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08 February 1930
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him.
11 November 1928
Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left instructions that The Boy is to be delivered to the home of Captain Fairchild (Bert Woodruff) the father's old sailing master, along with $25,000 in cash to finance the boy's education.
13 July 1933
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
11 April 1937
Not quite a western, not quite a historical drama, Under Strange Flags is a little bit of both, and a lot of former RKO Radio cowboy hero Tom Keene.
11 June 1931
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
22 June 1929
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
15 April 1933
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
15 September 1932
A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.
04 May 1930
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through.
30 June 1929
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star.
10 March 1929
Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father.
20 October 1928
Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians.
10 January 1930
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
26 December 1933
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus.
25 January 1931
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
06 June 1931
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
18 July 1937
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families.
09 April 1932
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
20 April 1935
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.
06 October 1933
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
04 November 1936
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash.
04 April 1931
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime.
31 August 1934
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas.
05 December 1937
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.
11 March 1938
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
29 April 1933
Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, where his naivete and arrogance soon put his relationship and career into jeopardy.
27 December 1934
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
28 July 1934
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again.
17 July 1935
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke).
15 February 1931
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line.
06 May 1933
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
01 March 1932
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder.
23 November 1935
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
01 October 1934
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
08 September 1933
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws.
08 November 1930
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A.
26 October 1930
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting decorated by the French Minister of War.
15 June 1930
A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spouse.
05 November 1937
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain.
13 September 1930
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.
13 October 1928
Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills.
04 March 1936
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
25 March 1933
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
15 June 1931
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.
25 February 1933
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
24 September 1932
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
26 January 1938
A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receives attention, especially from Ann, the warden's daughter who leads the prison glee club.
20 April 1930
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
23 August 1935
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
10 July 1937
Set in the post-WWI days in the Siberian tank town of Skzavoskanoff, U. S. Army Sergeant Chuck Connors and Private Jiimy Barton are charged with upholding the principles of American Democracy in the face of the exotic charms of Olga, and a dastardly plot by the phony General Stavinski and his treacherous aide.
02 March 1929
It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago hitman.
13 March 1932
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable.
21 September 1937
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers.
22 July 1933
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony.
01 January 1934
A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.
22 December 1933
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca.
19 October 1930
Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers that were separated in infancy. Bob is raised by a rich lawyer, has all the advantages, but is a drunk with no moral character.
14 October 1932
Bill Bronson is a likable young bank clerk, whose congenital thirst for liquor is kept under control until he joins his wife Mary at getting blotto at a company party.
06 September 1931
After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicago gang war.
20 March 1936
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.