October 1920
The film begins with an obese woman going to the shoe store and insisting she's a size 3 1/2--though she's obviously much larger.
15 April 1923
The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he resumes his life of debauchery while World War I ravages the fields of Europe… (Partially lost film; reels 3 and 9 of a total of 11 are missing.
22 April 1928
An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.
29 May 1920
Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a great player.
05 November 1920
Based on the comic strip Happy Hooligan, this cartoon was packaged with the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and shown before the main features in theaters.
08 December 1924
It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington.
29 January 1996
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941).
13 October 1991
Documentary looking at Orson Welles and the production of the film CITIZEN KANE fifty years ago, considering the furore that accompanied it and the real life press baron William Randolph Hearst upon whom Kane is based, and his efforts to halt the film, destroy the negative and persecution of people involved with its production and showing.
02 September 1928
A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his "cardboard lover"--to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach his two-timing fiancé a lesson and win her back.
17 March 1916
Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse go to the circus and have some fun at the expense of a spectator.
18 April 1926
Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury.
07 January 1916
A newlywed in love finds it hard to leave his wife for work.
01 May 1925
Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander.
17 June 1918
Based on the comic strip Happy Hooligan, this cartoon was packaged with the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and shown before the main features in theaters.
31 December 1915
A woman buys a new pair of shoes under the watchful eye of her husband. She takes them much too small for her and suffers all day long.
28 January 1916
A man tries an hair tonic to regrow his hair. It works too well.