After his retirement, a wealthy businessman decides to experience the working class life as a waiter, leading to unexpected encounters and a new perspective on life.
In The Stolen Jools (1931), a detective and his team investigate the theft of a valuable jewel during a charity benefit in Los Angeles. As they search for clues, they encounter a star-studded cast and go through a series of comedic vignettes. With a car falling apart, a woman in a bathtub, and a fake beard, the investigation takes unexpected turns. Will they be able to solve the case and recover the stolen jewel?
A wealthy trader tries to go bankrupt in order to avoid being drafted into the army, but his plans are foiled when his wife and children unexpectedly return home.
The true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium during the First World War.
The Man Who Played God tells the story of Montgomery Royle, a deaf concert pianist who is deeply bitter about his deafness. When he learns that a woman he loves is going blind, he discovers that he possesses the power to heal and change lives. However, as he begins to use his gift, he finds himself caught in a crisis of faith that threatens his identity and relationships.
A silent drama film based on a play, depicting the burden of proof in a legal case. The story follows the struggles and challenges faced by the protagonists as they try to establish their innocence in the court of law.
Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the profligate Major Pollock. Myra goes into seclusion while Pollock, intending to conceal Myra's innocence, goes to Burma. A few years later Myra sees Kenyon in the park with Mrs. Debenham, a widow with designs on Wimborne. Noting the resemblance between the lady in the park (whom he calls his "princess") and a photograph of his mother, Kenyon invites Myra to dinner at a time when his father, who has curtailed the visits to the park, plans to be away. At the same time Harold Courtenay, an old family friend, sees an opportunity to reunite the estranged couple.
The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas.
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire, but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac.
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
The story of Jewish financier Stephen Field and his daughter Esther. Having survived a European massacre years before that claimed his wife and son, Stephen takes immense pleasure in philanthropic work at a community service center in the U.S. while Esther entertains returning soldiers in a canteen. At the canteen, Esther meets Robert Graham, who because of a war wound suffers from fainting spells, and he falls in love with her. William Morris, a brilliant Jewish surgeon also courts Esther; and the men vie for her affection. When Graham loses control of his car due to a fainting spell suffering grave injury, Morris is the only person who can save his life.
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.
In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
French Secret Service agent and boxer Henri D'Alour uncovers a plot to con the government out of millions of francs in its purchase of machinery.
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Romance on a college campus.
Sinners' Holiday is a melodramatic pre-code film that revolves around the lives of a brother and sister involved in rum-running and witness to a murder. The plot further explores themes of manipulative and possessive relationships, oedipus complex, and wrongful accusation. Set in the Prohibition era, the film takes viewers on a thrilling journey into the world of speakeasies and police investigations.
In 'The Millionaire', a gas station owner and insurance agent devises a plan to retire by deceiving people into buying unnecessary policies. As his wealth grows, he faces the consequences of his ethically questionable actions.
The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.