Jerry Larabee (Richard Barthelmess)is a gangster who can play piano and sing Read More »
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The Silver Lining (1932) Alan Crosland, Maureen O’Sullivan, Betty Compson, John Warburton
A women in prison tale. Ones rich ones poor. Can they prosper after prison? Read More »
The Pony Express (1925) James Cruze, Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Ernest Torrence
The Pony Express is a rousing James Cruze Western depicting the founding of the Pony Express Read More »
Street Girl (1929) Wesley Ruggles, Betty Compson, John Harron, Jack Oakie
Jobless, homeless and starving Freddie Joyzelle is saved by Mike Fall from the clutches of a masher Read More »
The Great Gabbo (1929) James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim, Donald Douglas, Betty Compson
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. Read More »
The Gay Diplomat (1931) Richard Boleslawski, Genevieve Tobin, Betty Compson, Ivan Lebedeff
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy Read More »
On with the Show! (1929) Alan Crosland, Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. Read More »
Midnight Mystery (1930) George B. Seitz, Betty Compson, Lowell Sherman, Raymond Hatton
Several able silent-screen veterans converge in RKO Radio’s Midnight Mystery. Read More »
The Belle of Broadway (1926) Harry O. Hoyt, Betty Compson, Herbert Rawlinson, Edith Murgatroyd
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. Read More »
Paths to Paradise (1925) Clarence G. Badger, Betty Compson, Raymond Griffith, Tom Santschi
A con-woman has a nice business going in fleecing gullible tourists who want a genuine ‘underworld’ experience Read More »
The Docks of New York (1928) Josef von Sternberg, George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova
Bill Roberts works as a stoker on a coal-red barge. It’s dirty, hard work and the men have to put up with a foreman, Andy Read More »
Three Who Loved (1931) George Archainbaud, Betty Compson, Conrad Nagel, Robert Ames, Drama
John Hanson (Conrad Nagel) is a bank teller and invests in stocks. He and his best friend (another bank teller) Phil Wilson (Robert Ames) live at a boarding house run by his Swedish fiance’s aunt, Mrs. Larson (Bodil Rosing). Read More »