Lost Movies From 1929
US movies from 1929 (first year of the "pre-code" era) which are listed as lost on IMDB. Many of these films have user ratings and reviews. The mere existence of reviews didn't cause a film to be excluded from this list. Some reviews could be from people who saw the film before it was lost. On the other hand, some reviews seem based not on actually having seen the movie, but on something the reviewer has read elsewhere, or that the reviewer does/doesn't like an actor/the director, doesn't like old movies, or whatever, and wants to chime in based on that. And frankly, some reviews I have read come across as fabrications ("I had an exclusive showing of this otherwise lost film in the home of a private collector").
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- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsSally O'NeilRoland DrewCorliss Palmer
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEsther RalstonJames HallGustav von SeyffertitzIn late 19th century Vienna, Lena Smith, a naive peasant girl from Hungary, has a child by a corrupt young cavalry officer, and goes to work his house as a servant, hiding the truth from his unsympathetic father, while the son returns to his profligate ways. Robbed of her child first when he is a baby, and later when they are separated by the war, she suffers imprisonment, contempt, and shame in order to protect the child.
- DirectorWilliam C. de MilleStarsRuth ChattertonH.B. WarnerJohn LoderAfter marrying wealthy Richard Garson for his money and prestige, Lillian Garson grows weary of her stuffed-shirt husband and decides to run off with another man. However, when Lillian's lover is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver, an old friend of Garson's learns Lillian's secret.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsAudrey FerrisMyrna LoyGeorge FawcettIn order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsH.B. WarnerLouise FazendaJacqueline LoganAn expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsGeorge BancroftOlga BaclanovaNancy CarrollA ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsDorothy SebastianLarry KentBetty FranciscoJim Kenney, the fleet middleweight boxing champion, is enamored of Betty Grant, the village librarian, and promises to write to her from every port. He falls in love with Claire Ewing, a rich heiress who lives in the city and knows Betty.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsDolores CostelloConrad NagelGeorge E. StoneAt the Café du Chat Noir, Joan Billaire, a dancer, attacks Mitzi for schooling her brother, Petit, in picking pockets and is saved from a knifing by Lupine, a thief. Later, Lupine enlists Petit's aid in a robbery, and the boy is accidentally wounded by him. Joan calls on Dr. Raoul de Boise, who informs the police; and when the boy dies, she is prevented from shooting Raoul by the intervention of Father Colomb. As Joan becomes romantically involved with the doctor, the jealous Lupine wounds Raoul. Joan confesses her part in robbing the church but is forced to marry Lupine as the price. Learning Raoul is alive, Lupine in a jealous rage confesses to killing Petit and is himself killed by the gendarmes.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsMay McAvoyClaude GillingwaterHallam CooleyA crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsHelen TwelvetreesCharles EatonCarmel MyersMiriam Holt hopes to solve the disappearance of a million dollars in bonds allegedly stolen by her late uncle. A team of crooks is following her, though, in hopes she'll uncover the missing money and they can grab it from her. She checks into a hotel where Franklyn Green works as a desk clerk. Franklyn is learning to be a detective through a correspondence course, and he thinks he's just the guy to help Miriam solve her mystery. The fact that she's a very attractive lady doesn't hurt, either.
- DirectorDavid AylottE.F. Symmons
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsColleen MooreNeil HamiltonBodil RosingA flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss.
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsPaul PageLola LaneHenry B. WalthallNewspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.
- DirectorRobert A. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJean DarlingAllen 'Farina' HoskinsMary Ann is becoming a serious problem to the other gang members and Joe was given the job of training and controlling her behavior.
