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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.
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(1931)Filmography of Fox Film (385 films)
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Captain Lash (1929)
Directed by John G. Blystone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Victor McLaglen, Claire Windsor, Jane Winton, Clyde Wilfred Cook, Albert Conti, Arthur Stone
Lash is the head coal stoker on a steam ship whose shipmates have nicknamed "Captain". Lash somehow grabs the attention of society dame passenger Cora Nevins. Nevins is actually a jewel thief who's lifted diamonds from wealthy passenger Arthur Condrax. She needs Lash to aid in sneaking the "ice" ashore at Singapore. Cocky is Lash's concertina-playing buddy and uses it to signal Lash.
Girls Gone Wild (1929)
, 1hDirected by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sue Carol, William Russell, Louis Natheaux, Nick Stuart, Roy D'Arcy, Leslie Fenton
Masked Emotions (1929)
, 1hDirected by David Butler, Kenneth Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors George O'Brien, James Gordon, Nora Lane, J. Farrell MacDonald, Frank Hagney, Edward Peil Sr.
Set on the Maine coast, a young sloop skipper Bramdlet Dickery discovers a plot to smuggle alien Chinese into the United States. Bramdlet's younger brother Thad is enamored with daughter of the captain of the smuggling ship. A struggle over the smuggling ensues.
New Year's Eve (1929)
, 1h10Directed by Henry Lehrman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary Astor, Charles Morton, Earle Foxe, Florence Lake, Helen Ware, Arthur Stone
Saddled with the care of a younger brother and unable to find work, Marjorie Ware puts aside her scruples and goes to see a gambler who has long cast a lustful eye on her. A pickpocket kills the gambler, and the police find Marjorie at the scene of the crime, charging her with the murder. The pickpocket later falls to his death, however, and evidence is uncovered that sets Mary free, cleared of all suspicion of guilt in the gambler's death. Mary is then reunited with Edward Warren, a man who once did her a great kindness.
A Song of Kentucky (1929)
, 1h19Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Romance
Actors Dorothy Burgess, Lois Moran, Herman Bing, Hedda Hopper, Bert Woodruff
South Sea Rose (1929)
, 1h9Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on plays
Actors Lenore Ulric, Charles Bickford, Kenneth MacKenna, J. Farrell MacDonald, Elizabeth Patterson, Ilka Chase
The Valiant (1929)
, 1h6Directed by William K. Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Paul Muni, John Mack Brown, Marguerite Churchill, DeWitt Jennings, Henry Kolker, Edith Yorke
A man condemned to execution (Muni) tries to convince two women (Yorke and Churchill) and that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
Seven Faces (1929)
, 1h18Directed by Berthold Viertel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Eugenie Besserer, Russell Gleason, Salka Viertel
A common convention in the early decades of newspaper and magazine film reviews was to describe in the write-up the entire storyline including, in a substantial number of instances, the ending, thus unintentionally enabling subsequent generations of readers to reconstruct a lost film's contents. True to form, those who evaluated Seven Faces, such as Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times, did go into considerable detail regarding plot twists, as related herein below.
Not Quite Decent (1929)
, 58minutesDirected by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Louise Dresser, June Collyer, Allan Lane, Marjorie Beebe, Oscar Apfel
Romance of the Rio Grande (1929)
Directed by Alfred Santell
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Warner Baxter, Mona Maris, Mary Duncan, Antonio Moreno, Robert Edeson, Agostino Borgato
Four Sons (1928)
, 1h40Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about immigration, Political films, Children's films
Actors James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., George Meeker, June Collyer
Mother Bernle is a widow in Bavaria with four sons: Franz, Johann, Andreas and Joseph.
Street Angel (1928)
, 1h42Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Alberto Rabagliati, Guido Trento, Henry Armetta, Natalie Kingston
A spirited young woman (Gaynor) finds herself involved in illegal ways of gaining money to help pay for her ill mother's medicine. She is caught in the act, runs away from punishment, and finds her mother dead. Destitute and on the streets, she joins a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter (Farrell). Though they fall in love, her past won't leave her alone.
In Old Arizona (1928)
, 1h35Directed by Irving Cummings, Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess, Henry Armetta, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Arliss
The Cisco Kid is a gay caballero whose flair for dramatic thievery and penchant for dangerous trysts keep him just one step ahead of Sgt. Mickey Dunn. The Kid's reputation has preceded him when he approaches the local stagecoach, and he needs to fire only two warning shots to wrest the Wells Fargo box from the driver. His infatuation with a Mexican girl named Tonia María exposes him to near-capture, because of the señorita's double-dealing association with Dunn. Eventually, a showdown becomes imminent, and the Kid exacts a final revenge by framing Tonia so that Dunn shoots her by accident, while the Kid rides laughing off into the sunset.
4 Devils (1928)
, 1h40Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Circus films, Films about children
Actors Janet Gaynor, Charles Morton, Anders Randolf, Barry Norton, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Davis
The plot concerns four orphans (Janet Gaynor, Nancy Drexel, Barry Norton, and Charles Morton) who become a high wire act, and centers around sinister goings-on at a circus.
The Air Circus (1928)
, 1h58Directed by Howard Hawks, Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Arthur Lake, Sue Carol, Louise Dresser, Heinie Conklin, Charles Delaney, Virginia Cherrill
Deux jeunes hommes, "Speed" Doolittle et Buddy Blake, partent vers l'ouest pour devenir des pilotes. Ils rencontrent une aviatrice accomplie dans une école de pilotage d'un petit aéroport. Ils décident de prendre des cours avec elle. Cependant lors de son premier vol, Buddy est pris d'une crise de panique et se blesse grièvement.