John Miljan

A group of actors assembled at an old house for a dress rehearsal of a horror play find unwanted company in a patient who just escaped a local asylum.

While vacationing in a wealthy town, a private eye is invited to a party that devolves into a murder mystery when two of the guests wind up dead.

After his assistant is killed, a crusading city official poses as a government stooge to flush out the big boss and shut down his gang of racketeers.

Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali arrive and immediately get into trouble with Fanning and his men.

After doing a job for his girlfriend’s shady boss, Jimmy Wilson ends up on the run, forcing him to confront the truth, his past, and his parents.

The richest woman in the world (Ruth Chatterton) has everything money can buy. But with her heart torn between her faithless husband and an ardent writer (George Brent), she can't have the one thing every woman wants: happiness. Herbert Hoover was still President and the Depression was at its most depressing when this delicious wallow in uptown romance hit the Bijou, featuring an electric performance by young Bette Davis as a society girl also enamored of the writer. This wasn't the end of Davis' relationship with Brent. They would make 11 films together, including Jezebel and Dark Victory. It wasn't the end of the Chatterton-Brent relationship, either: the on-screen lovers married soon after the film opened.

A bold Bonapartist escapes execution, hides as a servant, and finds love while navigating the treacherous world of royalist intrigue.

An avenging cop launches a personal vendetta to crush a crime ring that has become very powerful.

The publicity stunts of a press agent who convinces his boss to sign his girlfriend to a studio contract drives her into the arms of a moneyed suitor.

When her fiance disappears during an expedition in the jungle, Jean arrives with a search party to find he’s been captured by a savage female tribe.

Middle-aged housekeeper Emma (Marie Dressler) helps a lonely widower, Ronald Smith (Richard Cromwell) raising his spoiled and over-entitled children. When Smith takes Emma on a vacation, he makes his feelings for her known by proposing marriage. Emma happily accepts, but tragedy strikes when Smith dies of a heart attack shortly after. Emma is devastated, but then must face Smith's children, who suspect she may have been involved in the death of their father.

Crawford speaks! And sings! And dances! In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister (Robert Montgomery), the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben (Ernest Torrence), who seeks to scuttle their love match. In addition to its pre-Code costumes and situations, Untamed also boasts Robert Montgomery's first leading role and two songs sung by the throaty Joan " - Chant of the Jungle" and "That Wonderful Something is Love" (a duet with Mr. Montgomery!).

Two of comedy's greatest masters – Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante – appear together in this effervescent and irreverent slapstick about a couple of regular guys trying to cash in on the end of Prohibition. Durante is a barber who talks Keaton, his dim-bulb taxidermist buddy, into spending his life's savings on a brewery. Determined to be first, they start making beer before Prohibition is actually over. That makes their "competition" bootlegging thugs – something they didn't count on! Then, Buster falls for one of the gangster's molls, the cops get into the act, and Keaton and Durante have to figure out how to get out of the beer business before they're done in! From a story by Robert E. Hopkins (Anita Loo's screenwriting partner on San Francisco), this timely farce, directed by veteran Edward Sedgwick, was called "one solid riot of laughs…Rowdy and hoodlum fun" (The New York American).

A private detective is dispatched to recover stolen money which disappeared after the thieves died in an auto accident.

Two feuding brothers who own separate cattle ranches find themselves on opposite sides of a water-rights battle in this Western. Furious over being deprived of their water by a gang of clever criminals, the settlers declare war, resulting in a destructive stampede. Johnny Mack Brown stars.

Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.

Cynical Marian Martin meets married attorney Mark Whitney and becomes his mistress. But when Whitney runs for governor and a reporter uncovers the story of the affair, Martin must choose between her carefree life and marriage with the man she loves.

Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.