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?...

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

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...

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...

Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that...

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...

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

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