Harry Crocker

Chaplin'in Amerika' daki son filmi müzikhol komedyenlerinin dramını anlatıyor. Chaplin bir gün bir balerini intihar etmek üzereyken kurtarıyor ve ona destek oluyor. İki ortak komedyenin arasındaki sorunlarda böylece açığa çıkıyor. "Sahne Işıkları" dönemin sessiz sinemadan gelme iki ünlü ismini de bir araya getirmesi açısından önemli: Charlie Chaplin ve onun ortağını oynayan Buster Keaton.

Gezgin bir serseri olan Charlie, bir sirke tamirci olarak işe girer ve kısa sürede aynı gösterinin yıldızı olur. Ve umulmadık bir şekilde sirk sahibinin üvey kızına aşık olur.

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.

20. yüzyılın ilk yıllarında geçen hikayede, başıboş dolaşan işsiz bir genç adam olan James Apperson'ın hayatına konuk oluyoruz. James'in vakit öldürerek geçirdiği hayatı, varlıklı bir işadamı olan babasıyla çalışmaya başladığında bambaşka bir yöne evrilir. Bir süre sonra Amerika, Birinci Dünya Savaşı'na girdiğindeyse James yeni bir dünyayı keşfetmiş olur. Genç vatansever, iki arkadaşının peşinden gidip orduya katılmaya ve ülkesi için savaşmaya karar verir. Eğitimler sırasında arkdaşları Jim ve Bull'la olan arkadaşlığı iyice ilerler ve bağlı bulundukları birlik Fransa'ya gönderildiğinde burada da yolları ayrılmaz. Fransa'da Melisande isimli son derece etkileyici bir genç kadınla tanışan üç arkadaş, Melisande'den fazlasıyla etkilenir. Ancak Melisande'nin aklı sadece Jim'dedir. Cephede başlayan bu aşk, ikisi için de durumların bir hayli zorlaşması anlamına gelmektedir.

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion. But the famed boxer is no match for the two women with holds on him, love struck actress Kathy Harkness and the real love of his life, beautiful but unyielding Anne Livingstone.

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

A dramatization of the criminal career of notorious jewel thief Gerard Dennis, who targeted wealthy socialites and movie stars.

Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy preparing their meals and keeping the house, while the old men bask in the attention she gives them. However, this happy home is broken up when Sally wealthy aunt appears on the scene and takes Sally back to her luxurious penthouse in order to give her the advantages of money and social position. But Sally's heart is back across the river with her plumber sweetheart, Jimmie Adams.

Rebecca (Sally O'Neil) is a salesgirl who gets a chance at a Broadway show; there, she attracts and is ultimately rejected by a society playboy.

Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero.

In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.

A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.

Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins's company she sets her cap for the general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple. Eventually Tillie announces that she is going to "catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm."

White men grown brutish from jungle life---a beautiful girl at their mercy---risking all for love!

This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!

A documentary series examining the film making methods and techniques of Charles Chaplin. Featuring previously unseen footage from Chaplin's private film archive.