Bryan Foy

The Sheriff and County Prosecutor come to an isolated country farm where a woman killed her husband, attempting to gather evidence. Only their wives are able to solve the mystery, which they decide to keep to themselves.

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This Vitaphone one-reel short, written by the author of "Show-Off", George Kelly

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A salesman tries to sell life insurance, hair tonic, and girth reducing exercise equipment and anything else to a man who doesn't want any of it.

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Coletta Ryan and Duke Yellman singing a few of their songs in 'Songology'.

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Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.

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Georgie Price tells Bryan Foy, who is to direct his short film, that he is nervous about performing to a camera and microphone instead of an audience. He then sings a couple songs, in an Al Jolson/Eddie Cantor style.

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A cowboy, Jack just came to the golden west in a comedy skit. He fiddles around with a lariat. He meets a cowgirl named Elsie and asks her to dance for him.

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A man hides inside a giant phonograph machine and imitates various recording artists for a pair of flappers.

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A bunch of niwits make a mishmash of a moving job.

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Rose Marie, aged five or six, sings three numbers, "Heigh Ho, Everybody, Heigh Ho", "Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You", and "Don't Be Like That". She's animated throughout, acting as well as singing.

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Buddy Harris and Frank Radcliffe crack some jokes, play craps, and sing a song.

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Jack White serves as an energetic and highly vocal emcee and bandleader, rapid-firing jokes and enthusiastic commentary between songs. The group performs catchy musical numbers, including the tunes "Crazy for You" and "Mean to Me". The 10-minute short also highlights vocal performances by artists Mary Lee, Billy (or Billie) Lee, and Ruth Petty.

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A husband and wife arguing about which sex gossips more. Just then a friend they both know comes to visit but he isn't aware that they are now married. Soon this friend is gossiping to each of them about the other and sure enough problems start.

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Frank Orth strikes a conversation with a lady feeding imaginary birds.

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Frank Whitman demonstrates that he can replace a standard violin bow with a variety of objects.

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Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his friend's money, and almost wrecks their romance.

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The head of a quartet of jewel thieves tries to make a getaway with the one female in the gang.

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A hotel clerk from Iowa believes he's destined to collect first prize in a contest: a movie contract at a Hollywood studio.

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Business is bad for doctors and undertakers, but it's Thanksgiving Day and luck might change.

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Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

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The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short

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The Foy Family performs a vaudeville act.

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Will Morrissey and Midgie Miller get top-billing here but we also have Sammy Cantor, Charlotte DeLovelace, Harry Downing and Vina and Arthur on the bill. This here is pretty much a condensed version of what one would see at the Morrissey and Miller club.

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Wilbur is sent by his boss at the bookstore on an errand to deliver a book to a customer. However, instead of just delivering the book, he just awkwardly stands there talking to the customer. Eventually, however the lady tries to get him to stick around--and it looks like she has romance on her mind.

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A police raid on a night club results in the entire cast of the club's floor show being hauled into court, where they must perform their routines for the judge.

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Hazel Green & Company play a few songs.

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John Smith tells how Pocahontas fell for him and aroused the jealousy of Chief Hole-in-the-Sock, his bitter rival. After a long chase, the Chief had caught the captain when the latter's escape up a cliff was cut off by a wild bear. Pocahontas had put her broad metal anklet about her lover's neck to deflect the headman's tomahawk, but it was detected and removed by the jealous rival. Just as her lover was about to be decapitated, Pocahontas flung herself across her lover's body and pleaded for his life, explaining to her father that Captain Smith and his brother made such good cough drops.

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Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.

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Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.

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A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

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In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to squelch the Church; reports of religious experiences are cause for serious concern. Yet the children stand by their story, and the message of peace and hope the Lady brings. In the last vision, attended by thousands of people, the Lady proves her reality with a spectacular miracle that is seen by everyone present. Based on actual events at Fatima in the summer of 1917.

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Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wife's faithful efforts, he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption.

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Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.

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An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.

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A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.

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A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.

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The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.

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Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.

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Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.

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Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.

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Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

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Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

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James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. He repeatedly tells Zoe, "just one more time," but he is unable to stop which angers her greatly. However, he does have brief moments of heroics such as when he helps the Widow Weeks save her farm.

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Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in guerilla tactics against the forces of the Governor. Lady Bianca, the Governor's daughter, is in love with one of the patriots, Lorenzo, and desires to escape from the palace. Her lady-in-waiting, Zanetta, enlists the aid of Casanova and he rescues them and takes them to the partisan's camp. The rebels are victorious. Lady Bianca makes plans to marry Lorenzo, and Casanova and Zanetta have similar plans.

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An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.

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Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.

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Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.

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A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

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Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

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A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.

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Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

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Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

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Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.

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A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

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A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.

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An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.

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Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.

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