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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nicholas Musuraca, A.S.C. (October 25, 1892 – September 3, 1975) was a motion-picture cinematographer best remembered for his work at RKO Pictures in the 1940s including many of Val Lewton's series of B-picture horror films. Nicola Musuraca left his home in Riace, province of Reggio di Calabria, Italy, and emigrated to the United States in 1907. He and his father, Cosimo Musuraca, boarded the Italian steamer Re d'Italia in July 1907, sailing from Naples on July 18 and arriving at the Port of New York on August 3, 1907. There, they were transferred to Ellis Island with their fellow steerage passenger where they underwent federal immigrant inspection. Upon being admitted the father and son set out for Brooklyn to join Cosimo's brother, Francesco. He began his film career as the chauffeur for silent film producer J. Stuart Blackton. He worked behind the scenes on numerous silent and B-movie action films before becoming one of RKO Radio Pictures prime directors of photography in the 1930s. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) is sometimes considered the first film-noir. While working regularly at RKO, joined Val Lewton's unit making low-budget horror-films being responsible for the cinematography of five of the films produced by Lewton's unit. Musuraca collaborated with director Jacques Tourneur on Cat People (1942) and, after the end of Lewton's time at RKO, Out of the Past (1947). He was nominated for a 1947 Academy Award for his work on I Remember Mama. After working briefly at Warner Bros. in the late 1950s, Musuraca joined Desilu, where he spent his last active years in TV work including the television series F Troop.
Born
October 25, 1892
Died
September 3, 1975 (age 82)
Birthplace
Riace, Calabria, Italy
Filmography
155 films, 4 shows


The Lawbreakers
1961 · 1h 19m
country: United States
The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner 's efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department.


Too Much, Too Soon
1958 · 2h 1m
country: United States
The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore is reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.


Man on the Prowl
1957 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A neglected wife (Mala Powers) unknowingly places her family in danger when she becomes friends with a psychologically disturbed deliveryman (James Best).


The Story of Mankind
1957 · 1h 40m
country: United States
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.


Susan Slept Here
1954 · 1h 38m
country: United States
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.


Devil's Canyon
1953 · 1h 32m
country: United States
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.


Split Second
1953 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.


The Hitch-Hiker
1953 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.


The Blue Gardenia
1953 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.


Clash by Night
1952 · 1h 45m
country: United States
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.


Trail Guide
1952 · 1h
country: United States
A cowboy and his Mexican-Irish sidekick lead a wagon train to an unfriendly place.


A Girl in Every Port
1952 · 1h 26m
country: United States
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.


The Whip Hand
1951 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.


Hot Lead
1951 · 1h
country: United States
Recently released from prison, nice guy Dave Collins finds himself unwillingly mixed up with his old outlaw acquaintances Turk Thorne and his gang as they try to use his telegraphy talents to zero in on the arrival of a gold shipment on the local train. Taking a liking to Collins, cowboys Tim Holt and Chito Rafferty get him to agree to help set a trap for the train robbers


Roadblock
1951 · 1h 13m
country: United States
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.


The Company She Keeps
1951 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.


Hunt the Man Down
1950 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.


Where Danger Lives
1950 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.


Born to Be Bad
1950 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.


The Woman on Pier 13
1950 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.


Rider from Tucson
1950 · 1h
country: United States
In order to make Tug Cardwell (William Phipps) sign over his rich gold claim to them, John Avery (Robert Shayne), Gypsy Avery (Veda Ann Borg) and Jackson (Marshall Reed) hire Bob Rankin (Douglas Fowley') to kidnap Tug's sweetheart Jane Whipple (Elaine Riley). Rankin hides Jane and then demands half the mine from the other crooks. Dave Saunders (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), friends of Tug's, find Jane and taker her to safety. The conspirators then shoot Rankin, capture Tug and force him to take them to his claim. Dave and Chito are close behind.


Dynamite Pass
1950 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.


The Mysterious Desperado
1949 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A cowboy is accused of his father's murder.


Stagecoach Kid
1949 · 1h
country: United States
Crooked ranch foreman Thatcher sends his two henchmen, Parnell and Clint, out to murder his boss, wealthy Peter Arnold who has just arrived to retire on his ranch, bringing in tow his daughter, tomboy Jessie, who despises western life and can't wait to run off back to San Francisco. Stagecoach line owner Dave Collins and his sidekick Chito show up just in time to deter the attackers. Collins isn't done yet, though, as a gold shipment sent on one of his stages is stolen by Parnell and Clint, one of whom is recognized by Jessie, attempting to escape back to the west coast. Collins has his hands full trying to retrieve the stolen gold, and dealing with Jessie, who's fallen head-over-heels in love with him.


