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1931
Quick Trigger Lee
Jeremy Wales, a crook who stays on the safe side of the law but bends it whenever possible…
Quit Yer Kickin'
Red Donohue tries to get a job in a dynamite conveyor enterprise, and has to deal with a w…
Radio Racket
The Aesop Sound Fables, while almost forgotten today, produced some of the strangest carto…
Radio Rhythm
Oswald is running a one-rabbit radio station, and all the other animals are listening in o…
1931
Ragtime Romeo
Flip the Frog serenades his feline sweetheart to the delight of everyone in her building--…
1931
Range Law
Having escaped from prison, a cowboy looks for the man that framed him.
1931
Rango
The story of Ali and his son Bin, natives of Sumatra, who hunt in a jungle village.
1931
Razzberries
A Terrytoons cartoon released February 8, 1931.
1931
Rebound
A woman struggles to rekindle the affection of her husband.
Reckless Living
In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications ar…
1931
Red Fork Range
It's time for the stagecoach race to win the mail contract and the only entries are Reden…
1931
Red Riding Hood
Some "jazz tonic" restores Grandma's youth. When the Big Bad Wolf pays a visit, he and Gra…
1931
Red-Headed Baby
The old toymaker goes to sleep, and his toys immediately come to life and sing "Red-Headed…
1931
Reducing
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her…
1931
Resurrection
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himse…
1931
Retribution
Sheila sees the folly of her ways when husband, John, is to be hanged for murdering her pa…
1931
Rich and Strange
After receiving an advance inheritance, a bored London couple set off on a world cruise ho…
1931
Rich Man's Folly
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to c…
1931
Riders of the North
In a trapper's cabin, Sergeant Stone finds a fellow Mountie murdered and is given the assi…
1931
Riders of the Purple Sage
Lassiter's sister was killed and her young daughter taken and raised by outlaws. Years lat…
1931
Riders of the Rio
Two ranchers are rivals not only over cattle but also over a beautiful young Mexican girl.
Roamin' in the Gloamin'
This British short, distributed in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, runs ten minu…
Roaming
A medicine show singer finds her love.
1931
Rodeo Dough
This was a Krazy Kat cartoon made for Charles Mintz and distributed by Columbia. While the…
Rodney Steps In
A carefree aristocrat becomes involved with a woman suspected of murder, and assists her i…
1931
Romance of Water
This 10-minute short was produced by the Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles, CA. B…
Romance on the Beach
On Ostend’s North Sea shore, a sudden squall pushes two strangers under a bathing hut; whe…
Romany Love
A musical film directed by Fred Paul
1931
Rough Seas
On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship…
1931
Round About Hollywood
This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them…
1931
Russian Lullaby
A Max Fleischer Screen Songs cartoon with part of it devoted to cartoon animation and the…
Sacred Elephants of India
Silent film about elephants in India.
1931
Safe in Hell
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island wh…
1931
Sally in Our Alley
A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
1931
Salvation Nell
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army…
Sarie Marais
South Africa's first sound film
1931
Scandal Sheet
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing…
1931
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Scratch-As-Catch-Can is a 1932 American short comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It wa…
1931
Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are se…
1931
Sea Devils
An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks wh…
1931
Sealed Lips
The Shadow's third movie short, an adaptation from a Donald Van Riper story, "Dying Lips,"…
1931
Seas Beneath
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing…
Second Hand Kisses
Knockabout comedy in which woman marries widower each having a child of their own which th…
1931
Secret Service
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends…
1931
Secrets of a Secretary
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Ch…
1931
Seed
Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he ha…
Selling Shorts
Third in the series of six Traveling Man two-reel comedy shorts. While traveling they are…
1931
Shadow on the Mountains
Shadow on the Mountains (Arthur Elton, 1932) is a classic English pastoral, with impressio…
1931
Shanghaied Love
Captain Angus Swope (Noab Beery), known as The Black Yankee, skipper of the Golden Bough,…
1931
She Goes to Vassar
This silent film follows a freshman through the course of her first year at the college
Sheer Luck
Two milkmen foil a prohibition raid set-up; one finds romance with a society deb in the ba…
Ship Ahoy
Two sailors get romantically involved with a mother and daughter.
1931
Shipmates
A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of h…
1931
Ships of Hate
A cruel sea captain (Charles Middleton) oversees a rough crew.
1931
Shipwreck
A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released February 9, 1931.
1931
Shiver My Timbers
The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea ca…
1931
Shotgun Pass
A rancher's plan to herd his horses is complicated by an uncooperative landowner.
Showgirl's Luck
The story of a crazy film company attempting to make the first 'talkie' in Australia. Two…
1931
Showing Off
Young Scrappy tries to impress a girl by smoking a cigar made out of cabbage, but he only…
1931
Siam to Korea
This Traveltalk entry first visits Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, when the country's na…