Movies: Matthew Betz

A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west....

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimp...

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps....

A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidental...

Young Gallito (Allan Forrest) wants very badly to become a matador. His sweetheart, Dolores (Priscilla Dean), does everything she can to help him and she wheedles Pedro, a renowned bullfighter (Matthew Betz), into helping him, too. Gallito becomes a ...

Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight....

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors....

Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror"....

Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer....

The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I. Eventually, he is drafted, is shipped overseas, and performs a her...

Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Har...

A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much....

A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant....

A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts....

A 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott....

The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal....

Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader....

A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels....

David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Ozark family, becomes known as The Shepherd because of his gentle and kindly ways. Years earlier, his son betrayed a mountaineer's daughter, and The She...

A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure....