After Office Hours 1935  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke, Katharine Alexander, Henry Travers, Harvey Stephens, William Demarest, Hale Hamilton, Henry Armetta
Jim Branch (Clark Gable) manages a big-city newspaper and joins forces with fired reporter Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett). Together, they dig up the roots of a major scandal.
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Arsene Lupin 1932  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, John Miljan, Tully Marshall, Henry Armetta, George Davis, John Davidson, James T. Mack
In their first joint screen appearance, John and Lionel Barrymore play a gentleman rogue, Arsene Lupin (John), and the French detective, Guerchard (Lionel), who is hot on Arsene Lupin's trail.
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The Big Store 1941 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Reisner
Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey, Margaret Dumont, Douglass Dumbrille, William Tannen, Marion Martin, Virginia O'Brien, Henry Armetta, Anna Demetrio
Detective Wolf J. Flywheel (Groucho Marx) is hired by the Phelps Department Store co-owner, Martha Phelps (Margaret Dumont), to guard her partner, Tommy Rogers (Tony Martin), whose life has been threatened. This marks the last of the Marx Bros. MGM films.
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 The Black Cat 1934 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Thriller
aka: The House of Doom
The Vanishing Body
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop, Henry Armetta, Albert Conti, Harry Cording, Luis Alberni, Lucille Lund, Herman Bing, Andre Cheron, Egon Brecher, George Davis, Paul Weigel
This is the first film starring both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and concerns a young couple–Joan and Peter Alison (Julie Bishop and David Manners)–who meet Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Lugosi) on a train while honeymooning in Budapest. Werdegast offers them a ride from the station, but after an accident the trio ends up at the home of Hjalmar Poetzig (Karloff). Poetzig is a satanic cult leader who has stolen Werdegast's wife and daughter. The wife has died and her corpse is hidden in the house. Meanwhile, Werdegast has married the daughter. Now the chess game begins as Poelzig and Werdegast engage in mind games, and the Alisons become the pawns in this deadly game.
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Colonel Effingham's Raid 1946 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Man of the Hour
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, William Eythe, Allyn Joslyn, Elizabeth Patterson, Donald Meek, Frank Craven, Thurston Hall, Cora Witherspoon, Emory Parnell, Henry Armetta, Stephen Dunne
Col. Effingham (Charles Coburn) retires from the Army to settle down in his Georgia hometown where he writes editorials and uses his military skills to mobilize fellow citizens against crooked politicians.
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The Devil's Brother 1933 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Bogus Bandits
Fra Diavolo
The Virtuous Tramps
Director: Hal Roach
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd, James Finlayson, Lucile Browne, Arthur Pierson, Henry Armetta, Lane Chandler, Matt McHugh
Looking for potential victims, a thief (Dennis King) pretends to be a marquis in order to get closer to the action. Laurel and Hardy play his inept assistants in this comedy/operetta.
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A Farewell to Arms 1932  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack La Rue, Blanche Friderici, Henry Armetta, Mary Forbes, Paul Porcasi, George Humbert, Gilbert Emery, Herman Bing, Gino Corrado, Marcelle Corday, Doris Lloyd
This Ernest Hemingway story about an ill-fated romance during World War I is brought to the screen with Gary Cooper starring as the ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and Helen Hayes in the role of nurse Catherine Barkley. Frederic and Catherine meet and fall in love in war-torn Italy. Their romance leads to Maj. Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou) becoming jealous and having Catherine transferred to Milan. When Frederic is wounded and taken to Catherine's hospital, the romance resumes. Later, Henry returns to the war while the now-pregnant Catherine travels to Switzerland. Rinaldi intercepts Catherine's letters to Frederic, but when the war ends, Henry goes to Switzerland in search of Catherine.
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Fisherman's Wharf 1939  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: Bobby Breen, Leo Carrillo, Henry Armetta, Lee Patrick, Rosina Galli, Tommy Bupp, George Humbert, Leon Belasco, Pua Lani, Leonard Kibrick
In this musical/drama, Tony (Bobby Breen) runs away from home after his adoptive father, Carlo (Leo Carrillo), welcomes his sister-in-law (Lee Patrick) and her son into their home. Musical numbers accompany the search for Tony.
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Ghost Catchers 1944 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline
Cast: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Gloria Jean, Martha O'Driscoll, Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Lon Chaney Jr., Kirby Grant, Walter Catlett, Henry Armetta, Frank Mitchell
A good and Johnson comedy as they help a Southern colonel and his daughters rid their home of ghosts.
