An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jack La Rue
Gambling Ship (1933) Louis J. Gasnier, Max Marcin, Cary Grant, Benita Hume, Jack La Rue
A professional gambler masquerading as a businessman boards a train and sets off across the country. Read More »
Good Dame (1934) Marion Gering, Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Jack La Rue
A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Read More »
The Bridge of Sighs (1936) Phil Rosen, Onslow Stevens, Dorothy Tree, Jack La Rue
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Read More »
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) St. John Legh Clowes, Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers
John Blandish is worth $100 million. His heiress daughter is soon to be wed to Foster Harvey, who believes she’s a cold, unfeeling woman, despite loving her. Read More »
Leave It to the Irish (1944) William Beaudine, James Dunn, Wanda McKay, Jack La Rue, Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Private Investigator Terry Moran (James Dunn), who is in love with Nora O’Brien (Wanda McKay) the daughter of Police Detective Tim O’Brien (Arthur Loft) Read More »
You Can’t Beat the Law / Prison Mutiny (1943) Phil Rosen, Edward Norris, Joan Woodbury, Jack La Rue, Crime, Drama
Playboy Johnny Gray is framed and sent to prison after his stolen car is found at a holdup committed by Rico Read More »
The Story of Temple Drake (1933) Stephen Roberts, Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue, Drama
Temple Drake is a Southern belle who leads men on with her sexuality but usually leaves them wanting. She’s loved by lawyer Stephen Benbow, whom she likes but doesn’t love. While out carousing with one of her beaux, she finds herself stranded with a gang of bootleggers, one of whom, Trigger, rapes her and makes her his sex slave. When another man is accused of a murder Trigger committed, Stephen defends him and sets out to find Trigger. But he isn’t prepared for whom he finds with Trigger, or what she’s become.
Read More »