Beau Ideal 1931  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Herbert Brenon
Cast: Frank McCormick, Ralph Forbes, Loretta Young, Irene Rich, Lester Vail, Otto Matieson, Don Alvarado, Bernard Siegel, Myrtle Stedman, John St. Polis, Hale Hamilton, George Regas, Bernard Siegel
Ralph Forbes, who starred in the 1926 silent film, "Beau Geste," returns to his role in this sequel that involves the desert reunion of childhood friends John Geste (Ralph Forbes) and Otis Madison (Lester Vail).
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rex Ingram
Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Alan Hale, Alice Terry, Jean Hersholt, Wallace Beery, Nigel De Brulier, Josef Swickard, Mabel Van Buren, Stuart Holmes, John St. Polis
This anti-war epic is about an Argentinean (Rudolph Valentino) who fights for France during World War I and learns that his cousin is fighting on Germany's side.
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Haunted House 1940 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Robert F. McGowan
Cast: Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, George Cleveland, Henry Hall, John St. Polis, Jessie Arnold, Henry Roquemore, Marcelle Ray, Buddy Swan, Christian Rub
Jimmie and Millie (Jackie Moran and Marcia Mae Jones) team up as amateur detectives to clear their friend of a murder charge by finding the real murderer. A clue leading to a hidden fortune may help in their search.
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International Crime 1938  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Rod La Rocque, Astrid Allwyn, Thomas E. Jackson, Oscar O'Shea, Wilhelm von Brincken, William Pawley, Walter Bonn, Peter Potter, Lou Hearn, Tenen Holtz, John St. Polis, Jack Baxley
Based on the popular radio show, "The Shadow"–but without the ability to "cloud men's minds"–this film follows Lamont Cranston (Rod La Rocque), a radio and newspaper reporter, as he solves the murder of a banker.
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Kismet 1930 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Director: John Francis Dillon
Cast: Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, David Manners, Mary Duncan, Sidney Blackmer, Montagu Love, Ford Sterling, Theodore von Eltz, John St. Polis, Edmund Breese, Blanche Friderici, Richard Carlyle, John Sheehan, Otto Hoffman, Noble Johnson
Baghdad beggar Haji (Otis Skinner) makes his way into the palace inner-circle where he romances Wazir Mansur's (Sidney Blackmer) "head wife" Zeleekha (Mary Duncan) while his daughter Marsinah (Loretta Young) falls in love with Caliph Abdallah (David Manners). Fate plays a big role in this captivating story.
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The Lady in Scarlet 1935  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Reginald Denny, Patricia Farr, Claudia Dell, James Bush, Dorothy Revier, John St. Polis, Jameson Thomas, Al(2) Thompson, Jack Adair, John T. Murray, Lew Kelly
Lawyer Oliver Keith (Reginald Denny) and his girlfriend/ secretary Ella Carey (Patricia Farr) team up to solve a pair of murders. Slow.
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Mr. Wong, Detective 1938 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: William Nigh
Cast: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings, Evelyn Brent, William Gould, Lucien Prival, John Hamilton, George Lloyd, Frank Bruno, Lee Tung Foo, John St. Polis, Hooper Atchley, Wilbur Mack, Lynton Brent
This film is the first in a series of mysteries investigated by Chinese detective Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff). Wong investigates a murder in which poison gas was the murder weapon.
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Party Girl 1930 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Halperin
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jeanette Loff, Judith Barrie, Marie Prevost, John St. Polis, Lucien Prival, Sammy Blum, Harry Northrup, Almeda Fowler, Hal Price, Sidney D'Albrook, Florence Dudley
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. made his "talkie" debut in this film as a wealthy businessman's son who goes to a penthouse party that features "party girls" and learns that the woman (Jeanette Loff) he is now interested in was once a party girl herself.