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Imitation of Life 1934 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John M. Stahl
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Ned Sparks, Louise Beavers, Rochelle Hudson, Fredi Washington, Alan Hale, Clarence Wilson, Henry Armetta, Henry Kolker, Paul Porcasi, Wyndham Standing, Franklin Pangborn, Dennis O'Keefe, Fred "Snowflake" Toones
This is the film adaptation of the Fannie Hurst novel about mothers Bea Pullman and Delilah Johnson (Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers) and daughters Jessie (Rochelle Hudson as 18-year-old Jessie) and Peola (Fredi Washington as 16-year-old Peola) whose relationships become difficult. Bea and Delilah open a pancake restaurant that proves to be very successful. But, despite success in their professional lives, problems rise to the fore with their daughters. Jessie falls in love with her mother's boyfriend (Warren William). Meanwhile, light-skinned Peola decides to pass herself off as White and breaks Delilah's heart. An Academy Award nomination was received for Best Picture.
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In Old Arizona 1928  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess, Warner Baxter, J. Farrell MacDonald, Joe Brown, John Webb Dillon, Ivan Linow, Roy Stewart, James Bradbury Jr., Fred Warren, Tom Santschi, Chris-Pin Martin, Henry Armetta, Frank Campeau, Soledad Jimenez
This tale of O. Henry's "The Cisco Kid" was the first Western talkie as well as the first sound film made outside of a studio. Army Sergeant Mickey Dunne (Edmund Lowe) is pursuing the bandit, The Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter), who is in love with Tonia Maria (Dorothy Burgess). While The Cisco Kid is away, Tonia falls in love with Mickey, and, together, they plot The Cisco Kid's demise. Warner Baxter received an Oscar for Best Actor in his role as the Cisco Kid. The film also received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Director.
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Lady of the Pavements 1929 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Lupe Velez, William Boyd, Jetta Goudal, Albert Conti, George Fawcett, Henry Armetta, William Bakewell, Franklin Pangborn
In this, D.W. Griffith's last silent film, Count Karl von Arnem (William Boyd) marries cabaret performer Nanon (Lupe Velez) and only later falls in love with her.
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Magnificent Obsession 1935  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John M. Stahl
Cast: Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Betty Furness, Sara Haden, Ralph Morgan, Henry Armetta, Arthur Hoyt, Arthur Treacher, Lucien Littlefield, Gilbert Emery, Beryl Mercer, Theodore von Eltz, Sidney Bracey, Cora Sue Collins
After being involved in an accident that causes the death of Helen Hudson's (Irene Dunne) husband, alcoholic playboy Bobby Merrick (Robert Taylor) apologizes only to watch Helen turn away and walk into traffic. She is hit by a car and blinded. Now Bobby reforms, becomes an eye surgeon, finds Helen, restores her eyesight, and finds true love with her.
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Make a Wish 1937 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Kurt Neumann
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Bobby Breen, Marion Claire, Ralph Forbes, Henry Armetta, Leon Errol, Donald Meek, Billy Lee, Leonid Kinskey, Herbert Rawlinson, Richard Tucker, Johnny Arthur, Barbara Barondess, Spencer Charters, Lillian Harmer
Young singing prodigy Chip (Bobby Breen) attends a summer camp where he is befriended by composer Selden (Basil Rathbone) who has lost his creative inspiration. When Chip reads letters from his widowed mother Irene (Marion Claire) to Selden, her words give him that needed inspiration to write a new opera. Irene stars in the opera and falls in love with Selden, and Chip gets a new father.
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The Man Who Talked Too Much 1940 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Richard Barthelmess, William Lundigan, George Tobias, Marc Lawrence, John Litel, Henry Armetta, Alan Baxter
Great courtroom drama prevails in this film pitting two brothers–the District Attorney (George Brent) and the Defense Attorney (William Lundigan)–as adversaries working on the same case. This is a remake of "The Mouthpiece" and was again remade as "Illegal."
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Poor Little Rich Girl 1936 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Musical / Romance
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart, Jack Haley, Michael Whalen, Jane Darwell, Claude Gillingwater, Henry Armetta, Sara Haden, Arthur Hoyt, Paul Stanton, Charles Coleman, John Wray, Tyler Brooke, Mathilde Comont
Barbara Barry (Shirley Temple) is a motherless girl who runs away from her wealthy father (Michael Whalen) and joins Jerry and Jimmy Dolan (Alice Faye and Jack Haley) in their vaudeville act. Barbara loves life on the stage, and her widowed father realizes he is losing his daughter and tries to win back her affections. This is one of Shirley Temple's best films.
