Lamont Cranston (Rod La Rocque), amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commissioner Weston (Thomas E. Jackson). He complains to his managing editor, Edward Heath (Oscar O'Shea), over the problems that have developed in his depar...
Efficiency wins success in business; why not in love Edgar Bumpus, a rising young man, applies this reasoning to his courtship of Mary Pierce. He first eliminates Wimple, his closest compe*****, who plays guitar, by learning to play saxophone, which makes louder noise, and by sending Mary flowers and candy each time Wimple calls on her. The plan works O.K. until the saxophone ...
Star Pola Negri and director Ernst Lubitsch, who created an international sensation with the German superproduction DuBarry, Woman of Passion, were reunited in the frothy Hollywood comedy/drama Forbidden Paradise. Negri is cast as Catherine, the Czarina of an unnamed but very Russian-looking country. Rescued from revolutionaries by dashing Captain Alexis Czerny (Rod LaRocque), ...
Hounded by a passel of bounty hunters, smooth-talking bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Colosso, arrive in town intent on robbing a bank belonging to the smarmy Lucius Perkins. Montero becomes distracted, however, with the plight of lovely music teacher Helen Wardell, who is pining away for the poor, but handsome, dirt-farmer Bill Howard. Things heat up when Perkins, hi...
A real gem of a sentimental fantasy film, with definite Capra-esque qualities, concerning 3 lonely millionaires who play Santa Claus to 2 down-and-out lovers on Christmas Eve. Jean Parker, Richard Carlson, Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles ... Full DescriptionWinninger, and Maria Ousponskaya star.
A drama for the Christmas season which tells the story of three millionair...
