A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
It’s Never Too Late to Mend (1937) David MacDonald, Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey, Marjorie Taylor
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned. Read More »
Marked Woman (1937) Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane
In this roman-a-clef for the infamous Lucky Luciano Trial, Mary Dwight and four roommates work Read More »
The Personality Kid (1934) Alan Crosland, Pat O’Brien, Glenda Farrell, Claire Dodd
Ritzy McCarty is a fighter managed by his wife Joan, who wants him only to fight until Read More »
Outside the Law (1930) Tod Browning, Mary Nolan, Edward G. Robinson, Owen Moore
Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins’ territory. Read More »
The Ruling Voice (1931) Rowland V. Lee, Walter Huston, Loretta Young, Dudley Digges
For the love and respect of his daughter, a crime boss reconsiders his involvement in the extortion racket he’s built. Read More »
Holiday (1938) George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan
Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire’s daughter. Read More »
Trade Winds (1938) Tay Garnett, Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy
Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. Read More »
That Certain Woman (1937) Edmund Goulding, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise
Mary Donnell was married at sixteen to a gangster and soon widowed. Read More »
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) Busby Berkeley, John Garfield, Claude Rains, The ‘Dead End’ Kids
Johnnie is a boxer. The same evening he won the world championship, he is charged for the murder of a reporter and is taken for dead. Read More »
Amateur Crook (1937) Sam Katzman, Bruce Bennett, Joan Barclay, Monte Blue
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks Read More »
Paddy ODay (1936) Lewis Seiler, Jane Withers, Pinky Tomlin, Rita Hayworth
Withers is an immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Read More »
Hooray for Love (1935) Walter Lang, Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Bill Robinson
Young would-be producer Doug Tyler meets singer Pat Thatcher twice, and makes the wrong impression both times. Read More »
Rumba (1935) Marion Gering, George Raft, Carole Lombard, Lynne Overman
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show. Read More »
Blockade (1938) William Dieterle, Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Read More »