100 Greatest 1928-1939 Movies
List of best films from 1928 to 1939 of USA. Excluding films with mixed, negative or panned reception. Excluding silent films between 1928 to 1929 including those believed to be lost.
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- DirectorBryan FoyStarsHelene CostelloCullen LandisMary CarrA gangster frames two bootleggers for the shooting of a police officer in New York during the prohibition.--
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsBillie DoveAntonio MorenoEmile ChautardBillie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsMay McAvoyConrad NagelMack SwainWealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.
- DirectorIrving CummingsRaoul WalshStarsEdmund LoweWarner BaxterDorothy BurgessA charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.--
- DirectorLothar MendesRoy PomeroyStarsEvelyn BrentClive BrookWilliam PowellParamount's 1st ALL TALKIE Reported killed in action, Philip Voaze(William Powell) lives under an assumed name in London. Deborah Kane(Evelyn Brent) a former love, discovers him and tries to blackmail his wife, Faith(Doris Kenyon), who has since remarried. Learning of this attempt and that he has a fatal heart disease, he kills Deborah and turns himself in to the police.--
- DirectorRoland WestStarsChester MorrisHarry StubbsMae BuschChick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.--
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsHelen MorganJoan PeersFuller Mellish Jr.A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.--
- DirectorKenneth HawksStarsLee TracyMae ClarkeDaphne PollardThe relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister.
- DirectorPál FejösStarsGlenn TryonEvelyn BrentMerna KennedyA naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.--
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsBessie LoveAnita PageCharles KingA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
- DirectorF. Richard JonesStarsRonald ColmanClaud AllisterLawrence GrantA bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.--
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairFrank TuttleStarsWilliam PowellJean ArthurJames HallA beautiful showgirl, nicknamed 'the Canary', is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead. But who killed 'the Canary'. All the suspects who knew her had been used by her. The only witness to the crime was also killed. Only one man, debonair detective, Philo Vance, might be able to figure out who silenced 'the Canary'.--
- DirectorRobert FloreyJoseph SantleyStarsGroucho MarxHarpo MarxChico MarxDuring the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.--
- DirectorSam TaylorStarsMary PickfordJohnny Mack BrownMatt MooreA flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors.--
- DirectorLothar MendesStarsClara BowRichard ArlenKay FrancisA young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.--
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJohn BolesCarlotta KingLouise FazendaThe Desert Song is a 1929 American Pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy.--
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsRamon NovarroDorothy JordanMarion HarrisA Bonapartist falls for a Royalist.--
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsGeorge ArlissDoris LloydDavid TorrencePrime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.--
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsConrad NagelKay JohnsonCharles BickfordWealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know--and doesn't want to know.--
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsMary EatonEddie CantorHelen MorganThe rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl".--
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsNancy WelfordConway TearleWinnie LightnerThree Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.--
- DirectorJames CruzeErich von StroheimStarsErich von StroheimDonald DouglasBetty CompsonAn insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.--
- DirectorKing VidorStarsDaniel L. HaynesNina Mae McKinneyWilliam FountaineA sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsClaudette ColbertDavid NewellNellie SavageMrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.--
- DirectorCharles ReisnerChristy CabanneNorman HoustonStarsConrad NagelJack BennyJohn GilbertAn all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.--
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsWalter HustonClaudette ColbertCharles RugglesMuch to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.--
- DirectorJean de LimurStarsJeanne EagelsReginald OwenHerbert MarshallJeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). Robert decides to go out for the evening to pick up a new rifle. Leslie's calm vanishes as she awaits an answer to a letter she has written Hammond. He has found a new love - a beautiful unscrupulous native woman Li Ti (Lady Tsei Mei) and has discarded Leslie.--
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsRod La RocqueBarbara StanwyckWilliam 'Stage' BoydOn her first anniversary Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character from her own past, and determines to intervene.--
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMaurice ChevalierJeanette MacDonaldLupino LaneThe queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.--
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsMarion DaviesGeorge BaxterLawrence GrayDuring World War I, a young French woman struggles to choose between two suitors: a blind soldier to whom she is engaged and an American serviceman.--
- DirectorLionel BarrymoreStarsLewis StoneRuth ChattertonRaymond HackettA young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three.--
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsWarner OlandNeil HamiltonJean ArthurDuring the Boxer Rebellion in China during the early 20th century, in which a Chinese secret society attacked all westerners and anyone who associated with them, Dr. Fu Manchu's wife and child are killed by foreigners. Enraged, he vows to take his revenge on the British army officers he holds responsible for the killings.--
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsWilliam HainesAnita PageKarl DaneOn shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him. Their daughter takes offense at this, and in the ensuing argument she storms out of the house determined to live on her own. She believes that her new boyfriend will marry her, but when he admits that he's not the marrying kind and goes back to sea, she feels hurt and rejected and her life goes into a downward spiral.--
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsNorma TalmadgeGilbert RolandJohn WrayA chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster.--
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsArthur LakeBetty CompsonJoe E. BrownA musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.--
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsWilliam PowellHelen KaneFay WrayBig-name musical performers experience everyday problems and disappointments during their offstage hours.--
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsRonald ColmanLili DamitaAlfred HickmanThe English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom has an unexpected love affair with Edith and while they are having this affair, Lady Edith husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed.
- DirectorLuther ReedStarsBebe DanielsJohn BolesBert WheelerCapt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.--
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsMarilyn MillerAlexander GrayJoe E. BrownSally was an orphan who got her name from the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing and has been practicing since. Working as a waitress, she goes from job to job until she finds a job that also allows her to dance. At the restaurant, she meets Blair, and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phony and that Blair is engaged. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has her show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.
- DirectorDavid ButlerJohn FordStarsGeorge O'BrienHelen ChandlerWilliam JanneyFraternal rivalry intensifies when two brothers play on opposing teams in a big Army-Navy football match.--
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsClara BowJean ArthurJames HallMayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.--
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsFrank FayWilliam CourtenayH.B. WarnerIn 1929, the studio gave the cinema its voice and offered audiences a chance to hear their favorite actors and actresses from the silent-screen era. For the first time, they can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose musical-comedy revue. But also appearing are actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway, and, of course, German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.--
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsTom MooreOwen MooreMatt MooreThree successful Irish brothers cross paths in a very unexpected way.--
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsBetty CompsonJohn HarronJack OakieA homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.--
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellMarjorie WhiteMolly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.--
- DirectorBert GlennonStarsFred Waring and His PennsylvaniansMorton DowneyBarbara BennettThis is RKO's first sound musical. It centers on a pair of vaudevillians who are quite close on and off the stage until a dashing millionaire comes around and begins wooing the female partner.--
- DirectorSam TaylorStarsMary PickfordDouglas FairbanksEdwin MaxwellIn sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. But Baptista will not allow the two to get married until his eldest daughter, the extremely headstrong Katherine, is betrothed. This task seems impossible because of Katherine's shrewish demeanor. They believe their prayers have been answered with the arrival from Verona of the lusty Petruchio, whose father has just passed, leaving him to travel the world and marry. Having not yet met her, Petruchio agrees to court Katherine when he is told of her beauty and wit. Petruchio is even more excited at the prospect of marrying this wildcat of a woman after meeting her. Katherine will have none of it, even if it means her sister's spinsterhood, but has no choice but to marry him. Beyond the fact of the marriage itself, Katherine is even more irked by Petruchio's less than conventional behavior at the ceremony and post ceremony bridal feast. Each starts to play what they consider sly games of oneupsmanship with each other to gain the upper hand in the marriage.--
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGeorge BancroftFay WrayRichard ArlenA criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.--
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsGloria SwansonRobert AmesPurnell PrattThe trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband.--
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsRudy ValleeSally BlaneMarie DresslerA zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.--
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsGary CooperWalter HustonMary BrianA good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers that his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.--
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsRalph InceAileen PringlePhilip StrangeRalph Ince is Roller McCray, a steelworker turned ruthless tycoon whose tough business methods leads a rival (Philip Strange) to commit suicide. The widow (Aileen Pringle), believing she can ruin Ince by using his own methods, conspires with her husband's former partner (Sam De Grasse), but a strong friendship between Ince and Pringle's young son (Freddie Burke Frederick) changes things dramatically.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanMalcolm St. ClairStarsHarold LloydBarbara KentNoah YoungHarold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.--
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsWarner BaxterLois MoranGilbert EmeryEve Mannering realizes too late that her abusive husband is a philanderer and murderer and seeks protection with her true love, explorer John Beetham.--
- DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenMyrna LoyDavid TorrenceCaptain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsCarmencita JohnsonFreddie Burke FrederickEthel WalesDorothy enters the picture.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsArmidaDon TerryMarjorie KaneIn a cantina across the border, Bob Hamlin shoots a man that threatens his friend. He and his pals escape but return that night for the dance as Bob is attracted to Conchita. Running once more from the Rurales, Bob takes Conchita. They escape again only to find themselves pinned down when Buck and his gang of horse thieves attack.--
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsAlice WhiteMarion ByronSally EilersA Chorus girl who is in love with her stage manager is led to believe that he is in love with another young woman, so, she agrees to marry a bootlegger instead.--
