Betty Compson Movies

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?...

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

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

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

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

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.

A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.

A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations...

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

This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print...

While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.

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...

Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...

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...

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of...

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

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze...