1929 Movies

28th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.

A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen

Rough seas makes it difficult for Captain Peg Leg Pete. Oswald tries to make his captain soup, but a duck steals Pete's dinner.

Comedy short based on the comic strip "Barney Google" by Billy De Beck. A print survives with the Library of Congress.

A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower and his 10-year old child who receives it as a birth...

A Van Beuren cartoon set in a night club with cabaret musical numbers and a drunken brawl.

The film shows the Joseon countryside and farmers devastated by the protracted agricultural crisis of the late 1920s.

Nightclub hostess Sophie Leonard educates her daughter Beth abroad and keeps her life secret for her. But suddenly the daughter shows up.

"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.

A college football player protects his friend by pretending that it was he, not the friend, who drank himself unconscious the night before the big gam...

An energetic "heavyweight" song and dance troupe of six performs with gusto.

Joe Cobb is suffering through a toothache as well as having to babysit his little brother Rupert who won't stop crying. Every effort to calm Rupert is...

This is a very early Lantz sound cartoon, so early that it merely makes use of simple synchronization, matching the music and tempo to the action at h...

Benny and Flo are a husband-and-wife dance team starring in a new Broadway revue. When the show quickly flops, the two are forced to look for other em...

When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her...

A lost Screen Songs cartoon.

A Scot acquires sophistication in order to spurn the socialite who spurned him.

In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and sh...