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 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Drama
Director: Rupert Julian
Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Snitz Edwards, Gibson Gowland, John Miljan, Chester Conklin, Arthur Edmund Carewe, John St. Polis, Alexander Bevani, Edward Cecil, Edith Yorke, William Tracy, Roy Coulson, Ward Crane
This is a very good, silent horror film with Lon Chaney at his best in the role of Erik, the Phantom, who lives in the sewers beneath the Paris Opera House and comes up to coach beautiful singer Christine (Mary Philbin). Through a series of terrors, including causing an enormous chandelier to crash on the audience, the Phantom forces the lead soprano to resign from the opera. Then, he lures Christine into his lair beneath the opera house and tells her that he loves her but that he will only let her go if she will break off her relationship with Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry). Christine agrees but then rushes to Raoul, and they plan to run away after the performance. The Phantom overhears her and kidnaps Christine asking only that she never remove his mask, but she sneaks up behind him, rips off the mask, and reveals the terror of what lies beneath. Now, it is the job of Raoul and secret service agent Simon Buquet (Gibson Gowland) to rescue Christine.
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Phantom Ranger 1938 N/R, 54 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Tim McCoy, Suzanne Kaaren, Karl Hackett, John St. Polis, John Merton, Harry Strang, Charles King, Edward Earle, Robert Frazer, Tom London, Richard Cramer, Horace B. Carpenter
A government engraver, Pat (John St. Polis), has been kidnapped by a gang of counterfeiters who expect his help in producing counterfeit money. Agent Tim (Tim McCoy) infiltrates the gang and, with the help of Pat's daughter (Suzanne Kaaren), brings the gang members to justice.
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The Shadow Strikes 1937  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Lynn Shores
Cast: Rod La Rocque, Lynn Anders, James Blakely, Walter McGrail, Kenneth Harlan, William Kellogg, Cy Kendall, Norman Ainsley, John Carnivale, John St. Polis, Wilson Benge, James C. Morton
The popular radio sleuth, Lamont Cranston/"The Shadow" (Rod La Rocque), who could "cloud men's minds" is brought to the screen as he pursues the killer of a wealthy man while the police try to pin the killing on him.
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 Shadows 1922  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Forman
Cast: Lon Chaney, Marguerite De La Motte, Harrison(2) Ford, John St. Polis, Walter Long, Buddy Messinger, Priscilla Bonner, Frances Raymond
Lon Chaney's excellent performance is the highlight of this tale of a Chinese laundryman, Yen Sin (Chaney), who is washed ashore at an East Coast fishing village during a storm. But, the God-fearing inhabitants of the village demonstrate prejudice against Yen, who runs a laundry from a houseboat. Eventually he befriends and is befriended by young minister John (Harrison Ford) who marries a widow, Sympathy (Marguerite De La Motte). But, blackmail ruins John, and Yen comes to the rescue by uncovering the truth, after which Yen returns to the sea in his boat.
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Three on the Trail 1936 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Howard Bretherton
Cast: William Boyd, James Ellison, Onslow Stevens, Muriel Evans, George "Gabby" Hayes, William Duncan, Claude King, Clara Kimball Young, John St. Polis, Ernie Adams, Jack Rutherford
A gang of cattle rustlers robs a stagecoach, and Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) heads off in hot pursuit.
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The Three Sisters 1930 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Sloane
Cast: Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola, Kenneth MacKenna, Joyce Compton, June Collyer, Addie McPhail, Cliff Saum, Sidney De Gray, Paul Porcasi, John St. Polis, Herman Bing
This film is about three Italian sisters, Carlotta (Joyce Compton), Elena (June Collyer), and Antonia (Addie McPhail), who head in separate directions after World War I and leave their mother (Louise Dresser) behind.
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The Unknown 1927  N/R, 50 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Romance
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz, John George, Frank Lanning, John St. Polis, Julian Rivero, Louise Emmons
Alonzo the Armless (Lon Chaney)–but he really does have arms– is a knife thrower in a circus who uses his feet to accomplish his feats. He falls in love with his assistant Nanon Zanzi (Joan Crawford) who has a morbid fear of being touched by men's arms. To gain her love, Alonzo decides to have his own arms amputated. The deed is done, but in the interim the object of his love gets over her phobia and falls in love with another man. Now, Alonzo schemes to get her back.
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| 1. Beau Ideal (1931)
2. Coquette (1929)
3. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
4. Haunted House (1940)
5. International Crime (1938)
6. Kismet (1930)
7. The Lady in Scarlet (1935)
8. Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)
9. Party Girl (1930)
10. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
11. Phantom Ranger (1938)
12. The Shadow Strikes (1937)
13. Shadows (1922)
14. Three on the Trail (1936)
15. The Three Sisters (1930)
16. The Unknown (1927)
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