
Birthday:
09-29-1873
Deathday:
11-12-1947 (74 years)
Birthplace:
Springfield, Illinois, USA
Biography
Theodore Lorch (September 29, 1873 – November 12, 1947) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1908 and 1947.
Read morearrow_drop_down
Their works
- Release swap_vert
- Title swap_vert
- Ratings swap_vert
close
Flash Gordon
Act like High Priest
event1936 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
The Empire Builders
event1924
top_panel_open
Australian Rex [Snowy] Baker stars in this USA film. Rex as Captain William Ballard of the Territorials is sent to make a treaty with the natives. But he meets resistance from the Boers, still unreconciled to British rule.Love interest is Katryn van der Poel [Margaret Landis] Theodore Lorch plays Hendrik van der Poel Pinckney Harrison as Karui the king. J.P. Lockney as the friendly "treader". And as the "baddy" Fritz van Roon played by Jere Austin. After fighting and horse riding and rescues "Rex" wins the natives over to the British way of life, and "gets" the girl!
Wild Blood
Act like Luke Conner
event1929
top_panel_open
It seems that an evil saloon owner not only wants this valuable steed for himself, but also its owner, the beautiful Mary Ellis. Enter honest gambler Jack Crosby, who wants to settle the score.
Rustler's Paradise
Act like Rance Kimball, alias El Diablo
event1935
top_panel_open
Cheyenne joins El Diablo's gang looking for his long time missing wife and daughter. After saving Romero from the gang he returns to get Connie who he now realizes is his daughter. Captured, he escapes with Connie and they return to Romero's just ahead of El diablo's attacking gang.
His Fighting Blood
Act like A. Leslie, the Jeweler (as Ted Lorch)
event1935
top_panel_open
A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang, the gang orders his death--and tells his brother to kill him.
Blake of Scotland Yard
Act like Daggett - the Butler (as Ted Lorch)
event1937 star_border 3
top_panel_open
Sir James Blake has retired from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope and her friend Jerry in developing an apparatus they have invented. Sir James thinks that their invention has the potential to prevent wars, and plans to donate it to the League of Nations. But a gang of criminals led by the elusive "Scorpion" steals the device, and Blake and his associates must recover the invention and determine the identity of the "Scorpion".
Bad Man of Deadwood
Act like Businessman
event1941 star_border 4.4
top_panel_open
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
Uncivil Warriors
Act like Maj. Bloodhound Filbert (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
The Lightning Warrior
Act like Pierre La Farge
event1931 star_border 5
top_panel_open
A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
Italian Love
event1920 star_border 4
top_panel_open
Ethelyn Gibson has run away from daddy Ted Lorch because he wants to sell her to Leo White, King of Little Italy, for his music hall. So she dresses as a man and runs into Billy West in this scattershot burlesque.
Sailor Izzy Murphy
Act like First Mate
event1927
top_panel_open
Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.
Rip Roarin' Buckaroo
Act like Trainer Todd Knapp (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 4.2
top_panel_open
Fighter "Scotty" McQuade, contender for the light-heavyweight championship of the Pacific Coast,after being duped by his manager Ted Todd and fight-promoter Lew Slater, is disgusted with the fight game and decides to go back to punching cattle. He gets a job on the ranch owned by Colonel Hayden, where he once again encounters Slater, who has a crooked deal going that will cause Hayden to lose his ranch. With the aid of the Colonel's daughter, Betty Rose, and his pal "Frozen-Face" Cohen, McQuade breaks jail on a framed charge and puts an end to Slater's crooked dealings.
The Last Days of Pompeii
Act like Slaver (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.6
top_panel_open
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
The President's Mystery
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.3
top_panel_open
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
Come and Get It
Act like Lumberjack (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
The Fugitive Sheriff
Act like Rally Speaker (uncredited)
event1936
top_panel_open
Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard) runs for sheriff against the bad guys' candidate and wins the election. Dissatisfied with this, the villains contrive to frame Ken on a murder charge. He breaks out of jail and tracks down the genuine culprit,
Rebellion
Act like Gen. Vallejo
event1936 star_border 6
top_panel_open
In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her. Desperate, she sends an impassioned plea for help to Washington, who sends her is special aide to mediate.
