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The Mystery of Thirteen (1957)
Character: Dr. Knight
The story of William Palmer, one of the most notorious poisoners in Victorian England - or was he?
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The Calendar (1931)
Character: Gerry Anson
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
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Michael and Mary (1931)
Character: Michael Rowe
A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....
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The House That Shadows Built (1931)
Character: (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
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The Faithful Heart (1932)
Character: Waverly Ango
Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.
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Mumsie (1927)
Character: Col. Armytage
A pacifist gambler turns spy and gives his father's gas factory plans to the enemy.
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Forgotten Faces (1936)
Character: Harry
Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm. One day, Harry catches his wife, Cleo with another man. Harry shoots him and takes his 18 month old daughter, Sally to best friend, Sgt. Donovan to find her a good home. Harry turns himself in and gets life in prison. 17 years pass, Cleo is on the brinks of losing her job as a burlesque dancer. Cleo decides to blackmail the McBrides (Sally's devoted adoptive parents). Harry discovers this and promises his warden that while on parole he will protect Sally. Harry trades places with the McBride's butler. While working, Harry discovers a letter addressed to the McBrides from Cleo asking to meet with her. Harry meets with Cleo instead and they begin to fight...
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The Shining Future (1944)
Character: Self
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
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The Weapon (1956)
Character: Insp. Mackenzie
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
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Four Frightened People (1934)
Character: Arnold Ainger
Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave the ship in a tiny boat and make it to a desert island, where many adventures ensue and, of course, the two men fight over the beautiful young schoolteacher who is with them.
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Ivy (1947)
Character: Miles Rushworth
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Character: Stephen Fisher
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Kathleen (1941)
Character: John Davis
Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true.
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The Secret Garden (1949)
Character: Archibald Craven
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
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Wicked as They Come (1956)
Character: Stephen Collins
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
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Angel Face (1953)
Character: Mr. Charles Tremayne
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
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Black Jack (1950)
Character: Dr. James Curtis
A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's closing in.
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Make Way for a Lady (1936)
Character: Christopher 'Chris' Drew
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
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The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
Character: William, Earl of Mackworth
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth Castle. There, Myles falls in love with Lady Anne Macworth, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight.
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Adventure in Washington (1941)
Character: Sen. John Coleridge
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
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The Razor's Edge (1946)
Character: W. Somerset Maugham
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
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Zaza (1938)
Character: Dufresne
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
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Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
Character: The Prime Minister
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.
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Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Character: Gaston Monescu
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
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Breakfast for Two (1937)
Character: Jonathan Blair
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
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The Caretakers (1963)
Character: Dr. Jubal Harrington
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
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Accent on Youth (1935)
Character: Steven Gaye
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
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Murder! (1930)
Character: Sir John Menier
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
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Complicated Women (2003)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
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Woman Against Woman (1938)
Character: Stephen Holland
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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The Solitaire Man (1933)
Character: Oliver Lane
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
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Riptide (1934)
Character: Lord Philip Rexford
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
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Stage Struck (1958)
Character: Robert Harley Hedges
A young woman arrives in New York City determined to become a great theatrical star, but discovers that her goal may not be as easily attainable as she had hoped.
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Midnight Lace (1960)
Character: Charles Manning
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
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Always Goodbye (1938)
Character: Jim Howard
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
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A Fever in the Blood (1961)
Character: Gov. Oliver P. Thornwall
A judge, a district attorney and a U.S. senator, each hoping to be elected the next governor, attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their own political ambitions.
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The Lady Consents (1936)
Character: Dr. Michael J. Talbot
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
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The Unseen (1945)
Character: Dr. Charles Evans
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
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Young Ideas (1943)
Character: Prof. Michael Kingsley
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
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High Wall (1947)
Character: Willard I. Whitcombe
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
Character: Dr. Standish
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.
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Riders to the Stars (1954)
Character: Dr. Donald L. Stanton / Narrator
Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
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When Ladies Meet (1941)
Character: Rogers Woodruff
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
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Crack-Up (1946)
Character: Traybin
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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Blonde Venus (1932)
Character: Edward 'Ned' Faraday
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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Mad About Music (1938)
Character: Richard Todd
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.
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The Underworld Story (1950)
Character: E.J. Stanton
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
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Evenings for Sale (1932)
Character: Count Franz von Degenthal
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gigolo.
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Secrets of a Secretary (1931)
Character: Lord Danforth
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
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Forever and a Day (1943)
Character: Curate in Air Raid Shelter
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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Gog (1954)
Character: Dr. Van Ness
A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.
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If You Could Only Cook (1935)
Character: Jim Buchanan
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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The Virgin Queen (1955)
Character: Lord Leicester
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.
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I Was a Spy (1933)
Character: Stephan
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
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The Letter (1940)
Character: Robert Crosbie
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
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The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
Character: Major John Hillgrove
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
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The Good Fairy (1935)
Character: Doctor Sporum
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
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Flight for Freedom (1943)
Character: Paul Turner
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
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The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
Character: Sir Wilfrid Lucas
Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason why he should do so.
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The Letter (1929)
Character: Geoffrey Hammond
A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.
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Angel (1937)
Character: Sir Frederick Barker
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
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A Woman Rebels (1936)
Character: Thomas Lane
A defiant young woman struggles against the norms and morals established by Victorian society and enforced by her autocratic father.
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Girls' Dormitory (1936)
Character: Dr. Stephen Dominik
When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.
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Duel in the Sun (1946)
Character: Scott Chavez
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
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The Dark Angel (1935)
Character: Gerald Shannon
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
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The Fly (1958)
Character: Insp. Charas
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.
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Outcast Lady (1934)
Character: Napier
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
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The Third Day (1965)
Character: Austin Parsons
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Could he be deliberately blocking out memories of his past?
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Anne of the Indies (1951)
Character: Dr Jameson
After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate crew, their growing attraction is tested when Captain Blackbeard reveals LaRochelle's true identity as a former French navy officer.
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College Confidential (1960)
Character: Henry Addison
Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.
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Till We Meet Again (1936)
Character: Alan Barclay
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage. But the War comes and Elsa mysteriously disappears. Alan's ease in speaking German results in his appointment to the British Intelligence and, to aid his use as a spy, they announce he was killed in action. He takes the name and personality of "shell-shocked" Hans Teller, a German prisoner, and is sent into Germany on an exchange of prisoners.
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The Little Foxes (1941)
Character: Horace Giddens
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
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The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
Character: Geoffrey Wolfe
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
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