Movies: Oscar Apfel

  • 1930
    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln (1930)

    Abraham Lincoln

    5.41930HD

    A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the electio...

    Abraham Lincoln
  • 1934
    The House of Rothschild

    The House of Rothschild (1934)

    The House of Rothschild

    6.21934HD

    The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because...

    The House of Rothschild
  • 1934
    Manhattan Melodrama

    Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

    Manhattan Melodrama

    7.01934HD

    The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman....

    Manhattan Melodrama
  • 1914
    The Squaw Man

    The Squaw Man (1914)

    The Squaw Man

    61914HD

    Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich....

    The Squaw Man
  • 1930
    Conspiracy

    Conspiracy (1930)

    Conspiracy

    4.81930HD

    Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder....

    Conspiracy
  • 1931
    Wicked

    Wicked (1931)

    Wicked

    4.71931HD

    Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband....

    Wicked
  • 1932
    Hell's Highway

    Hell's Highway (1932)

    Hell's Highway

    6.21932HD

    A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars....

    Hell's Highway
  • 1936
    Bulldog Edition

    Bulldog Edition (1936)

    Bulldog Edition

    31936HD

    Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the a...

    Bulldog Edition
  • 1936
    Murder at Glen Athol

    Murder at Glen Athol (1936)

    Murder at Glen Athol

    6.51936HD

    A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde...

    Murder at Glen Athol
  • 1935
    Carnival

    Carnival (1935)

    Carnival

    01935HD

    "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and h...

    Carnival
  • 1936
    Hollywood Boulevard

    Hollywood Boulevard (1936)

    Hollywood Boulevard

    2.51936HD

    With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him...

    Hollywood Boulevard
  • 1933
    The Story of Temple Drake

    The Story of Temple Drake (1933)

    The Story of Temple Drake

    6.51933HD

    The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely....

    The Story of Temple Drake
  • 1937
    The Toast of New York

    The Toast of New York (1937)

    The Toast of New York

    5.81937HD

    After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets....

    The Toast of New York
  • 1935
    Bordertown

    Bordertown (1935)

    Bordertown

    5.91935HD

    An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss....

    Bordertown
  • 1930
    Liliom

    Liliom (1930)

    Liliom

    6.81930HD

    A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending...

    Liliom
  • 1931
    Sidewalks of New York

    Sidewalks of New York (1931)

    Sidewalks of New York

    6.11931HD

    A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place....

    Sidewalks of New York
  • 1931
    Five Star Final

    Five Star Final (1931)

    Five Star Final

    6.71931HD

    Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved....

    Five Star Final
  • 1931
    Quick Millions

    Quick Millions (1931)

    Quick Millions

    7.11931HD

    A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community....

    Quick Millions
  • 1935
    The Calling of Dan Matthews

    The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)

    The Calling of Dan Matthews

    31935HD

    Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citi...

    The Calling of Dan Matthews
  • 1932
    A Successful Calamity

    A Successful Calamity (1932)

    A Successful Calamity

    5.21932HD

    Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they w...

    A Successful Calamity