Movies: The Vitaphone Corporation

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical....

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War....

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops an...

A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife....

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris....

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on....

S.S. Van Dine mystery with police Inspector Carr. Although Donald Meek plays the leading role of the amateur detective, Dr. Crabtree, in other entries in this series, he does not appear in this one....

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang....

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor....

The owner of an unsuccessful greeting cards store decides to sell 'talking' greeting cards in the form of records....

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?...

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going....

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot....

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice....

Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events....

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took...

A telegraph postal union worker has no luck when asks a pretty co-worker to marry him. She says he'd have to be a magician to get her to say yes. Things are complicated when, as a favor to a stuttering acquaintance, he takes his overweight girlfriend...

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk....

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway lu...

When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter....