Directing

Murray Roth

Born — Died

1893-11-12 — 1938-02-17

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Flying Hostess poster
10.0

The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.

Flying Hostess

1936

Don't Bet on Love poster
8.0

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.

Don't Bet on Love

1933

Lights of New York poster
5.4

Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

Lights of New York

1928

Harold Teen poster
6.5

A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.

Harold Teen

1934

Faint Heart poster
10.0

Felix Rudolff is a dressmaker tailor and later dresses like a policeman after seeing a parade He becomes a rookie policeman who handcuffs Dynamite Dan. He doesn't stay captured. Felix Rudolff has to deal with a live and kicking Dynamite Dan. Rufolff ends up with the collar and the girl.

Faint Heart

1929

Lambchops poster
6.5

George and Gracie enter an elegant drawing room, looking everywhere for something. Turns out, they're looking for the audience, and when George spots the camera, they start in on their patter. Gracie wants to convince George that she's smart, not dizzy - it's an uphill struggle of which she's blissfully unaware. Midway through, they break into song: "Do You Believe Me?" It includes a little bit of hoofing as the chatting continues. They end on a story Gracie whispers into George's ear.

Lambchops

1929

Behind the camera

Flying Hostess poster
10.0

The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.

Flying Hostess

1936

Don't Bet on Love poster
8.0

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.

Don't Bet on Love

1933

Don't Bet on Love poster
8.0

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.

Don't Bet on Love

1933

Lights of New York poster
5.4

Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

Lights of New York

1928

Harold Teen poster
6.5

A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.

Harold Teen

1934

Faint Heart poster
10.0

Felix Rudolff is a dressmaker tailor and later dresses like a policeman after seeing a parade He becomes a rookie policeman who handcuffs Dynamite Dan. He doesn't stay captured. Felix Rudolff has to deal with a live and kicking Dynamite Dan. Rufolff ends up with the collar and the girl.

Faint Heart

1929

Lambchops poster
6.5

George and Gracie enter an elegant drawing room, looking everywhere for something. Turns out, they're looking for the audience, and when George spots the camera, they start in on their patter. Gracie wants to convince George that she's smart, not dizzy - it's an uphill struggle of which she's blissfully unaware. Midway through, they break into song: "Do You Believe Me?" It includes a little bit of hoofing as the chatting continues. They end on a story Gracie whispers into George's ear.

Lambchops

1929

Going Places poster
NR

Two bums manage to get into a restaurant. They admit that they are a couple of self made men. A couple of comics they are.

Going Places

1930

Dancing on the Ceiling poster
6.0

A young man follows a pretty girl into her office, which turns out to be a musical dentist office. Cute chorus girls attend to the many male customers, and the girl the young man was following is revealed to be the dentist. She gives the young man anesthetic gas and he dreams the dentist and her troupe of nurses are dancing on the ceiling.

Dancing on the Ceiling

1937

Queen of the Night Clubs poster
8.0

Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.

Queen of the Night Clubs

1929

Romance in the Air poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Romance in the Air

1936

Million Dollar Ransom poster
5.0

To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.

Million Dollar Ransom

1934

Believe It or Not #5 poster
5.0

At a charity bazaar, Ripley settles a thousand dollar bet by producing man who has not slept in 75 years.

Believe It or Not #5

1930

The Bee & the Fox poster
5.0

Harry Fox & Beatrice Curtis perform parts of their vaudeville act.

The Bee & the Fox

1929

No artwork available
7.0

The mortgage of an elderly couple is about to be foreclosed, but their daughter vows to get a job in the big city, where her virtue is preserved through the efforts of the handsome hero.

In the Nick of Time

1929

The Operation poster
7.5

Patient Charlie McCarthy, running a fever, is tended by Doctor Edgar Bergen. Will a tonsillectomy cure him?

The Operation

1930

Harry Fox and His Six American Beauties poster
5.0

Harry Fox performs his vaudeville act.

Harry Fox and His Six American Beauties

1929

Believe It or Not #3 poster
7.0

Reporters interview Ripley about his world travels. Vitaphone No. 1053.

Believe It or Not #3

1930

Chaz Chase, The Unique Comedian poster
7.0

Comedian Chaz Chase performs his vaudeville act.

Chaz Chase, The Unique Comedian

1928

No artwork available
7.0

The Mound City Blue Blowers and Doris Walker perform popular songs of the day.

The Opry House

1929

Believe It or Not #1 poster
6.3

Robert L. Ripley first shows the very first cartoon of his, published in newspapers 8 years earlier. He then proceeds with various oddities, first introducing a woman who can read aloud 8 words a second. He demonstrates this by giving her a 200-word tract she reads in 24 seconds. Next a woman telephones to question his assertion that you can walk through a hole in a cigarette paper, but he demonstrates how when she arrives. Other oddities follow. Vitaphone No. 1005.

Believe It or Not #1

1930

Roy Fox, the Whispering Cornetist, and His Orchestra poster
NR

The Whispering Coronetist, Roy Fox and His Orchestra are broadcasting from Warner Bros. Studios and perform these three musical numbers: 1. 'Sally Of My Dreams,' 2. 'My Window of Dreams,' and 3. 'Louisiana.'

