The Story of Louis Pasteur

The Story of Louis Pasteur 1936

6.90

A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.

1936

The Thin Man

The Thin Man 1934

7.50

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

1934

Captain Blood

Captain Blood 1935

7.20

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

1935

Show People

Show People 1928

7.10

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.

1928

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama 1934

7.00

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

1934

The Mask of Fu Manchu

The Mask of Fu Manchu 1932

5.50

The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

1932

Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln 1939

7.17

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.

1939

Skyscraper Souls

Skyscraper Souls 1932

5.60

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.

1932

Special Agent

Special Agent 1935

6.30

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify

1935

The Big House

The Big House 1930

6.60

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

1930

The Secret Six

The Secret Six 1931

5.80

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.

1931

Torrent

Torrent 1926

6.90

A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.

1926

The Red Mill

The Red Mill 1927

6.60

A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.

1927

20,000 Men a Year

20,000 Men a Year 1939

5.50

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.

1939

Marianne

Marianne 1929

6.50

At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.

1929

Penthouse

Penthouse 1933

6.70

Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.

1933

The Restless Sex

The Restless Sex 1920

1

A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.)

1920

Proxies

Proxies 1921

1

Carlotta Darley (Dean) is engaged to Homer Carleton (Crosby), but regrets that Homer is not as tall and handsome as the butler Peter (Kerry).

1921

White Shadows in the South Seas

White Shadows in the South Seas 1928

6.60

An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.

1928

Enchantment

Enchantment 1921

5.70

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.

1921