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsSally O'NeilJack EganCarmel MyersWhen the road-show that Ted Howard, a singer, and Mary, a chorus-dancer, goes broke and the company is stranded in the sticks, Ted Uses his own savings to get them all back to New York. Ted and Mary form a team and are doing well when Valenska, a musical comedy queen, asks Ted to join her as an act. Since the offer doesn't include Mary, Ted refuses. But, Mary, who loves Ted, knows this is Ted's big chance, and she instigates a situation that leads to the break-up of their team. Ted does do well, but is also used by Valenska as her boy-toy. When they open a big show, Mary is there as a member of the chorus. This does not set well with Valenska. There are some problems.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsBillie DoveAntonio MorenoThelma ToddIn French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him, the boss had a policy of requiring the wives of his subordinates to sleep with him if they wanted their husbands to get promoted. What he also didn't know was that his wife was in the boss' office when he was killed. Complications ensue.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsWallace BeeryFlorence VidorWarner OlandSociety woman Joan Fry falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize that he is in love with her, and he determines to lift her up again. "Boston" Charley, the rival gang-leader, has other plans.--
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsVictor McLaglenEdmund LoweLili DamitaTwo Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRonald ColmanAnn HardingLouis WolheimSuave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
- DirectorJerome StormStarsHoot GibsonEugenia GilbertMonte MontagueCollege boy Clarence Butts has been sent west by the Doctor to join McKenzie's circus. There he finds Calamity Jane running roughshod over everyone. So the dude decides to tame her.
- DirectorMelville W. BrownStarsOlive BordenArthur LakeRalph EmersonA dance-trophy-winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe that he's in love with her.--
- DirectorJohn CromwellA. Edward SutherlandStarsHal SkellyNancy CarrollDorothy RevierWhen a vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer have little luck in their separate careers, they decide to combine their acts; to save money on the road, they get married.--
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsOlga BaclanovaClive BrookNeil HamiltonThe commissioner of a remote outpost in Africa has a mistress who is so sexy and seductive that she has made several of the local white men kill themselves. She learns that the commissioner's brother is coming to the outpost to be his assistant, and she comes up with a plan to set her sights on him.--
- DirectorLynn ShoresLeslie PearceStarsRod La RocqueRita La RoyCharles ByerLastro (Rod La Rocque), a rogue pirate sails to Tapit where he encounters Nydra (Rita La Roy), an Americana singer in a waterfront dive, who is the object of of the jealous affections on Harry Beall (Charles Byer). The latter soon finds himself in the clutches of Lastro and, in order to win his release, she must spend the night in oily Lastr's cabin. Nothing occurs but conversation but Beall has a green-eyed frenzy hissy-fit, and the disgusted Nydra sets sail with Lastra.--
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJack HoltDorothy RevierWilliam Collier Jr.The lights go out at a high-society dinner party and one of the guests is murdered. The police are summoned and Inspector Killian shows up with his assistant Carney. In order to get a clear picture of what took place, Killany decides to have the crime re-enacted (with a substitute for the murdered man). The lights are turned out, and another man is murdered. This doesn't faze the Inspector one little bit, and he asks for a third re-enactment. The suspect list dwindles.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRichard BarthelmessLucien LittlefieldKathrin Clare WardA writer is torn between his wife, and a more sophisticated woman that he lusts after.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJack HoltLila LeeRalph GravesA Marine flyer and his flight school mentor fall for the same beautiful nurse.--
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsLola LanePaul PageKenneth ThomsonJoan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a musical comedy troupe to capture a gang of jewel thieves. On a steamer from Los Angeles to Havana, Joan falls in love with Allan Grant, one of the suspected crooks. After the gang has been apprehended, Grant is revealed to be the son of a murdered jeweler who fell in with the gang to track down the murderer.
- DirectorReginald BarkerStarsDorothy MackaillIan KeithMyrna LoySteven Ghent has decided to sell the mine he's owned for fifteen years, located at the border of Mexico where the Great Divide ends. When the representatives are delayed for a few days, he visits the annual Fiesta for the last time, and he encounters Ruth Jordan, the daughter of his long-dead partner, and discovers that she is a decadent, world-weary society girl. He decides that she's in need of reforming, and that a dose of the Greats Outdoors might do it - so he kidnaps her.--
- DirectorWilliam J. CowenStarsOlive BordenMorgan FarleyKen MurrayA young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom, and tragedy.--
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsCharles E. EvansMarjorie WhiteRichard KeeneMargie, a singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York although she's in love with the owner's grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she summons all of the boat's former stars to unite and put on a big show to rescue it.--
- DirectorRalph InceStarsHobart BosworthJohnny Mack BrownLeila HyamsCaptain Black and his motley crew of pirates are shipwrecked on a south sea island, where they hold several shanghaied sailors captive. Black observes the ship commanded by "Hurricane Martin" approaching, and conspires to get his men aboard the vessel and seize the cargo.
