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A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Shanghai Express
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the...
The Jazz Singer
The heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X, alias Marcus Del Mar, threatening American democracy...
The Romance of Elaine
Paul is a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away outpost, he discovers that the revolt is actually...
The Winding Stair
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against...
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
Charlie Chan at the Circus
Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his...
Charlie Chan's Secret
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and...
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed...
Charlie Chan in Egypt
Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor....
Charlie Chan in London
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is...
Charlie Chan in Paris
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
A history of horror movies.
The Horror Show
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
Werewolf of London
Nancy Raynor (Georgia Hale) is arriving from the East to see her dying uncle. Clint Beasley (Oland) and his gang are determined to kidnap her before...
Man of the Forest
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years...
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel...
The Naulahka
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the...
The Big Gamble
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic...
The Black Camel
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to...
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a...
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Lucille Lingard and her friend Emmie bid farewell to their European friends on their last night in Paris. Lucille has fallen for the debonair Ronald...
As Husbands Go
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
The Painted Veil
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
Dishonored
Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he...
Sailor Izzy Murphy
At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
Daughter of the Dragon
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and...
Don Juan
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
When a Man Loves
Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the...
Don Q Son of Zorro
A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
The Drums of Jeopardy
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a...
Before Dawn
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
Shanghai
Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has...
Stand and Deliver
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated,...
The Studio Murder Mystery
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed....
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
The Son-Daughter
A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.
The Avalanche
Albert Jordan, publishing house manager, lavishes his salary on his adored wife, Rita, and little daughter Edna. She is a churchgoing woman, while...
The Reapers
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...
Dangerous Paradise
Consists of two parts: Part One: The Life of John Bunyon (2 reels); Part Two: The Pilgrim's Progress (3 reels).
Pilgrim's Progress
A Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that overthrew the Czar. One of their twin sons, Schulke,...
Wheel of Chance
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Mandalay
Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie...
Charlie Chan's Chance
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and...
Charlie Chan's Courage
A silent movie serial directed by George B. Seitz.
The Fatal Ring
A beautiful young woman is a daring master thief. She meets the young millionaire Thomas Babbington Norton, while fleeing from the scene of her...
The Lightning Raider
A documentary on the creation of the popular Charlie Chan detective character as well as the history of Chan films of the 1930s.
In Search of Charlie Chan
Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is...
A Passport to Hell
U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's...
Tell It to the Marines
Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and astonish the rubes, gets work as private secretary...
The Faker
In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
Old San Francisco
A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow...
Movies on Sundays
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years...
Dream of Love
Song-and-dance man Charles Edward Keene (Good Time Charley) is bereft when his wife, Elaine, dies as a result of a fall incurred trying to evade the...
Good Time Charley
A Broadway actress becomes a star due to the guidance of her director. The two fall in love, but are prevented from marrying due to a clause put into...
The Marriage Clause
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the...
Chinatown Nights
A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
Riders of the Purple Sage
Big Bill Branigan, one of the tough characters of London's Limehouse district, falls in love with Curlytop because of her sweet innocence. He leaves...
Curlytop
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is...
The Vagabond King
Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves...
Patria
Susan takes the place of model and shows the clothes so well that she is asked to impersonate a Countess at a reception given by a customer.
The Rise of Susan
A scheme by a beautiful vamp to marry a wealthy young man fails, and the woman returns to her former lover, a sculptor. She is shocked to discover he...
The Eternal Sapho
Silent film drama...
The Scarlet Lady
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Triumph of the daughter of a cheated mine owner over a renegade and her love for the superintendent.
Flower of Night
"Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot, a noted prizefighter, who falls in love with...
Twinkletoes
When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's...
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
To satisfy her controlling mother and secure both of their futures, a daughter hesitantly enters a loveless marriage to a wealthy businessman. Years...
A Million Bid
In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that...
The Mighty
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
Paramount on Parade
Bobby Jones is playing golf with his buddies, oblivious to the fact that they are being watched by a drunken juggler.
How to Break 90 #3: Hip Action
Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and...
Beatrice Fairfax
A drama about twin sisters Daisy and Violet, who grow up unaware of each other's existence, one with their wealthy father and the other with their...
The Twin Pawns
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong...
Charlie Chan Carries On
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...
Complicated Women
Film was released in 1927
What Happened To Father
She'd wink till hearts went on the blink. And staid professors couldn't think. And everywhere they'd stop to stare. And say "Some Chink!" when Ming...
East Is West
Story concerns a paper mill, a mortgage and the struggle to obtain the lost formula for making paper from seaweed. Star is given opportunity to...
Hurricane Hutch
Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil...
His Children's Children
A soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his...
The Pride of Palomar
Pierre Felix, a couturier, makes a $25,000 bet with Ralph Courtland that he can take a girl from the streets, dress her appropriately, and within...
The Eternal Question
Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite Viola Morgan falls madly in love with professional...
Infatuation
Fernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies before he can change his will. She next tries to...
Destruction
On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned...
The Fighting American
A pretty movie star is stalked by a strange gang whose leader is infatuated with her in this superior Pathé serial written by genre specialist...
The Third Eye
Stella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better financial matches.
The Witness for the Defense
Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.
Sin
Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to degrade herself in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. She...
The Yellow Ticket
Janet Dale feels that there is a danger looming over her home but cannot put her finger on what it is. Days later her father disappears at her 18th...
The Phantom Foe
The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.
So This Is Marriage?
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster...
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'