Known for Acting
Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994) was a Cuban-American film and television actor who was active in film, radio, and television for almost sixty years. His wide range of screen roles included Latin lovers, historical figures in costume dramas, characters in light domestic comedies, and as The Joker in television's Batman series.
Born
February 15, 1907
Died
January 1, 1994 (age 86)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
140 films, 68 shows


3-D Rarities: Volume II
2020 · 2h 33m
The long-awaited follow-up collection of extraordinary 3-D wonders, including the feature-length El Corazón y la Espada, all expertly restored in a Blu-ray world premiere. For over 35 years, it has been the mission of the 3-D Film Archive to locate, save, assemble, and restore previously lost 3-D films. 3-D Rarities, Volume II spans over 40 years of international 3-D film production, and is appropriately presented in three segments.


Heart of Batman
2018 · 1h 38m · US
In the early 1990s, a rare gathering of talent defined Batman for a generation. Twenty-five years later, "Batman: The Animated Series" continues to inspire fans and myth-makers all over the world. This is an in-depth look at the storytellers behind the series.


Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012 · 50m
Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous and adored icons of the 20th century. Like no other Hollywood star, she won the hearts of millions around the world. It's been said that: "Monroe played the best game with the worst hand." Her journey to stardom stemmed from a childhood of poverty, neglect, and loneliness. 'Fascination' tells the remarkable story of Marilyn's life. From birth to her premature death she endured criticism, insecurities, drug dependence, numerous miscarriages, and three broken marriages. Despite all her demons, her unprecedented beauty, talent and quick wit amazed all that came before her.


2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010 · 55m · US
The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from their VHS cocoons to conjure a jam on culture so culture-jamtastic that we're sorry we can't be there to hold your hand as you watch in dazed amazement. Thousands of hours of brain-boiling footage have been concentrated into an impenetrable jewel of an experience, teach us once and for all that loving well is the best revenge.


Batman: Holy Batmania!
2003 · 2h 56m
A collection of films documenting the history of the Batman television program and the motion picture that followed. Film1: Batman: Holy Batmania! (2002) - 43 Minutes Film2: Adam West: Behind The Cowl (2000) - 44 Minutes Film3: Cesar Romero: In A Class By Himself (2000) - 44 Minutes Film4: Julie Newmar: The Cat's Meow (2000) - 44 Minutes Also contains more than 60 minutes of rarely seen archival and bonus material!


Experiments in Terror
2003 · 1h 46m · US
A collection of short experimental horror films, some well-known, some not.


The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002 · 1h 30m · US
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies.


Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001 · 1h 40m · FR
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the modern world, these mutant human beings with superhuman powers colonized the funny papers, radio dramas, television and films, to become a truly national industry in the United States: they gave expression to the fears and obsessions of the twentieth century and bolstered American ideals.
Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice
Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice
1995 · 1h 30m · US
Narrated by Cliff Robertson The daughter of a fur wholesaler, Sonja Henie received her first pair of ice skates when she was six. Eight years later, she was the Norwegian Skating Champion. At 15, she would win the gold medal in Skating at the 1928 Olympics, thus becoming the youngest Olympic skating champion -- a record that stood for 70 years.


Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business
1995 · 1h 31m · BR
A biography of the Portuguese-born Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature was her tutti-frutti hat. From her arrival in the US as the "Brazilian Bombshell" to her Broadway career and Hollywood stardom in the 1940s.


A Century of Cinema
1994 · 1h 12m
A look back at the first 100 years of the movies.


Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
1993 · 48m · US
There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her films saved a movie studio from bankruptcy, and a President credited her with raising the morale of Depression-weary Americans. Her earliest movies gave a foretaste of her talents and soon would become the songs and dances that helped make those movies immortal.


Simple Justice
1989 · 1h 37m · US
When an unknown assailant viciously murders the participants in a bank robbery and murder case, it could be a case of vigilante justice - that is, if the two cases are connected. That's for the police to decide - and it's a puzzle that becomes more mysterious with each new clue.


Judgement Day
1988 · 1h 30m · US
Two travelers stop over in a small village named Santana. Unbeknownst to them, Santana is a village where, once a year, Satan comes to Earth to claim souls, and they just happened to enter the village on that day.


Mortuary Academy
1988 · 1h 27m · US
"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most incompetent students possible are accepted, so that the academy will fail, and all sorts of wacky hijinks ensue.


Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987 · 2h · US
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
1986 · 48m


Flesh and Bullets
1985 · 1h 25m · US
Two men who meet in a bar in Las Vegas discover that they have one big problem in common, their wives. They decide to do something drastic about it.


Lust in the Dust
1985 · 1h 24m · US
Assaulted by outlaws, donkey-riding Rosie joins a silent drifter's search for gold in the Old West.
We Think the World Is Round
We Think the World Is Round
1984 · 24m
The Christopher Columbus story told from the points-of-view of the ships. Sterling Holloway, who voices Winnie the Pooh, is Pegleg Pelican. Who "discovers" a country that is already inhabited? Not Columbus, not the Vikings, but Pooh Bear.


Pancho Villa's Treasure
1978 · 1h 31m
An expedition into the mountains of Old Mexico follows a group of treasure hunters searching for legendary buried gold and silver linked to the era of the Mexican Revolution. Combining history and folklore, the journey explores the enduring mystery of lost riches hidden in a harsh and unforgiving landscape.


Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
1977 · 2h · US
During World War II, an Italian POW is accidentally drafted into the American army.


Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977 · 1h 56m · US
Father Kino, a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills as well as building missions and spreading Christianity. An explorer, astronomer and map maker, Father Kino surmounted numerous challenges as he journeyed through California, Arizona and Mexico.


Carioca Tigre
1976 · BR


Timber Tramps
1975 · 1h 38m · US
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.


The Strongest Man in the World
1975 · 1h 32m · US
Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged mix that ends up in Dexter's cereal box, giving him superhuman strength. The powerful formula comes to the attention of the college dean and two rival cereal companies, touching off a hilarious chain of events.


The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
1974 · 1h 29m · US
Poe's fiance, Lenore, falls into a coma and is taken for dead. She is rescued at the last possible moment from being buried alive, but the experience has driven her insane. On the advice of his friend, Dr. Forrest, Poe commits Lenore to the asylum run by Dr. Grimaldi. On a visit to the asylum, Poe and Forrest sense that something strange is going on, and decide to sneak back in after dark and investigate.


The Haunted Mouth
1974 · 13m · US
In a haunted house, the invisible spirit of plaque - which evidently has the ability to possess rocking chairs - warns children against the dangers of not brushing and flossing.


Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972 · 1h 28m · US
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, corrupt businessman A.J. Arno plots to get his greedy hands on it. Slapstick hijinks ensue as Dexter and his pals try to thwart the evil Arno before he can use the invisibility spray to rob a bank.


The Proud and Damned
1972 · 1h 32m · CO
A group of five Confederate mercenaries led by Sergeant Will Hansen must choose sides carefully in a small village where they find themselves trapped in the middle of a rebellion. The group is torn as to whether they should honor the powerful military dictator who forces them to spy for him or help the local village fight for its independence. Follow Sergeant Hansen and his men as they make a decision that could cost them their lives.


Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971 · 51m
A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.


The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
1971 · 1h 30m
A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida.


The Red, White, and Black
1970 · 1h 43m · US
Told by a U.S. Army colonel and his wife, this vintage Western set in post-Civil War Texas chronicles the exploits of the all-black 10th cavalry regiment, which was formed in 1871. Cesar Romero plays the unit's commander.


The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
1969 · 1h 31m · US
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like Arno's illegal businesses..


Latitude Zero
1969 · 1h 45m · JP
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.


Target: Harry
1969 · 1h 21m · US
Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysterious Diane Reed and a local gangster, Rashi, are after Harry believing that he has the priceless plates Carlyle used to counterfeit money.


Midas Run
1969 · 1h 46m · US
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.


Crooks and Coronets
1969 · 1h 46m · UK
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.


A Talent for Loving
1969 · 1h 50m · US
This Western spoof stars Richard Widmark as an American gambler who wins the deed to a Mexican ranch from a cunning outlaw. At the ranch, the gambler discovers that his new lands have entangled him in an ancient Aztec curse. The ranch's patriarch tries to persuade the newcomer to marry his daughter and explains that the family's women are doomed to be especially fierce and prolific in their romantic encounters.


Skidoo
1968 · 1h 38m · US
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.


Hot Millions
1968 · 1h 46m · UK
A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.


Madigan's Millions
1968 · 1h 33m · ES
When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan owed the government, but managed to take to Italy with him. They send Agent Jason Phister over to Italy to nose out the million. His criteria for the job is that no one would ever guess he's an agent of the United States government.


Clown Alley
1966 · 1h · US
An all-star cast joins Red Skelton in this lavish 60-minute salute to circus clowns.


Batman
1966 · 1h 45m · US
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Salute to Stan Laurel
Salute to Stan Laurel
1965 · 1h · US
A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel.


Marriage on the Rocks
1965 · 1h 49m · US
Ad-agency president Dan Edwards goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary and winds up getting divorced by mistake, whereupon his wife Valerie marries his best friend Ernie Brewer by mistake.


Sergeant Deadhead
1965 · 1h 30m · US
An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.


Uncertain Verification
1965 · 30m · IT
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.


Broken Sabre
1965 · 1h 29m · US
Western about a West Point graduate who was falsely accused of cowardice and thrown out of the army. Edited from episodes of the TV show "Branded".


Two on a Guillotine
1965 · 1h 47m · US
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?


A House Is Not a Home
1964 · 1h 38m · US
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.


Donovan's Reef
1963 · 1h 49m · US
After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.


The Castilian
1963 · 2h 8m · ES
Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual mid-1960s "tax shelter" international cast. Broderick Crawford plays a despotic 10th century Spanish king who, in cahoots with the invading Moors, has banished handsome Castilian nobleman Spartaco Santoni. With the surreptitious aid of Crawford's daughter Teresa Velasquez, Santoni assembles an army to march against the Moors. In keeping with the 13th century epic poem from which this film was derived ("El Poema de Fernan Gonzales") Santoni's path is smoothed by the celestial intervention of patron saints Milan and Santiago. Among the big names picking up a few tax-free dollars in The Castilian are Cesar Romero, Linda Darnell, Alida Valli and Fernando Rey.


We Shall Return
1963 · 1h 32m · US
A prominent Cuban landowner flees to Miami with his anti-Castro activist younger son, where he learns that his elder son is working to sabotage the Bay of Pigs invasion.


If a Man Answers
1962 · 1h 42m · US
Rich socialite Chantal marries photographer Eugene and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation, she turns to her mother, but the advice she receives may do more harm than good.


Seven Women from Hell
1961 · 1h 28m · US
Seven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.


The Runaway
1961 · 1h 2m
The adventures of a young boy who runs away from an orphanage on a search to find his father.


Pepe
1960 · 3h · US
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.


Ocean's Eleven
1960 · 2h 7m · US
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.


Mis secretarias privadas
1959 · 1h 30m · MX


Villa!!
1958 · 1h 12m · US
Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa


The Story of Mankind
1957 · 1h 40m · US
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956 · 1h 30m · US
Gordon Jenkins' record album "Manhattan Tower" was a best seller for 12 years and this spectacular is based on it, with book, music and lyrics by Jenkins, produced and staged by him as well. The story is of a young man named Steven, visiting New York City and falling in love with Julie. Together they do the town, with music and dance this production is a vintage classic.


Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · 3h 2m · US
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.


The Leather Saint
1956 · 1h 26m · US
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines offers to fight in an actual staged bout, until he realizes he could use the prize money to purchase equipment for local polio victims. Keeping his real identity secret and hoping to step away after one big payday, Gil signs a contract to fight for greedy promoter Gus MacAuliffe.


The Racers
1955 · 1h 28m · US
An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.


The Americano
1955 · 1h 25m · US
An American Rancher takes a small herd of Brahma bulls to Brazil where he has sold them for a small fortune. There, he finds himself in the middle of a range war......and in love. His concern, who are really his friends and who are his enemies


Vera Cruz
1954 · 1h 34m · US
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.


The Sword of Granada
1954 · 1h 27m · MX
In this period costume swashbuckler, Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish Caliph. Don Pedro’s accomplice is Juan Ponce de León, who intends to steal the "Rose of Granada," a rare gem owned by the Caliph, which supposedly contains a rare essence that ensures eternal youth.


Prisoners of the Casbah
1953 · 1h 18m · US
A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his bride simply by saying "I Marry You" or "I Divorce You" three times.


Street of Shadows
1953 · 1h 24m · UK
A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.


Lady in the Fog
1952 · 1h 17m · UK
In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.


The Jungle
1952 · 1h 13m · US
An Indian princess (Marie Windsor), her adviser (Cesar Romero) and a white hunter (Rod Cameron) fight woolly mammoths. Filmed in sepia.


FBI Girl
1951 · 1h 14m · US
G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.


Lost Continent
1951 · 1h 23m · US
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain.


Happy Go Lovely
1951 · 1h 37m · UK
Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting financiers. Bruno meets several leading ladies; through a misunderstanding, he doesn't correct their impression that he's a newspaper reporter.


Once a Thief
1950 · 1h 28m · US
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Her troubles start again, however, when she falls madly in love, blind to the fact that her boyfriend is a four-flushing, small-time con man.


Love That Brute
1950 · 1h 25m · US
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
Shooting Stars
Shooting Stars
1950 · 38m · UK
Intimate glimpses of popular British stars off duty, alongside several American stars.


The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949 · 1h 17m · US
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.


That Lady in Ermine
1948 · 1h 29m · US
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...


Julia Misbehaves
1948 · 1h 39m · US
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.


Deep Waters
1948 · 1h 25m · US
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.


Captain from Castile
1947 · 2h 20m · US
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...


Carnival in Costa Rica
1947 · 1h 37m · US
Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.


Take It or Leave It
1944 · 1h 10m · US
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.


Wintertime
1943 · 1h 22m · US
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's uncle faces financial ruin and her romance hit a snag in the form of pretty reporter.


Coney Island
1943 · 1h 36m · US
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.


Springtime in the Rockies
1942 · 1h 31m · US
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.


Orchestra Wives
1942 · 1h 38m · US
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.


Tales of Manhattan
1942 · 1h 58m · US
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.


A Gentleman at Heart
1942 · 1h 6m · US
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.


Week-End in Havana
1941 · 1h 21m · US
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer, a department store salesgirl who wants her vacation now, not later. Jay is instructed to take Nan to Havana, set her up in the best hotel, and keep her entertained. She visits a nightclub where the star attraction is Rosita Rivas and meets Rosita's worthless manager, Monte Blanca, who makes a play for her. Trouble also comes in the form of Jay's fiancée, Terry McCracken, when a romance develops between Nan and Jay.


Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941 · 9m · US
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken Murray, assisted by the Brewer Twins, is the MC, while the Andrews Sisters sing "In Apple Blossom Time" and the pre-"Uncle Miltie" Milton Berle plays his clarinet. The rest of the players, with contract-player faces belonging to 20th-Century Fox, RKO Radio, Universal and Columbia, just pass through. Production Number 3851.


