
December 31, 1885
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Willard Robertson (January 1, 1886 – April 5, 1948) was an American actor and writer. He appeared in 147 films between 1924 and 1948. He was born in Runnels, Texas and died in Hollywood, California. Willard Robertson first worked as a lawyer in Texas, but he l…

Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel inspires an account of a lynch mob that seeks revenge for a rancher's murder.

A World War I veteran and aspiring engineer tries to re-enter civilian life. After being unwillingly caught up in a robbery, he suffers the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, struggling to clear his name and prove hi...

Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

A corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson tells reporters how he got there.

In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.

An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.

After a scandal runs a gold-digger out of town, she meets a con artist and becomes embroiled in a string of petty deceits.

A family that hires a live-in babysitter is surprised when he turns out to be a man who's a quirky genius.

A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.

In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.

A German spy ring plans to publicize a false rumor that Russia, who is fighting Germany, plans to invade neutral Turkey in order to ally them with the Nazis.

During the brutal French and Indian War, the legendary scout Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan Heyward, and the two daughters of Fort William Henry commander Colonel Munro -- Alice and Cora -- to safety through.

An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.

The San Francisco earthquake shakes up the life of Jenny, a madam who gives birth to an illegitimate son and gives him up to protect him.

A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.

Three fugitives risk their lives to bring a newborn baby out of the desert to safety.

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and heats up thei...

A serial black widow murderess returns to life in the body of a young woman to exact revenge on a former lover, a phony spiritualist who betrayed her.

A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt hometown of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of old Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Em...

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.

World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.

An undercover Federal officer serving time in prison fakes his escape in order to infiltrate a heroin smuggling ring.

Bret Harte's story of Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl who is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocr...

In order to part with the Dembrow outlaw family, Ben Dembrow changes his name and ventures out on his own but the Dembrows don't want to part with him.

Two newspapers are pitted against each other. One owned by gangster Charles Gillette (Lloyd Nolan), the other by Ralph Houston (Fred MacMurray).