
Acting
Arthur Stone
Born 1883-11-28 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Acting credits
8.0The gold mine belonging to "Gun" Barlow is worked out, and Barlow attempts to buy adjacent land, with the hopes his gold vein will continue, from town postmistress Marion Saunders who, keeping a vow she made to her father on his death-bed, refuses.
Westbound Mail
1937
7.0Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
The Sickle or the Cross
1949
7.5Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Fury
1936
7.0An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Hot Tip
1935
NRTwo marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.
Lighthouse Love
1932
6.9While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
Charlie Chan in Egypt
1935
NRTold in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.
Me, Gangster
1928
4.9August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.
Mamba
1930
5.9An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
Bordertown
1935
10.0Fernie Schmidt (Colleen Moore) lives with her parents in the rear of their delicatessen. The smells of the business - cheeses, sausages, garlic and pickled herrings - repulses Fernie, who dreams of leaving this environment and moving into a life that's more rarified. Her father, Pop Schmidt (Jean Hersholt) has plans for his daughter to marry Peter Halitovsky (Arthur Stone), a sausage salesman, but Fernie is repulsed by the idea. At a dance, Fernie meets Jack Dugan (Malcolm McGregor), who tells her that he is in stocks, a paper-counter, and she falls for him. Because of her rejection of her father's chosen candidate for matrimony, Pop puts Fernie out of the house.
It Must Be Love
1926
8.0Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.
That's My Boy
1932
5.7When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.
Go Chase Yourself
1938
5.9The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.
The Vagabond King
1930
5.4After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again.
Sing, Bing, Sing
1933
9.0Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
The Bad Man
1930
10.0An ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers on a New York City skyscraper. This arouses the ire of his Cajun girlfriend who promptly shoots at him as he walks away and then follows him to the Big Apple where she becomes a nightclub performer.
On the Level
1930
7.0Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
I'll Tell the World
1934
Dance instructor Arthur Stone's wife, Gertrude Astor, is a jealous woman. Patsy O'Leary's husband, Wade Boteler, is a jealous man. Boteler goes out to play poker every night, so Miss O'Leary phones Stone for a private dance lesson at her apartment. When there's a knock at the door, Stone goes out the window and enters an apartment, where Boteler is playing poker.
Poker Widows
1931
9.0A baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film.
Babe Comes Home
1927
7.0Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
The Valley of the Giants
1927
10.0Charles Cook, a husband with a multi-year itch, decides he will go out and whoop it up with the boys, but tells his wife it is a business meeting. His helpful friend Jack Scott introduces him to a very pretty--and shapely--Miss Scott, whose stock-in-trade is understanding misunderstood husbands, and she is very good at it. Charles enjoys being one of the boys and schedules more business meetings. Meanwhile, his wife Alice is at home wishing her husband didn't have to go to so many business meetings.
Red Wine
1928
10.0Julian Ramos is a fisherman in the Canary Islands. As the guardian of his hotheaded younger brother Charles, Julian regards it as his duty to protect the boy from women -- and vice versa. When Charles begins pitching woo at aristocratic Amy, Julian runs interference by pretending to be in love with the girl himself. As time passes, of course, he stops pretending.
The Sea Tiger
1927
5.8A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936
6.1The 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 heroic act, which results in his being severely wounded.
The Patent Leather Kid
1927