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Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg....

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover....

A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend....

Young kids face off in a dance competition....

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident....

The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pul...

While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one another and plan to marry. However, he is recalled to the front, wounded and has memory loss....

A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him....

Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions of her longtime friend, the volatile sculptor Ralph Le Saint. When pianist Paul Lockridge arrives fro...

Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both g...

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island....

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes plac...

The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves....

New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go....

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging....

Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville....

In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death....

When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter....

An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds ...

U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance co...