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67
35
7.2
/1995/
65
/41/
66
/27/
3.4
/438/
63
/105/

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
poster
63
30
6.3
/665/
58
/7/
67
/12/
3.3
/1392/
64
/50/

The Wild Party (1929)
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
poster
63
27
7.0
/1622/
67
/53/
62
/17/
3.3
/324/
50
/71/

Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
poster
59
20
6.4
/579/
65
/2/
49
/7/
58
/134/

Second Fiddle (1939)
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
poster
64
18
7.1
/690/
60
/5/
66
/5/
3.5
/230/
56
/45/

Remember the Day (1941)
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
poster
?
5.6
/14/

The Man in the Shadow (1926)
N/A
poster
?
6.0
/41/

Runaway Girls (1928)
Runaway Girls is a lost 1928 silent film drama directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Shirley Mason and Hedda Hopper. It was produced by Harry Cohn and distributed by his Columbia Pictures, then a fledgling studio.
poster
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55
/2/

Enter Madame (1922)
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
poster
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10
/1/

The Truth About Husbands (1920)
N/A
poster
?
5.8
/24/

Fury of the Jungle (1933)
Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
poster
?
6.8
/16/

Sun-Up (1925)
When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to kill the deserter who she learns is the son of a murderous revenue agent.
poster
?
4.9
/71/

Glad Rag Doll (1929)
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
poster
?
6.8
/23/

Tearing Through (1925)
Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer. Madison's son, Bob, has become a hophead because of the ring, and Greer, Jones' rival for the hand of Madison's daughter, Constance, is the ring's leader. The district attorney himself is in league with Greer as well. Jones disguises himself as an Asian, leaps over tenement roofs, beats up a mob of Chinese gangsters, and performs several dozen other daredevil feats.
poster
?
6.1
/27/

The Hidden Way (1926)
The film tells the tale of three ex-cons who finally go straight, through the redemptive power of love. After rescuing Mary from certain death, the “three bad men” meet her saintly mother and stay on to help on their farm. In The Hidden Way, two of the ex-cons conspire to steal the family’s tiny nest egg, but through plot twists involving a medicinal spring, a wronged woman, a villainous Casanova, his avaricious father, and government inspectors (!), the pair eventually see their error and join the third in turning over a new leaf.
poster
?
7.0
/36/
55
/1/

The Copperhead (1920)
A farmer in Illinois played by Lionel Barrymore is recruited by Abraham Lincoln to pose as a copperhead during the Civil War.
poster
?
7.8
/17/
50
/1/

The Great Adventure (1921)
An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.
poster
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3.5
/55/
40
/1/

Little Miss Smiles (1922)
The Jewish Aaronson family lives in simple neighborhoods in the ghetto of a big city. Esther spreads the sun with her smile and when her mother goes blind and is taken to hospital, she takes on the role of head of the family.
poster
?
5.8
/12/

The Unwritten Law (1932)
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
poster
57
?
5.6
/104/
60
/1/

After the Dance (1935)
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
poster
?
6.3
/63/
45
/2/

News Is Made at Night (1939)
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
poster
56
?
6.4
/111/
47
/4/
55
/4/

20,000 Men a Year (1939)
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
poster
?
5.5
/27/

The Fighting Fool (1932)
A sheriff (Tim McCoy) flirts with a local girl (Marceline Day) and chases an outlaw called the Shadow.
poster
?
5.7
/24/

Terror Trail (1933)
A gang of horse thieves are able to operate because the crooked local sheriff is in cahoots with them. When Tom Mix's beloved horse Tony Jr. is stolen, he steps in to break up the gang.
poster
?
4.2
/21/
30
/2/

Old Loves and New (1926)
Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in turn is cast off when Lord Geraldine turns his attention to an Irish lass, Marny. Marny has no idea of Geraldine's past nor his brutal nature.
poster
?
6.8
/81/
78
/3/

Walking Back (1928)
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
poster
?
7.8
/14/
20
/1/

Men of the Night (1934)
"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Davis, head of a ring of jewel thieves. His suspicions are confirmed when Mary warns him that Davis is outside - waiting for him. Kelly sets a trap and, in the ensuing battle, one of the gangsters is killed. Davis is interested in rubbing out Kelly as Kelly and Baker are the only two witnesses against Smitty, a Davis henchman. Baker is in the hospital and the plan is bring Smitty there for identification. Kelly accidentally slips the secret to Mary, who in turn innocently informs Packey. A trap is laid.
poster
?
7.0
/73/
65
/10/
85
/3/
63
/8/

The Wolf of Wall Street (1929)
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.
poster
?
7.8
/43/
70
/2/

Trailing North (1933)
As Powers is dying he tells Lee to look for a man with a girl named Mitzi. Heading north by dog sled as Curly the Kid, he finds her and her friend Lucky. But Flash is another friend and Lee is in trouble when his true identity becomes known.
poster
67
?
6.3
/226/
70
/1/

She Couldn't Take It (1935)
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
poster
56
?
6.1
/118/
50
/1/
57
/3/

The Thrill Hunter (1933)
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
poster
55
?
5.5
/139/
60
/1/
55
/2/

Panic on the Air (1936)
A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.
poster
?
5.8
/39/
60
/1/

The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939)
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
poster
?
6.6
/68/
80
/1/
70
/2/

The Blood Ship (1927)
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.
poster
58
?
6.4
/311/
75
/2/
50
/1/

The Public Menace (1935)
1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.
poster
?
5.8
/36/

Chicken Wagon Family (1939)
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
poster
61
?
6.2
/260/
60
/1/

Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
poster
?
6.5
/82/
56
/3/
50
/3/

Midnight Taxi (1937)
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
poster
?
6.5
/61/
10
/2/
42
/3/

Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
poster
?
6.2
/102/
53
/3/
50
/6/

The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934)
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
poster
?
4.5
/44/

The Call of the Canyon (1923)
Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His fiancee, Carley Burch, follows him to Arizona but soon decides she'd rather go back to New York. When Flo is badly hurt in an accident, Glenn decides to repay her for her help in bringing him back to health by proposing marriage.
poster
?
6.2
/250/
60
/1/

Swanee River (1939)
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
poster
?
5.8
/83/
56
/5/

Time Out for Romance (1937)
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
poster
?
5.0
/92/
50
/1/

Say It with Sables (1928)
In this silent film, now considered lost, Doug Caswell falls for Irene, his wealthy father's mistress. It's up to Doug's stepmother Helen to put things right.
poster
56
?
6.2
/335/
50
/1/
57
/3/

Enchantment (1921)
The frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man and the film becomes another variation of the 'Taming of the Shrew' theme.
poster
?
6.7
/100/
70
/1/
40
/2/

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
poster
52
?
5.5
/266/
45
/4/
52
/9/

Mexicali Rose (1929)
The owner of a border town gambling saloon 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.
poster
?
7.1
/76/
70
/1/

Here I Am a Stranger (1939)
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
poster
?
6.7
/25/

Perfectly Mismated (1934)
Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.


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