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Tag Archives: 1930s
Jimmy the Gent (1934) Michael Curtiz, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins

Unscrupulous investigator of lost heirs Jimmy Corrigan loses his love Joan Martin Read More »
Father Brown, Detective (1934) Edward Sedgwick, Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas, Gertrude Michael

After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Read More »
The Shadow of Silk Lennox (1935) Ray Kirkwood, Jack Nelson, Lon Chaney Jr., Dean Benton, Marie Burton

A crooked nightclub owner, pretending to go straight, is forced to kill a henchman when the latter tries to run off with the gang’s latest haul. Read More »
Man Hunt (1936) William Clemens, Ricardo Cortez, Marguerite Churchill, Charles ‘Chic’ Sale

Jane, the school teacher, thinks that life in Coasterville is dull so she tells her pupils about the days of the Daltons Boys and the James Gang. Read More »
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938) William Nigh, Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings

When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. Read More »
Law and Lawless (1932) Armand Schaefer, Jack Hoxie, Hilda Moreno, Julian Rivero

The Night Riders, driving out the small ranchers, burn Kelley’s place and the Kelley’s Read More »
Emil and the Detectives / Emil und die Detektive (1931) Gerhard Lamprecht, Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack, Fritz Rasp

Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandma with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. Read More »
Public Hero Number 1 (1935) J. Walter Ruben, Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris

G-Man Chester Morris poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Read More »
Show Them No Mercy! (1935) George Marshall, Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot

The title refers to the government’s plan at the time for putting an end to a lucrative racket, kidnapping. Read More »