Black Gold
Act like Wooden Derrick Bartender (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5
top_panel_open
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
Here Comes Trouble
Act like Audience Member (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 4.6
top_panel_open
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
My Brother Talks to Horses
Act like Spectator at Racetrack (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
Deception
Act like Well-Wisher at Concert (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
The Hoodlum Saint
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.2
top_panel_open
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.3
top_panel_open
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Bowery at Midnight
Act like Tramp Playing Checkers at Friendly Mission (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.1
top_panel_open
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Act like City Room Worker (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5
top_panel_open
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Red River Range
Act like Rancher (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.1
top_panel_open
The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.
Butch Minds the Baby
Act like Susie's Neighbour (uncredited)
event1942
top_panel_open
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
I Am the Law
Act like Clerk (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
Kentucky Moonshine
Act like First Buckboard Driver (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.3
top_panel_open
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Act like 'Wing' Henchman (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
Maid's Night Out
Act like Headwaiter (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
Idol of the Crowds
Act like Man with Irwin at Bar (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 4.1
top_panel_open
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Just before the series starts, he is offered a bribe to throw the games but refuses. An attempt is made on his life which results in Bobby, the team's mascot, being injured. Written by Les Adams
The Toast of New York
Act like Man at Opera (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
Alcatraz Island
Act like First Trial Fixed Juror (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 4.9
top_panel_open
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Confession
Act like Man in Court (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
The Drunkard
Act like Lawyer Squire Gribbs
event1935
top_panel_open
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
If a Body Meets a Body
Act like Jerkington
event1945 star_border 4.8
top_panel_open
Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will.
The Galloping Ghost
Act like The Crippled Stranger
event1931 star_border 2
top_panel_open
A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
The Tonto Kid
Act like Lawyer Sam Creech
event1934
top_panel_open
Lawyer Creech is after the ranch of the dying Cartwright. First he brings in Cahill to pose as the only living relative. Then when the Tonto Kid finds platinum on the ranch, Creech frames him for murder.
The Shadow of Silk Lennox
Act like Kennedy, the ward-heeler
event1935 star_border 4.8
top_panel_open
A crooked nightclub owner, pretending to go straight, is forced to kill a henchman when the latter tries to run off with the gang's latest haul.
We Want Our Mummy
Act like Thug in Mummy Outfit (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rootin-Tootin for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some bad guys after the same objective. The villains, who have kidnapped a professor from the museum, want the jewels buried inside the mummy. When Curly accidentally destroys the mummy, Moe and Larry wrap him in bandages to fool the bad guys. They manage to rescue the professor and retrieve the real mummy of Rootin-Tootin who turns out to have been a midget.
Spook Louder
Act like Graves, the Inventor
event1943 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the house of an eccentric inventor, where they are mistaken for new caretakers, are left to guard his house, and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.
Uncivil War Birds
Act like Union Colonel (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly is detected as a spy, but Moe and Larry prevent his execution. The boys escape with a secret map and marry their three southern belles.
The Pride of the Yankees
Act like Neighbor Leaning Through Window (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7.4
top_panel_open
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Wildcat Trooper
Act like Rogers
event1936 star_border 4.5
top_panel_open
A Royal Canadian Mountie is assigned to bring in a criminal called "The Raven." The problem is that no one has ever seen him.
Blake of Scotland Yard
Act like Daggett, the Butler
event1937 star_border 2
top_panel_open
A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the "Scorpion" over possession of a 'death ray' machine.
Lost Ranch
Act like Henchman Merkle
event1937 star_border 5
top_panel_open
Cattlemen's Protective Association agent Tom Wade and his partner Happy are assigned to look into the disappearance of rancher John Carroll, who has been abducted by Carson, who wants to use his out-of-the-way ranch as a base for his smuggling operations. Complications arise as Carrol's daughter, Rita, looking for him, has an unfriendly run-in with Wade, then later is herself kidnapped by Carson.