- DirectorScott R. DunlapStarsBetty BronsonWilliam Collier Jr.Mitchell LewisWhen his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Suden, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and joining up with a traveling vaudeville troupe. He falls in love with a pretty young woman in one of the show's acts, but finds that a local Arab sheik has his own plans for the young girl.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsConrad NagelLois WilsonEdward EarleWhen a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment, and The Kid helps to care for her. John Stone, Ruth's fiance and a bootlegger with a respectable front, finds them together and blackmails The Kid into marrying the girl. The Kid and Ruth live together like brother and sister, and Stone, realizing that Ruth was not two-timing him, decides to bump off The Kid. To save her husband's life, Ruth agrees to leave The Kid and marry Stone. Stone is implicated in a killing, however, and forced to leave town. Ruth and The Kid decide to stay married, and The Kid determines to reform.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsJune CollyerLouise DresserAllan LaneOn her way to New York for her first stage appearance, Linda Cunningham meets Mame Jarrow, a nightclub singer; Linda later drops by to hear Mame sing, accompanied by their angel, Paul Nicholson, a wealthy roué. Mame gradually comes to realize that Linda is her own daughter, from whom she was separated years before by pious relatives. Using all her wiles, Mame attempts to keep Linda from falling prey to Nicholson, and when all else fails, she sends for Jerry Connor, Linda's small town sweetheart. Linda returns home with Jerry, and Mame sings her heart out in smoky rooms, never disclosing to Linda that she is her mother.
- DirectorBryan FoyStarsTexas GuinanJohn DavidsonLila LeeIrked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
- DirectorAlbert RayStarsBelle BennettJoe E. BrownAlma Bennett
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsJames KirkwoodMary BrianJohn LoderA mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsMonte BlueMay McAvoyLee MoranThe foreman of a river bridge construction gang,Monte Collins (Monte Blue), takes the blame when the bridge collapses. But it wasn't his fault at all, as the real culprit was the brother, John Harper (William Desmond), of the woman, Ruth Harper (May McAvoy), Collins loves.
- DirectorEmmett J. FlynnStarsLia ToráPaul VincentiWalter McGrailA woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own life, one of whom she had to kill to protect herself.
- DirectorF. Harmon WeightStarsRin Tin TinDavey LeeRaymond McKeeRinty (Rin-Tin-Tin) rescues a young boy, Billy (Davey Lee) , lost in the woods and prevents a gang of crooks from stealing a cache of gold from Hazy (Josef Swickarf) a kindly old man.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsMonte BlueGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsGladys BrockwellUnited States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith (Monte Blue) and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer (Guinn "Big Boy' Williams) lead a squadron of Marines in search of a party of American tourists lost in a Central America banana-republic jungle.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDolores CostelloRalph GravesAudrey FerrisGlad Rag Doll is a 1929 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello. This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsNorman KerryFrances CuylerDonald MacardleIn Sicily, a blinded revolutionary escapes execution when his Manx half-brother takes his place.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJohn BreedenLola LaneDeWitt JenningsLila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry. George buys a majority interest in the show, planning to fire Lila after she refuses to quit the show. But when Lila goes on in place of the temperamental star, she is a great success and George is able to sell the show back to the original investors at a profit.
- DirectorEdmund LawrenceStarsJoseph StrikerMarcia ManningElmer GrandinA young American man arrives in London to claim an estate he has inherited. One of the conditions is that he signs a paper stating he will never sell the estate. When he arrives at the estate he now owns, he runs into a ring of American gangsters there and discovers that the estate is the site of some buried pirate treasure.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsSophie TuckerLila LeeAudrey FerrisNightclub hostess Sophie Leonard educates her daughter Beth abroad and keeps her life secret for her. But suddenly the daughter shows up.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsWilliam Collier Jr.Alma BennettEddie GribbonAfter his marriage, Jim Oxford comes to mistakenly believes that his new bride has previously had a lover, a situation he finds so offensive that he deserts her and joins the French Foreign Legion. Stationed in Algeria, he finds himself attracted to Rose, the girlfriend of a brutal Legion officer. Try as he might, he can't resist her and arranges to secretly meet her after hours. However, at the rendezvous, a gunshot rings out and Rose is mortally wounded. Accused of the murder, Jim flees but is shortly thereafter captured and put on trial as a deserter. Complications ensue.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsH.B. WarnerLois WilsonJason Robards Sr.A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm's assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Attorney handling the case is his former sweetheart's husband. This situation gives the District Attorney an opportunity to prosecute his romantic rival.
