Bryan Foy

Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her...

Georgie Price tells Bryan Foy, who is to direct his short film, that he is nervous about performing to a camera and microphone instead of an...

James Mack, a reporter for the International News Bureau, is assigned by his editor to do a story on the phenomenon of nudist camps.

This Vitaphone one-reel short, written by the author of "Show-Off", George Kelly

This Vitaphone one-reel short, written by the author of "Show-Off", George Kelly

An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.

When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from...

Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wife's faithful efforts, he gets a chance for a comeback...

Roy Morgan is a burglar who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops. After Morgan kills a police officer,...

A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.

Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut...

Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking...

The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.

Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short

A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.

A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.

In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to...

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then...

Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison...

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are...

James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his...

Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on...

A police raid on a night club results in the entire cast of the club's floor show being hauled into court, where they must perform their routines for...

Hazel Green & Company play a few songs.

The Shadow's third movie short, an adaptation from a Donald Van Riper story, "Dying Lips," which appeared in an issue of Detective Story Magazine.

The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Detective Story Magazine.

A Shadow Detective Story.

Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short...

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

James Mack, a reporter for the International News Bureau, is assigned by his editor to do a story on the phenomenon of nudist camps.

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in...

Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian...

Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood...

A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.

A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector...

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her...

In this drama, a teenage boy and girl, tired of parental repression, begin sneaking out on dates and to parties. The parents are strict, but pay...

A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.

The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family...

Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger...

Buddy Harris and Frank Radcliffe crack some jokes, play craps, and sing a song.

A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)

In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins...

During the darkest hour of the American Civil War, the Union desperately needs gold to keep its armies in the field and its credit good. Federal...

An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.

Jack White & The Montrealers playing a few tunes.....

Two desperate singers take a job as the singing act in a movie theater between shows. They soon regret their decision.

The Foy Family performs a vaudeville act.

Rose Marie, aged five or six, sings three numbers, "Heigh Ho, Everybody, Heigh Ho", "Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You", and "Don't Be Like That". She's...

Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.

Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.

An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he...

An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business....

An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.

After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.

Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both...

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.

A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who...

A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier...

The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just...

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep...

A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a...

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a...

An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.

A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his...

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens...

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her...

Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with...

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken,...

A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.

Georgie Price tells Bryan Foy, who is to direct his short film, that he is nervous about performing to a camera and microphone instead of an...

The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail,...

Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector...

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.

A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.

A bunch of niwits make a mishmash of a moving job.

A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.

A scrapping married couple, Franklin Pangborn and Bernice Elliott, are going to Reno to get a divorce. They have a scheme in order to obtain cruelty...

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a...

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

A program of musical entertainers perform on a cross country train.

A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.

A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.

A hotel clerk from Iowa believes he's destined to collect first prize in a contest: a movie contract at a Hollywood studio.

Will Morrissey and Midgie Miller get top-billing here but we also have Sammy Cantor, Charlotte DeLovelace, Harry Downing and Vina and Arthur on the...

A husband and wife arguing about which sex gossips more. Just then a friend they both know comes to visit but he isn't aware that they are now...

Wilbur is sent by his boss at the bookstore on an errand to deliver a book to a customer. However, instead of just delivering the book, he just...

Frank Whitman demonstrates that he can replace a standard violin bow with a variety of objects.

Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.

Frank Orth strikes a conversation with a lady feeding imaginary birds.

The Sheriff and County Prosecutor come to an isolated country farm where a woman killed her husband, attempting to gather evidence. Only their wives...

Coletta Ryan and Duke Yellman singing a few of their songs in 'Songology'.

Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.

A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.

Business is bad for doctors and undertakers, but it's Thanksgiving Day and luck might change.

A cowboy, Jack just came to the golden west in a comedy skit. He fiddles around with a lariat. He meets a cowgirl named Elsie and asks her to dance...

A salesman tries to sell life insurance, hair tonic, and girth reducing exercise equipment and anything else to a man who doesn't want any of it.

Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.

The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.

A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.

When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim...

Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his...

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

The Ingenues perform "Tiger Rag," "Changes," "Mighty Lak' a Rose," "Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs Off the Moon," and "Shaking the Blues Away."

The head of a quartet of jewel thieves tries to make a getaway with the one female in the gang.

In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who...

Jack King plays the piano and also asks some questions. Josephine Harmon goes through some songs and quips with vocal harmonizing.

A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.

The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The...

A man hides inside a giant phonograph machine and imitates various recording artists for a pair of flappers.

An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl,...

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

An office with two stuffy guys of the music business, one of them Mac who says to "keep that dame away," when Trixie Brown has come by to sing for...

An office with two stuffy guys of the music business, one of them Mac who says to "keep that dame away," when Trixie Brown has come by to sing for...

A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.

Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.

A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.

A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

A young man wants to marry his sweetheart, but her parents will agree to their wedding only on one condition: he must run for mayor--and win. Comedy.

After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.

Shy Ralph Graves is inspired by a movie hero to go after the girl he loves (Alice Day). A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy short.

A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a...

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals...

Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes...

Columbia Pictures short.

When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the...

Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's...

Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike...

A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.

An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays...

Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is...

Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a...