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When Steve Maxwell and flapper Sue Randall wreck her father's automobile during a drunken escapade, her father exploits the mishap and blackmails Steve's father into supporting an illegal contract in city affairs.

The period between the end of World War I and the crash of 1929 is known as the Jazz Age in America, a time of high-energy nightclubs, wild Prohibition evasion and an "America first" attitude. Narrated by Fred Allen. Note: Originally part of Project XX, this film was also distributed separately on 16mm for schools and libraries, qualifying it as a standalone documentary.

Some of the greatest jazz legends of all time shine in this collection of vintage performance footage culled from the vaults of major Hollywood studios and presented for your enjoyment. Highlights include Cab Calloway's "Smokey Joe," Duke Ellington's "Stormy Weather," Louis Armstrong's "That's Why They Call Me Shine," the Mills Brothers' "I Ain't Got Nobody" and the Dorsey Brothers' "John Silver."

A short look back on the legacy of Rudolph Valentino, produced by Castle Films for the home gauge market. Multiple versions of the short film exist- one with spoken narration and music, and one in silent form. Reportedly a big moneymaker for Castle-- and proof of Valentino's lasting appeal.

Queens of the Stone Age live @ Montreux Jazz Festival, 08/07/2018. 00:00 Intro 1 - Singin' in the Rain 00:37 Intro 2 - A Clockwork Orange theme by Wendy Carlos 01:52 A Song for the Deaf 07:21 Sick, Sick, Sick 11:18 Feet Don't Fail Me 19:15 The Way You Used to Do 24:14 You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire 26:56 No One Knows (30:37 Jon Theodore solo) 34:21 The Evil Has Landed 41:58 In the Fade (dedicated to Natasha Shneider) 46:28 My God Is the Sun 51:56 Burn The Witch 59:08 Domesticated Animals 01:04:08 Make It Wit Chu 01:11:42 Head Like a Haunted House 01:15:08 If I Had a Tail (01:19:35 Homme solo) 01:20:27 Villains of Circumstance 01:28:41 Little Sister 01:32:30 Go With the Flow 01:38:40 A Song for the Dead Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Dean Fertita, Jon Theodore and Michael Shuman. Concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvQi9chQZqs

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white.

When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)

Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of, but, so far, her aunts haven't approved of any man she knows. Ann tries to get a bashful hotel clerk to marry her in name only, and then get a divorce, but he refuses to because he is in love with her. Her cousin then brings in another clerk and Ann now has two men on her hands. Ann now wants to marry the first clerk, having discovered she also loves him, but the aunts object. She then hires two gigolos to charm her aunts into a compromising situation.

Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.

The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.

A jeremiad against intemperance, jazz music, and abortion, set on a train filled with unrepentant sinners hurtling toward damnation.

FOR MY SISTERS is a movie about black culture or rather: black women, specifially: a movie about black singers. Alberta Hunter, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Nina Simone. They are the four "Big Sisters", singer Carole Alston follows through to the age of jazz. Alston, "a voice as dark and sweet as molasses", as described by the Financial Times, was born in Washington, DC and has been living in Vienna for almost 30 years. She is sure: "Those four icons help you explain what jazz is and even the history of jazz right along."

Mrs. Katherine Manners loves her three grown daughters who are in boarding school. When she plans a party for them at home, they phone from the school that they cannot come because they are too busy. But she hears the sounds of a party in the background, so she goes to the school where she finds her daughters with young men. She is told that two of the daughters plan to be married, while the third plans to marry Grantland Dobbs as soon as he gets a divorce, and the mother is frightened by this announcement. She goes abroad and returns with a man, gets an apartment at a wealthy center, and lives with him. Her daughters are shocked when the mother entertains guests at drinking parties. When Mrs. Manners proves to her daughters that their fiancées are not respectable, she reveals to them that she was acting a part just to prove to them that she was right about their chosen mates. She reveals that the man she was living with was her cousin.