Direction: Dudley Murphy

Direction Fernand Léger · Dudley Murphy

Cast Fernand Léger · Dudley Murphy · Katherine Murphy · Kiki of Montparnasse

Plot A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines,...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Duke Ellington · Barney Bigard · Wellman Braud · Joe 'Tricky Sam' Nanton

Plot Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Chase Harringdine

Plot The first of three "Visual Symphonies" that combine film, dance and music. Set on the Californian coast dotted with wind swept cypresses the film tells the story of a young...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Adolph Bolm · Olin Howland · Ruth Page

Plot At the stroke of midnight, the two young lovers, Youth and Love, enter an ancient castle. At their heels is the spectre of Death, who stalks them from the shadows...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Ramon Novarro · Evelyn Laye · Charles Butterworth · Una Merkel

Plot Young Austrian Archduke Paul “Gustl” Gustave is in an arranged engagement to Princess Matilda, but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl continue his fling with ballet dancer Lisl...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Gilda Gray · Walter Fenner · Edgar Connor

Plot Gilda Gray who popularized the shimmy in America made one of her few sound films in this feature based on the popular tragedy of Frankie and Johnny. One of the...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Leif Erickson · Myron McCormick · Hiram Sherman

Plot A fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Hoagy Carmichael · Dorothy Dandridge

Plot Hoagy Carmichael sings "Lazybones".

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Paul Robeson · Dudley Digges · Frank H. Wilson · Fredi Washington

Plot At a Baptist prayer meeting, the preacher leads a prayer for Brutus Jones, who is leaving to become a railway porter. Jones joins the congregation in a spiritual. Once on...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Joel McCrea · Marian Marsh · William Gargan · Robert Benchley

Plot Dartmouth football stars Sandy Brown and Johnny Baker follow different paths after college: Baker becomes a sports reporter while pal Brown chases the money of the pro game, but ends...

Direction Allan Dwan · Dudley Murphy · James Seymour

Cast Gloria Swanson · Owen Moore · Lew Cody · Margaret Livingston

Plot A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and...

Direction David Burton · Dudley Murphy

Cast Phillips Holmes · Sylvia Sidney · Norman Foster · Claudia Dell

Plot A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Bessie Smith · Jimmy Mordecai · Isabel Washington · Hall Johnson Choir

Plot In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Ann Sothern · Bruce Cabot · Irving Pichel · Ian Keith

Plot A reformed gambler returns to his old ways despite the fact that it means losing his wife.