Sydney Jarvis
Oyuncu · 1878 – 1939 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Filmler24
Film7.4SuçAksiyonBrian De Palma 1980’li yıllarda üç saatlik bir şölene dönüştürdüğü Tony Montanalı SCARFACE hikâyesini yakın tarihe kadar bir gizem olan 1931 yapımı SCARFACE filminden aktarmıştır. Hayatı sinema filmine konu olan Howard Hughes, senaryo yazarı Ben Hecht ve Amerikan sinemasının efsane yönetmenlerinden Howard Hawks’ın 1931 yılında gerçekleştirdikleri bu eser “Klasik” ve “Yön verme” vasıflarını hak eden bir çalışmadır. Eserin ana fikri Tony Guarino isimli karaktere dayandırılan Armitage Trail’in aynı isimli romanına dayanmaktadır.Ufak işlerde pişen Sicilya kökenli serseri Tony Camonte, dağlı teknikleri ve megaloman seviyede ki kazanma hırsıyla Chicago Yeraltı Dünyasının en büyüğü olmaya yemin etmiştir. Bu yolda da kendi patronundan şehri yönetenler kulübünün üyelerine herkes birer araçtır. Sırası gelenler bu hırstan kendine düşen payı alacak ve hastanede ki suikast sahnesinde olduğu gibi bir buket çiçek ve kurşunla şehirden ve hayattan uğurlanacaktır.
Film7.5KomediGizemFormer detective Nick Charles has retired from police work, preferring a life of cocktails, parties, and relaxation with his wealthy wife, Nora. Their holiday is interrupted when the daughter of Nick’s former client asks for help finding her missing father, eccentric inventor Clyde Wynant. When Wynant’s body is discovered, Nick is drawn back into the investigation, with Nora eagerly joining him. As the couple questions Wynant’s family, friends, and business associates, a tangled web of greed, deception, and murder begins to unravel.
The Thin Man
1934 · 556 votes
Film7.0DramRomantikGreta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore ve Wallace Beery, En İyi Film Dalında Akademi Ödülü alan bu filmde başrolü paylaşıyorlar. Berlin'deki Grand Hotel'in tek bir günü anlatılmaktadır. Mücevher hırsızı Baron Felix von Geigern (John Barrymore) hem baş balerin Grusinskaya'nın (Garbo) mücevherlerini, hem de ölüm döşeğinde olan Otto Kringelein'in (Lionel Barrymore) patronu Preysig'in (Beery) metresi Flaemmchen'i ele geçirmek istemektedir. Hollywood'un bu klasik filminde, sadece 24 saat içinde bu insanların hayatları sonsuza değin değişecektir.
Film7.5SuçDramNorman Krasna'nın Mob Rule romanından uyarlanan 1936 yapımı bu başyapıtın konusu şöyle; Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant birbirlerine aşıktır ancak Joe'nun evlenmeleri için yeterince parası yoktur. Bu yüzden Katherine para kazanabileceği başka bir kasabaya taşınır. Joe'nun bir yabancı olarak kasabaya gelmesiyle olaylar başlar. Bundan sonra yönetmen Fritz Lang bizlere ustalıkla, nazik ve uygar bir adamın nasıl olup da merhametsiz ve sert bir adama dönüşebileceğini gösteriyor.
Film5.0KomediA modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Zenobia
1939 · 14 votes
Film6.6AksiyonSuçMr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939 · 19 votes
Film6.8KorkuBilim KurguRespected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.
The Devil-Doll
1936 · 125 votes
Film6.0KomediRomantikNicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
The Rage of Paris
1938 · 21 votes
Film6.5DramRomantikChildhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David. It's not long after their wedding, however, that tragedy strikes, sending Diana on a downward spiral. When Neville reappears in her life, will he be able to save her from her own misery?
A Woman of Affairs
1928 · 26 votes
Film6.6RomantikDramA married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Broadway Serenade
1939 · 5 votes
Film6.6KomediSıradan ama iyi niyetli bir adama umutsuzca hayranlık beslediği popüler bir oyuncuyla evlenme şansı verilir. Adamın farkında olmadığı şeyse, aktrisin eski sevgilisini kıskanmakdırmak için kullanılmakta olduğudur.
Film8.0KomediCasey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
Casey at the Bat
1927 · 2 votes
Film7.0MüzikDramMoore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.
Footlights and Fools
1929 · 1 votes
Film6.7KomediAn elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
A Fool's Advice
1932 · 3 votes
Film3.7KomediInstead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
Maids a la Mode
1933 · 3 votes
Film6.8DramNekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
We Live Again
1934 · 6 votes
Film10.0SuçDramA crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
Young Donovan's Kid
1931 · 1 votes
Film10.0KomediMüzikChild star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
Wild and Woolly
1937 · 1 votes
Film4.3RomantikKomediA grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
Loose Ankles
1930 · 7 votes
Film6.5MüzikA countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Caravan
1934 · 2 votes
Film7.5KomediA small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
Big Business
1937 · 2 votes
Film6.4KomediRomantikAfter a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Movie Crazy
1932 · 26 votes
Film7.0KomediAfter running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
The Pajama Party
1931 · 3 votes
Film6.3DramA young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son again despite her earnest attempts to make amends. For many years the mother seeks refuge overseas and in Absinthe. In the end, her son, a young and promising lawyer unknowingly defends her in court. Ruth Chatterton gives a marvelous performance in this early talkie in her portrayal of Madame X.
Madame X
1929 · 10 votes