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While the City Sleeps (1928) Jack Conway, Lon Chaney, Anita Page, Carroll Nye
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he’s been accused of Read More »
Honky Tonk (1941) Jack Conway, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Comedy, Crime, Drama
“Candy” Johnson, a excellent crook of the Wild West, decides to locate a city where he could grow to be a huge boss. Read More »
A Star is Born (1937) William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Drama
Esther Blodgett is another starry-eyed farm child trying to break into the films. Waitressing in a Hollywood party, she catches the attention of alcoholic star Norman Maine Read More »
Too Hot to Handle (1938) Jack Conway, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on the Chinese-Japanese war, he meets pilot Alma Harding. Read More »
The Gay Bride (1934) Jack Conway, Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Zasu Pitts, Comedy, Crime
Gangster Shoots Magiz is the producer of the show in which Mary is appearing. Read More »
The Nuisance (1933) Jack Conway, Lee Tracy, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways. Read More »
Untamed (1929) Jack Conway, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Drama
When her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company. Read More »
-But the Flesh Is Weak (1932) Jack Conway, Robert Montgomery, Nora Gregor, Heather Thatcher, Comedy
The Clements father and son live by the generosity of rich women. Max, the son, sets his sites on Lady Joan, who is rich, but down-to-earth and charming.
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Boom Town (1940) Jack Conway, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Buddies Big John McMasters and Square John Sand are fast-talking, wisecracking wildcatters who manage to con enough equipment and capital to develop their own oil fields, but their friendship is put to the test when Big John inadvertently falls in love with Elizabeth, Square John’s longtime girlfriend.
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Julia Misbehaves (1948) Jack Conway, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Comedy, Romance
1936. Julia Packett, a London chorus girl, is always in trouble financially, but she always seems to manage to land on her feet by using her feminine wiles to manipulate the men in her life with a smile on her and usually their faces.
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High Barbaree (1947) Jack Conway, Van Johnson, June Allyson, Thomas Mitchell, Action, Drama
Van Johnson is a navy pilot in WWII, who has been shot down in the Pacific on a bombing mission. He and a wounded comrade are the only survivors of the mission and are lost at sea. As they await rescue, Van Johnson recants his life’s story and romance with girlfriend, June Allyson. It’s a wonderful wholesome movie that the whole family will enjoy. Written by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the authors of Mutiny on the Bounty.
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Viva Villa! (1934) Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo, Biography, Western
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father’s death. In 1910, he befriends American reporter Johnny Sykes. Then a meeting with visionary Francisco Madero transforms Villa from an avenging bandit to a revolutionary general. To the tune of ‘La Cucaracha,’ his armies sweep Mexico. After victory, Villa’s bandit-like disregard for human life forces Madero to exile him. But Madero’s fall brings Villa back to raise the people against a new tyrant…
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Desire Me (1947) Jack Conway, Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart, Drama, Romance, War
Shortly after WWII, flashbacks tell the story of Marise, her husband Paul, and Jean, who was imprisoned with Paul in a German camp. While attempting to escape from the camp Paul is shot, and Jean goes to see Marise, confirming the news she had gotten already about Paul’s death. Jean has fallen in love with Marise through the stories Paul told him, and wants to stay with her in the seaside town in Brittany where Paul owned a small business.
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Crossroads (1942) Jack Conway
William Powell plays a dramatic role after years of romantic mysteries, married to the beautiful Hedy Lamarr, is a diplomat being blackmailed by a criminal (Basil Rathbone) and his accomplice (Clare Trevor).
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