- DirectorNat RossStarsGeorge J. LewisEddie PhillipsDorothy GulliverA college football player protects his friend by pretending that it was he, not the friend, who drank himself unconscious the night before the big game.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsLon ChaneyPhyllis HaverJames Murray"Grumpy" Anderson is an old railroad engineer that is obsessed with keeping his train on schedule, no matter the cost. His two sons are also rail men, but don't share his single mindedness, which leads to one son's death and a fight with the other on the first son's funeral car leads to a crash, and demotion of Grumpy to mechanic in the yards. His redemption comes during the Mississippi flood, when he is again pressed into service to pilot a relief train along with his surviving son.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsGrant WithersBetty CompsonGertrude OlmsteadA musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player, Jim Crane(Grant Withers), whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a job as a Wall Street stock salesman. While poor at selling, he knows how to charm women and his boss has him concentrate his efforts on disposing of bad stock to gullible females, one of whom turns out to be the wife of his boss.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsJack MulhallPatsy Ruth MillerEdythe ChapmanA young husband just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRichard BarthelmessLucien LittlefieldKathrin Clare WardA writer is torn between his wife, and a more sophisticated woman that he lusts after.
- DirectorRobert F. HillStarsEddie LeonardJosephine DunnHuntley GordonA songwriter leaves his chorus girl sweetheart to join the US Army in WWI. In France he falls in love with French singer Madelon. He is crippled in action. Back in the States, his girl friend there leaves him. But Madelon can't forget him and comes to the USA to work there as singer. Per chance she meets the songwriter, and he is cured. Singing one of his love songs, he knows that he has found the right girl.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsColleen MooreJames HallRobert HomansA pretty young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway finds a bit more than she expected.
- DirectorJames FloodStarsRicardo CortezClaire WindsorMontagu LoveFollowing a successful experimental operation to reverse age, a wealthy businessman stages his own death and assumes the identity of his nephew. His spurious pursuit of a very young woman eventually catches up with him, as does his age.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsAnn HardingFredric MarchCarmelita GeraghtyPre-Code early-talkie film version of Philip Barry's Broadway hit chronicles the first five years of marriage between James and Mary Hutton, during which the two paramours they deserted wait patiently--and manipulatively--in the wings.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsDorothy MackaillCharles DelaneyJames FinlaysonA dress-shop model falls in love with a millionaire, but when she has the chance to marry him, she's not sure if she should because she believes he will never accept her for who she really is.
- DirectorDuke WorneStarsVirginia Brown FaireWheeler OakmanDean JaggerGerald Morely's father commits suicide, leaving a note blaming his despair on a stock swindle perpetrated by John Randall. Randall denies the charge and is himself murdered by Tom Bennett, the real culprit. Bennett frames Jerry by having Deagan (the butler) plant the murder weapon in a way that makes Jerry look guilty. Posing as her protector, Bennett persuades Randall's daughter, Gloria, to marry him, although Jerry also falls in love with her. But Jerry is arrested, tried for murder, and convicted of killing his own father. He escapes on Gloria's wedding night and arrives in time to overhear her admit her love for him and Bennett drunkenly confess to Randall's murder.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsEdward Everett HortonPatsy Ruth MillerDouglas GerrardSam Harrington (Edward Everrett Horton) is a simple horse lover who is mistaken for a champion steeplechase jockey and prevailed upon by Peggy Fairfax (Patsy Ruth Miller) to take part in an upcoming race.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJack MulhallLila LeeAggie HerringPat and Danny McGlone are identical twin bothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and Pat grows up and becomes a policeman while Danny turns to a life of crime. They now find themselves on the opposite sides of the law, and both are in love with a pretty Irish girl from their neighborhood, Kate Dean. Before long one has to prove that blood is thicker than water.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsThomas MeighanH.B. WarnerLila LeeA multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The murdered man's son thinks something is fishy, and a homicide cop sets out to find out who was behind the man's death. Complications ensue.
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsLois MoranTom PatricolaDavid PercyPhil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsEddie QuillanSally O'NeilStanley Smith
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsBillie DoveWalter PidgeonHolmes HerbertLady Helen Haden (Billie Love) is vulgar self-made millionaire Sir Bruce Haden's (Montagu Love) indiscreet wife, whose attraction to and affair with a young American, Ned Thayer (Walter Pidgeon), leads to an acrimonious divorce.
