John G. Adolfi

Montgomery Royale. He returns to New York with this sister, friend Mildred and fiancée Grace. He becomes philanthropic, using binoculars and lip reading to decide what anonymous gifts to bestow on strangers. He sees Grace tell her love Howard that she must stay with him because of his deafness. Moved, he asks her to break their engagement. He then donates a pipe organ to a needy church and is joined at the dedication by Mildred. (imdb)

Shoe manufacturer John Reeves turns his business over to his conceited nephew when his rival dies. On vacation, he runs into his rivals heirs who are living it up on their dead father's money. Reeves gets hired by them and uses the chance to reorganize their shoe company, becoming a rival or his own nephew. The ne'er-do-wells settle down and become involved in the business. (imdb)

A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly. (imdb)

Ma Delano (LaVerne) runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons (Cagney & Gallagher) and daughter (Knapp.) Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up. (imdb)

Rick and Dot, two penniless New Yorkers, get mixed up with a mostly-blind policeman, a small-time hood scheming to steal the proceeds of a local charity benefit, and an escaped lunatic ex-lion tamer.

One of George Arliss' "smaller" vehicles, The King's Vacation casts the eminent British stage star (always billed as "Mr. George Arliss") as an abdicating monarch. Seeking the simple life, he comes to America in search of the wife (Marjorie Gateson) he'd been forced to divorce years earlier in order keep his crown. Upon locating her, Arliss discovers that his ex-wife has remarried into wealth, and is now better off than he's ever been. (allrovi.com)

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children (Peggy and Eddie). To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. (imdb)

Voltaire uses the death of the Count De Calas to raise rebellion against the King.

With the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, General George Washington took Colonel Hamilton with him into the newly formed government. While the main disagreements in the early days was over paying the soldiers who had fought in the War, Hamilton also dedicated his energies towards a national bank so that the United States would be able to trade with other countries. He fought eight long years for his Assumption Bill while considering the new Residence Bill. (imdb)

It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. But also appear actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway and of course the German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts. (imdb)

In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. (imdb)

Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time. (imdb)

A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers. (imdb)

A judge's daughter spurns his wealthy lifestyle and goes to do social work in poorer neighborhoods. There she meets a boxer contending for a championship.

A 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.

Marie Devere (Mae Busch) and Helen Gray (Duane Thompson) are two sophisticated, gold-digging chorus girls on the look-out to marry a rich man, who measure the men they meet by their Bradshaw ratings. They befriend Lettie Crain (Jean Arthur), a country girl who comes near being deceived by Bartley Mortimer, a rich playboy. She is saved by another girl, Cynthia Kane (Mildred Harris), whose life Mortimer has ruined , and Lettie finds happiness with Bob Garrett, a poor but honest working man.