Stanley Fields
Stanley Fields (born Walter L. Agnew; May 20, 1883 – April 23, 1941) was an American actor. On Broadway, Fields performed in Fifty Miles from Boston (1908) and The Red Widow (1911). After that, for eight years, Fields performed in vaudeville with Frank Fay. Thanks to Norma... Read full bio →
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Hell's Kitchen
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
Wide Open Faces
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
Panamint's Bad Man
A hero goes undercover to uncover outlaws while singing to a heroine and being sneered at by a bad guy.
Flirting with Fate
A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
Algiers
A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.
Way Out West
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
The Toast of New York
A 19th century con artist rises from medicine shows to Wall Street.
Souls at Sea
Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.
Roll Along, Cowboy
Singing cowboy Randy shows up at Mrs. Blake's ranch. She is beset by bad guys, and Randy loves her daughter Janet.
The Gay Desperado
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Life Returns
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.
One Way Passage
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Island of Lost Souls
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Hell's Highway
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
Way Back Home
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
Little Caesar
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Cimarron
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Her Man
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.