In this Crime-Comedy-Mystery-Drama, an aspiring Pulp Writer elopes with a young woman Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
The Girl Who Came Back (1935) Charles Lamont, Shirley Grey, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear Read More »
It’s Never Too Late to Mend (1937) David MacDonald, Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey, Marjorie Taylor
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned. Read More »
Marked Woman (1937) Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane
In this roman-a-clef for the infamous Lucky Luciano Trial, Mary Dwight and four roommates work Read More »
The Ruling Voice (1931) Rowland V. Lee, Walter Huston, Loretta Young, Dudley Digges
For the love and respect of his daughter, a crime boss reconsiders his involvement in the extortion racket he’s built. Read More »
Holiday (1938) George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan
Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire’s daughter. Read More »
Trade Winds (1938) Tay Garnett, Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy
Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. Read More »
That Certain Woman (1937) Edmund Goulding, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise
Mary Donnell was married at sixteen to a gangster and soon widowed. Read More »
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) Busby Berkeley, John Garfield, Claude Rains, The ‘Dead End’ Kids
Johnnie is a boxer. The same evening he won the world championship, he is charged for the murder of a reporter and is taken for dead. Read More »
Amateur Crook (1937) Sam Katzman, Bruce Bennett, Joan Barclay, Monte Blue
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks Read More »