Movies: Robert Emmett O'Connor

Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other bo...

A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted by another safecracker. Narrowly escaping arrest, they decide to pool their talents, but sh...

Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment....

In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies....

A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal....

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber....

A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with his new secretary and they marry. Unfortunately, she has not revealed her shady past to him, and whe...

When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations....

Medieval French monks find a freezing, ill juggler and take him in. Upon recovering, the impoverished man wishes to illustrate his tremendous gratitude. He eventually finds a way to....

A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters....

The Booster is a silent comedy short...

Snub conducts a blind pig in a barn, where the village cronies gather for their "licker," and the place is raided by revenue officers....

The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an antiques dealer Philip Vantine (John St. Polis) has finished moving into the same house where the 188...