Dance Hall
1941 · 1h 13m · US
Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.


The Great American Broadcast
1941 · 1h 30m · US
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.


Ride on Vaquero
1941 · 1h 4m · US
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.


Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941 · 1h 18m · US
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.


Romance of the Rio Grande
1941 · 1h 12m · US
When old rancher Cordoba's grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.


The Gay Caballero
1940 · 58m · US
The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to steal Susan Wetherby's land.


Lucky Cisco Kid
1940 · 1h 7m · US
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.


Viva Cisco Kid
1940 · 1h 5m · US
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him.


He Married His Wife
1940 · 1h 23m
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.


The Cisco Kid and the Lady
1939 · 1h 14m · US
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.


Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939 · 1h 12m · US
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.


Frontier Marshal
1939 · 1h 11m · US
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.


Hollywood Hobbies
1939 · 10m · US
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.


The Return of the Cisco Kid
1939 · 1h 10m · US
In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.


Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939 · 10m · US
Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomoson, as well as Hollywood luminaries such as Franklyn Pangborn, Norma Shearer, Rita Hayworth, Mickey Rooney, Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan.


The Little Princess
1939 · 1h 33m · US
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.


Wife, Husband and Friend
1939 · 1h 15m · US
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.


Five of a Kind
1938 · 1h 25m · US
Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.


My Lucky Star
1938 · 1h 30m · US
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.


Always Goodbye
1938 · 1h 15m · US
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.


Happy Landing
1938 · 1h 42m · US
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.


Ali Baba Goes to Town
1937 · 1h 21m · US
While visiting Hollywood, starstruck movie fan Aloysius Babson fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure.


Dangerously Yours
1937 · 1h 2m · US
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.


Wee Willie Winkie
1937 · 1h 40m · US
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.


Armored Car
1937 · 1h 4m · US
Larry Willis and Bill Wane are security guards who ride in the back of Banks Co. armored trucks. When they barely avoid a robbery, they return to headquarters, where their boss John Hale introduces them to detective Tom Sheridan, who will be working with them to uncover a new gang of robbers.


She's Dangerous
1937 · 1h 6m · US
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.


15 Maiden Lane
1936 · 1h 5m · US
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.


Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936 · 10m · US
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.


Public Enemy's Wife
1936 · 1h 9m · US
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.


Nobody's Fool
1936 · 1h 15m · US
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.


Love Before Breakfast
1936 · 1h 10m · US
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.


A Dream Comes True
1935 · 8m · US
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).


Show Them No Mercy!
1935 · 1h 16m · US
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.


Rendezvous
1935 · 1h 34m · US
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.


Metropolitan
1935 · 1h 19m · US
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.


Diamond Jim
1935 · 1h 28m · US
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.


The Devil Is a Woman
1935 · 1h 20m · US
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted


Hold 'Em Yale
1935 · 1h 1m · US
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.


Cardinal Richelieu
1935 · 1h 22m · US
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.


The Good Fairy
1935 · 1h 38m · US
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.


Clive of India
1935 · 1h 34m · US
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.


Strange Wives
1934 · 1h 15m · US
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.


Cheating Cheaters
1934 · 1h 10m · US
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.


British Agent
1934 · 1h 20m · US
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.


The Thin Man
1934 · 1h 31m · US
Former detective Nick Charles has retired from police work, preferring a life of cocktails, parties, and relaxation with his wealthy wife, Nora. Their holiday is interrupted when the daughter of Nick’s former client asks for help finding her missing father, eccentric inventor Clyde Wynant. When Wynant’s body is discovered, Nick is drawn back into the investigation, with Nora eagerly joining him. As the couple questions Wynant’s family, friends, and business associates, a tangled web of greed, deception, and murder begins to unravel.


The Shadow Laughs
1933 · 1h 4m · US
The police investigate a bank robbery, and when they don't seem to be making much headway, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own.