Gunfire
event1934
top_panel_open
The second of four films made by Resolute Productions, Inc. that had Rex Bell, Ruth Mix and Buzz Barton billed above the title, and the basic plot is rather basic as the McGregor clan--Ross, Dan and Alex, arch-enemies of Paradise Ranch owner Jerry Vance--frame him on a murder charge, and Danny Blake, a young cowhand befriended by Jerry, and Mary Vance, an Eastern girl who co-owns the ranch with Jerry, help him clear his name.
Aces Wild
Act like Kelton
event1936
top_panel_open
Cheyenne rides into Durango and runs into his old enemy Kelton. Kelton's game is to bring his safe to a town without a bank and let the townspeople put their valuables in it. Then he grabs the loot and flees. But Cheyenne is on to his scheme and finding the safe empty, gets the Sheriff to join in the chase.
The Canyon of Adventure
Act like Don Alfredo Villegas
event1928
top_panel_open
Steven Bancroft, a young officer in the U. S. Calvary, is given the assignment of ensuring that dirty-work by agents of Spain, Mexico or Russian aren't going to keep statehood-for-California from becoming a reality. Bancroft uses his guns to settle any debates regarding international laws.
Back to the Woods
Act like Chief Rain in the Puss (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.
The Royal Rider
Act like Prime Minister
event1929
top_panel_open
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance. The king is greatly impressed with the American cowboys and makes them his palace guard. The prime minister starts a revolution, and Dick and the Americans put it down. The boy king sanctions a romance between Scott and Ruth Elliott, the royal governess.
Romance Rides the Range
Act like Jonas Allen
event1936
top_panel_open
Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony. Arriving there with his double-talking friend Shorty, Barry learns that a parcel of his vast ranch has been fraudulently sold to Carol Marland and her ailing (and tiresome) young brother Johnny. Pretending he is only the foreman, and having his cowhands go along with it,Barry allows Carol and her whining, growing-ever-more-tiresome brother to believe that they are the actual owners in order to give him a free hand in running down the swindlers who victimized Carol who, with a brother like hers, was a victim to begin with.Barry learns that brothers Clem and Jonas Allen are the villains and,through a ruse in which they are led to believe there is a hidden treasure on the land they sold Carol, they try to buy it back bidding against Barry, who forces the price up.
Two Minutes to Play
Act like Tim - Bartender
event1936 star_border 5
top_panel_open
Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a co-ed at a rival college, changes his mind team and goes to college there, just as his father Martin Granville Sr., an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Granville, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team, but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton.
The Last of the Mohicans
Act like Chingachgook
event1920 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.
The Affairs of Cellini
Act like Executioner (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 4.9
top_panel_open
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
Spite Marriage
Act like Actor as 'Union Officer'
event1929 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
Madame X
Act like Pawnbroker
event1937 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Show Boat
Act like Frank
event1929 star_border 5
top_panel_open
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
Gasoline Gus
Act like Dry Check Charlie
event1921
top_panel_open
Based on the comic strip character and his auto obsessed life.
Zorro's Fighting Legion
Act like Councilman Carlos
event1939 star_border 5.2
top_panel_open
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor. Francisco was put in charge of a legion to combat the Yaqui tribe and protect the land, but when attacked Zorro came to his rescue. Francisco's partner recognized Zorro as the hidalgo Don Diego Vega, then ask him to take over the fighting legion as his alter-ego Zorro.
Buck Rogers
Act like Kane's Council Member
event1939 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
Stand Up and Fight
Act like Henchman
event1939 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Act like Gambler
event1934 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
Stagecoach
Act like Lordsburg Express Agent (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.6
top_panel_open
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
We Live Again
Act like Guard in courtyard
event1934 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Professor Beware
Act like Railroad Worker
event1938 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Orphan of the Pecos
Act like Prof. Jeremiah Mathews
event1937 star_border 5
top_panel_open
Shortly after Brand kills Gelbert, Tom Rayburn arrives on the scene and is accused of the murder. Escaping, he goes after Doc Mathews, the man that can prove his innocence. Brand is also after Mathews and intends to keep him from testifying. But Mathews is a ventriloquist and this will lead to Brand's downfall.
