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Harry B. Lachman (June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist, set designer, and film director.
He was born in La Salle, Illinois on June 29, 1886. Lachman was educated at the University of Michigan before becoming a magazine and book illustrator, contributing 4 colour illustrations to the 1907 work John Smith, Gentleman Adventurer by Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay. In 1911, he emigrated to Paris where he earned a substantial reputation as a post impressionist painter and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French government.
Lachman's interest in motion pictures stemmed from his position as a set designer in Nice, leading to work on Mare Nostrum in 1925. He worked as a director in France and England before settling in Hollywood in 1933. His credits include Down Our Street, Baby Take a Bow, Dante's Inferno, Our Relations, and Dr. Renault's Secret.
In 1938 he married Jue Quon Tai. Lachman returned to painting in the 1940s. He died on March 19, 1975.
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Total trailers found: 46
15 September 1936
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
13 December 1940
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
28 March 1941
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
27 March 1936
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
24 October 1926
A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.
28 August 1942
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
01 September 1933
In Ireland, Major Adair’s older daughter Eileen is about to marry Lawrence Blake for his money in order to pay off her father’s debts, even though she really loves Jack Breen.
07 September 1937
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
23 August 1935
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
30 June 1934
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time.
25 September 1936
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
05 September 1941
In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer's own murder.
13 November 1929
A recently engaged girl invites her parents to meet her fiance. They learn that he also loves another woman.
25 June 1937
In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly melodramatic fashion.
16 January 1931
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
08 June 1946
This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.
15 March 1934
Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue.
23 November 1934
As a struggling young artist in the Philippines supports herself by reading poetry in unsavory bars, she falls in love with an American who has been temporarily blinded due to a beating received from some hooligans.
07 March 1940
A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
15 January 1933
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her father who plans to marry her off to someone she despises.
01 April 1934
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
20 April 1931
An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor.
05 September 1929
A girl organist is blamed for ousting the village choir.
17 March 1932
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract.
14 May 1929
A lawyer spends the weekend with a married actress at the same hotel as his wife and her lover. This British silent film exists in an abridged 2-reel (32-min) format.
14 March 1930
An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.
05 February 1938
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
06 January 1927
The tourist group are in Monte Carlo, where Mdm Papillion wins a fortune.
02 January 1927
The further adventures of the group of tourists on a trip around the French Riviera. From Cannes they travel to Juan les Pins, the Grimaldi Chateau in Monaco, Port-carre, Antibes and the pottery makers of Biot.
12 January 1927
The tour comes to an end and the party returns to Cannes. The sheik's disguise is dropped and he disappears with all of Mme.
10 January 1927
The tarvelling party inluding Cicero Simps (Michael Powell) move to St. Paul de vence and la Colombe d'Or ans showcases a dreamcase in which he dreams he's a faun.
12 February 1937
An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene.
30 June 1930
A musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman.
11 January 1927
The tourists travel on to Grasse, the perfume factory, and the valley of the Wolves.
01 December 1931
Nell Marignan, going by the nickname of Mistigri, a naive small town girl, falls for a tenor on tour.
19 October 1942
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr.
08 October 1935
Dressed to Thrill is a 1935 American musical film directed by Harry Lachman and written by Samson Raphaelson.
09 January 1927
The tourists set off for the Mountains of the Alpes Maritimes, visit the medieval hilltop of Tourette, and play in the snow.
02 February 1942
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia.
15 February 1926
The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.
02 December 1932
A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, the captain’s best friend, falls in love with Marinette.
01 December 1921
The life of a happy, close-knit French family from Aisne who must flee the German advance in 1914.
01 January 1927
Concerning the adventures of a party of tourists on their journey from Cannes to visit the Islands of Lérins.
27 July 1932
'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Fi)