- DirectorRaymond CannonStarsSue CarolNick StuartDixie Lee
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsGrant WithersMarian NixonClyde CookA tough newspaper reporter and his pretty assistant are investigating a double murder, and soon find themselves the targets of the as yet unknown murderer.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Loretta YoungChester MorrisA man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife, and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician.
- DirectorDuke WorneStarsAlice CalhounLeRoy MasonEthan Laidlaw
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsMonte BlueDavey LeeBetty CompsonGangster Joe Daley marries a chorus girl named Sadie and decides to give up the rackets and surrender $100,000 to the DA . For this she turns on him and goes in with Blackie Culver, a rival gang lord, and they set Joe up to take the rap for stealing it. Joe is sent to prison, still unaware of Sadie's betrayal. She makes Joe believe the DA wants her and that he must save her by escaping. He does so and injures his face in the breakout. Farm girl Elsa Langdon has her surgeon father remake his face. Now unrecognizable, Joe learns of Sadie's plot and returns to the city.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDolores CostelloGrant WithersJames KirkwoodHearts in Exile (1929) is an American Pre-Code romance film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Michael Curtiz.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsAlan HaleSally EilersGeorge CooperTwo sailors mistake a woman searching for her long-lost brother for a con artist. After they accidentally frame her for theft, one sailor falls for her and vows to help her find her brother.
- DirectorJohn Griffith WrayStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Carmel MyersHolmes HerbertSir John Hayward, a noted surgeon, decides that his son Wyn, a medical student, needs a vacation as a temporary diversion from his studies. At Como, Wyn meets and falls in love with Rayetta Muir, an unprincipled actress who trifles with him. In London, Rayetta avoids seeing Wyn, ready to forget him. Wyn is crazed when he learns that Rayetta is intimate with both Lord Durhugh, an old roué, and Le Grand, a French boxer; and in a rage he chokes Rayetta and leaves her for dead. He then confesses to his father that he has killed her. Preparing to take the blame, Sir John, accompanied by Wyn, goes to Rayetta's apartment to find that she did not die after all.
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsLola LanePaul PageKenneth ThomsonJoan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a musical comedy troupe to capture a gang of jewel thieves. On a steamer from Los Angeles to Havana, Joan falls in love with Allan Grant, one of the suspected crooks. After the gang has been apprehended, Grant is revealed to be the son of a murdered jeweler who fell in with the gang to track down the murderer.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsMadge BellamyRobert EllisMargaret Livingstonlice Keith, a suspicious wife, believes that her husband is running after his old sweetheart, Dora Eldredge, and two other married women in her circle. Making her accusation during a dinner party at which the women and their husbands are present, Alice exhibits a rendezvous note she found in her husband's pocket, reading "Tonight at 12." To protect his father and his future mother-in-law, Jack Keith, who is engaged to marry Jane Eldredge, admits to having an affair with Mary, the maid in the Eldredge household, and to being the recipient of the love note. Mary sees an opportunity to force Jack, whom she loves, to marry her, and she begins to make plans when Jane breaks her engagement with him. Eventually, Mrs. Eldredge confesses her affair with Keith to restore her daughter's happiness. Mary returns to her hometown, aware of the social differences between Jack and herself.