- DirectorIrvin WillatStarsJason Robards Sr.Virginia ValliClarissa SelwynneA Pacific Ocean steamer with a brutal captain, Peter Forbes (Noah Beery), and carrying a motley cargo of passengers, drifts into the Sargasso Sea and is ship wrecked on the Island of Lost Ships.
- DirectorMelville W. BrownStarsSally O'NeilJohnny Mack BrownClyde CookA Southern songwriter brings his piano to New York and meets a girl who works on Tin Pan Alley--
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsNorma ShearerBasil RathboneGeorge BarraudAt an elegant gathering of English nobility, young widow Fay Cheyney wins with her beauty, musicality and clever repartee. Cheyney, however, is not who she claims to be.
- DirectorArthur RossonStarsHoot GibsonSally EilersKathryn McGuireIts time for the big race and its the Rambling Kid riding Dynamite versus Wilson's horse Thunderbolt. When Gyp informs Wilson that Lightning is faster, Wilson has Gyp drug the Kid's coffee just before the race.
- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsConway TearleVirginia ValliRicardo CortezRight before embarking on his South Pole mission Commander Hall hears his wife's confession that she loves his co-explorer Tom. Hall remains silent, they crash their zeppelin and only one of the two can be picked up by the rescue plane.--
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsBarbara StanwyckSam HardyWilliam JanneyA drama set in a border town gambling saloon. The owner falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.--
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsGeorge BancroftEsther RalstonWarner OlandA gangster's henchman becomes a hero after he is drafted to serve in the Great War.--
- DirectorReginald BarkerStarsJoseph SchildkrautJoan BennettCarmelita Geraghty"The Mississippi Gambler" is a 1929 film made by Universal Pictures, directed by Reginald Barker, and starring Joseph Schildkraut and Joan Bennett.
- DirectorJames FloodFrank ReicherStarsLeo CarrilloVirginia ValliGareth HughesA happy go lucky Italian town florist befriends the mayor thrown out of a bar but later turns on him when the official has unjustly evicted an attractive young lady from her home.--
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsReginald DennyNora LaneE.J. RatcliffeThe scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Since all the other inmates/attendees think they are historical figures such as Robin Hood, the Duke of Wellington, Paul Revere, William Tell, Salome, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes and others, it takes a while for Judd to separate the wheat from the chaff and prove he is not deranged. His quest becomes more urgent when he falls in love with a nurse named Josephine, who does not think she is Napoleon's "Josephine" but is convinced Judd thinks he is Napoleaon.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsRicardo CortezNancy WelfordHenry B. WalthallA man is blamed for a murder that was actually committed by his wife.--
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsAl JolsonDavey LeeMarian NixonJoe Lane kills another man in a fistfight after learning that the man has made improper advances towards his wife. Joe goes to prison for the murder. When Joe gets out of prison, he visits his son "Little Pal" at school. Little Pal tries to follow Joe downtown, but is hit by a truck.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsHelen ChandlerJohn GarrickGilbert EmeryJack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under suspicious circumstances. Invalided to private life, to the shame of his father, Lord Bardell, he gets his chance for redemption during a German Zepplin attack over London. He puts on a good show.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsBelle BakerRalph GravesDavid DurandTom and Anna Gibson, along with their little boy, Buddy, form a successful vaudeville song-and-dance act and a happy family. Anna, however, is worried about her son's future when she finds him playing ball, forgetting a performance.
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsAlice JoyceRichard TuckerMyrna LoyThe activities of Nubi (Myrna Loy), a minx-like, Hungarian gypsy girl who, while on the run from her abusive husband, takes shelter in a farmhouse, where she seduces and holds in thrall all the male members of the family.--
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsArthur LakeJune ClydeDorothy RevierPeggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.--
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsWill RogersIrene RichOwen Davis Jr.Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides that the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?--
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsConrad NagelLeila HyamsMargaret WycherlyAlthough his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true "bounder" Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.--
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsRenée AdoréeTom KeeneGeorge FawcettCalifornia's gold dicovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsMonte BlueLupe VelezH.B. WarnerA mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsDonald CrispRaymond GriffithMarceline DayWho killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsPaul MuniMarguerite ChurchillJohnny Mack BrownAfter killing an unknown man for an unknown reason, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law under a false name, intending to protect his own family's honor. But when the news of his conviction breaks, the drifter's sister considers the possibility that the man is her long-lost brother.--
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsGeorge BancroftOlga BaclanovaNancy CarrollA ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.===