Lucien Littlefield

A 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Ted Wilde and starring Charles Murray as Michael Clancy, a plumber who accidentally purchases stocks that quickly rise in value, leading him to crash high society. Aggie Herring plays Mrs. Clancy and Lucien Littlefield plays Andy MacIntosh. The film was also known as Clancy Caught Short and was described as the first comedy about the stock market crash. It was the last film for director Ted Wilde, who died in December 1929 after suffering a paralytic stroke during filming. Edward F. Cline was hired to direct the unfinished scenes. The film is in the public domain.

Comedy

Insurance salesman Albert Tuttle arrives at the Rutherford mansion to sell a policy — only to find his prospect already dead, the heirs locked in by a will that won't be read until the body is entombed, and the corpse itself refusing to stay put. Jack Haley plays the jittery Tuttle, with Bela Lugosi in a red-herring role as the sinister butler, plus secret passages and a disappearing body. A Pine-Thomas production for Paramount, directed by Frank McDonald. It is in the public domain after its copyright was not renewed.

Comedy · Horror · Mystery

Larry Elliot, a timid chess columnist who covers murders for a newspaper, flees to Grape City to escape a gangster's threats — only to land in a haunted-house mystery involving a stolen jade chess set, a missing corpse, and a fortune hidden in a creepy mansion. Jack Haley, the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz, plays the jittery reporter alongside Ann Savage and Barton MacLane. A Pine-Thomas production for Paramount, also released as Treasure of Fear. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Comedy · Mystery · Horror

A respectable but dull husband divorces his prudish wife and marries a vivacious younger woman, only for his ex-wife to transform herself into a glamorous flapper to win him back. Cecil B. DeMille's social comedy starring Gloria Swanson. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Comedy · Drama · Romance

Zorro's Black Whip is a 1944 Republic Pictures serial in twelve chapters, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Wallace Grissell. Despite the title, the hero is not Zorro but a masked woman called the Black Whip, played by Linda Stirling. She is Barbara Meredith, a newspaper proprietress in the Idaho Territory who takes up the mask of her murdered brother to fight a villain trying to block statehood and seize control of the region. Republic could not license the Zorro character itself but used the name to capitalize on the 1940 Fox remake of The Mark of Zorro. The serial is in the public domain.

Western · Action · Serial