Betty Compson Movies

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her?...

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a...

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a...

Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of...

Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80...

The Masked Angel is a 1928 silent romantic drama film directed by Frank O'Connor.

American silent drama film following an early Vitagraph leading man and matinee idol. Prints of the film are held at the Library of Congress and...

When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life.

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...

This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print...

While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.