A piano entices anyone who comes near.
The Sidney Street siege. "HOUNDSITCH MURDERERS: THE GREAT ALIENS OUTRAGE AT MILE END SHEWING (sic) THE ACTUAL SCENES.
Coverage of the Siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911, including film of Winston Churchill witnessing the events.
Dr Mitchoff discovers a way to find, through a dead person's eyes, the last image they have seen.
A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.
A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
El tema de los idilios en el parque ya tratado en películas anteriores, con sus cortejos, alegrías y caídas en el lago. Alboroto con un policía y con un marino que había aparecido en la película The Face on the Bar Room Floor.
Charlot se encuentra sin trabajo y sus perspectivas no son nada halagüeñas cuando salva a una perra errante llamada Scraps del ataque de otros perros. Ambos se hacen inseparables y persiguen un mismo objetivo: conseguir comida.
Tras ser confundido con el famoso forajido Dead Shot Dan, el protagonista (Keaton) es perseguido por toda la ciudad por el jefe de la policía local. Buscando un lugar donde esconderse, se refugia en casa de Virginia, sin saber que la jovencita es la hija del jefe de policía.
A través de una serie de identidades equivocadas, Buster acaba con un cargamento de muebles en mitad de un regimiento de policías. La bomba de un anarquista aterriza en su carruaje. Buster lo lanza entre las filas de los policías, que le persiguen por toda la ciudad. (FILMAFFINITY)
La obra maestra de Harold Lloyd. La escena del genial cómico escalando un edificio supone uno de los momentos más grandes del cine mudo y su clímax -Harold colgado de las manillas del reloj- sigue siendo una de las escenas estelares de la historia del séptimo arte.
A police dog and his cop track a gang of bank robbers, one of which is the dog's former abusive owner.
Charley asks for his girlfriend's hand in marriage, but her father, the police chief, angrily refuses to allow her to marry anyone who is not himself a policeman. Charley then decides to join the police force, so that he can win her. But when he applies, he is rejected because he is too small. Charley doesn't give up, and he soon thinks of a way to avoid the size restriction - but simply joining the force is only the first challenge that he has to face.
A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".
Molly White, the new schoolmistress at Silver Creek, makes the acquaintance of Jack Brooks, a wealthy eastern sportsman, when his pedigreed police dog, Dynamite, saves her from serious injury, and they become fast friends.
This was Karl Valentin's first feature-length movie, as well as his last silent movie.
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
Tony Camonte (Paul Muni), un pistolero de origen italiano, ignorante y sin escrúpulos, es el lugarteniente de Johnny Lovo (Osgood Perkins), el hampón más poderoso del South End de Chicago. Ambicioso y cruel, Camonte, que por una cicatriz que le cruza el rostro recibe el apelativo de Cara cortada, elimina poco a poco a los rivales de su jefe hasta que, con la ayuda de su amigo Gino Rinaldo (George Raft), le arrebata el poder también a él y se convierte en el amo de la ciudad. Tras un mes de vacaciones en Florida, descubre que su hermana Cesca (Ann Dvorak), por la que siente un amor confuso y arrebatado, es la amante de Gino.
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."