Philip Sleeman Movies

Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Wayne

A film directed by John P. McCarthy

Genre: Western

Cast: Bob Custer

Hector MacKnight, known to the townspeople as "Goofy" and an irritatingly terrible fiddler, is innocently drawn into a rigged poker game. A general...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hoot Gibson

Pete Smith, a lift bridge operator in a harbor, feels lonely in his cabin, his only visitor being a policeman on patrol, Sgt. Coughlin. One night,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Boyd

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Sanders

Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joseph Schildkraut

During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Boyd

Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramon Novarro

A young woman impulsively marries a young playwright who whisks her away to New York promises her a role in his next production. Unfortunately the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Colleen Moore

Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alan Hale

Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ginger Rogers

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mary Ellis

The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gordon Jones

Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.

Genre: Action

Cast: Victor Mature

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Myrna Loy

In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that...

Genre: Action

Cast: George Bancroft

A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Karen Morley

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edna Purviance

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eric Linden

Stranded in the small town of Buckeye Junction young actress Madge Joy crawls upon a load of hay and falls asleep. Knocked unconscious when young...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Viola Dana

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things...

Genre: Western

Cast: Clark Gable

An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ronald Colman

A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Dix

An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dorothy Davenport

The guests at a dinner party in a mansion are spooked when a creepy "spirtualist" decides to stay for dinner.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johnny Arthur

A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Barrymore

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'),...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phillips Holmes

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bette Davis

When Joe, a hold-up man, tries to rob Mary, a nightclub hostess, she winds winds up knocking him out. She takes pity on him, however, and nurses him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Nagel

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ann Sothern

A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil...

Genre: Action

Cast: Evalyn Knapp

An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greta Garbo

On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck