Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.

March of the Wooden Soldiers

1934

English

7.1

♡ 22

100%

78%

Action

based on play or musical

Gus Meins Director

Gus Leonard as Candle Snuffer

Charlie Hall as Townsman

Edward Earle as Townsman

Ellen Corby as Townswoman at Tom-Tom's Trial

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.

The Painted Veil

1934

English

6.5

♡ 6

56%

Action

based on novel or book

Richard Boleslawski Director

Gus Leonard as Major Domo

Keye Luke as Shay Key Fong

Lillian Lawrence as Spinster

Forrester Harvey as Waddington

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

The Freshman

1925

English

7.5

♡ 3

95%

78%

Action

college american football

Fred C. Newmeyer Director

Charles Farrell as Student Bell Ringer at Frolic

Roy Brooks as Tall Student

Gus Leonard as Waiter Who Takes Harold's Pants

Ethel Broadhurst as Woman watching away when Harold lost pants

Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular.

Go West

1925

English

7.1

♡ 15

100%

Buster Keaton Director

Buster Keaton as Friendless

Gus Leonard as General Store Owner

Joe Keaton as Man in Barber Shop

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Woman in Department Store

With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.

Elmer, the Great

1933

English

6.0

♡ 1

Mervyn LeRoy Director

George Chandler as Cubs Player

Gus Leonard as Nosey Townsman

Gale Gordon as Radio Announcer

Douglass Dumbrille as Stillman

Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.

The Devil-Doll

1936

English

7.0

♡ 10

Tod Browning Director

E. Alyn Warren as Commissioner

Gus Leonard as Eiffel Tower Elevator Operator

Henry B. Walthall as Marcel

Lionel Barrymore as Paul Lavond

Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.

Safety Last!

1923

English

8.1

♡ 20

97%

Fred C. Newmeyer Director

Roy Brooks as Man Laughing from Window

Mildred Davis as Mildred, The Girl

Mickey Daniels as Newsboy with Freckles

Gus Leonard as Office Worker

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

The Kid Brother

1927

English

7.6

♡ 7

92%

Lewis Milestone Director

Harold Lloyd as Harold Hickory

Walter James as Jim Hickory

Olin Francis as Olin Hickory

Gus Leonard as Townsman

The timid youngest son of the most important family in town must use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and the love of a beautiful new woman in town.

The Petrified Forest

1936

English

7.5

♡ 7

94%

80%

Action

arizona

based on play or musical

Archie Mayo Director

Bette Davis as Gabrielle Maple

Gus Leonard as Jim - Postman

Genevieve Tobin as Mrs. Chisholm

Addison Richards as Radio Announcer

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Noah's Ark

1928

English

6.6

♡ 2

57%

Michael Curtiz Director

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Al / Ham

Myrna Loy as Dancer / Slave Girl

Gus Leonard as Manager of Belgian Theater Troup

Dolores Costello as Marie / Miriam

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Trouble in Paradise

1932

English

7.9

♡ 11

89%

90%

Action

approach

based on play or musical

Ernst Lubitsch Director

Gus Leonard as Elderly Servant

Kay Francis as Mariette Colet

Nella Walker as Mme. Bouchet

Charles Ruggles as The Major

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

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Speedy

March of the Wooden Soldiers

The Painted Veil

The Freshman

Go West

Elmer, the Great

The Devil-Doll

Safety Last!

The Kid Brother

The Petrified Forest

Noah's Ark

Trouble in Paradise