The Crime Doctor must prove the innocence of a young man with a reputation for using poison. Read More »
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No Place to Go (1939) Terry O. Morse, Dennis Morgan, Gloria Dickson, Fred Stone
Andrew Plummer is content living in an old soldiers home, but he agrees to move in with his son Read More »
King of the Lumberjacks (1940) William Clemens, John Payne, Gloria Dickson, Stanley Fields
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss’s wife. Read More »
The Cowboy Quarterback (1939) Noel M. Smith, Bert Wheeler, Marie Wilson, Gloria Dickson
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Read More »
I Want a Divorce (1940) Ralph Murphy, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Gloria Dickson
Alan and Geraldine MacNally are a married couple, who are doubting if they did the right thing by marrying each other. Read More »
Heart of the North (1938) Lewis Seiler, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson, Gale Page
Cpl. Jim of the R.C.M.P. is taking his daughter Julie to school in Edmonton on the Arctic Queen. Read More »
Private Detective (1939) Noel M. Smith, Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson
Private detective “Jinx” Wilsnow is working on the case of a divorcée who is accused of murdering her ex-husband. Read More »
Tear Gas Squad (1940) Terry O. Morse, Dennis Morgan, John Payne, Gloria Dickson
Druggist Joe McCabe foils a robbery, and his brother Tommy decides to join the state police in order to impress Joe Read More »
Power of the Press (1943) Lew Landers, Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper’s policy and support the US war effort. Read More »
They Won’t Forget (1937) Mervyn LeRoy, Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary’s teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
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The Big Boss (1941) Charles Barton, Otto Kruger, Gloria Dickson, John Litel
The Big Boss is Jim Maloney (Otto Kruger), who pulls all the political strings in an unnamed major metropolis. Maloney’s chief antagonist is scrupulously honest “reform” governor Bob Dugan (John Litel). The fact that Maloney and Dugan are actually brothers, orphaned in childhood and raised separately, adds both texture and poignancy to their current adversarial relationship. Intending to reveal his fraternal ties to Dugan at a crucial moment in the latter’s anti-corruption campaign, Maloney is ultimately defeated by the forces of Righteousness. Outside of the always dependable Otto Kruger and John Litel, the film’s best performance is delivered by the underrated Gloria Dickson as a fairly realistic newspaperwoman.
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