Un homme a battre

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poster The Oath and the Man

The Oath and the Man

12mn - History, Drama, Romance

A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest made him swear an oath to leave vengeance to God, howeve…

poster Buried Alive

Buried Alive

62mn - Crime, Drama, Romance

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…

poster Game of Cards

Game of Cards

1mn - Comedy, History

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

poster Alice Picks the Champ

Alice Picks the Champ

9mn - Animation

It's mayhem in the house as Julius the cat squares off against a pugilistic bear while Alice looks on adoringly.

poster Male and Female

Male and Female

116mn - Adventure, Drama

When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.

poster Calino, Love Tamer

Calino, Love Tamer

One day, Calino has the bold and imprudent idea to follow a woman down the street. The woman leads him all the way to the traveling lion cage run by her husband. To avoid her husband's jealous anger, the …

poster The Battle of the Century

The Battle of the Century

Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

poster The Lure of Drink

The Lure of Drink

A married man's mistress has her revenge by making him an insane dipsomaniac.

poster Wicked Woman

Wicked Woman

Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on …

poster The Burglar’s Dilemma

The Burglar’s Dilemma

15mn - Drama, Crime

In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous brother summons police, who then charge the intruder wit…

poster They Made Me a Criminal

They Made Me a Criminal

92mn - Thriller, Crime, Drama

A champion boxer wrongfully accused of murder flees to a remote Arizona farm where he finds unexpected redemption working with troubled youth, but when a relentless detective picks up his trail, he must c…

poster The Wife of Monte Cristo

The Wife of Monte Cristo

83mn - Romance, Adventure, Drama

In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave …

poster Man, Pride and Vengeance

Man, Pride and Vengeance

100mn - Drama, Western

A Spanish army officer, Don Jose, stationed in Seville, meets and begins a relationship with a mysterious gypsy, Carmen. After he discovers she has cheated on him with his Lieutenant, he kills the officer…

poster Never Weaken

Never Weaken

Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a repu…

poster Tol'able David

Tol'able David

Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mail carrier for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact …

poster Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God

Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God

80mn - Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Biblical figure Jacob is forced to flee for his life when an enraged Esau vows to kill him.

poster The Blacksmith

The Blacksmith

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the …

poster Wiretapper

Wiretapper

A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.

poster A Dozen Socks

A Dozen Socks

A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey.

poster Beau Brummel

Beau Brummel

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. …

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