Johnny Blake, dodging the law on a false murder charge, gets work in the oil fields. His boss and friend Hap O’Connor turns on him when Johnny and Hap’s girlfriend Linda fall in love. Read More »
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Parachute Jumper (1933) Alfred E. Green, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Drama
To share expenses unemployed Alabama move in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster’s mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster’s bodyguard. Read More »
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
The ten year marriage of of Caroline Van Dyke and Greg Grannard is falling apart. A young woman, Allison, plots to become his second wife. Read More »
The Road to Singapore (1931) Alfred E. Green, William Powell, Doris Kenyon, Marian Marsh, Drama, Romance
A wife and husband’s marriage is destroyed due to her infidelity. Read More »
The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Read More »
Here’s to Romance (1935) Alfred E. Green, Nino Martini, Genevieve Tobin, Anita Louise, Comedy, Musical
International singing sensation Nino Martini made his American film debut in the Jesse L. Lasky production Here’s to Romance. His career bankrolled by the beneficent opera diva Mme. Schumann-Heink (playing herself), singer Nino Donelli (Martini) hits the big time, and as a bonus falls in love with his leading lady Lydia Lubov (Anita Louise). For a while, however, their romance is nearly loused up by wealthy, self-centered art patrons Kathleen and Emery Gerard (Genevieve Tobin and Reginald Denny). Also complicating matters is amorous ballerina Rosa (Maria Gambarelli), but she leaves the scene after turning down both Nino and Emery. Often listed as a 20th Century-Fox release, Here’s to Romance was actually one of the last Fox releases before the merger with 20th Century.
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The Green Goddess (1930) Alfred E. Green, George Arliss, Ralph Forbes, H.B. Warner
GREEN GODDESS, THE, George Arliss, Alice Joyce, H.B. Warner, 1930
An airplane carrying three Brits–Major Crespin, his wife Lucille, and Dr. Trahern–crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India. His subjects believe that their Green Goddess has given them the lives of the three Brits as payment for the lives of the Rajah’s brothers. They will execute them when the brothers are executed. Trahern and the Crespins must figure a way to use the Rajah’s radio to call India for help.
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