All Films

The Cat's Out

1931 • 7 min • United States of America

A cat, being sent out for the night, begins to make trouble for some birds. He later has a nightmare that the birds grow and begin to extract their revenge.

The Week End Mystery

1931 • 17 min

During a rainstorm at a remote manor house, Richard Crayell plays host to several guests. At nine o'clock sharp, he excuses himself from the card table to take his medicine, promising to return soon. When he doesn't, Claire goes in search of him, and finds his door locked from the inside.

Their Mad Moment

1931 • 55 min • United States of America

Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother and former girlfriend, Stancia, and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.

West of Cheyenne

1931 • 56 min • United States of America

With his father accused of murder, Tom heads after the real murderer who lives in a town of outlaws where no one is allowed in or out. To gain entry he poses as an escaping outlaw with his sidekick Banty posing as the pursuing lawman. This lets Tom join the gang but there is trouble later when Banty gets caught and sentenced to die.

Nine O'clock Folks

1931 • 11 min • United States of America

In this short, multiple acts perform before an audience in a town hall. Performers include The Aaron Sisters singing trio and the Mound City Blue Blowers musicians. Another act features a tap dancer whose shoes have extensions on them that allow him to balance on the ends as one might use stilts. In the finale, an "inebriated" dog in the audience performs tricks. The short's title refers to the curfew in the town.

Poor Old Bill

1931 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to be true.

The House That Shadows Built

1931 • 47 min • United States of America

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.

The Nevada Buckaroo

1931 • 53 min • United States of America

When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets robbed. When the Sheriff jails Cherokee who was not in on the robbery, the Kid gets caught effecting Cherokee's escape and finds himself in jail again.

The Star Reporter

1931 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Major Starr is an ambitious newspaper reporter who has taken undercover employment as chauffeur to Lady Susan Loman in the hope of witnessing high-society goings-on which he can use in a feature article he is planning.

How He Lied to Her Husband

1931 • 37 min • United Kingdom

'Rich man suspects wife loves poet.' (British Film Catalogue)

Strictly Business

1931 • 46 min • United Kingdom

The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.

Cowboy Blues

1931 • 7 min • United States of America

Van Beuren's Mickey Mouse clone is at it again, this time in a Western setting. They're all riding those wacky mechanical horses that always seem to appear in early Van Beuren and TerryToons cartoons.

The Bandmaster

1931 • 6 min • United States of America

A well composed series of gags run from ones involving simply frame composition all the way out to Keaton-like surrealism in this well-ordered and executed series of gags-on-a-theme Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz' cartoon team.

Galloping Thru

1931 • 58 min • United States of America

A young buck returns to his hometown after several years' absence, only to see his father shot down in front of him.

Old Hokum Bucket

1931 • 7 min • United States of America

A slow farm life is turned upside-down thanks to some magic pills....

A Broadway Romeo

1931 • 15 min • United States of America

Jack Benny, his finances at a low ebb, watches a newsstand for a friend and picks up a young lady customer, equally broke.

The Clown

1931 • 6 min • United States of America

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a clown in Pete's circus. He's also fired from the cannon. Pete wants gymnast Kitty to sign a contract, but Oswald warns her against it. Will Pete get his revenge?

Love Fever

1931 • 20 min • United States of America

An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.

Bracelets

1931 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them and after collecting the reward for their arrest, uses they money to buy some silver bracelets for his wife to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

Girls Will Be Boys

1931 • 18 min • United States of America

A wife demands that her husband take over the household responsibilities, while she does his job, unaware that he is a piano mover. They both land in the hospital, sadder and sicker as a result of their experience.

Flunky, Work Hard!

1931 • 29 min • Japan

A short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.

Trouble

1931 • 7 min • United States of America

Tom and Jerry are ambulance-chasing lawyers in search of more business.

Oklahoma Jim

1931 • 53 min • United States of America

A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.

A Holy Terror

1931 • 53 min • United States of America

Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.