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 Scarface 1932 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
aka: Scarface, The Shame of the Nation
Director: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft, Boris Karloff, Tully Marshall, Maurice Black, Paul Fix, Vince Barnett, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, Purnell Pratt, Inez Palange, Edwin Maxwell, Henry Armetta
Paul Muni is excellent as Roaring Twenties' gangster Antonio "Tony" Camonte in this film modeled after Al Capone's criminal activities in the world of bootleg gin as he fights to overtake the other mobster leaders in the city
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Sins of the Children 1930 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Richest Man in the World
Father's Day
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Louis Mann, Robert Montgomery, Elliott Nugent, Leila Hyams, Clara Blandick, Mary Doran, Ralph Bushman, Robert McWade, Dell Henderson, Henry Armetta, James Donlan, Jeane Wood, Lee Kohlmar, Jane Reid
Successful businessman Adolf Wagenkampf (Louis Mann) adores his family, and when his son is forced to move to the desert because he has tuberculosis, Adolph stays with him there. This is not a good business decision but an excellent family choice as Adolf is willing to sacrifice his business and wealth for the interests of his loved ones.
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Speak Easily 1932 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn, Thelma Todd, Hedda Hopper, William Pawley, Sidney Toler, Lawrence Grant, Henry Armetta, Edward Brophy, DeWitt Jenninsg, Oscar Apfel, Sidney Bracey, Fred Kelsey, Inez Palange
Professor Timoleon Zanders Post (Buster Keaton) has inherited a fortune and decides to enjoy life when he meets and falls in love with a dancer, Eleanor Espere (Thelma Todd). So, he buys her show–including the piano player Jimmy Dodge (Jimmy Durante)–and plans to bring it to Broadway. But, does he have the ability to carry off his plan?
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Strangers May Kiss 1931 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau, Irene Rich, Jed Prouty, Henry Armetta, Ray Milland, Hale Hamilton, Conchita Montenegro
Lisbeth (Norma Shearer) loves Alan (Neil Hamilton), but her love is not returned. Nevertheless, she follows him to the ends of the earth before she realizes what true love really is.
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Street Angel 1928 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guido Trento, Natalie Kingston, Henry Armetta, Louis Liggett, Alberto Rabagliati, Cino Conti, Milton Dickinson, Helena Herman
Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress (1927-28) for three films: "Sunrise," "Seventh Heaven," and this one in which Gaynor portrayed a circus performer who became the muse for a struggling artist.
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Tiger Shark 1932 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann, Leila Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Vince Barnett, William Ricciardi, Edwin Maxwell, Henry Armetta, Inez Palange
Mike (Edward G. Robinson) is a tuna fisherman who married Quita (Zita Johann) out of pity for her than love. Her father, who was a friend of Mike, was lost at sea. During that same tragedy, Mike saved his best friend, Pipes (Richard Arlen)–and lost a hand to a shark in the process. Now, it appears that Pipes and Quita are attracted to each other. Good acting and directing result in an excellent film.
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The Trespasser 1929 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, William(2) Holden, Kay Hammond, Henry B. Walthall, Blanche Friderici, Mary Forbes, Brooks Benedict, Henry Armetta
This is Gloria Swanson's first talkie film. She plays a young wife whose husband (Robert Ames) annuls their marriage when he succumbs to family pressure over his marital choice.
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Unholy Garden 1931 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Action
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Ronald Colman, Fay Wray, Estelle Taylor, Tully Marshall, Warren Hymer, Henry Armetta, Mischa Auer, Ullrich Haupt, Lawrence Grant, Henry Kolker
Professional thief Barrington Hunt (Ronald Colman) gets mixed up in intrigue in Algeria where he plots to pit one thief against the other.
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| 1. After Office Hours (1935)
2. Arsene Lupin (1932)
3. The Big Store (1941)
4. The Black Cat (1934)
aka: The House of Doom
aka: The Vanishing Body
5. Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
aka: Man of the Hour
6. The Devil's Brother (1933)
aka: Bogus Bandits
aka: Fra Diavolo
aka: The Virtuous Tramps
7. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
8. Fisherman's Wharf (1939)
9. Forbidden (1932)
10. Ghost Catchers (1944)
11. Imitation of Life (1934)
12. In Old Arizona (1928)
13. Lady of the Pavements (1929)
14. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
15. Make a Wish (1937)
16. The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
17. Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
18. Scarface (1932)
aka: Scarface, The Shame of the Nation
19. Sins of the Children (1930)
aka: The Richest Man in the World
aka: Father's Day
20. Speak Easily (1932)
21. Strangers May Kiss (1931)
22. Street Angel (1928)
23. Tiger Shark (1932)
24. The Trespasser (1929)
25. Unholy Garden (1931)
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