- DirectorLouis MercantonStarsConstance TalmadgeAndré RoanneJean MuratA Princess learns that the captain of a ship she owns has struck a passenger, indirectly causing the passenger's death. The captain is immediately sacked although his action was in defense of her honor. Later, in Cyprus, the Princess meets a handsome man and they're mutually attracted. Only when he expresses contempt for the name of Princess Beatrice Doriani for costing him his job does she realize that this is the same captain she had sacked.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsCrauford KentFlorence AllenAlbert PriscoFrom the Universal synopsis: Retired Inspector Blake of Scotland Yard learns that Lord Blanton has acquired the sacred "Love Ring"---a cursed jewel that has brought grief to its previous owners. Prince Darius seeks to obtain the ring, and the mummy of a princess of an ancient country to return them to his homeland. Blake and his servant, Jarvis, find a card---The Queen of Diamonds---which is the mark of the most dangerous woman in the underworld. Mary Duveen , the Blanton housekeeper, is really the Queen, disguising herself as a spectacularly ugly crone. Darius comes to believe that Lady Diana Blanton, Lord Blanton's daughter, is the reincarnation of Princess Xah Fari, and sets his sights on her also. His hypnotic influence soon has the girl experiencing dreams of a vanished civilization. Mary acquires the ring and Jarvis recovers it and Mary steals it back and plants it on Lady Di, and then lures her to a Limehouse den but Blake and Jarvis follow and rescue her and the ring. Learning that Diana intends to give the ring to Darius, to end the effects of the curse, Blake substitutes a copy. He accuses Mary of theft, and reveals evidence that the real Queen of Diamonds is in prison, and she admits to being an agent for a wealthy American collector who seeks the ring. She assumed the guise of the Queen in order to gain the cooperation of the underworld. Blake persuades her to assist him against Darius, who he believes to be "Diamond" Donovan, an international criminal. But Darius convinces Diana that Blake and Mary are working against her, and she turns against the Scotland Yard man.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRichard BarthelmessMarian NixonBert RoachAlbert Whalen (Richard Barthelmess) a hotel elevator operator, together with one of the pretty chambermaids , Annie Jackson (Marion Nixon), on the hotel staff are accused of breaking and entering a suite belonging to one of the guests,Mr. Cleaver (Anders Randolph). They are indeed caught in the suite but unexpected circumstances caused them to be there. Their explanations are not believed.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsPauline FrederickLowell ShermanWilliam CourtenayEvidence is a 1929 Pre-Code crime drama film produced and distributed by the Warner Brothers. It is based on the 1914 Broadway play Evidence by J. duRocher MacPherson and L. duRocher MacPherson. This early talkie was directed by John G. Adolfi and starred Pauline Frederick and Lowell Sherman. While this film is lost, its soundtrack, recorded by the Vitaphone process, survives.
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsReginald DennyNora LaneE.J. RatcliffeThe scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Since all the other inmates/attendees think they are historical figures such as Robin Hood, the Duke of Wellington, Paul Revere, William Tell, Salome, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes and others, it takes a while for Judd to separate the wheat from the chaff and prove he is not deranged. His quest becomes more urgent when he falls in love with a nurse named Josephine, who does not think she is Napoleon's "Josephine" but is convinced Judd thinks he is Napoleaon.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsLenore UlricRobert FrazerLouis Wolheim
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsJim HallettMildred HarrisGeorge RegasThe captain of a ship carrying contraband from Mexico to the United States is forced by his crew to stop to rescue a young woman who is the sole survivor of a wrecked ship. The crew mutinies, killing all officers save David Mills, the new second mate, the only navigator left on board. Agreeing to steer the ship if the girl is left unharmed, they are safe for a time, but the crew again grows restless. In the end, they escape the crew and weather a fierce storm with the help of the faithful Black cook.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsTed LewisAlice DayAnn PenningtonThis is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsAlice WhiteCharles DelaneyRita FlynnDaisy, a clerk at Woolworth's, loves to sing. She meets Bill, a guard on the subway, at a party and they're both attracted to each other, but each tells the other that they have a different job than they actually do. Bill later finds her handbag on the subway, returns it to her and invites her to dinner. They dine at the swanky Mayfield Club, where owner Lawrence Mayfield is also attracted to Daisy and offers her a job there as a singer. Bill is not happy, although Daisy is. Complications ensue.
- DirectorAndrew MartonAndrew L. StoneStarsEdith RobertsMargaret LivingstonFord SterlingOn the day of her wedding to Paul, Mary Wheeler is given the deed to a mysterious old house that is occupied by a strange housekeeper named Nancy Crowl. Sometime later, Marc Reed, one of Mary's former suitors, arrives at the house and refuses to leave. When Marc is murdered, Mary is arrested for the crime. During her trial, an attorney who asks the judge for permission to address the court reveals himself to be Mary's long-lost father, Robert Wheeler. Eventually, Nancy is uncovered as the murderer and Mary is acquitted of the crime.
- DirectorClarence G. BadgerStarsIrène BordoniJack BuchananLouise Closser HaleCora Sabbot (Louise Closser Hale) leaves her Newton Center, Massachusetts home and goes to Paris, France with the express purpose of preventing the marriage of her son, Andrew Sabbot (Jason Robards Sr as Jason Robards), to stage star Vivienne Rolland ( Irène Bordon).
