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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 source
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 source
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, …
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 …
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 …
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! source
Stars: Ron Randell, Devera Burton, Trevor Bardette Director: Leon Leonard Writers: George Green, Leon Leonard The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol. source
Stars: Michael O’Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen Director: Alfred Santell Writers: Charmian London (book), Ernest Pascal (screenplay) Episodes in the adventurous life of the American novelist, Jack London (1876-1916). source
When she was a little girl, she saw her father gunned down right in front of her. When she got older, she was tricked into taking the rap for a hit-and-run committed by her boyfriend. The experience left her bitter and so she puts her efforts into becoming a crime-boss. Also known as Paper Bullets. …
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They Made Me a Criminal is a 1939 American Warner Bros. drama crime film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, and The Dead End Kids. It is a remake of the 1933 film The Life of Jimmy Dolan. The film was later featured in an episode of Cinema Insomnia. Portions of …
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