William Irving Movies

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Charles Quigley

Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Rita Hayworth

A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Martin

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to...

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Cast: Edmund Lowe

Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Sidney

Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and...

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Cast: Monte Collins

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Sullavan

After El Lobo robs Don Jose he gives one of the stolen items to Conchita. Later when he saves Anita in a runaway coach, Don Pedro invites him to the...

Genre: Western

Cast: Ken Maynard

Comedy Short

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bobby Vernon

Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Ellis

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Gaynor

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Winnie Lightner

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pat O’Brien

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gloria Stuart

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Melvyn Douglas

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Preston Foster

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Greta Garbo

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Franchot Tone

Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Langdon

Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man,...

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Cast: Jimmie Adams

Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Winnie Lightner

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Virginia Bruce

U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rita Hayworth

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gary Cooper

The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Moe Howard

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Donald Woods

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

Dr. Herbert Lee, an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son Terry, Terry's pal Pat Ryan, and Normandie...

Genre: Action

Cast: William Tracy

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Constance Bennett

A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rin-Tin-Tin

A Mexico/United States border patrol officer is aided by his police dog, Rinty.

Genre: Western

Cast: Rin-Tin-Tin

A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Loretta Young

A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clara Bow

A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Virginia Sale

Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Dugan

A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Dugan

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lee Tracy

The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Curly Howard

Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Boland

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Hayes

It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour,"...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lanny Ross

A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Richard Arlen

In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dolores Costello

In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald

United States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of Marines in a search of a party of American tourists...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Monte Blue

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.

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Cast: John Nesbitt

Tammany Burke, young owner of a giant roller coaster, is fighting heavy odds against a syndicate led by financial baron Hughey Cooper. Assisted by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lois Wilson

Syd (Syd Saylor)is a punch-drunk, 10th-rate prizefighter who, since his manager can't book him any matches, turns to selling reducing machines for a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Syd Saylor

Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Prevost

The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmie Adams

Walter has invented an automatic remote-control for his jalopy. When a potential buyer comes to look it over, Walter proudly shows how he cam the car...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Hiers

A devilish courtship.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Hiers

Billy Dooley buys a book on jiu-jitsu to court a fashion model.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Dooley

At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bobby Vernon

Wimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart. But today's newspaper headline reads,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Dooley

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of the arts. She falls in love with the verses...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alla Nazimova

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe

Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Wilson

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Wolheim

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.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Clark Gable

Whoever can make the sale of an order for noodles exactly five feet long to the customer in the black beard and white carnation gets to marry the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Bletcher

Yvonne von Krutz, a Belgian, lives with her German husband Karl, whom she was forced to marry, and her spirited little brother Jacques in a farmhouse...

Genre: War

Cast: Bryant Washburn

Baby Peggy is joined by her star-making partner, Brownie the Wonder Dog and is in a circus as a junior clown.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Baby Peggy

To win his girl Gertie back, Freddie decides to climb a high mountain and challenge a world champion.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmie Adams

Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't realize is that they are one and same girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heather Angel

Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leon Errol

Comedy starring Jack Duffy and Anne Cornwall, featured in James Roots' 100 Essential Film Comedies

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Duffy

Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Langdon

His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leon Errol

Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: El Brendel

A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alla Nazimova

Bobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bobby Vernon

The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Curly Howard

Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Moe Howard

The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Curly Howard

Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Curly Howard

The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Curly Howard

Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. What will the passengers on the unlucky airplane do,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Langdon

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

Taxi driver Andy Clyde gets mixed up in drunken passenger Arthur Housman's scheme and has to dress up as a Indian to entertain Housman's guests. Then...

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Cast: Andy Clyde

Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Jacqueline Logan, Theodore von Eltz, Bryant Washburn, Jane Winton.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacqueline Logan

The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Curly Howard

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Agnew

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Mason

The Warrens have a full dress Navy wedding, but to sneak out on the reception guests, Dorothy disguises herself as a sailor. But she's caught up with...

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Cast: Dorothy Devore

A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with unexpected wealth, arrives just in the nick of time...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Devore

New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Langdon