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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
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 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 …
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 …
Read More ““The Mouthpiece” by Frank Collins – 1932 pre-code corrupt courtroom drama”
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. source
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 …
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