Hello! Our Classic Movie starring the suave, debonair and highly intelligent William Powell is called, “The Quarry” or “Shadow of the Law”. I hope you enjoy this most recent, 1930 installment in my William Powell Playlist!
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Cast
William Powell as Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson
Marion Shilling as Edith Wentworth
Natalie Moorhead as Ethel Barry aka Ethel George
Regis Toomey as Tom Owens
Paul Hurst as Pete Shore
George Irving as Colonel Wentworth
Frederick Burt as Detective Lt. Mike Kearney
James Durkin as Prison Warden
Richard Tucker as Lew Durkin
Walter James as Captain of the Guards
If you like this movie and our channel, please subscribe: https://goo.gl/0qDmXe | Lady Gangster is a Film Noir movie directed by Robert Florey, credited as “Florian Roberts”. It is based on the play “Gangstress”, or “Women in Prison” by Dorothy Mackaye, who had spent ten months of a one-to-three-years sentence in San Quentin State Prison. “Lady Gangster” is a remake of the pre-Code film “Ladies They Talk About” (1933). Jackie Gleason plays a supporting role.
The movie is about Dorothy “Dot” Burton (Faye Emerson), who is a member of a gang of bank robbers. Using her femininity and a cute dog provided her by her male cohorts who dognapped him, she is able to enter a bank before opening time, leaving the door open and the bank guard holding her dog, thus enabling a successful robbery. When police interfere with the getaway she faints and proclaims her innocence, however the police have strong doubts as “her” dog won’t come to her and has a different name on his collar than what she calls him. After she confesses to her part in the robbery, she is sent to women’s prison where she makes enemies of fellow inmates seeking Dot’s share of the money.
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Directed by Robert Florey, produced by William Jacobs , screenplay by Anthony Coldeway, based on “Women in Prison 1932 play
by Dorothy Mackaye, starring Faye Emerson as Dorothy Drew Burton, Julie Bishop as Myrtle Reed, Frank Wilcox as Kenneth Phillips, Roland Drew as Carey Wells, Jackie Gleason as Wilson, Ruth Ford as Lucy Fenton, Virginia Brissac as Mrs. Stoner, Dorothy Vaughan as Matron Jenkins, Dorothy Adams as Deaf Annie, William Hopper as John, Vera Lewis as Ma Silsby, Herbert Rawlinson as Lewis Sinton, Charles C. Wilson as Detective, Frank Mayo as Walker, Leah Baird as Matron, Jack Mower as Police Sergeant.
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If you like this movie and our channel, please subscribe: https://goo.gl/0qDmXe | Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It” is a British detective film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert and Edward Chapman. It was the third and final film adaptation of the Inspector Hornleigh stories.
It was released in America by 20th-Century Fox under the title “Mail Train”.
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Directed by Walter Forde, produced by Edward Black , written by Val Guest, Frank Launder, J.O.C. Orton and Hans Wolfgang Priwin (radio series), starring Gordon Harker as Inspector Hornleigh, Alastair Sim as Sergeant Bingham, Phyllis Calvert as Mrs. Wilkinson, Edward Chapman as Mr. Blenkinsop, Charles Oliver as Dr. Wilkinson, Raymond Huntley as Dr. Kerbishley, Percy Walsh as Inspector Blow, David Horne as Commissioner, Peter Gawthorne as Colonel, Wally Patch as Sergeant Major, Betty Jardine as Daisy, O. B. Clarence as Professor Mackenzie, John Salew as Mr. Tomboy, Cyril Cusack as Postal Sorter, Bill Shine as Hotel Porter, Sylvia Cecil, Edward Underdown, Marie Makine and Richard Cooper.
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Shadow of the Thin Man 1941
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Shadow of the Thin Man is the fourth of the six The Thin Man films. It was released in 1941 and was directed by W. S. Van Dyke. It stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. Also, in this film their son Nick Jr. (Dickie Hall) is old enough to figure in the comic subplot. Other cast members include Donna Reed and Barry Nelson. This was one of three films in which Stella Adler appeared.
