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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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City Girl
City Girl (1930)
, 1h17
Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Anne Shirley, David Torrence, Edith Yorke, Tom McGuire

The city girl Kate falls in love with farmer Lem. He takes Kate to his family farm but Kate has trouble being accepted by the family.
Up the River
Up the River (1930)
, 1h32
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart, Steve Pendleton, William Collier Sr.

Two convicts, St. Louis (Spencer Tracy) and Dannemora Dan (Warren Hymer) befriend another convict named Steve (Humphrey Bogart), who is in love with woman's-prison inmate Judy (Claire Luce). Steve is paroled, promising Judy that he will wait for her release five months later. He returns to his hometown in New England and his mother's home.
The Big Trail
The Big Trail (1930)
, 2h5
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Tyrone Power Sr., El Brendel, Tyrone Power, Tully Marshall

A large caravan of settlers attempt to cross the Oregon Trail. Breck Coleman (John Wayne) is a young trapper who just got back to Missouri from his travels near Santa Fe, seeking to avenge the death of an old trapper friend who was killed the winter before along the Santa Fe Trail for his furs, by Red Flack (Tyrone Power, Sr.) and his minion Lopez (Charles Stevens). At a large trading post owned by a man named Wellmore, Coleman sees Flack and suspects him right away as being one of the killers. Flack likewise suspects Coleman as being somebody who knows too much about the killing. Coleman is asked by a large group of settlers to scout their caravan west, and declines, until he learns that Flack and Lopez were just hired by Wellmore to boss a bull train along the as-yet-unblazed Oregon Trail to a trading post north of Oregon, owned by another Missouri fur trader. Coleman agrees to scout for the train, so he can keep an eye on the villains and kill them as soon as they reach their destination. The caravan of settlers in their Prairie schooners would follow Wellmore's ox-drawn train of Conestoga Wagons, as the first major group of settlers to move west on the Oregon Trail. The action takes place between 1837 and 1845. This is historically accurate, as the first major wave of settlers on the Oregon Trail was in 1843, although the details were completely different.
Cheer Up and Smile
Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
, 1h16
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Arthur Lake, Dixie Lee, Olga Baclanova, Johnny Arthur, Charles Judels, John Darrow

Pour parfaire l'initiation qui lui permettra d'intégrer une fraternité, Eddie Fripp doit donner un coup de pied au premier homme qu'il rencontre, ce sera un des professeurs, et embrasser la première femme, ce sera une étudiante. Cela cause à la fois son renvoi de l'université et la colère de sa petite amie Margie, qui l'a vu embrasser l'étudiante. Il se rend alors à New York où il trouve du travail comme chanteur au Café Pierre. Une nuit, lors d'un cambriolage, Whispering Jack Smith est mis KO et Eddie est forcé de prendre sa place au micro. Sa voix fait sensation, il devient célèbre et se réconcilie avec Margie.
High Society Blues
High Society Blues (1930)
, 1h42
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, William Collier Sr, William Collier Sr., Hedda Hopper, Joyce Compton

The film's storyline and soundtrack plays like an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies Tv show. A new country family comes to live amongst established wealthy neighbors. Hopper later made guest appearances on the Beverly Hillbillies Tv show.
The Last of the Duanes
The Last of the Duanes (1930)
, 54minutes
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors George O'Brien, Lucile Browne, Myrna Loy, William Farnum, Walter McGrail, Clara Blandick

De retour au pays, Buck Duane découvre que son père a été assassiné. Il trouve le meurtrier et cherche à se venger.
Rough Romance
Rough Romance (1930)
, 55minutes
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors George O'Brien, Helen Chandler, Antonio Moreno, Roy Stewart, Harry Cording, Roy Stewart

Working as lumberjacks in the Northwest, Billy West (George O'Brien) and his pal Laramie (Eddie Borden) spy two men stealing furs from a trap, but they arrive too late to save the trap owner from being shot. Billy suspects Loup LaTour (Antonio Moreno) and his partner Chick Carson (Harry Cording).
Just Imagine
Just Imagine (1930)
, 1h49
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Mars in film, Aviation films, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Musical films, Space opera
Actors El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick, Marjorie White, Frank Albertson, Hobart Bosworth

In 1980, J-21 (John Garrick) sets his aircraft on "hover" mode in New York, lands and converses with the beautiful LN-18 (Maureen O'Sullivan). He describes how the marriage tribunal had refused to consider J-21's marital filing and applications, and LN-18 is going to be forced to marry the conceited and mean MT-3 (Kenneth Thomson). J-21 plans to visit LN-18 that night.
Soup to Nuts
Soup to Nuts (1930)
, 1h10
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Buddy films, Disaster films
Actors Ted Healy, Charles Winninger, Lucile Browne, Hallam Cooley, Shemp Howard, Moe Howard

Ted Healy is a salesman for the Schmidt Costume Shop who likes to hang out at the fire station where Moe (billed as "Harry Howard"), Larry and Shemp (along with Fred Sanborn) work. Old man Schmidt spends more time building crazy inventions (typical of devices by writer/cartoonist Rube Goldberg) than tending to his business; as a consequence he is bankrupt and his business is taken over by his creditors, who send a young man named Carlson to manage the business. Carlson immediately falls for Mr. Schmidt's niece, Louise, but she resists him.
The River
The River (1929)
, 1h24
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Ivan Linow, Margaret Mann, Bert Woodruff

Allen John Spender (Charles Farrell) is a virile outdoorsman and Rosalee (Mary Duncan) is his high society sweetheart.