Betty Compson Movies

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her?...

A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long...

Skin Deep is a 1929 American talking drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by the Warner...

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life.

A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a...

Try & Helpus are two junk dealers, who have to raise five hundred to pay the rent which the villainous landlord demands. Various times the five...

In ancient Egypt, Queen Neco Tokris angers the high priest by falling in love with a minor cleric. The high priest arranges for his rival to be...

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

Life's Mockery is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Betty Compson.

A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes...

On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently...

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals...

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.