Roy Fox, the Whispering Cornetist, and His Orchestra

1929

No artwork available
NR

Bobby Jarvis and Eloise Taylor, a scrapping married couple, enter a newspaper essay contest on Happy Marriage, and win a trip to Paris.

A Trip to Paris

1930

Red Nichols and His Five Pennies poster
1.0

This Vitaphone short features Red Nichols and His Five Pennies performing songs, including China Boy, Nobody's Sweetheart, Ida Sweet as Apple Cider, and Who Cares?.

Red Nichols and His Five Pennies

1929

Charles C. Peterson: Billiard Champion of Fancy Shots poster
NR

Vitaphone short in which Charles C. Peterson performs a number of challenging billiard trick shots.

Charles C. Peterson: Billiard Champion of Fancy Shots

1929

No artwork available
1.0

Eddie, a modern man, suddenly finds himself in the palace in an ancient, mythical kingdom. This does not change his attitude or habits and, while pursuing a fair maid in the castle, he catches the attention of the Queen and forces him to make love to her. He slaps the King on the rump, thinking he is the Queen, and is sentenced to be beheaded.

The Royal Four-Flusher

1930

Satires poster
1.0

Mr. Young introduces the sketch in an appropriately melodramatic fashion, wearing an opera cape and a glowering expression. He recites a bit of doggerel about the current popularity of mystery plays ("full of thrills and sighing moans, slamming doors and ringing phones") and then slinks away. Eerie music, thunder, and sinister lighting set the scene. Vivien enters, frightened, and then John, ditto. They tiptoe about, and exchange ridiculous quips about how terrible it all is. Young staggers in, groaning, and slumps into a chair. Vivien screams, and dashes away. When John bumps into the corpse and excuses himself, the corpse comes to life long enough to say "That's all right" before falling dead again.

Satires

1929

Ben Bernie and His Orchestra poster
1.0

Ben Bernie and his orchestra play a few songs for a vitaphone recording.

Ben Bernie and His Orchestra

1930

Hollywood Bound poster
7.0

A hotel clerk from Iowa believes he's destined to collect first prize in a contest: a movie contract at a Hollywood studio.

Hollywood Bound

1928

No artwork available
NR

Mr. Fiasco, a producer of plays gets three plays explained to him. In one of the plays, a man chooses scotch for a drink and dies. In the second play the man slaps his new wife in the face for nothing. The final play the man leaves his wife for work. The wife greets the iceman who knows the husband just left. He is greeted with open arms. The husband returns early and knows the iceman is under the table. After his wife gives him a lump of sugar, he smashes the iceman on the head with a lump of ice. Mr. Fiasco has the man thrown out.

Fred Allen's Prize Playlets

1929

Pack Up Your Troubles poster
1.0

Douglas Stanbury & The Lyric Quartet sing a few songs.

Pack Up Your Troubles

1929

Believe It or Not #6 poster
5.0

Robert L. Ripley returns to his to college where he introduces some "believe it or not" stories from around the world.

Believe It or Not #6

1930

No artwork available
NR

Juvenile drummer, Buddy Traps [sic], later known as Buddy Rich, taps out harmony out of a wide assortment of objects, from drums to bottles, can, chairs, and whatnot.

Sound Effects

1930

Believe It or Not #2 poster
7.5

The second entry in the Believe It or Not series of shorts begins with Robert Ripley in his office sorting his mail. At the time he received about one million pieces of mail per year, more than any other individual. He shows the audience several of the more oddly addressed envelopes. These include one addressed in Morse code; one in Hebrew, one using the naval flag code; and one with a small tear to the left of a picture of Robert E. Lee (i.e., "Rip + Lee" = Ripley). A U.S. marshal then enters the office and arrests Ripley. Vitaphone No. 1038.

Believe It or Not #2

1930

Chinatown Squad poster
7.5

Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

Chinatown Squad

1935

Idle Chatter poster
NR

Says how much he likes ballet. He wonders why the girls are always running with no one chasing them. And the male dancers are always running to the female dancers. Then he does an amalgam of nursery rhyme lines in a long dissertation.

Idle Chatter

1930

Two Good Boys Gone Wrong poster
NR

This brash comedy team toured extensively in vaudeville, and even made a Victor 78 of much of the material contained in this short.

Two Good Boys Gone Wrong

1929

The Musicale poster
NR

A variety-style short built around the eccentric comedy and piano-playing of Al Trahan, featuring supporting performances from Yukona Cameron and Helen Hawley.

The Musicale

1930

The Gay Retreat poster
8.0

Rich boy Dick Wright, rejected by both the Army and the Navy because he is a sleepwalker, joins an ambulance unit during the war with his chauffeur and valet tagging along to protect him. They accidentally get aboard a regular troop train, arriving in France as members of the U. S. Army. Following a series of comic adventures with a hard-boiled sergeant, Ted and Sam succeed in capturing a detachment of Germans, receiving decorations for their bravery. Along the way, the boys engage in romantic interludes with Betty and Joan, respectively American and French.

The Gay Retreat

1927

Some Pumpkins poster
7.0

Short musical comedy.

Some Pumpkins

1929