Betty Compson Movies

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her?...

A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the...

During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam...

A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the...

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals...

A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes...

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.