A classic “B” featurette about “smugglin’ in Chinamen for $300 a load”
Director: Burt P. Lynwood
Writers: Louis E. Heifetz (story), Charles F. Royal (adaptation)
Stars: Esther Ralston, Regis Toomey, J. Farrell MacDonald
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Author: womo
Below the Deadline (1936) Free Old Romance Movies Full Length
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Director: Charles Lamont
Writer: Ewart Adamson (story)
Stars: Cecilia Parker, Russell Hopton, Theodore von Eltz
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The Marines Are Coming (1934) Free Old Romance Movies Full Length
When Lt. “Wild Bill” Traynor, bad boy of the Marine Corps, arrives at a San Diego Marine Base, he is surprised to discover he has been assigned to duty under his old rival, Captain Benton …
Director: David Howard
Writers: Colbert Clark (story), James Gruen (screenplay),
Stars: William Haines, Conrad Nagel, Esther Ralston
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Behind Stone Walls (1932) CRIME THRILLER
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Writer: George B. Seitz (story)
Stars: Edward J. Nugent, Priscilla Dean, Ann Christy
Priscilla Dean was one of the major star names of the early 1920s.Here she plays an adulterous wife who kills her lover. Eddie Nugent, Dean’s loyal stepson, confesses to the crime himself and is carted off to prison, but eventually the real murderer’s conscious gets the better of her.
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Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941) DRAMA
Stars: Mamie Smith, Alec Lovejoy, Norman Astwood
Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Writers: Frank Wilson (story), Vincent Valentini
Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Marshall…who wants revenge; and Pa’s ward Jim Bracton, a two-timing Romeo whose affairs are coming to a crisis. And hanging around is Marshall’s murderous junkie henchman, Lomax. Will it all end in someone’s being killed?
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“The Mouthpiece” by Frank Collins – 1932 pre-code corrupt courtroom drama
1932 pre-code Hollywood Legal Crime Drama about ethical quandaries faced by a rising young prosecutor Vince Day, a big city District Attorney, played by actor //arren WI££I/M who decides to become a defense attorney. The film follows the exploits of a lawyer who begins his career with good intentions and a bright insouciance, but takes an eventual slide down a slippery slope of moral turpitude in the pursuit of court room victories & hung juries for increasingly disreputable clientele.
At one point, heavy drinking attorney Day, ensconced in a bar room, says of his court room style: “Sensationalism. Ballyhoo. Barnum and Bailey. Give ’em a three-ring circus and toss in a little Houdini on the side. Give ’em a swell show and they won’t even stop to think.”
This classic black & white film also stars Sidney Fox as Southern accented love interest Celia Farraday, and Aline MacMahon as long suffering loyal secretary Miss Hickey. This story was loosely based on an actual infamous lawyer of the early 20th century, Fordham law graduate William Joseph Fallon, who represented many pimps, gangsters and a total of 120 homicide suspects who all escaped the electric chair with the help of “The Great Mouthpiece”.
Directed by James Flood & Elliott Nugent
Screenplay: Joseph Jackson (screenplay); Earl Baldwin (adaptation & dialogue); Frank J. Collins (stage play)
Cinematography: Barney McGill
Art Direction: Esdras Hartley
Film Editing: George Amy
remaining cast :
Johnny Morris . . . . . William Janney
Mr. Barton . . . . . John Wray
Gladys . . . . . Polly Walters
J. B Roscoe . . . . . Ralph Ince
Elaine . . . . . Mae Madison
Miss DeVere . . . . . Noel Francis
E.A Smith . . . . . Morgan Wallace
Bartender . . . . . Guy Kibbee
Tony . . . . . J. Carroll Naish
Forbes . . . . . Walter Walker
Garland . . . . . Jack LaRue
Mr. Pondapolis . . . . . Stanley Fields
Jarvis . . . . . Murray Kinnell
Wilson . . . . . Emerson Tracey
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Cowboy Counsellor (1932) HOOT GIBSON
Stars: Hoot Gibson, Sheila Bromley, Jack Rutherford
Director: George Melford
Writer: Jack Natteford (story)
A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.
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Mystery Ranch (1934) TOM TYLER
Stars: Tom Tyler, Roberta Gale, Louise Cabo
Director: Bernard B. Ray
Writers: Rose Gordon, J.K. Henry (story)
The famous western fiction writer Bob Morris arrives at the Henderson ranch. He quickly realizes the hanging, runaway horses, and the shootout are fakes for his benefit. But when a real robbery takes place he thinks it’s another fake.
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City Without Men (1943) LINDA DARNELL
Stars: Linda Darnell, Edgar Buchanan, Michael Duane
Director: Sidney Salkow
Writers: Martin Berkeley (story)
A young woman’s husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison where all the residents are the wives of inmates! YIKES
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Lady Luck (1936) DRAMA
Stars: Patricia Farr, William Bakewell, Lulu McConnell
Director: Charles Lamont
Writers: John W. Krafft (screenplay), Dorrell McGowan (story)
A manicurist is mistaken for the winner of a large sweepstakes and finds herself pursued by fortune hunters. But the real trouble begins when the real winner shows up!
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