An Irish policeman (Tom Moore) handles gangsters, a mystery woman (Lola Lane) and a wise-guy reporter. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Dead End (1937) William Wyler, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Read More »
The Trip to Tilsit / Die Reise nach Tilsit (1939) Veit Harlan, Kristina Söderbaum, Philip Dorn, Anna Dammann
From the same Sudermann story that inspired Murnau’s Sunrise Read More »
Riffraff (1936) J. Walter Ruben, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. He quits his poorly paid job Read More »
Shipyard Sally (1939) Monty Banks, Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard, Morton Selten
A music hall performer manages the saloon her father bought. Read More »
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day
Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Read More »
Behind the Headlines (1937) Richard Rosson, Lee Tracy, Diana Gibson, Phillip Huston
Eddie Haines is a radio reporter with Station KBC. He is always getting the scoop, which infuriates those Read More »
The Glass Key (1935) Frank Tuttle, George Raft, Claire Dodd, Edward Arnold
Ed Beaumont is the personal friend, advisor and bodyguard to Paul Madvig, the political boss of a large city. Read More »
Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939) William Nigh, Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers
A fairly Chinese girl, looking for assistance from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed with a poisoned dart in his entrance hallway Read More »
He Knew Women (1930) Hugh Herbert, Lynn Shores, Lowell Sherman, Alice Joyce, David Manners
A Writer whose every whim is financed by rich widow. The writer seems to be insincere Read More »