The Cherokee Strip
Act like Jury Member
event1937 star_border 6
top_panel_open
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
The Glass Key
Act like Dinner Guest (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Two Heads on a Pillow
Act like Member of the Jury
event1934
top_panel_open
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
The Gallant Fool
Act like Rainey
event1933
top_panel_open
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the city, and that their presence is not desired by the local potentate. This incomprehensible hatred is equaled only by the Kit 's father's contempt for women. Kit, who criticized his father's contemptuous attitude towards Alicia, his girlfriend, Kit's father tells him of the drama he lived in Big Ben many years earlier.
Goofy Movies Number One
Act like Mortimer the Foreman (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.7
top_panel_open
The first part of this short is a "Metrophony" newsreel. It contains actual newsreel footage with humorous commentary (e.g., a flotilla of gondolas is parodied as being the Harvard/Yale regatta). The second part parodies silent movies with a film called "Minnie the Pretzel Twister" starring 'Cynthia Goosefeather.'
Sweet Adeline
event1926
top_panel_open
A shy and sensitive young man is disregarded by his parents and his older brother. Bill becomes jealous and schemes to send his brother away when Ben wins the affections of pretty neighbor Adeline. Ben wins out when the trip on which Bill has sent him becomes a great success.
Ginsberg the Great
Act like Charles Wheeler
event1927
top_panel_open
Johnny Ginsberg (George Jessel) is a tailor's assistant whose ambition is to become a successful conjurer/magician. He joins a carnival and fails but not before apprehending a gang of jewel thieves and gaining the love of Mary (Audrey Ferris), the girl he adores.
The Runaway Bride
Act like Dr. Kent
event1930 star_border 5
top_panel_open
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
The Better 'Ole
Act like Gaspard (uncredited)
event1926 star_border 5
top_panel_open
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Cheyenne Rides Again
Act like Rollins
event1937 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
A lawman poses as an outlaw, steals $10,000 from a cattle thief, then promises to return the money if he can join the gang--while finding a way to expose them.
This Land Is Mine
Act like Juror
event1943 star_border 7.1
top_panel_open
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Keg o' My Heart
Act like Mr. Smith, City Board of Censorship (uncredited)
event1933
top_panel_open
Hal Roach comedy starring Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher. Also starring Don Barclay, Charley Rogers, Ruth Gillette, Theodore Lurch, Charlie Hall.
Gambling Ship
Act like Gambler (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.2
top_panel_open
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
The Lady in Question
Act like Juror (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
Tracked by the Police
Act like 'Bull' Storm
event1927 star_border 8
top_panel_open
The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
The Girl in 419
Act like Examination Doctor
event1933 star_border 4.3
top_panel_open
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
The Sphinx
Act like Dr. Augustus Kelton
event1933 star_border 4.8
top_panel_open
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
Rocket Ship
Act like High Priest
event1938 star_border 4.8
top_panel_open
A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.
Jesse James at Bay
Act like Townsman
event1941 star_border 5
top_panel_open
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
Half-Wits Holiday
Act like Prof. Sedletz (as Ted Lorch)
event1947 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight.
The Hot Scots
Act like MacPherson (as Ted Lorch)
event1948 star_border 6
top_panel_open
The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they learn that detectives are need to guard a Scottish castle where valuables have been disappearing, they masquerades as Scotsmen to get the job. After a spooky night in the castle, the boys expose the servants as the crooks.
Careful Please
Act like (uncredited)
event1926
top_panel_open
A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.
The Remarkable Andrew
Act like Jurist
event1942 star_border 8.2
top_panel_open
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Grief Street
Act like Pop Collins, editor
event1931 star_border 4.1
top_panel_open
A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.
Arsène Lupin
Act like Lupin's Butler (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
Her Lucky Day
event1920
top_panel_open
Alice Howell comedy short
His Wooden Legacy
Act like Bearded Man at Celebration (uncredited)
event1920
top_panel_open
A woman played by Alice Howell receives an inheritance from her grandfather of his wooden leg.
Across the Pacific
Act like Aguinaldo's Agent
event1926 star_border 4.5
top_panel_open
Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding officer, whom he is romancing.
Sailor Maid
event1937
top_panel_open
An immigrant girl hears that if she marries an American citizen she won't be deported, so she goes looking for a husband.
Dangerous Pleasure
Act like Rex Darrow
event1925
top_panel_open
This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He is named co-respondent in a suit - leaves town - takes a house in a smaller village - picks up a little girl on the street in his car and drives into the country.
Badman's Territory
Act like Citizen's Committee Member (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Body and Soul
Act like Man at Weigh-in (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
Marked Woman
Act like Second Juror #2 (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Spaceship to the Unknown
Act like Priest #2 (archive footage)
event1966 star_border 6
top_panel_open
A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
The New Frontier
Act like Joe
event1935 star_border 4.5
top_panel_open
In 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In one such, citizens elect Milt Dawson to challenge the self-appointed rule of gambler Ace Holmes, only to have him shot in the back. But leading the next batch of settlers is Milt's quick-on-the-draw son John, who gets help from friendly outlaws.
Mad Love
Act like Actor at Party (Uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Black Jack
Act like Sam Vonner
event1927
top_panel_open
Phil Dolan (aka Black Jack because of his talent at cards), Nancy Dolan, and a rustler all have a piece of a silver dollar with each piece having a portion of an indented map of an ore mine. Phil has to rescue Nancy from the rustlers to keep their portions of the silver dollar from the rustlers. The sheriffs's pose captures the gang of rustlers just as they reach the ore mine ensuring their claim to the mine.
Where the Worst Begins
event1925
top_panel_open
Jane Brower wants nothing more than to leave behind her ranch life in the West and go East. When she happens upon a party in the private railroad car of wealthy August Van Dorn, Jane gets the idea to finance her trip by kidnapping his son, Donald, for ransom. While Jane is negotiating with the senior Van Dorn, his son is kidnapped by two bandits. Donald soon escapes and seeks out Jane, with whom he has fallen in love. After Donald rescues Janes from the bandits, they decide to marry and spend their honeymoon in New York City.
The Man from Arizona
Act like Bartender
event1932 star_border 10
top_panel_open
A cowboy saves his injured friend from a vigilante group, which believes that he is part of a bandit gang that attacked a wagon train. The cowboy sets out to find the bandit gang and clear his friend's name.
Honor of the Mounted
Act like Henchman
event1932
top_panel_open
Tom Halliday of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is implicated and framed on a murder charge. The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no credentials, has to cross the border in order to find and capture the killer.
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Act like Wong Henchman
event1935 star_border 4.2
top_panel_open
Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will be fulfilled. A killing spree follows in dark and dangerous Chinatown as Wong gets control of 11 of the 12 coins. Reporter Jason Barton and his girl Peg are hot on his trail, but soon find themselves in serious trouble when they stumble onto Wong's headquarters.
Black Beauty
Act like Bledsoe, the Veterinary
event1933
top_panel_open
Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
The Fugitive
Act like Parker
event1933
top_panel_open
A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe goes to prison and makes friends with Dutch. When Joe breaks them out, Dutch leads them to the money only to find it gone. But Dutch's old gang is on hand and they haven't found it either.
Blue Steel
Act like Townsman
event1934 star_border 4.8
top_panel_open
When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.
Journey Into Faith
Act like Pharisee
event1943
top_panel_open
Depiction of events leading up to Jesus' crucifixion and His post-resurrection appearance to two followers on the road to Emmaus.
Vagabond Lady
Act like Dock Official (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.2
top_panel_open
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Show more expand_more
keyboard_double_arrow_down