Plot
Nick and Nora Charles are looking forward to a relaxing day at a racetrack, but when a jockey accused of throwing a race is found shot to death, Police Lieutenant Abrams requests Nick’s help. The trail leads to a gambling syndicate that operates out of a wrestling arena, a murdered reporter, and a pretty secretary whose boyfriend has been framed. Along the way, Nick and Nora must contend with a wild wrestling match, a dizzying day at a merry-go-round (accompanied by Nick, Jr.), and a table-clearing restaurant brawl.
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
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A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother’s help in hiding the body, and then watches as the brother becomes the prime suspect.
Director: Fritz Lang
Writers: Mel Dinelli (screenplay), A.P. Herbert (novel)
Stars: Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt………….IMDb
If you like this movie and our channel, please subscribe: https://goo.gl/0qDmXe | The movie “Little Lord Fauntleroy” is a 1936 drama film based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, and C. Aubrey Smith. The first film produced by David O. Selznick’s Selznick International Pictures, it was the studio’s most profitable film until Gone With the Wind. The film is directed by John Cromwell.
Plot: Young Cedric “Ceddie” Errol (Freddie Bartholomew) and his widowed mother, whom he calls “Dearest” (Dolores Costello), live frugally in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric’s prejudiced English grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt (C. Aubrey Smith), had long ago disowned his son for marrying an American.
The earl sends his lawyer Havisham (Henry Stephenson) to bring Ceddie to England. As the earl’s sons are all dead, Ceddie is the heir to the title. Mrs. Errol accompanies her son to England, but is not allowed to live at Dorincourt castle. For Cedric’s happiness, she does not tell him it is because of his grandfather’s bigotry. The earl’s lawyer is impressed with the young widow’s wisdom. However, the earl expresses skepticism when Mr. Havisham informs him that Cedric’s mother will not accept an allowance from him.
Cedric soon wins the hearts of his stern grandfather and everyone else. The earl hosts a grand party to proudly introduce his grandson to British society, notably his sister Lady Constantia Lorridaile (Constance Collier).
After the party, Havisham informs the Earl that Cedric is not the heir apparent after all. American Minna Tipton (Helen Flint) insists her son Tom (Jackie Searl) is the offspring of her late husband, the earl’s eldest son. Heartbroken, the earl accepts her apparently valid claim, though Tom proves to be a rather obnoxious lad.
Fortunately for Ceddie, his friend Dick Tipton (Mickey Rooney) recognises Minna from her newspaper picture. He takes his brother Ben, Tom’s real father, to England and disproves Minna’s claim. The earl apologises to Ceddie’s mother and invites her to live with the delighted Ceddie on his estate.
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Directed by John Cromwell, produced y David O. Selznick, screenplay by Hugh Walpole, based on the novel “Little Lord Fauntleroy”
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, starring Freddie Bartholomew as Cedric “Ceddie” Errol Lord Fauntleroy, Dolores Costello Barrymore as “Dearest” Errol, C. Aubrey Smith as the Earl of Dorincourt, Guy Kibbee as Mister Silas Hobbs, Henry Stephenson as Mister Havisham, Mickey Rooney as Dick Tipton, a Brooklyn bootblack, Una O’Connor as Mary, the Errols’ servant, Constance Collier as Lady Constantia Lorridaile, Dorincourt’s sister, Jackie Searl as Tom Tipton, Jessie Ralph as the Applewoman from Brooklyn, Helen Flint as Minna Tipton, Walter Kingsford as Mister Joshua Snade, Minna’s lawyer, E. E. Clive as Sir Harry Lorridaile, Constancia’s husband, Ivan F. Simpson as Reverend Mordaunt, Virginia Field as Miss Herbert, singer at party and Eric Alden as Ben Tipton, Dick’s brother.
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