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Strictly Unconventional (1930) David Burton, Catherine Dale Owen, Paul Cavanagh, Tyrell Davis
Elizabeth, the wife of ambitious and foppish Clive Champion-Cheney, finds her marriage Read More »
Let’s Fall in Love (1933) David Burton, Edmund Lowe, Ann Sothern, Miriam Jordan
A Hollywood director finds himself in trouble when his last Swedish discovery steps out of the ongoing shooting. Read More »
The Bishop Murder Case (1930) David Burton, Nick Grinde, Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart Read More »
Dancers in the Dark (1932) David Burton, Miriam Hopkins, Jack Oakie, William Collier Jr.
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. Read More »
Fighting Caravans (1931) Otto Brower, David Burton, Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Romance, Western
A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love. Read More »
Brief Moment (1933) David Burton, Carole Lombard, Gene Raymond, Donald Cook, Drama
A dissolute rich society boy marries a worldly nightclub singer, and she begins to have a wholly unexpected effect on him. Read More »
Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931) David Burton, Dudley Murphy, Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Norman Foster, Drama
A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn’t love. Read More »
The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk (1940) David Burton, Lloyd Nolan, Jean Rogers, Richard Clarke, Crime, Drama
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. Read More »
Lady by Choice (1934) David Burton, Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Fan dancer Alabam Lee is convicted of breaching the morals code with her racy shows. Her agent has her adopt a “mother” from an old ladies home as a publicity ploy to improve her image. Alabam chooses Patricia”Patsy” Patterson, a drunk and disorderly street lady with a past. Patsy has a protector in Johnny Mills, the lawyer son of her old flame. When Johnny comes to visit Patsy he meets Alabam and the two eventually fall in love. Both Patsy and the everpresent Judge Daly think that Alabam is golddigging for Johnny’s money and their attempts to break things up puts the relationship on shaky ground.
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