Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-25 of 25
- The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
- The sensual story of innocence lost, desire found and an obsession that would change their lives forever... She was a married woman, tone apart from her husband. He was an innocent schoolboy on the verge of manhood. While the world was at war, they found comfort in each others arms and shared an impossible love that couldn't possibly continue... and an uncontrollable passion that they could not resist.
- An examination of occultism as practiced in different parts of the world.
- Policeman (Bill Hunter) discovers a suitcase full of drug money during the normal course of his duties. The temptation to keep the money leads to an ever deepening set of circumstances.
- Story examines television station UCV-12 attempting to produce a feature-film version of its television series "Manhunt", while an officious efficiency expert investigates the running of the station causing the staff to fear for their jobs.
- When reporter Danny Gallagher and photographer Sally Woodrow team-up to crack an international animal smuggling racket, the gang behind the operation leads the reckless pair on a chase across Australia straight into the jaws of fatal danger.
- Charles Kingsford Smith, an adventurer, a crusader, a fighter, a lover. Against impossible odds, he went out to explore the sky, and soared higher than most.
- Young "Fatty" Finn and his friends enter their pet goat in a race, but his rival "Bruiser" Murphy lets the goat loose, right before the race.
- The opening scenes are designed to represent the Commonwealth Defence Offices, where the Minister in busily engaged dealing with dispatches from the Imperial Government. There is in the employ of the department, in a responsible position, an Australian born of German parents. He is discovered by a German spy, Herr Henschell, a Melbourne business man, and through being helped out of a card entanglement by the latter's manager he is forced to copy official documents from the War Minister's cabinet. In the spy's house a wireless plant is concealed in an attic. Messages are being received from Berlin, and information dispatched there concerning the movements of the Australian transports. The German spy, however, has an adopted daughter, in love with the War Minister's son, who is about to go to the front. She discovers her father's treachery, and in forms the authorities, who quickly deal with the situation. Throughout the picture the military element is introduced. Soldiers are seen drilling in Melbourne; on board the transports en route to Egypt, and finally storming the heights of Gallipoli. In the first plane the Turks are shown on the hills, and then the actual assault by the Australians takes place. Shells are seen bursting in the water, throwing spray into the air, land mines are exploded, soldiers fall as they rush across the sandy strip and up the rugged cliffs.
- Following a rift with his wealthy father, Billy Mathewson, a young Broadway wastrel, escapes with his friend, Dizzy Durby, to the small town of Salino, where his father's company is building a dam. However, a crooked foreman is engaged in making himself rich at the expense of his employer and the villagers. However, Billy defeats the villain, and also wins Elinor, the daughter of a prominent local resident.
- A desert prospecter, Dick Norton, decides to head to the Klondike in search of gold. In the Klondike, Norton becomes a mining engineer whose honesty upsets a crooked Mortimer Pearson. Norton's girlfriend, Violet Winter and her father suddenly arrive in town. The father has taken ill. A fight breaks out between Pearson and Norton over Violet. In the struggle, which Norton wins, Norton's tie tac is caught on Pearson's sleeve. Pearson sends his men to obtain directions to a valuable mine. During the theft, the owner, Dowing, is shot, but is able to write a message. Pearson places Norton's tie tac on the body and steals the note. Norton is arrested for the murder. Violet, hoping to save her father's life, turns to Pearson, who has an Indian take her father to a doctor. Meanwhile, Lightning Girl keeps watch outside of Norton's jail-house window. Pearson coerces Violet to accompany him on a trip to claim the stolen mine. Norton sends Lightning Girl to get his coat, which has a file in it. He escapes and the pair head off after Pearson and Violet. Lighting and Norton arrive just in time to save Violet from an attack in a cabin. Norton and Pearson fight, with Norton grabbing the papers and tossing Pearson out. Pearson heads to town to get help since the papers include the note from the dead man. Finding the note, Norton knows they are now in danger. He gives all the papers to Lightning Girl and sends her to Dolan's. As Lightning Girl makes her way, Norton and Violet fight off the killers. Lightning and Dolan's gang arrive just in time.
- Happy-go-lucky Billy, his best friend and their friendly rival, are all sailors on a ship in the U.S. Pacific fleet. While on shore leave, Billy learns that a mad inventor has created a dangerous contraption by which he intends to destroy the entire fleet. The three sailors then spring into action and are able to thwart the scientist and save the fleet after rescuing Billy's sweetheart.
- Mary Townleigh gets lost while out hiking in the bush and is found by John Manners and the farming family Hayseeds. Mary's Father returns the hospitality and entertains the Hayseeds in Sydney.
- A motorcycle cop (played by Billy Sullivan) falls in love with a pretty girl (played by Rose Blossom) when he gives her a speeding ticket, and she realizes that she loves him at the dinner she stages, with the help of her uncle, a judge, as a joke on the policeman. Instead of being disgraced, Billy recognizes a silk thief (played by Francis Ford) among the guests and arrests him.
- Firemen Tom and Joe each loves the other's sister, although neither is able to support a wife. Tom's troubles are compounded by a rival for his sweetheart's hand. In a drawn out fight he bests the rival, who steals the revenue from the firemen's ball (of which Tom is treasurer) and hides the money in the storage warehouse in which Tom's sister works as a stenographer. While Tom, Joe, and their sweethearts search for the money, the villain also returns for his loot, and, in his haste, he sets the building afire--trapping the foursome behind a steel door. Their calls for help reach the street, an alarm is turned in, firemen come to the rescue, and the money is found in a blazing desk.
- Stanley Lane, a journalist, comes to the rescue of a young woman who is attacked in the Domain, Sydney, by two footpads. Some writing on a piece of paper dropped by her in the scuffle puts him on the track of what proves to be the meeting-place of German spies. He is caught by the spies while he is watching them, but his life is spared on the woman pleading for him. Bound and gagged, he is taken to sea by the Germans, and lands with them on a lonely island, where they have a secret wireless station. On the island he meets Kana, a half-breed native girl, and they become fast friends. She manages to obtain the key of the wireless station for him, and he smashes the instrument. Caught in the act, Lane is taken by the Germans to the crocodile swamp, but Kana rescues him, and the two of them steal the German's yawl and make for Cocos Island. Soon after they arrive, the Emden puts in an appearance, and the landing party from the enemy cruiser take possession of the telegraph station, but not before the operator has sent out a message announcing the presence of the enemy. In due course the Sydney comes along, and makes short work of the Emden, which is shown a battered wreck when the Sydney has finished with her. Captain Von Muller surrenders his sword, and afterwards, Lane and Kana guide a party with Captain Glossop from the Sydney to the island where the spies are lurking, and there, before the Germans are dealt with, Kana is laid low by a bullet from one of the spies.
- When Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris, at Point Lobos, Maine, save Natalie Aldridge from drowning, a romance blossoms much to the dislike of Carlton Aldrich, Natalie's uncle, who wishes her to marry Lonsdayle. In spite of her uncle, Natalie and Tom are married and live in a small cottage near the Coast Guard station, and Aldridge ignores them. Tom is assigned to capture the oyster pirates and does so, but the pirate leader escapes and plans to keep Tom from testifying against his men by kidnapping Natalie. (This film, and a few other Paul Gerson films, were never copyrighted.)
- "Pardon Miss Westcott" is a 1959 Australian TV play by the Seven Network as part of drama anthology series Shell Presents. It was a musical set in colonial Australia and was broadcast live.