Blood on the Moon
1948 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.


I Remember Mama
1948 · 2h 14m
country: United States
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.


Out of the Past
1947 · 1h 37m
country: United States
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.


The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.


The Locket
1946 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.


Bedlam
1946 · 1h 16m
country: United States
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.


Deadline at Dawn
1946 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.


The Spiral Staircase
1946 · 1h 23m
country: United States
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
It's Your Move
It's Your Move
1945 · 17m
country: United States
Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under him.


Back to Bataan
1945 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A U.S. Army colonel leads local fighters in a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.


China Sky
1945 · 1h 18m
country: United States
During World War II, an American mission hospital is headed up by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand. Sara is secretly in love with Gray but hides her feelings as his new wife, Louise, arrives at the hospital. Sparks fly, however, when Louise becomes jealous of Sara, and then tries to convince her husband to leave war-torn China behind for a calmer life in the United States. But Thompson is attached to both Sara and the people who need his help.


The Falcon in Hollywood
1944 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops.


Girl Rush
1944 · 1h 5m
country: United States
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.


Bride by Mistake
1944 · 1h 21m
country: United States
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.


Marine Raiders
1944 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A Marine major looks out for his captain on Guadalcanal and in Australia.


The Curse of the Cat People
1944 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.


The Ghost Ship
1943 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.


Gangway for Tomorrow
1943 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.


The Seventh Victim
1943 · 1h 11m
country: United States
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.


The Fallen Sparrow
1943 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.


Bombardier
1943 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.


Forever and a Day
1943 · 1h 44m
country: United States
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.


Cat People
1942 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.


Pirates of the Prairie
1942 · 57m
country: United States
In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of vigilantes has been terrorizing the citizenry. Going undercover as a gunsmith, Larry quickly learns that the leader of the vigilantes, John Spencer (John Elliott), is an honest man who only seeks to establish law and order. The real brains behind the crimes, meanwhile, are revealed to be Spencer's brother-in-law, Lou Harmon (Roy Barcroft), and his chief henchman, Leighton (Charles King), who speculate in the coming of the railroad by forcing the townspeople to relinquish their land.


The Navy Comes Through
1942 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.


Bandit Ranger
1942 · 56m
country: United States
Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with an outbreak of cattle rustling. Businessman Art Kenyon, who has hired gunman Ed Martin to impersonate Mattison to further his rustling schemes, quickly changes Martin's story and has Travers framed for the ranger's murder. Managing to escape, Travers must come up with proof to clear his name and bring the true killers to justice.
Cooks and Crooks
Cooks and Crooks
1942 · 18m
country: United States
A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own.


The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942 · 1h 31m
country: United States
After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.


Obliging Young Lady
1942 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.


Call Out the Marines
1942 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.


The Gay Falcon
1941 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.


Lady Scarface
1941 · 1h 6m
country: United States
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.


Hurry, Charlie, Hurry
1941 · 1h 5m
country: United States
In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.


Repent at Leisure
1941 · 1h 6m
country: United States
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.


Play Girl
1941 · 1h 17m
country: United States
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.


Little Men
1940 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.


Stranger on the Third Floor
1940 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.


Tom Brown's School Days
1940 · 1h 26m
country: United States
In 1830s England, Tom Brown attends a rugby boys' school, where his moral and personal growth is formed through friendship, bullying–particularly from the cruel Flashman–and the influence of headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold.


A Bill of Divorcement
1940 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.


Swiss Family Robinson
1940 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.


Allegheny Uprising
1939 · 1h 21m
country: United States
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.


Golden Boy
1939 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.


Five Came Back
1939 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.


Sorority House
1939 · 1h 4m
country: United States
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.


They Made Her a Spy
1939 · 1h 9m
country: United States
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.


Twelve Crowded Hours
1939 · 1h 4m
country: United States
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.


Pacific Liner
1939 · 1h 16m
country: United States
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" McKay also has his eyes on Ann, and this brings an immediate conflict between the two men. When an epidemic breaks out below decks, Craig tells McKay the engine-and-fire rooms must be put under quarantine, but all of Craig's efforts to keep the disease from spreading are opposed by McKay.


