Cliff Saum Movies

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

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the...

A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to...

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier...

A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With...

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal...

A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.

A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up...

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's...

Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.

An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens...

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.