The Rich Are Always with Us

The Rich Are Always with Us 1932

5.20

A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.

1932

The Lost World

The Lost World 1925

6.60

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

1925

Why Be Good?

Why Be Good? 1929

6.50

A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.

1929

The Electric House

The Electric House 1922

6.70

Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.

1922

The Beast with Five Fingers

The Beast with Five Fingers 1947

6.30

Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.

1947

The Frozen North

The Frozen North 1922

6.10

This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. When he thinks he spies his wife making love to another man he shoots them both only to learn it isn't his cabin after all.

1922

Easy Pickings

Easy Pickings 1927

1

Simeon Van Horne is poisoned by Stewart, his lawyer, who hopes to get a part of the estate to be divided between young Peter Van Horne and Dolores, Peter's cousin. Knowing that Dolores is dead, Stewart, who catches Mary Ryan burglarizing the Van Horne home, induces her to pose as Dolores.

1927

The Woman in Red

The Woman in Red 1935

6.10

A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.

1935

When Were You Born

When Were You Born 1938

5.19

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

1938

The Forward Pass

The Forward Pass 1929

1

Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith, and to Coach Wilson that he will quit the game forever. Ed Kirby, who dislikes Reid, calls him yellow, and Wilson gets Patricia Carlyle, the college vamp, to induce Reid to play. At a sorority dance, where only football players can cut in, Kirby persecutes Reid by dancing with Pat, and as a result Reid does apply to play in the game.

1929

San Quentin

San Quentin 1937

6.50

Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.

1937

Marked Woman

Marked Woman 1937

6.50

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

1937

The Famous Ferguson Case

The Famous Ferguson Case 1932

6.00

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.

1932

Three on a Match

Three on a Match 1932

6.20

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

1932

A Dog's Life

A Dog's Life 1918

7.34

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

1918

Gentlemen Are Born

Gentlemen Are Born 1934

6.50

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.

1934

Wheel of Chance

Wheel of Chance 1928

1

A Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that overthrew the Czar. One of their twin sons, Schulke, disappears and is believed dead before they leave. After they settle into their new country, the family does well: the surviving twin, Nicholai, becomes a crusading District Attorney. One of the cases he is assigned to prosecute is that of small-time gangster Jacob Talinef, who has killed a former girlfriend of Nicholai's. Further investigation of the case, though, reveals a shocking secret.

1928

One Night at Susie's

One Night at Susie's 1930

5.80

A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.

1930

Wings for the Eagle

Wings for the Eagle 1942

5.70

Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.

1942

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark 1941

5.20

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

1941