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsColleen MooreRaymond HackettFredric MarchA musical comedy star named Fifi D'Auray is famed for her Gallic charm, though she is really one Betty Murphy. She won't marry her fiance, Jimmy, until he stops gambling and gets honest work. As Fifi, she has rich playboy Gregory obsessed with her, and he goes to lengths to please her, even getting Jimmy a position as treasurer of his theatre. A robbery there is pinned on Jimmy, and Fifi believes that Gregory had set a trap for him.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsEdward Everett HortonAlan HalePatsy Ruth MillerA small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Loretta YoungGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsMarty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith, and to Coach Wilson that he will quit the game forever. Ed Kirby, who dislikes Reid, calls him yellow, and Wilson gets Patricia Carlyle, the college vamp, to induce Reid to play. At a sorority dance, where only football players can cut in, Kirby persecutes Reid by dancing with Pat, and as a result Reid does apply to play in the game. When he learns of her trickery, however, Reid fumbles in the game, and both he and Kirby are withdrawn and start a fight in the locker room. Convinced that Reid is no coward, Kirby joins him and they win the game.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsLois MoranJoseph WagstaffDorothy BurgessJerry, a young song writer, falls in love with Lee Coleman, a wealthy Southern girl. She is being forced into marriage with a fortune hunter who upon learning of her infatuation pays a former vaudeville partner of Jerry's to frame him. Stunned by what she believes to be the truth, Lee goes back to Kentucky and there she makes a wager with her would-be fiance that if her horse does not win the Derby she will marry him. She loses her wager and on the eve of her wedding she slips away to attend a concert where Jerry directs his own symphony. At the close of the concert the girl who had caused the trouble confesses and so Lee and Jerry are happy.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsEdward BuzzellAlice DayEdna MurphyCohan comedy about a jockey.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsMary NolanJames MurrayLydia Yeamans TitusHaving spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict Badlands McKinney also wants to clean up his act.
- DirectorBryan FoyStarsAlexander MoissiCamilla HornLew HearnDrama about Edmund Kean, born in 1787, who became the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day.In spite of German title, this is a US film. First foreign language "talkie" produced in the US
- DirectorLeo D. MaloneyStarsLeo D. MaloneyAllene RayJack PerrinTrying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch, which will be in the path of a future railroad, Underwood (Charles K.French) hires Keno Creager (Albert Smith) to impersonate Jimmy Winters, not seen by his mother and sister for many years. Lucky Lorimer (Leo Maloney), a horsetrading drifter, and Larry Withers, a waiter (Jack Perrin) in the saloon of Boss Wheeler (William Dyer), discover the plot. Larry reveals he is Jimmy, and they both head for the Winters' ranch. They find Creager already there but Lucky, via a fake murder charge on Jimmy Winters, tricks Creager into denying he is Jimmy.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsAlan HaleKathryn CrawfordWalter O'Keefe
- DirectorDonald GallaherStarsMae ClarkeRobert AmesWilliam HarriganProfessional acrobats Bert and Johnny are the best of friends. Thay are also confirmed women-hating bachelors. When an injury suddenly sidelines the act, they move to a boarding house that caters to theater folk until they are ready to return to work. There they meet one of the residents, Jackie, a girl who wants to also become an acrobat. Both Bert and Johnny fall for her, and become rivals for her, eventually splitting up their act.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsPauline FrederickWilliam CourtenayConrad NagelColonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsBillie DoveEdmund LoweGeorge MacFarlaneThe story of Mamie Hudler, aka Rodeo West (Billie Dove), from her days as a New Orleans singer to a California Western movie cowgirl star to the queen of the New York City nightclubs and speakeasies with Oldfield (George MacFarlane) as the man she doesn't love and Brood (Edmund Lowe) as the man she does love. In short, the semi-close story of the real-life Texas Guinan, despite the disclaimers.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsConstance BennettRegis ToomeyRobert AmesRich People is a 1929 talking picture directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Constance Bennett. It was produced by Ralph Block and distributed through Pathé Exchange.
- DirectorEmmett J. FlynnStarsJames GleasonLucile GleasonMary PhilbinThe Shannons, a vaudeville act, are performing in a New England town when the local hotel owner barges in and yanks his daughter Tessie, who is in the audience with her boyfriend Chuck, out of the theater. Young Mickey Shannon confronts the father, and the upshot is that Chuck's wealthy father threatens to foreclose on the hotel. The Shannons wind up buying the hotel, but it turns out not to be quite the deal they thought it was.
- DirectorHarry S. WebbStarsShirley MasonWallace MacDonaldWilliam V. MongA poor girl falls for a liquor smuggler and tries to get him to give up his life of crime.
- DirectorMark SchweidStarsMary FowlerArthur AlbroHenrietta TilghmanIn gratitude for saving his life, Piotr offers the brutish Zhuck the hand of his daughter, Olga, who loves Alexis, a sailor home on leave. However, Borrah, an old chemist, tosses a tear bomb during the wedding ceremony, and Alexis escapes with Olga to a shack belonging to Darya, Zhuck's rejected sweetheart. Accusing Piotr of a double-cross, Zhuck hears the other fishermen reveal his hesitation during his rescue of Piotr, so that the latter might sign a will beneficial to him. Amid a happy celebration Alexis and Olga marry with Piotr's blessing.
- DirectorVictor AdamsonStarsArt MixLilian BondJim CampbellDrifters Tom Williams and Joe Morgan have a chance meeting with the sheriff's daughter and learn that her brother Jim is being held prisoner in Line Hollow by Wolf, who aspires to be the next sheriff. They aid the sheriff in finding the outlaw gang and rescuing Jim. Tom decides to stop drifting and stay near the sheriff's daughter.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsEdmund LoweConstance BennettRoscoe KarnsAnn Marvin, who is thoroughly disillusioned about marital bliss because of the turbulence in her sister Clara's marriage, meets Robert Collings, a millionaire gold miner, while visiting her brother-in-law Bertrand's law office. Bertrand invites Collings to dinner, and before his arrival, Clara stages a battle royal over Bertrand's buying a dress for Alvarez Guerra, who is also invited to dinner, and the two women ultimately come to blows. When Collings proposes marriage to Ann, she compromises by offering to work as housewife for a salary ($25,000 a year); he accepts, agreeing that each will be free to consort with his own friends. When she remains indifferent to him, Collings arouses her jealousy by flirting with Miss Guerra; she responds by romancing De Witt. The reconciliation of the Bertrands, though, causes the Collingses to realize genuine feelings for each other.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsEdward Everett HortonPatsy Ruth MillerJohnny ArthurMisadventures of a bogus flyer.
- DirectorLeander De CordovaStarsMary PhilbinEdmund BurnsCarmelita GeraghtyMillionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter Faith must marry Phil Langhorne, a man that neither likes, and Faith is in love with and eager to marry her childhood sweetheart, John Temple. Faith sets out to investigate what hold Langhorne might have on her father. The search takes her to an island during a fierce sea-storm on a dark and windy night; the sentinel light in the lighthouse suddenly goes out and the family yacht is about to crash upon the great rocks of the island.
- DirectorEdgar LewisStarsRobert WarwickMilton KrimsSam AshDuring a dinner party at the Brookfield family estate, private detective Craig Kennedy relates a story of one of his unsolved murder cases. What Kennedy knows, and the other guests do not, is that the person who was the killer in the unsolved mystery is in the room, and Kennedy makes plans to expose him.
- DirectorHorace B. CarpenterStarsArt MixFontaine La RueHenry RoquemoreWhile trying to discover who is rustling cattle from the ranch owned by his father, Hair-Trigger Strong (Henry Roquemore), Bob Strong (Art Mix) meets and falls in love with Celia de la Costa (Fontaine LaRue), the daughter of Hair-Trigger's long-time enemy, who was apparently killed by Strong. Bob goes in pursuit of Juan Escabar (Bud Osborne), whom he suspects is the rustler chief, and finds himself out-numbered and in trouble. Celia warns the elder Strong, who gets the Sheriff (Pete Crawford) and they ride to his rescue.