Tarnished Angel
1938 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.


The Mad Miss Manton
1938 · 1h 20m
country: United States
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she and her group of friends prove them wrong.


Smashing the Rackets
1938 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...


Sky Giant
1938 · 1h 20m
country: Unknown
Given the job of training young pilots for important post-war cargo flights, hard-boiled Col. Stockton forces ex-officer Stag Cahill back into the military to be his aide at the academy. Complications arise when Stockton's son Kenneth arrives for training and Stockton, believing his son to be a slackard, looks for an excuse to drop him from the program. Rivalry develops between Stag and Ken as well, as they fall for the same girl.


Blind Alibi
1938 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.


Law of the Underworld
1938 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution


Condemned Women
1938 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.


Night Spot
1938 · 1h
country: United States
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.


Everybody's Doing It
1938 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.


Crashing Hollywood
1938 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.


Quick Money
1937 · 59m
country: United States
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying him is his personal secretary, Ambrose Ames. Despite it being purely a vacation to get some rest and relaxation, the leading citizens of the town welcome him back with some official gatherings. Mayor Jonas Tompkins, who never liked Bluford, holds no grudges against him and too welcomes him with open arms. Although Bluford had no intention of making the news public, the townsfolk learn that he has indeed come back to do business, specifically develop a summer resort in Glenwood to rival that of the best summer resorts worldwide.


Danger Patrol
1937 · 59m
country: United States
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.


Living on Love
1937 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.


Saturday's Heroes
1937 · 1h
country: United States
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.


Flight from Glory
1937 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.


The Big Shot
1937 · 1h
country: United States
A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from an uncle he barely knew. His attempts to help mankind don't go smoothly.


Border Cafe
1937 · 1h 7m
country: United States
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.


Too Many Wives
1937 · 1h 1m
country: United States
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.


China Passage
1937 · 1h 5m
country: United States
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on success or killed on failure. The diamond is stolen as they take possession of it.


We're on the Jury
1937 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.


The Plot Thickens
1936 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.


Murder on a Bridle Path
1936 · 1h 6m
country: United States
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper presumes her death was accidental, until his friend, amateur detective Hildegarde Withers, locates Violet’s horse and discovers it is streaked with blood.


The Farmer in the Dell
1936 · 1h 7m
country: United States
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.


Silly Billies
1936 · 1h 4m
country: United States
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.


Two in the Dark
1936 · 1h 14m
country: United States
When Mr. X (Walter Able) wakes up in the city park with amnesia, bloody and apparently connected to a murder of a well-known producer. Fast talking Marie Smith (Margot Grahame) takes pity on him, they solve the case and discover his identity.


To Beat the Band
1935 · 1h 10m
country: United States
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.


Old Man Rhythm
1935 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.


Village Tale
1935 · 1h 20m
country: United States
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.


Murder on a Honeymoon
1935 · 1h 14m
country: United States
An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.


Romance in Manhattan
1934 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.


By Your Leave
1934 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.


The Richest Girl in the World
1934 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.


We're Rich Again
1934 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.


Murder on the Blackboard
1934 · 1h 11m
country: United States
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.


Where Sinners Meet
1934 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A pair of lovers are secreting away to Paris for a quick divorce and marriage when they find themselves trapped in a "hotel" where they are forced to get to know each other better and reconsider their plans. They learn a lot about each other, and themselves.


Sing and Like It
1934 · 1h 12m
country: United States
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue


Bedlam of Beards
1934 · 18m
country: Unknown
A pair of barbers attempt to solve a kidnapping.


Long Lost Father
1934 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.


Chance at Heaven
1933 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.


Midshipman Jack
1933 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.


Headline Shooter
1933 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.


Flying Devils
1933 · 1h 2m
country: United States
A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.


Cross Fire
1933 · 55m
country: United States
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.


Son of the Border
1933 · 55m
country: United States
An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned younger brother into his own home. The boy, however, isn't aware he's now living with the man responsible for his brother's death. This 1933 RKO B-western, directed by Lloyd Nosler, stars Tom Keene, Lon Chaney Jr., David Durand, Julie Haydon, Edgar Kennedy, Charles King and Al Bridge.


Scarlet River
1933 · 54m
country: United States
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.


The Cheyenne Kid
1933 · 54m
country: United States
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.


