Johnny Hines

The Weakness of Man

Barry O'Neil

Holbrook Blinn, Eleanor Woodruff

David Spencer (Holbrook Blinn) is a basically good man, but like all men he has a few character flaws. Alas, these flaws deepen into weaknesses, leading to disaster for Spencer and his lady love Janice Lane (Eleanor Woodruff).

The Runaround

William James Craft

Geoffrey Kerr, Mary Brian

Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn who refuses to play the gold-digging games indulged in by her fellow chorines

Luck

Violet Mersereau, Johnny Hines

A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.

Burn 'Em Up Barnes

Johnny Hines, George Beranger

Johnny Hines, Edmund Breese

Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes joins a group of hobos who take him in and show him the carefree life.

Too Hot to Handle

Jack Conway

Clark Gable, Myrna Loy

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.

Alias Jimmy Valentine

Maurice Tourneur

Robert Warwick, Robert Cummings

After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.

Whistling in the Dark

Elliott Nugent

Ernest Truex, Una Merkel

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.

The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England

Maurice Tourneur

Alec B. Francis, Chester Barnett

Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confidence."

The Live Wire

Charles Hines

Johnny Hines, Edmund Breese

The Great Maranelli, a stunting circus clown, falls instantly in love when he sees Dorothy Langdon, who does not think too much of him and lets him know it. He is so smitten that his works suffers to the extent that he is soon just a hobo drifting along the open road. When he again encounters Dorothy, she gets him a job as a salesman with her father's light-and-power company, and proves to be a a real "live-wire" salesman. He is then put in charge of the lighting in an amusement park being built under Dorothy's supervision, and trouble comes many directions, guided by Dorothy's cad fiancée who wants to make the stock in the project worthless so he can buy it cheaply.

The Domineering Male

Johnny Hines

Pete Smith, Barbara Bedford

This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?

A Girl's Folly

Maurice Tourneur

Robert Warwick, Doris Kenyon

A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress. So she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.

The Girl in 419

Alexander Hall

James Dunn, Gloria Stuart

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.

Society Doctor

George B. Seitz

Chester Morris, Robert Taylor

Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.

The Cub

Maurice Tourneur

Johnny Hines, Martha Hedman

This breezy comedy is about a cub newspaper reporter who goes to investigate a family feud, which has erupted into violence again—a parody of the real Hatfield-McCoy feud.

The Studio Girl

Charles Giblyn

Constance Talmadge, Earle Foxe

The original play's French locale was changed to New England, where Celia Laird resides with her two overprotective aunts. When artist Frazer Ordway arrives in town, he falls in love with Celia -- much to the dismay of the aunts, who'd intended the girl to marry a local millionaire.

How to Hold Your Husband - BACK

Johnny Hines

Pete Smith, William Bailey

In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold her husband back.