Wallace Beery Movies

Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.

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

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.

After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father...

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Two firemen must put up with a variety of travails in their job, especially their chief's spoiled and bratty daughter, who keeps turning in false...

As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their...

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton....

An American girl who helps operate a Shanghai opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to...

A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large...

An American who has lived much of his life outside the country returns to Arizona for the first time in years and encounters villainy.

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.

An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at...