All Films

Camping Out

1932 • 7 min • United States of America

Scrappy, his little brother, and the dog take the car and drive to the camping grounds.

Sneak Easily

1932 • 16 min • United States of America

Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.

The Monster Walks

1932 • 60 min • United States of America

Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. Now it's her turn, as her deranged and relentless uncle targets her for death with the help of his wife and son, plus a very unhappy ape.

White Coal

1932 • 10 min

Filmed with the same camera and the film stock remains of Douro, Faina Fluvial, portrays the inauguration of the hydroelectric power plant of Ermal, owned by Manoel de Oliveira's father.

Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)

1932 • 10 min

A Columbia Pictures promotional short which explains how a movie is made.

Flaming Guns

1932 • 57 min • United States of America

A ranch manager falls in love with a banker's daughter, but after a quarrel with the girl's parents, flee across the border into Mexico.

Central Park

1932 • 58 min • United States of America

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.

Discarded Lovers

1932 • 60 min • United States of America

In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her free and easy lifestyle and messy romantic affairs. Among them are Grace Sibley the jealous wife of her director, Warren Sibley, her drunken actor husband, Andre Leighton, her screenwriter boyfriend, Rex Forsythe, and her first husband, Robert Worth. Also on hand to help solve the mystery are visiting reporter Bob Adair, Irma's secretary, Valerie Christine, and policemen Captain Sommers and Sergeant Delaney.

Tango

1932 • 7 min • Sweden

A married woman visits her lover.

The Rasp

1932 • 44 min • United Kingdom

When cabinet minister John Hoode is murdered at his country house, his secretary, Alan Deacon, is the prime suspect and is arrested. Reporter Anthony Gethryn determines to unmask the real murderer.

Wild Babies!

1932 • 17 min

Two aspiring songwriters have a weird nightmare about the jungle.

Ghost City

1932 • 60 min • United States of America

Newspaper editor Bill Temple arrives in Boom Town planning to expose Jim Blane as a crook. When Blane's henchman Buck fails to kill Temple, Blane prepares to flee with his money. But a sudden announcement of a gold strike empties the town. Blane heads after his henchmen who have taken his money and Temple heads after Blane.

Lawless Valley

1932 • 55 min • United States of America

A cattleman's association hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler known as El Lobo.

Ghost Valley

1932 • 54 min • United States of America

A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.

Daring Danger

1932 • 57 min • United States of America

A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.

The Blood of a Poet

1932 • 55 min • France

In a poet’s room, an armless statue abruptly comes to life. It invites the poet to step through a mirror and to discover another world. Strange places and characters present themselves to him. The poet tears himself away from these twisted fascinations and returns, with some difficulty, to his room.

Night World

1932 • 58 min • United States of America

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.

Almost Married

1932 • 50 min • United States of America

Russian beauty Anita Mellikovna, traveling by train with a forged passport and carrying jewels, finds the police on her tail.

Thirteen Women

1932 • 59 min • United States of America

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.

Self Defense

1932 • 60 min • United States of America

Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.

Haunted Gold

1932 • 57 min • United States of America

John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan and his gang are also there to get the gold. A mysterious Phantom is also present. Mason's plan to expose Ryan as an outlaw and to force him to turn his share to Janet works. But when distracted by the Phantom, John is made a prisoner by the gang.

Tangled Destinies

1932 • 56 min • United States of America

An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a nearby deserted house. Soon some of the passengers are found murdered, and one of the passengers reveals himself to be a detective who was guarding one of the murdered passengers, who was carrying a bag of diamonds--which is now missing. The detective must find out which of the passengers is the killer.

Stormy Seas

1931 • 9 min • United States of America

Seagoing Flip the Frog saves a girl, abandoned on a neighboring boat, from a mighty storm at sea.

Offers Herself as Bride for $10,000

1931 • 2 min • United States of America

In an on-camera interview, Ohio working girl Mary Clowes explains that she is offering her hand in marriage to whoever can provide $10,000 to support her parents, who have since lost their farm and who, following the deaths of her two brothers, rely on her as their lone source of financial support.