A professional gambler masquerading as a businessman boards a train and sets off across the country. Read More »
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The Virtuous Sin (1930) George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier, Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Kenneth MacKenna
Marya is the wife of medical student Victor Sablin, who finds it impossible Read More »
Forgotten Commandments (1932) Louis J. Gasnier, William Schorr, Sari Maritza, Gene Raymond, Marguerite Churchill
A framework story serves as context for a retelling of the Exodus story Read More »
Derelict (1930) Rowland V. Lee, Louis J. Gasnier, George Bancroft, Jessie Royce Landis, William ‘Stage’ Boyd
Adventure follows a ship on its watery course between Latin America and the United States. Read More »
Reefer Madness (1936) Louis J. Gasnier, Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Lillian Miles
Film that relates the story, as told by high school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. Read More »
Slightly Scarlet (1930) Louis J. Gasnier, Edwin H. Knopf, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Paul Lukas
Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Read More »
The Last Outpost (1935) Charles Barton, Louis J. Gasnier, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael, Action, Adventure, Romance
In World War I, British-officer Michael Andrews is captured by a band of Kurdish raiders on the Eastern Front, and is rescued by a man calling himself John Stevenson, although he refuses to tell his name to Andrews. The two men form a strange friendship, and help save an entire Kurdish village from a massacre and also avert a surprise attack on the British army-unit stationed there. Andrews suffers a wounded leg and is sent to the British military-hospital in Cairo. He falls in love with a nurse, Rosemary Haydon, and she with him, but she is married although she has not seen nor heard from her husband in over three years. It is at this point that the man who saved Andrews’ life turns up to claim his wife, who is Rosemary. The latter bids adieu to Andrews who does not know that the man he considers his best friend is also the husband of the woman he loves. But, by pure coincidence and chance, both Andrews and Rosemary’s husband come face-to-face again in a remote garrison that is under…
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