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.

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

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

A promotional documentary short celebrating the 20th anniversary of Paramount Pictures, complete with a studio history, interviews with stars, and...

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...

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

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

Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

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...

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also...

Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father's killer. On the way, they discover a vein of gold. The killer finds out about it, and...

Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a...

Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.

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...

Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a...

American silent drama film following an early Vitagraph leading man and matinee idol. Prints of the film are held at the Library of Congress and...

The Masked Angel is a 1928 silent romantic drama film directed by Frank O'Connor.

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

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...