Betty Compson Movies

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her?...

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of...

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand...

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

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...

Jewel thieves battle investigators.

During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.

The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked...

Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the...

A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.

Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that...