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The Fox Film Corporation was an American company that produced motion pictures, formed by William Fox on 1 February 1915. It was the corporate successor to his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film Company.

The company's first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New Jersey but in 1917, William Fox sent Sol M. Wurtzel to Hollywood, California to oversee the studio's new West Coast production facilities where a more hospitable and cost effective climate existed for filmmaking. On July 23, 1926, the company bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound on to film.

After the Crash of 1929, William Fox lost control of the company in 1930, during a hostile takeover. Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners merged the company with Twentieth Century Pictures to form 20th Century Fox in 1935.

Best films

Cavalcade
Cavalcade
(1933) 7th Heaven
7th Heaven
(1927) Street Angel
Street Angel
(1928) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
(1927) In Old Arizona
In Old Arizona
(1928) Bad Girl
Bad Girl
(1931)
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Filmography of Fox Film (385 films)

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Hot Pepper
Hot Pepper (1933)
, 1h16
Directed by John G. Blystone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Lupe Vélez, Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, El Brendel, Lilian Bond, André Cheron

Les aventures de Flagg et Quirt, maintenant démobilisés, à New York au moment de la Prohibition...
It's Great to Be Alive
It's Great to Be Alive (1933)
, 1h9
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Musical, Comic science fiction
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Musical films, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Gloria Stuart, Edna May Oliver, Raul Roulien, Herbert Mundin, Joan Marsh, Edward Van Sloan

A young aviator, Carlos Martin (played by Raul Roulien), is dumped by his girlfriend (Gloria Stuart), and heads on a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean. He has engine trouble and makes an emergency landing on an uninhabited island out in the Pacific. Shortly afterward, a global epidemic of a new disease called masculitis kills every fertile male human on the planet. When efforts to cure the disease fail, the human race is doomed. Humanity's institutions are all run by women, including the Chicago underworld. Carlos escapes the island, and once he returns home and hears the news, it now depends on him to continue the human race.
Krakatoa
Krakatoa (1933)
, 26minutes
Directed by Joe Rock
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films

The story describes how the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa on the island blew half of the large island into the air that produced a tsunami, and an air wave that was felt seven times around the globe. The eruption also emitted tons of dust that dimmed the sun all over the world for many months.
Cavalcade
Cavalcade (1933)
, 1h50
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Noel Coward
Actors Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Beryl Mercer, Frank Lawton

Offering a view of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 through New Year's Day 1933, the film is presented from the point of view of well-to-do London residents Jane and Robert Marryot. Several historical events serve as background for the film, including the Second Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and World War I.
Zoo in Budapest
Zoo in Budapest (1933)
, 1h34
Directed by Rowland V. Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, Wally Albright, O. P. Heggie, Paul Fix, Murray Kinnell

Flamboyant Zani (Raymond) is a kindly young man who grew up entirely and works in the zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals, and indeed Zani has been chastised by his boss for being too nice to them. From the fashionable women visitors who wear them, Zani steals their animal furs.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes (1932)
, 1h8
Directed by William K. Howard, Philip Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Clive Brook, Alan Mowbray, Reginald Owen, Ernest Torrence, Roy D'Arcy, Herbert Mundin

Le film débute à Londres, où le professeur Moriarty (Ernest Torrence) vient d'être arrêté grâce à la perspicacité de Sherlock Holmes (Clive Brook). Au tribunal, Moriarty prononce un discours dans lequel il promet que les trois personnes impliquées dans sa condamnation mourront avant lui : le juge Erskin, le colonel Gore-King et Sherlock Holmes. Pendant ce temps, Holmes prévoit de commencer une nouvelle vie à la ferme avec sa fiancée Alice Faulkner.
Call Her Savage
Call Her Savage (1932)

Directed by John Francis Dillon
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd, Estelle Taylor, Monroe Owsley, Willard Robertson

A wild young woman, born and raised in Texas, rebels against the man she believes to be her father. Moving to Chicago, she marries badly, loses her child in a boardinghouse fire, is nearly forced to become a prostitute, and is renounced by her father, who tells her he never wishes to see her again.
Chandu the Magician
Chandu the Magician (1932)
, 1h14
Directed by Marcel Varnel, William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Henry B. Walthall, Irene Ware, Herbert Mundin, Nigel De Brulier

Frank Chandler had learned eastern magics from the Yogis in India and is now known as Chandu. He has the power to teleport, astral project, mesmerize, as well as project illusions. With these supernatural abilities he has been entrusted to "go forth with his youth and strength to conquer the evil that threatens mankind." Specifically, an Egyptian villain known as Roxor, played by Bela Lugosi. Roxor kidnaps Chandu's brother-in-law, Robert Regent, an inventor who has developed a death ray with a range that covers half way round the world. Chandu must use his entire bag of tricks to rescue not only his brother-in-law but his sister and their children, whom Roxor has kidnapped in order to compel Regent into revealing the secrets of the death ray. Chandu's sweetheart Egyptian Princess Nadji also gets kidnapped, leaving Chandu to ponder whom to rescue first. Using his Yogi abilities, Chandu makes daring escapes, including one from a submerged sarcophagus. Eventually he succeeds in rescuing everyone and mesmerizing Roxor long enough to destroy the death ray and the villain's entire lair.
Disorderly Conduct
Disorderly Conduct (1932)
, 1h22
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Spencer Tracy, Sally Eilers, El Brendel, Dickie Moore, Ralph Bellamy, Ralph Morgan

The movie stars Spencer Tracy as a policeman who becomes involved with a young woman (Sally Eilers) after clashing with her politician father (Ralph Morgan).
Wild Girl
Wild Girl (1932)
, 1h18
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette, Irving Pichel, Minna Gombell

Salomy Jane, un garçon manqué, vit avec son père Madison Clay à Redwood City, une petite ville dans la Sierra Nevada. Un jour, alors qu'elle est dans la même diligence que Phineas Baldwin, un puritain hypocrite qui veut se faire élire maire de Redwood, il cherche à profiter d'elle. Plus tard, un homme, surnommé l'Étranger, arrive en ville à la recherche de Baldwin qui est responsable du suicide de sa sœur...