Haunted Gold
1932 · 57m
country: United States
John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan and his gang are also there to get the gold. A mysterious Phantom is also present. Mason's plan to expose Ryan as an outlaw and to force him to turn his share to Janet works. But when distracted by the Phantom, John is made a prisoner by the gang.


Men of Chance
1931 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A gambler falls for a fake countess.


Smart Woman
1931 · 1h 8m
country: United States
A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.


Too Many Cooks
1931 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.


Three Who Loved
1931 · 1h 4m
country: United States
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.


Everything’s Rosie
1931 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.


The Sin Ship
1931 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.


Cracked Nuts
1931 · 1h 5m
country: United States
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...


Hook, Line and Sinker
1930 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.


Half Shot at Sunrise
1930 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.


Conspiracy
1930 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.


Inside the Lines
1930 · 1h 12m
country: United States
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.


The Cuckoos
1930 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.


Side Street
1929 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
The Pride of Pawnee
The Pride of Pawnee
1929 · 1h
country: United States
Wells Fargo agent, Kirk Stockwood, is sent to put a stop to put a stop to the stagecoach robberies by a band of outlaws known as the Wolves.


Idaho Red
1929 · 50m
country: United States
Idaho Red is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey.


Gun Law
1929 · 55m
country: United States
The Driscolls learn that the Brown family's homestead has valuable marble deposits under it, and they scheme to acquire the property. They and the Browns all learn that the land title was never filed with the county registration office, and it becomes a break-neck race between them and their henchmen, and the Browns' friend Tom O'Brien to get to the land-office first.


The Red Sword
1929 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Colonel Lotovski rapes the Innkeeper's wife and blinds him. 6 years later, his crime may be punished.


Tropic Madness
1928 · 1h 5m
country: United States
Herbert Pomeroy's wife Juanita spends his money extravagantly and irresponsibly, finally driving him to bankruptcy. Desperate, he sends his son Frankie to live with his friend Henderson, a South Seas trader, then commits suicide. Although Juanita spends years searching for her son, she finally gives up and takes a world cruise on the yacht of wealthy Jules Lennox. One day the yacht docks on Henderson's island and Juanita, meeting Henderson, persuades him to let her be Frankie's governess. Complications ensue, involving a poor physician, a jealous island woman and a witch doctor.


The Avenging Rider
1928 · 1h
country: United States
The story concerns a rivalry between two ranch owners in a boundary dispute.


Terror Mountain
1928 · 50m
country: United States
Two young orphans, Buddy and Lucille Roberts, living in an old dark mansion atop a mountain are assailed regularly by ghostly apparitions and mysterious death threats. They enlist the aid of a famous Hollywood Western movie star named Tom Tyler (with Tyler actually playing himself in the film) to investigate the situation and help them discover who is menacing them.


Red Riders of Canada
1928 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Mountie does battle with half-breed trappers.


When the Law Rides
1928 · 50m
country: United States
1928 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey.


Tom's Gang
1927 · 50m
country: United States
Dave Collins is a young man who is bequeathed a ranch on the condition that he marry the late owner's granddaughter Lucille. But when he arrives at the ranch with young sidekick Spuds in tow, Dave finds that a distant relative of Lucille's, Ray Foster, has taken his place. Foster hires tough Bart Haywood to kill his rival, and soon our hero is hogtied to a handcar in the path of an approaching train.


Splitting the Breeze
1927 · 50m
country: United States
Splitting the Breeze is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey.


Shameful Behavior?
1926 · 1h
country: United States
One time “plain Jane” Daphne Carrol returns from Paris a "polished" flapper. She sets her cap for her sister's brother-in-law, Custis Lee even though he is indifferent to her. When Custis’s brother, Jack, managing editor of the local newspaper prints a story of Daphne's return her picture accidentally appears over a news item about the escape of Sally Long from an insane asylum. Daphne gains entrance to Custis' house and poses as Sally, claiming him to be her husband. Fearful for his life, he humors her until he can engage a nurse to watch her. Daphne enjoys the joke until she discovers that her nurse is actually Sally--and Sally's husband tries to rob the Custis home. In the merry mix-up Daphne faints in Custis' arms and is forced to declare that she is his wife; after the complications are resolved, they decide to make the arrangement legal.


The Gilded Highway
1926 · 1h 14m
country: United States
After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the point of ignoring old friends and breaking off marriage engagements. A lost film.


The Virgin Queen
1923
country: United Kingdom