In this roman-a-clef for the infamous Lucky Luciano Trial, Mary Dwight and four roommates work Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
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 »
Paddy ODay (1936) Lewis Seiler, Jane Withers, Pinky Tomlin, Rita Hayworth
Withers is an immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Read More »
Hooray for Love (1935) Walter Lang, Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Bill Robinson
Young would-be producer Doug Tyler meets singer Pat Thatcher twice, and makes the wrong impression both times. Read More »
Rumba (1935) Marion Gering, George Raft, Carole Lombard, Lynne Overman
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show. Read More »