Tag Archives: 1930s

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 »

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 »

When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. Read More »

The Night Riders, driving out the small ranchers, burn Kelley’s place and the Kelley’s Read More »

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 »

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 »

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

Described by David Bordwell as ‘probably the greatest revelation’ of the retrospective of Shochiku’s Read More »

Animal trainer Clyde Beatty heads a rescue party in search of his girl, Ruth, and her father who get lost looking for an uncharted island. Read More »

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis Read More »