The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 2 Trailer42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage TrailerThe Charlie Chaplin Festival Trailer
Lloyd Bacon was an American stage and silent-era screen actor who is most remembered as a film director, making films in virtually all genres. Among the 130 films he directed is the 1933 Warner Bros. classic 42nd Street.
Total trailers found: 155
21 October 1933
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
12 June 1943
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy.
29 September 1928
After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold-digging showgirl Molly, whom Al fancies.
12 April 1915
The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life.
04 December 1916
After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.
18 February 1931
Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Brown is a wrestler named JoJo and he is forced to enter the ring and face down a musclebound masked opponent (Frank S.
25 May 1935
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
05 October 1940
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
15 September 1950
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
20 September 1930
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
13 November 1916
During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio.
20 November 1915
Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out.
28 January 1948
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
30 September 1939
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
22 July 1933
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
26 April 1930
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
18 January 1941
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers.
01 February 1921
Tom Mix trades horses for cars. Tom Higgins meets Patricia O'Malley whose father is a car manufacturer.
24 May 1937
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery.
10 June 1949
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
11 March 1939
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord.
05 August 1939
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
25 January 1951
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
19 April 1932
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed.
27 November 1937
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer.
22 January 1917
A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of the congregation's pianist, in such a way that he tries to improve his life of poverty by becoming a policeman.
11 March 1915
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating.
24 April 1942
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers.
20 August 1932
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
24 December 1931
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
17 July 1953
During the Civil War, in Wyoming, horse dealers Joan Britton and Stephen Cook are competing to supply the Union Army with horses.
20 October 1934
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
18 June 1945
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
06 December 1953
A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.
30 December 1939
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
18 March 1915
A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and matches.
30 November 1935
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
08 March 1941
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes.
20 February 1932
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions.
21 July 1934
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
24 March 1950
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator.
15 July 1937
Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses.
10 April 1937
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
01 February 1951
A G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who's putting on a show for the troops.
26 February 1938
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
04 September 1916
A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later�
14 November 1942
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
08 June 1948
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
14 January 1953
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.
11 February 1939
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
10 May 1941
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
08 January 1927
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
27 May 1932
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia.
07 May 1915
A rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. But he hasn't gone straight yet, as he and a partner attempt to rob the home of a rich homeowner-- whose wife is asleep in the next room.
07 June 1940
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
14 August 1926
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles.
18 July 1942
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
02 December 1946
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
29 November 1933
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
